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A pretty rad dude in Alaska built an equally rad Forester along those lines. https://www.subaruforester.org/threads/my-long-travel-setup-on-the-wandering-foz.567250/ https://www.instagram.com/p/CJrKsjjMPNG/?igshid=16wrqfia9yg62
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I forget where this guy is from, but hes got a cool ford explorer.
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'A story I can't wait to see in a cinema': George Miller to shoot a new Mad Max movie, Furiosa The Mad Max series is roaring back to life. After the resolution of an ugly legal dispute with Hollywood studio Warner Bros, director George Miller is preparing to shoot a fifth movie, Furiosa, in the celebrated action series in New South Wales in Australia. It is a prequel to Mad Max: Fury Road, with Anya Taylor-Joy, the breakout star of the hit series The Queen’s Gambit, playing a younger version of the heroic warrior played by Charlize Theron. The cast will also include Chris Hemsworth, who is filming Thor: Love and Thunder in Sydney, and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, best-known for Aquaman and The Trial of the Chicago 7. Premier Gladys Berejiklian announced the movie would be “the largest film ever to be filmed” in NSW – bringing at least A$350 million (NZ$378.1m) into the state’s economy and involving 850 jobs. Furiosa has attracted filming incentives from both the state and Australian governments, including the reinstated 40 per cent tax break known as the producer offset that was announced earlier this month. Miller has just finished filming the fantasy drama Three Thousand Years of Longing, with Idris Elba and Tilda Swinton, in Sydney. He will then return to the Mad Max series more than 40 years after the first instalment – which starred Mel Gibson as a damaged cop roaming the lawless Australian wasteland – with a shoot that will take place in Sydney and elsewhere in the state including Broken Hill. Fury Road, the fourth instalment, famously took 12 years to get made with three major delays and a switch of continents to Namibia when heavy rain made the desert around Broken Hill too much like a garden to pass for a post-apocalyptic landscape. But it was a triumph when it was released in 2015. As well as taking US$375m (NZ$521.4m) at the worldwide box office, Fury Road was widely acclaimed and won six Oscars as well as being nominated for best picture and director. That triumph soured when production company Kennedy Miller Mitchell became mired in a bitter court battle with Warner Bros over unpaid earnings that threatened to block the production of both Furiosa and another planned sequel. Delighted to be getting to shoot the new instalment close to home, Miller said the dispute had been resolved with new leadership at the studio. “Since we started Fury Road I think there’s been six different regimes at Warner Bros,” he said. “Now it’s stabilised very much and they’re able to basically pay attention coherently to the films they want to make and this is one of them.” Miller described Furiosa as a saga. “Whereas Fury Road essentially happened over three days and two nights, this happens over many years,” he said. ”You try to make films that are ‘uniquely familiar’. “This will be familiar to those people who know Mad Max, and in particular Fury Road, but also it will be unique.” Miller plans to shoot Furiosa next year once he finishes post-production on Three Thousand Years of Longing. He had planned to shoot a key sequence before June 30 but the federal government’s decision to reverse a planned winding back of the producer offset to 30 per cent has taken off the pressure. “We had vehicles built, stunts prepared and we were well into that process,” he said. While many big movies have been heading to streaming services, Miller said “this is a story that I can’t wait to see in a cinema”. Hemsworth said that having grown up watching Miller’s iconic series, joining the cast was the biggest “pinch myself moment” in his acting career. “It’s a huge honour,” he said. “A lot of pressure but exciting pressure that is certainly motivating.” Furiosa continues the boom in Hollywood-backed production since Australia became one of the world’s most Covid-safe filming locations.
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I'm really worried about that movie. Miller and a bunch of other people who created Fury Road wrote a Furiousa comic that was awful. This review mirrors what I thought about it when I read it. https://io9.gizmodo.com/the-furiosa-comic-undoes-everything-great-about-mad-max-1713368243
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Uthor posted:I'm really worried about that movie. Miller and a bunch of other people who created Fury Road wrote a Furiousa comic that was awful. On the other hand, they made Fury Road.
