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Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome · Citizen Frame

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Music.
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Now, there were places like these, cities. They were called cities.
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Now, there's lots of them. City, city.
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And they had the knowing of a lot of things. They did. They had skyscrapers
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and videos, and they had Sonic.
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I had a Sonic. But then this happened.
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This pocky clips happened, and it's all finished. It just isn't there anymore.
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So you've got to understand that this is home, and there's no tomorrow land.
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And I ain't Captain Walker.
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Kieran's on the laughing gas again I guess he doesn't know what it is Okay Alright
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guys let's get this out of the way We're going to talk this piece of shit Beyond Thunderdome.
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What a fall from fucking grace I mean Oh my god I.
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Oh okay Okay. Anybody welcome to Citizen Frame?
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We're here to talk Mad Max Beyond the Thunderdome. Or I like to call it Mad
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Max Beyond this pile of shit.
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Mad Max Beyond Lord of the Flies meets Kindergarten Cop.
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Well, let's piggyback on Lord of the Flies there.
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So we talked about in the last podcast with the road warrior,
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where the fuck was George Miller, right? He's no way he let this go. He did.
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George Miller sold out. Now, let's get this out of the way right now.
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This is the reason why he never revisited the franchise for a long time.
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And I get a lot of hate for this, but he sold himself out and he sold his baby. He sold it out.
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Now, he co-directed, which he did co-direct, by the way, with George Ogilvie.
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George Ogilvie was more of a playwright and theater guy.
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A multi-award winning, good on him. But clearly, I'm sorry, he's not really
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a film director, I guess you could say.
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Or a Mad Max director. director, and George Miller should be ashamed where this went.
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And what really pissed me off in researching this, and this is what really pissed me off.
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We talked about this a lot on this podcast.
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We just talked about with Aileen Romulus about how you always stick to the source
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material when you're doing a sequel of some sort, okay?
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And what this man has done to his own fucking source material,
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which even pisses me off.
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This is actually based on another script that was about a bunch of lost children
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in the middle of this wasteland.
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And kind of like lord of the flies and the
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hero comes from the from this from the dunes just
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to bring them justice and to raise them and help
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them that's not this is not this is not a mad max
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film all right this was just some crap throw
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your boy your mad max character into this shame on
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that's quite the rant kieran but i sort of agree with
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a lot of it i have to say yeah it is very
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disappointing i watched this on video back in the
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day like most of the films i watched and it's by
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far the weakest of it doesn't feel there's
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so much of it does not feel like a mad
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max film i mean you compare this to the road warrior it's day and night even
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the character of max is doesn't feel like max here and it's yeah it's the stuff
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that it's become this is mad max becoming mainstream apparently george miller
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was basically funded for this or so that he could
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give away the rights to direct and contact,
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which wasn't made until like the 1990s, like over 10 years later.
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But this is not... And not by Miller. It was made by Robert DeMex. Yes, he sold away.
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He originally had the rights to make it, but he sold off his rights.
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And part of the deal for him selling off, for Miller selling off his rights,
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was that he would get Mad Max 2 and Mad Max 3 made. What happened in between?
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The plot has been completely lost. Yes, apparently that was his own story idea,
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like a lord of the flies type bunch of kids
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well anyway no matter what's happened in between what
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we did get is a mad max goes mainstream which
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it should never ever do and i
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know you could argue that fury road and furiosa are mainstream sort of blockbusters
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but certainly with the original series especially when you compare to the first
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two it should never go mainstream and whenever the kids appear yes the stuff
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in barter town is it's possible and it's reasonably enjoyable and And it does feel Mad Max-esque.
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But whenever the kids come into it, it's, whoa, this is fucking Mad Max Does Disney. And...
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Not only that, the kids are deeply annoying, and to talk in this stupid way, I get it.
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It actually makes sense that the kids would talk, you know, their language would be underdeveloped.
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Actually, if you watch the apocalyptic, very serious apocalyptic British film,
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Threads, that's touched on there, and it's like deeply depressing, brilliant film.
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But, so that does make sense. But the way they talk about Mar-a-Mar-a-land,
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and, you know, all this here, and, you know, it's just, it just grates on you big time.
