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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 FatPhil on Friday May 15 2015, @08:29AM
And then let metacritic give you the condensed mashup of all those reviews.
Eventually you'll begin to recognise the reviewers who you tend to agree with. I have found myself agreeing a lot with Mick LaSalle from S.F.Cronicle, and he happens to be the lowest rater of MM:FR.
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San Francisco Chronicle
Reviewed by: Mick LaSalle
May 14, 2015
50
Yet all this wit and effort and occasional beauty is in the service of a movie that is little more than a two-hour chase scene, one that seems founded on the assumption that if you show one set of people chasing another, that’s enough to get an audience excited: Oh, no, let’s hope they don’t get caught!
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(No other pundit gave it less than 70. I like Mick LaSalle's willingness to say things as he sees them, and give a score appropriately and honestly.)
The trailer looked like it was a 2 hour car chase with lots of flames and booms and crunches. I'm gonna do a marathon of the real MM trilogy this weekend, and then decide whether I want to do the new one. I'd only give that 50/50 odds presently (but there's *nothing* on at the cinema currently, I may just see that one out of desperation).
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 2) by cafebabe on Saturday May 16 2015, @12:23AM
I presume you'll decide against seeing Mad Max 4. It jumped the shark at number 3. Actually, just watch the first two and remember better times.
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