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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: 4, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 15 2015, @06:10PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 15 2015, @06:10PM (#183431)

    Point proven. Even acknowledging the existence of a possible problem a man can have will get you this:

    Oh, bro! You poor thing! Come over here so your manly man bros can give you a hug! Were all those "girls" mean to you , again? It's OK, just let it go, you can cry when you amoung you man friends, Oh, and you shore have a purty mouth! Mind if we give you a male-bonding wedgie, all in good fun. before we drop yer drawers and . .. . You wanted the "short end" of the stick? Think again, girly boy! Would have been better for you if you had be a feminist, with some balls!

    It is even modded up. Disgusting as any hate speech.

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