FrankTrollman wrote:
I would accept someone saying they didn't like it because "After my adrenal glands dried up I found myself vomiting uncontrollably and had to leave the theater" or "the unexpected deaths of characters was sufficiently gut wrenching that I felt sad to the point of discomfort, like watching Old Yeller." But to say that they were somehow disappointed by Fury Road just doesn't pass the smell test.
-Username17
Yeah...if you're the type of person who wants to see a Mad Max movie in the theater, I don't see anyway that you could feasibly be disappointed by the film as a whole; unless you feel threatened by the idea of women with agency or something.
To be honest, I try to avoid the movie industry hype machine so I can be pleasantly surprised when I go to the theater. Initially I wasn't very excited by Mad Max: Fury road because I thought it was just going to be another soulless reboot of a beloved childhood memory...all the way up until I saw the word's "A George Miller Film" on the screen, at which point an erection exploded from my pants like a magic beanstalk and has not subsided since (seriously doctor...what do I do about a movie induced priapism? It's freaking me out.).
violence in the media wrote:Yeah, that's pretty much what I've been thinking. Especially when the comments are about how it "isn't really a Mad Max movie, since he's playing the sidekick" or there's the preemptive deflection that their wife was
even more unimpressed with the movie than they were.
Mad Max works better as an ancillary character, or a catalyst. We don't need his story because we already know it. Mad Max movies are about the wasteland that he wanders, the people he encounters, and about Max rediscovering little bits of his humanity along the way.
hyzmarca wrote:
The Mad Max movies are a wasteland legends being told long after the fact by people who are far removed from the events.
Oh that's good. I like that.
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