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So there's my rant. I always like to start off with It wouldn't be a Mad Max
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film Without these title characters But why do I care now,
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But yes we got Max Auntie Entity Jebediah, Jebediah Jr The Master,
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The Blaster Iron Bar, Pig Killer, Blackfinger Dr.
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Dealgood and Tun Tun Tattoo Did you notice who's playing Sorry I just had to
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jump in Did you notice who's playing Iron Bar,
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Don't care Well you should because it is
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none other than angry anderson the australian
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rock sort of pop singer who very
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famously back in the 80s recorded a power ballad called suddenly that was used
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in a very iconic episode of australian soap opera neighbors when scott and charlene
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played by kylie minogue got married so there you go and every single thing i said there is true.
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I just want to end my life. Angry others. I just want to end my life. Iron bar.
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This is soul destroying. Is it as soul destroying as the film itself?
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So before I was interrupted, we also have Savannah Nix and a bunch of fucking children.
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Kindergarten cop. So what?
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Kindergarten cop. Matt Max does kindergarten cop. The kids.
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There's nothing to a kindergarten cop. I'm talking about the annoying kids.
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You know, this movie's terrible.
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And you already pissed me off because we discussed this. We're talking about the road warrior.
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And you had the gyro captain, right? And how he was almost like a Jesus figure to Max.
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You know, it's a really good character. So how do you play it?
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If you thank that character, how do you do that? I have an idea.
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Why don't you cast the same actor, but this time make him a fucking dick?
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And have him stealing to just pretty much destroy everything Max has. From the start?
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How does that sound? Do you want to do that? It is a different character. And hey, you know what?
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Why don't we give him a plane too? Why don't we do that?
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So why don't we really fuck everything that they wrote and went on the Road
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Warrior with the gyro captain and just throw it all out the window and give us this assh**le?
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Why don't we do that? It's not only that. it is very confusing because
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you're watching this for the first time you're assuming that this is the gyro
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captain so you're thinking yourself why don't they know each other him and max
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and also why has the gyro captain become an asshole but then it's not till well
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many years later that i found out that it's actually a completely different
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character but played by the same actor who's also a pilot,
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Yeah, it's terrible. Not good. It's terrible. And also what's even more confusing
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as well is he has a kid with blonde hair who looks like his girlfriend that he got in the second one.
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So you're sort of thinking, oh, I've had a child, you know? And it's just, yeah, it jars.
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Yeah, it's... Wow. What's with the hair?
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I know. What the fuck is with the hair, man? Well, this is the thing as well
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that I was sort of thinking when watching this.
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With Mad Max, he has a big, you know, long wig. he's got
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long hair but yet because obviously he hasn't had time to get his hair cut but
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yet he's had time to have a shave because he doesn't have a beard you know no
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so yeah so he goes back to he goes to barter town to try to find his things
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that this asshole has sold on him,
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and he gets in arguments and fights hey do you see the crossbow yes where's his yeah Yep.
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What is this crossbow? Yeah, the hand crossbow thing. Whatever he's handing
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it in. Oh, he has to turn it in.
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Yeah. There you go. There you go. That was neat. Yep, yep.
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There's other touches like guns from... No, there's no other touches.
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No, there is actually when he's handing in the weapons.
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I was being sarcastic. Yeah, when he's handing in the weapons,
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there's also the gun of, you know, the creepy guy who was Toe Cutter's right-hand
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man in the first one with the blonde hair.
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There's his weapon as well. The Maxar obviously got off him.
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Well, I mean, actually, you know how that makes sense. You know why?
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Because you're pretty much giving away all that's decent and left of the Mad Max series.
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You might as well just hand it over. Here you go. Yeah. We're in different territory now.
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Yeah, we're going to go to a PG-13 Tina Turner video instead.
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Yep. And there's even a saxophone reference up on her boudoir. Yeah.
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Let's talk about the Cassie and Tina. First of all, let's get this straight.
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I like, we don't need another hero. I actually like Private Dancer.
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I like Tina Turner, period.
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This was more, this was made because she was making a huge comeback at this
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time after going through all the shit she did with her fucking piece of shit ex. Ike Turner.
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And yeah, what he did to her and all. So she was making a huge comeback and
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I, nothing about, I respect that.
