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posted by CoolHand on Friday May 15 2015, @12:14AM   Printer-friendly
from the just-here-for-the-gasoline dept.

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.

 
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  • (Score: 1) by dingus on Friday May 15 2015, @05:21AM

    by dingus (5224) on Friday May 15 2015, @05:21AM (#183240)

    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

    by Bogsnoticus (3982) on Friday May 15 2015, @07:13AM (#183266)

    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.

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    • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Friday May 15 2015, @09:33AM

      by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Friday May 15 2015, @09:33AM (#183292) Journal

      Hence, the entire production was shifted westwards to another continent, instead of westwards to another bleak, desolate place in the same country.

      They couldn't: Gina was busy digging up that outback and, to paraphrase, nobody puts Gina Rinehart in the corner

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  • (Score: 2) by GreatAuntAnesthesia on Friday May 15 2015, @10:15AM

    by GreatAuntAnesthesia (3275) on Friday May 15 2015, @10:15AM (#183297) Journal

    So it's Duel [imdb.com] with punks and guns?

    • (Score: 2) by Reziac on Friday May 15 2015, @03:52PM

      by Reziac (2489) on Friday May 15 2015, @03:52PM (#183373) Homepage

      Duel was one hell of a psych movie.

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