Saw it last night, nice action flick.
Mad Max spoiler discussion (We praten over de film in hier)
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these reviews are overhypped
Curtis Nightfish
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Brehs, this flick was off the fukking chain. It seemed like the first hour of it was non-stop action and finally when there was a little lull I had to let my nerves chill.
probably the craziest crowd I've ever been in for a movie.
Got to have a sequel. This franchise will start doing serious numbers.
probably the craziest crowd I've ever been in for a movie.
Got to have a sequel. This franchise will start doing serious numbers.
Curtis Nightfish
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I thought it was a great action flick that warrants a second viewing at some point.
How do you base your criteria?
NobodyReally
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Curious about what y'all think of this? I found the female roles refreshing, but I know some people have different ideas about how women should be portrayed in movies...
http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/15/entertainment/mad-max-fury-road-boycott-mens-rights-thr-feat/
Men's rights activists call for boycott of 'Mad Max: Fury Road,' citing feminist agenda
By Lorena O'Neil, The Hollywood Reporter
Updated 8:30 AM ET, Fri May 15, 2015
Story highlights
Author Aaron Clarey admits he has not seen the film yet, but his self-proclaimed "spidey sense" noticed that Charlize Theron "talked a lot during the trailers" for the film, and he said Tom Hardy only seemed to have cameo appearances. "Charlize Theron's character barked orders to Mad Max," writes Clarey on Return of Kings. "Nobody barks orders to Mad Max."
Clarey did not like reading reviews commending Theron for many of her action scenes, nor did he appreciate the news that the movie's director, George Miller, asked "Vagina Monologues" author Eve Ensler to consult with the five actresses who play sex slaves in the film. (Theron's character plays a road warrior fighting to lead the child-bearing women to safety.)
Clarey writes that he is concerned "men in America and around the world are going to be duped by explosions, fire tornadoes, and desert raiders into seeing what is guaranteed to be nothing more than feminist propaganda, while at the same time being insulted AND tricked into viewing a piece of American culture ruined and rewritten right in front of their very eyes."
The movie -- like the original "Mad Max" trilogy -- was filmed in Australia and is directed and co-written by Miller, who is Australian. ("Fury Road" was also filmed in Namibia and South Africa.)
Clarey feels Hollywood and Miller tricked him by making a movie that "visually looks amazing."
"Let us be clear. This is the vehicle by which they are guaranteed to force a lecture on feminism down your throat," writes Clarey. "This is the Trojan Horse feminists and Hollywood leftists will use to (vainly) insist on the trope women are equal to men in all things, including physique, strength, and logic."
He calls for a boycott:
"So do yourself and all men across the world a favor. Not only REFUSE to see the movie, but spread the word to as many men as possible. Not all of them have the keen eye we do here at (Return of Kings.) And most will be taken in by fire tornadoes and explosions. Because if they 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."
The blog the post is published on is known for trolling feminists. Its "about" page, for example, says, "Women and homosexuals are prohibited from commenting here. They will be immediately banned." The article has received more than 2,000 comments. One commenter wrote, "Women and feminists in general have without a doubt, proven that they are dysfunctional by nature and cannot be trusted with anything. And this movie helps to prove it."
"Initially, there wasn't a feminist agenda," Miller said while promoting the movie at Cannes. "I needed a warrior. But it couldn't be a man taking five wives from another man. That's an entirely different story. So everything grew out of that."
Theron said she was happy to take on the role of Imperator Furiosa "to celebrate everything there is about being a woman, and not trying to put women on a pedestal, but being surrounded by other women in a story that was just real."
http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/15/entertainment/mad-max-fury-road-boycott-mens-rights-thr-feat/
Men's rights activists call for boycott of 'Mad Max: Fury Road,' citing feminist agenda
By Lorena O'Neil, The Hollywood Reporter
Updated 8:30 AM ET, Fri May 15, 2015
Story highlights
- A "men's rights activist" blog is calling for a boycott of "Mad Max: Fury Road"
- Blogger has not seen the film; calls it "feminist piece of propaganda posing as a guy flick"
Author Aaron Clarey admits he has not seen the film yet, but his self-proclaimed "spidey sense" noticed that Charlize Theron "talked a lot during the trailers" for the film, and he said Tom Hardy only seemed to have cameo appearances. "Charlize Theron's character barked orders to Mad Max," writes Clarey on Return of Kings. "Nobody barks orders to Mad Max."
