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: 1) by kurenai.tsubasa on Friday May 15 2015, @01:56PM
I don't know. If they just aimed for evil Xena that would be good. Throw in a Calisto and it could work. Both of them were warlords after all. (Granted, Xena got all mushy after being betrayed by Draco while trying to kill Hercules and then meeting Gabrielle although I blame Lao Ma. Then they invented a time paradox where Calisto was responsible for burning her own village, not Xena's army.)
Hmm… a Xena/Mad Max crossover. Could be interesting, although I'm hoping that Lucy Lawless showing up in Ash vs. Evil Dead will end up being some convoluted crossover involving Dahak.
(Score: 1) by kurenai.tsubasa on Saturday May 16 2015, @12:30AM
Crap. s/Draco/Darphus/g
Decided to rewatch the Xena trilogy in Hercules: The Legendary Journeys. I always get Draco and Draphus mixed up for some reason.