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1979's Mad Max · Off The Shelf With Phil and Dave- A Movie Review Podcast

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Hello and welcome to Off the Shelf with Phil and Dave, the
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movie talk show where each week one of us takes the movie off
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our show, presents it to the other, and discusses it at
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length. This week we've got coming off
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of Dave Shelf 1979's Mad Max, directed by George Miller, Co
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Written by George Miller as well, coming from the Outback of
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Australia. David, welcome back to the
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couch. How are you doing this week?
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And perhaps most importantly, why this movie and why now?
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I'm not on the couch and you know it because people can't
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drive in the snow. Well, you can't.
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There's like 30 car accident on the 401.
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But then again, Mr. T 98, so I don't know.
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Maybe there wasn't. And to answer your following
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questions, why and why now? Frankly, I'm trying to be a
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little less random with my movie choices.
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Finally, five years in. Yeah, I went to the land down
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under. So I went down under my TV in
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the cabinet where I keep my 4K movies, then grabbed Mad Max for
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reviewing. That's what happened because you
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were in Australia, correct? Yeah.
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Yeah, that's right. That's the land down under, I
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believe. Did I say that?
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Right. I went down under my TV.
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That was your connection. Less about the movie itself, the
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selection, but rather because I was down under.
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I went down under my TV. Don't know what to tell you.
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I gotta go buy the script. I have a writer now.
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I hired them 14. We cut these things out.
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It's their first week working on it.
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I'll give them feedback. I think I've owned this movie
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for at least three years. If you recall, I grabbed it on
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the Wellington Walk. Absolutely.
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I watched it once, probably about a year ago.
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Finally. OK, but wasn't ready to bring it
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out yet. No, I don't know why, because I
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didn't have a good enough reason.
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Yeah, you've been too random, too.
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And I wasn't sure how it made me feel when I watched it a year
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ago. So hopefully watching it this
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time and through our lively discussion with you, we'll get
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to the bottom of those feelings. But how about you?
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Are you like Phil Collins? And have you just been waiting
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for this moment to talk about this movie?
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I got it to the script here. What's your history with this
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movie, Phil? I don't think I've seen a single
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frame of this movie in my entire life.
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I probably mentioned way, way back in our Fury Rd. episode
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available in the archives. This is not a character or a
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movie franchise or series that has ever really had any impact
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on me other than I loved Tina Turner Song We Don't Need
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Another Hero, which in that movie came out in like 87.
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That trailer was on a lot and I love Tina Turner always.
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So those were things, but I honestly had no idea about any
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other Mad Max iconography or anything.
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So this was the first time I'd ever seen it, and ultimately the
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last time I'll ever see this movie, I think.
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Are you telling me that that title sequence didn't hook you?
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I mean, I know we're coming off a pretty strong week.
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But I would say that other than that sort of cha ching of the
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title itself, nothing about that title sequence, if you can call
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it that, really had any impact on me.
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Were you moved by it? Just the simplicity of it buddy.
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Keep it simple. Black screen, white writing.
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Alien came out with a great title sequence, so it could have
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been done. It just wasn't.
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It wasn't happening in Australia.
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Perhaps it was only up top, not down under.
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I think one of the challenges for us as basically new viewers
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to this movie is it is from 1979.
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It's an Australian movie, which could have limitations.
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I don't know how big that country is with their film
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production. Probably not that big as Reason
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79, really. Well, that's what I'm thinking
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like resources wise. Now they made this movie on, I
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think you mentioned before we jumped on here with the 400,000.
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I heard a million. But then again, you know my
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sources. Who knows?
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It was in the Guinness Book of World Records as the most
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profitable movie of all time, which explains on some level why
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there's so many sequels. I mean, this is a franchise that
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has spanned since 1979 all the way through to 2023.
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Was Furiosa maybe 24? 2024.
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Yeah, yeah. So like that is a significant
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length of time for one character to still be in the, I don't
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wanna say Zeitgeist because I wouldn't say that in the gap
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between 87 and 2015, the character was always like ever
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present. However, the fact that they
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could make a sequel or at least a reboot on some level I would
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say because Charlize is more the lead, I would say in that movie.
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Fury Rd. or dialogue. That's right.
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The idea that this movie created the franchise that would last
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for 40 years is very surprising to me based on this movie
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itself. Let's not forget about the video
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game. Which was fun.
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Game must have came out just after Fear Road or we wouldn't
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even know what we were dealing with and it was one of the
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better movie based video games that I've ever played
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personally. Yeah, my memory of that is that
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it wasn't really the movie based.
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No, not the game itself, but I think just because the movie.
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The character obviously lives, but I know what George Miller
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primarily from the Witches of Eastwick and perhaps most
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importantly in my viewing experience was The Twilight
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Zone. He did the Terror at 30,000 feet
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episode with John Lithgow, the gremlin on the plane, which was
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originally played by William Shatner in the original series.
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They remade it, updated it, and it's incredible to watch that
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movie because it's episodic and it's anthological.
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There's only a couple of segments.
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Joe Dante segment is is really great.
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This one in particular are fantastic, but the rest of the
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movie kind of shit. So I don't think we'll ever take
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it off the shelf. So he's definitely, he's got
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some talent for sure. Well, Phillip, before we get too
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deep into it, people probably wondering what kind of film is
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this? Who is Max and why is he upset?
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The IMDb might help. That's a great idea.
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Check it out. Here we go, short and sweet
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buddy. In a self destructing world, a
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vengeful Australian policeman sets out to stop a violent
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motorcycle gang. They didn't leave anything.
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Out nothing left on the bone there nothing you know here's
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what comes to mind when I read that and it's arguably one of my
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first surprises when watching this movie is I had no idea that
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the character was at any point a policeman OK there's nothing in
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fury Rd. that tells me that he is and so you're.
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Right. So I would have had no.
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Idea he's retired in. That I guess I would have never
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guessed that police were involved in this series at all,
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so that part was interesting. Well, it will be a little fun
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throughout this episode and maybe see if we connected some
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dots or we invented some dots to connect between this movie and
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Fury Road or Furiosa because it is in the same universe.
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Does it illustrate that is a we can dabble?
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With absolutely. But I want to get to the halls
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of justice a few years from now. Basically a shortage of
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resources in the future, like running out of gas.
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We're just running out of stuff. Yeah, that part is true in the
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later movies, right? That's all about the gasoline
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inferior. You go here for your ammunition.
