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Yeah, when I first saw it [Mad Max] as a kid, the environment made it really creepy to me. Perhaps because I'd already seen the more fantastical geography, architecture and inhabitants of the sequels, it really creeped me out to see the same character in a real-ish environment, and to see normal people in it, who could have been from the real world. It was like this half-step between the normal world and the full-on crazyness that had taken over by Mad Max 2.

Yeah, that's exactly my opinion as well.

I liked all of the Mad Maxes when I last saw them (probably 10+ years ago). The Road Warrior was my favorite and a perfect example of how to make a good sequel. But I think it was also rather different in tone from the first one, which I didn't see until much later after I saw the two sequels. When I used to watch movies mostly from TV, they were airing 2 and 3 way more than 1. And when I first saw it I didn't really appreciate it a lot. Maybe it was too dark or too obscure for me back then. The three are like completely different movies, but still feel like a series, which is great. I just watched the first one now and I'll see if I still feel the same about how different the sequels are.

I'm sick at home without energy to do much besides watch movies. So today I had an 80s adventure movie binge. After watching Conan the Barbarian recently, I had to recheck if the sequel Conan the Destroyer is really that much worse. Yes, it kind of is, although it has it's moments. I forced myself to watch Red Sonja also, but that one has nothing much going for it. Followed those with Romancing the Stone (still rather enjoyable), and slept through most of it's boring sequel Jewel of the Nile. They really didn't know how to make good sequels in the 80s, with a few exceptions. Maybe I'll take on the Mad Max trilogy tomorrow.

Damn, so I just started using Tinder as well, but I'm pretty clumsy initially. Just saw a woman who stood out as really really interesting and accidentally clicked "nope". Anything I can do there? [edit] ouch, and now it says "there's no one new around you". I have one match so far.

Just saw Babadook. It was good for a horror movie, but still a bit generic.

I kind of did that, although for me "dropping out" was a process that lasted years, during which I came rather close to actually getting my diploma. But personally I would not recommend this to anyone, especially non-programmers. In my personal experience, only programmers seem to be happy with that choice, and not even them that often -- e.g. I'm the only programmer without any finished higher education in our whole company (about 40-50 programmers).

I heard the Imitation Game treats Alan Turing's story in a not totally honest way. Still want to see it, though.

That does seem interesting. I don't even know many serious movies about dogs, but Wendy and Lucy is one of my favourite movies among those I've seen in the past year or so. It's more about Wendy (the girl) than Lucy (the dog), though.

Jumpman?

These have probably been recommended already, but just watched them recently. Only Lovers Left Alive is a really good take on vampires from Jim Jarmusch after his previous movie, Limits of Control, which I personally liked but was probably too weird for most people. What I still disliked about it, though, was the trope (?) of tying the long-lived characters to some most well-known historical figures. It seems like a too obvious thing to go for, even if it was relatively well handled in this case. Adaptation, written by Charlie Kaufman and directed by Spike Jonze -- the pair who did Being John Malkovich -- is a really unique film and I can't really describe it without spoiling it. It really blew my mind at least once. Pan's Labyrinth by Guillermo del Toro is about a girl using fantasy to deal with her pregnant mother's illness and a nasty stepfather who is rooting out rebels in an area after the Spanish Civil War. It features some really good imagery. Boyhood is a coming of age story from Richard Linklater, another rather unique movie as it was filmed over 12 years while the cast was aging together with the characters. Once Upon a Time in the West is a classic that I can't sum up easily. I think I hadn't really watched older westerns since I was a kid and I don't remember if I had ever seen it before. The movie was really good, and it was awesome to see it in full HD on my big 96" screen. After seeing that I decided never to watch anything in less than 720p if possible.

Indeed. Let me change the title.

Just watched Tuff Turf. It was a bit different than I remembered, but the elements I mentioned were there, if slightly different (he shot a cockroach or some such, not a fly; someone else used the car antenna while he was on the bike etc.). On the whole it wasn't totally bad, just an average 80s movie. Wouldn't really recommend.

Found it! It was Tuff Turf. Probably not that great, judging by the Rotten Tomatoes rating of 20%.

Haha, I have no idea what that is, but no It wasn't a comedy, I remember it being rather dark. For a moment I thought it was Quicksilver, but no.

No, it was definitely not Crocodile Dundee. The characters were all in high school or in their 20s. Also, no Terence Hill I think.

Ok, since nobody answered my question I assume we don't (now thinking about a different movie, though).

Starred Up is an intense prison drama about a "Young Offender" who gets sent to the real prison and starts causing trouble immediately, and the relationships he forms with the others. Probably not as deep as it could be, but has some stellar performances and kept me on the edge of my seat.

Apparently Road Redemption is not new, but I discovered it last week and was given a free copy for some reason. It's a spiritual sequel to the Road Rash games and it seems kind of fun after an hour or two, but the polish level is as early accessy as expected. The fighting is lots of fun, but the turning controls leave something to be desired I think. There's a rooftop level similar to a Motorstorm game, but in this instance it is not much fun. The menus are kind of awful. But the combat is very satisfying with cool moves like grabbing a fellow motorcyclist and holding him up to traffic coming our way.

It's not that new, GTA 1 had an on screen congratulation text "Gouranga!" for driving over a group of Hare Krishnas ( dZe9M6DD-wI)

My gaming resolution is staying at 1080p, but my laptop res got upgraded to 3K. Also, I'm going to try to develop better eating habits and lose some weight.

I'm going to play The Last of Us: Left Behind!

Man, that sucks! Do you usually have separate winter/summer tires over there?

I wasn't into Fight Club enough to have theories, but this site (via @gwarek) has an interesting theory that Just re-watched and read the site after. While some of the details seem far-fetched, it makes sense overall. Makes me think whether there are any signs in the Movie that could tell which scenes are real and which ones are imagined.

Great to hear that this version works. Don't remember for sure about gamepad support in the original, but I think it may have had it. Or maybe I used a gamepad's mouse/kb emulator.