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Mad Max: Fury Road (Miller, 2015) — The Reviews Thread
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It really is a thin line between clever satire and raging idiocy.
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That was the whole point to what I said. I liked the the movie I want to see it again. But hardcore man hating feminists are going to lach on to this movie and say this movie was made for them, and its a hard R action movie that appeals mostly to guys. This is a part of the war on men that is currently being waged in America.
Be a man and roll with it, dude.
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There's definitely a "anti-man" movement going on, but it is pretty minuscule outside of social media. According to social media, I should be outraged at everything. I'm told the humorous yellow face on How I Met Your Mother during the last season was more offensive to me than Hitler.
I hate that the Internet has turned into a giant supermarket tabloid. I miss the old days, when it was meant for porn and filling out surveys for money.
I hate that the Internet has turned into a giant supermarket tabloid. I miss the old days, when it was meant for porn and filling out surveys for money.
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Re: Mad Max: Fury Road (Miller, 2015) — The Reviews Thread
No part of American culture is sacred anymore!
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I'm not sure we should get all worked up but at same time I'm sure those views are shared by many men, even the supposed progressive ones.
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There's definitely a "anti-man" movement going on, but it is pretty minuscule outside of social media. According to social media, I should be outraged at everything. I'm told the humorous yellow face on How I Met Your Mother during the last season was more offensive to me than Hitler.
I hate that the Internet has turned into a giant supermarket tabloid. I miss the old days, when it was meant for porn and filling out surveys for money.
I hate that the Internet has turned into a giant supermarket tabloid. I miss the old days, when it was meant for porn and filling out surveys for money.
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Re: Mad Max: Fury Road (Miller, 2015) — The Reviews Thread
The guys that go on anti-feminist rants are unfortunately lumping group A with group B.
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I don't disagree, but I'm not talking about the feminist / equality movement. The feminism movement right now is huge and definitely not confined to social media.
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The issue stems from some very vocal "feminists" being in fact "anti-men". In comic book terms, you have your Charles Xavier feminists that want gender equality across the board. Then you have your Magneto feminists that instead want a complete paradigm shift, with no one but women in charge of everything.
The guys that go on anti-feminist rants are unfortunately lumping group A with group B.
The guys that go on anti-feminist rants are unfortunately lumping group A with group B.
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Re: Mad Max: Fury Road (Miller, 2015) — The Reviews Thread
The lone Rotten review
From David Edwards, The Mirror UK
Seems like he's just nitpicking like a bitch.
From David Edwards, The Mirror UK
Tom Hardy has gone mad.
The rising British star of Bronson, Locke and last month’s Child 44 steps into Mel Gibson’s dusty-leather boots for a misguided reboot of the classic Australian future-thriller.
The result is noisy, explosive and visually spectacular but depressingly hollow.
The effects are terrific but this Mad Max reboot gives far, far too little screentime to the fearsome road warrior, with original writer-director George Miller more intent on creating a mix-tape of past glories.
There are car chases, sawn-off shotguns and no end of tricked-out cars with skulls on their grilles but where is our leather-clad anti-hero?
It’s been 36 years since Miller’s original Mad Max (essentially Death Wish on wheels) roared into cinemas, making Gibson a star and becoming one of the most profitable movies ever, grossing close to $100million on a budget of just $200,000.
The writer-director upped the stakes with Mad Max 2 (1981), a sequel both electrifying and audacious, crafting a world where you could get crucified and then set on fire for a can of petrol.
We shouldn’t mention the misfiring follow-up, 1985’s Beyond Thunderdome.
This time we return to the near future where Max, sprung from imprisonment from a gang of albino terrorists, hooks up with Furiosa (Charlize Theron) to drive a lorry to the coast in defiance of the masked Immortan.
As Max comes aboard, he discovers six scantily-clad models hiding in the back.
Amid a spurt of diesel and dust, they’re chased all the way to safety.
This may be Theron’s film - and she’s fine - but Max just doesn’t appear half enough.
As for the plot, concerning a truckload of supermodels (including Rosie Huntington-Whitely) hoping to be delivered from a sandy, post-apocalyptic hell-on-earth, it looks very much like Miller throwing sound and fury where a plot should be
The rising British star of Bronson, Locke and last month’s Child 44 steps into Mel Gibson’s dusty-leather boots for a misguided reboot of the classic Australian future-thriller.
The result is noisy, explosive and visually spectacular but depressingly hollow.
The effects are terrific but this Mad Max reboot gives far, far too little screentime to the fearsome road warrior, with original writer-director George Miller more intent on creating a mix-tape of past glories.
There are car chases, sawn-off shotguns and no end of tricked-out cars with skulls on their grilles but where is our leather-clad anti-hero?