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That but to put this in a max film
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is so destroying it's just it makes no sense
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and this was an mtg
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this was when mtv was it was maxi making
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videos this is in its prime and
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this video has played everywhere and it
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was just pretty much a marketing promotion
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a promotional tool to get tina turner back on
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the market and i tell you
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right now mad mad max mel gibson
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does not look like he wants to be nowhere and yeah
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and i mean the character's pretty grumpy anyway but yes you can sort of tell
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that gibson's heart really doesn't seem to be in it this is corporate mad max
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and mad max don't give a shit you can sit there and call and mad max does not
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belong in the mainstream corporate world that goes back to what you're saying about mtv music
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videos and stuff like that and Mad Max is but certainly the first two at very
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least is low budget exploitation gritty raw this is Disneyfied Disneyfied nonsense.
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Yeah, but that's George Miller's fault. Yes, ultimately. Nobody else. Yeah.
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No, it is. He sold out, period.
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So, yeah, so we get the villain. I can't believe I'm saying she's a villain.
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There's really no villains here. I would say that Tina Turner herself isn't,
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she's quite possible in the acting role, but she doesn't belong here.
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She's clean cut. She's good looking. She's clean. She's confident.
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Yeah, it doesn't belong here And neither does the character role Maybe if the
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character was played in a different way And looked in a different way It might
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work It would have been better if she was like The guardian mother of the children,
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And he's there to help them Because of big questions about that I got a lot
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of questions Especially Where did they appear from?
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It suggests that there was a plane crash Was it just children on the plane?
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This yeah well we'll get
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there let's just hurry up i would say you
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know the no no you're jumping is no this is
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no i know i'm talking about master the wee guy who plays master is actually
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one of the actors from freaks no from freaks the highly controversial todd browning
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1932 horror film that It ended Todd Browning's career.
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A great film it is too, very powerful. But he's in that.
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There you go. Sounds like, that's okay. That's a reference people might enjoy.
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Or like Angry Anderson. Angry Kieran. I'll give you that one. Fuck. Fuck me.
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Let's get this done. All right, so he wants to get his shit back,
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but in order to get his shit back, he's got to fight the biodome.
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Sorry, the dung dome, right?
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But the thing is that the anti-entity wants rid of Master Blaster because Master
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Blaster has covertly taken control of Bordertown because he runs the methane farm.
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It's basically pig shit that fuels it. Yeah.
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So she wants rid of Master Blaster and to do that, she wants to get him to kill him.
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Yeah, so Max is going to fight both. Yeah, you kill one, you kill the both or whatever.
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Now, I'm going to give a compliment. Go ahead.
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This is my compliment. This is pretty nice of me, people. Pretty nice. Pretty fucking nice.
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I do like the Thunderdome. Yes, so do I.
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I actually rather enjoy it. And not because it's not overly violent.
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It's kind of fun to watch.
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Mad Max was losing, which I kind of like. Like, but mainly why I like it is
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the reveal of who this big giant is.
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And I like the fact he takes the mask off and Max's look at, looks right at him.
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And it's a clearly a man who has learning disabilities. Down syndrome.
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And it looks like he has Down syndrome. Correct.
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And, and Max won't kill him. And right there, he broke the rules.
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That's why he's getting, he's going to get, you know, the wheel.
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And what I liked about that whole sequence was it, the movie sells out completely,
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but it doesn't sell out on this.
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So it's what pisses me off. You have potential, especially with this whole barter
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town, you really could have worked with this a bit, and this is,
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should have been the primary focus.
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Of barter town, but, and it is gritty and kind of raw and it could be creepy.
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You can see where, um, Miller then went on to create the Citadel,
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you know, cause there's similarities to this in the Citadel,
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you know, Bernard Fowler farm and stuff in the Fury Road and stuff that came later. Yeah.
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Yeah, and then the sequence when he refused to kill him, obviously he won't do it, they kill him.
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They use crossbows on him and kill this big giant who doesn't know much.
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And it's a pretty brutal scene, actually. And it's a scene that we should have
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seen more of in this film because it is, at the end of the day,
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supposed to be a Mad Max film.
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And I think that's what pisses me off so much because of the fact there's these
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glimpses here. Why aren't we going this route?
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Why are you doing this? Please stop what you're doing.
