Footwear to go with our jackets

[Gypsymoth82]

Hot Take: I didn't like Fury Road. While a beautiful film from an aesthetic point of view, it was all the infrastructure that bothered me. In Road Warrior, and frankly even Thunderdome, the stuff they had seemed believable somehow, whereas in Fury Road there is a huge mountain full of water and a "Bullet Farm". It was too easy somehow.

 

[Edward]

Hot Take: I didn't like Fury Road. While a beautiful film from an aesthetic point of view, it was all the infrastructure that bothered me. In Road Warrior, and frankly even Thunderdome, the stuff they had seemed believable somehow, whereas in Fury Road there is a huge mountain full of water and a "Bullet Farm". It was too easy somehow.

It worked for me, but then it was originally supposed to take place many years after the first films - pretty much the same thirty years as the gap between Thunderdome and Fury Road. Lot of time for significant developments / evolutions in what they were capable of as society, or what passes therefore, gets rebuilt.

 

[red devil]

You can go further in this style

 

[Gypsymoth82]

Damn, this guy has shoulders like @MrProper

You can go further in this style

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[Monitor]

Hot Take: I didn't like Fury Road. While a beautiful film from an aesthetic point of view, it was all the infrastructure that bothered me. In Road Warrior, and frankly even Thunderdome, the stuff they had seemed believable somehow, whereas in Fury Road there is a huge mountain full of water and a "Bullet Farm". It was too easy somehow.

100% same. I even enjoy watching it but the moment it ends, I always realize I just don't particularly like it. The world & character evolution from Mad Max to The Road Warrior is possibly the best that has ever transpired on film and it even works well for the Thunderdome but Fury Road just doesn't fit in it - At least it seems to me that way. It's a good movie in itself in any case.

Also, regarding the gay/fetish 80's vibe of the second movie... People seem to forget that it is precisely The Road Warrior that if not outright created then definitely shaped this particular aesthetic & all else came later so it's not exactly like they could've avoided it or anything. Certain indigenous tribes & pop sub-cultures were the main inspiration for the bad guys and honestly, I can't imagine how else a nomad biker tribe would look like, given clothes & technology of today. They made a very convincing and most importantly, very striking merge of the styles, taken out of the meme-context that later came on.

 

[Pandemic]

Are those as rare as the jackets? Did a bit of reading around on this at a time (there is, even now it seems, a huge Mad Max cosplay scene), they were a very typical Australian take on the lancer front bike jacket at the time (with a few bits of armour added) that don't seem to have ever made it up to the top hemisphere.



The Road Warrior is, for me, where it started to go south. As a film, it's always much better than I remember it being, though I still wish they'd held back just a little on the "Future people dress like they're off to a 1980s fetish club" aesthetic - it felt too much of a jump for me. Convincing had it been set a generation or two on from the original film, but it just didn't feel the same 'world'. The weakest was by far III; I like the creepy kids bit in the second half, but Tina Turner just seems ridiculously out of place in the first half, and it really kills the believability in an Ed Sheeran Game of Thrones cameo way.



Behind Road Warrior and Fury Road? I liked the latter a lot - for me it was the first one that matched up to the standard of the first. Tom Hardy is an excellent choice in the role - and likely, these days, significantly more bankable, given he doesn't have Mel Gibson's, eh..... baggage. I hope we get more of him. Actually, I'd love to see a couple of prequels with Hardy - one, an effective remake of the original [they did reshoot some scenes from it as flashbacks for Hardy's film], and two, a story exploring events between the original and Road Warrior. There's a huge, narrative jump there in terms of the world building, and I never really felt they gave a proper sense of how things broke down completely between the two. Of course, Road Warrior wasn't directly a sequel as such (and in some territories was sold as a standalone, the original not having had the same circulation), which is part of that. I do like the notion that all the tales of Max the Road Warrior are legends, campfire stories being handed down in the oral tradition many years later. This also imo make it easier to have a little more freedom with details, and key players. If/When Hardy hangs up his road boots, Karl Urban would be a really interesting player to take it on. Especially if (as had been the original plan for Fury Road when Gibson was still attached to the lead role) they wanted to explore an older, broken Max (Hardy is only five years younger than Urban, but in a decade's time, Urban will be sixty. Not so old in our world, but in a Darwinian post-apocalyptica....).

1981. I was 10 and living in Western Australia and Mad Max was playing a midnight showing at the local drive-in near my house. My school friend had a sleep over and we snuck out to watch it my the fence line. I’m those days before VCRs, seeing an R rated movie when underage was an extreme challenge. Looking back, I’m pretty sure my mum knew exactly what we were up to and turned a blind eye.

The film was everything I’d hoped for and definitely inspired an aesthetic that is still with me 40 years later.

 

[Edward]

1981. I was 10 and living in Western Australia and Mad Max was playing a midnight showing at the local drive-in near my house. My school friend had a sleep over and we snuck out to watch it my the fence line. I’m those days before VCRs, seeing an R rated movie when underage was an extreme challenge. Looking back, I’m pretty sure my mum knew exactly what we were up to and turned a blind eye.

