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From: Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org>
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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-05-26 (Sunday)
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On 5/27/2024 8:56 AM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:
> Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (theatrical)
> The story of Furiosa from Mad Mad: Fury Road before that movie.  Bombing 
> hard at the theatres, I was the only one in the room when I watched it. 
> I thought it was pretty good.  Felt different than the other Mad Max 
> movies, more like a long story/saga than an episode in an ongoing 
> adventure.  But I did have a refrigerator moment wondering how a barren, 
> sterile wasteland could support so much cannon fodder....
> 
> 

I think one thing to keep in mind is while it's been over 4 decades 
since the first Mad Max movie, within the movie's internal time frame 
not nearly that much time has passed since the bombs dropped.  Many of 
the people alive in these movies were full grown adults before the 
nuclear war.  These are the survivors.  Every Mad Max movie has depicted 
a world where the survivors have saved or rebuilt some level of 
functioning civilization.  In this one the Citadel, where Immorten Joe 
rules over, has plenty of food and fresh water.  He's feeding his people 
and supplying fresh food and water to the Bullet Farm and Gas Town. 
Then there are pockets like The Green Place or wherever the kids lived 
in Thunderdome where people have clean food and water and are otherwise 
left alone from the wasteland marauders.


> 
> Dogfights - Gun Kills of Vietnam (disc)
> "The arrival of missile technology lead many to believe that a fighter's 
> guns were useless relics, but air-to-air battles in the skies above 
> Vietnam proved differently.  In some of the most nerve-wracking battles 
> in recent history, pilots had to move in close and pull the trigger."
> 
> 

I don't think I've ever see a movie that depicted air to air combat 
during Vietnam.  A couple of years ago "Devotion" came out which starred 
Jonathan Majors and Glen Powell as navy pilots during the Korean war.  I 
think that was the first time I ever saw a movie with air to air combat 
during that war.  I was surprised to see the Americans still flying WWII 
propeller planes while the enemies were flying around in jets.

One of the best parts of "Red Tails" was when the American fighter 
pilots still in their propeller planes had to go up against Nazis in jet 
fighters.