Red Dwarf should be on this list, as it was not just a comedy, but also explored classic science fiction premises, from machine consciousness to cloning, time travel to genetic engineering. Red Dwarf’s innovation was that it explored these ideas with a cast of idiots. Like able idiots, interesting idiots, idiots we…

Technically, the constitution is written on parchment

I wish I could take credit for it! It’s now my go-to for explaining this kind of thing.

Cosplay is for everyone.

And here I thought I was joking when I said this was modern Marvel’s Clone Saga. They straight up pulled the “You were following Ben Riley the whole time!” twist.

This is modern Marvel’s “Clone Saga”. An egregious unforced error in the handling of a character at exactly the wrong time. They’ll continue to write themselves into corners, and it will all end with reality-rebooting shenanigans. The majority of fans will be happy to put it behind them, but it will occasionally get…

Something like that, indeed. Thank you for being on the internet.

Thank you for your comments, but I must disagree about Immortan Joe and the fate of the Citadel. You’re equating the illusion of strength and toughness Joe projected with the real flexibility and survival knowledge we see from others within the movie. And Joe’s system was already unsustainable due to the nature of…

If you’ve seen some of the other replies on this thread, I also may need a refresher course, particularly on Thunderdome. So you’re not alone.

One could argue that the only reason Max was let go was so that the refinery town could observe how the Raiders would pursue him, but that is a supposition, based on one’s feelings towards Pappagallo and refinery town. So, I can see where you’re coming from. And I also agree that even if Humongous has honorable…

Oh, don’t be like that. You’re adding to the conversation wonderfully! I did not know about that deleted scene at all. I’ll have to find it, because it would change my take on Thunderdome immensely. Thank you for sharing.

Thank you for that wonderful reply. I still think on my personal balance that Pappagallo is perhaps the worse of the two, but you make excellent points, particularly about the “relationship between the rules of our civilizations and brutality that seems external, but just might be intertwined with them”. Well said!

Next time you watch it, look at Max’s face when he sees that he’s been protecting a tanker full of sand. I certainly got the impression he didn’t know, and I think that would be the most interesting take from a story point of view. But the beauty of cinema is that it is open to interpretation.

A good point, but not neccessarily contradictory evidence. Remember that while Pappagallo went with the tanker, it was in a separate high-speed vehicle. We can’t know his full intentions, but based on his actions it seems likely he went with a purpose of his own: Not to help the tanker nor to fight the raiders, but to…

Overall a good list, but there is one point where I’d say you definitely picked the wrong terrible person: Lord Humongous. He’s not the worst person in the Mad Max universe (That’s clearly warlord, cult figure, and serial rapist Immortan Joe). What most people miss is that Lord Humongous isn’t even the worst person in…

You got it all wrong. They should lean into it. They should have it be a thing that Cable is always trying to explain, and no one wants to hear it. Hell, his super-attack should be him busting out family albums, time-line charts, and his own wikipedia article to set the record straight, and have it drive enemies to…

Joke all you like, but in many ways Gabe Newell made ALL the video games of the last 10+ years. We forget now, but it wasn’t so long ago that PC gaming was dying out. Steam changed everything. It could easily be argued that Newell, Valve, and Steam are responsible for the shape of the gaming scene today from the indie…

Many condemn Uwe Boll, and they are not wrong to do so. He was an unrepentant egotist who made terrible films, and the majority of his work will be consigned to the dustbin of history. But...

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