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[-] SomethingBurger@lemmy.world 82 points 1 year ago

Mad Max has nothing to do with Hollywood. It's an Australian production.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 89 points 1 year ago

And it had nothing to do with climate change. It's post-nuclear war.

[-] Skua@kbin.social 24 points 1 year ago

Not to mention that at no point is anything about the society depicted as being somewhere actually good to live. The movie ends with defectors from decadence killing the god-king and presumably overturning the order he built, and it's framed positively

[-] Noodle07@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Just wait 2024, we'll find a way to do both

[-] Madison420@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Bingo, and if anything given the weather it's a post nuclear winter potentially rebounding climate.

[-] HurlingDurling@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

Going to have to go back and watch it but I thought it was that gas ran out so society crumbled due to scarcity.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

It started like that, but then there was a nuclear war. That's why there was the Atomic Cafe in Bartertown. It was a reference to a documentary about nuclear war information films of the 1950s.

[-] mishimaenjoyer@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

came here to post this.

[-] Hyperreality@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago
[-] Tubbles@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago
[-] WaLLy3K@infosec.pub 2 points 1 year ago

Coca-cola, Wonderbra.

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