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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 physicsmajor on Friday May 15 2015, @10:19PM

    by physicsmajor (1471) on Friday May 15 2015, @10:19PM (#183509)

    Please open the DSM V and take a look. That's what a Psychiatrist does - all of it.

    Eve specializes in traumatized women.

    If you can't spot the difference, I can't help you further.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 15 2015, @10:53PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 15 2015, @10:53PM (#183530)

    1. The DSM is being discontinued and has not been well thought of in decades. That is how far behind you are.
    2. Can all of physics and everything a physicist do be summarized in the Oxford Dictionary of Physics? Of course not.
    3. Eve is a writer, not a scientist. Her intellectual views on trauma are just as valid as R. L. Stein's

    The absurdity of having to point this out further deepens your reputation for not having common sense.

    • (Score: 2) by physicsmajor on Saturday May 16 2015, @12:38AM

      by physicsmajor (1471) on Saturday May 16 2015, @12:38AM (#183596)

      1. Cute misdirection with a logical fallacy. I'm well and fully aware of the limitations and issues with the DSM. This doesn't in any way undermine my point, which stands: Psychiatry is very broad, and those who practice it see the full range of human experience.
      2. More logical fallacies, which actually serve to make my point. Yes, the field of psychiatry extends beyond the DSM... so it's actually bigger than I stated. What were you trying to say? I don't think it's helping.
      3. Eve has far more real world experience with this specific sub-field than the vast majority of, and quite possibly any, psychiatrist(s). Consider that we're talking about a fictional script here, so again I'm having trouble seeing how consulting a writer with extensive and intimate experience isn't the blatantly, obviously correct call.

      Anything else I can help you with?