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You go here for your gas. You go here.
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Yeah, for, you know, water. Whatever the case, obviously
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it's a depleting world for sure. And this is just the beginning
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of it. So we don't see it like we see
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it in Fury Rd. but we do see it. So I do enjoy thinking about,
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OK, this is what's happening now, the safe Fury Rd. it's
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happening 20 years from now. We can stretch it that like
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character wise. And I'm like, yeah, OK, that a
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lot can happen in 20 years if that's your trajectory.
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So I was able to make that connection and now I don't know
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if I had to use my imagination a little bit to get there.
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It makes complete sense to me. It's really the character piece.
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I wouldn't have guessed who Mad Max started out as, but on the
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trajectory of it makes some sense.
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But yeah, it was definitely aware that this was the world
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that we were coming into this shortages.
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And whatever else. So that worked fine for you.
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That's good. I'm happy to hear that.
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I was a little concerned, a little concerned, feels going to
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say this is nothing like the world they made in Fury Rd.
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Where's the CGI, you know? The scope is different, but
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fundamentally how you get to make a movie in the middle of
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Australia. I suspect the benefit of that is
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that you've got a lot of open space, right?
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And so you can easily create a world, whether it's post
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apocalyptic or whatever you want to call it.
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But you can look at the desert and say, yeah, there's no water
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here, there's no food here, there's no gas.
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What doesn't make sense to me, of course, is why have sex in
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the middle of a desert? I'd be worried about the snakes.
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Oh yeah, yeah, sure. Spiders too.
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Yeah, absolutely. But unfortunately he has to cut
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his keeping coming little short because they get a radio call.
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They have a cop killer out Knight Rider.
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That's right. Early Francis calling it.
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I don't think he's in it long enough.
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I think that we have to set some.
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Rules. Oh wow.
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OK. You can't be nominated at the
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end of the year if you're in the movie for less than 5 minutes.
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OK. OK.
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We'll see about the type because it felt like forever.
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Was in it for 5 minutes and he's yelling and screaming.
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And then crying. Annoying.
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Totally annoying. Do you know why he was crying?
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The only thing I can think of, because it isn't clear and I
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watched it obviously twice and it didn't really make sense
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either time. But as I'm talking to you, my
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thought is perhaps he's been hearing on the radio what's
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happening and they know they're calling in Max, and the
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presumption is Max is the baddest of the bad, the best of
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the best, the Top of the Pops. If I can extrapolate, because
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Max is on duty, he knows it's over.
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That's the only thing I can come up with.
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But it's based on nothing other than assumption, I assume.
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Drugs. Well, that he's clearly drugs
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all fucked up. Yeah.
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And that makes you a little emotional perhaps.
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Could be. Before we get too deep, let's
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talk about Mel Gibson, a guy that is off the A list, let's
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say, in the modern times. But there was a good chunk of
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maybe 20 years there where he was just very much a go to guy
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for me. I loved Lethal Weapons, man
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without a face. I thought he did a great Hamlet
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for Franco Zeffirelli, things like ransom and conspiracy
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theory. He was an actor I just love to
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watch. So it's sad when actors you love
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to watch turn out to be horrible people, Yeah.
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He's just misunderstood. It's a little too intense.
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Definitely. Now, as you were listing off
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movies, I realized we did. We were soldiers.
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Well, how about that? I asked you before the show, it
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said we haven't done a Mel. I took your word for it.
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Didn't think I had to Fact Check my own co-host, but there it is.
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Question with Gibson bringing him up specifically at this time
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is, you know, I've mentioned before about how you can watch
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certain actors in certain performances and certain roles
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and think this guy is a superstar.
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As I alluded to before, Bruce Willis, moonlighting, I just
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thought, yeah, he's a star. Just give him the right vehicle.
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He's going to nail it. Yeah.
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So I wonder how you think about Gibson in this role, because
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ultimately, this is the first one that defines him for the
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masses. This movie is super successful
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enough that he's now in a kind of name and certainly in the
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second one and beyond. So do you see the traces of that
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in this performance? Absolutely not.
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I don't see any of that. The movie was extremely popular.
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He's a good looking guy. It opened up some doors for him,
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and fortunate for him, he does know how to act.
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Yeah, so he was given those opportunities and actually
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showed his acting prowess because it's similar to Tom
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Hardy and Fury Rd. He doesn't have a ton of
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dialogue, so I don't see it. I think the last time you made
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this sort of reference was La Bamba.
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Morales just steals the. Movie.
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Yeah, we were surprised he didn't have.
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Yeah, where's that structure? Yeah, this is kind of the
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opposite, if you will. But like him or don't like him
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as a person. I've enjoyed many of his films
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and I think that intensity works against him.
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Sometimes That passion, if you will, is sometimes misguided,
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but when he's focused on using a script, he's able to bring it.
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Yeah, I thought the same thing. I just don't think that any of
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the success that this movie has, I don't think I can attribute it
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specifically anyway to him, but he is definitely a good looking
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man. What I know about the sequel,
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and certainly in my experience with Thunderdome, is that he's
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more central to that story. This is just getting the ball.
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And that's all I know. I don't really know the context,
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but I do think that this is a starting off point for the
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character. And maybe he shines brighter in
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the later episodes, as it were, but in this one, I just think,
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yeah, he's not really exciting me much.
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Do you think he looks like Tom Berringer?
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Yeah, I could see a little bit of that, Sure.
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Young Tom Berenger for sure. Alright, wonderful.
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One over 3 so far. I've got two more coming at you
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a little bit later on as we introduce some other characters.
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I'm excited. We ultimately lose the Knight
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Rider amidst all of this. Some big explosions.
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Yeah. I didn't make it, no.
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But what this movie relies on, I think they all do.
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And to some extent, are these practical car chases in these
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early days anyway, practical effects, The big explosions, the
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cars flipping over and crashing into a variety of other vehicles
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along the road? I think obviously, sure.
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And it escalates obviously, as technology increases throughout
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the years. But in this one, that part is
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definitely the thing that that is the take away.
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If you strip away all the other stuff, the spectacle of it is
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pretty fun to get into. But everything around it, in
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this early stages, I was sort of like, who's the Knight Rider?
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Why do I care? Why is he crying?
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Why is he screaming? I'm kind of annoyed and
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therefore a little bit out of my comfort zone, let's say.
