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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 MozeeToby on Friday May 15 2015, @04:48PM

    by MozeeToby (1118) on Friday May 15 2015, @04:48PM (#183399)

    Not to spoil things but here we go:

    Most of the women featured in the film are part of the villain harem, having "modern" hygiene habits is hardly what I would call surprising. The one other woman with significant screentime could easily be a former member of said harem (backstory isn't made clear but it's certainly one valid interpretation). If I had to say something about the feminism in the movie I would say that it's feminism done right. None of the characters are simpering weaklings, no one abandons their sense of self to make a point. It wasn't pandering to either group, it was as things should be, a movie about people rather than a movie about sexism (in either direction).

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