The summer's best film, "Mad Max: Fury Road," turns out to be a sly apocalyptic parable on feminist

[villager]

...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]

1. It's getting great reviews

so far only 1 bad review.

[villager]

2. There was a bad one? National Review, perhaps?

[Robbins]

4. On RT

1 rotten review vs 49 Fresh.

the neagtive one is from Daily Mirror In UK.

Except for him people seem to love it.

[Initech]

51. I'm going to see it next weekend.

I'd see it tomorrow but I'm going to see Muse tomorrow night.

[beam me up scottie]

3. Thanks!

My s/o wants to see it and I was on the fence.

[villager]

5. If you loved "Road Warrior," you'll definitely love this...

[beam me up scottie]

6. Oh goody!

It's tough to find a film we're both enthused about.

Doesn't seem like much of a compromise.

[trumad]

7. can't wait!

[Bluenorthwest]

8. Glad to hear it, I can't wait.

nt

[villager]

9. I look forward to some more DU discussion on it, after it opens!

[Bjorn Against]

10. Do you need to be familiar with the earlier movies to understand the plot?

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]

11. No. It's pretty self-contained, including references to Max's backstory.

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]

13. Sounds good, I will have to check it out.

[Robbins]

12. from what I heard

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]

14. Exactly. This isn't so much a sequel, as a re-boot....

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]

15. Which is why MRAs are losing their shit over it.

http://wehuntedthemammoth.com/2015/05/12/furious-about-furiosa-misogynists-are-losing-it-over-charlize-therons-starring-role-in-mad-max-fury-road/

So you may have heard vague rumors that there’s a new Mad Max film coming out. You also may have heard that it stars Charlize Theron as a shaven-headed postapocalyptical badass named Furiosa alongside Tom Hardy as Mr. Max.

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 doesn’t contain some damn political lecture or moray about feminism, SJW-ing, and socialism.

Er, “moray?”

[ProfessorGAC]

16. Funny Catch

Boy is that guy a tool.

[haikugal]

30. What's SJW-ing?

[Brickbat]

31. Social justice warrior.

[haikugal]

34. Thanks!

[seabeyond]

32. social justice warrior'ing. you know. having a voice! lol. we see it on du from a handful of men

regularly.

[haikugal]

35. Thanks!

Here too eh? Thanks!

[alcibiades_mystery]

59. I pretty much assume anyone who uses the term SJW on DU is an out-and-out troll

[seabeyond]

61. pretty much... nt

[Tanuki]

33. As long as they have a disclaimer: "no eels were harmed in making this film"

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[villager]

37. They filmed it in drought-ridden Namibia!

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]

39. Well, that's a relief! The MRA need not have worried about feminist "morays"!

[villager]

40. On the "scale" of things to worry about...

...those MRAs won't have to worry about the squishy 'eel of "morays" coming down on 'em!

[elehhhhna]

53. you forgot to mention "real women" lol

[villager]

54. oh, now you'll make them really nervous...

[alarimer]

38. MRAs are a bunch of pathetic man-children.

They need to just grow up.

[frylock]

41. yeah, that's not gonna happen

[Snow Leopard]

44. I can just imagine

if this was posted about feminists

[JTFrog]

56. Apples and oranges. n/t

[seabeyond]

62. or if it was posted by children, dogs or snowmen? wtf? MRA is registered as a hate group

you have a problem with that?

[villager]

46. No surprise. The film asks "who broke the world?," and the answer is, basically, them.

And, of course, the type of "leader"ship they vociferously support...

[Initech]

52. Ooh, can I get the butter please?

[bullwinkle428]

17. Saw the first two back in the day, and the previews for this one look pretty

awesome. Reading this definitely seals the deal for me as a "must-see"!

[olddots]

18. the preveiw sure stunk up the screen

On your reconamendations I'm going ...can't wait .

[villager]

20. Which preview? Where?

hadn't heard any such rumblings in the celluloid grapevine...

[seabeyond]

19. whenever i see feminist, before we see the show, i always have to stand back. because tattoo girl

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]

21. How do you feel about my 13 year old daughter watching this?

I realize you don't know her or me, etc... Just wondering about how explicit it is in terms of sex and violence.

[villager]

22. Well, it's intense, even if not always *explicit....*

...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]

23. I think we will go. At this point I am avoiding "torture porn" violence

explicit rapes and sexual assault, and "hollywood glamgasms"

[seabeyond]

24. good for you. i do not want to be entertained y that either. i am not seeing anything,

but someone who saw can better inform.

[RadiationTherapy]

25. I tell people i don't want those particular neurons fused.

[villager]

27. Well it's definitely not "Saw," or "Hostel."

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]

28. exactly. thank you. yes. lol. right there with you. and i am an adult. not even talking

about teenager.

[Blue_Adept]

36. I'm taking mine

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]

26. Thanks - looking forward to this!

I love me some 'poxyclypse!

[truebrit71]

29. Interesting...I may have to watch it...

Definitely looks like a good popcorn-chewer...

[frylock]

42. First time in a long time that I am genuinely excited to see a film..

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]

43. "Oh what a day, what a lovely day!"

...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]

45. It does sound like a fantastic ride.

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]

47. I'm not sure. I saw it in 2-D in a smallish projection room, and it was still fantastic

n/t

[friendly_iconoclast]

48. I saw it today in 3D, and villager's review is spot on- I also heartily recommend it

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]

50. Why... thank you, Friendly! And you even saw it in 3-D!

I was sold on the thing in 2-D in a mid-size projection room!

[edbermac]

49. Hard to top the Road Warrior.

Great chase scenes, colorful villains and the goofy helicopter pilot as comic relief.

[villager]

64. Well, one does miss Bruce Spence and the gryo pilot

...and his calling Max a "crafty little man," as he bursts out of the sands...

[dilby]

55. I wish I never saw this movie.

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]

63. I know what you mean. Other action films will be calibrated against it.

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]

57. Sorry. I have no desire to see a Mel Gibson remake.

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]

58. Except it was not a remake and Mel Gibson was only an actor in the originals.

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.