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Movie Review of Mad Max: Fury Road

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

Phoenix666 writes:

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.

• Re:I can't trust movie reviews on the internet Re:I can't trust movie reviews on the internet (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 15 2015, @06:33AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 15 2015, @06:33AM (#183253)

  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.

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• Re:I can't trust movie reviews on the internet (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 15 2015, @03:14PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 15 2015, @03:14PM (#183355)

  All media needs realistic situations and dialog ala Rick and Morty. [youtube.com]

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