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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: 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?

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  • (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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