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Wired has a gushing review of the Mad Max reboot:
Lightning rarely strikes twice, so going into Mad Max: Fury Road it's hard not to dwell on the words of Max Rockatansky himself: "You know hope is a mistake. If you can't fix what's broken, you'll go insane." The thing is, Max is wrong. Fury Road is everything fans could have hoped for.
It's also a very necessary movie right now. Fury Road is not only a reminder of what big, beautiful action movies can and should look like, it's a reminder that they can have a point. That spectacle can have substance. That, in a cinematic landscape where we're still fighting over the roles women get in movies, a new Ripley might just be waiting in the next trailer you see. (In Fury Road's case, that's Charlize Theron in a heart-stoppingly badass performance as Imperator Furiosa.)
Cars, guns, desert, and 1980's style post-apocalyptic fashion.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Ethanol-fueled on Friday May 15 2015, @12:36AM
Of course Wired is going to write a gushing review of director Sheckelstein's latest appeal to more minorities = more money.
Let's get feminist [vanityfair.com] here:
"Empowered Survivors" who still have to shave their armpits [wired.com] even in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. At least in good ol' 2015 they were allowed to walk around that funky part of the beach sporting underarm hair. Man, "surviving the razor" must be pretty tough!
(Score: 3, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 15 2015, @12:45AM
Considering they were shaving their heads too why would they skip the pits?
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Friday May 15 2015, @12:59AM
Well, I guess one runs the risk of remaining armless: unlike the (mostly convex) head, one can't shave those pits with a proper knife (the Australian outback way [youtube.com]).
I also guess that's how the character in the linked photo remained one handed (boy, they never learn, do they?)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 1, Disagree) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 15 2015, @06:38AM
"who still have to shave their armpits"
rofl, man you got it so right.
This is where movies die, when they fail to place themselves in the picture they are trying to create.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 15 2015, @07:09AM
"who still have to shave their armpits"
rofl, man you got it so right.
This is where movies die, when they fail to place themselves in the picture they are trying to create.
Or where they fail to pander to Ethanol_Fueled's armpit fetish? This is just totally to much information. Now I cannot watch the film without thinking of Eth staring at some one-armed woman's armpits, and that kind of ruins the buzz for any normal person.
(Score: 2) by MozeeToby on Friday May 15 2015, @04:48PM
Not to spoil things but here we go:
Most of the women featured in the film are part of the villain harem, having "modern" hygiene habits is hardly what I would call surprising. The one other woman with significant screentime could easily be a former member of said harem (backstory isn't made clear but it's certainly one valid interpretation). If I had to say something about the feminism in the movie I would say that it's feminism done right. None of the characters are simpering weaklings, no one abandons their sense of self to make a point. It wasn't pandering to either group, it was as things should be, a movie about people rather than a movie about sexism (in either direction).