The Wallflowers’ cover of Heroes is certainly essential.

Was honestly curious if anyone would pick up on it.  All this time.

I’m a bit younger than you but had a similar perspective. I think you just had to be willing to meet him where he was. He was not as cool as some other bands of the time but he was definitely sincere, and if you accepted that (and took some shit from your friends) then you could engage with what he was saying.

I don’t care how you feel about Springsteen, Live 1975 - 1985 is pure distilled rock and roll. My parents gave away my vinyl copy cleaning out my room after I graduated college. Still bitter.

A true legend.

And other people’s deeds get attributed to Max, building his legend.

My only issue with that order is it would seem like FR happens substantially later than Thunderdome. Consolidating power into the Citadel, Bullet Farm and Gas Town would take longer than developing a settlement like Bartertown, plus there’s Nux not knowing what a tree is.  I’m setting aside the destruction of Max’s…

Precisely. Huge cop-out, and always infuriating.

I always took the “last of the V8 Interceptors” to mean they’d all been destroyed in highway combat.  And you’re right that the surviving engines all seem to be massive.  I expect speed trumps efficiency in the wasteland.

I don’t know how much Miller cared about continuity across the first three films, but the timeline did make logical sense. 1. he’s a cop in a society as things are falling apart, 2. he’s now a wanderer post-war who can’t help himself but get involved, 3. he’s an older wanderer post-war. It’s really just Fury Road and…

I pity your lack of imagination!

Nux doesn’t even know what a tree is, and is presumably in his early 20s.  The Citadel would be like an evolved Bartertown, so yeah anything that happened in Fury Road would have to be much later relative to even Thunderdome.

Has Miller weighed in on all of that?  It would obviously be his call if he wanted to cast Gibson again, and the fact that he didn’t suggests he doesn’t want to deal with either the guy or the public fallout.

There’s no other way to look at it. This article uses what little info is actually out there to put together a timeline, which simply doesn’t work. “Some people enjoy puzzling things out and trying to make the pieces fit” is a lost cause in this case. Max is a legend, and the stories may actually be about entirely…

I know they finally changed it (after like 10 years) but I don’t think it’s cleaning products that did it.  I have a 2014 535i and it just eventually started happening.  Same on a slightly older 328.  The texture of the material is very nice until it starts turning to tar.  

I think the implication there was there are preservatives or other chemicals in the food that were causing damage, which if course is putting McDonald’s in the position of proving a negative.  Regardless, it’s pretty clear this was a stunt, not a study.

“Former high school football player body” is a thing for a reason, especially if they were linemen.

Oh for sure. I work in finance and the questions any time there’s a financial crisis are just head-slappingly stupid. And those markets are far less complex than anything in the tech world.  It’s depressing.

Oh it was definitely meant to portray a society where the powers that be were losing their grip on preserving order.  The road where Goose gets cooked has a sign basically saying “turn around” and displaying the number of deaths on it so far that year.