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It's funny how something so little right with just having
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Knight Rider ball his eyes out for like 13 seconds can take
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away from what is a pretty cool scene and what you think is
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going to be a tone setter. I think it's a little misleading
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because I think this movie suffers from moments where
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nothing much is happening. It's kind of slow, and that's
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fine. Every movie has to tell the
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story and you can't be action all the time.
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Yeah, I mean, that's movies in general, right?
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You can't have high octane. One of the things that I love so
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much about Fury Rd. I should say, love so much at
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the first time. I hated it but in the rewatch
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was really appreciating just the pace of the action and how it
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doesn't really slow down. Yeah, go, go, go.
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And yeah, this one definitely gears down, if you will, to
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neutral pretty pretty frequently.
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And we have that first scene section of that here where we go
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back to Max as homebody and he's puttering around the kitchen and
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he's making food and bizarrely, his wife just playing saxophone
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in the corner. Speaking of unexpected things I
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would have never thought would have happened in a movie, here
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it is. She's pretty damn good.
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Fine. But it's like got a spotlight
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above her. Like, it's a very strange home
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life that your wife is just standing in the corner playing
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saxophone, which is an odd choice that I don't know if I
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was tickled by or if I was put off by, but it was definitely
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something to see. I was more focused on the
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leather pants. Where's your stance?
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You know, not since I was in my 20s.
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Oh, so you've actually worn leather?
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Purse not what? Are you crazy?
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No, but in my 20s I think I'm wearing leather pants.
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Come on. I don't know what you did in
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your 20s or your physique. No, I've never worn leather
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pants. I don't know if I've ever worn
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leather anything. What about your wallet?
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Sure, it's leather. No, it's not leather.
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Velcro. No Spiderman leather perhaps?
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You know I'm ahead of the game. I don't wanna post apocalyptic
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world. You know, funny, for a movie
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that's based on lack of resources, they sure like to
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give the gas. In the car.
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Yeah. You know, if they drive a little
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bit slower, it might last a little bit longer.
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That's. Actually, one of my complaints
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with all of them, it's such a rare resource and everybody's in
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cars all the time. Lanes coming out of cars like
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it's got Nitro just. Like revving and revving and
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revving and you're like, this is burning gas.
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Always wanna use what you don't have the right classic.
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Goose wants to use Max it seems because Max says I have to go
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and Jess is very upset about this or disappointed, maybe not
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upset and he says the goose wants me to see the new V8
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engine car. Oh, was it V8?
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Phil, you know your car is. Well he said V8 but everything
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else he said I have 0 idea. I wrote here a bunch of other
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cars shit I don't understand. The two of us, I'm the car guy
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and I'm not a car guy. That's the problem here.
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You worked at a gas station. I figured you would have had you
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know more access than I do. Yeah, I know where the gas goes.
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But anyways, speed, adrenaline, fast cars, That seems to
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interest him. A little bit, yeah.
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I think he's also disillusioned with the role itself, and the
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car just gives him a little boost for it.
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And we know this because there's some people listening to the
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conversation that are ultimately manipulating Max to stick
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around. So they get the sense that Max's
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interest is waning and they're trying to basically bribe him to
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stick around on the force. And it seems to work.
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It's the best. You can't lose the guy like
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that. It's a lot of talent,
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absolutely. But the real big piece of this
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whole scene is that the commander Fifi, it warns Max
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that he's got the Knight Rider gang, let's say on his tail.
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They're looking for him. And Max is like oh I'll just add
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it to the list, whatever. That makes sense.
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He seems like a guy that's made a few enemies but he's top of
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the box. You can handle it, no big deal.
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This gang ends up causing much problem.
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Maybe he should have taken a little bit more seriously, but
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there it is. Yeah, they do cause a little bit
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of trouble for Max and. Co But they don't worked out
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that way because the introduction of this gang on
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their motorcycles arriving at this train station is probably
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the least intimidating, least exciting, least threatening part
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of a gang scene I've ever seen in my life.
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They pull up very ordinary, organized, they park, and then
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they start to dance together, make odd movements together,
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nothing at all threatening whatsoever.
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Remind me of Batman Returns with all the like the clowns, those
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guys just coming up and jumping around the the set.
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Yeah, that's what you want. You want your mean biker gang to
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remind people of clowns and Cirque du Soleil?
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A lot of energy though. I love the other energy, Phillip
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energy. They're very animated, just
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goofing around. There for a purpose.
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Well, first of all, Phillip, they're in mourning.
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Doesn't look like they lost a good friend.
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Knight Rider Knight. They go way back.
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Like this guy's worth avenging. By the way, the guy was in.
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Yeah, but we have the introduction.
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Of Toe Cutter. Yeah, he's your big Batty,
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apparently. He plays even a bigger Batty in
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another mad. Max movie?
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Oh really? Which one?
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He was in Fury Rd. He played in Morton.
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Joe Oh, OK, Interesting. So wanted to be the same
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character. In this movie, like, ooh, yeah,
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I don't think he's come up. They could put it back together.
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They did it for Humpty Dumpty. I mean, I don't think it's that
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much of A stretch. It's in the near future.
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But no, it's a completely different character.
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I guess he just want to. Come.
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Why not come back? And yeah, exactly.
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So I thought that was a pretty interesting fact.
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But he looked like Bradley Cooper.
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I can't give you that one. I'm sorry.
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You're 1. For you're not giving me that.
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Way I think you're crazy. I disagree fully.
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You're batting 5. 105 There is one one more I have a little bit
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later, although I can't think of it right now, so that could be a
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problem. But what I liked about this
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introduction, they're by the coffin.
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He's with the old guy who led them there and he just puts his
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hands on his face. After the guy makes the comment
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he just whips over. And he says, remember him?
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I'm like, this guy's like Spock. Given this dude on mine now, I
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think what's going on? Here, that is a little like
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that. Absolutely.
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Remember, that's right. I think Gene ripped him off Ohk.
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Jesus. But there's no time to mourn
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because now they're gonna go into chase mode.
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Yes, and do what they do best. Apparently they are savages.
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That I actually liked. Everything else I was less than
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impressed by and a little bit bored by.
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But this attack of the vehicle with the makeshift weaponry,
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like the butcher knife on a pole, like this big beast of a
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knife. We have the woman who's been
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tied up across the car, barely any clothes that we've got
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Johnny the boy here, one of the hench men.
