OMG... I am so disappointed, lack of culture...

[RJDiogenes]

^^ Not true. The Mad Max films were just too boring and unimaginative; you're right, though, in the sense that they were the prototype for the bland, leather-bondage-gear, factory-basement look that has become the norm. The state of pop culture today is pretty much the worst of the 80s exaggerated to the level of parody.

Examples of good post-Apocalyptic films would be Planet Of The Apes and... um... well, it's not really a fruitful sub-genre. I suppose stuff like Genesis II and Logan's Run would qualify.

 

[Showdown]

I never saw it. I heard of it, and I think I saw parts of one of the Mad Max films.

Lack of culture, huh. Well, its not as bad as people complaining about the three witches in Smallville being a rip off of Charmed, when its clearly a nod to Shakespeare's Macbeth.

 

[sidious618]

Humor over the internet is hard.

"Oh my..."

I don't do humor. You know that.

Oh, brother.

 

[ShamelessMcBundy]

"Oh my..."

I don't do humor. You know that.

Oh, brother.

"And they say you don't have a sense of humor!" -Martok

 

[captcalhoun]

i've seen Mad Max and Mad Max 2, but not bothered with the third.

 

[Holdfast]

i've seen Mad Max and Mad Max 2, but not bothered with the third.

The first third of the third is pretty good. You may as well stop after that, because the rest is dire.

 

[Daneel]

I've seen it. I enjoyed it. At the very least, it has some great car chases. I wouldn't be terribly shocked and appalled if someone told me they hadn't seen, however.

Now, if you tell me you've never seen Die Hard...

 

[Brent]

I've never seen any Die Hard movie

 

[ShamelessMcBundy]

I've seen them. Not a fan, really.

 

[sidious618]

The first Die Hard is great. The others are jokes.

 

[Daneel]

I've never seen any Die Hard movie

I've seen them. Not a fan, really.

Well, I guess you two are dead to me, then.

The first Die Hard is great. The others are jokes.

Eh, I've enjoyed them all, personally. But yeah, the first one is definitely the best of the series.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Speaking of the Max-verse, does anyone know if Fury Road is a sequel, a mid-quel, or a reboot?

 

[sojourner]

^None of the above. It's vaporware.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

^ Still? I thought after Tom Hardy signed on, it was a go.

 

[SicOne]

Miss Chicken feels so old because she can say

"I went and saw Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior when it first opened in the cinemas back in 1981."

And I can say, "Now I don't feel bad about never seeing it because I wasn't born yet."

It's not like it was in black-and-white or anything.

 

[Australis]

The story is that because of recent heavy rains, the outback is now far too green to be a post-apocalyptic wasteland. True.

 

[Holdfast]

I've never seen any Die Hard movie

I've seen them. Not a fan, really.

Burn in the fires of hell.

The first Die Hard is great. The others are jokes.

You get away with being just mildly singed.

 

[trekkiedane]

The first Die Hard is great. The others are jokes.

No, you've got it wrong, this is how it's like:

The first Die Hard was a decent action movie, the second was an acceptable comedy and then the jokes started...

 

[ShamelessMcBundy]

I've never seen any Die Hard movie

I've seen them. Not a fan, really.

Burn in the fires of hell.

Well i'm already flaming, so why not?

 

[Ruaidhri]

I'm really rather astonished that so few people here have seen any of the Mad Max movies, let alone not even heard of them!

It's the same kind of astonishment that my American conceit always feels when Canadians think there are 52 states!