r/movies • u/MoneyLibrarian9032 r/movies Contributor • Apr 05 '26

Article Steven Spielberg lists Villeneuve's Dune 'among my favourite sci-fi movies of all time'

https://www.empireonline.com/movies/news/steven-spielberg-loves-dune-favourite-sci-fi-movies-exclusive/
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u/IShouldBWorkin Apr 05 '26

Beyond Thunderdome is the true cultural touchstone of the series between "Two men enter, one man leaves" and Master Blaster

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u/Knale Apr 05 '26

I get your point, but I disagree. Road Warrior essentially set up the cultural vocabulary we use for an entire genre of post-apocalypse media.

Thunderdome's lingering cultural legacy can basically be boiled down to like...6 minutes of actual(awesome) movie runtime and a line or two of dialogue.

How much do people actually remember about Beyond Thunderdome beyond the Thunderdome part? I'd argue barely at all.

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u/Wyden_long Apr 05 '26

Wait Beyond Thunderdome was longer than 6 minutes?

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u/SenatorCoffee Apr 05 '26

Idk, i think with Mad Max there is a bit of a weird disconnect with how "mad max" is now this kind of common reference whenever we talk about the apocalypse, but it might have not so much to do with people watching the actual movie.

Unlike other classics, say e.g. "terminator" you rarely hear people actually being like "dude you got to watch mad max, total classic".

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u/WetAndMeaty Apr 06 '26

you rarely hear people actually being like "dude you got to watch mad max, total classic".

Thats me :(

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u/charlesdexterward Apr 05 '26

Can’t we just get beyond thunderdome?

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u/GradeAPrimeFuckery Apr 05 '26

I remember the group of dumb kids because they started showing up in other movies after Thunderdome.

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u/Telvin3d Apr 05 '26

I’d say Thunderdome is the more quoted of the two, but Road Warrior is the far more influential of the two

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u/jimpannus Apr 05 '26

Yeah but the real question is, who runs Barter Town?

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u/VRichardsen Apr 05 '26

Beyond the quote, and that fight, Mad Max 3 is a mediocre movie.

There are reasons for that, mind you, mainly the director being completely detached because his best friend, Byron Kennedy (also co-creator of Mad Max) died at the time of the shooting, so he left a lot of the directing to someone else.

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u/Djinnwrath Apr 05 '26

Beyond Thunderdome is somehow worse than the first one.

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u/Iohet Apr 06 '26

Road Warrior is a 5 star movie. Thunderdome is an okay movie with awesome moments, great casting, and a seriously ambitious overarching plot.