Anne Billson: I interviewed George Miller in 1985, to tie in with Beyond Thunderdome. (The interview was spiked because Orson Welles died and the magazine dedicated all its available space to remembrances & appreciations.) multiglom.com/2015/05/12/g...

I interviewed George Miller in 1985, to tie in with Beyond Thunderdome. (The interview was spiked because Orson Welles died and the magazine dedicated all its available space to remembrances & appreciations.) multiglom.com/2015/05/12/g...

GEORGE MILLER TALKS ABOUT MAD MAX, HEROES & TINA TURNER: THE 1985 INTERVIEWmultiglom.com In October 1985 I interviewed George Miller in London for Time Out magazine, to tie in with the imminent UK release of Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome. Mr Miller struck me as very different from other film...

Glad to see I'm not the only person who came out of the cinema in '85 feeling gutted! If ever I saw a movie that got separated from its animating spirit and died in the hands of corporate Hollywood hacks, it was Thunderdome - or, as I like to think of it, Indian Max & the Temple of Lost Kiddies.

* IndianA Max....

I enjoyed reading that again and notice that it's been quoted in a YouTube video from Matt Draper. That video also mentions Russell Hobain's complant about Thunderdome plundering his novel Riddley Walker. One of those I can see why he thinks that situations but I don't think it's a valid gripe.

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