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| Tina Turner enters; no man leaves. |
Jessica and I have wildly different opinions of Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, but we do agree on one thing: Tina Turner is spectacular as Aunty.
Aunty has a rags-to-riches via nuclear apocalypse back story. She tells Max, "Do you know who I was? Nobody. Except on the day after, I was still alive. This nobody had a chance to be somebody. But enough about history."
And what has she become? She lords over a rough post-apocalyptic outpost in the world's sexiest chainmail. Aunty has overseen the rise of infrastructure, a judicial system, and a militia with creatively engineered vehicles (...and a cow car). Bartertown has become a center of commerce under her reign. When Max and the children blow up parts of town, she vows to rebuild it.
And yes, she probably murdered a lot of people in her rise to power... but they probably wouldn't have lasted very long in the post-apocalyptic wasteland. Auntie offers a valuable lesson for any wannabe Girlbosses out there: If you want to run the town, you'd better have a Thunderdome.
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| Aunty drives her own damn car. |
Listen to our review of the legendary Tina Turner and Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome here, or at your favorite streaming platform.
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