I'm with Max. I love 'em, too. MM is exactly that: a brutal revenge movie in the fine tradition of the renaissance drama genre, even if you wouldn't call it the best example (although surely not much worse than Kyd, really. I mean, seriously). iirc, they dubbed gibson because his accent was so thick. and road warrior is a better movie, imo, but there's something about the primal ferocity of MM that has lots of purists preferring it to RW. maybe "mad" max sawicky is even one of them. it reminds of the comparison between the first two terminator movies. i still prefer the first one to the second, although the second has some more interesting aspects and higher production values and all that. and a somewhat lower cheese factor, actually.
On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 3:11 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The gasoline war is in Road Warrior, one of the greatest junk movies evah. > > Actually the gas source in RW is not a fixed amount, but an oil well that > > somehow transmutes oil into gasoline. So it was not so irrational for > > the barbarian forces of The Humungous to expend gas for purposes of > > control of the "well." > > > First time I saw the previews in a movie theater, everybody's mouth was > > hanging open in amazement. Now those sorts of scenes are routine. > > Max Max was the precursor to RW, where organized civilization had not > > yet disappeared. MM is just a really brutal revenge movie. > > > Sorry, I luv these movies. > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Jim Devine > Sent: 08/19/08 02:58 pm > To: Progressive Economics > Subject: Re: [Pen-l] Reality bites again > > this article suggests (to me, at least) one reason for the high oil > prices of recent years: speculation of the broadest sort. The standard > story is that it's a bunch of "exogenous events" (war in Iraq, > conflict in Nigeria, etc.), i.e., events that can't be explained by > available theory. But these events don't simply drop from the sky. One > of the reason why there are so many fights over oil and oil-related > matters (including the recent war between Russia and Georgia) is that > oil is extremely expensive, which makes the _stakes higher_. So part > of the story is: high oil prices --> greater likelihood of conflict > over oil --> higher oil prices. > > It's like the fight in "Mad Max" that I've been told about (since I've > never seen the flick) in which they waste a lot of gasoline fighting > over gasoline, which is in short supply in that post-apocalyptic > world. > -- > Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own > way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante. > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected]<http://mail-us.gmx.com/fm07/cgi/g.fcgi/mail/new?&to=pen-l%40lists.csuchico.edu> > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > >
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