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Ghost Leviathan posted:Also I like the idea that the setting really is the dried-up ocean floor after a Fist of the North Star level insane offscreen apocalypse. Maybe Half-Life 2.
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Jedit posted:Furiosa was born after the collapse. So it's been a good 40 years at least, and certainly too long for Tom Hardy's Max to have been a cop before it. I don't think she's in her 40s in that movie. If I was to guess, and take the hardships of a post apocalyptic society into account, I would have thought maybe early 30s at the most. Fury Road is a reboot, so doesn't fit in with the timeline of the original trilogy. It's neat that they're all considered folklore tales of a wasteland hero.
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She says she was gone 7000 days plus the days she doesn't remember. That's not really enough to go on but it means she was gone at leaat 20 years.
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Fall Dog posted:I don't think she's in her 40s in that movie. If I was to guess, and take the hardships of a post apocalyptic society into account, I would have thought maybe early 30s at the most. Just to throw it out there, George Miller has said it's not a reboot. I don't think of it as; they're all tales but they all could uh, exist within the same timeframe, I guess. I see Mad Max as being the (current) earliest of in the timeline but any of the other movies I guess could just be whatever. Oh, I guess that gyrocopter guy shows up in two movies, doesn't he...
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Fall Dog posted:I don't think she's in her 40s in that movie. If I was to guess, and take the hardships of a post apocalyptic society into account, I would have thought maybe early 30s at the most. Sure, but you don't know how long after the collapse she was born. Her age just sets a minimum bound, and with her being roughly the same age as Max - who was meant to have been an adult before the collapse - there's no way to handwave it.
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Mad Max, all of them, take place in present times, that's just what Australia is like.
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The Neighbours Extended Universe
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I thought it was stupid having Max flash back to a bunch of scenes from the earlier movies at the start of Fury Road, since it doesn't add anything to the story and it detracts from the concept of Max being an idea more than a specific person, but what if that was representing the spirit of Max taking Tom Hardy over? He doesn't say his name because he has no name for most of the movie. Only after doing a bunch of crazy poo poo with guns and exploding cars for the sake of the poor and downtrodden does he become Max
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marshmallow creep posted:It's like how Sasha is a totally normal name is Russian for a man to have, but in English speaking world it's heavily skewed towards feminine. Vanya sounds so much like Anya that is sounds pretty fem to my ears, anyway. Hell, I think in many languages with a Latin influence, an -a at the end of your name basically makes your name a girl's name by default. That association is really strong for a lot of people so getting away from it may have been the point. Pope Corky the IX posted:Boy did action movie heroes get shot in the shoulder a lot in the eighties and nineties. And somehow it never impedes them other than maybe listing to starboard when they run.
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Last Action Hero handled this great when the action hero version of Schwarzenegger got shot in the shoulder in the real world and was in incredible pain and bleeding and unable to function. They took him back to the movie world and sought immediate medical attention and when the doctor arrived he laughed at him, "It's just a shoulder wound!" and told him to walk it off.
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Pope Corky the IX posted:Boy did action movie heroes get shot in the shoulder a lot in the eighties and nineties. And somehow it never impedes them other than maybe listing to starboard when they run. At some point hollywood realized this was getting cliche so now all the heroes of action movies get non-fatally shot in the lower outside abdomen, which as we all know contains no organs vital to human survival. Since I just watched Prey over the weekend, I thought I'd go back and rewatch Predators, where the following exchange happens early in the film: Adrian Brody, speaking to a latinx woman with a definite Portugeuse accent who just demonstrated her in-depth knowledge of jungle environments - "[You're] IDF?" The clearly Brazilian woman: "Yes"  Note, I'm not trying to be essentialist here but it was just a super weird choice to make the character Israeli for no reason when it would have made much more sense for her to be like Colombian spec ops or a FARC guerrilla or some poo poo, especially considering the original was set in Guatemala and she has knowledge about the original event. Felt like a studio rewrite.
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flavor.flv posted:I thought it was stupid having Max flash back to a bunch of scenes from the earlier movies at the start of Fury Road, since it doesn't add anything to the story and it detracts from the concept of Max being an idea more than a specific person, but what if that was representing the spirit of Max taking Tom Hardy over? It just represents the lives he's lived and those he's ended, the people he's known, whether he failed them and they died or he killed them or he moved on, they still haunt him. He doesn't talk in the beginning because he's gone feral, just a gibbering mass of trauma. He's not a guy that happens to drive the interceptor and who happens to wear the same clothes as max who then gets possessed by max.
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credburn posted:Just to throw it out there, George Miller has said it's not a reboot. I don't think of it as; they're all tales but they all could uh, exist within the same timeframe, I guess. I see Mad Max as being the (current) earliest of in the timeline but any of the other movies I guess could just be whatever. Oh, I guess that gyrocopter guy shows up in two movies, doesn't he... Bruce Spence shows up in 2 movies playing a pilot both times, but isn't the same guy.
