The Glade 4.0

I'm confused and angry.

At 0:28, it clearly appears to be Max's Pursuit Special, which was the last of the V8 Interceptors in The Road Warrior, where it was heartbreakingly destroyed.

I believe Fury Road is a prequel.

Hell if I know...I've never seen a Mad Max movie, because reasons. But the reports I've seen (like this one) about the film say it's a prequel to the original trilogy.

explosions, loose plot, more explosions, even more explosions. I am going to enjoy the mind numbing drivel which is this movie.

In related news... Moose, I want to play Car Wars

It has to go in between Mad Max and The Road Warrior.

Mad Max was just kind of a cop drama with explosions and megaviolence. The Road Warrior was when it got all post apocalyptic.

An insertquel?

It has to go in between Mad Max and The Road Warrior.

Mad Max was just kind of a cop drama with explosions and megaviolence. The Road Warrior was when it got all post apocalyptic.

explosions, loose plot, more explosions, even more explosions. I am going to enjoy the mind numbing drivel which is this movie.

In related news... Moose, I want to play Car Wars

Hell if I know...I've never seen a Mad Max movie, because reasons. But the reports I've seen (like this one) about the film say it's a prequel to the original trilogy.

When Mad Max was released in 1980 in the United States, it did not receive a proper release from its distributor, American International Pictures. AIP was in the final stages of a change of ownership after being bought by Filmways, Inc. a year earlier. AIP's then-current problems affected the release of the film and its box office in the U.S., although Mad Max proved much more successful when released internationally. Warner Bros. decided to release Mad Max 2 in the United States, but they recognized that the first film was not popular in North America. Although the original Mad Max was becoming popular through cable channel showings, Warner Bros. decided to change the name of its sequel to The Road Warrior. The advertising for the film, including print ads, trailers, and TV commercials, did not refer to the Max character at all, and all shied away from the fact that the film was a sequel. For the majority of viewers, their first inkling of Road Warrior being a sequel to Mad Max was when they saw the black and white, archival footage from the previous film, during the prologue.

Yup. Mad Max was kind of about the beginning of the end, and the breakdown of society. The Road Warrior is fighting over who gets to eat the corpse of society.

An insertquel?

Wow, there's a blast from the past. I may still have my copy of that game. Have either of you ever read the Harlan Ellison story that Jackson (kinda sorta) based the game on?

Harlan Ellison: Short Story Collections
Deathbird Stories

Reviewed by David Loftus

ALONG THE SCENIC ROUTE

Synopsis
In the not-too-distant future, freeway drivers may challenge one another to duels under certain specified rules. George, an average family guy out for a drive in his Chevy Piranha with his mousy wife Jessica, is flagrantly cut off by a young hotshot in a Mercury which incidentally has twin-mounted 7.6mm Spandaus. Enraged, fed up with being pushed around by punks on the highway, and with Jessica whimpering beside him, George impulsively challenges the kid to a duel. A Freeway Sector Control Operator warns him that the Merc is more heavily armed, but George has had some recent work done on his nuclear-powered, laser-equipped Piranha. And of course there’s his good old .45 automatic under the seat. The two drivers are cleared for a duel. But once engaged in battle, George learns the kid has more experience and tricks up his sleeve than the respectable challenger had any reason to expect.

Comment
This one’s a peach. Smooth and quick, like a lightning ride in a fast car. Along with “Neon,” this is the closest thing to a real laugh in the book. “Billy,” the young punk, is identified by the Sector Control Operator as “Mr. Bonney,” for those who can appreciate the joke. The story dates from The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World (1969). There are several signs of authorial prescience: in a way, “Scenic Route” presages road rage by a good two decades. That a Chevy plant is said to be located in Bombay also foretells of multinational corporate flight (although car plants seem to have come to the United States, while the microchip industry that no one could have predicted is what has found a home in the former Raj).

Something like, A SundayDrive, I think. Looking for it now. I'm pretty sure it was an Ellison story.

Edit: Got it: "Along the Scenic Route"

From Harlan Ellison Webderland

My pleasure. Enjoy. It's a great story. I still, to this day when I drive around, imagine what kind of vehicle I would use and how I would arm it.

LA freeways invoke that kind of rage sometimes.