|
I think I've found my new favourite Mad Max character.
|
#
?
Dec 15, 2014 03:44
|
|
|
|
| # ? Apr 26, 2024 22:03 |
|
|
I think the Rockvan is the same vehicle with the four kettle-drums installed in the back. At some point in the trailer the guitar player smashes a dude's face in with his guitar, which appears to also be on fire. And is Max tied up on some kind of gigantic metronome? This is going to be good.
|
|
#
?
Dec 15, 2014 03:48
|
|
|
It is: I missed the flaming guitar face smash. I'm so pumped.
|
|
#
?
Dec 15, 2014 03:54
|
|
|
Blind Sally posted:Hold on a sec, did I just see what I think I saw? Having watched the trailer a few times I can confidently say this is my favourite film. I don’t even need to see it now.
|
|
#
?
Dec 15, 2014 04:03
|
|
|
Looking at it again, it looks like Max is smashing the flaming guitar into someone else WHILE it's strapped to the guitar player: (Sorry I'm bad at gif)
|
|
#
?
Dec 15, 2014 04:26
|
|
|
TOM HARDY
|
|
#
?
Dec 15, 2014 04:28
|
|
|
I'm eagerly awaiting the Broadway version of this.
|
|
#
?
Dec 15, 2014 04:30
|
|
|
moths posted:Looking at it again, it looks like Max is smashing the Fixed that for you.
|
|
#
?
Dec 15, 2014 04:40
|
|
|
I mean, you think "OK well it looks THIS awesome" but a little weird and you don't pause to consider that it's actually better.
|
|
#
?
Dec 15, 2014 04:47
|
|
Martello posted:This movie looks loving awesome. I forgot it was coming out and now I'm really excited. This goes into the progression of the films. In Mad Max the society is falling apart, the means of production are ending. Think about it, Max is offered the "Last of the V-8 Interceptors" and is amazed that the mechanic was able to get all the parts together so easily. The police station is gutted and falling apart, and the mechanic who later gives up Max's location is working on old junk and spare parts. By the time the Road Warrior rolls around, the machines have sputtered and stopped. Nothing new is being produced. Max, like the Humungous and his gang, are scavengers, just digging through what ever is left over. Bullets are scarce because no one is building them. Same for everything else, it's just going through the last of what's available, and once that's gone, that's it. That's what the people in the refinery represent though, a way to rebuild, new production, a place beyond vermin on machines. They are humanities hope to make a new world, as Papagallo plans. By the time of Thunderdome, you have society starting to regenerate. With Bartertown, Auntie is creating a place of trade and production. There is incentive to make things for trade, and laws to govern the trade. If you can make anything or have a unique skill, you can barter it for other goods or services. Obviously they now have a means of collecting raw materials, and Master probably has the knowledge to make gunpowder. So it makes sense that they would have more guns and ammo than the gangs that are just roving from place to place and using up whatever they find without replacing it. It's a nice progression in the films, actually.
|
|
|
#
?
Dec 15, 2014 06:31
|
|
|
Do they ever say if it's a worldwide problem or is all of the nonsense somewhat limited to fake Australia?
|
|
#
?
Dec 15, 2014 06:37
|
|
Yodzilla posted:Do they ever say if it's a worldwide problem or is all of the nonsense somewhat limited to fake Australia? I'm assuming it's world wide, since the narration in The Road Warrior talks about two warrior tribes going to war, and I can only assume that was the East vs West of the Cold war. It is amusing to think that the rest of the world is just chugging along like normal and all the madness is just limited to Australia. Like, CNN sending a reporter to show the lawlessness of the Outback, or Vice interviewing the Humungous.
|
|
|
#
?
Dec 15, 2014 06:47
|
|
|
That would actually be an interesting hook for a post-apoc movie. The nukes dropped, but civilization mostly bounced back entirely, except for a few pockets of no-man's-land that resemble Road Warrior craziness.
|
|
|
#
?
