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SquadronROE posted:Although I really don't know what the deal was with the crows and the people-on-stilts-crow-things? were all about. As someone so eloquently said earlier, it's probably a good thing they didn't stop to find out.
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A GLISTENING HODOR posted:Anyone who thinks society will just become a pleasant farming village when the oil runs out has clearly never seen what happened to Brazil after that bad World Cup ref call, or Boston when the Red Sox won the World Series. Libya and Syria have both basically become the Road Warrior IRL. Cobbled together war rigs, slavery, rape, cults of personality, and wholesale murder.
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TrixRabbi posted:He's been accused of being a troll, I just think he's subconsciously a contrarian. Rather than deliberately hating on the popular thing/praising the unpopular thing he seems to do it without realizing. Even then his views are always interesting to read and he comes in with a really unique, although often wrong, take on the film. And he does occasionally align with consensus. Nah, he's a troll. Like Roger Ebert defended him for a bit and then people pointed out the trolling and Ebert went "Welp, poo poo." There's nothing wrong with being contrarian but White basically finds an excuse to go against the grain even when it leads to him writing some really dumb poo poo because that gets hits.
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The water was irradiated or bad, so they could not walk in it.
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TrixRabbi posted:Armond White. He called out Toy Story 3 for being a crass cash-in on nostalgia and effectively a 100-minute toy commercial (which to be fair is totally accurate, even if you like the movie). He was never banned from the tomatometer though. He left his current publication to start his own and so his reviews stopped showing up on the site due to his change of venue. Also I think it was his positive review of Adam Sandler's Jack & Jill that was the last of his online. His Fury Road review is pretty awful, though. He barely says anything about the film.
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A GLISTENING HODOR posted:As someone so eloquently said earlier, it's probably a good thing they didn't stop to find out. It reminds me of Star Wars and the EU. Back in the day, you go into the cantina and there's all these hosed up, awesome looking aliens and you're like "WHOA WHAT IS THAT OH MAN THAT THING'S COOL TOO WHOA", and now we've reached an era where every single one of those creatures has a 12 paragraph backstory and most of them are secretly in tune with the force. It's a cool detail that adds to the world, even with all the craziness of the world and these religious biker gangs and Thunderdomes, there's still poo poo out there that makes Max go "What the hell was that thing?"
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Neo Rasa posted:"Without fuel they were nothing. They'd built a house of straw. The thundering machines sputtered and stopped. Their leaders talked and talked and talked, but nothing could stem the avalanche. Their world crumbled. Cities exploded — a whirlwind of looting, a firestorm of fear. Men began to feed on men." I liked the little bursts of poetry in this, especially from the Bullet Farmer. It's one of my favorite aspects of the whole series: quote:Listen all! This is the truth of it. Fighting leads to killing, and killing gets to warring. And that was drat near the death of us all. Look at us now! Busted up, and everyone talking about hard rain! But we've learned, by the dust of them all... Bartertown learned. Now, when men get to fighting, it happens here! And it finishes here! Two men enter; one man leaves.
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Mmm I've just been savoring this movie since I saw it. It's like I went on a good vacation. Power of cinema, baby.
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May 18, 2015 16:38
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The name Corpus Collosus is a rather ironic name given the character. I bet Immortan picked it before he was born. "What are you going to call him?" "CORPUS COLLOSUS!" "Congratulations it's... A modok baby." "MEDIOCRE!"
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May 18, 2015 16:38
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Does anyone remember the quote at the end? The whole theater went quiet when it suddenly crept up.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:I liked the little bursts of poetry in this, especially from the Bullet Farmer. It's one of my favorite aspects of the whole series: Everything related to the Bullet Farmer was amazing. The ironic use of Verdi's Dies Irae was fantastic.
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Yeah I loved hearing that in the movie since it was used so well in the trailer.
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euphronius posted:STOP USING REPLY ALL YOU INFINITE FUCKS mediocre
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Batham posted:mediocre Meant for the chat thread, I am shamed.
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Crappy Jack posted:It reminds me of Star Wars and the EU. Back in the day, you go into the cantina and there's all these hosed up, awesome looking aliens and you're like "WHOA WHAT IS THAT OH MAN THAT THING'S COOL TOO WHOA", and now we've reached an era where every single one of those creatures has a 12 paragraph backstory and most of them are secretly in tune with the force. Exactly. It's sad that having weird poo poo to populate a strange world needs so much scrutiny now. Example: why the gently caress do we need everything to be an origin story? Why were there two 3 hour long Spider-man films about his dead dad being a secret scientist for Oscorp and every single character has this labyrinthine interconnecting backstory? gently caress that. No one cares. Mos Eisley was full of criminals. Inside the cantina there's weird aliens. Done. Universe established. Commence being a hugely popular multi-billion dollar franchise.
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Felt the need to make this smilie test as it had me in fits. A Photoshop wizard might get something better. 
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May 18, 2015 16:48
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Here's another bad review from the manosphere. Fury Road is bullshit feminist propaganda because it has Charlie Therzon barking orders to her sidekick Max.
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May 18, 2015 16:50
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This is like the first movie where a plan Max proposes/decides on doesn't end in tears and personal tragedy. In the previous two movies he's been at his best grudgingly agreeing to a plan someone else put together. A lot of these feminist propaganda guys seem to mix up Max with their latest 'kill everyone' run of Fallout.
