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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, Disagree) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 15 2015, @06:38AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 15 2015, @06:38AM (#183255)

    "who still have to shave their armpits"
    rofl, man you got it so right.

    This is where movies die, when they fail to place themselves in the picture they are trying to create.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 15 2015, @07:09AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 15 2015, @07:09AM (#183264)

    "who still have to shave their armpits"
    rofl, man you got it so right.

    This is where movies die, when they fail to place themselves in the picture they are trying to create.

    Or where they fail to pander to Ethanol_Fueled's armpit fetish? This is just totally to much information. Now I cannot watch the film without thinking of Eth staring at some one-armed woman's armpits, and that kind of ruins the buzz for any normal person.