Dec 15, 2014 09:13
|
|
|
SALT CURES HAM posted:That would actually be an interesting hook for a post-apoc movie. The nukes dropped, but civilization mostly bounced back entirely, except for a few pockets of no-man's-land that resemble Road Warrior craziness. And then the navy shows up on the island because they saw the fire and ask what the hell is going on, and everyone is embarrassed that they let themselves turn so savage away from the rest of civilzation oh wait that's Lord of the Flies
|
|
#
?
Dec 15, 2014 09:20
|
|
|
Martello posted:This movie looks loving awesome. I forgot it was coming out and now I'm really excited. The real problem is sourcing primers, as making them is rather complicated and dangerous, and requires a good understanding of chemistry.
|
|
#
?
Dec 15, 2014 10:20
|
|
|
OneThousandMonkeys posted:Yeah the whole thing where they're a bunch of half-feral homosexuals seems really forced and inappopriate these days. The thing is, though, when Mad Max and Road Warrior came out, that stuff was the domain of exploitation films. It's hard to grasp it today, but that type of stuff was probably pretty shocking at the time. I have no idea what direction Miller is gonna take in regards to rape and S&M culture, if he does at all. I don't think it's relevant in any case, because when things like Oz have existed in the years since 1979, violent homosexual rape doesn't portray the levels of depravity that it did in the original Mad Max. In any case, the nudity and rape definitely contributed more to the R rating than the violence did. In Mad Max, there really isn't much graphic violence. The one scene that probably did was the end where Max gives Johnny the Boy the choice with the hacksaw, 'cause that was disturbing as gently caress. Possibly Goose burned up in the hospital, too. When it comes to Mad Max, I trust George Miller to make a great movie, and I don't think he wrote this script with a potential rating in mind. It'll get what it gets, I guess. Blind Sally posted:Hold on a sec, did I just see what I think I saw? loving owns. SALT CURES HAM posted:That would actually be an interesting hook for a post-apoc movie. The nukes dropped, but civilization mostly bounced back entirely, except for a few pockets of no-man's-land that resemble Road Warrior craziness. IIRC, The Postman was set in a world where the US collapsed, either through internal fighting or external influence. The rest of the world doesn't intervene (at least in a way that's shown) so you get a post-apocalyptic setting where other areas of the world haven't been affected in the same way. Seizure Meat fucked around with this message at 08:02 on Dec 16, 2014 |
|
#
?
Dec 16, 2014 07:43
|
|
|
SALT CURES HAM posted:That would actually be an interesting hook for a post-apoc movie. The nukes dropped, but civilization mostly bounced back entirely, except for a few pockets of no-man's-land that resemble Road Warrior craziness. Lord of the Flies: Aftermath
|
|
#
?
Dec 16, 2014 11:10
|
|
|
SALT CURES HAM posted:That would actually be an interesting hook for a post-apoc movie. The nukes dropped, but civilization mostly bounced back entirely, except for a few pockets of no-man's-land that resemble Road Warrior craziness. No Escape and Carpenter's Escape from NY/LA movies come to mind here... Of course not exactly that plot.
|
|
#
?
Dec 16, 2014 14:48
|
|
|
Capn Beeb posted:The real problem is sourcing primers, as making them is rather complicated and dangerous, and requires a good understanding of chemistry. poo poo yeah I knew I was forgetting something. Thankfully we have TFR posters to come in and drop knowledge. How hard is it to produce fulminate of mercury? And are there other options that might be easier but not as effective?
|
|
#
?
Dec 16, 2014 15:08
|
|
|
Capn Beeb posted:The real problem is sourcing primers, as making them is rather complicated and dangerous, and requires a good understanding of chemistry. Now I have this great mental image of modern-cartridge matchlock weapons.
|
|
#
?
Dec 16, 2014 18:47
|
|
|
moths posted:Is there any chance at all of Bruce Spence flying around in this one? This would basically make it the most perfect movie.
|
|
#
?
