Neither do I. Very few celebrities, TV/Movie characters and historical figures are "universally" known. I've met college educated people who have never heard of Bill Cosby and Harrison Ford.
OMG... I am so disappointed, lack of culture...
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Well, it's true that a lot of entertainment celebrities can be hugely popular in one part of the world and virtually unknown everywhere else. For example, until I started browsing YouTube, I had never heard of Serge Gainsbourg and was only vaguely aware of Jane Birkin and Gillian Hills.
And why, oh why, has Kylie Minogue never been popular in the United States? I adore that woman!
And why, oh why, has Kylie Minogue never been popular in the United States? I adore that woman!
Borderline. Technically, the Topic is "lack of culture" rather than "Mad Max," so I decided to let it stay here.
^ Ironic, since the Mad Max movies take place in a world that is basically lacking all culture. 
^ Ironic, since the Mad Max movies take place in a world that is basically lacking all culture.
You shouldn't make fun of Australia that way.
^ The settings of those films can hardly be called the real Australia. (Except maybe, as I said, for the first film, and even that's a stretch.)
Humor over the internet is hard.
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"Oh my..."
Before this thread, I'd heard of Mad Max, but I thought there was only one movie...and I didn't think "Road Warrior" was part of the title of that one movie.
After this thread, I now know that there is apparently more than 1 movie...but I still don't care very much. I never saw that one I knew about...and after recent events, I am even less likely than before to ever see it.
Truthfully, if you have a girlfriend who likes even SOME scifi, you ought to be happy. There are not all that many of us, to be honest.
After this thread, I now know that there is apparently more than 1 movie...but I still don't care very much. I never saw that one I knew about...and after recent events, I am even less likely than before to ever see it.
Truthfully, if you have a girlfriend who likes even SOME scifi, you ought to be happy. There are not all that many of us, to be honest.
"Oh my..."
I don't do humor. You know that.
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"Oh my..."
I don't do humor. You know that.
Humor doesn't exist on the internet.
"Oh my..."
I don't do humor. You know that.
I need to start a class on humor in this place.
I have the exact same problem, except the one I know is into weird stuff like that so it made absolutely no sense at all.
And I. It was huge in the day.
The MM films were the original dystopian films. Most of the others are a pale copy.
While I don't think of them as high culture, you are msising something by not seeing them, especially from an action flick point of view.
There are rumours of a fourth in the works, with iirc, the villain from ST Nemesis (Tom Hardy?)in the lead role. They can't afford Gibson, and he's too old.
By the same token, while I know of it and the basic story, I have never read or watched A Clockwork Orange.
This whole thread makes the Lord Humongous cry.
Even if you haven't seen it due to being born after it came out, how have so many of you never even heard of it? The damn thing plays on TV about as often as episodes of M*A*S*H (or Saved by the Bell? Friends? How recent do I have to go here?) and makes it onto just about every best scifi films list.
I'm just thinking back on so many Mad Max related jokes and references that have been made here over the years that obviously must have elicited a "huh?" from 3/4ths of the board. I bet a lot of you thought someone saying "Two men enter, one man leaves" was quoting some sort of strange parliamentary procedure.
You think anything that doesn't look like it was filmed on a Candyland game board is too dark and depressing, so the post-apocalyptic murder, rape, and bondage-gear-filled wasteland movie probably wasn't the film for you.
Even if you haven't seen it due to being born after it came out, how have so many of you never even heard of it? The damn thing plays on TV about as often as episodes of M*A*S*H (or Saved by the Bell? Friends? How recent do I have to go here?) and makes it onto just about every best scifi films list.
I'm just thinking back on so many Mad Max related jokes and references that have been made here over the years that obviously must have elicited a "huh?" from 3/4ths of the board. I bet a lot of you thought someone saying "Two men enter, one man leaves" was quoting some sort of strange parliamentary procedure.
You think anything that doesn't look like it was filmed on a Candyland game board is too dark and depressing, so the post-apocalyptic murder, rape, and bondage-gear-filled wasteland movie probably wasn't the film for you.
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