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Yeah, Johnny, seemingly what I wrote down is tripping balls.
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He's whacked out at this point. But Goose and Max, they find
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them and they basically arrest them.
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But unfortunately no one showed. Let's.
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Think Oh my God, a Fifi impression.
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It's fantastic. He's let go on a technicality.
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Goose, he's not having it. And Johnny plays him like a
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fiddle. We know who you are, we're
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coming for you, you're screwed. And it turns out Goose doesn't
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last much longer. However, before that we get a
22:03
little disco scene and we just end up in this.
22:06
Very strange, I suppose futuristic, but the cantina is
22:10
more interesting than whatever is happening here.
22:13
I thought this was again bordering on.
22:15
Ridiculous. This is Java's Palace, my
22:17
friend. The singer even looks someone
22:20
that was in Java's palace. She just had a funny look to
22:24
her, but I couldn't take my eyes off that couple in the corner.
22:27
Just all handsy, handsy Johnny Boy up there tinkering on the
22:31
old motorcycle. Was indeed Sabo Sabo two Star
22:37
Trek reference OHS available in the archive Star Trek 6.
22:41
Oddly enough, the only one, only one actually gonna remove it.
22:44
That never happened. But what did happen right after
22:47
this is that sequence of him riding on his bike, which was
22:51
what Goose does best, We both know that.
22:54
But this scene does is gives the camera guy a lot to do.
22:57
Yeah, sure. They have 3 or 4 different
22:59
cameras behind in front, right on the motorcycle.
23:03
Angles. Flying down the road.
23:05
You're probably over cranking that camera speed.
23:07
Use your increasing the frame rate or decreasing the frame
23:10
rate. Which they did in Fury Rd. if
23:12
you recall. But were you impressed at all by
23:14
this camera work, Phil? Because I know you're not in a
23:17
movie for this. This is not your go to type.
23:19
Of not generally. I think the camera work in this
23:22
film is definitely the most interesting thing about it.
23:25
It's the utilization of those angles, the camera tricks, the
23:28
practical effects, blowing stuff up and rolling the cars and
23:30
stuff. That is the juice in the movie.
23:32
And the camera obviously tells that story.
23:35
It's the tool you have. So I really like all that stuff.
23:38
I hate the sequence though. I think it's terrible.
23:41
I'm really frustrated by it, and it's pretty close to getting a
23:44
little fed up with the movie. We're about halfway in at this
23:47
juncture, and there's been so little I found compelling or
23:52
interesting. And so when things happen, like
23:55
what's about to happen, I think I don't care that much.
23:58
So Goose is about to die. The goose is cooked.
24:04
What is doubly frustrating is that he dies twice.
24:08
Basically, from a storytelling perspective, you set up that
24:12
Johnny has tinkered with his motorcycle, and you're like, OK,
24:15
well, that's enough. Something's going to happen, and
24:17
it's gonna be it's gonna cause his death.
24:19
So we get the role. He flies 1000 feet.
24:22
Intake, Intake. Gosh.
24:24
Then gets up and, oh, here's a car.
24:26
Can I borrow it? Yeah, sure.
24:28
And then he drives, and it's another maybe minute, and Johnny
24:33
attacks it. Now this time it rolls over and
24:36
we have Johnny and Toe Cutter have some sort of tetet.
24:41
Did you find this suspenseful or interesting or compelling in
24:44
terms of who these characters are to one another?
24:46
Or was it really just countdown to Goose's demise?
24:50
Well, I like the fact that we thought he was going to die.
24:54
He survived only to die in 92. Seconds like it's so fast. 9292,
25:02
I counted it. I think that's the point of it,
25:05
though I think it's different in that regards.
25:07
Where most movies, Oh, you didn't die and then 20 minutes,
25:11
thirty minutes later than the goose is cooked.
25:14
But it kind of surprises you in that sense.
25:15
Oh, shoot, I thought he made it. Oh, no, he does die.
25:18
Oh, I didn't expect that to happen.
25:20
I don't care about goose. I mean, it's how he dies.
25:23
Reminds me of Anne Heche's friend Rachel I believe her name
25:28
was. Yeah.
25:31
State degree Burns buddy. 4th degree burns.
25:33
They invented a whole new degree for this situation.
25:36
Well, I thought it was terrible and I thought if you're going to
25:39
wait just 92 seconds to kill him, just kill him the first
25:43
time. I think that little bit of
25:44
misdirection as short as it. Is we're going to agree to
25:47
disagree, but this is it for Max at that point, he's had it, he's
25:51
had his limit. He finally.
25:52
Quits. I don't think he's at his limit,
25:54
but he certainly had his limit for the job, not for life.
25:57
But he's going to resign. Yeah, I think that's what I
26:00
said. He's quitting.
26:01
He's at the top, He's done. He's he's met his, he's had his
26:04
limit. See, you're, you're saying it in
26:05
terms of overall, but really it's just professionally.
26:09
Yeah, he's still thriving on the personal.
26:10
On the home front, he's looking at another career a little bit
26:15
later once he takes a break with his lady.
26:17
Peanut butter and honey sandwiches definitely takes the
26:20
edge off. Gross man.
26:22
Gross. Australian thing?
26:23
Probably, yeah. This is a beautiful moment,
26:25
Phil. OK, talk.
26:26
Quiet moment. He's trying to talk to Jesse.
26:29
You know we both know that Jessica, right?
26:31
Fair to say, I would say yeah. So it's Jessica or Jess, but
26:36
it's never been. Jesse No.
26:37
What about? On your end is the same thing
26:39
OK, Same as Rob, Robert, Robbie. Yeah, the Robbie Robertson.
26:44
Sometimes you're just not a Robbie.
26:45
I don't think I'm ever known to Robbie.
26:46
No, nor should you and nor should we spend too much time on
26:49
this scene, actually. This is Max's.
26:53
I really struggle. Things don't share.
26:55
No share. I really struggled to get
26:58
through this movie The second time.
26:59
Yeah, because it's scenes like. This watched it, Yeah, just for
27:02
notes. Like I'm dude, I'm on my phone
27:04
half the movie. Like I know what's happening,
27:06
I'm making my notes, but I'm really struggling to care or be
27:11
invested in this movie. Even the action sequences,
27:13
because we're coming from a movie from 1979.
