Thursday, May 21, 2015 6:06:10 AM · by RoosterRedux · 65 replies
American Thinker ^ | Robert Oscar Lopez
I will see the movie ASAP now.
Posted on 05/21/2015 9:19:42 AM PDT by Sioux-san
...The dystopian images of Fury Road depart significantly from the Mad Max films of the 1970s and 1980s. Fury Road presents us with a world where motherhood is commodified to suit an elite class of males who wish to share their property and life ambitions only with other men. Women are hooked up to machines that pump milk from their breasts and held inside dismal barracks, gestating heirs for warlords who show no sexual interest in women. The men of this warrior ruling class derive all their ecstasy from the company of muscular young males eager to labor and soldier for each other and for their male patrons.
I doubt anyone on the production team has read “Breeders: How Gay Men Destroyed the Left.” Hence I am left to conclude that the movie’s pretext embodies everything that “anti-gay” opponents of surrogacy such as myself have been warning, because there is a deep-seated but suppressed anxiety running rampant in Hollywood about just how horrible our society will become if gay men are uncritically awarded everything they demand...
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I saw it. People are WAY over thinking it. It is one of the best action movies I have ever seen and runs full tilt from beginning to end while saying true to the original. HIGHLY recommend.
I will see the movie ASAP now.
It’s amazing how many people are putting how much effort into reading a lot in a fairly simple movie. The only “deeper meaning” in how Immortan Joe treats his women is that it’s a quick way to show he’s a real sleaze because we want to get that over with and move on to some car crashes already. It’s an action movie, and it follow late Mad Max co-writer’s maxim “when people are talking nothing is happening, and we’re making an action movie”, so it deliberately avoid wasting dialog establishing the bad guy is bad.
E X A C T L Y!
This movie was awesome. This article is so much navel-gazing. Go see it, have a good time.
I cannot say one way or the other because I still haven’t seen the movie. I saw the first two way back when, and I thought that they were more than “action” movies, IMHO. The director called in Leftie/Feminist Eve Ensler (all-things vagina expert) to consult on the movie. (btw, I thought ‘For Whom the Bell Tolls’ was just a war story)
Sorry - I did a search and didn’t see it posted.
I had this pegged as a “wait until it hits Netflicks” movie from the word go.
I agree. This is not a film to be analyzing with ten dollar words looking for Jungian archetypes. It’s a very upfront, WYSIWYG movie. If you want a great non-stop action flick that looks great and leaves you feeling exhausted after watching it, then go see this movie.
Yes.
The description of the world is generally accurate but the movie is no more than what it is ... an action movie with a h**l of a lot of action. There is no agenda there and any “meaning” gleaned from it is made up out of whole cloth. Now. To be fair. Art is what the beholder gets out of it. But anything more than “what a ride (pun intended) is a real stretch.
“The director called in Leftie/Feminist Eve Ensler (all-things vagina expert) to consult on the movie.”
I heard that too, and it was troubling, but after the tsunami of five star reviews from the public after the first day of release, I went to see it anyway.
Yes, there are a few “girl power” moments in the movie, but it wasn’t over-the-top and I didn’t find it really detracted from anything. I heard some girl in the audience clapping when the lead female got to “one up” Max in one scene, and you know what? Good for her. Us boys always had guys like Max as role models, so I can’t begrudge a girl being happy to have a role model like that for herself.
But, will you remember it the day after?
Most financially-successful contemporary movies get psychoanalyzed to death. Sometimes a movie is just a good story. I can remember how the hit song “American Pie” from the 70s begot an entire mini-industry of empty professional analysis.
Sure, there are quite a few memorable moments.
I would say, if you are strictly a “Mad Max” fan, the beginning of the film is thin on him. He’s there, but not really involved in the story until the action gets going.
They were action movies. Especially Road Warrior which had less dialog than an average half hour sitcom. Basically 4 admits that the best 20 minutes in Mad Max history was the semi chase at the end of 2 so heck let’s do that for 2 hours. From all appearances what he really brought in Eve for was to have the women talk like women not like guys with boobs as usually happens in action movies with non-damsel female characters.
Oh, yeah. Don McLean was asked recently "What does it mean?" and answered "It means I'll never have to work again."
This “analysis” probably has more words in it than the entire movie. It’s trying too hard to wring meaning out of the 20 minutes or so of the movie that doesn’t involve cars being destroyed. This is a visceral movie about kinetic action. It actually deliberately takes you out of disbelief so that you can marvel at the stunt work.
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