Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site watarts.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!watarts!mupmalis From: mupmalis@watarts.UUCP (M. A. Upmalis) Newsgroups: net.movies Subject: Re: Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (no spoilers) Message-ID: <8514@watarts.UUCP> Date: Thu, 1-Aug-85 11:02:08 EDT Article-I.D.: watarts.8514 Posted: Thu Aug 1 11:02:08 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 2-Aug-85 01:24:11 EDT References: <863@vax2.fluke.UUCP> Reply-To: mupmalis@watarts.UUCP (M. A. Upmalis) Distribution: net Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 29 Summary: In article <863@vax2.fluke.UUCP> moriarty@fluke.UUCP (Jeff Meyer) writes: > >Finally, anyone notice the Buckaroo Banzai quote that the Pig Sh... err, >excrement slave says to his captors when helping the children and Max >escape? Very cute... maybe BB's popularity has caught on elsewhere... Argh, the quote was used in BB, however there is a Canadian folksinger who used the line in the mid seventies in his act and even he may not have been the first, I liked BB but BB is not first, nor last, nor all between!!! My one comment about the movie (after saying that I liked it) is that their vision of the future is quite depressing. The relics of the pre modern age are hung on to as being something special, almost magic. When I first saw Bartertown it had the feel of a medieval town to me, the town square, the hucksters etcetera, but when you look closer it becomes obvious that this is not a town in the usual sense and this is more a dark ages status quo then a march back to the future. The idea of new art, poets, folk singers, women doing the wash or children running freely would be more satisfying. Even the kids in the oasis who show the organization and hope for the future are tied to the past. The ending shows this sacred tie to the past rather than the fresh start for the future. I can see why George Miller would do it, but still I am uncomfortable.... -- Mike Upmalis (mupmalis@watarts) ihnp4!watmath!watarts!mupmalis