The 1979 Australian dystopian revenge film "Mad Max" helped launch director George Miller's career and spawned an incredible franchise with five truly distinct entries, but it's a lot darker than many people remember. "Mad Max" is a revenge story tracking a singular character, the titular Max (Mel Gibson), a weary cop in the final days of a dystopian Australia before the full-blown apocalypse sets in. After Max's partner Goose (Steve Bisley) is brutally attacked and burned alive by a biker gang, Max hangs up his badge and tries to live a peaceful life with his wife and son that's cruelly cut short when the same gang kills his son and nearly kill his wife. That sends him into pure revenge mode, acting as a renegade cop, and it's honestly kind of badass (in a purely fictional way). There's just one little problem: certain elements of the movie were deemed to...

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