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Because once Max leaves here, it's downhill. Yes. And I'm talking,
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it's a fucking tumble. Yeah.
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You got this, because he broke the rules, he has to be, he has to go to the wheel.
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And I like this concept. He really could have played with this too.
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This wheel has this big spinning wheel, metal disc, and it's got several consequences on it.
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Obviously, the one you land on is what's going to happen to you.
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There's death, hard labor, acquittal, the gulag, auntie's choice,
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spin again, I like that one, forfeit goods, underworld, amputation, life imprisonment.
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I mean, that's pretty cool shit.
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And he obviously gets the gulag where he gets- Well, here's the thing.
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Gulag means it's like a work prison, but he's banished instead.
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Dead. So that doesn't make sense.
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That's what I was going to ask you. That means imprisonment.
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Why is he being thrown into the sand?
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Exactly. It doesn't make sense. The gulag, wouldn't that be exile?
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Well, yes, that's what I was thinking. So, you could be exiled to the gulag
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in old Soviet Russia, you know, but you were exiled to a gulag as a work prison.
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So it has, you know, hard labor.
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Yeah, I know. Why was it called It should have been exiled from Barter Town. He was exiled.
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He gets exiled here, but he doesn't get the gulag.
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And that's why they were going to feed another pretty dark scene.
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They were going to feed the master to the pigs.
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And then she stops them because she now lost Max, who would have taken over for him.
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But because he's been exiled now, they need him.
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Is that correct? It's also because the master's smart as well They need him
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for his brains So she's self-serving I took it more She was saving him Because
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she needs him for his brains.
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Why does Pig Killer release the monkey to give Max food?
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Because he sort of, well, he wants to escape himself, but he sort of is sort
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of friendly with Max and whenever Max meets him very briefly,
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you know, down in this sort of factory setting. Yeah, yeah.
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So he does that in hopes that Max will get his, you know, get his nutrition back.
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Possibly. His energy back and hopefully come back to get them out,
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like which he eventually does.
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Yeah, possibly, yeah. I like the Pig Killer, by the way. He's quite a good character,
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although he's underused.
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Yeah I mean that's the problem This is about 45 minutes into it Now once Max is exiled We're fucked,
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The film is exiled at this point Yeah it's terrible It's terrible Now we got these little fucking,
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Fucker nicks and all these little demon Bastards we gotta deal with now For the last fucking hour,
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Jesus help me You know what they do one thing right They do one thing right
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they cut Mel Gibson's Well, yeah, credit where credit's due I mean,
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but you know, that's a very minor point you know, compared to what we'll have
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to go through I hate the scene where they're given like the backstory of the
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apocalypse or what do they call something stupid like the apocalypse or something,
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I don't even know it's just cutesy Disney shit that doesn't belong a million
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miles away from here Mad Max.
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It's the Lost Boys from Peter Pan Yes, sir.
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And it's, I can't believe I just said that for a Mad Max film.
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They show him the slides, you know, the little slide projectors we had when
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we were kids and all that. And there's a slide of a city.
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And that's when there are hopes. And he thinks he's this big tall stranger.
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He's going to bring them there.
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And he says, no, there's no hope. And he throws the picture in the air.
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But as he does it, this wind starts picking up.
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And did the wind reveal a fucking plane? I don't get this. And the slide,
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possibly, you know, there was plans, but no, no, no, no, no,
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no, no, you don't get what I'm saying.
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He has the slide of, they saw him, of a city.
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And he says, yes, there was one cities and it had everything, but those are gone now.
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You're living on a pipe dream, blah, blah, blah, blah. You have a better world here.
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And he throws up a slide to toss it away. way but all of a sudden this big wind almost like God is.
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Causing this little windstorm and they all run out with the wind and then there's a plane did the wind?
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No no I think it's just a metaphor I think they're trying to be poetic or something
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no they knew about the plane my impression was the plane that's Christ in the
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sand is the plane that they were originally on when they were very young,
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presumably it was some sort of school trip or whatever but for some reason there's no No adults.
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So it was just a plane, presumably with one adult pilot who died and the rest of them are all kids.
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But you know what? Again, more bullshit where they're highly creative and talented
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kids where they can make a whole community of swings and, you know, all sorts.
