12 Facts About The Original MAD MAX Films

With Mad Max: Fury Road hitting theaters next week, it's a good time to revisit the other films in the series (well, maybe you can skip Beyond Thunderdome). George Miller's Mad Max and Mad Max 2 (aka The Road Warrior) were triumphs of low-budget action filmmaking, and still stand as beacons of how it's possible to create an entire lived-in world with a very small amount of money.

io9 has a video that features 12 facts from the original movies, and since I've only seen the movies one time each, all of this information was new to me. If you're curious about Fury Road and interested in the other movies in the franchise, this is a great primer.