Episode 28: Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981)

Theme: Mad Max May
Hosts: Oz & Curtis

This week, Oz and Curtis barrel into Week 2 of Mad Max May with The Road Warrior — the movie where Death Race 2000, Lawrence of Arabia, and Where the Wild Things Are get tossed into a blender and George Miller says, “Yeah, that seems safe.”

Join your two favorite post-apocalyptic fashion critics as they tear into:

• How Lord Humungus delivers Shakespearean villain monologues while wearing nothing but a hockey mask and leather shorts so tight they squeak.

• Why Wes might be the first cinematic character to combine “feral psychopath” with “buttless chaps,” and somehow make it a power move.

• How Max evolves from “quiet drifter” to “man who says almost nothing but still drives angrier than anyone in movie history.”

• The Gyro Captain — Australia’s only surviving car salesman turned snake-bomb pilot — whose entire personality is: “Please be my friend, Max.”

• The Feral Child, who communicates exclusively in grunts, kills more efficiently than half the marauders, and grows up to be Morgan Freeman for some reason.

• And why the villagers’ big escape plan is basically: “Give Max the decoy truck, fill it with sand, and hope to God he doesn’t notice until it’s too late.”

From wheelies of pure rage to molotov-dropping gyrocopters to a tanker full of literally nothing, Oz and Curtis dive into the movie that taught an entire generation that the apocalypse will basically look like a high school production of WWE SmackDown.

Final Verdict:

Oz — Eight snake-bombs out of ten
Curtis — Four severed boomerang fingers
Both — Not emotionally prepared for the Thunderdome next week.