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So it's just, it doesn't make sense.
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Well, the story is there's a man called Captain Walker and the other adults
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left their tribe to search for better land.
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And they said they told the children they will return, leaving Nix in charge.
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The remaining tribe members share stories about Captain Walker and talking about
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stories. Okay, well that makes more sense.
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Around the circle and it was called the tank.
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That's where, then that's who they think he is, is Captain Walker.
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Hard about, I mean, a lot of this is copy and paste from Mad Max 2 as well.
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I can't believe I just, I remember that and I actually was cracking that up.
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Well, I mean, that's fair enough, but a lot of this is copy and
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paste from bad max 2 as well but nowhere near as well realized
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but don't don't ever use that don't ever say what if it's maybe suggested that
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the kids are the kids of the community that max saved in the second one no because
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where's the plane yeah well fair enough well the gyro captain don't forget was
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a member of that community maybe he maybe he got a plane,
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it's a pretty big okay i'm just jumping that sort of theories here here there's
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another other fan theory.
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You know what, though? Here's the funny thing is, because you had the narration
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from the feral boy at the end of Road Warrior, we could have.
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They could have done something where Mad Max is found and it's by some of these
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kids, goes in, and then revealed there's Gyro Captain and there's the young
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lady and these are their kids or some of the members left.
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Because let's say, and instead of a fucking plane, you find the bus buried in
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the sand. and this is the land they built, that would have been a thousand times
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better. I agree, and it would have connected much better with the second one.
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And yeah. Because this doesn't connect at all. No, no, this is just random. He pawns off.
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He has to turn over a couple of weapons that some of the baddies had in the last couple.
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That's their, that's how it's relatable to the Max movies.
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Yeah, that's it. Really, you know, a couple of small references like that or
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a couple of times where he says I was a cop and, you know, that's about it.
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This feels like a different entity altogether anti-entity actually
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all together from the the previous two
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yeah it's and you
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know the kids they're sort of geniuses at making sort of
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cool communities and sort of all these sort of things you know that can the
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that can pull up the water and stuff and it's yeah yeah i hate the way they
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talk it's really annoying but yes it does make sense but it's still annoying
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and then half of them are gonna leave half and then so half of them chuck off. Yeah, for Mar-a-Lond.
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And Max goes, well, I'll go after him. Yeah. Because he's Max.
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He's a reluctant hero. And.
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I wish he was reluctant after he read the script. So, oh, fuck.
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So he decides and then this little fucking annoying little baby child,
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whatever the fuck it is, comes running after him.
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And the two others gotta go with Max to find the missing the rest of the fucking
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tribe, whatever the fuck they want to call him.
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Little fucking baby child. Hey, I'm going to come with you.
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And Max goes, he helps himself, meaning he's on his own. He's got to carry his own.
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And then the next shot, the baby child is on Max's shoulders.
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I know, it's inconsistent. I'm like, fuck me, here we go.
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And also, but just before this, whenever Savannah is talking about,
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you know, wanting Max to help them reach mario
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mario land he punches fuck he had sort
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of a punch and i'm like whoa that's a
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bit unexpected you know well she wouldn't shut up you know right yeah yeah but
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no because i think and then she's tied up i think what he was saying was rebellion
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within the group to save her from her so because he knows that she had escaped
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she would have ended up in barter town and she would It would have been wasted.
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And I'm going to tell you this right now.
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Where they're at right now is a lot better where they end up.
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Oh, that's what Max tells them?
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So, you know, but then whenever they actually leave for the desert,
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one of them ends up falling into the quicksand to try and raise attention,
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but really it's actually a relief. It's like, I don't give a shit.
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No, I was like, oh, please get the rest of them. Please, whoever's underneath the sand.
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I was hoping Boba Fett would get spat out. Yeah, exactly. The Sardoc pet.
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Yeah, start killing them. That would have been cool. Give us Boba Fett.
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That would have been neat. Yeah. So then they go to Barter Town.
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Oh, my God. So everything you built with Barter Town, you kind of had some fun
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characters. We talked about Pig Killer there.
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I like the guy who did the- It is what it is. We'll take it. We'll take it.
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You know, but it's just like, you know, Gastown, everything else will be introduced
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to. I like the host of Thunderdome himself.