It’s been 36 years since Miller’s original Mad Max (essentially Death Wish on wheels) roared into cinemas, making Gibson a star and becoming one of the most profitable movies ever, grossing close to $100million on a budget of just $200,000.
The writer-director upped the stakes with Mad Max 2 (1981), a sequel both electrifying and audacious, crafting a world where you could get crucified and then set on fire for a can of petrol.
We shouldn’t mention the misfiring follow-up, 1985’s Beyond Thunderdome.
This time we return to the near future where Max, sprung from imprisonment from a gang of albino terrorists, hooks up with Furiosa (Charlize Theron) to drive a lorry to the coast in defiance of the masked Immortan.
As Max comes aboard, he discovers six scantily-clad models hiding in the back.
Amid a spurt of diesel and dust, they’re chased all the way to safety.
This may be Theron’s film - and she’s fine - but Max just doesn’t appear half enough.
As for the plot, concerning a truckload of supermodels (including Rosie Huntington-Whitely) hoping to be delivered from a sandy, post-apocalyptic hell-on-earth, it looks very much like Miller throwing sound and fury where a plot should be
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Re: Mad Max: Fury Road (Miller, 2015) — The Reviews Thread
I had ZERO plans to see this movie. NONE. George Miller has always been hit and miss, and was convinced this latest monstrosity would be a huge floppy mess and a total disaster.
But with all these reviews soaring through the roof? DONE DEAL. Tickets already bought and I'm chomping at the bit for Saturday.
I want a feeling like I had during the summer of 1982. I was 11, was allowed to ride my bike to the neighborhood movie theater (with a curtain, balcony, ushers, the works), and there was simply a NEW! AWESOME! MOVIE! EVERY! WEEK! it seemed.
The Road Warrior was one of them. I remember seeing that one and Firefox the same day. I don't want to go in with massively elevated expectations, but I would so love to see a summer action movie that doesn't require me to turn my brain off at the door while providing all the escapist fare you could ask for.
OK, old fart mode off...
But with all these reviews soaring through the roof? DONE DEAL. Tickets already bought and I'm chomping at the bit for Saturday.
I want a feeling like I had during the summer of 1982. I was 11, was allowed to ride my bike to the neighborhood movie theater (with a curtain, balcony, ushers, the works), and there was simply a NEW! AWESOME! MOVIE! EVERY! WEEK! it seemed.
The Road Warrior was one of them. I remember seeing that one and Firefox the same day. I don't want to go in with massively elevated expectations, but I would so love to see a summer action movie that doesn't require me to turn my brain off at the door while providing all the escapist fare you could ask for.
OK, old fart mode off...
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Re: Mad Max: Fury Road (Miller, 2015) — The Reviews Thread
I had ZERO plans to see this movie. NONE. George Miller has always been hit and miss, and was convinced this latest monstrosity would be a huge floppy mess and a total disaster.
But with all these reviews soaring through the roof? DONE DEAL. Tickets already bought and I'm chomping at the bit for Saturday.
I want a feeling like I had during the summer of 1982. I was 11, was allowed to ride my bike to the neighborhood movie theater (with a curtain, balcony, ushers, the works), and there was simply a NEW! AWESOME! MOVIE! EVERY! WEEK! it seemed.
The Road Warrior was one of them. I remember seeing that one and Firefox the same day. I don't want to go in with massively elevated expectations, but I would so love to see a summer action movie that doesn't require me to turn my brain off at the door while providing all the escapist fare you could ask for.
OK, old fart mode off...
But with all these reviews soaring through the roof? DONE DEAL. Tickets already bought and I'm chomping at the bit for Saturday.
I want a feeling like I had during the summer of 1982. I was 11, was allowed to ride my bike to the neighborhood movie theater (with a curtain, balcony, ushers, the works), and there was simply a NEW! AWESOME! MOVIE! EVERY! WEEK! it seemed.
The Road Warrior was one of them. I remember seeing that one and Firefox the same day. I don't want to go in with massively elevated expectations, but I would so love to see a summer action movie that doesn't require me to turn my brain off at the door while providing all the escapist fare you could ask for.
OK, old fart mode off...
Ah, abused as a child, that explains alot.
#75
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Re: Mad Max: Fury Road (Miller, 2015) — The Reviews Thread
My dad was an orthopedic surgeon; repairing broken bones was his bread and butter. I was barely allowed to leave the driveway on my bicycle without a full set of protective gear on.
He's almost 80 now, and if I even *think* about getting on a motorcycle he will still pretty much break every bone in my body!
He's almost 80 now, and if I even *think* about getting on a motorcycle he will still pretty much break every bone in my body!