You...you're joking, surely...right?

Blasphemy! I thought Fury Road was excellent, "MRA/SJW" drama BS notwithstanding. And a lot of people made it their movie of the year for 2015.

I read the book when I was in Grade 10; suffice to say, I expected a rock 'em, sock 'em action story, and got something very different instead.

And yes, I'm in the camp who believes that the subtle genius of the movie is how well it captured the spirit of the book and the message it was trying to send (I always thought that the book was a parody of Right Winged war-mania like the movie was, but I'm afraid I know little about RAH's own political views.)

...and didn't he write Basic Instinct, too? If anything writing like that gives me comfort that you can still write utter schlock and still get paid obscene amounts of money for it.
Just tell me you won't break my heart and leave the forums, and I'll do it for free. :)

"Don't you even think about dropping codes!"

The way OP addresses new codedroppers is troll-like, bordering on being threatening. Despite this, he gets upvoted. And the people who speak up against his attitude gets downrepped.

Not cool.

um... Fury Road is #4 in the series - Beyond thunderdome was the pile of poo #3.

Not sure - but if so he made more young teen men happy in the mid 1990s than Jesus did! O____o

Well you talking to the tax man could help prevent it! ;D
Neither is hoovering up codes or dropping them like the forum is a fucking litter bin. Read the thread!

Umm.. Fury Road in the fourth one. The third one is Beyond Thunderdome.

Subtle? That movie is just about as subtle as a sledgehammer. When used on an A-bomb.

Reply screwed up. :P

Rampancy,

Joking my ass, I was born and raised a few miles from The Duke's Hideout which was actually an abandoned train station that they refurbished a few years after the movie was made. Not long before I moved to Michigan I interviewed for a job in there.

The building where the Brain lives? I walked past those steps 40 times a year for ten years going to Cardinal games.

Ah yes. Nothing more trollish than an attempt to make the forum a better place with less scammers. Truly, a wretched thing to do.

And the implicit threat of... of... of disaproving of their actions I guess, is just about the most disgusting thing I ever saw!

Dark City's not a dystopia?

Never knew that.

Ah, I see. I did watch the whole thing. So, that also disqualifies The Hunger Games as well, right?

Being a terrible movie disqualifies The Hunger Games.

nope (have only seenthe first two films and not read the books though). I'll send you the rest on chat as to not spoil it for everybody

I've seen the Hunger Games movies, but I don't know what happens in any of them because I was too busy ogling Jennifer Lawrence.

Dunno, haven't seen it, or read the books, and I never shall.

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Well, don't I look fucking stupid.

Okay, so searching back to when I saw Beyond Thunderdome (as a little kid on ABC; they seemed to have it on every Sunday night back then, as if somehow steel cage deathmatches in a post-apocalyptic future was their idea of quality family entertainment), I remember that while I didn't like it as much as The Road Warrior or Mad Max, it wasn't exactly a terrible movie. Maybe it says a lot about that film, that I instinctively think of Fury Road instead of Beyond Thunderdome as "The Third Mad Max Movie".

Well, umm, uh. Yeah. Okay, so "subtle" was a poor choice of words, but after watching the movie for a second time, I began to see that, while the movie wasn't exactly deserving of a spot on anyone's Best Films list, it didn't deserve all of the negative criticism that it got. I myself hated it until I read a very well thought-out defense of the movie arguing that it captured the original spirit of the book better than anyone ever thought.

The real travesty came out of all of the spinoffs and sequels that followed. I remember trying to watch one of the Starship Troopers CGI movies. It looked like a bad ripoff of one of Blizzard's StarCraft cinematics.

Life imitating art, indeed...

Well, Dark City doesn't really count as a dystopia for the main reason that the setting isn't what it first appears to be, either to us or to the characters. As for Hunger Games? I'd say that counts as a dystopia, though admittedly I haven't read the books or seen the movies (and don't have any interest in doing so, not that I hate them or anything). So for all I know it could all just be some M. Night Shamalyan-eseque "social experiment" in the present day or it could all be a dream in Katniss' head, or something.