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You know, the guy who's introducing them. So, you know. Yeah, yeah.
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But here's the problem now. not only do you fuck us once or fuck us twice,
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you're going to ram it hard to right up our asses with this part.
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And fuckers.
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So you built a barter town and you got, you know, sleazy pig shit and you got
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just dirt and grime and yada, yada.
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You sold it to us. You got the Thunderdome like, okay, I'll go with it.
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Right. For the little time we had there.
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Just fucked us by turning Barter Town into Mad Max meets the fucking Goonies.
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Yep, that's 100% what I was thinking.
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And now, now that is not an insult to Mad Max or the Goonies.
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Those are fucking great films as we know, but this is soul destroying.
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When they're playing in the slides and they're hee hee hee and they're.
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It's cringe worthy. it's humiliating thing i
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thought to myself was mad max does
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the goonies is especially with the slide and
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nonsense and then you've got that one of the kids you know the wee
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boy who's wearing all the war paint for some reason yeah and
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he's like smiling whenever he's you know like thwarted a bad guy i mean like
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angry anderson and it's just please stop this this is painful you would have
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sold me you would have had me back if you chucked that little fucker into the
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pigs well it would Would it have felt more like a Mad Max film? Yes.
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There's no peril in this film. There it is. That's perfect. There's no peril.
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Well, there's attempts at it, but it doesn't work.
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It's not pulled off. Well, they get away so easily. Yeah. I mean,
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Jesus, even Tina Turner's like,
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ah, all right. Yeah, they'll have the opportunity to kill him at the end.
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And yes, they'll go down the route of, yes, she respects him, the raggedy man.
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And it's just, yeah, it's just the direction here is flat.
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And that's the problem very flat and
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a couple with all this you know cutie kid
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stuff it doesn't belong in a Mad Max film this is like the antithesis of what
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a Mad Max film should be all this stuff in it yes the border town stuff is enjoyable
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I'll roam it you know because it still feels like it's in that world but once
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you leave border town the first time it's downhill fast.
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That's my point. You bring us back a second time, which we're all go,
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right, we're back here. Cool. And then you fucked us.
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Now, not only did you fuck us once, fuck us twice, fuck us three times later, you fuck us again.
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You finally give us the chase scene. Okay. You bring us back to Boratown. We're excited.
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No, we get the Goonies, you motherfuckers.
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Okay. They escape on a train. Oh, all right. Right? Color me impressed. I'm up for this.
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Alright, car's coming, chasing. He's got to stop him from getting to the train.
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You get me. I'm like, alright. The Mad Max chasing. We'll get at least a Mad Max chasing, right?
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Blow torches and crossbows and guns. Nope.
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We don't. They replace those weapons and I'm not kidding people with fucking pots and pans.
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Framhans. It's basically slapstick humor for children. it's
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like it's watching bob buster keaton it's
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like buster keaton or the keystone cops or bob and
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you know british comedy where it's people getting beat
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over the head with or basically even like old cartoons you know like tom and
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jerry people getting beat over the head yeah it's so destroying hands and you
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got and then you got the baddie guy and they're gonna do the same thing they
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do all mad max films head-on collision right so you got this fucking idiot who's in who's who's He's,
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he's lying on the cow catcher, part, part of a train. Yeah.
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And, and he gets, and they, they
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collide and it's a beautiful explosion actually. It's a nice collision.
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It, you can see all the parts flying. We'll, we'll go.
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Yet the fucker's still alive. He's just kind of brown because he got a little
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burn from the explosion. That's angry Anderson for you.
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This is just... Yeah, it's bad.
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This is bad. And also, just by chance, they bump into Poundland,
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Gerald Captain and his son again.
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And so then they fly off and they get to... Now, you know what I did like?
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I must admit, see the very final shots where they end up in Sydney.
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You see the Sydney Opera House, but it's supposed to be apocalyptic.
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You know what I mean? There's all the radiation in the air and stuff.
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I thought that they're very well-realized shots, but yeah, I mean,
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we're clutching our throes here compared to what we've just seen.
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So I don't understand. They're in a city that's empty.
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I don't know where they're getting their water from. Where do they get fuel
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from for the plane? It's a tiny plane to get to Sydney.
