Mad Max 2 (1981)

Sign in with Plex to see what you can watch and keep a watchlist.

Wikidata Q1125262, film, IMDb tt0082694, TMDB 8810: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by episode credits George Miller as director (Dune with John Hodgman).

Also said as The Road Warrior: the same Wikidata item, so listed here.

What a model would be handed about it, for corpus:ask.

Who talked about it

Blank Check with Griffin & David

The Rewatchables

Came from

What the speakers say it drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

Mad Max: 1 line the host's read ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Mad Max ⇒ Mad Max 2 (the host's read). The Road Warrior is the sequel to Mad Max.
    “which is like the sequel to Mad Max.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 1:07:47 · Kyle Brandt (0.55 sure it was them)

Led to

What the speakers say drew on it, marked the same way.

Weird Science: 2 lines the host's read ×2

  1. lineage (lineage): Mad Max 2 ⇒ Weird Science (the host's read). The climactic biker-gang sequence is an homage to The Road Warrior with the same actor and makeup.
    “it's pulled right from this movie that had just come out, same actor, same makeup, same everything, they're like doing an homage to it”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 1:08:03 · Bill Simmons (0.55 sure it was them)

Connected to

Weird Science: 2 lines lineage ×1 craft ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Weird Science → Mad Max 2. The climactic biker-gang sequence is an homage to The Road Warrior with the same actor and makeup.
    “it's pulled right from this movie that had just come out, same actor, same makeup, same everything, they're like doing an homage to it”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 1:08:03 · Bill Simmons (0.55 sure it was them)

Mad Max: 1 line lineage ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Mad Max 2 → Mad Max. The Road Warrior is the sequel to Mad Max.
    “which is like the sequel to Mad Max.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 1:07:47 · Kyle Brandt (0.55 sure it was them)

The Elephant Man: 1 line contrast ×1

  1. contrast (contrast): Mad Max 2 → The Elephant Man. Road Warrior makes more sense as a second film leading to Dune than the Elephant Man did.
    “Road Warrior makes a lot more sense than Elephant.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Dune with John Hodgman · 1:36:48 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Where it came up

What was said about it, by kind

contrast (1)

  1. contrast (contrast): Mad Max 2 → The Elephant Man. Road Warrior makes more sense as a second film leading to Dune than the Elephant Man did.
    “Road Warrior makes a lot more sense than Elephant.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Dune with John Hodgman · 1:36:48 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

craft (1)

  1. craft (craft): Weird Science → Mad Max 2. The Road Warrior homage is a nine-minute sequence, about 10% of the movie.
    “It comprises 10% of the whole movie.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 1:08:58 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)

lineage (2)

  1. lineage (lineage): Mad Max 2 → Mad Max. The Road Warrior is the sequel to Mad Max.
    “which is like the sequel to Mad Max.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 1:07:47 · Kyle Brandt (0.55 sure it was them)
  2. lineage (lineage): Weird Science → Mad Max 2. The climactic biker-gang sequence is an homage to The Road Warrior with the same actor and makeup.
    “it's pulled right from this movie that had just come out, same actor, same makeup, same everything, they're like doing an homage to it”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 1:08:03 · Bill Simmons (0.55 sure it was them)

Fun items about it

None.

Who the speakers said made it

As said on the shows, not checked against the real credits.