# Check out the trailer for the new Mad Max movie.. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 10, 2014, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-the-trailer-for-the-new-mad-max-movie/706876 "2014-12-10T19:52:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2015, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-the-trailer-for-the-new-mad-max-movie/706876/141 "2015-05-28T06:52:23Z")
By the way, check out [this VICE interview with the guy who played the Doof Warrior! > [@](#): > > **And you were really bungie corded and blinded for this?** > Yes, I was up on the truck and we were tearing through the desert and I had bungies on my hips and the guitar had bungies on it as well because it weighs about 60 kilos (132 pounds). It’s impossible to hold up. I wasn’t blind until the mask comes off at the end of the film and I had a prosthetic on for that so I was kind of led around by the hands for a day or two. > > **What direction did they give you when you were up there?** > Um… [Laughs] > > **“Do your best,” I’m assuming.** > In that situation, I don’t think there’s a lot of direction that you need. It’s one of the craziest situations you could ever find yourself in. There’s cars tearing all around you with dust and smoke, it’s very loud. I was just screaming my head off and being kind of like an animal, I guess. The character is supposed to be a really great musician who is a bit mute and a bit deaf, and quite blind. I think of him as sort of a Quasimodo-like character. ]([We Talked to the Dude Who Plays a Flame-Throwing Guitar in ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’](http://noisey.vice.com/blog/we-talked-to-the-dude-who-plays-a-flame-throwing-guitar-in-mad-max-fury-road)) This movie totally fucking rocks! ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2015, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-the-trailer-for-the-new-mad-max-movie/706876/142 "2015-05-28T07:36:21Z")
The Doof Warrior is the most metal thing ever. Seriously. If anything ever says, in the future, that something is really “metal”, then the question must be raised: “Is it as metal as the Doof Warrior?”; the answer, invariably, will be “no”. ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2015, 9:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-the-trailer-for-the-new-mad-max-movie/706876/143 "2015-05-28T09:02:27Z")
Yeah, I’ve withdrawn my post-apocalyptic job application to be Lord Humungus and replaced it with an application to be Doof Warrior (crosses fingers). ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2015, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-the-trailer-for-the-new-mad-max-movie/706876/144 "2015-05-28T12:45:58Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > The Doof Warrior is the most metal thing ever. Seriously. If anything ever says, in the future, that something is really “metal”, then the question must be raised: “Is it as metal as the Doof Warrior?”; the answer, invariably, will be “no”. It’s, like, Spinal Tap level of metal. It’s so metal that it goes to 11. ---
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2015, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-the-trailer-for-the-new-mad-max-movie/706876/145 "2015-05-28T13:09:02Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > The Doof Warrior is the most metal thing ever. Seriously. If anything ever says, in the future, that something is really “metal”, then the question must be raised: “Is it as metal as the Doof Warrior?”; the answer, invariably, will be “no”. Awesome because it is true. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Furious\_Marmot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/dfb087/32.png) [@Furious\_Marmot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Furious_Marmot)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2015, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-the-trailer-for-the-new-mad-max-movie/706876/146 "2015-05-28T16:02:13Z")
> [@KarlGrenze](#): > > … > > - I got the impression baby and blonde survived, or at least blonde survived long enough to get baby out… But what happened them? And what happened to the old lady and doc with them? Did a special convoy sent them back to the town? Did they die? It seemed to me that Splendid was dead or very nearly so and beyond help when the doc performed the emergency C-section. He says something like “another month and he would have lived” indicating that the baby was eithet not yet viable, or too premature to keep alive with their devolved technology. The fates of the doc and Joe’s eldest wife are not clear. BTW, IMDB says they’re named The Organic Mechanic and Ms. Giddy respectively. One small thing I really liked about that sequence: when some of the wives want to go back for Splendid after she falls off the rig, Max says she went under the wheels. ISTM, he knows she didn’t or isn’t sure, but Furiosa silently agrees to stick with the convenient story, because there’s no hope of retrieving her. We subsequently see that she didn’t get crushed, but nevertheless the leaders made the right decision, because it would have been suicidal to go back. > [@KarlGrenze](#): > > -… > > - They never mention much, but the war boys seem to have had a shortened life span. Tumors and genetic defects, and that’s why they have the blood bags, right? This was certainly the case with Nux, and there were a few lines about “half-life” that seem to generalize that interpretation to all the Warboys, and presumably the wretched “peasants” hanging around below the Citadel. This movie must have some kind of record for combined least dialogue and least intelligible dialogue. Not complaining, though, it works. Does anybody know what slogan the Warboys shout when they make that gesture with their fingers interlocked? ---
