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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: 5, Insightful) by spamdog on Friday May 15 2015, @02:59AM
The fact that all these reviews seem to misdirect onto this bullshit feminist angle tells me everything I need to know.
I've heard a few criticisms of the movie and they seem to be formidable criticisms indeed - poor/very little dialogue, Tom Hardy being a poor choice of actor.
Of course they are all drowned out by the marketing and gushing fanboys who ferociously attack anyone who disagrees with them.
If you're like me you've learned to tune out all of the release press and "reviews" until at least two weeks afterwards when actual people start reviewing it. Such is the internet now.
(Score: 2) by middlemen on Friday May 15 2015, @03:09AM
Mad Max: Furry Road !
(Score: 1) by dingus on Friday May 15 2015, @05:21AM
same, although based on the trailers it looks like exactly what I wanted: a 2-hour car chase through the outback.
(Score: 1) by Bogsnoticus on Friday May 15 2015, @07:13AM
Sorry, thats not the outback. It's Namibia. When it came time for filming, the outback had recently had a deluge of rain, so it was looking quite green and lush, and nowhere near as bleak and foreboding as it did in the 2nd and 3rd installments of the franchise.
Hence, the entire production was shifted westwards to another continent, instead of westwards to another bleak, desolate place in the same country.
Genius by birth. Evil by choice.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Friday May 15 2015, @09:33AM
They couldn't: Gina was busy digging up that outback and, to paraphrase, nobody puts Gina Rinehart in the corner
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by GreatAuntAnesthesia on Friday May 15 2015, @10:15AM
So it's Duel [imdb.com] with punks and guns?
(Score: 2) by Reziac on Friday May 15 2015, @03:52PM
Duel was one hell of a psych movie.
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 15 2015, @06:33AM
I don't care much for mad max, never had. Yet stories told with little dialog and with what present being poor makes for a more realistic story. How often do you see "good dialog" in an everyday setting? That criticism makes me want to see the movie more.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 15 2015, @03:14PM
All media needs realistic situations and dialog ala Rick and Morty. [youtube.com]
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Friday May 15 2015, @08:29AM
And then let metacritic give you the condensed mashup of all those reviews.
Eventually you'll begin to recognise the reviewers who you tend to agree with. I have found myself agreeing a lot with Mick LaSalle from S.F.Cronicle, and he happens to be the lowest rater of MM:FR.
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San Francisco Chronicle
Reviewed by: Mick LaSalle
May 14, 2015
50
Yet all this wit and effort and occasional beauty is in the service of a movie that is little more than a two-hour chase scene, one that seems founded on the assumption that if you show one set of people chasing another, that’s enough to get an audience excited: Oh, no, let’s hope they don’t get caught!
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(No other pundit gave it less than 70. I like Mick LaSalle's willingness to say things as he sees them, and give a score appropriately and honestly.)
The trailer looked like it was a 2 hour car chase with lots of flames and booms and crunches. I'm gonna do a marathon of the real MM trilogy this weekend, and then decide whether I want to do the new one. I'd only give that 50/50 odds presently (but there's *nothing* on at the cinema currently, I may just see that one out of desperation).
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 2) by cafebabe on Saturday May 16 2015, @12:23AM
I presume you'll decide against seeing Mad Max 4. It jumped the shark at number 3. Actually, just watch the first two and remember better times.
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(Score: 2) by M. Baranczak on Friday May 15 2015, @06:19PM
poor/very little dialogue
You mean, just like the first two Mad Max movies? (Not the third one - that had poor dialogue, and too much of it. Which is why it sucked. Sounds like Miller has learned from his mistakes.)