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 2 (soundtrack) Mad Max 2 (soundtrack) Mad Max 2 (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) is a soundtrack album for the 1981 film, "Mad Max 2" (also known as "The Road Warrior"), composed by Brian May. It was released on vinyl in the United States in 1982 by Varèse Sarabande, followed by a CD release on 25 October 1990. In 1981, composer Brian May reteamed with director George Miller and producer Byron Kennedy to write the music for "Mad Max 2". Unlike the score for the previous film, May approached the music with a more legato and grandeur frame of reference. "It was an