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mad max reenactments
You've just seen Doomsday, and you're pumped to strap a bolt-gun to your car and go on a mohawked demolition-derby frenzy. Luckily for you, there's a whole society (cult?) devoted to reenacting Mad Max: The Road Warrior on the highways of America... and they've only gotten thrown in jail once. Details and a gallery below the fold.
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Vent Your Atomic Road Rage With Mad Max Reenactments
You've just seen Doomsday, and you're pumped to strap a bolt-gun to your car and go on a mohawked demolition-derby frenzy. Luckily for you, there's a whole society (cult?) devoted to reenacting Mad Max: The Road Warrior on the highways of America... and they've only gotten thrown in jail once. Details and a gallery below the fold.
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interview
Doomsday's Neil Marshall Explains Apocalypses Without Monsters
The Descent was one of our favorite horror movies of recent years, so we were automatically excited about director Neil Marshall's new movie, Doomsday. And that was before we found out Doomsday was going to be Mad to the Max. In Doomsday, the government walls off Scotland to contain a deadly plague... only to send a team into the shattered country 30 years later. We talked to Marshall about strong women, genre confusion, and why Doomsday has no monsters. More »
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Girl-On-Girl Swordfight In The Plague Lands
First director Neil Marshall had to go around telling everybody Doomsday isn't a zombie movie, and now after you watch this new clip, he'll have to explain it's not a swords-and-barbarians flick either. But judging from a slew of newly released stills from the quarantined-country movie, Doomsday doesn't have any problem mashing up tons of genres. The movie looks like a dollop of Mad Max stirred in with a dash of medical thriller. Click through for a gallery and synopsis. More »
car wars
The Meanest Car Wins, In Post-WWIII Wasteland
The only way to survive the fall of America is to build the most bad-ass car in the universe, and then roll out and destroy everybody else's cars. Mad Max and Death Race 2000 came to life at the roll of your six-sided dice in Car Wars, the classic 1980s strategy game. You would rack up "points" and use them to add armor, tank guns, fire-proof wheels, mini-engines inside the wheels and nitro-injectors, then you'd duel, either out on the open road or in an arena. Click through for the history of Car Wars. More »
sci fashion
Looking for something to wear on that hot date tonight? Tell your sweetie that your heart will survive, no matter what, by wearing the latest survival gear. It's romantic! These are designs from today's Madrid fashion show by up-and-coming Spanish designer Jose Miro. Like other recent designers, he's opted for some "Mad Max" gear, but added some astronaut costumes (glass dome!) and weird alien gear. His older designs were more conventionally fashion-y, so this is a new step into space for him. Click through for a gallery (which are probably work-safe, except you can sort of glimpse a nipple through some fabric if you squint really hard.)
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Spacesuits Are The New Lingerie, In The Vacuum Of Love
Looking for something to wear on that hot date tonight? Tell your sweetie that your heart will survive, no matter what, by wearing the latest survival gear. It's romantic! These are designs from today's Madrid fashion show by up-and-coming Spanish designer Jose Miro. Like other recent designers, he's opted for some "Mad Max" gear, but added some astronaut costumes (glass dome!) and weird alien gear. His older designs were more conventionally fashion-y, so this is a new step into space for him. Click through for a gallery (which are probably work-safe, except you can sort of glimpse a nipple through some fabric if you squint really hard.)
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car chases
Greatest Car Chases In Science Fiction (Part 1)
Emilio Estevez talks smack to Mick Jagger and manages to dodge 10,000 futuristic dune-buggies at the same time, in this huge car-chase from the movie Freejack. Car chases are a huge part of sci-fi movies. And with Knight Rider coming back next month, we want to pay tribute. After all, no matter how high-concept your plot may be (like time travel and brain-transplants) it always comes down to a bunch of cars zooming around trying to smush each other. Here's part one of our favorites, with clips. More »
sci fashion
Fashion designer John Galliano brought another batch of his Mad Max-inspired fashion to the Ready-To-Wear show in Paris today. You have the bloody chiseled bodies, the bizarre headgear and the decorative nooses. Maybe fetishizing the collapse of civilization is one step towards making peace with it? Or maybe it's just a weird run-off from our current end-of-days obsession. Either way, enjoy our gallery of buff men in survivalist rags.
