[MeshugeMikey]

yet another in a very long list of holywood products that I will not consume

[sayfer bullets]

I watched this last night...it IS visually stunning and action filled.

Max is a supporting role and does little of note in the film. He spends the first 25-30 minutes captive and helpless...often by luck or fembot assistance escaping harm. Hardy doesnt even have the opportunity to display a character one can compare to Gibson’s.

Theron’s wast THE main character, the protagonist, the hero.

It should have been called Mad Furiosa

[discostu]

The movie is AWESOME. Basically somebody explained to George that the best 20 minutes in Mad Max history is the truck chase at the end of 2, so he decided to do THAT for 2 hours. Yeah there’s the occasional pause for plot and stuff, but basically it’s a rigged out semi being chased by crazy people.

[Trillian]

We watched it last night. It was one of the worst movies I’ve seen since elysium. The only reason for seeing both was because they were part of a triple feature at the movies. We would have gone home if max max was the last one, which was the only good movie out of the bunch (Furious 7). That movie was non stop adrenaline all the way through.

[Borges]

Did you see it? It’s a terrific non stop action film.

[Bratch]

‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ Review: Feminism and Metal Mangling Done Right

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There is some concern that “Fury Road” is a piece of feminist propaganda (Miller is a flaming lefty). In many ways that actually is the case. I also don’t think it’s a bad thing. Oftentimes, and for long periods, “Fury Road” takes the focus off Hardy to hand the spotlight to Theron.  And there is no question that Furiosa drives all but the third act of the story. Keep in mind, though, that there’s feminism and then there’s feminism.

*Some Spoilers*

“Fury Road’ is nothing like the diseased modern-day, left-wing feminism spread by the likes of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. Miller’s women are not victims, are not Julias, are not dependent on a central government to solve all their problems, are not wallowing in a narcissistic cult of their own victimhood, and are not acting like men.

In fact, just the opposite is true. Miller’s heroines are beautiful, feminine, and breaking away from a cult of personality and its tyrannical central government. These are feminists who have come for their God-given rights, not emasculate. They don’t crybaby, they act. They don’t tell others how to behave, they fight. They don’t want to take away your rights, but they damn sure are demanding their own.

These are women too busy being strong and independent to collapse into a helpless ball of harpy outrage over imagined offenses.

In this Godless world, there’s even a moment of instinctual prayer — and not to the god of partial-birth abortion. 

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