Confused about time line

[John Doe]

In the opening, narrator implies others forgot the old world and Max remembers it alone.

That's strange. Max doesn't look older than his thirties. But gangs in the wasteland don't even clearly know about light bulbs and call the explosives black magic.

Only Max seems to remember old world exactly.

Max in the game can't be that old. I'm confused.

I...suddenly don't remember what it was like in the movie. Though in the movie world was already hell before the war, people were not so civilized from the first.

[decoy]

In the first Mad Max movie, Max is 23, and the world hasn't totally gone to crap, but is heading there fast. Fury Road is supposed to be about 18 to 20 years after the first movie, and the game is supposed to happen after Fury Road in the timeline. Max is at least 40-something in this game. I guess most people alive and fighting are under thirty if not under 20, so this is the only world they know.

Also, there was no mention of any nuclear war in Mad Max 1 and 2 which are supposedly only about 3 years apart. The next time you see Max it's in Beyond Thunderdome, 15 years later, and there he starts running into radiation, so the implication is there has been a nuclear exchange, but I don't think it's ever explicitly mentioned. At least, not in Australia.

Things just seemed to go downhill very fast in those 15 years for the people but more significantly for the environment. And because there are no scientists or mass communication, no one knows why exactly.

[John Doe]

Originally posted by decoy:

In the first Mad Max movie, Max is 23, and the world hasn't totally gone to crap, but is heading there fast. Fury Road is supposed to be about 18 to 20 years after the first movie, and the game is supposed to happen after Fury Road in the timeline. Max is at least 40-something in this game. I guess most people alive and fighting are under thirty if not under 20, so this is the only world they know.

Also, there was no mention of any nuclear war in Mad Max 1 and 2 which are supposedly only about 3 years apart. The next time you see Max it's in Beyond Thunderdome, 15 years later, and there he starts running into radiation, so the implication is there has been a nuclear exchange, but I don't think it's ever explicitly mentioned.

Max in the opening looks young, less than 35. Without the beard looks even 27-29.
If he is really over 40 everything makes sense.

[decoy]

Originally posted by Max Payine:

Max in the opening looks young, less than 35. Without the beard looks even 27-29.

I agree. I had a bunch of confusion over that too which is why I had just been reading about the timeline and kinda knew the answer to your question. I think it's because of 'dat youthful Tom Hardy'. He is a great Max though.

[John Doe]

Originally posted by decoy:

Originally posted by Max Payine:

Max in the opening looks young, less than 35. Without the beard looks even 27-29.

I agree. I had a bunch of confusion over that too which is why I had just been reading about the timeline and kinda knew the answer to your question. I think it's because of 'dat youthful Tom Hardy'. He is a great Max though.

I googled about Fury Road timeline and it says Hardy's Max is 37 yrs old.
Well Hardy looks a bit younger than that, and Max in the game is kinda...seriously he can be 27 if he shaves.

Maybe I should stop thinking too much.

[Nandoholic]

i believe the game comes before the Fury Road setting

Also they never mentioned what the issues were that caused civilisation to collapse in the first 2 movies.
They specifically did not mention the word nuclear as they did not have the budget to show those effects lol

[decoy]

Originally posted by The Immortal Heskey:

i believe the game comes before the Fury Road setting

Oh yeah, I think you're right. Now that I think about it that makes a lot of sense since Max is having flashbacks about a girl and his kid was a son. Also, he did have a specific car in the begining of Fury Road that he loses, probably the Magnum Opus.

[Nandoholic]

Originally posted by decoy:

Originally posted by The Immortal Heskey:

i believe the game comes before the Fury Road setting

Oh yeah, I think you're right. Now that I think about it that makes a lot of sense since Max is having flashbacks about a girl and his kid was a son. Also, he did have a specific car in the begining of Fury Road that he loses, probably the Magnum Opus.

Nah the car was the Pursuit Special that he has at the begining of the game.
I'm assuming you havent finished the Story

[BridgetFisher]

Max is pretty insane hence he has gone mad. Its possible the first movie was an illusion or dream, Max never had a family, he imagined it to justify the harsh life of survival in the wasteland where life is cheap.

[Nandoholic]

Originally posted by BridgetFisher:

Max is pretty insane hence he has gone mad. Its possible the first movie was an illusion or dream, Max never had a family, he imagined it to justify the harsh life of survival in the wasteland where life is cheap.

Where did he get the car from then :P

[s0da72]

Max is probably in his late thirties to early forties. Assuming the world fell apart when Max was about 8 years old anyone under the age of 35 probably wouldn't remember much of the old world. Given how hard life would be in this world anyone older than 30 probably looks much older than what they would normally appear (well except for Max).

[BridgetFisher]

Originally posted by The Immortal Heskey:

Originally posted by BridgetFisher:

Max is pretty insane hence he has gone mad. Its possible the first movie was an illusion or dream, Max never had a family, he imagined it to justify the harsh life of survival in the wasteland where life is cheap.

Where did he get the car from then :P

Its not the colored car from the first movie because that was fantasy he created in his mind maybe which is why he rides a similar black and black. All part of his backstory he may have created to keep his mind intact due to the brutality of life in the wastleand.

[Ottofyre]

Originally posted by BridgetFisher:

Originally posted by The Immortal Heskey:

Where did he get the car from then :P

Its not the colored car from the first movie because that was fantasy he created in his mind maybe which is why he rides a similar black and black. All part of his backstory he may have created to keep his mind intact due to the brutality of life in the wastleand.

Haven't we already spent an entire thread debunking your personal fantasy theories surrounding the game?

[decoy]

Originally posted by s0da72:

Max is probably in his late thirties to early forties. Assuming the world fell apart when Max was about 8 years old anyone under the age of 35 probably wouldn't remember much of the old world. Given how hard life would be in this world anyone older than 30 probably looks much older than what they would normally appear (well except for Max).

The stuff I posted in my first reply was all official timeline according to the director George Miller, he was definately 23 (the age of Mel Gibson at the time) in the first movie, when things were a lot less "post-apocalyptic".

Originally posted by The Immortal Heskey:

I'm assuming you havent finished the Story

Not quite, almost there.

[s0da72]

Originally posted by decoy:

Originally posted by s0da72:

Max is probably in his late thirties to early forties. Assuming the world fell apart when Max was about 8 years old anyone under the age of 35 probably wouldn't remember much of the old world. Given how hard life would be in this world anyone older than 30 probably looks much older than what they would normally appear (well except for Max).

The stuff I posted in my first reply was all official timeline according to the director George Miller, he was definately 23 (the age of Mel Gibson at the time) in the first movie, when things were a lot less "post-apocalyptic".

Originally posted by The Immortal Heskey:

I'm assuming you havent finished the Story

Not quite, almost there.

I was refering to Max's character in the game. As people above have mentioned some of the relic dialog as well as some of the NPC's dialog in game doesn't match well with the movie's timelines. It's close if you can assume the world started to fall apart when Max was at very young age.

[Ottofyre]

Yeah. I mean the setting is post-apocalyptic but it's made clear that the Apocalypse was a series of events, not one singular catastrophe.

Miller has also said that he's not too concerned with the timeline. They are stories about Max in the Mad Max Universe - the timeline isn't important to Miller so he doesn't worry about continuity in that respect.

If you think about it a lot of old movie franchises (Tarzan and Lone Ranger, for example) follow this sort of thing. If you sat down and watched them you really would have a hard time figuring out what happened when in relation to what else. Just like with Mad Max, there were no over-arching stories so keeping to a timeline didn't matter.