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OMG... I am so disappointed, lack of culture...
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I loved the whole Mad Max trilogy, especially the final installment, Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome. Although it got a bit heavy-handed with the mythic/allegorical/quasi-biblical stuff. And why did those lost children in the desert speak an odd jargon that sounded like Popeye with an Australian accent?
Having been a young man in the early 80s, I saw Road Warrior. It was almost immediately purged from memory to make room for better things.
That makes three of us. On the other hand, I have seen Waterworld, which I'm told is the same story set on the ocean.
I've never heard of it
Looking downthread. I didn't even know there were three Mad Max movies....
By the way, my fiancee has never heard of many tv shows and movies that are much more mainstream and recent than the Mad Max movies...
Probably because they were raised without any education and had to teach themselves. Bit like the end of Threads, where the younger generation (born after WW III) have little or no ability to speak English because they were never taught, so all they know is gibberish.
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If you really think that not having seen Mad Max 2 demonstrates a lack of culture, then it may be you that has the problem.
And I can say, "Now I don't feel bad about never seeing it because I wasn't born yet."
That is no excuse. I have seen plenty of movies that were made before I was born (in fact I own a few such movies).
Zoetrope strips and phenakistoscope discs aren't "movies."
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I haven't seen the movies either, didn't know what they were until this thread. But I don't think that's such an egregious error as my boyfriend telling me he had never heard the song Hounddog by Elvis. I am far from an Elvis fan but that song is everywhere, no way you can go through life without hearing it.
I haven't seen the movies either, didn't know what they were until this thread. But I don't think that's such an egregious error as my boyfriend telling me he had never heard the song Hounddog by Elvis. I am far from an Elvis fan but that song is everywhere, no way you can go through life without hearing it.
Well i dont know if you have to be cultured (maybe pop cultured) to see the mad max films, but they are an interesting trilogy. The first movie was basically a very near future world that was already more violent and headed to destruction...its not really a great movie, but interesting in its raw, somber tone, and pretty violent for an SF movie in 1980. It meanders quite a bit and is overlong but it leads to the real classic...Mad max 2...a movie that set the tone for EVERY other post-apocalyptic thriller since. It has social commentary, great action scenes and awesome hairstyles. A MUST-see for every SF fan. Its light years better than crap like Resident Evil, and endless knock-offs from the 80s and 90s. The third movie is kind of ponderous and overwrought, and I'd stay away from it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bmf-HCCZYOg
Shouldn't this be in the SF forum?
Hey that's no excuse..I'm always impressing people with my knowledge of things before I was born.
RAMA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bmf-HCCZYOg
Shouldn't this be in the SF forum?
And I can say, "Now I don't feel bad about never seeing it because I wasn't born yet."
Hey that's no excuse..I'm always impressing people with my knowledge of things before I was born.
RAMA
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Up until someone mentioned it was Mad Max 2, I had no idea what 'the Road Warrior' was supposed to be.
Now that I think about it, I think I glimpsed at the final scene of the movie as a child, but that was it.
I wasn't terribly impressed nor did it peak my interests really.
I heard of people talking about it over the years, but I never had a desire to actually see it from start to finish (still don't).
I don't feel it contributed to a so-called 'lack of culture'.
In the end, it was just a film made for contemporary (at the time) audiences.
How one defines 'cultural enrichment' is open to individual interpretation.
I can honestly say I cannot care less about that particular movie since I find no interest in it.
Now that I think about it, I think I glimpsed at the final scene of the movie as a child, but that was it.
I wasn't terribly impressed nor did it peak my interests really.
I heard of people talking about it over the years, but I never had a desire to actually see it from start to finish (still don't).
I don't feel it contributed to a so-called 'lack of culture'.
In the end, it was just a film made for contemporary (at the time) audiences.
How one defines 'cultural enrichment' is open to individual interpretation.
I can honestly say I cannot care less about that particular movie since I find no interest in it.
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I really hate the Mad Max movies. I find them boring and not very exciting. They just have never held my interest.
Elvis who?^
I haven't seen the movies either, didn't know what they were until this thread. But I don't think that's such an egregious error as my boyfriend telling me he had never heard the song Hounddog by Elvis.
Even if she's never actually seen the TV show, pop culture is so full of Python references, I find that rather hard to believe. Was she raised in a lamasery by Tibetan monks?
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