27:17
I think it does great for its time.
27:19
I'm not taking anything away from that, but this be real.
27:23
Times have changed. We're our brains like, Oh well,
27:26
I want more. I've seen better.
27:28
I want. Better three, 100% about the
27:31
story, but I argue the action in hindsight because in 1979
27:36
Apocalypse Now came out and in 1973 or 71, The French
27:42
Connection came out, right? These are movies that have
27:44
action sequences that will rival anything you're going to watch
27:47
today. So it isn't just, oh, it's an
27:51
old movie and therefore our brains are corrupted and we
27:54
can't watch them anymore. I think bigger issue, there's
27:57
nothing to hang that on. French Connection is a great
28:00
movie with some great action, chase sequences and whatever
28:04
else. OK, like last.
28:05
Thing yeah and Apocalypse Now is this like large scale huge event
28:11
war movie choppers and napalm and these are action sequences
28:14
in the grand scheme that are compelling and interesting so I
28:18
don't think it's a product entirely of Oh well it's 1979
28:22
they don't make action like that anymore you know you watch
28:24
bullet in 73 and those car chases are phenomenal so it
28:29
isn't just a product of it being an old movie as well I will
28:32
defend. OK, well I wanna offer an
28:34
apology. I was wrong.
28:37
It's just too easy to throw away stuff like I didn't like.
28:39
Not just you, I just mean in general, like old movies, they
28:41
did things slower, they did things boring, and we needed to
28:44
be better. I think it doesn't matter when
28:47
it's made. A good movie can last the time
28:48
and I just don't think that this is a good movie.
28:51
Well, maybe that's the problem then.
28:52
Maybe I got mixed up. I thought it was like good then,
28:55
but it was never. Good.
28:56
It's really popular then. I just don't know that the stuff
28:59
around it, the question I was gonna ask you at the end
29:01
ultimately is why do you think that this movie was so
29:05
successful? And to your point, I am watching
29:08
it in hindsight, right? I was just born in 79 so I don't
29:11
know. Yeah, you were zero.
29:13
Exactly. So maybe all of these things
29:16
were transcendent at the time and now because they've been
29:20
improved upon, they feel redundant.
29:22
But I didn't see anything at least certainly now we're now
29:26
we're in and they're doing the sojourn together.
29:29
I don't see anything in here that says cutting edge or unique
29:33
in any real way. Well, you know, Australia is a
29:36
big country, some even call it a continent, right?
29:39
So maybe just a lot of people went to the theatre.
29:40
And you were there. Those are the two things you can
29:43
confirm it's a big country. The telltale is that everything
29:48
that happens now I have 0 interest in they go away.
29:53
Max and and Jesse they do to try and clear their.
29:56
Head And don't tell me you have no interest in ice cream, but
30:00
come on. But just by happenstance, who's
30:04
there? The Knight Rider gang.
30:06
Did you feel threatened by that? Did you feel like this was gonna
30:09
get end worse than it did in the moment?
30:11
Absolutely. I'm worried for her.
30:13
They are there to terrorize anyone they come across.
30:17
Doesn't matter who. These guys are ruthless.
30:20
But she does a good move. The need of the nuts.
30:22
You know what that feels like. I was kicked in the balls once,
30:26
very hard when I was in grade seven.
30:28
It was absolutely brutal. I peed blood.
30:31
I had to go home. It was absolutely.
30:34
Miserable. Did you wear a jock for all the
30:36
rest of into high school? I was.
30:38
No, turns out I wore a chastity belt.
30:40
You. Don't need it but there.
30:42
Was luckily I had a hand though because I needed a hand in my
30:46
high school days but somebody has lost a hand.
30:50
I want to ask you about this. We watch Friday the 13th.
30:54
You know obviously in late October we watched three of them
30:58
and they want to show fee the 4th installment for makeup.
31:03
Not makeup, but still sucks. Yeah, effects, but not special.
31:06
Effects and then visual. Not like CGI effects or CGI
31:09
special effects are practical. Yeah.
31:11
Knives going through bodies and stuff like that.
31:14
And when we watched Volcano a couple weeks ago, I bought into
31:17
everything they were telling me. This is what lava does.
31:20
This is what volcanoes do. Everything makes sense.
31:23
And probably 50% of its bullshit.
31:26
This. I'm like, I don't think you lose
31:27
your hand like that. I just don't think that's how it
31:30
happens. But maybe I'm wrong.
31:32
Drive away. I grabbed something and it's
31:34
gone away and I still have my hand and I still need it.
31:37
I agree. You're not winning this battle.
31:39
She's in a car. At some point you just go, OK,
31:41
I'm out. I agree.
31:42
So. I I just thought that was oddly.
31:44
Displayed and it didn't really make any impact to the rest of
31:48
the movie really. We want the hand back.
31:51
I don't really want to back. I don't care.
31:52
But you know, stupid. I just saw it was strange,
31:55
showy, unnecessary. These effects, right?
31:57
Just like when Goose's hand falls out of his hospital, not
32:02
unlike not unlike Friday 4, if you recall in the morgue when
32:06
they're fooling around in front of him and his hand falls out.
32:08
It's exactly the same. Like oh great, great scene,
32:11
great scene. This one was a little more
32:12
unsettling because of the 4th degree.
32:15
Burn and then the stuff at the farm.
32:17
They know a guy who knows a guy and they get up to the farm and
32:20
that's where they find their new respite and they think they're
32:23
safe. Yes, they got a nice big Jesse
32:25
heads down to the beach. Seems safe.
32:27
You know, let me tell you, Australia has beautiful beaches.
32:29
I've heard. I went into one into a beach.
32:32
I went into the water and I don't.
32:34
I think you know my aversion to sharks.
32:36
Although the odds of something happening are incredibly small,
32:39
especially if you're in an area where you're supposed to be.
32:41
But I had goggles. I was under the water very
32:44
often, just making sure nothing was there.
32:46
People are just thinking I'm having a swim.
32:48
No, I'm on safety patrol. I'm on safety patrol for
32:51
everybody. Else.
32:53
I didn't even say it, but I was keeping everybody.
32:55
Safe. You're the Chief Brody.
32:57
By going under the Chief Brody on the kid.
32:59
You have a 66 shooter with some poison tip bullets.
33:02
I didn't make the mistake of yelling something out though.
