Re:Why did we wait so long for the bicycle? (2019)
by jansan on Monday December 07, 2020 @05:12PM
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Yeah, Max Max would certainly have a different feel to it if he rode a folding bicycle throughout the movie.
Re:Why did we wait so long for the bicycle? (2019)
by dfxm12 on Monday December 07, 2020 @05:52PM
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On the flip side, bikes might have a different feel to them if they were the transportation of choice of action heroes. Action stars don't do cool things, they make things cool.
I imagine Aston Martin sales will bump up after the next Bond film gets released. What if Bond got around town in a Bianchi?
Re:Why did we wait so long for the bicycle? (2019)
by floren on Monday December 07, 2020 @05:50PM
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Share The Road Warrior
Re:Why did we wait so long for the bicycle? (2019)
by blackrock on Monday December 07, 2020 @05:53PM
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One thing I never understood about Mad Max, is where did they get the gasoline for their spiked-up cars from?
Plot hole.
Re:Why did we wait so long for the bicycle? (2019)
by stevenwoo on Monday December 07, 2020 @05:58PM
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There’s a running refinery in several of the films that is a stronghold for a clan usually. It’s better than the Walking Dead Tv show having cars run for years after industry shuts down , or they siphon gas from some rusted piece of junk.
Re:Why did we wait so long for the bicycle? (2019)
by blackrock on Monday December 07, 2020 @11:57PM
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Hah. So in this Mad Max world, the local clan employs a petroleum refining engineer.
Which now begs the question: where did they get the oil from, to feed into their refineries.
Re:Why did we wait so long for the bicycle? (2019)
by stevenwoo on Saturday December 19, 2020 @12:30PM
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That is a good question, maybe they had some reserve of local supplies like those cylindrical tanks we see near most refineries in the East Bay or East Texas, and the usage would be pretty low because there's only the clan cars and trading to think about, also, Australia does have some petroleum reserves so we could pretend they were near some of the last active wells. :)
Bikes are present (and maybe even integral to) some post-apocalyptic films like, Testament, Turbo Kid, The Stand. There are some media with no gas powered cars, like Adventure Time, and probably more.
However, for better or worse, Mad Max set the trope that the fight for fuel is often an interesting conflict. It's easy for a gas hungry viewing public to understand, at least!