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Which ... I really didn't like Fury Road, either. It felt like it was made by someone who was a fan of the original movies, not a meaningful extension of them.
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Krakkles posted:Which ... I really didn't like Fury Road, either. It felt like it was made by someone who was a fan of the original movies, not a meaningful extension of them. And for me Fury Road has replaced Road Warrior as the one I'll watch. The OG movies aren't in a line anyway, continuity isn't a real thing in them besides Mel Gibson and the car itself. They just are kinda self-contained legends in their own right. Fury Road is a freakin' blast and I love it so. More Miller please.
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Cage posted:I forget where this guy is from, but hes got a cool ford explorer. Fjord Explorer
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Fayez Butts posted:Fjord Explorer The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Automotive Insanity > Post awesome AI car poo poo: Fjord Explorer
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Krakkles posted:Which ... I really didn't like Fury Road, either. MODS?!
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AmbassadorofSodomy posted:The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Automotive Insanity > Post awesome AI car poo poo: Fjord Explorer 
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Krakkles posted:Which ... I really didn't like Fury Road, either.  wat
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That can only means he LOVED it.
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KakerMix posted:Since when has the 258 ever been known as the slant 6? Father to the 4.0 certainly but slanting? It slants upward.
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Huge_Midget posted:Not an AMC Eagle, but certainly in the same spirit. This is what I’d do to my RS if it ever got wrecked and I needed to rebuild it. that fuckin' rules  
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Memento posted:that fuckin' rules To be honest I'm the same. I really do like Fury Road, but not really a 'Mad Max' film. To me it's more suited to be in that universe but not MM himself. Maybe I'm getting old and categorizing them as Mel Gibson and Not Mel Gibson.
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Humphreys posted:To be honest I'm the same. I really do like Fury Road, but not really a 'Mad Max' film. To me it's more suited to be in that universe but not MM himself. Maybe I'm getting old and categorizing them as Mel Gibson and Not Mel Gibson. When's the last time you've seen Beyond the Thunderdome? Fury Road is that same movie, complete with the strange fantastic elements, just done better. Everyone remembers Road Warrior but even then Fury Road replaces it. Besides the very first movie, NONE of the movies are about Max either. He's always the vessel to enter the universe. Road Warrior is about the oil derrick clan, Thunderdome is about those kids, Fury Road is about the Wives and their story. Max is always the gallant knight, the adventuring hero. There is no real continuity, both Max and his car get destroyed multiple times, the demons he's running from change even. It's because the stories being told are legends, Max is the fantastic hero that saves everyone.
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Is there some galaxy brain fan theory that Mad Max isn't just one single person, but stories told about him by people that knew someone that was friends with someone that was totally there and it definitely happened. Like it is meant to be a collection of folk stories and we the viewer are meant to watch them as if we are being told a story by a travelling bard or some poo poo in the post-apocalypse hellscape. Each one gets more fantastical and unrealistic than the last it's because it's being told via a big game of 'Telephone'.
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I've always viewed Max as a portal to that world, and that world evolves just like any other would. Road Warrior is the cult classic and Fury Road is the Magnum Opus
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Applebees Appetizer posted:I've always viewed Max as a portal to that world, and that world evolves just like any other would. Actually the Magnum Opus is the customisable car from the 2015 Mad Max game  
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Memento posted:that fuckin' rules  dpack_1 posted:Is there some galaxy brain fan theory that Mad Max isn't just one single person, but stories told about him by people that knew someone that was friends with someone that was totally there and it definitely happened. I just don't see how Fury Road was the Magnum Opus. What about it was better? It was another Mad Max movie, sure, and it was made with newer technology and a bigger budget, sure, but I guess I just don't get how the story telling was way better than the original or something. It's absolutely a fair point that the other movies weren't necessarily amazing canonical continuations of the same story either, but Road Warrior was pretty good and "fits" to me while Thunderdome is probably more at the Fury Road end of things. I do recognize that it's entirely possible that if I'd seen Fury Road first, then the other movies, I'd feel the opposite way, because, let's be honest, the original isn't exactly fine cinema, but I don't think it's strictly that because I doubt those that are older than me all started with Fury Road either.
