Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome installments of the "Mad Max" series, "Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome" has influenced popular culture in various regards. The term "thunderdome" is now used in various contexts in which its meaning is similar to the sense in which it appears in the film. That is, a contest where the loser suffers a great hardship, though it has also come to mean, more generically, the state of the world following a nuclear apocalypse, or any place where chaos is the norm. Filmmaker Chris Weitz has cited the film as an influence. Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (also known as
Mad Max (franchise) released internationally in 1980. It became a top-grossing Australian film, while holding the record in the "Guinness Book of Records" for decades as the most profitable film ever created, and has been credited for further opening the global market to Australian New Wave films. "Mad Max 2" (also known as "The Road Warrior") is a 1981 Australian post-apocalyptic dystopian action film directed by George Miller. This sequel to Miller's "Mad Max" was a worldwide box office success that further launched the career of Mel Gibson. The film's tale of a community of settlers moved to defend themselves against a roving