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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, Informative) by physicsmajor on Friday May 15 2015, @12:57PM
Obviously you haven't even bothered to read any actual reviews. The women in this film are third-generation sex slaves to a warlord and have been traumatized all their lives. They aren't empowered, but they also aren't damsels in distress.
And, despite their past, they want out. Wouldn't you? It's how they respond to this that makes the film.
See the film or actually read a synopsis before you respond.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 15 2015, @06:07PM
So it isn't a Mad Max film. It is another "rape culture" film that Mad Max just happens to be in it.
See the other Mad Max films or actually read a synopsis before you respond.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by looorg on Friday May 15 2015, @06:49PM
I have not read the reviews. Seen the trailer. I'll eventually go and see the movie; I don't really care for reviews all that much anyway. For me Mad Max have never really been a movie with a deep theme that needs to be analyzed. It's fun action in a far out setting.
But at the same time if you want to make some kinda of big deal about the story here isn't the story of Mad Max sort of the same as these women tho? Obviously not exactly the same. I recall the 1979 version being that all of Max friends are brutally murdered, his wife is murdered and his infant child is murdered. I would think Max would be the poster child for trauma after that. Hence him becoming "Mad" Max. He gets three movies of mayhem and vengeance so now his trauma is cured? Therapy thru bloody vengeance? Couldn't we just get this women to kill a few people to cure them then? Yet there seems to be very little "care" for Max mental health or trauma. But then he is that most hated white, middle aged male so fuck him and his problems cause there are some female sex slaves around. Should or does his trauma really become lessened by them being there? Isn't there anyone in the whole post-apocalyptic wasteland that is even worse of then these women? If it is then what ...
With that can't one conclude that this female sex slave thing is just there to pander to some feminist driven storyline. Is that really far fetched? I somehow don't see the teenage girls going out to line up to see Mad Max : Fury Road for the strong female role-models. But I could be wrong.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Hairyfeet on Saturday May 16 2015, @05:36AM
And obviously YOU sir didn't bother to read whom I was responding to, who was defending the movie by throwing a shitload of SJW "empowerment" crap and saying that was realistic for an end of society scenario...bullshit, we have 10,000 years of recorded history that shows, without a single doubt to be had, that without the power of the state to enforce law? Women are currency and rape toys, men are cannon fodder and prey. That's it, that is what happens every. single. time. that a society breaks down and no longer has the power of the state.
This is why I have to LMAO at the anarcho libertarians like Stefan that say "without the state people would rule themselves without violence and in peace"...bwa ha ha ha ha, yeah if the rule of law were to disappear tomorrow within 30 years the south would go back to Jim Crow (or worse), the north would be like out of "The Warriors" where you didn't dare leave your turf for fear of becoming prey, and women of course would be currency, with the wealthy and powerful showing off their harems of underage slave girls.
If there is one thing that history should have taught of is that a PERSON can be decent or just or honest, but in a group humans become nothing more than jackals, vicious and bloodthirsty and brutish.
ACs are never seen so don't bother. Always ready to show SJWs for the racists they are.