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So, I just finished watching Fury Road so I could tear it apart for you guys.

Started by The Good Reverend Roger, September 19, 2015, 05:14:17 AM

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Cain

#15
September 21, 2015, 04:23:01 AM
Quote from: Nast on September 21, 2015, 12:51:16 AM
I thought the movie was an accurate prediction of life in California when the state finally dries up and is reclaimed by the desert Australia today.

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#16
September 21, 2015, 04:26:12 AM
Quote from: Cain on September 21, 2015, 04:23:01 AM
Quote from: Nast on September 21, 2015, 12:51:16 AM
I thought the movie was an accurate prediction of life in California when the state finally dries up and is reclaimed by the desert Australia today.

:lulz:
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#17
September 21, 2015, 11:21:34 AM
One of the little details I really liked was the line about travelling 180 days across the "salt flats", thinking wtf where could possibly take 160 days on a bike before hitting the sea before I realised what the salt flats were.
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#18
September 22, 2015, 01:16:39 AM
Quote from: Faust on September 21, 2015, 11:21:34 AM
One of the little details I really liked was the line about travelling 180 days across the "salt flats", thinking wtf where could possibly take 160 days on a bike before hitting the sea before I realised what the salt flats were.

Yeah, the world of Mad Max is fucked. Even beyond what nuclear war usually implies.
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Cain

#19
September 22, 2015, 01:23:53 AM
I did like that half of Terry Pratchett's Fourecks was based on Mad Max, while the other half was based on Crocodile Dundee. 

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#20
September 22, 2015, 04:06:24 AM
Quote from: Cain on September 22, 2015, 01:23:53 AM
I did like that half of Terry Pratchett's Fourecks was based on Mad Max, while the other half was based on Crocodile Dundee.

I didn't read that, but did read the GURPS Discworld write-up for "Ecksecksecksecks". Horse-drawn war buggies and fierce competition for hay if remember right.
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Cain

#21
September 22, 2015, 04:38:34 AM
And drop bears.

The Good Reverend Roger

#22
September 22, 2015, 05:33:18 AM
Quote from: President Television on September 22, 2015, 01:16:39 AM
Quote from: Faust on September 21, 2015, 11:21:34 AM
One of the little details I really liked was the line about travelling 180 days across the "salt flats", thinking wtf where could possibly take 160 days on a bike before hitting the sea before I realised what the salt flats were.

Yeah, the world of Mad Max is fucked. Even beyond what nuclear war usually implies.

I like that even the nature of the catastrophe is mutable.
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Trivial

#23
September 22, 2015, 05:43:06 AM
Been too long since I saw the earlier ones but I was talking with a co-worker about how I couldn't figure out how civilization fell such from the first to thunderdome that the kids din't know what some tech was, along with a few adults.  Co-worker pointed out that everything was already fucked for a very, very long time in the first one, that Max was in an area that the effects were slow/unseen.

So now I have to watch the first again.
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#24
September 22, 2015, 05:46:15 AM
Quote from: Trivial Notgeil on September 22, 2015, 05:43:06 AM
Been too long since I saw the earlier ones but I was talking with a co-worker about how I couldn't figure out how civilization fell such from the first to thunderdome that the kids din't know what some tech was, along with a few adults.  Co-worker pointed out that everything was already fucked for a very, very long time in the first one, that Max was in an area that the effects were slow/unseen.

So now I have to watch the first again.

Fast forward through the middle bit.  Right after he quits his job.  It's LONG.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
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The Good Reverend Roger

#25
September 22, 2015, 05:47:04 AM
Also, the kids in Thunderdome were very young when their plane crashed, so you can date that one to about 8 years after the Big Whoops.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Aucoq

#26
September 22, 2015, 08:07:10 AM
Quote from: Faust on September 21, 2015, 11:21:34 AM
One of the little details I really liked was the line about travelling 180 days across the "salt flats", thinking wtf where could possibly take 160 days on a bike before hitting the sea before I realised what the salt flats were.

Wow!  I didn't catch that at all.  That's pretty genius.  :)
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#27
September 23, 2015, 01:24:41 AM
But is that the dystopia we're getting? OH, NOOOO, we're getting stuck with fucking waterworld!

WATERWORLD!!!

:argh!:
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The Good Reverend Roger

#28
September 23, 2015, 02:08:12 AM
Quote from: Emo Howard on September 23, 2015, 01:24:41 AM
But is that the dystopia we're getting? OH, NOOOO, we're getting stuck with fucking waterworld!

WATERWORLD!!!

:argh!:

May not be valid in California.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

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#29
September 23, 2015, 05:13:06 AM
Not if these Tsunami warnings hold true.
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