Yok wrote:Am I the only one who noticed the inconsistencies with the 'Lizard stomp' part linking up with the chase part?
Okay, so I am sure it is made for the trailer, because it is a bit sloppy to be part of the main release.
For one, once the Interceptor disappears over the hill, it immediately re-appears over 100 meters away.
The smoke freezes just before the other cars drive into view, but the Interceptor seems to have disappeared.
The first vehicle over the hill is the Holden Ute, but in the chase, the utility vehicle is an F-100.
Don't take it on face value, folks.
Nope, you're not the only one. It was a quick edit that I noticed when everything on screen suddenly jumped a bit.
A few thoughts...
The two headed lizard may be a sign of radiation induced mutation, but as far as I know, reptiles do have a greater propensity for two headed mutation...even now, so it may mean nothing.
The tattoos....some forum members have noted 'references' to previous films. Anyone who has really paid attention to the original films has probably noticed that Miller has some sub-themes that fill the background story while not necessarily being obvious until he wants them to be. MM: MFP trading in gas, hijacking, the mechanic can't remember where he got the tires, the mechanic working on Goose's salvaged bike for Toecutter, the MFP mech scrounged to build the BoB. RW: gas is currency, working to get your stuff back ( the 'deal'), scavenging, people trying to create their own life, good or bad. The beginnings of 'mythology' with the Feral Kid's prologue. Gangs start to become tribes. BT: more dealing, fuel as currency and everything previously mentioned, plus, people have created their own lives (Barter Town, not just survival and the further development of mythology). Almost everything in FR seems like an extension of these themes. The Citadel looks like a religious cult and acts like one (worshipping the car...like we do), although possibly a doomsday cult (an evolution of the kids idea in Thunderdome (having grown up post collapse in a cult of religion and mythology). The tattoos are as one famous doctor put it, 'a shopping list'...inspected salvage, just like the car parts, but for the sickened Citadel residents? The car hauler is collecting wreckage and dealing in it? Gasstown mobile refinery. Even the storms are not without precedent. Thunderdome had two of them, the second was unlikely to have been any more real than the one FR.
I wasn't too keen on the 'reboot' idea, but like it or not that is what it is. It does not appear to fit the time line of the original three. We just have to get over it. However, this movies timeline would still appear to me to be taking place after the equivalent time of Thunderdome. The collapse didn't happen everywhere at once. The cities could very well have been maintaining some decayed semblance of our world well after the areas between them became lawless wasteland. The Citadel could have been founded by cultish refugees from the cities even as Max was a cop or even before that. This would explain why the wastelands may have a more developed society in them than Max's appearance would allow time for....he's the relative newcomer. They have to have been there long enough to move beyond basic survival to build the vehicles they have. This is well beyond even Bartertowns capability. As such, this requires some assumptions. The gangs/tribes may have a symbiotic relationship and might not be at war with each other, at least not all the time. The Buzzards may be the scavengers supplying Gastown and The Citadel with parts. Maybe the Citadel has water. Gastown is capable of refining (might still be a crude oil storage facility or a few wells somewhere).
What appears to be a headset could be hooked up to a radio. If I recall the quote from Miller correctly, the idea was that high-tech stuff and computerized cars would not last that long, not that emp/nukes fried all the electronics. He may have been scanning radio communications between gangs or members of the gangs. Or just listening to Heaven 17.
As to LeadCounsels comment about fanboys accepting anything stamped MM with a second thought, read thru this forum. There are a lot of people on here that are on both side of the fence on this movie that have spent years thinking about the original movies as well as this one. We are not all happy about everything in the trailer (I'm not so sure about the 'godless tornadoes' (name that reference!). But just as some people have to accept that Thunderdome is the movie George Miller made, so is this one. It is part of the Max mythology, whatever that is.
As for the BoB, maybe people have screamed for that car to come back against all reason that Miller put it in just to smash it again early in the movie just to poke you in the eye! I've said it before, if Max's life was filled with endless road battles that car wouldn't have lasted long enough to meet Wez. And I highly doubt Max would have spent time repairing it after battles as someone once suggested. Nope, rationally road battles were not that common.