Dec 16, 2014 19:06
|
|
|
High Warlord Zog posted:I think we all need to pause for a second and reflect on what a kooky looking dude George Miller is. It's awesome because he looks like a jolly version of Toecutter.
|
|
#
?
Dec 16, 2014 19:14
|
|
|
VoodooXT posted:He was in "Babe: Pig in the City". He was in both Babe movies. He's the voice of the male sheepdog. I recently watched both films for the first time as an adult, because my roommate had never seen them. The first one is as good as I remembered it, and the second is infinitely more bizarre than I possibly could have comprehended as a child. My favorite part is when Babe saves the life of the bull terrier (which they call a pit bull) and it immediately instates Babe as the dictator of a communist society of animals and makes the song from the first film into their national anthem.
|
|
#
?
Dec 16, 2014 19:25
|
|
|
Mister J posted:It's awesome because he looks like a jolly version of Toecutter. Thank you! When I first saw that picture, I thought maybe Miller was the the dude on the right 
|
|
#
?
Dec 16, 2014 20:45
|
|
|
SALT CURES HAM posted:That would actually be an interesting hook for a post-apoc movie. The nukes dropped, but civilization mostly bounced back entirely, except for a few pockets of no-man's-land that resemble Road Warrior craziness. I've been telling people this, but if it did come down to a nuclear war between U.S/Europe and Russia, everything in the Northern Hemisphere would be hosed for a few hundred years, thanks to how the jetstream works, which would isolate pretty much all the fallout to north of the equator, maybe even north of the Tropic of Cancer, and where 90-99% of the targets are going to be located. The Southern Hemisphere will come out largely unscathed: even if a number of targets were hit, the fallout would settle mostly in ocean where it would be diluted. But, if you think about it, most of the places where talking about either have stability issues, like Africa, or largely isolated, like Australia, that they'd likely fall apart if such an event happened. South America would likely persevere, if Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, Chile, and a Chavez-Bolivarian alliance of Venezeula, Bolivia, and Ecuador don't start poo poo with one another.
|
|
#
?
Dec 17, 2014 01:29
|
|
|
Not only does Miller look like a jolly Toecutter, but he has the most hilarious shirts: quote:George Miller explained that the inspiration behind his black shirt embroidered with three chillies. "It's a chef shirt from South Africa," he said.
|
|
#
?
Dec 17, 2014 04:24
|
|
|
I honestly kinda want one now. That shirt owns.
|
|
|
#
?
Dec 17, 2014 04:40
|
|
|
Mister J posted:It's awesome because he looks like a jolly version of Toecutter. I was thinking more Steve Brule, myself.
|
|
#
?
Dec 17, 2014 04:46
|
|
|
...of SCIENCE! posted:I was thinking more Steve Brule, myself. 
|
|
#
?
Dec 17, 2014 04:51
|
|
|
SALT CURES HAM posted:That would actually be an interesting hook for a post-apoc movie. The nukes dropped, but civilization mostly bounced back entirely, except for a few pockets of no-man's-land that resemble Road Warrior craziness. The setup is different (virus containment vs nuclear apocalypse), but Doomsday is pretty much this and then some
|
|
#
?
Dec 17, 2014 04:58
|
|
|
Doomsday is a pretty fun mash-up of 28 Days Later, The Road Warrior, Escape From New York, and Excalibur.  
|
|
#
?
Dec 17, 2014 05:26
|
|
|
Doomsday is so loving good and fun. In a nutshell, it is the infinite number of Italian knockoffs of Road Warrior and Mad Max but with a $22 million budget. If you like post apocalyptic stuff at all check it out.
|
|
#
?
Dec 17, 2014 06:00
|
|
|
Another person who has somehow made it to my 30s without ever seeing a Mad Max film, even though they seem right up my alley, checking in. Watched the first one last night, it was all right. Mostly enjoyed all the vehicle stunts and stuff. Enjoyed it well enough but I'm looking forward to watching the second one tonight since it basically seems like it takes all the cool poo poo from the first one and blasts it into overdrive. I'm sure I'll love it. Fury Road looks incredible.
|
|
#
?
