for reasons long forgotten
I sit here, watching The Road Warrior instead of writing about it. The combination of interesting and exciting vehicles with evocative musical cues, and very little dialogue--I have not counted but supposedly the titular Max only has sixteen lines--is quite captivating. I was going to say "oddly captivating" but it is not odd. Aside from me loving the film since I was young, it still holds up as a great action film. One of the definitive action films, really. (So much so, that I almost included it in the "month" (roughly January 2015, overlapping from late December to early February) of action films during phase two of this blog. But, then I skipped it for Top Gun (added to the month with Lethal Weapon , Die Hard , Commando , and Rambo: First Blood Part II ) because then I was dealing specifically in 80s American action films, which made for a more straightforward throughline--the decline of American Hegemony, the struggle to raise up...