See? Now thatâs what you guys were doing in the Thunderdome!
Can you tell I updated my version of MSPaint this weekend? 
(but seriously, this is utterly beyond my wildest hopes for this movie. I already feel like I got my $12 ticketâs worth. Wish all you Badass guys were here in town so we could all attend a screening together. Iâd spring for the popcorn!)
What if it was Mad Max: Holiday Road
I am so happy for Miller finally getting this together! He had been trying to make it happen like 10-15 years, so I had my doubts. Looks rather wild!
Holy shit : O
Hey, THIS thread is not auto-closed, because itâs not an official post. heh!
âThe Big Windâ is a colossal, roving fire-extinguisher of Hungarian design that combines one part T-34 Soviet tank with two parts MiG-21 turbine engine. Bring it all together, add a trio of operators, and youâve got a Mad-Maxian chimera that can gush water at a rate of 220 gallons per second. [emphasis added]
Sounds like Rip Torn is narrating.
http://www.caranddriver.com/features/stilling-the-fires-of-war
OMG, there was a viral promo posted YEARS ago!
I keep checking IMDB to see if there has been an update on release dates but still none for Japan.
How come thereâs never been a Bollywood version of Mad Max?
This is just begging for a 4-hour high-speed musical-comedy with explosions treatment
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Omni has the Fury Road and original Mad Max trailers swapped for Audio. With some editing: http://omnireboot.com/2015/original-versus-reboot-mad-max-versus-fury-road/
Esquire interviews Rosie Huntington Whitely which is where I learned that Eve Ensler was consulted on-set for about a week.
Also, isnât âImperator Furiosaâ essentially âCommander Madâ ?
How Mad Max: Fury Road Could Become the Most Surprising Feminist Triumph of the Year
This should be cross-posted at Sup Marxists.
@Donald_Petersen - are you aware of the updates in here?
Hereâs some J.G. Ballard quotes on the Mad Max flix.
âMad Max 2 is by far the best of the Mad Max series. With its insane vehicles and fearful body-armour, it is a vision of Armageddon as autogeddon. Mad Max 2 is punkâs Sistine Chapel.â
Quoted in âJ.G. Ballardâs Top Ten Science Fiction Filmsâ, The Independent, 25 May, 2005.
âMad Max 2 doesnât hold up on the small screen. It needs the big screen. I saw clips on TV before I saw it in the cinema, and I remember thinking, âOh, itâs just a lot of trucks plunging around.â When I saw it in the cinema it just overwhelmed me⌠I have seen it recently; in fact, someone gave me the three videos, the first, the second and the Thunderdome one, which was a big disappointment, and I have watched it again. I think itâs an amazing film, a genuine small masterpiece in its way. Some films just demand the big screen, really; they lose everything on TV.â
Ballard, interviewed by David Pringle, published in SFX #9, Feb 1996.
(cross-posted in 'Sup Marxists)
This is for real: Menâs rights activists call for boycott of âMad Max: Fury Road,â citing feminist agenda
Worried that I was falling for some hoax-joke that other outlets fell for, I did some investigative reports (bing).
Holy crap, heâs for realz:
https://twitter.com/aaron_clarey
https://twitter.com/aaron_clarey/status/599131483165437952
My Response to the âFuryâ Over âMad Max: Feminist Roadâ
However, despite the hubbub and drama, I am rapidly being proven right. The movie is increasingly looking like a feminist film, and so to (if youâll forgive the term) âraise awarenessâ to this fact I started a hashtag on twitter that I hope catches on. #madmaxfeministroad Hopefully, (unless the movie proves otherwise) we can save a lot of people a lot of money and a lot of time, and again, I am more than happy to watch the movie if it proves NOT to have a lecture on feminism or SJWing, etc. in it.
(I might also add that this is how you handle the liberal media, in case any spineless conservative politicians needed a couple pointers.)
And yep definitely gonna go see this movie in the theater at full price this weekend instead of waiting for DVD.
http://www.npr.org/2015/05/15/406731120/the-women-pull-no-punches-in-fiery-feminist-mad-max
My wife has A Thing this weekend, but I got âclearanceâ months in advance so I could see this in a theatre; sometime next week after the babbies are a-bed.
And damn it is R, I was thinking yeah take the 13 year old boy and expose him to feminist powered awesomeness but now I feel I should watch it once before taking him.
Whereâs The Donaldâs review? (@donald_Petersen)
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Trying to find a way to loan Daneel Jr out for an evening this weekend. Already did once so we could go see Jesus & Mary Chain last night.
Used to go to the cinema regularly, have only managed it a handful of times since Jr arrived a couple of years ago, but really want to see this on the big screen.
Well you can do what MrsTobinL and I did for a bit which is take turns. Which worked out well for us cause we donât always want to see the same things. Now he is old enough we can leave him be for a few hours while we go out for a movie or such.
