**SPOILER ALERT FOR MAD MAX 2 & 4**

mad max 2 = mad max 4 plot:

• part 1: flashback explaining how the world got so bad.
• part 2: first mad max car chase of the movie.
• part 3: bad guys introduced.
• part 4: max meets group of people in need. he feels sympathy for their cause, but he is a jaded man.
• part 5: After fulfilling some pre-negotiated contract (getting the tanker back to the group in MM2 and getting to the green zone in MM4), max the ever-so jaded man leaves the group.
• part 6: …only to come back. and after much ruminating, max decides to help the good guys.
• part 8: max going off to be a loaner again despite it probably being 98.2% mutually beneficial that he and the good guys stay together.

on top of that both include:

• a tanker thats not filled with what it’s supposed to be filled with (sand in MM2 and women in MM4).
• a prosthetic arm.
• the “bad guys” speaking some sort of unintelligible future war talk.
• spending a big portion of their time going somewhere and then turning back to the original location.
• guy who needs to be lifted on a pulley of some sort.
• an older motherly type. in fact, this woman almost looks like the same person in both movies.
• guys strapped in front of cars against their will.
• an attractive female who distrusts max at first, but then learns that he is an honorable man.
• booby traps in the protagonists main mode of transportation.

now i have not put it through the 3 act: 20min-40min-20min rule. interesting to note that MM2 clocks in right around 1.5 hours which would fit nicely in that template. MM4 runs for 2 hours, following a trend where today’s movies are a bit longer (i blame peter jackson and the harry potter series for that), but perhaps the ratios still hold true. this may be a project for another day.

and yes, this is what i did on my day of PTO.