Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome the set for Bartertown built at an old brickworks (the Brickpit) at Homebush Bay in Sydney's western suburbs and the children's camp shot at the Blue Mountains. ""Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome" proved far more challenging than "The Road Warrior"," said cinematographer Dean Semler. "We were dealing with more varied environments than before and it was essential that each of the worlds created for the film have a distinctly different look." The musical score for "Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome" was composed by Maurice Jarre, replacing Brian May, who composed the music for the previous two films. The film also contains two
Mad Max the film polarized critics. In a 1979 review, the Australian social commentator and film producer Phillip Adams condemned "Mad Max", saying that it had "all the emotional uplift of "Mein Kampf" and would be "a special favourite of rapists, sadists, child murderers and incipient [Charles] Mansons". After its United States release, Tom Buckley of "The New York Times" called the film "ugly and incoherent". Stephen King, writing in "Danse Macabre," called the film a "turkey." However, "Variety" magazine praised the directorial debut by Miller. "Mad Max" grossed A$5,355,490 at the box office in Australia and over US$100 million worldwide. It