33:05
But you see shadows in the water and it's just shadows of other
33:07
swimmers. But it feels like that is that
33:10
is that absolutely. But it was a big step for me to
33:13
be in an ocean front, to be honest.
33:14
With you had to travel around the world to do it, you've got
33:17
water everywhere around you with no shark possibility whatsoever.
33:20
I love salt. Salt.
33:22
You know that? You look at me, I'm bloated, and
33:24
this movie is pretty bloated. Phillip.
33:26
The only thing I liked about this sort of sequence is we got
33:28
to see Sloth from Google. Really.
33:31
OHS. This guy, sure.
33:35
The farm #3 by the way, I don't know you with me on that one.
33:40
Yeah, I just watched The Goonies a couple days ago.
33:42
Actually, you were thinking it was the same.
33:43
I thought you were gonna pull it out.
33:44
I was like, I will tell you, this is actually the second
33:47
scene of the movie that I love. Wonderful.
33:50
Could chase through the woods, I think is incredibly effective,
33:54
very well shot, well staged and I didn't think it lasted too
33:58
long. I thought it was really tight
34:00
and genuinely scary in terms of pacing, cutting, shooting and
34:05
staging and the direction of that whole sequence, I thought.
34:08
Was very, very effective. Interesting.
34:10
I didn't get that. I I'm thinking to myself, I
34:14
think the Friday movies or just scary movies in general do a
34:18
better job of it. And I thought you may have
34:20
compared it to that and say, well, it's OK, but this is more
34:24
about the cars and stuff. Let's leave this kind of work to
34:27
Friday the. 13th No, I actually think it's the opposite.
34:30
I think because the Friday movies are so based on that and
34:35
it's such a part of that entire series.
34:38
I don't think they drag it out very long and I don't think that
34:41
they play the cat and mouse sweat so much.
34:43
It's mostly them wandering around.
34:45
Cut to then they get hacked, right?
34:48
And because they're replayed a number of times throughout the
34:50
story, throughout the movies, I think they kind of lose their
34:53
power. What I found interesting about
34:54
this one was that it is so incongruous to what came before.
34:58
And in all the ways that I haven't felt the threat of this
35:02
group of people. I felt that dread and I thought
35:05
very, very compelling. I assume it's because of the
35:07
dead dog, similar to Friday part.
35:09
I didn't think about that, but yeah, there's there's another
35:11
dead dog in here. Yeah, you're right.
35:12
It's been awhile since I've offered up some connective
35:14
tissue, buddy. There you go on the House.
35:17
That's part of the Dead Dog trilogy that will go off the
35:19
shelf is undertaking. Yeah, we can package well.
35:22
Halloween. There's a dead dog in Halloween
35:24
as well, so. And we have four brothers.
35:27
No, I guess the dog didn't die. I was just shot at.
35:29
But we have wonder. Boys got a dead dog too.
35:31
Yeah, sad we got. Options, buddy.
35:33
And after that she needs to calm down and the old lady, we don't
35:38
really care about her name, but she's got some leg braces and
35:40
that's not important either. But Jesse realizes that she has
35:44
a kid and thought maybe she should go check on it and see
35:51
where Sprog is. And Sprague's not where Sprog is
35:53
supposed to be. Were you expecting to see the
35:56
gang here? I guess that's really where this
35:59
movie is going. To present the whole chase
36:01
sequence is with the gang. So yeah, they probably took the
36:04
baby, which, yeah, that isn't A twist.
36:06
It's kind of exactly what would happen.
36:08
But luckily the lady with the leg braces comes back and
36:12
essentially very temporarily saves the day.
36:15
I hate this scene. I mean, I'm talking 90 seconds
36:18
later. And it's really frustrating that
36:20
their answer to 9 motorcycles racing down the highway is 1
36:26
shotgun and a 92 year old woman and why running in the middle of
36:31
the road is the answer. I do enjoy the last shot of the
36:36
sequence where the baby's shoe and hat or something are the
36:42
only things visible garments on the street so you know exactly
36:47
what happened. I would have liked a little more
36:48
blood, guts and gore, as you know.
36:49
I'm happy that we can finally tech mark that we watched the
36:53
movie where they killed a baby. They didn't kill the old lady
36:56
though. That would have been a 2 for
36:58
would. Have enjoyed that.
36:59
Yeah, you're right. So.
37:00
Sorry to hear buddy, but they just killed his wife and child
37:03
instead. Hopefully that's enough for you.
37:07
Max doesn't take it too. Well, no.
37:08
He's been standing like a zombie outside the door.
37:11
Yeah, I don't think they realized he was in earshot.
37:13
Yeah, she's dead, but tell him she's still alive, not dead.
37:16
They started her vitals. They found the vitals.
37:18
She'll live. I got the impression she was
37:20
brain. Dead.
37:21
She is brain dead I'm sure, but she's still alive.
37:24
I don't think she's in Road Warrior.
37:27
That's fair enough. She makes it.
37:29
That relationship is not going to last.
37:31
She definitely looked like. She was missing.
37:32
Somebody parts underneath that sheep.
37:34
Yes, you're. Right.
37:35
Definitely missing an arm. And I need a woman with two
37:37
arms. Call me particular, but I'm just
37:40
kidding. I actually you're not me to say.
37:43
I would happily, in the right situation, data one armed woman,
37:46
as long as she didn't. Try to murder you for pro vasic?
37:50
Exactly. That's what I was getting at.
37:51
Try to get the fugitive in there.
37:53
Somehow you find this woman. They're dead, let's be clear
38:07
about that. He gets the leather pants on and
38:09
he's out for the scene. I haven't really felt too much
38:13
of the doom and gloom, the dread.
38:15
I haven't really felt a lot of the post apocalyptic stuff
38:18
either. It looks like Australia doesn't
38:19
really special. I've been there, you know.
38:21
And so now they give him the hero shot.
38:25
He's got a shotgun in one hand. This is the look we get, Meld in
38:29
his full regalia and what little bit I do know of the character
38:34
through history, it's this look, it's this image that stands out.
38:38
So I was happy to see it. I was very surprised, like
38:41
everything else in the movie, that it took so damn long to
38:44
really get there. But I do think that the look of
38:46
that character in that moment is captivating and is something
38:51
that you can get, I don't want to say amped up for, but
38:53
definitely get hooked, OK? Good.
