MAD MAX: FURY ROAD - Hope Grows in the Wasteland 

Thanks! Yeah I was pretty proud of that line in particular!

George Miller is what every old-time director still working in Hollywood should be, a guy who does his own thing even as the rest of the game has changed.

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Yesss

Thanks, Owen!

Friend, it's never a waste to fight for a better world and future, regardless of outcome.

@@RealRoknRollr3108 The available evidence doesn't exactly paint a compelling picture that flatters men.

@@RealRoknRollr3108 Which is, of course, why Max was portrayed as a villain. Because he's a man. And the movie thinks everything men do is bad. Totally.

@Mo'mina Makin I know, I was being sarcastic.

AND a rebuke to every aging nitwit who whines about how they can't compete in this new media landscape (see also Christopher Nolan).

Put another way, when all your options are bad, hope is the one thing that keeps you going.

Whoops!

Fanatics only have the most shallow grasp of history, especially when it comes to the arts.

favorite critique of the film being an american man complaining feminist themes ruined an american classic franchise, even though dr. miller and setting are australian.🇦🇺

@@jayfolk Kinda like how people are complaining Terminator's only leftist and feminist now, as they claim to have watched the second movie.

Oh no, definitely part of the main film, it's just they come so fast that it's easy to miss them. Consider how fast the opening sequence (where the first visions pop in) moves in terms of speed...it's easy to miss.

I haven't seen it.

Agreed!!!!

@@MattDraper To everyone who may tell you the movie's anti-PC SJW insert-buzzword-here, it ain't. Eat the rich tier of leftism. Just saying.

@@Peasham Is it really that, though? To me it felt like the movie is saying that protesters (who are mostly comprised of racial minorities) are like sheep just looking for an excuse to riot and cause mayhem, following and idolizing a dangerous man who doesn't actually believe in their cause. None of the protesters are actual characters, you might even call them NPCs, and in the obligatory "Bruce Wayne's parents get murdered" scene, the guy who does it is so comically sinister - it's no longer a robbery gone wrong, now he's intentionally murdering people in front of their child, with absolutely no remorse. Also, if we are to follow the interpretation that actually, it's all an hallucination, isn't the the film kinda telling us it's all pointless? It doesn't feel like the film's intended audience is the protesters, but rather everyone else who should be afraid that this could happen. The film does present several harsh realities - the rich are entitled and uncaring; the government cuts funding to crucial programs for the disenfranchised; and mental health in the US is a sad joke. But it also doesn't do a very good job at portraying the people influenced by this other than Arthur - like, EVERYONE is so mean in this movie. Children beat the crap out of him for no reason, Robert De Niro's talk show host is unnecessarily cruel, and the only person who was nice to Arthur (SPOILER I guess) actually never even interacted with him. To me this feels like the movie's message is mostly nihilistic - society sucks, everyone sucks, even the people in the street, and there's nothing you can do about it really, except maybe try to be a murderer. I mean, overall I thought it was very effective when watching it, but the more I think about it, the more I get the feeling that this film either has no intended message, or worse, it has the opposite message than it seems to have.

@@ShirDeutch Nope. Every single thing that's wrong with the city is directly the fault of the greed of the rich. We know they're doing fine, we know they have resources, yet they cut funding to the city's infrastructure like there's no tomorrow, as seen with all the trash. We understand why the regular people are what they are, because everything in their life's shit, but there's absolutely no excuse for the rich people. The rich people are the root of the problem, the movie says you should eat them for cutting services for their own short-term benefit, and that's leftist as fuck. Also, please go watch the movie, the dude at Arkham's nice to Arthur, the midget's nice to Arthur, and so's the girlfriend. Funnily enough, they're minorities, who you think are violent sheep that are looking for an excuse to protest (cute dogwhistle by the way). And wouldya look at that, they're all stuck in the same system as Arthur, and are brought down by the rich all the same. It's almost like both good and bad people are crushed under the weight of the system. Oh, the Waynes' murder was supposed to be a murder, Murray's also part of the rich, and unironically calling other people NPCs instantly and embarassingly makes you hypocritical.

What "feminist" take did this movie have that you didn't enjoy? Joe enslaved and raped women and the plot was centred around freeing them. Pretty easy cause to get behind

Mel was like 60 years old when they were filming this thing. Max has basically never been the focus of these movies and furiosa is genuinely more interesting in a lot of ways.

Not George's call...WB is doing that, sadly.

@@johnathonhaney8291 FUUUUUUUUUCK

@@operationb.e.n6480 Reasonable reaction.

Funny how everyone seems to have not noticed Kubrick made the same point with Dr. Strangelove over fifty years ago.

@@johnathonhaney8291 It is funny, that's why I'm making fun of it. I've seen chuds forget obvious political messages from 20 years ago, just so they could act like this is something new and scary.

@@Peasham Fools gonna be fools.