May 24, 2015 nah, see, i've seen the first two. i knew what to expect. i thought it was atrocious. sorry! also lololol @ the notion of this being a feminist movie. what, because charlize snuck all the models out of the citadel?
May 24, 2015 This movie has a villain named Rictus Erectus, a female tribe named The Vulvani, and the plot is centered around an empowered woman helping defenseless women escape from the men who made them slaves/commodities. How is that not feminist?
May 24, 2015 eh, easy there. men look stupid in the movie because those base elements of male culture are stupid and destructive. sure. but it seems like these dumb mens rights activists are railing against it simply because it acknowledges gender. the wives really have zero dramatic agency. they're all super models (in many cases, literally) prancing around the desert in bikinis and wet t shirts. i don't care what anyone says about script consultants, they were casted and shot for the male gaze. and oh, at the end, when the women are hoisted up, but max humbly and bravely shirks any credit or recognition? how brave in short, i saw the movie with women and they were pretty fed up with it, and i tend to agree with their assessment.
May 24, 2015 Men as a whole don't look stupid in the movie. Big difference. 1.) They're in an apocalyptic wasteland. What do you expect them to be wearing? 2.) Them getting wet wasn't exactly random, was it? Made perfect sense in the context of where the film was at the time Sorta. You're actually proving my earlier point with this. They were cast to look good, but them being eye candy wasn't the point. Having the girls look the way they do just further drives home why they were so important to Erectus and his brother. The Fury Road world is ugly and it would only be natural for the beauty we take for granted in the real world to be held to such a high level of importance in Miller's. They stand out, as they should, and everything works better because of it.
May 24, 2015 beg to differ. (for the record, i think this is a good thing. i just think it failed to actually take a feminist stance.) maybe something that either protects them from the sun/elements or something that makes sense for combat, just in case? maybe both? of course getting wet makes sense. victoria's secret models with their nipples exposed in an action movie is not a feminist act, though. this is aphoristic. they had no agency. they were props.
May 24, 2015 Their escape went down quickly. Short of the clothes on their back and the weapons Charlize had, they didn't have anything. Highly doubt that those protective measures were readily available for them either since, you know, they were being held against their will. How is it any different from non-model attractive people showing their nipples in a drama? Really don't see how this doesn't further prove my point about them being commodities.
May 24, 2015 Was waiting for a post like this. Sexually explicit scenes in general shouldn't take away from any feminist themes so long as they are done tastefully and with the right intent. You brought up the feminist consultants earlier, so we both know that at the very least Miller's heart was in the right place. And if the shoddy execution is all you have to say that it isn't a feminist film, you can't deny that the foundation for one is there, right?
May 24, 2015 > group of supermodels in an engineered wet t-shirt contest > "his heart was in the right place, feminist movie"
May 24, 2015 Fury Road does in fact have a plot. Just because it's simple doesn't mean it's not there. Aaaaannnndddd... you're now officially an idiot. The humanist parts of the movie are pretty easy to catch if you pay the movie even the slightest bit of attention. Women that are a part of the patriarchy represented through Furiosa. Women that are objects to the patriarchy are represented through the five wives. Men affected by toxic masculinity are represented through Nux. Men that are also objectified for whatever reason are represented through Max and in his case, he's a universal blood donor. All these people come together to fight the society that did them wrong. It's about traumatized people helping and supporting each other. It blends its nihilistic world with bright colors and a surprisingly positive story. By the way, the wet t-shirt part was a laugh out loud moment for me. The moment Max saw them, he was like "wtf". That's how that scene was portrayed. It wasn't portrayed sexually. It teased the male audience into thinking about them as objects and then pulled the rug out from under them by saying the wives have been treated as objects in the story itself. It was a very clever piece of visual storytelling.
May 24, 2015 I just saw this, the spirit of the old films was caught, direction, photography, score and even acting was outstanding but the action sequences were way over the top, this destruction p--- really puts me off and makes me appreciate less the really good aspects the film has. While i think Fury Road was entertaining I'd take Mad Max 2 over this any day. The guy with the guitar in the middle of chaos was laughable.
May 25, 2015 idk what we're arguing about, but rosie huntington-whiteley was my favorite part of the movie whew