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I've never seen any of the mad max movies. Or Killdozer. Berate me please, and then run me out of AI.
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AmbassadorofSodomy posted:I've never seen any of the mad max movies. Or Killdozer. Fury Road is the best film adaptation of The Will To Change that I can imagine.
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AmbassadorofSodomy posted:I've never seen any of the mad max movies. Or Killdozer. These movies have cars, and have car crashes. You have no excuse
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McTinkerson posted:A pretty rad dude in Alaska built an equally rad Forester along those lines. Oh, yes, I want this. Cage posted:I forget where this guy is from, but hes got a cool ford explorer. An accomplishment. These are not words that often go together. Vincent Van Goatse posted:'A story I can't wait to see in a cinema': George Miller to shoot a new Mad Max movie, Furiosa YES! Uthor posted:I'm really worried about that movie. Miller and a bunch of other people who created Fury Road wrote a Furiousa comic that was awful. poo poo... Here's hoping. KakerMix posted:When's the last time you've seen Beyond the Thunderdome? Fury Road is that same movie, complete with the strange fantastic elements, just done better. Everyone remembers Road Warrior but even then Fury Road replaces it. There's an author who has a universe where the stories and genres in books exist as alternative universes, and they have to go "right" by the rules of the genre, or our own universe goes wonky. One of his short stories is entitled "There Will Always Be A Max." that more or less encapsulates what you just said. The Mad Max stories are about hope, and some triumph in the face of bleak oppression. Some nobility left in a hostile barbaric world. AirRaid posted:Actually the Magnum Opus is the customisable car from the 2015 Mad Max game I think I used the Rolls Royce body on mine... until I got the Black on Black body as a reward for completing the main quest.
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Someone probably on these forums described Max as basically a Post-Apocalyptic Arthurian figure. It kind of fits. The first movie would be the actual backstory of the original Max, a guy with a badass car who got revenge for his loved ones. Road Warrior is framed as being told by the feral kid, so it's the tale of a drifter that came in, helped out, and disappeared out of their lives forever. Thunderdome is framed as being told by the kids at the end of the movie, same setup. Even Fury Road finishes with the quote from "The First History Man" which sort of sets up that they have progressed to a point where they are writing their histories down again. AFewBricksShy fucked around with this message at 12:07 on Apr 22, 2021 |
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I watched the original mad max a couple of weeks ago for the first time in decades and it was way worse than I remembered. I'll get to the others again which I'm sure are better, but I enjoyed fury road without remembering anything about the previous ones, which I'm sure was their intent.
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Minnesota Mixup posted:I watched the original mad max a couple of weeks ago for the first time in decades and it was way worse than I remembered. I'll get to the others again which I'm sure are better, but I enjoyed fury road without remembering anything about the previous ones, which I'm sure was their intent. That's totally a valid opinion but you also have to remember that it was a low budget non-hollywood movie, shot by a guy who wasn't really a director yet (he was a Doctor), with no real stars in the movie (at the time) in the late '70's. A lot of action movies don't hold up as well when compared to modern day movies. Even the French Connection, which I was always told has "The greatest car chase ever" by my dad, doesn't have nearly the impact it did when it was made just due to the advances in film making and special effects. AFewBricksShy fucked around with this message at 13:06 on Apr 22, 2021 |
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AFewBricksShy posted:That's totally a valid opinion but you also have to remember that it was a low budget non-hollywood movie, shot by a guy who wasn't really a director yet (he was a Doctor), with no real stars in the movie (at the time) in the late '70's. AFewBricksShy posted:A lot of action movies don't hold up as well when compared to modern day movies. Even the French Connection, which I was always told has "The greatest car chase ever" by my dad, doesn't have nearly the impact it did when it was made just due to the advances in film making and special effects. The original Gone in 60 Seconds is more of a longform guide on how to actually commit fraud by rebuilding cars. That car chase was still amazing seeing it was done for real.