38:56
I did like that scene as well. This is Max that we've been
38:59
waiting for. Now that he's all geared up,
39:01
that gets into the car, which actually looks like Knight
39:04
Rider. The car, it's all black.
39:06
It doesn't talk unfortunately. Maybe in the sequel?
39:08
Maybe, perhaps I've seen it, but he is on the prowl.
39:12
He is chasing motorcycles. The first set is just a bunch of
39:16
randos that we don't care about and they just get knocked off a
39:20
bridge. No big deal.
39:21
Get the ball rolling. Absolutely.
39:24
I do like this sequence Phillip, but I don't like what happens.
39:27
Next tell me. Two things, if you'll bear with
39:29
me. I'll make it quick here in chase
39:32
movies generally when you can catch up to a car but you all of
39:37
a sudden can't overtake the. Car.
39:40
That doesn't math. So you're going 80, I'm going
39:43
100 and then once I catch up to you, I can't go 100 anymore.
39:46
Like I have to go down to 80. Like you go right behind them.
39:49
So weird thing for me and maybe I'm just over analyzing it.
39:52
Maybe the car? Guy.
39:54
But yeah, only a car guy. I mean, that's a nitpick.
39:58
That's a nitpick. What bothered me more was that
40:01
Max fell for this obvious ambush situation.
40:05
I agree with you wholeheartedly. It feels to me like the
40:09
character they're setting up from the beginning.
40:12
Mad Max is the baddest guy, The bees knees if you will.
40:16
He wouldn't fall for this and he falls for it easily and he gets
40:20
taken care of quickly. What happens to him?
40:22
David, tell me. I think he gets shot in the leg.
40:25
Let me just pull it up. Let me put the tape in.
40:27
Yeah, he gets shot. In the leg and they run over his
40:30
arm too so I just thought like you're introducing this guy
40:33
you've got the hero thing here's the vengeance moment and the
40:36
first thing that happens he falls for the easiest thing in
40:39
the book I'm just thinking who is this guy it's.
40:42
Ben Affleck from Armageddon shot in the leg.
40:47
Right there in the archive. So it's really bothersome to me
40:49
that this is this guy. I've yet to see any reason why
40:53
this guy is considered to be the guy.
40:56
I didn't mind the almost symmetry in a weird way of him
41:01
getting run over with his arm. And I'm thinking, OK, well, this
41:04
will be a problem throughout the whole series.
41:06
And then I thought, wait a minute, that happened in.
41:08
Not necessarily the same thing, but Furiosa, the character in
41:11
Fury Rd. She's missing an arm.
41:13
I connected something else but I didn't.
41:15
Know you have another thing Bruin?
41:17
You tell me. Well, I'm thinking the whole
41:19
movie like what makes this like Fury Rd.
41:22
There's got to be that's our framework.
41:23
Actually, I don't know if I'm looking for it.
41:25
And it's a very small scene just before this actually, where
41:28
they're hijacking a gas truck essentially.
41:32
And the reason like these long? Pulling it almost.
41:34
Right. I'm like that's, that's, that's
41:37
it. Like 10 seconds.
41:40
So like, there it is. I have one asterisk.
41:42
It's the snicker notified. The second last note I have on
41:45
the movie is this is familiar. This resonates.
41:48
Yeah, exactly. It's not.
41:50
Even close to what you see in Fury Rd. but there's something
41:54
there that's like, OK, this is the beginning of what we're
41:57
going to see 40 years from now. Like there's those two dots that
42:00
you can connect these two movies.
42:02
I just love how it worked out that way.
42:04
Beautiful that the scenes. Agree the same thing, but then
42:07
thought, wow, it took an hour and 25 minutes to get a scene.
42:11
It doesn't have to echo, right? I'm not looking for connective
42:14
tissue necessarily, but rather just that shows me that there's
42:19
more to what's happening in the world than just these Rd. races.
42:22
Because the fuel, they only mention it once, but there's a
42:25
lot of gas around this entire movie, right?
42:28
Goose is burned up in gas. You know, there's like a lot of
42:30
free gas around. So there's tankers that are
42:32
blowing up full of it, right? Like it just doesn't feel as
42:35
scarce. But when they're hijacking like
42:37
OK. Let's keep in mind though, this
42:39
movie, it's this is just the beginning of the shortage.
42:42
I wonder if they knew. I mean, obviously you can never
42:45
know it's going to be as successful as it is.
42:47
But I wonder if they had an inkling of here's the story I
42:50
want to tell. And maybe they had an idea of
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1-2 and three. They had the World Vision, let's
42:55
say. Or if it was a product of this
42:58
is a big hit, I guess we'll just make another one, right?
43:00
Like, is it we made money? Yeah, we have.
43:02
So I wonder if there was more creativity behind that.
43:05
And like, I've built the world. It's like Star Wars, right?
43:07
Like Lucas has always said, I have this big vision, but if I
43:11
can't make a movie after Star Wars, it's useless.
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So I make Star Wars to be as good as it can be.
43:17
It's a standalone, it lives and dies and then, oh wait, now
43:20
because it made so much money, I can do the thing I always wanted
43:22
to do. So I wonder if George Miller had
43:23
something similar in this one. Well, we can ask him.
43:26
He might be 80. He's a little hard of hearing,
43:29
but if you yell loud. Enough.
43:31
You'll hear you. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
43:33
We're in the home stretch of the movie, David.
43:34
It's the last few minutes here. How do you think the movie
43:38
resolves itself? We've got Bubba, Johnny the Boy
43:42
and Toe Cutter still on the loose.
43:46
Yeah, he's got a Max, has got his leg all jacked out and his
43:50
arm broken, presumably. So how do you think the movie
43:54
resolves itself in the last 10 or 15?
43:55
I like the look of Baba Baba the whole movie.
43:58
Like he looked like a bit of a bad ass.
44:01
I almost thought he was the leader at the very beginning.
44:03
Like no, no, it's clearly Toe Cutter this guy.
44:05
Is William T Riker of the situation here?
44:09
But he didn't have anything to say, didn't have much to do.
44:13
So I guess it suits the movie that he just dies pretty easily.
44:17
I guess next we have Toe Cutter. Actually, you would think he
44:22
would been the final boss that died, but no.
44:24
Yeah, I thought that too. He's the next one and this is
44:28
the good old fashioned car chase and he gets annihilated.
44:32
Ironically had every part of his body cut off but his toe.
