[net.movies] Road Warrior, a month later

dopey (09/07/82)

Road Warrior is probably the most powerful movie that I've seen this
summer.  I was not thinking about ST2 a month after I saw it, or
An Officer and a Gentlebum, or ET, or even Garp.  I saw Road Warrior
a month ago, and will not soon forget it.

I just about jumped out of my seat this morning when a car without
a muffler passed me at full throttle.  Brrr!

Road Warrior should have been a romance, but it wasn't.  Only the
bad guys should have died, but the good guys died too.  Max should 
have been integrated into society again at the end of the movie, but 
he wasn't.  Nothing went the way it should have gone in the movie.

Which leaves Road Warrior with what it is: a movie of well presented,
terrible images.  As the review said, it is memorable.  Not recommended
for the weak of stomach or the aggressive driver.

james c blasius
ihps3!ihuxq!dopey

stewartd@sri-unix (09/18/82)

Not only did the plot in RW procede in rather unexpected ways (who out
there expected the Toady to materialize in front of the Feral Kid as he's
reaching out to grab Max's last cartridge on the hood of the tanker???)
but the basis for the plot is as old as the hills.  RW is simply a 
post-holocaust western, with the cowboys holed up in the fort, the 
indians ready to make mincemeat of them, and the Lone Ranger (plus
Tonto and Silver (the later shot by an indian)) there to save the
day.  Of course Max wouldn't be integrated into society - would the
Lone Ranger be?

      Now, does anyone have a REAL western whose plot corresponds to
RW?

                                            David C. Stewart
                                            Colorado State Univ. - CompSci
                                            (...hplabs!csu-cs!stewartd)