The film was everything I’d hoped for and definitely inspired an aesthetic that is still with me 40 years later.

Did you watch it as a silent, or was there sound? (THough in those circumstances, I imagine even as a silent it would still be something. Probably catch the narrative well enough that way too.)

 

[Pandemic]

Did you watch it as a silent, or was there sound? (THough in those circumstances, I imagine even as a silent it would still be something. Probably catch the narrative well enough that way too.)

It was a hot summer night, so everyone had their windows rolled down and those old speaker boxes you’d hang on your door. I think we caught enough of the dialogue to understand what was going on. Not long after that, I managed to get my hands on the book and before long, we could watch it on endless loop on the VCR.

Somewhere I read that most of the cross-zip jackets were vinyl, as the prop budget could only cover a few leather jackets.

 

[Gypsymoth82]

TOECUTTERS!!!

 

[Edward]

It was a hot summer night, so everyone had their windows rolled down and those old speaker boxes you’d hang on your door. I think we caught enough of the dialogue to understand what was going on. Not long after that, I managed to get my hands on the book and before long, we could watch it on endless loop on the VCR.

Somewhere I read that most of the cross-zip jackets were vinyl, as the prop budget could only cover a few leather jackets.

Yes, I read that too. I have a memory of reading it suggested that there was only one fully leather outfit - jacket and trews - which might not even have been Max's! Somehow felt much more realistic to me than the over-designed "future wasteland" outfits on many of them once they had the big budgets, though...

 

[Pandemic]

Yes, I read that too. I have a memory of reading it suggested that there was only one fully leather outfit - jacket and trews - which might not even have been Max's!

We must have read the same piece - I think they said that the real leather jacket was probably worn by Goose. Years later I dated a girl whose older brother had a pristine black XB coupe and laughed every time I suggested he should give it the full Interceptor package. Ignoring me was a wide move!

https://www.carscoops.com/2022/03/m...-looking-but-unsafe-by-the-australian-police/

Somehow felt much more realistic to me than the over-designed "future wasteland" outfits on many of them once they had the big budgets, though...

I don’t dislike the sequels, but the genre shifted from avenging vigilante (Death Wish, the Punisher, etc) to post apocalyptic survivor. They definitely went way OTT from the grit of the first movie.

 

[Pandemic]

Since I am guilty of derailing this thread here, let me add a post to bring it back on track. I dyed these suede RM Williams to a mid brown, which will look much better with blue or white denim. My favorite summer outfit is suede boots, jeans and a Harrington jacket.

 

[Edward]

Since I am guilty of derailing this thread here, let me add a post to bring it back on track. I dyed these suede RM Williams to a mid brown, which will look much better with blue or white denim. My favorite summer outfit is suede boots, jeans and a Harrington jacket.

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Those came up well. That is a gorgeous russetty shade - almost coppery in tone. Chestnut I think it the usual industry term. Looks great!

 

[Pandemic]

Those came up well. That is a gorgeous russetty shade - almost coppery in tone. Chestnut I think it the usual industry term. Looks great!

Thanks. In normal light they look chocolate brown but In sunlight the red tones really come out.

I’ve always wanted a pair of brown suede desert boots but with my wide feet options are limited and I’ve balked at Church’s and Alden. These fill the niche pretty well.

 

[Drzdave58]

Since I am guilty of derailing this thread here, let me add a post to bring it back on track. I dyed these suede RM Williams to a mid brown, which will look much better with blue or white denim. My favorite summer outfit is suede boots, jeans and a Harrington jacket.

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Nice job..I dyed my Trickers the other day

 

[dudewuttheheck]

Wow @Drzdave58 , you did a pretty great job dying them. What did you use?

 

[Drzdave58]

Wow @Drzdave58 , you did a pretty great job dying them. What did you use?

Spent a lot of time sanding them with 600 grit sandpaper, then a good wiping with acetone, then applied Fiebings dye.

 

[Solstice 62]

Ive had a bit of a Trickers thing going on for a few years, decided to funk up a couple of pairs of boots that weren't getting much wear time.

 

[dudewuttheheck]

Spent a lot of time sanding them with 600 grit sandpaper, then a good wiping with acetone, then applied Fiebings dye.

I'm sure the sandpaper and acetone really helped. Excellent result.

 

[VansonRider]

I'd love to find some wide toe box/zero heel drop boots that look semi classic to wear with my jackets. They wouldn't even have to be minimalist. A hard flat sole would be fine! I've been in minimalist shoes long enough that my toe spread gets crushed in any traditional boot.
I ride a vintage bicycle with toe cages, and I have some squishy toed sneakers I wear but not for longer than a couple hours, so that's sortof OK. And on the motorcycle it's the same thing with riding boots, tolerable for a few hours.
But walking around all day I'd really like some minimal boot options. And something that can be resoled. I feel like there is a hole in the industry that would be filled by a company that decided to make boots like either Wesco on the high end or Chippewa on the value end. Traditional construction but with a barefoot mindset.