When it hit America in 1981, few people even realized that The Road Warrior was a sequel. Its predecessor, Mad Max, was a little-seen oddity that looked like someone's deranged home movies compared to the grueling, badass epic Warrior turned out to be. We don't need to know where Max came from, just that he's here, he's pissed off, and no muscle-bound leather daddy is going to steal gasoline on his watch.