**Author:** ![Push\_You\_Down](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/push_you_down/32/9095_2.png) [@Push\_You\_Down](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Push_You_Down)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2015, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-the-trailer-for-the-new-mad-max-movie/706876/147 "2015-05-28T16:39:35Z")
> [@Furious\_Marmot](#): > > It seemed to me that Splendid was dead or very nearly so and beyond help when the doc performed the emergency C-section. He says something like “another month and he would have lived” indicating that the baby was eithet not yet viable, or too premature to keep alive with their devolved technology. The fates of the doc and Joe’s eldest wife are not clear. BTW, IMDB says they’re named The Organic Mechanic and Ms. Giddy respectively. Supplemental materials I think mention Ms. Giddy being killed, but I don’t remember seeing that on screen. ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2015, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-the-trailer-for-the-new-mad-max-movie/706876/148 "2015-05-28T17:32:20Z")
> [@Furious\_Marmot](#): > > This was certainly the case with Nux, and there were a few lines about “half-life” that seem to generalize that interpretation to all the Warboys, and presumably the wretched “peasants” hanging around below the Citadel. Apparently there’s always a large percentage of the war-boys on the sick roll. When they are deciding to turn around, it’s mentioned that only the sick ones are still in the citadel. All the healthy ones are on the pursuit. Presumably, the dogma is that a war-boy has only a half-life in the here and now, but can get to a shiny chrome Valhalla by dying bravely. ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2015, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-the-trailer-for-the-new-mad-max-movie/706876/149 "2015-05-28T17:33:14Z")
> [@Furious\_Marmot](#): > > This was certainly the case with Nux, and there were a few lines about “half-life” that seem to generalize that interpretation to all the Warboys, and presumably the wretched “peasants” hanging around below the Citadel. Yes, and growths like Nux’s seem to be fairly common among the Warboys. The lieutenant who refers to Furiosa as “Mom” has visible growths on his neck, too. > [@Furious\_Marmot](#): > > This movie must have some kind of record for combined least dialogue and least intelligible dialogue. Not complaining, though, it works. Does anybody know what slogan the Warboys shout when they make that gesture with their fingers interlocked? “Witness Me”? Nux also tells this to Capable when he sacrifices himself. ---
**Author:** ![Randolph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Randolph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Randolph)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2015, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-the-trailer-for-the-new-mad-max-movie/706876/150 "2015-05-28T17:46:13Z")
> [@Furious\_Marmot](#): > > Does anybody know what slogan the Warboys shout when they make that gesture with their fingers interlocked? They say “V8!” - the fingers thing is mimicking the eight cylinders. ---
**Author:** ![Furious\_Marmot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/dfb087/32.png) [@Furious\_Marmot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Furious_Marmot)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2015, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-the-trailer-for-the-new-mad-max-movie/706876/151 "2015-05-28T17:59:29Z")
> [@Randolph](#): > > They say “V8!” - the fingers thing is mimicking the eight cylinders. That’s brilliant! ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2015, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-the-trailer-for-the-new-mad-max-movie/706876/152 "2015-05-28T18:01:04Z")
Check out the reviews & questions for this [silver spray frosting](http://www.amazon.com/Wilton-710-5521-Silver-Color-Mist/dp/B005KTVG86%3Fpsc%3D1%26SubscriptionId%3DAKIAI4VOYXWJLZZET6TQ%26tag%3Dbirthmoviesde-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3DB005KTVG86) on amazon. What a spray! What a lovely spray! ---
**Author:** ![KarlGrenze](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dbc845/32.png) [@KarlGrenze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGrenze)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2015, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-the-trailer-for-the-new-mad-max-movie/706876/153 "2015-05-29T12:18:04Z")
> [@Furious\_Marmot](#): > > It seemed to me that Splendid was dead or very nearly so and beyond help when the doc performed the emergency C-section. He says something like “another month and he would have lived” indicating that the baby was eithet not yet viable, or too premature to keep alive with their devolved technology. The fates of the doc and Joe’s eldest wife are not clear. BTW, IMDB says they’re named The Organic Mechanic and Ms. Giddy respectively. > > One small thing I really liked about that sequence: when some of the wives want to go back for Splendid after she falls off the rig, Max says she went under the wheels. ISTM, he knows she didn’t or isn’t sure, but Furiosa silently agrees to stick with the convenient story, because there’s no hope of retrieving her. We subsequently see that she didn’t get crushed, but nevertheless the leaders made the right decision, because it would have been suicidal to go back. > > This was certainly the case with Nux, and there were a few lines about “half-life” that seem to generalize that interpretation to all the Warboys, and presumably the wretched “peasants” hanging around below the Citadel. > > This movie must have some kind of record for combined least dialogue and least intelligible dialogue. Not complaining, though, it works. Does anybody know what slogan the Warboys shout when they make that gesture with their fingers interlocked? Thanks! English is not my first language, and when I hear something in a different accent or rushed, it takes time for me to process. Obviously, this is not the movie where I can ask for a second chance of listening to the lines. 😉 I still enjoy it, plot holes and all. And yes, I was smiling/laughing every time I saw the Doof Warrior, which alas died at the end. I also liked the other wife gestures, when she said she was praying to anyone who would listen. And the spray reviews are lovely! And shiny and chrome! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2015, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-the-trailer-for-the-new-mad-max-movie/706876/154 "2015-05-29T13:15:24Z")
