To the Vuvalini, the wives, Furiosa, Max...... not at all.
MAGA are the war boys. Seduced by the lies that they are special and deserving of all their dreams and desires. Placated by a split second of synthetic euphoria as needed.
Gotta give humanity some more time but we're well on our way!
If Earth isn't some mega polluted ball of dirt, sprawling with hive cities and a hellacious landscape for the masses in 1000 years, we'll be lucky as a species.
It's disheartening, I really hope I'm wrong and something unites us together into a more harmonious future.
That's a quite a statement to make about a movie with near-universal critical acclaim and six Academy Awards (though I'll admit those can be somewhat meaningless). What was your issue with it?
I kind of already explained with 'There and back again', so I'll take that point as read. But also, there's no depth, substance, or narrative complexity to the plot, it exists only as a vehicle (pun very much intended) for chase sequences and 'splosions. And the constant action becomes a monotony because there's no contrast to it. I mean, it was spectacular but it was also a vapid nothing of a film as empty as the gas tanks of all those vehicles never actually seemed to be.
The plot was thin and no conclusion on the end, purely to keep suspension up for a maybe 2. part. And the likeable characters had as much holes and inconsistencies as the plot.
Basically the fast food of cinema, but with some extra uncanny valley.
But maybe it's just that i've seen the original and the 2. part and am a bit distraught of what they've made out of it. Basically, "What if we took this and added more explosions and weird machines. And a desert cult! With some weird for effect!".
Unpopular opinion, but I do agree. A good vehicle for cool vehicles doing crazy stuff but plotwise flimsy. A lot of bombast with very little substance.
25 Comments
Klear@piefed.world · 30 pts · 54d
At least Immortan Joe had charisma.
HumanOnEarth@lemmy.ca · 35 pts · 54d
To the war boys, yeah.
To the Vuvalini, the wives, Furiosa, Max...... not at all.
MAGA are the war boys. Seduced by the lies that they are special and deserving of all their dreams and desires. Placated by a split second of synthetic euphoria as needed.
Kimika@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 54d
Trex202@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 54d
Witness!!
DickFiasco@sh.itjust.works · 14 pts · 54d
Had me in the first half
FaceDeer@fedia.io · 12 pts · 54d
Thought this was headed for Warhammer40k at first.
LePoisson@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 53d
Gotta give humanity some more time but we're well on our way!
If Earth isn't some mega polluted ball of dirt, sprawling with hive cities and a hellacious landscape for the masses in 1000 years, we'll be lucky as a species.
It's disheartening, I really hope I'm wrong and something unites us together into a more harmonious future.
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 53d
There won't be hive cities, because there won't be masses.
Stern@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 53d
crazy how its almost warhammer except the women are treated better
Triumph@fedia.io · 5 pts · 54d
I knew Toecutter. I served with Toecutter. You, sir, are no Toecutter.
Gsus4@mander.xyz · 2 pts · 53d
Yeah, other apes don't like despots either. They get together to fuck them up eventually.
zarkanian@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 54d
Immor-tangelo.
bobbyfiend@retrolemmy.com · 1 pts · 1d
I think this is a "that's the joke" moment. Yes, that us a major point of the movie.
Trex202@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 54d
This was the movie for last week's bonus Kill James Bond podcast, Truck Season!! 🚚
decapitae@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 47d
R'publicans won't understand that this is yet another 2025-Present example of the wrong people taking the wrong notes for the wrong reasons....
Arancello@aussie.zone · 1 pts · 53d
i thought for sure I was reading an Atlantic article about the drumpf administration
frosty99c@midwest.social · 1 pts · 54d
Trujillo?
Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk · -3 pts · 54d
Fury Road - or ‘There and back again’ was a visual spectacle but a dreadful film.
call_me_xale@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 54d
That's a quite a statement to make about a movie with near-universal critical acclaim and six Academy Awards (though I'll admit those can be somewhat meaningless). What was your issue with it?
Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 53d
I kind of already explained with 'There and back again', so I'll take that point as read. But also, there's no depth, substance, or narrative complexity to the plot, it exists only as a vehicle (pun very much intended) for chase sequences and 'splosions. And the constant action becomes a monotony because there's no contrast to it. I mean, it was spectacular but it was also a vapid nothing of a film as empty as the gas tanks of all those vehicles never actually seemed to be.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip · -1 pts · 53d
The plot was thin and no conclusion on the end, purely to keep suspension up for a maybe 2. part. And the likeable characters had as much holes and inconsistencies as the plot.
Basically the fast food of cinema, but with some extra uncanny valley.
But maybe it's just that i've seen the original and the 2. part and am a bit distraught of what they've made out of it. Basically, "What if we took this and added more explosions and weird machines. And a desert cult! With some weird for effect!".
Triumph@fedia.io · 3 pts · 54d
It had some real Fantastic Mr. Fox vibes.
Akasazh@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 53d
Unpopular opinion, but I do agree. A good vehicle for cool vehicles doing crazy stuff but plotwise flimsy. A lot of bombast with very little substance.
perviouslyiner@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 53d
Furiosa was much better at showing what was happening and why, but reviewers didn't seem to like it as much
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip · -5 pts · 53d
It was pure effect cinema, not a good movie. But i get your point.