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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe summer's best film, "Mad Max: Fury Road," turns out to be a sly apocalyptic parable on feminist
...pushback against the 1%.
Not to give too much away, but I'm just back from a screening. The contest for the season's -- if not the year's -- best film is now over by an outback mile.
And it turns out the movie -- for all its grand spectacle (and it's pretty goddamn gritty and grand) -- also threads in a feminist sensibility about "who broke the world," and who it is that may, in the end, salvage it from the 1% of the apocalypse.
Robbins
(5,066 posts)so far only 1 bad review.
villager
(26,001 posts)1 rotten review vs 49 Fresh.
the neagtive one is from Daily Mirror In UK.
Except for him people seem to love it.
Initech
(99,914 posts)I'd see it tomorrow but I'm going to see Muse tomorrow night.
beam me up scottie
(57,349 posts)My s/o wants to see it and I was on the fence.
villager
(26,001 posts)beam me up scottie
(57,349 posts)It's tough to find a film we're both enthused about.
Doesn't seem like much of a compromise.
trumad
(41,692 posts)Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)nt
villager
(26,001 posts)Bjorn Against
(12,041 posts)I was just a small child when the original movies came out and I never saw any of them, do I need to watch them before I see the new movie?
villager
(26,001 posts)If you remember the original ones, you'll be more "steeped" in the world, and maybe even faster out of the starting (viewing?) blocks in terms of getting familiar with this world.
But it stands on its own...
Bjorn Against
(12,041 posts)Robbins
(5,066 posts)No.
I still to this day haven't seen original all the way though but saw road warrior and beyond thunderdorme.
The Road warrior is considered one of best action films ever.And one of the sequels far superior to original.
villager
(26,001 posts)You could think of it as a post-apocalyptic James Bond film, in a sense. A different actor playing a familiar character in a new story, set in that world.
Brickbat
(19,339 posts)Well, the manly men of the Manospshere are having none of it. On the always terrible Return of Kings, the most-trafficked blog in the Manosphere, Youtube bloviator Aaron Clarey issues a clarion call to his fellow right-thinking men, urging them to
Not only REFUSE to see the movie, but spread the word to as many men as possible. Because if [men] sheepishly attend and Fury Road is a blockbuster, then you, me, and all the other men (and real women) in the world will never be able to see a real action movie ever again that doesnt contain some damn political lecture or moray about feminism, SJW-ing, and socialism.
Er, moray?
ProfessorGAC
(64,419 posts)Boy is that guy a tool.
haikugal
(6,476 posts)Brickbat
(19,339 posts)haikugal
(6,476 posts)seabeyond
(110,159 posts)regularly.
haikugal
(6,476 posts)Here too eh? Thanks!
alcibiades_mystery
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seabeyond
(110,159 posts)Tanuki
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villager
(26,001 posts)Nary a fish -- let alone an eel! -- to be found.
A CG lizard in the opening sequence doesn't necessarily fare very well, however...
Tanuki
(14,893 posts)villager
(26,001 posts)...those MRAs won't have to worry about the squishy 'eel of "morays" coming down on 'em!
elehhhhna
(32,076 posts)villager
(26,001 posts)alarimer
(16,245 posts)They need to just grow up.
frylock
(34,825 posts)Snow Leopard
(348 posts)if this was posted about feminists
JTFrog
(14,274 posts)seabeyond
(110,159 posts)you have a problem with that?
villager
(26,001 posts)And, of course, the type of "leader"ship they vociferously support...
Initech
(99,914 posts)bullwinkle428
(20,626 posts)awesome. Reading this definitely seals the deal for me as a "must-see"!
olddots
(10,237 posts)On your reconamendations I'm going ...can't wait .
villager
(26,001 posts)hadn't heard any such rumblings in the celluloid grapevine...
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)was not. as much as it was raved to be feminism, it was absolutely not.
but. this one is sounding interesting and promising. i ma kinda excited about seeing it myself, and i do not go to movies.