> [@muldoonthief](#): > > Check out the reviews & questions for this [silver spray frosting](http://www.amazon.com/Wilton-710-5521-Silver-Color-Mist/dp/B005KTVG86%3Fpsc%3D1%26SubscriptionId%3DAKIAI4VOYXWJLZZET6TQ%26tag%3Dbirthmoviesde-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3DB005KTVG86) on amazon. > > What a spray! What a lovely spray! That’s awesome! I read the “reviews” all the way, smiling the whole time and laughing out loud several times (“This product is TOO FEMINIST and wants to DESTROY MEN!”). I’ll bet the Wilton people were “Wha…?” when they started appearing. I’ve seen Fury Road twice now and there were lines in some of those reviews I didn’t catch. I will have to see it again, not that I wouldn’t anyway. ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2015, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-the-trailer-for-the-new-mad-max-movie/706876/155 "2015-05-29T13:33:31Z")
> [@Equipoise](#): > > That’s awesome! I read the “reviews” all the way, smiling the whole time and laughing out loud several times (“This product is TOO FEMINIST and wants to DESTROY MEN!”). I’ll bet the Wilton people were “Wha…?” when they started appearing. I’ve seen Fury Road twice now and there were lines in some of those reviews I didn’t catch. I will have to see it again, not that I wouldn’t anyway. Make sure to read the questions & answers too. There are questions about Valhalla, half-life, etc. that the sellers are gamely trying to answer. Also, the price has gone up from $4 to $7 over the past few days, and it’s now on a 2-4 week backorder, so I’m guessing the sellers aren’t too upset. ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2015, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-the-trailer-for-the-new-mad-max-movie/706876/156 "2015-05-29T14:08:17Z")
Yeah, the cosplayers must be breaking down the doors looking for this stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Lasciel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e79b87/32.png) [@Lasciel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lasciel)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2015, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-the-trailer-for-the-new-mad-max-movie/706876/157 "2015-05-29T14:18:23Z")
Yep. Our group considered it for Dragoncon, but figured we’d be buried in an avalanche of Warboys and peasants and our chances of being Witnessed would be way too small to get to Valhalla. It’s on the ‘instant classic recognizable group cosplay’ list for when inspiration in future years is lacking, and I do indeed have the cupcake spray saved to my Amazon wishlist. There was also this lovely makeup tutorial from Jezebel. 😃 > **[Too Much, Girl: Ridiculous Mad Max Makeup You Can Only Wear in Private](https://jezebel.com/too-much-girl-ridiculous-mad-max-makeup-you-can-only-1707225581)** > > Leaving the house is overrated. Sure, there are like, flowers, and friends, and fun things to do out there, but also you have to wear sunscreen, and spend money to do the fun things, and sometimes you have to talk to strangers when you don’t feel... ---
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2015, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-the-trailer-for-the-new-mad-max-movie/706876/158 "2015-05-29T14:26:22Z")
> [@muldoonthief](#): > > Make sure to read the questions & answers too. There are questions about Valhalla, half-life, etc. that the sellers are gamely trying to answer. > > Also, the price has gone up from $4 to $7 over the past few days, and it’s now on a 2-4 week backorder, so I’m guessing the sellers aren’t too upset. I’ll bet they can’t believe their luck. 😃 How could they possibly have guessed that their cupcake decorating product would go viral? My guess is that they are scrambling to increase production right about now. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2015, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-the-trailer-for-the-new-mad-max-movie/706876/159 "2015-05-29T16:23:23Z")
[Cracked.com](http://Cracked.com) has an excellent article up today: [5 Lessons All Movies Should Learn From ‘Mad Max’](http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-lessons-all-movies-should-learn-from-mad-max/). ---
**Author:** ![Randolph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Randolph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Randolph)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2015, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-the-trailer-for-the-new-mad-max-movie/706876/160 "2015-05-30T04:32:46Z")
> [@Furious\_Marmot](#): > > That’s brilliant! Yeah, I think Hollywood has inadvertently stumbled across a new formula: Find a very talented, creative, professional director, say “No.” to his passion project for thirty-some-odd years, then say “Yes!” and give him $120 million (adjust for inflation). The things he’s had brewing in his mind are so refined after all this time… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-the-trailer-for-the-new-mad-max-movie/706876.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-the-trailer-for-the-new-mad-max-movie/706876.md?page=9)