HavocHound
If there's any movie series I love as much as Star Wars and Evil Dead, it's Mad Max. My fave of the trilogy is 'The Road Warrior'. I like the villians, characters (as in non-Max characters), plot, and areas of that one better than the other two. I also love Max's car. If you know what kind of car it is, please tell me. It resembles an early '80s Mustang. Somebody told me it's called a Phase 4, but if who, who makes it? He had that car in MM too, which came out in 1978 or '79. TRW came out in 1981. And MM:BT came out in 1984.
Notice how each Max movie came out a year after each of the OT Star Wars movies...unless MM came out in '79 but I think it was '78 (if I'm wrong, oh well)?
I think it's cool that they use sawed-off shotguns (in the first one, every cop has one; in the second, only Max; and in the third, Max has a sawed-off side-by-side and Blackfinger has a sawed-off pump-action toward the end of the movie) instead of something more high-tech. Since the Mad Max movies are supposed to be post-apocolyptic Westerns, this only enhances that Western feel. Speaking of that, notice that the sidearms carried by the cops in Mad Max (including Max himself) are six-shooters. Although they're double-action instead of single-action like the cowboys had, they're still revolvers. Those two weapons, the sawed-off and the revolver (but especially the sawed-off) were the weapons of Western lore. The sawed-off was the weapon of choice of the lawman of the Old West. Most think it was the single-action revolver, but in reality, those were just sidearms. The shotgun was a much better choice for close-range combat...and still is...and always will be.
Max has a different sawed-off shotgun in each movie. Actually, I think the one he has in MM is the same one he has in TRW. It's a sawed-off 12-gauge side-by-side double-barrel hammerless boxlock. I think it's a Stevens 311-R. I could be wrong about the model but I'm pretty sure it's a Stevens because of the unique fit of the Stevens boxlock (Stevens sidelocks are more difficult to recognize). In MM:BT, he has a 12-gauge side-by-side double-barrel rabbit-ear sidelock. "Rabbit-ears" is the nickname of exposed hammers. Rabbit-ear sidelocks tend to be more elegant (and also more expensive) than their hammerless boxlock counterparts. There are also rabbit-ear boxlocks and hammerless sidelocks but most often it's the other way around. Most boxlocks are hammerless and most sidelocks have exposed hammers.
Max only fires his sawed-off sidelock side-by-side once in MM:BT (and blew that one guy's head dress apart) but at least it wasn't a dud like the shot he tried to fire while he was driving the semi back to the fuel depot in TRW. In TRW, he wastes thugs left and right (and up and down) with his trusty sawed-off Stevens side-by-side boxlock.
Notice how each Max movie came out a year after each of the OT Star Wars movies...unless MM came out in '79 but I think it was '78 (if I'm wrong, oh well)?
I think it's cool that they use sawed-off shotguns (in the first one, every cop has one; in the second, only Max; and in the third, Max has a sawed-off side-by-side and Blackfinger has a sawed-off pump-action toward the end of the movie) instead of something more high-tech. Since the Mad Max movies are supposed to be post-apocolyptic Westerns, this only enhances that Western feel. Speaking of that, notice that the sidearms carried by the cops in Mad Max (including Max himself) are six-shooters. Although they're double-action instead of single-action like the cowboys had, they're still revolvers. Those two weapons, the sawed-off and the revolver (but especially the sawed-off) were the weapons of Western lore. The sawed-off was the weapon of choice of the lawman of the Old West. Most think it was the single-action revolver, but in reality, those were just sidearms. The shotgun was a much better choice for close-range combat...and still is...and always will be.
Max has a different sawed-off shotgun in each movie. Actually, I think the one he has in MM is the same one he has in TRW. It's a sawed-off 12-gauge side-by-side double-barrel hammerless boxlock. I think it's a Stevens 311-R. I could be wrong about the model but I'm pretty sure it's a Stevens because of the unique fit of the Stevens boxlock (Stevens sidelocks are more difficult to recognize). In MM:BT, he has a 12-gauge side-by-side double-barrel rabbit-ear sidelock. "Rabbit-ears" is the nickname of exposed hammers. Rabbit-ear sidelocks tend to be more elegant (and also more expensive) than their hammerless boxlock counterparts. There are also rabbit-ear boxlocks and hammerless sidelocks but most often it's the other way around. Most boxlocks are hammerless and most sidelocks have exposed hammers.
Max only fires his sawed-off sidelock side-by-side once in MM:BT (and blew that one guy's head dress apart) but at least it wasn't a dud like the shot he tried to fire while he was driving the semi back to the fuel depot in TRW. In TRW, he wastes thugs left and right (and up and down) with his trusty sawed-off Stevens side-by-side boxlock.
