Armageddon as Autogeddon
April 12, 2015 12:15 PM Subscribe
If the film delivers even 1/10th of the crazy the trailer promises, I will be satisfied.
posted by Chrischris at 2:20 PM on April 12, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by Chrischris at 2:20 PM on April 12, 2015 [1 favorite]
Spoiler alert! We have seen all of the good parts in the trailer.
posted by evilDoug at 3:03 PM on April 12, 2015 [6 favorites]
posted by evilDoug at 3:03 PM on April 12, 2015 [6 favorites]
To Melburnians, Mad Max and that other great chronicle of our feudal car wars, Peter Weir’s The Cars that Ate Paris, are not fiction films but documentaries.
As a Melburnian, I can confirm that this is, in fact, 100% true.
posted by acb at 4:48 PM on April 12, 2015 [3 favorites]
As a Melburnian, I can confirm that this is, in fact, 100% true.
posted by acb at 4:48 PM on April 12, 2015 [3 favorites]
The connection to punk is first made by J. G. Ballard, not the author of the piece.
posted by feckless at 5:15 PM on April 12, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by feckless at 5:15 PM on April 12, 2015 [2 favorites]
I had no idea about the car culture stuff in Melbourne. That is a really interesting part of the movies.
Anyway, Fury Road's trailer is amazing. Prometheus' trailer was amazing too, so maybe that doesn't mean too much, but whoever cut that thing needs to get some sort of trailer Oscar.
posted by codacorolla at 5:21 PM on April 12, 2015
Anyway, Fury Road's trailer is amazing. Prometheus' trailer was amazing too, so maybe that doesn't mean too much, but whoever cut that thing needs to get some sort of trailer Oscar.
posted by codacorolla at 5:21 PM on April 12, 2015
Is this comparison of Mad Max with punk a fashion thing? If so, I'd say that's really misguided and superficial. Mad Max has way more in common with heavy metal--for many reasons--but mostly because they both really suck.
posted by dashDashDot at 5:23 PM on April 12, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by dashDashDot at 5:23 PM on April 12, 2015 [2 favorites]
Mad Max has way more in common with heavy metal--for many reasons--but mostly because they both really suck.
Mad Max himself looks more like a guy who would listen to AC-DC, but the bad guys in the second movie were, stylistically, way more punk than heavy metal. ("Punk" in both senses of the word, actually, such as ass-chaps guy having his twink on a chain, for example. It's hard to tell from just the trailer, but the latest movie looks like it has less ass-chaps and more women in skimpy outfits, which is probably good for ticket sales but is a less interesting turn in my opinion.)
posted by Dip Flash at 6:03 PM on April 12, 2015
Mad Max himself looks more like a guy who would listen to AC-DC, but the bad guys in the second movie were, stylistically, way more punk than heavy metal. ("Punk" in both senses of the word, actually, such as ass-chaps guy having his twink on a chain, for example. It's hard to tell from just the trailer, but the latest movie looks like it has less ass-chaps and more women in skimpy outfits, which is probably good for ticket sales but is a less interesting turn in my opinion.)
posted by Dip Flash at 6:03 PM on April 12, 2015
Apparently the first Mad Max movie wasn't even meant to be post-apocalyptic. It just reflected Australia.
I read a bunch of early Ballard last summer on Australian beaches, and the sun-bleached madness of the setting fit the books. Mad Max captures the same kind of Australian insanity that's built on too much sun and too much beer, that sort of liminal heat-stroke feeling that Ballard captures too. Wake in Fright gets it perfectly.
posted by Charlemagne In Sweatpants at 6:19 PM on April 12, 2015 [4 favorites]
I read a bunch of early Ballard last summer on Australian beaches, and the sun-bleached madness of the setting fit the books. Mad Max captures the same kind of Australian insanity that's built on too much sun and too much beer, that sort of liminal heat-stroke feeling that Ballard captures too. Wake in Fright gets it perfectly.
posted by Charlemagne In Sweatpants at 6:19 PM on April 12, 2015 [4 favorites]
"Punk" in both senses of the word, actually, such as ass-chaps guy having his twink on a chain, for example.
