#George Ogilvie

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Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985)

To keep a series going, you’ve got to innovate. That’s exactly what Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome does. I know some fans of The Road Warrior will be disappointed by the emphasis on world-building and characters rather than non-stop vehicular carnage, but this memorable film still features plenty of action.

Max Rockatansky (Mel Gibson) finds himself in buzzing “Barter Town”. Looking for supplies and a vehicle, he strikes a deal with its leader, Aunt Entity (Tina Turner, who has a lot of fun with the role and provides some great tunes for the soundtrack). She wants the engineer who keeps the town's electricity flowing put back in his place. Master Blaster is their name. The diminutive Master is the brain (played by Angelo Rossitto). The hulking Blaster is the muscle (Paul Larsson. They might live beneath the city, but there is little doubt as to who really runs Barter Town.

With a bigger budget, the film looks and feels less gritty and more Hollywood, particularly when Max meets a group of children living by the crashed remains of a Boeing 747. Is that a bad thing? I don’t think so. More dollaridoos allowed Miller to give us Fury Road - one of the greatest action films ever made. Between the fights and chases, we get time to explore the two worlds that have emerged since our civilization has collapsed. In one, the survivors grapple for power and the downtrodden have risen up to become oppressors themselves. In another, there’s a blissful ignorance that can only survive in an isolated pocket. A balance is needed and Max is to become the bridge that will connect the two.

One of the most interesting aspects of the Mad Max series, is its mytholgical quality. You’ll notice that Max is never actually named in Beyond Thunderdome and that Bruce Spence, who play the Gyro captain in Mad Max 2 returns… but in a different part. I submit the idea that all the Mad Max stories are being told to us second hand. There may have been many wandering former police officers who booby-trapped their vehicles and eventually, reluctantly, came to aid the weak. Or maybe they were all the same man. And in this tale, there was a person who – you’ll never believe this, but I swear it's true – could fly! "Really? I heard of one as well." "It must be the same person… how could there be TWO people with working aeroplanes?"

The series is filled with larger-than-life characters who feel at home in legends, which is what makes the series so exciting. It taps into a primordial desire. You would never want to live in a post-apocalyptic nuclear wasteland, but seeing it here, it satisfies. That battle in the titular Thunderdome? It’s tense, original and memorable. This whole world teems with life and personality. I know it’s a bit of a letdown not to see the same amount of vehicular destruction as we did before, but what we get instead is still good, and, if you want to see things crash and burn, you get some of that here too. Just wait.

Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome is a great film, it’s just not as good as The Road Warrior. When we examine it on its own, and as a sequel that expands the world, we recognize what it does well. It’s got the action you want, along with many unforgettable scenes. (On Blu-ray, September 28, 2018)

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[aboutmonstersandmen]

I think a lot about this song

[jhealyy]

More than an arm around this shoulder, more like a light along the way, this flower that bloomed in late october, the only colour amongst the grey, how i wish that it could have remained this way...

[suspiria76]

THE SORCERERS

UK

1967

Directed by Michael Reeves

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Illinois Governor DILFs

Jim Edgar, Otto Kerner Jr., James R. Thompson, George Ryan, Louis Lincoln Emmerson, William Ryan, Samuel Shapiro, Len Small, Rod Blagojevich, Dwight H. Green, J.B. Pritzker, Henry Horner, Adlai Stevenson II, Richard B. Ogilvie, Pat Quinn, Bruce Rauner, Dan Walker, Frank Orren Lowden

[grandmaster-anne]

1977 The Queen's Silver Jubilee celebrations: Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip with other members of the royal family on the balcony, celebrating 25 years of her reign.

[mountainashfae]

looking in my laptop’s music folder is pretty funny. I downloaded all of this in high school and college, there’s an ungodly amount of Undertale remixes and fansongs in here, I don’t remember what half of these songs are, no I don’t know where the Garden of AVALON FSN album came from, I have illegal downloads of MahoYaku stage play songs. Two of my favorite songs in here don’t exist on the internet anymore. There’s recordings of a Welsh poem in here. Don’t get me started on the flash drive with a massive folder of seasonal anime music from 2014-2016 when I had negative standards and watched anything.

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The Sorcerers (1967) Michael Reeves

February 5th 2023

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THE SORCERERS (1967) Reviews of Boris Karloff flick - free to watch online

The Sorcerers is a 1967 British science fiction horror film directed by Michael Reeves (She Beast, Witchfinder General), starring Boris Karloff, Catherine Lacey (The Shadow of the Cat), Ian Ogilvy (— And Now the Screaming Starts!; From Beyond the Grave), and Susan George (Die Screaming Marianne, Fright). The original story and screenplay was conceived and written by John Burke. Reeves and his…

[1984-daily]

"Comrade Ogilvy"

Comrade Ogilvy, unimagined an hour ago, was now a fact. It struck him as curious that you could create dead men but not living ones. Comrade Ogilvy, who had never existed in the present, now existed in the past, and when once the act of forgery was forgotten, he would exist just as authentically, and upon the same evidence, as Charlemagne or Julius Caesar.

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Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985) dir. George Miller & George Ogilvie

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[lilaabard]

THE BEAUTY OF THE HOUSE — A PIRANESI PLAYLIST (listen)

of monsters and men, lakehouse / tamino, a drop of blood / george ogilvie, foreign hands / susanna clarke, piranesi / agnes obel, it's happening again / afrakite, grown apart / susanna clarke, piranesi / of monsters and men, under a dome / radiohead, in limbo / susanna clarke, piranesi / tamino, the longing / aurora, under the water / david o'dowda, the world retreats / and more

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White Out - George Ogilvie

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Usa-Maro - Sawano Hiroyuki

Wish That You Were Here - Florence + The Machine