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Summer 2015 Movie Oddities
Topic Started: May 24, 2015, 2:26 pm (65 Views)
Dr Archeville
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So Mad Max: Fury Road appears to be a standard grim post-apocalyptic tale featuring a Hard Man Who Makes Hard Choices. But it's actually a rollickingly fun action flick featuring several distinct and fleshed-out female characters, and is being hailed as a pro-feminist masterpiece as it's about a woman trying to free several other women from sexual slavery, with Max himself relegated to more a sidekick/audience surrogate role. On top of that, the primary female character is physically disabled, but is as physically capable as anyone else, and no one makes comment about her condition.

On the other hand, Tomorrowland looks like it'll be a positive look back at, and an attempt to rekindle, the optimism and sense of wonder that made up so much of the golden age of sci fi and the space age. And there is a bit of that. But it's actually more like a cranky 50-something Baby Boomer complaining about those lazy Millennials are so jaded they'd rather sit and watch the world burn, and it's their fault we don't have jet packs or Moon bases (but if the Millennials are jaded it's because the Baby Boomers gave them nothing to hope for).

It am like Bizarro-World!
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I completely agree with your assesment of Mad Max. It was everything I wanted and a damn lot more. Just a great movie through-and-through.
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