UndercoverElephant wrote:Quite a lot of us are old enough to watched the Jetsons. And then Tomorrow's World a few years later. Both were hit and miss. What we're actually going to end up with is looking like a cross between Mad Max and Bladerunner.
I'm not sure that Mad Max is such a good example. I watched it last night for the first time in many years, and although it depicts some fairly dysfunctional law and order, the baddies are only a gang of rogue bikers. It's pretty much the same story as countless Westerns, but with cars and motorbikes rather than horses. Hardly worth the £1.27 I paid to DODGY TAX AVOIDERS!
From what I remember, the sequels may be more what we're talking about, but not the original.
JohnB wrote:
I'm not sure that Mad Max is such a good example. I watched it last night for the first time in many years, and although it depicts some fairly dysfunctional law and order, the baddies are only a gang of rogue bikers. It's pretty much the same story as countless Westerns, but with cars and motorbikes rather than horses. Hardly worth the £1.27 I paid to DODGY TAX AVOIDERS!
From what I remember, the sequels may be more what we're talking about, but not the original.
Mad Max II, The Road Warrior. Love that film, mostly for the intro.
While we're on films, Star Trek First Contact is set in 2063, in a post WWIII remote community that could be quite believable. Apart from the time travel, the Borg and Vulcans, and the invention of warp technology!
UndercoverElephant wrote:
Quite a lot of us are old enough to watched the Jetsons. And then Tomorrow's World a few years later. Both were hit and miss. What we're actually going to end up with is looking like a cross between Mad Max and Bladerunner.
I think Children of Men was quite an accurate dipiction.
In terms of the depiction of crumbling social structures and an increasingly elitist/fascistic political system, yes, I would agree.
We're either going to get the above or we are going to get a socialist revolution. Whilst I'm hoping for the latter, I'm sadly expecting the former.
Hardly worth the £1.27 I paid to DODGY TAX AVOIDERS!
Twas a bargain...
I think what MM1 shows is the very start of the collapse (if memory serves me right) - so it is just the 'outsiders' who are fighting for a bit of the action. I don't think it was the bikers, so much as that motor-sickles use less juice and so where used in a time of petrol scarcity...
Hardly worth the £1.27 I paid to DODGY TAX AVOIDERS!
Twas a bargain...
I think what MM1 shows is the very start of the collapse (if memory serves me right) - so it is just the 'outsiders' who are fighting for a bit of the action. I don't think it was the bikers, so much as that motor-sickles use less juice and so where used in a time of petrol scarcity...
Good action anyway
Now there's a funny thing though.
If you are commuting a given distance on your own, a bike (say, a 125cc) beats a car in terms of petrol consumption.
However, if three or more of you travel together in a car, the petrol consumption per person is lower than for a bike
