I can't get the image of the stilt walkers out of my head.
The stilt walkers reminded me of those creatures from The Dark Crystal.
Someone needs to explain to me this what I assume is a relatively minor backlash against this movie from men's groups saying it emasculated male characters or some other nonsense?
Someone needs to explain to me this what I assume is a relatively minor backlash against this movie from men's groups saying it emasculated male characters or some other nonsense?
Yeah, some dudes who can't get dates seem to think it's an insidious feminist agenda attempting to co-opt a male icon because the movie takes the wildly radical stance that a) sex slavery is bad, mmmmkay? and b) a woman "upstages" Max for the hero's role. That second part is true, but who cares? She's a great character. Complaining about her upstaging Max is like complaining that Sarah Connor upstages Arnie in T2 by also shooting the T-1000. It's only an issue if you're a reeeaaalllly insecure dude.
The most interesting character is Nux, but with all the sturm und drang over the "feminist agenda" thing, he's been lost in the conversation, I'm afraid. Maybe some dictator with a blog will write something silly about how traditional slave-owner values are under attack and we can talk about how great Nux is. He's kinda the soul the whole movie, in many ways.
PS: Sorry my reply was worded as if you hadn't seen it, but I see a few post above that you have, so you know everything I just said I guess :lol The blog post is Return of Kings, and the blog itself is...pretty bitter. You get the feeling the guy is tired of being treated like crap by women so he's launched a crusade, when the real issue is the douchebro needs to stop hanging out with awful women. One of those pick up artist type things. Pretty sad. Guy needs to watch Don Jon :lol
You know, when you consider all three previous films, Max is a central character, but ti's really the supporting players that flesh the story out. Max is more catalysts an enabler of events, not always the focus, even in the first Mad Max.
Overall pretty good and Max is back. But Gibson still brought a little something more. Not sure how to put that into words.
I think calling it a masterpiece is a bit much, maybe because people have been starved for this kind of film for along time there
is a little extra gushing, probably a miracle that an old dog can still deliver the mail eighties style. Most of them burn out and we end up with,
well a Crystal Skull pile of Phantom Menace.. Bummed he didn't get his interceptor back, I really expected him to get it back at least for a bit.
Interesting to see a Taurus 9mm.
I bought one of these "Brazilian Berettas" back in the day and was surprised how often it popped up in films back then.
And here it is again, so that was a bonus retro nod for me.
That would be the incredibly cool! :coolI am dying to dig up references for Furiosa's arm. I have a friend who is an amputee and I desperately want to build the arm for her for Dragon Con.
That would be the incredibly cool! :cool
But I also have this in my head since viewing...