On Friday I watched Mad Max 3-Beyond Thunderdome , a 1985 post-apocalyptic film starring Mel Gibson and Tina Turner. The film is the third in a series shot in Australia in a future world that exists after some kind of nuclear disaster. Here, Mad Max on his motorcycle meets up with two separate societies. Bartertown is run by Aunt Entity, played by Tina Turner who is ruthless and corrupt. The town runs on methane produced by pig’s waste and anyone who wants to challenge a rival fights them to the death in the thunderdome. Max forgoes killing a rival who he fights because Aunt Entity tells him to–the Blastmaster, because he is cognitively like a child. Bartertown is run on greed, which leads to unending violence. The other society is a group of children, the young tribe, who have survived an airplane crash and are waiting to return to the past. They are innocent and in the end of the film represent the future of the world. The film was action packed and Mel Gibson is always easy on the eyes. Tina Turner was good too, but I didn’t like the violent scenes, especially those in the thunderdome. For a Friday movie that was voted on as number one, the action scenes probably won out. I really wasn’t that impressed with the message or the film.