RadiationTherapy
(5,818 posts)I realize you don't know her or me, etc... Just wondering about how explicit it is in terms of sex and violence.
villager
(26,001 posts)...images of how people are kept, literally, in chains, etc. A lot of things implied "just off screen," as it were, so it might be "scary."
I don't know what kind of material you let her see right now. But there is, at least, a very strong "woman warrior" message throughout...
RadiationTherapy
(5,818 posts)explicit rapes and sexual assault, and "hollywood glamgasms"
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)but someone who saw can better inform.
RadiationTherapy
(5,818 posts)villager
(26,001 posts)It's more "action" than "violence," but the movie makes clear that the post-apocalypse 1%ers rely entirely on the latter (even more than our current 1%ers do) to keep societal structure (such as it is) "enforced."
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)about teenager.
Blue_Adept
(6,384 posts)My two girls are 12 and 15, and saw the original films last year as I continue my film education for them by exposing them to a wide range of material.
When I showed them the trailer for this, they were jaws dropped about it. They're quite excited by it.
tosh
(4,422 posts)I love me some 'poxyclypse!
truebrit71
(20,805 posts)Definitely looks like a good popcorn-chewer...
frylock
(34,825 posts)tell me, does it have any memorable lines worthy of using, like Mad Max and the Road Warrior do? My friends and I often use pop cultural references from both.
villager
(26,001 posts)...as the character Nux says.
Of course that's been used as a tagline on the one-sheet, too.
Of course, there's also "We are not things," which is part of the anti-1% themes in the film, which has the rightwingers -- for whom we are all "things" -- so up in arms...
alphafemale
(18,497 posts)Don't go to many movies anymore but I may make an exception this time.
Is this going to be released in IMAX format?
villager
(26,001 posts)n/t
friendly_iconoclast
(15,333 posts)This particular theater has an excellent 3D setup, so it was well worth the extra $ to me.
It *is* violent, and definitely not for 12-and-unders. Having said that:
If this sounds like your cup of tea, by all means- GO! You won't be sorry...
villager
(26,001 posts)I was sold on the thing in 2-D in a mid-size projection room!
edbermac
(15,919 posts)Great chase scenes, colorful villains and the goofy helicopter pilot as comic relief.
villager
(26,001 posts)...and his calling Max a "crafty little man," as he bursts out of the sands...
dilby
(2,273 posts)From this point on I will never be able to enjoy another action movie. Mad Max Fury Road is to action movies what the original Star Wars was to Sci-Fi movies, it's the movie that has set the standard on what I will accept as a good movie for the genre. I loved the originals by George Miller but this is his masterpiece, if they never make another Mad Max movie I will be content because I don't know if they will ever be able to make something as incredible as this movie.
Mad Max Fury Road has minimal character development, minimal dialogue and a ton of action with amazing stunts packed into two hours of a beautifully shot movie. If you see the movie, enjoy the two hour separation from reality and don't be surprised an hour after the movie if you start to think about all the little details that were in the movie. like what they made the gas pedal out of or what was being tattooed on him and all sorts of other little details.
villager
(26,001 posts)We even joked, leaving the screening, about what Marvel was going to do now...
And with Hardy signed for two more "Max" films, you wonder how they can even match themselves? It would seem the "chase" film is, er, "Max"ed out now. Perhaps they'll have to take a different (non-Thunderdome?) tack in exploring their own cinematic apocalyptic universe...
longship
(40,416 posts)Remakes are bad enough. (Hollywood has no fucking imagination whatsoever.) But one based on a Mel Gibson movie has got to be rubbish. A remake of rubbish can only be rubbish.
Oh! But the feminist message? I could sympathize with that if it wasn't based on rubbish to begin with.
I have a rule which I have adhered to since I wasted my money on the remake of "The Haunting". No more remakes. (Especially of Mel Gibson originals.)
dilby
(2,273 posts)This movie is from the mind of George Miller who has made great movies, Mel Gibson is not getting anything by you seeing this movie.