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Baron Bifford posted:Here's another bad review from the manosphere. Fury Road is bullshit feminist propaganda because it has Charlie Therzon barking orders to her sidekick Max. This was like the first terrible review that came out, everybody was laughing at it while they got hyped up for the movie. Because, you know, if there's anything that Mad Max doesn't do, it's get bossed around by people.
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peppermoth posted:Is a troll review anything that you don't agree with? The one to one relationship between terrible opinions and excessive game references holds true.
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Baron Bifford posted:Here's another bad review from the manosphere. Fury Road is bullshit feminist propaganda because it has Charlie Therzon barking orders to her sidekick Max. Feminism ruined that fine traditional American culture icon mad max you say! Yep, that Seppo can sure go get hosed.
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The reviewer thinks the Mad Max franchise was co-opted by feminists, but ignores the fact that all four movies, including Fury Road, have been made by the same writer-director. Max has always been George Miller's baby.
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Can someone tell all these MRAs how Max's dead son Sprog is now a dead daughter for maximum masculine maelstrom?HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:I liked the little bursts of poetry in this, especially from the Bullet Farmer. It's one of my favorite aspects of the whole series: It really lends to the mythical nature of the characters and series and is something I love as well. The entire narration for Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior is one of my favorite opening voice overs to anything. In Fury Road I really liked how one of the wives, The Dag has almost no lines but talks in super sarcastic flowery speech all the time. I can't even remember the line exactly, but when she questions if the entire Immortan convoy is in the distance or if it's just a mirage she has this great line that's like "Is that an entire convoy in the distance or a merely a treacherous vexation?" 
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MinibarMatchman posted:Does anyone remember the quote at the end? The whole theater went quiet when it suddenly crept up. The quote is attributed to something called 'The First History Man' which so far I have found no record of online. I would assume that the implication here is that somehow humanity claws it's way back on top, or at least to a point where books start being written again.
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MinibarMatchman posted:Does anyone remember the quote at the end? The whole theater went quiet when it suddenly crept up.
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Monster w21 Faces posted:The quote is attributed to something called 'The First History Man' which so far I have found no record of online. Good.
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Speaking of the baby - is the surgeon the same guy as the Pop Tarts guy from Insidious?
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 1. Pitch Perfect 2, Universal, $70.3 million 2. Mad Max: Fury Road, Warner Bros., $44.4 million 3. Avengers: Age of Ultron, Disney, $38.8 million ($372 million domestic total) 4. Hot Pursuit, Warner Bros/MGM-New Line, $5.7 million ($23.4 million domestic total) 5. Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 (Sony), $3.6 million ($62.9 million domestic total) I know that this comes with the territory of being rated R, but loving seriously? I'm hoping WOM will do for this film what the marketing couldn't (not implying that it wasn't well marketed).
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Baron Bifford posted:Here's another bad review from the manosphere. Fury Road is bullshit feminist propaganda because it has Charlie Therzon barking orders to her sidekick Max. Video game reference in the first statement. My thesis holds true!
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One of the more interesting parts of Mad Max is that you really don't have conflicts over scarcity. There's still plenty of oil for everyone's needs, plenty of clean water, plenty of energy. The big issues are people hoarding- hoarding power, hoarding wealth, hoarding survival. The end of each movie then shows the return of civilization, defined as a willingness to treat other people decently.
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pookerbug posted:
This shouldn't actually surprise anyone.
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The funny thing about the MRA bullshit is that the film is actually drat male-positive. It's a refutation of the aggressive masculinity-driven culture but at the same time it paints the warboys as victims of that culture, not willing participants. It emphasizes that what they needed wasn't being killed but empathy and kindness and the ability to express themselves rather than being driven towards violence by their culture and rather-unsubtly by a father figure who considers them mediocre if they make a misstep. Max's own journey isn't much different. It isn't about Men Are Bad but that the violence-driven culture is actually bad for both men and women. It's absolutely an anti-patriarchy film but A is not necessarily B.
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Warner Brothers doesn't expect Fury Road to do Avengers money, I don't get this hand wringing about box office. It's going to be an international/long tail money maker and positions a franchise with a really good movie, which seems to be what the studio wanted.
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Fretting over PP2 grossing higher than Mad Max is like being surprised and upset when Katy Perry sells more tickets than Gogol Bordello. They're aimed at completely different markets/demographics.
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pookerbug posted:
Its going to make plenty of money, relax.
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TerminalSaint posted:Fretting over PP2 grossing higher than Mad Max is like being surprised and upset when Katy Perry sells more tickets than Gogol Bordello. They're aimed at completely different markets/demographics. Also movies like PP2 normally do really well initially and then drop off since the audience for it loves it but the movie is not really converting people
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Go look at the opening weekend for Batman Begins: http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=batmanbegins.htm Yeah yeah yeah inflation and all (20%) but... Now look at it's sequel: http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=darkknight.htm This is the game Warner is playing.
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weekly font posted:This shouldn't actually surprise anyone. I'm not surprised pitch perfect 2 was number 1. I am a little surprised at how much goddamn money it made. And I don't mean that in a negative way, just 70 million is a lot of money, dang.
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StoicFnord posted:Felt the need to make this smilie test as it had me in fits. I like it. I just need a gif of Immortan Joe with "MEDIOCRE" in all caps so I can use it as a reaction to, well, almost everything.
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