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Very loving cool. https://twitter.com/joannafidalgo/status/1384981727655956483?s=20
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Olympic Mathlete posted:Very loving cool. Those wheels are awesome. I guess people are still doing the stretched tire thing? It feels like that trend should have petered out by now, but it's not old enough yet for people to do it ironically.
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Humphreys posted:The original Gone in 60 Seconds is more of a longform guide on how to actually commit fraud by rebuilding cars. That car chase was still amazing seeing it was done for real. Worth quoting if anyone is on the fence. The DVD remaster is the only version I've seen, and I've never gone back and rewatched the whole thing, but I've rewatched that last hour li g chase several times.
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Krakkles posted:I just don't see how Fury Road was the Magnum Opus. What about it was better? It was another Mad Max movie, sure, and it was made with newer technology and a bigger budget, sure, but I guess I just don't get how the story telling was way better than the original or something. Yeah I meant Opus more in terms of the sheer scale of the movie, and to me it was just as good as the Road Warrior story wise so Fury Road gets the nod as best Mad Max movie for me personally. And if by original you mean the first one then gonna have to disagree there, Road Warrior is by far the best Mel Gibson movie imo.
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Finger Prince posted:Those wheels are awesome. I guess people are still doing the stretched tire thing? It feels like that trend should have petered out by now, but it's not old enough yet for people to do it ironically. I'd imagine on a car that came with 5.5" rears you'd need to do a bit of stretch to fit tyres on a 'normal' width set of wheels to stop them rubbing the arches.  Unrelated. https://twitter.com/miyaguchi3891/status/1377679951491567616?s=20 https://twitter.com/miyaguchi3891/status/1376157993574617092?s=20
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AFewBricksShy posted:That's totally a valid opinion but you also have to remember that it was a low budget non-hollywood movie, shot by a guy who wasn't really a director yet (he was a Doctor), with no real stars in the movie (at the time) in the late '70's. Oh for sure. I had forgotten just how low budget/'amateur' it was. I had something else in my mind so it was a bit jarring watching it again. It was at least entertaining though. Any movie I don't turn off is at least decent.
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Finger Prince posted:Those wheels are awesome. I guess people are still doing the stretched tire thing? It feels like that trend should have petered out by now, but it's not old enough yet for people to do it ironically. Stretching tires will always be a thing because wheels, buying and selling, is a PITA. They're bulky, heavy, and expensive to ship. If you buy a set of wheels and maybe not to the most research, they may not fit well and poke out a little. Instead of trying to sell them and finding something that fits, you can put thinner tires on to avoid rubbing. Not to say this isn't done outside of fitment. Miatas love running 8 inch wide wheels with 215mm tires on track. Allegedly no other better combination. 235mm is a square fitment for an 8 inch wheel. I do autocross in a street class. The wheel limit is 9 inches with a tire limit of 245mm. 255 is a square fitment for a 9 inch wheel. um excuse me fucked around with this message at 17:03 on Apr 22, 2021 |
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um excuse me posted:Stretching tires will always be a thing because wheels, buying and selling, is a PITA. They're bulky, heavy, and expensive to ship. If you buy a set of wheels and maybe not to the most research, they may not fit well and poke out a little. Instead of trying to sell them and finding something that fits, you can put thinner tires on to avoid rubbing. To be fair, that Cappuccino doesn't even look that stretched (the rears look more stretched than the fronts, but that could be the angle). I'm thinking more from an aesthetic perspective than a practical one. Like, this option is the best of a variety of compromises for my application, I get that. But the show car stretch just feels like plastic side skirt packages or carbon trunk lid wings - a trend whose time has come and gone.
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