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Well, I like to explain how they got that many people in the plane in the first place. Hardest?
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Because of, but I don't understand why they would go there.
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There's nothing there. they had more resources in their little island because they're fucking idiots.
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And that's why and even you know I was going to say Mel Gibson Mad Max tells them this,
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you've got everything you need here but they want to go but there is a suggestion
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at the very very end whenever she's giving her a wee speech and she has a new
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child and stuff that they're going to rebuild society,
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but they never saw Max again exactly the same as Mad Max 2 but nowhere near as good,
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so yeah Yeah, that's what I was going to ask you, because it cuts back to the
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city, and they're watching, I don't know what the fuck they're doing,
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and they all have kids, so they're all just sitting there fucking.
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Well, I don't know, I mean, no, they all are kids. Because they multiply.
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I mean, these fuckers are rabbits, because there's like fucking all these demon
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spawns all over the place. There are a lot of leaps in logic here,
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but the only one who was pregnant was Savannah, even though Max punches her
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in the fucking face, while she's pregnant. Yeah.
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They've got a handful of kids she's popping them out pretty good and here's
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what I don't get I wonder what timeline they're on now because when they show
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us she's got like a little fucking screaming demon baby there around 8 months
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plus there's like 12 of them so I was just curious.
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Yeah but who's he sleeping I mean it's not creepy because they were children,
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but the older guy who was like he's
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basically like Peter Andre or some
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sort sort of australian male model you know what i mean um but
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there's basically two older i'd imagine
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savannah and this dipshit who i
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would imagine are about like 19 or 20 but the
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rest of them are all like primary school but you know that's another thing you
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know what i mean it's it's like they're obviously you know you know precocious
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little they don't look like they're surviving in a post-apocalyptic world they
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look like they've just time jumped in through the disney channel through one
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of their shitty programs,
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you know, with Britney Spears, presumably, or Christina Aguilera.
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Back then, it just, it reeks of non-authenticity.
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It's dedicated, sadly, to Brian Kennedy.
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Yeah, he passed. George Miller's right-hand man, producer for the last two.
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He died in a helicopter crash back in 83.
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And, you know, it's nice to see his name, at least. Yeah. Being recognized.
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Not forgotten, but it's sad it comes after this train wreck of a film.
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I have nothing really much to add. It's the worst Mad Max film by far.
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To me, I would even go further.
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I mean, dude, you go further than that. This is a bad movie,
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period. I would even go as far as saying, in my head, Canon,
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it's not even a Mad Max film.
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Not i would never watch this again i i know this movie
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never i i sadly i want it i've seen it a few times because
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it's in my best i have i have the i have the
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mad max box set the 4k box set so it's fucking stuck in there but i'll never
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to me the mad max films are one and two now fury road and furiosa are different
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entities all together to me anti-entities again no one would join but But to
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me, certainly with the original series,
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at very least, there's only two Mad Max films.
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Well, we'll dive into that a little further when we talk Fury Road next and then Furiosa.
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No, I still think Tom Hardy holds his own. He does. And passed the baton.
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So we'll get into that when we talk to Fury Road. Yeah, we'll argue about that.
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No big deal. We're going to end this one just because my soul is destroyed.
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And yeah. That's about it. That's all folks. All right, guys,
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Yeah, there's a lot of swearing in this one, but I'm sure a lot of you will
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be nodding your head going, yep, you tell them Kieran, because this is completely
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right. This is terrible.
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And I actually think we made some good points. We are actually fair with it
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in the first half. You know, you had some good stuff there.
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We could work with it, but man, do you pull the rug underneath after that? Wow. Do you just. Yeah.
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Talk about kicking somebody when they're down. I wanted to go to Mar-a-Mar-a-Land
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after watching it again, but not with those little brats.
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I just wanted to go to post-apocalyptic Sydney on my own and just to get my head shard.
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Fucking weird comment. No, well, it's in time. It's a film. The film ends on
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post-apocalyptic Sydney. You see the opera house.
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So you do. Per Sydney. That's never coming back. It's just Trevor standing in
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the middle of it. Me and Angria Anderson. I'd listen to Angry Anderson Because I'd be angry at myself,
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Alright guys That's all I got Take care of yourselves Chat soon.