Like the episode of Stargate where Carter and O’Neill gate into an ice world and can’t get back so they think they’re going to die, except they got the signals crossed with a second gate buried in Antarctica and Hammond just sends helicopters to rescue them.
Best blooper reel ever.
“Oh god! I’m stuck on a glacier with McGuyver!”
They get to New Zealand, and it’s a complete utopia. When they try to ask if their oil didn’t run out, they just answer that they stopped using that stuff decades ago.
I feel upset, only because they’re even more car-centric than we are.
The first Mad Max movie is literally just a cop (Max) fighting against a deadly biker gang in a small town. The second movie didn’t say anything about an apocalypse, it was just set in a desert wasteland.
It was the American (maybe international?) version of Mad Max 2 that added a prologue about an apocalyptic world event.
So yeah, in the original Australian version, this may just be some lawless hicks surviving in the Australian desert, while the rest of the world continues on like normal.
I haven’t watched Mad Max one in twenty years, but I’m pretty sure the backdrop is rising international political tensions and the ending suggests a global nuclear war.
Thunderdome is a prime example how Americans ruin everything
Nah that’s Fury Road. Shouldn’t have been called a Max film, it’s just seppo Hollywood action garbage.
So you’re saying it was…mediocre?
Sure?
Yikes.
Sorry, am I meant to thoroughly enjoy every generic Hollywood action movie?
Not the parent you’re responding to, but I think it’s that my “mediocre” comment was a reference to the movie, and yours was a literal response to my joke. A bit of a whoosh situation.
Whenever I play either fallout or the mad max game I like imagining the world outside the country the game focuses on to be going on business as usual, ignoring the anarchist apocalypse across the pond, which for some reason brings me great joy :3
Unfortunately, we kind of know what happened to some of the other countries in Fallout. Kind of.
This is my working assumption for all those teenage dystopias.
Hunger Games? World outside the US is fine. Better, now that the hegemon is more interested in watching it’s own population murder each other for television ratings.
Don’t want me making that assumption about your story? Maybe mention anywhere outside the continental US at least one [1] time. At least Handmaid’s Tale acknowledges Canada. And I guess heaven forbid Mexico ever get a mention.
Wasn’t the epilogue of A Handmaid’s Tale basically the rest of the world saying “wow, what happened in America was super fucked”
To be fair, this is a common twist in those sort of stories.
The world outside was watching in out of amusement.
The world the main character had always known turns out to be a penal colony populated by criminals and their descendents.
The rest of the world was performing an “experiment” on the population here the main character originated.