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Postapocalyptic Models Gnaw Their Own Legs Off
Fashion designer John Galliano brought another batch of his Mad Max-inspired fashion to the Ready-To-Wear show in Paris today. You have the bloody chiseled bodies, the bizarre headgear and the decorative nooses. Maybe fetishizing the collapse of civilization is one step towards making peace with it? Or maybe it's just a weird run-off from our current end-of-days obsession. Either way, enjoy our gallery of buff men in survivalist rags.
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Doomsday Trailer, Still Zombie Free
At last, a trailer is out for Doomsday, the non-zombie film starring a world-ravaging virus that results in Scotland being walled off. It looks like 28 Days Later meets 28 Weeks Later plus a serving of Mad Max on the side with a couple of dashes from the I Am Legend shaker. In other words, it starts out with a ton of promise and promptly devolves into something that leaves you feeling like you might throw up. Plus it begins with the Sparta-sounding "THIS. IS. OUR. CITY!" Check it out. 'Doomsday' Trailer Finally Online [Bloody Disgusting]
tv this week
Kyle XY's Hot Clone and Sarah Connor's Creepy Ex
Did Jessi XX, the female version of Kyle XY, survive her cliff-dive last summer? You can find out tonight. The combo of a new Kyle XY and a new Sarah Connor Chronicles almost lets you pretend this is a real TV season. But the rest of the week has a few treats as well. Listings, with minor spoilers, after the jump. More »
9:00 AM on Mon Jan 14 2008
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morning spoilers
First Glimpse Of Indiana Jones Aliens -- In Lego!
Those rumors about aliens in the new Indiana Jones movie? Appear to be true, judging from new images of the Lego playset. Click through for a picture of skeletons in alien helmets, plus Terminator TV and movie spoilers. It's all part of Morning Spoilers, where we reveal the plot twists of tomorrow. More »
found footage
Forget wind turbines and solar panels. In the ragtag future, Tina Turner will get her mood lighting from hog lagoons. In Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome, an army of pigs swarms beneath Bartertown, one of the last (semi) civilized outposts. The pigshit produces methane, a gas which keeps the city's power going. The only thing anybody remembers from the movie is the "Two men enter" chant, but that huge chaotic tapestry of pigs is the film's true moment of innovation.
Future Cities Will Run On Pig Shit
Forget wind turbines and solar panels. In the ragtag future, Tina Turner will get her mood lighting from hog lagoons. In Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome, an army of pigs swarms beneath Bartertown, one of the last (semi) civilized outposts. The pigshit produces methane, a gas which keeps the city's power going. The only thing anybody remembers from the movie is the "Two men enter" chant, but that huge chaotic tapestry of pigs is the film's true moment of innovation.
mad max ii (aka the road warrior)
Must See: Mad Max II (AKA The Road Warrior)
Must-see movies are futuristic classics that shouldn't be missed. Of course, not every must-see is perfect. That's why we've rated them 1-5 on the patented "crunchy goodness" scale. Written by Jason Shankel.Title: Mad Max II (aka The Road Warrior)
Date: 1981
Vitals: In the post-apocalypse, Mad Mel reluctantly helps a group of whiny, liberal survivors outrun the Humungous and his gang of bi-curious mutant bikers. More »
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Must See: Mad Max
Must-see movies are futuristic classics that shouldn't be missed. Of course, not every must-see is perfect. That's why we've rated them 1-5 on the patented "crunchy goodness" scale. Written by Jason Shankel.Title: Mad Max
Date: 1979
Vitals: Mel Gibson's family is killed by reckless drivers who spout pseudo-intellectual/spiritual nonsense and violate each other's sexual boundaries. This role had no apparent long-term effect on Mr. Gibson. More »