Dec 17, 2014 07:11
|
|
|
Damo posted:Another person who has somehow made it to my 30s without ever seeing a Mad Max film, even though they seem right up my alley, checking in. Minus the fact I'm only 25, you just made the post I came in here to make. To be honest, I was almost tempted to skip the first one, but it wasn't bad, and since it's streaming it was zero effort to give it a shot before The Road Warrior.
|
|
#
?
Dec 17, 2014 07:19
|
|
|
Young Freud posted:I've been telling people this, but if it did come down to a nuclear war between U.S/Europe and Russia, everything in the Northern Hemisphere would be hosed for a few hundred years, thanks to how the jetstream works, which would isolate pretty much all the fallout to north of the equator, maybe even north of the Tropic of Cancer, and where 90-99% of the targets are going to be located. The Southern Hemisphere will come out largely unscathed: even if a number of targets were hit, the fallout would settle mostly in ocean where it would be diluted. There's a movie called 'On The Beach' which basically starts there. Doesn't end well, though.
|
|
#
?
Dec 17, 2014 12:57
|
|
|
Neo Rasa posted:The shot where one of the biker's gets his neck broken via a bike skidding into him may have done it. Are you talking in movie or real life? That guy was fine. But there is a long standing buster myth that it killed the stuntman.
|
|
#
?
Dec 17, 2014 13:06
|
|
|
Maximum Sexy Pigeon posted:Are you talking in movie or real life? That guy was fine. But there is a long standing buster myth that it killed the stuntman. I am definitely talking about in the movie, Grant Page actually lives even to this day.  Hilariously his only film making injury happened when he broke his leg while riding his motorcycle away from location after Mad Max's filming was completed.I had no idea there was even a rumor that he died during that scene, only the longstanding rumor that nine people died in the making of Mad Max 2 (which was a bit more believable since there's a higher number of stunts on it that look quite brutal and some actual injuries happened). You should watch this awesome movie about him: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6G6XgzhtCJI Maximum Sexy Pigeon posted:There's a movie called 'On The Beach' which basically starts there. Besides the book/movie On the Beach, there's Alas Babylon and many, many other books like it. This type of story line in general was very very common in pulp fiction and sci-fi throughout the sixties and seventies for obvious reasons, with Mad Max and Mad Max 2 really bringing it to light in mainstream entertainment like nothing had before it.
|
|
#
?
Dec 17, 2014 16:24
|
|
|
Martello posted:poo poo yeah I knew I was forgetting something. Thankfully we have TFR posters to come in and drop knowledge. How hard is it to produce fulminate of mercury? And are there other options that might be easier but not as effective? I really don't have a clue as to how the fulmination process works, but every so often I find posts of people suggesting using the white stuff on strike anywhere matches as a base. There's also the neat thing about the priming compound used in .22 cartridges being stable when it's wet, but being kinda not very stable when its dry. So there's that. In an environment with a water shortage.  I wonder how feasible an electronic priming option would be with a smokeless powder weapon. Although that'd dry up fairly quickly as well, leaving folks to use black powder. Which is still useful and all and certainly offers enough power to be an effective weapon, but it's just so messy and fouls barrels hilariously fast. Snak posted:Now I have this great mental image of modern-cartridge matchlock weapons. BUST A DEAL, FACE THE WHEELlock 
|
|
#
?
Dec 18, 2014 00:22
|
|
|
Mel Gibson may be a crazy racist but I'd still be totally jazzed if he had some tiny cameo, especially if they managed to keep it under wraps all this time.
|
|
#
?
Dec 18, 2014 03:57
|
|
|
|
| # ? Apr 26, 2024 22:03 |
|
|
I'm actually a lot more OK with Gibson now than I expected to be. He's owned up to his bad behavior, and Robert Rodriguez has looked past that, so I probably can too. But I'd still rather see Bruce Spence or Tina Turner.
|
|
#
?
Dec 18, 2014 04:11
|
|