See, to me, the bad guys in those films suggest Judas Priest or something worse. Nothing about them would understand or be inspired by Wire or Gang of Four. It was late 70's/early 80's, right? I'm still trying to forget Mel Gibson. I'm mostly succeeding.
posted by dashDashDot at 6:26 PM on April 12, 2015 [1 favorite]
See, to me, the bad guys in those films suggest Judas Priest or something worse. Nothing about them would understand or be inspired by Wire or Gang of Four. It was late 70's/early 80's, right? I'm still trying to forget Mel Gibson. I'm mostly succeeding.
posted by dashDashDot at 6:26 PM on April 12, 2015 [1 favorite]
Nobody thought 'Wire or Gang of Four' when they heard about punk or punk fashion. Australian punk and pub rock was much rougher. There was actually an Australian movie about a post-apocalyptic metal band, but I can't remember the name. It was self-released and you could only buy copies at screenings.
posted by Charlemagne In Sweatpants at 6:28 PM on April 12, 2015
posted by Charlemagne In Sweatpants at 6:28 PM on April 12, 2015
Protip: Melbourne's roads have never literally been "truly killing fields".
posted by turbid dahlia at 7:03 PM on April 12, 2015
posted by turbid dahlia at 7:03 PM on April 12, 2015
Melbourne's killing fields are actual fields where people get killed at night time.
posted by turbid dahlia at 7:04 PM on April 12, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by turbid dahlia at 7:04 PM on April 12, 2015 [1 favorite]
We all know that if you touch an animal in Australia you're as good as dead. Even kittens have razorspines and neurotoxins there.
posted by Artw at 7:08 PM on April 12, 2015 [3 favorites]
posted by Artw at 7:08 PM on April 12, 2015 [3 favorites]
"Lingerie, remember Lingerie? ..Cocktails? ...Playing Mahjong with the snakes?"
I watched "the road warrior" with subtitles awhile back and all sorts of stuff in the background is read out. The odd one was where Max is on the hill watching the oil well being attacked and the far away bullhorn of the Humongous is read out to us..."Gay boy berserkers attack the gate!".
I kid you not.
If you were as big a fan of this movie as I was this gem of that era will delight it has a bit of a early robocop influence Accion Muntantes!
posted by boilermonster at 7:08 PM on April 12, 2015
I watched "the road warrior" with subtitles awhile back and all sorts of stuff in the background is read out. The odd one was where Max is on the hill watching the oil well being attacked and the far away bullhorn of the Humongous is read out to us..."Gay boy berserkers attack the gate!".
I kid you not.
If you were as big a fan of this movie as I was this gem of that era will delight it has a bit of a early robocop influence Accion Muntantes!
posted by boilermonster at 7:08 PM on April 12, 2015
Even kittens have razorspines and neurotoxins there
Well yeah but you gotta ask.
posted by turbid dahlia at 7:15 PM on April 12, 2015
Well yeah but you gotta ask.
posted by turbid dahlia at 7:15 PM on April 12, 2015
There was actually an Australian movie about a post-apocalyptic metal band, but I can't remember the name. It was self-released and you could only buy copies at screenings.
Smoke 'Em if You Got 'Em? I haven't seen it, but I've heard that it was good.
I have seen Dogs in Space, which is the most accurate fictional depiction of a real late 1970's punk/subculture lifestyle that I've ever seen myself.
posted by ovvl at 7:23 PM on April 12, 2015 [2 favorites]
Smoke 'Em if You Got 'Em? I haven't seen it, but I've heard that it was good.
I have seen Dogs in Space, which is the most accurate fictional depiction of a real late 1970's punk/subculture lifestyle that I've ever seen myself.
posted by ovvl at 7:23 PM on April 12, 2015 [2 favorites]
See, to me, the bad guys in those films suggest Judas Priest or something worse. Nothing about them would understand or be inspired by Wire or Gang of Four. It was late 70's/early 80's, right?