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800peepee51doodoo posted:At some point hollywood realized this was getting cliche so now all the heroes of action movies get non-fatally shot in the lower outside abdomen, which as we all know contains no organs vital to human survival. Maybe they couldn't get Gal Gadot for the part? 
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Edward Teach wears the same outfit as Mad Max in Our Flag Means Death, ergo Mad Max is just the spirit of Blackbeard but because the ocean is gone he pirates cars instead.
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Re: OFMD I understand that whole show is a big pile of silliness and "creative anachronism" stuff, but I still don't really understand how the mad max outfit is supposed to tie in unless they were just like "this is cool." It's absolutely not a coincidence either, it's absurdly on the nose. They even replace his knee brace with a knife scabbard in the same place. Is it just because there are a lot of kiwi actors and they figure Australia's close enough? The organic mechanic from Fury Road has a small role, is it related to him? I don't know! I did like how on the show if you want to go visit someone on their boat you can just hop in a rowboat and show up a few hours later, even if their ship is on the open ocean. "Hey buddy, thought I'd visit!"
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A couple of weeks ago Pitch Meeting had the executive say ‘That’s the thing from the other thing! Sometimes I recognise a thing from another thing and my brain releases the happy chemicals.”
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Baron von Eevl posted:Re: OFMD from the head writer's Instagram:  I watched Black Sails afterwards because everyone was like, oh it's also gay pirates, but it's so completely different in tone I wouldn't automatically recommend it unless you enjoy Prestige Cable Drama. It made me laugh how in OFMD, Blackbeard complains about the crazy depictions of him with a bunch of guns, and when BS Blackbeard finally appears he's got three guns strapped to his chest at all times.
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Aphrodite posted:Bruce Spence shows up in 2 movies playing a pilot both times, but isn't the same guy. This confused me, because in the movie you first see him in he's flirting with one of the refugees so in the next movie I imagined he made a decent life for himself, had a kid, etc.
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Bruce Spence Flying Unconventional Aircraft is just part of the vague canon surrounding the Max legends, like his car and dog. He's a lesser Babe The Blue Ox to Max's Paul Bunyan.
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I know continuity isn't the star of the show in the Mad Max universe, but why does Max remember the time before the apocalypse but the old ladies at the end of Fury Road are part of a druidic tribe taking about their home as the Green Place like you just airlifted them out of an isolated jungle
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Because part of max's story is that he used to be a cop and had a family, in The Before Times. It doesn't matter that he's appearing in a story where the elders weren't alive in The Before Times.
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Manager Hoyden posted:I know continuity isn't the star of the show in the Mad Max universe, but why does Max remember the time before the apocalypse but the old ladies at the end of Fury Road are part of a druidic tribe taking about their home as the Green Place like you just airlifted them out of an isolated jungle Because Mad Max is a legend passed down in the mad max world, not a real person.
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Baron von Eevl posted:Re: OFMD Taika Waititi looks really hot in it, you see.
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Much of Furiosa will take place in The Green Place.
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moonmazed posted:iimm: cillian murphy is so weird looking So's the guy playing Sandman but I'm not complaining about it.
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BaldDwarfOnPCP posted:So's the guy playing Sandman but I'm not complaining about it. I’ve been calling him “Thrift Store Robert Pattinson”.
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I just call him Hot Niel Gaiman
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OG Mad Max is based on the oil crisis of the 70s and is honestly only slightly exaggerated.
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Yeah it was post apocalyptic because the chief's leatherdaddy outfit was cheaper than a cop costume.
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I've heard that they didn't have enough budget for as many cars as the script required so a bunch of the cars were just repainted and used again and again. Also the only one wearing genuine leather is Max because vinyl outfits were cheaper.
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I was watching Sandman and I'm not sure who this one character is but all I know is that he voiced the Shame Wizard from Big Mouth and I just have this mental image of the Shame Wizard guilt tripping this lady into driving him to get some ruby.
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Panfilo posted:I was watching Sandman and I'm not sure who this one character is but all I know is that he voiced the Shame Wizard from Big Mouth and I just have this mental image of the Shame Wizard guilt tripping this lady into driving him to get some ruby. He was also Ares in Wonderwoman! Pasty, ginger Ares.
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Bussamove posted:He was also Ares in Wonderwoman! Pasty, ginger Ares. I had a hard time taking that villain seriously. Even in his final form he still had that dorky face.
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Panfilo posted:I had a hard time taking that villain seriously. Even in his final form he still had that dorky face. That mustache took any villainous wind from his sails. Just do a full face-covering helmet with glowing eyes or something!
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HopperUK posted:Taika Waititi looks really hot in it, you see. Really hot.
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BaldDwarfOnPCP posted:So's the guy playing Sandman but I'm not complaining about it. Honestly Sandman guy should have looked a lot weirder. 
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Panfilo posted:I had a hard time taking that villain seriously. Even in his final form he still had that dorky face. David Thewlis gets a pass from me in absolutely everything for the time he punched racist shitlord Jim Davidson in the face.
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