Clarey did not like reading reviews commending Theron for many of her action scenes, nor did he appreciate the news that the movie's director, George Miller, asked "Vagina Monologues" author Eve Ensler to consult with the five actresses who play sex slaves in the film. (Theron's character plays a road warrior fighting to lead the child-bearing women to safety.)
Clarey writes that he is concerned "men in America and around the world are going to be duped by explosions, fire tornadoes, and desert raiders into seeing what is guaranteed to be nothing more than feminist propaganda, while at the same time being insulted AND tricked into viewing a piece of American culture ruined and rewritten right in front of their very eyes."
The movie -- like the original "Mad Max" trilogy -- was filmed in Australia and is directed and co-written by Miller, who is Australian. ("Fury Road" was also filmed in Namibia and South Africa.)
Clarey feels Hollywood and Miller tricked him by making a movie that "visually looks amazing."
"Let us be clear. This is the vehicle by which they are guaranteed to force a lecture on feminism down your throat," writes Clarey. "This is the Trojan Horse feminists and Hollywood leftists will use to (vainly) insist on the trope women are equal to men in all things, including physique, strength, and logic."
He calls for a boycott:
"So do yourself and all men across the world a favor. Not only REFUSE to see the movie, but spread the word to as many men as possible. Not all of them have the keen eye we do here at (Return of Kings.) And most will be taken in by fire tornadoes and explosions. Because if they 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."
The blog the post is published on is known for trolling feminists. Its "about" page, for example, says, "Women and homosexuals are prohibited from commenting here. They will be immediately banned." The article has received more than 2,000 comments. One commenter wrote, "Women and feminists in general have without a doubt, proven that they are dysfunctional by nature and cannot be trusted with anything. And this movie helps to prove it."
"Initially, there wasn't a feminist agenda," Miller said while promoting the movie at Cannes. "I needed a warrior. But it couldn't be a man taking five wives from another man. That's an entirely different story. So everything grew out of that."
Theron said she was happy to take on the role of Imperator Furiosa "to celebrate everything there is about being a woman, and not trying to put women on a pedestal, but being surrounded by other women in a story that was just real."
TheGodling
Los Ingobernables de Sala de Cine
This feminist debate is laughable. The movie is an accurate depiction of what would happen if the world ever goes to shyt and society collapses. The men will find excuses to build ridiculous vehicles of war to go out on crazed-out stunt car chases while the women would try to actually make shyt better again. That's not feminism, that's reality.
Curtis Nightfish
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Pretty baseless and it seems to me a reason to complain about something. I also find it insulting to insinuate trickery is taking place in the form of explosions and endless car chases to kind of secretly portray feminism in a subconscious context. "The Wives" in the film are nothing more than eye candy. Even towards the climax of the film all the females take the guidance from Max.
as @TheGodling mentioned, this is a dystopia and very evident on how everyone would operate.
as @TheGodling mentioned, this is a dystopia and very evident on how everyone would operate.
NobodyReally
Superstar
Hmm, OK.
Curtis Nightfish
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I don't know breh. I was looking forward to seeing the flick at first, but that feminism sh!t is a bit of a turn-off. I'm not an avid movie-goer, might check out at the most two films a year. This year it was looking like Mad Max, and the NWA biopic. Still, I hate seeing films politicized. I was under the impression that the feminists lauding the film simply saw things in the film that they could relate to, and that would have been fine with me. We all from time to time see something in a film that resonates with our belief system. Then I read he consulted the woman from the Vagine Monologues, and now Tom Hardy and Charlize Theron are saying it's a feminism film in more words or less. Multiple and credible reviews are calling it a feminist film. Don't get me wrong, I think MRA dudes are corny in the same way that feminists are, even though both sides occassionally make points that I can ride with. Still, unless a movie is explicately political or social minded in nature, then I don't want to be preached to subversely. I'm probably not going to see it, and it's not that I'm boycotting it, but if it is a feminist film, it's not for me. I'll pass. And just like all the other films I missed througout the years, it will be less than a memory to me in the very near future. Still, I do have to salute the producers for what appears to be a proper reboot of a franchise. Looks like Hollywood got it right this time, minus the feminism bull sh!t.