44:36
That was all that was left actually after he got hit by the
44:39
truck. I went to seek that joke in.
44:41
Totally worth it I'm sure for anyone that stuck around.
44:45
The eyes coming out of the head, I thought, what am I watching
44:49
here? This is a.
44:50
It's almost comical because like a cartoon.
44:52
Showy, same as the hand, but I mean I love that he's like
44:55
racked like he's in like. He's not coming back.
44:58
Like the actors coming back later but the character ain't
45:01
coming back? Shut that down.
45:03
But then we get Johnny. The boy?
45:04
Yeah, he's been your boy. You liked him all along.
45:07
You said nothing but great things about Johnny.
45:08
Strikes me odd that he would be the big bad ultimately because
45:13
yeah, he's trapped underneath the car.
45:16
Well, he is now once he can't cuss him there.
45:19
Yeah, he wasn't caught there, naturally.
45:21
Handcuffs. You know, you could cut the
45:23
handcuffs off in 10 minutes. If you're lucky, you can cut
45:27
your ankle off in 5 minutes. There's a leaking gasket and
45:32
there's a match a Zippo lighter ready to go and Max just walks
45:36
away. Doesn't even want to watch him
45:38
die. I feel like I would want to
45:40
watch him die. Listen, he's seen it with Goose.
45:42
He knows what it looks like. He doesn't need to see it again.
45:45
There's no surprises here. Did you notice though the 5
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minutes is not accurate? Had about maybe one minute maybe
45:53
and I'm generally. Good part.
45:54
Because if you're Johnny and you're like, maybe I'll do it,
45:57
I'm going to try in a minute and a half, you're like, Oh yeah,
46:00
that's perfect. That's how you fuck with
46:01
somebody's brain. I like it.
46:03
I'm a sicko. Sicky, I don't think you're
46:05
getting through that bone in 5 minutes either though.
46:08
So like, I don't know, have you ever tried saw through bone?
46:11
Not your own, but somebody else's?
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No. OK.
46:14
I don't think he even knew that he was the one responsible for
46:18
burning goose. And I right, you know, somebody
46:22
did it, so I guess he doesn't really care.
46:24
But yeah, it feels like the whole movie would be building up
46:27
the toe cutter because it's toe cutter that pushes Johnny to
46:30
burn goose. And so the fact that it ends
46:32
with Johnny doesn't really serve the dramatic purpose I think the
46:35
movie wants it to. At least from my viewing.
46:36
It doesn't really give me any sense of satisfaction,
46:40
especially since John kind of did it by accident, like Totters
46:43
pushing him at the time and the match drops.
46:45
Like none of it is intentional. It's a strange situation we find
46:50
ourselves in where I watch this and I don't think I could care
46:52
any less about what happened in this movie.
46:55
And if I have any inkling whatsoever, any passion or any
47:00
desire, it is only to watch the next one to see if the character
47:05
that I think I know exists. Because based on this movie, I
47:09
see nothing that traces and connects not only to no
47:14
character, but there is no character in Fury Rd. either.
47:16
So I'm not like, Oh well, the character pieces later.
47:20
It doesn't matter to me necessarily.
47:22
But this movie I. Got.
47:24
It's so little to get me excited about the world that they're
47:28
building that I'm surprised that made as much money as it did,
47:32
and I'm surprised that a sequel was desired on some level.
47:36
But my gosh, I thought this was drab, boring, trying at times,
47:41
and I didn't feel any of the excitement that I would imagine
47:43
from a Mad Max movie. As I've come to understand it.
47:46
David, you own it already. How are you feeling about it
47:49
after a couple of watches now in a couple of years?
47:52
I think what we have here, Phil, is a rare case in which not just
47:57
one, but multiple sequels are better than the original.
48:01
OK. Which makes me believe that this
48:03
movie is indeed what I like to call a table setter.
48:07
OK, similar to a movie like Unbreakable, although I enjoyed
48:11
Unbreakable much more. But it took a long time for
48:15
Bruce's character to become that superhero.
48:19
It's not until the last 20 minutes that's a slow burn with
48:23
a amazing finale in Unbreakable. Not this, that's that's clear.
48:28
This ending didn't save the movie for me.
48:32
I feel sometimes directors are too focused on the camera work,
48:37
the stunts. Like you can tell that this
48:40
movie is about those chases and they're done well, generally
48:43
speaking, but it leaves a big hole in the rest of the movie.
48:47
And if you don't fill that out with something.
48:49
And the beauty with Fury Rd. is it's just constant.
48:52
There's no time to think like I'm just getting dopamine hit
48:55
after dopamine hit. This movie, I'm bored as you
48:58
know, like I am bored. Yes, movie.
49:01
I mean I think I sort of enjoyed it the first time but wasn't
49:04
sure. I guess it was all new, like
49:06
yourself didn't realize he was a cop and like OK, this could be
49:09
cool. It's 1979, it's Australia now.
49:12
Watching it two more times in like this is not keeping my
49:16
attention and I don't think it's my fault.
49:19
However, I know there's more to come.
49:22
I've looked at IMDb, I know the sequel is better.
49:25
I know people like Road Warrior and that's the saving grace.
49:29
Will get back to it, give it another shot.
49:31
Not next week. We'll let it breathe for a
49:33
little bit, and maybe in a month or so we'll visit Road Warrior.
49:37
And of course by then we'll have to do Thunderdome because you
49:39
can't just not do the third one. Though I've done weird stuff
49:42
like that. That's where I subtle.
49:44
I mean, I don't think I'll watch this movie.
49:47
I do want to say though, I do have a hankering for Furioso.
49:51
That Furiosa. Because I'm thinking, well, it
49:53
was kind of slow, but it wasn't this slow.
49:56
So now it might look better because, you know, the CGI,
49:59
though you say it was rushed. We disagreed a little bit.
50:02
There you have Chris Hemsworth. Really grandiose, right?
50:06
What this movie doesn't do at all is a performance.
50:10
I guess that's true. Fury Rd. has got the action and
50:12
Furiosa has the charisma of Hemsworth.
50:16
I think that kind of goes a long way.
50:17
But yeah, this has neither. Now, I'll tell you who does have
50:21
charisma, David, and that's you. That was the original name for
50:23
this podcast. It was going to be action and
50:24
charisma. I was going to be action.
50:26
You were charisma. But we changed the name.
50:29
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