More like GBH crossed with gay neonazis, but definitely not artsy punk like Gang of Four.
posted by Dip Flash at 7:33 PM on April 12, 2015 [1 favorite]
More like GBH crossed with gay neonazis, but definitely not artsy punk like Gang of Four.
posted by Dip Flash at 7:33 PM on April 12, 2015 [1 favorite]
My friends and I did a sort of "Real life" version of this in the early 90's I did the armor ,dummies and about half the control systems, behold CAR HUNT I built the Cannon you see firing at the end of the video.
posted by boilermonster at 8:17 PM on April 12, 2015 [5 favorites]
posted by boilermonster at 8:17 PM on April 12, 2015 [5 favorites]
Protip: Melbourne's roads have never literally been "truly killing fields"
My friend just said he saw a cop car smash into a car in Melbourne.
posted by Charlemagne In Sweatpants at 1:18 AM on April 13, 2015
My friend just said he saw a cop car smash into a car in Melbourne.
posted by Charlemagne In Sweatpants at 1:18 AM on April 13, 2015
Surely Gang Of Four were more post-punk than punk?
The usual narrative goes: punk came along, poured petrol on the bloated excess of the Sixeventies and threw the lit match, doing the work of creative destruction, but being essentially rockabilly/pub rock with less technical acumen, having little to offer by way of a direction forward. In the fertile, ash-strewn wasteland, post-punk sprung up, which (at its more interesting end) was arty and experimental. (The big-dumb-pub-rock thing continued to dominate the less interesting end, of course.)
posted by acb at 4:47 AM on April 13, 2015
The usual narrative goes: punk came along, poured petrol on the bloated excess of the Sixeventies and threw the lit match, doing the work of creative destruction, but being essentially rockabilly/pub rock with less technical acumen, having little to offer by way of a direction forward. In the fertile, ash-strewn wasteland, post-punk sprung up, which (at its more interesting end) was arty and experimental. (The big-dumb-pub-rock thing continued to dominate the less interesting end, of course.)
posted by acb at 4:47 AM on April 13, 2015
There was actually an Australian movie about a post-apocalyptic metal band, but I can't remember the name. It was self-released and you could only buy copies at screenings.
Sons of Steel?
Must point out, Mad Max: Oh What A Lovely Day features the Car that Ate Paris. In case anyone missed it.
(Yeah, the trailer is in Russian, but, man, I felt like I was on weed watching that film when it came out, and I'd never been drunk at that stage. So,eh).
posted by Mezentian at 5:10 AM on April 13, 2015 [1 favorite]
Sons of Steel?
Must point out, Mad Max: Oh What A Lovely Day features the Car that Ate Paris. In case anyone missed it.
(Yeah, the trailer is in Russian, but, man, I felt like I was on weed watching that film when it came out, and I'd never been drunk at that stage. So,eh).
posted by Mezentian at 5:10 AM on April 13, 2015 [1 favorite]
See, to me, the bad guys in those films suggest Judas Priest or something worse.
Worse than Judas Priest? Egad, man!
posted by Smedleyman at 2:05 PM on April 13, 2015
Worse than Judas Priest? Egad, man!
posted by Smedleyman at 2:05 PM on April 13, 2015
Worse than Judas Priest? Egad, man!
I worried this insinuation would make some people uncomfortable, but somebody had to say it.
posted by dashDashDot at 2:21 AM on April 14, 2015
I worried this insinuation would make some people uncomfortable, but somebody had to say it.
posted by dashDashDot at 2:21 AM on April 14, 2015
I didn't get why people's (mostly grouchy old fans) expectations were so low leading up to the release of this film (Fury Road). The various trailers hummed with excitement and creativity and strangeness. Now it's out and the reviews are glowing. Stick it, grouches!
posted by misterbee at 4:12 PM on May 11, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by misterbee at 4:12 PM on May 11, 2015 [2 favorites]
It's getting compared to Jodorowsky.
Vagina Monologues' author Eve Ensler was a consultant on Fury Road.
I'm only skimming reviews, since I plan on watching it on opening night. I haven't been this excited about a movie in ages.
Should we make another FPP?
posted by Charlemagne In Sweatpants at 5:08 PM on May 11, 2015
Vagina Monologues' author Eve Ensler was a consultant on Fury Road.
I'm only skimming reviews, since I plan on watching it on opening night. I haven't been this excited about a movie in ages.
Should we make another FPP?
posted by Charlemagne In Sweatpants at 5:08 PM on May 11, 2015
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posted by Dip Flash at 12:31 PM on April 12, 2015