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PIZZA.BAT posted:they let us back in and let us watch it. gently caress i’m glad i saw that in imax Yep. What did you think of the changes from the book? I thought that it was actually really a good idea to condense the timeline and not have Alia born yet. Having 2-year-old who talks like a grown up running around slitting people's throats is really cartoony and dumb. I didn't even like that part in the books. It's much more narratively clean if Paul is the one who kills the Baron, and I thought that having Jessica talk to her unborn daughter was an effective alternate interpretation of the character. Similarly I'm glad they took out Paul and Chani getting married and having a baby when they're both like 16, and Paul also being married to Jamis's widow, and the Sietch orgy. Jamis' widow and Leto II(a) are irrelevant characters and the rest is terrible 1960s sex stuff. Sorry Frank. Denis got that one right. The only thing that I was hoping to see and didn't was the lasgun-shield interaction, and I was a little surprised at first that they left that out, but then I realized they never established that aspect of the technology, and the atomic missiles are a perfectly good MacGuffin secret weapon anyway, so I'm fine with it. I love the lasers in these movies. Sagebrush fucked around with this message at 01:01 on Mar 31, 2024 |
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also there was the trailer for Furiosa and sure, i'll watch that. problem with mad max though: where are all the electric vehicles? battery electric is absolutely 100% the way to go in the apocalypse. why spend all this time and energy fighting over gasoline when you can run your car on solar, wind, hydroelectric, hell even burn cow poo poo to fire a boiler and spin a generator? yeah it takes a long time to recharge with a rooftop solar panel, but you're in australia and you've got nothing but time. yeah lithium batteries aren't easy to procure, but lead and acid are cheap and plentiful. it just makes so much more sense.
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electric motors don’t make cool engine sounds and shoot fire out the exhaust though
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Elder Postsman posted:electric motors don’t make cool engine sounds and shoot fire out the exhaust though
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Sagebrush posted:also there was the trailer for Furiosa and sure, i'll watch that. depending on chemistry lithium secondary cells on average lose half their capacity after just a few years. after a decade without remanufacturing you’d have no working lithium chemistry batteries. lead acid batteries are easy to service, but they have like 30-40 Watt hours per kilogram of capacity. gasoline has an energy density of 12 kilowatt hours per kilogram.
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Sagebrush posted:yeah it takes a long time to recharge with a rooftop solar panel, but you're in australia and you've got nothing but time. i think an ev using scientist/hermit works though. you basically would have to already have lots of know how, be a great scavenger or have the resources to trade to hire them (plot hook), and be ok/crazy enough to live so isolated you have time and safety to build/charge
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but, like, realistically that’s also going to be most of a sideplot to a mad max. not really super interesting/novel enough to commit to screen unless you can have the ev save the day at the last minute in service of a larger objective. maybe for a tv series?
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hey george where are all the electric vehicles? “offscreen being boring as gently caress” *makes revving noises before flipping me off*
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never seen the original mad max 1 but I get the sense that the apocalypse happened pretty quickly as the society-wide gas crisis rapidly worsened and spiraled out of control into violent unrest the EV migration will take a while
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society descends into chaos as dweebs start killing each other for the few remaining $700 tesla tires
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the real play is bicycles. easily serviced, efficient, silent. can go more places than a motor vehicle.
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mad max but it’s roving bike couriers in the post apocalyptic streets of new york city they fight over liquor and spare parts
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Sagebrush posted:The only thing that I was hoping to see and didn't was the lasgun-shield interaction, and I was a little surprised at first that they left that out, but then I realized they never established that aspect of the technology, and the atomic missiles are a perfectly good MacGuffin secret weapon anyway, so I'm fine with it. there was at least the harkonen partol where they get yelled at to not turn on their shields during the first laser attack and that was enough for me
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haveblue posted:never seen the original mad max 1 but I get the sense that the apocalypse happened pretty quickly as the society-wide gas crisis rapidly worsened and spiraled out of control into violent unrest
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Sagebrush posted:also there was the trailer for Furiosa and sure, i'll watch that. 
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Sagebrush posted:also there was the trailer for Furiosa and sure, i'll watch that.
