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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 bradley13 on Friday May 15 2015, @05:53AM
Apparently the artists in the echo chamber can't see past the need to make everything PC. As one blogger has pointed out, in a dystopia, life isn't PC [blogspot.ch]:
"I have news for the movies. I've been in such realities. I've seen them. I've smelled them. I've lived them in more than one African nation plagued by war, or famine, or other disaster. I know what dystopia means . . . and what it does not mean, ever, is any kind of female physical ascendancy. It simply doesn't happen."
Hollywood is apparently constitutionally incapable of just making a testosterone-filled guy flick; instead, they have to pump it full of PC [returnofkings.com]. Mad Max is apparently the co-star, along for the ride in a film he doesn't control, or even have much of a role in. That PC echo chamber must be pretty impenetrable.
Everyone is somebody else's weirdo.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by M. Baranczak on Friday May 15 2015, @01:51PM
Hollywood is apparently constitutionally incapable of just making a testosterone-filled guy flick
Serious?
(Score: 0, Disagree) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 15 2015, @02:56PM
People today have been conditioned by state-sponsored and special-interest-groups sponsored propaganda telling so many lies so many times that they refuse to (and can no more) think for themselves. For anything requiring any thinking they turn on the TV to hear what they should think.
People have been enslaved by media and this era is the one where men are under attack. As for the testosterone-filled guy flicks, Hollywood refuses to make them. Instead what you will see is men fully covered with makeup (and lipstick) and sitting there looking good. Inner (and outer) strength is no longer considered important and men and women are said to be exactly the same (save for plumbing), which they are not. As said here, when SHTF men will very quickly take over. Nature wins every time, and listens to no lies.
For those who liked the movie: Would you still remember it ten years from now?
I thought not.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by kurenai.tsubasa on Friday May 15 2015, @02:33PM
But, does it pass the Bechdel test?
Remember, if it doesn't, it's misogynist.
Given the lack of dialog, this ought to be an interesting pretzel that gender lunatics may have put themselves in.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by DeathMonkey on Friday May 15 2015, @03:51PM
I have news for the movies. I've been in such realities. I've seen them. I've smelled them. I've lived them in more than one African nation plagued by war, or famine, or other disaster. I know what dystopia means . . .
Maybe this blogger has been in these situations, maybe he hasn't.
One thing we do know is that Eve Ensler actually has.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 15 2015, @06:17PM
Clearly you did not read the link. Part of his point was that there is no actual proof that Ensler has done any of the things she has done except her own claims and the claims of her supporters. Military personnel have been to bad places of the world and have talked about it. This person is one of them.
So, to summarize: what you said, reverse it and then it becomes true.
(Score: 1) by kurenai.tsubasa on Friday May 15 2015, @10:43PM
Uhh... City of Joy [vday.org] (the one in question). One Billion Rising [wsj.com] (what about this?).
Huh? Is there a transcript of the podcast containing this rock-solid evidence that Ensler hasn't done/funded/participated in these things?
Even Janice Raymond has done some good. (Looks like Julia Serano is left to clean up the giant turd she threw at trans folks, though. otoh, Raymond was just saying what was on every gender lunatic's mind.)
Disclaimer: I think The Vagina Monologues is nothing but drivel. Most of us just accept our bodily functions, sexuality, etc and move on. Some of us are even capable of not being victims. Ask the last guy who decided to persist with inappropriately touching me. To quote Trinity, “Touch me, and that hand will never touch anything again.”
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 15 2015, @10:58PM
Indeed.
It is not a podcast and there does not need to be rock-solid evidence. It is the null hypothesis that needs to be disproved.
Violence is never acceptable.
(Score: 1) by kurenai.tsubasa on Saturday May 16 2015, @12:24AM
Violence is never acceptable.
You are correct. I was perhaps being too exuberant.
The first response to inappropriate contact should be, “Please don't do that again.” This is 99% effective. If they persist, then the Trinity quote is the next step (make sure to unmask your battle aura). If they don't heed the warning, either they're drunk or can't sense your battle aura. In either case, walking away with an exasperated “ugh” and eye roll is best. In the very unlikely event they unmask their battle aura and they're actually a threat, then it's best to lure them into an inward spiral. Once the center of the spiral is reached, then it's possible to use their own battle aura against them using the Hiryuushoutenha technique. In any case, any violence that results is directly proportional to the amount of violence they were attempting in the first place.
Special note: be careful with the Hiryuushoutenha. If the agressor's power level is over 9000, it may cause NOAA spotter activation and property damage.
(Protip: There's a wide difference between me asserting there's a tea kettle floating in one of Saturn's rings and asserting that a professional drama queen with funding might actually be using that funding.)