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Mad Max 2 (1981) - 31 corrections

starring Mel Gibson (add more)

Genres: Action, Adventure, Sci-fi, Thriller

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Its very obvious that the cans of petrol Max carries through the desert are empty as they sway with such ease. [They aren't empty, the just don't have very much gas in them. They don't trust Max so they give him just enough gas to get the rig back to them. If they'd given him full tanks he might try to simply take the rig and leave. Also, it would be nearly impossible for him across the desert carrying 2 full cans of gas.]
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In the opening scene, when Mad Max searches the Mack truck, he finds a body in it. You can tell it's a fake body. [This is far too vague.HOW can you tell it's a fake body? What about the body is inconsistent with a decomposing corpse?]
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In the scene when Max decides to turn around, there is an overhead shot of the U-turn, showing the front end of the semi. The Claw raider should be visible behind the rear window of the semi, but he isn't. [The raider is shown fighting with the boy a few shots and seconds before the turn. During that overhead shot, we only see a portion of the turn, very quickly, and our vantage point doesn't allow enough view to determine the raider is or isn't still there, or whether he has used the few seconds off screen to move over, further out of our view. His absence is not certain.]
Edit Corrected by John W Rosa
Max shoots the driver of the red XA Coupe with his shotgun. They then show the car going out of control, and cut to a close-up of the XA's windshield. The passenger of the XA is seen fighting with the steering wheel trying to get the car under control. Then it cuts back to a larger exterior shot of the car, and it's obvious that there's not even a passenger in it. [As you said, the driver is shot and the passenger slides over to control the car. As the various shots occur, the driver is slumping lower and the passenger is further into the driver's position so that it appears the driver is there and the passenger gone, but the passenger is now the driver and the driver is slumped out of sight.]
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When Max leaves the compound in the semi, he hits the wrecked pink 1959 DeSoto knocking it almost sideways. When they show the compound exploding, the DeSoto is now sitting back where it was before Max hit it. [The car's wheels are turned toward the compound so that after the collision, it has rolled foward again, but not quite to the point it started.]
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Look closely at the car which is wrecked right in front of the gate as Max enters the compound, it's the landau that flipped upside down in the opening chase, minus the supercharger that was sticking out of its hood, but the hole for the charger is still there. [It's not hard to believe the raiders recovered the wreck in the day or more since the crash and have used it in the interim in some fashion that ended with it lying near the fortress. Not really a mistake unless the car were shown fresh and undamaged as if this scene were filmed before the crash scene shown earlier.]
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When Wez and his gang drive Max's Interceptor off the road, they still have the two hostages tied to their truck's front. After the Interceptor blows up, when Wez climbs into the truck and leaves, there is suddenly only one hostage tied to the truck. [The farside hostage is still there, but is slumped and leaning forward so that he is blocked from view by the other hostage. We can see a gap of sky between the one hostage and the upright that holds the other hostage. But as the truck drives off to the left, the second hostage comes into view. He's not missing, just difficult to see until the last moment.]
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During the final chase scene, the tanker that Max is driving has its driver's door pulled off. As the camera pans to the side you can clearly see the crew member - most likely the stunt co-ordinator - crouched down by the passenger seat. [When the door is torn off, the camera pans to the left so that the semi leaves the shot at right. At no point during the shot is any portion of any person other than Max visible in the semi's cab, even when checking frame-by-frame.]
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While Max is watching the compond he opens a can and eats out of it,throwing it to the dog to finish off, while the dog is eating the label goes from upside down to right way up even though only one end of the can is open. [The can is open on top and held right side up as Max eats from it. He tosses it to the dog and all three shots involving the can that follow show the can is open on top, and right-side up while the dog eats and defends it. No error.]
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At the very moment of impact between the tanker and Humungous' car, the rest of the biker vehicles are visible, yet apparently stationary. Not only that, but they're also "parked" off the road and not very far behind. This conflicts with the short scene just prior to the impact, with the tanker barrelling down the slope towards Humungous. There aren't any vehicles behind the tanker in this scene. [Actually, the same vehicles are there in that short scene, in the same place, but they are quickly (in just a few frames) blocked from view by the approaching tanker.]
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When Max is driving the semi back to the compound, Wez shoots the tires out. In the next scene though, the tires are fine. [The next scene takes place the following day, after the mechanics in the compound have had 12 hours (and more) to make repairs on the truck. Which, of course, would have included replacing the lost tires.]
Edit Corrected by Twotall
Mad Max's V8 interceptor is actually a Ford Falcon Coupe XB GT. The turbine sticking out the hood is just a decoration, powered by an electric motor. The engine sound that you can hear in the movie is not of this car. [If you want to argue along these lines, that's not Mad Max, it's Mel Gibson, and there is no Lord Humungous, just some big guy in a hockey mask. But in the movie, those actors play those characters, and the Ford Falcon is dressed up to play "the last of the V8 Interceptors." ]
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Mad Max turns on his engine blower with a switch. Blowers are constantly on and turning. [It's pretty obvious that Max's car is heavily modified. He has the blower hooked to a disconnect switch to let him save precious fuel whenever he can.]
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When the gyro captain is carrying the "full" fuel cans they are obviously empty when according to the plot they contain enough fuel to get the tanker to the compound. [The gas cans are never full. As explicitly stated in the deal Max makes with the leaders of the compound, they give him just enough fuel to get the truck back. That way he can't try to escape in the truck.]
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Near the beginning of the film Max rams a car driving in front of him, shattering the front bumper of his car. In the shot right before this though, they show Max's car approaching the car in front of him, but the front bumper is already damaged. [It's possible Max had hit or rammed someone else before this scene. In Mad Max originally, the car also had a lot of abuse.]
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The snake that Max has a face off with is actually just a common bull snake, totally harmless to humans, non-poisonous, and usually very passive (you'll notice the snake never really does anything aggressive to Max). [A person not knowing the different kinds of snakes, or having a phobia of snakes (like me) wouldn't take the time to distinguish if the snake is poisonous or not, rather would have the fight or flight instinct take over and either run away, or kill it. It is, at best a character mistake, but certainly not a movie mistake]
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After max delivers the Semi to the compound, The Humungus makes his little speech about him swearing revenge on them all. His voice sounds like he's talking over his microphone, except we can see he doesn't have his mike near his face, or even in his hands. [The mike is being held by one of his minions, close behind him.]
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When Max is collecting the fuel leaking out of the dune buggy that just crashed, you can see that the dune buggy no longer has an engine. You can see the input shaft assembly on the transmission, which is where the engine should be. [The engine came off during the crash as it flipped, before it came to rest.]
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When the Humungus shoots the radiator of the semi that Max is driving into the compound, you can see that the radiator shown blowing up is from a 1950's model mack truck, not the much later model (by about 30 years) R600 that the semi actually is. [With the scarcity of parts and service stations, any mechanic worth his salt would use whatever parts he could cobble together to repair a vehicle, even if it means using a working older part, and having to modify the part or vehicle to make it work.]
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When the Feral kid catches the boomerang after throwing it at Wez, they use the shot of him throwing it, played in reverse. [No, they don't play it backwards, as it is obvious that the Kid's hand reaches up to catch the boomerang, and this is done in a completely different way from the throw: if what you said were true, the "throw" would have to precede the "run", which would be a very odd way of throwing a boomerang. It is clear that the "catch" is simply sped up to give the action more impact.]
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