Banter TRTT Part 14: 2022 Goodbye (To 2023)

[Grave Danger]

 

[Dylan8]

I can't put Mad Max in with the likes of Felicity and if it is considered Ozploitation, it obviously transcends it. I prefer to put it in with the Australian New Wave, or at least that's what my lecturer taught me. Really it stands on its own two feet or four wheels.

Mad Max is just a super cool film made on the smell of an oily rag and it has an apocalyptic vision that is set within the aesthetics of the Australian landscape.

Sure, Miller babbles on about Jungian archetypes and if you really want to drill down on it, archetypes are not Jungian, they are just archetypes but it has such a cool, Australian swagger that no other Australian film comes near.

It certainly is not a three act writing class but what it does have is a vision, an attitude and a real outback, Australian feel that no other film comes close to. Almost like a film noir where the overarching atmosphere is more important than the plot.

I think someone said nothing happens in the first hour of the film. Mad Max has one of the most iconic and electric opening scenes in cinematic history. Typing about it gives me goosebumps.

Mad Max is amazingly cool.
The interceptor is cool.
Goose is cool.
Toe Cutter is cool.
The action is friggin old school cool.

When I've been to film thingos, lazy Australian directors will always talk about their films saying that the Australian landscape in their film is a character unto itself but in Mad Max it actually is, without the pretentious bravado. It is harsh and sparse and brutal, just like the diegetic world it portrays.

Yes, Wake in Fright is good but like Walkabout, is it Australian?

For the discussion, I also like Muriel's Wedding, the Castle and Jedda. There is another film I must have left out. I will also give a big shout out to the TV show, Mr Inbetween.

In the end, it shows you that if you have a talented bloke with a vision and you throw some money at him, it can work. Instead, Australian films get rewritten within inches of their lives.

I'll tell anyone who'll listen about Mr Inbetween. Maybe the best thing Australia has produced in my lifetime.

 

[dirty2]

I believe there's definitely "Aliens" out there somewhere... Have they been to earth? Prob not... Think we would all be slaves or have aliens coming out of bellies if so.

 

[sobrave]

I believe there's definitely "Aliens" out there somewhere... Have they been to earth? Prob not... Think we would all be slaves or have aliens coming out of bellies if so.

They tend to visit around Easter time with their probes

 

[JimmyBC]

Bob Lazar is telling the truth man.

 

[Peninsula Boy]

I'll tell anyone who'll listen about Mr Inbetween. Maybe the best thing Australia has produced in my lifetime.

It's pretty darn good. Not perfect but the best Oz TV show this century perhaps. Right up there.

I'm just gonna put it out there. Window.

 

[Peninsula Boy]

Based on a book that was based on a true experiences by an Aussie. Starring a guy who actually lived in and grew up in the real Yabba.

Wake on Fright captures an ugly side of Australia that in a way, it is only possible for an outsider to do.

I get what you mean but a film is more than it's director.

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A lot of good points, Edgie.

All I'm saying is that if you reeled off best French films they would be directed by Frogs.

 

[Dylan8]

It's pretty darn good. Not perfect but the best Oz TV show this century perhaps. Right up there.

I'm just gonna put it out there. Window.

Window?

 

[Peninsula Boy]

Window?

Sorry. Glass door. It's my favourite scene. One of those, anyway.

 

[Pappagallo]

Absolutely, but the ridiculous distances make it impossible. Unless some other race figured out faster than light travel or cruising around through wormholes or some such.

If I had to guess, I'd say that "intelligent" life ends up destroying itself before it ever gets that advanced, a bit like humans are on track to. When you consider the billions of years the universe has existed for, modern civilization has made a pretty damn good utensil up of things in just a few thousand years.

The distance problem could be solved by a colony ship that has thousands of generations living on it in transit. I imagine we’ll do something similar in the future to escape Earth when it becomes practically uninhabitable.

 

[dirty2]

The distance problem could be solved by a colony ship that has thousands of generations living on it in transit. I imagine we’ll do something similar in the future to escape Earth when it becomes practically uninhabitable.

We don't even really need to find another planet... We can build a big space station ect

 

[JimmyBC]

Whether you think Lazar is a nut or not his explanations/theories on the propulsion systems in the crafts he claimed he saw is interesting.

So advanced reverse engineering was far beyond our current science/capabilities.

 

[Contested Marx]

The distance problem could be solved by a colony ship that has thousands of generations living on it in transit. I imagine we’ll do something similar in the future to escape Earth when it becomes practically uninhabitable.

Next week?

 

[JimmyBC]

The idea of a colony ship towing something with a billion years worth of freeze dried food in it is funny.

 

[Pappagallo]

The idea of a colony ship towing something with a billion years worth of freeze dried food in it is funny.

No you just eat the old people. The ship will be called the ouroboros.

 

[JimmyBC]

No you just eat the old people. The ship will be called the ouroboros.

So potentially millions of years of cannibalism until you find a habitable planet? I sense a film in this, some scenes to be shot in the Yabba.

 

[Doctor Feel]

So potentially millions of years of cannibalism until you find a habitable planet? I sense a film in this, some scenes to be shot in the Yabba.

Edgie to direct the car chase scenes on the colony ship promenade.

 

[Dylan8]

No you just eat the old people. The ship will be called the ouroboros.

Ouroboros is one of those cool words that looks kinda like what it is

 

[sobrave]

Ouroboros is one of those cool words that looks kinda like what it is

Like splat

 

[afl2004]

Taking a piss my room mate yells to me "want a donut , I got a big donut if ya want it"
Me "sure"

Comes out and sees this

 

[Pappagallo]

Like splat

No like llama

 

[backtozero]

Taking a piss my room mate yells to me "want a donut , I got a big donut if ya want it"
Me "sure"

Comes out and sees this
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You know it's impossible to tell how big that is from the picture yeah?

 

[Burningleviathan]

Any ideas we try to apply to the idea is galactic space travel will always fall short as we haven't had the break throughs to make it seem like a possibility. we only took flight 120 years ago, what we might develop over the next 1000 years may make it seem more likely.

I won't discount the idea they have come here. If they have though we have a right to know about it and the right to know about the tech involved and the right to decide who gets to own it. People can handle it at this point, I'd hope.

 

[Doctor Feel]

No like llama

Ken hinkley

 

[Doctor Feel]