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aren’t they literally fighting for water. in a post-apocalyptic society where the population has crashed. and yet somehow there’s no water
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no they're fighting for guzzoline
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rjmccall posted:aren’t they literally fighting for water. in a post-apocalyptic society where the population has crashed. and yet somehow there’s no water
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mystes posted:I don't think anything about the mad max movies actually makes sense if you think about it at all, so I would suggest turning off your brain yeah i had to shut off my brain after the start of mad max fury road. i was thinking "what's the deal with all these weird looking guys? why are they painted all white? why do they need this guy's blood?". but it's not supposed to make sense, i just gotta vibe with it
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Eeyo posted:yeah i had to shut off my brain after the start of mad max fury road. the movie even basically says “shut up and look at the guitar flamethrower”
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rjmccall posted:aren’t they literally fighting for water. in a post-apocalyptic society where the population has crashed. and yet somehow there’s no water did you not notice its a desert? if you want them to drink up, waterworld is thataway ---->
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rjmccall posted:aren’t they literally fighting for water. in a post-apocalyptic society where the population has crashed. and yet somehow there’s no water a sandworm did it
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infernal machines posted:australia could only exist in fiction Australia - Dune - Desert Planet.
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if ur gonna skip a mad max, the first one is the one to miss
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Sagebrush posted:Yep. yeah i thought cutting jamis’ widow out was a good call and was something i expected. similarly i wasn’t sure how they were going to handle his little sister and just showing her once as an adult in a prophecy was a good compromise. i also enjoyed that they added the nukes and used them because it was something the book mentioned but then never did anything with. what i’m not so sure about is how they ended it with chani getting pissed and leaving to go her own way. on the one hand i liked how it was in the books because paul demanding the emperor’s daughter and then immediately being all ‘but chani is still my bae you’re just a side piece’ is a real power move. otoh chani getting pissed and leaving kind of drives home the point that paul is becoming a bad guy at the end for the audience which probably won’t see more dune movies to really spell it out for them. idk. gonna have to sleep on this one also whoever mentioned that the lasers in this movie are the first depiction in cinema where they *really* feel like they have a menacing punch to them was correct. i’m predicting this is just how lasers are going to be portrayed from now on in most sci fi now that everyone has been shown how it’s done
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i’m going to take over the mad max franchise and make them set the next one in tasmania and it’s going to be a plucky post-apocalyptic romcom and sometime in the third act when the leads are desperately trying to get back together after breaking up someone’s going to take a ride on a boat and the guy with the boat is going to be like “ey mate didya hear there’s an apocalypse on the mainland” and the male lead will look surprised and it’ll never be mentioned again
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hobbesmaster posted:Australia - Dune - Desert Planet. all the "foreign" words in dune are etymologically from some contemporary language. - landsraad, from landsråd, a form of government in which noble houses etc - ornithopter, from ornitho- meanin of birds, and -pter, something that flies - shai-hulud, from شيء خلود meaning the eternal one - arrakis, from australia, meaning southern shithole
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rjmccall posted:aren’t they literally fighting for water. in a post-apocalyptic society where the population has crashed. and yet somehow there’s no water this is explained in Solarbabies
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I like how in a book where every third word is a made up concept and it takes places on a distant planet tens of thousands of years in the future there’s still coffee
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haveblue posted:I like how in a book where every third word is a made up concept and it takes places on a distant planet tens of thousands of years in the future there’s still coffee
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saw a nick cage film called the dream scenario it was better than i expected. kinda a dramedy/dark comedy sorta thing? nick cage plays a university professor who starts appearing in random people's dreams and it's about him dealing with the celebrity that comes from that and how it changes people's perception of him
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dunc 2 makes some really smart changes to the narrative but i also think it's too bad that there won't be an extra long extra indulgent version, i could watch as much dune as they can put in front of me right now
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Improbable Lobster posted:saw a nick cage film i thought this said nick cave and it made me remember Johnny Suede https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r911eFy9y5w
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Improbable Lobster posted:dunc 2 makes some really smart changes to the narrative but i also think it's too bad that there won't be an extra long extra indulgent version, i could watch as much dune as they can put in front of me right now tbh, as one who has suffered through many extended cuts, i appreciate it more this way I think
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Improbable Lobster posted:saw a nick cage film called the dream scenario
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when he had trouble turning off the light I went «ah so it has all been a dream» but then i remembered he turned on a light earlier in the movie without problems
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mad max 1 is really weird. there's no apocalypse, it's just slow societal decay and the movie is set quite early in that process. there's still a police force, a hospital, and a roadside diner. the people in the town are living normal lives in normal houses, not hunkering down in their compounds fighting over who gets to eat the last scrap of shoe leather. it's more like a 1950s movie where a gang of teens turn up in leather jackets to menace a town the whole thing is pretty much retconned away for mad max 2 Sweevo fucked around with this message at 15:08 on Mar 31, 2024 |
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