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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) by looorg on Friday May 15 2015, @03:28AM
This is so they portray the right kind of female angst and trauma and non of that white male trauma.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 15 2015, @06:54AM
From mainstream news to college classes through my decades of life I have seen nothing but a complete denial that not only does white male trauma not exist but that it can't exist. How can a member of the oppressive patriarchy have any negative experiences in life with so much privilege?
This even happens here at soylent. A man shows that he has a problem and then is called out for being weak, a man-child. He needs to grow up or man-up. No, the current culture is one in which men, especially white men, are the enemy and are to be shown as being defective humans in the blinding brilliance of, well, everyone else- except black men. They are sadly still getting the short end of the stick.
(Score: 0, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 15 2015, @07:05AM
Oh, bro! You poor thing! Come over here so your manly man bros can give you a hug! Were all those "girls" mean to you , again? It's OK, just let it go, you can cry when you amoung you man friends, Oh, and you shore have a purty mouth! Mind if we give you a male-bonding wedgie, all in good fun. before we drop yer drawers and . .. . You wanted the "short end" of the stick? Think again, girly boy! Would have been better for you if you had be a feminist, with some balls!
(Score: 4, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 15 2015, @06:10PM
Point proven. Even acknowledging the existence of a possible problem a man can have will get you this:
It is even modded up. Disgusting as any hate speech.
(Score: 2, Informative) by kurenai.tsubasa on Friday May 15 2015, @07:31PM
1 in 7 men have been victims of severe physical violence by an intimate partner [ncadv.org].
So, yes. Perhaps the girls were mean. And remember, if a man attempts self defense against a violent woman that takes any other form than curling into a ball and hoping for the best, he'll be lucky not to be hauled off to prison.