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[–] Gsus4@mander.xyz 2 points 2 hours ago

Yeah, other apes don't like despots either. They get together to fuck them up eventually.

[–] Stern@lemmy.world 5 points 8 hours ago

crazy how its almost warhammer except the women are treated better

[–] Kimika@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Trex202@lemmy.world 1 points 23 hours ago
[–] Klear@piefed.world 26 points 1 day ago (1 children)

At least Immortan Joe had charisma.

[–] HumanOnEarth@lemmy.ca 31 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip -5 points 11 hours ago

It was pure effect cinema, not a good movie. But i get your point.

[–] DickFiasco@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 day ago

Had me in the first half

[–] Arancello@aussie.zone 1 points 17 hours ago

i thought for sure I was reading an Atlantic article about the drumpf administration

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Thought this was headed for Warhammer40k at first.

[–] LePoisson@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

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 1 points 5 hours ago

There won't be hive cities, because there won't be masses.

[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 2 points 21 hours ago

Immor-tangelo.

[–] Triumph@fedia.io 4 points 1 day ago

I knew Toecutter. I served with Toecutter. You, sir, are no Toecutter.

[–] Trex202@lemmy.world 1 points 23 hours ago

This was the movie for last week's bonus Kill James Bond podcast, Truck Season!! 🚚

[–] frosty99c@midwest.social 1 points 1 day ago
[–] Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk -3 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Fury Road - or ‘There and back again’ was a visual spectacle but a dreadful film.

[–] Akasazh@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

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 2 points 11 hours ago

Furiosa was much better at showing what was happening and why, but reviewers didn't seem to like it as much

[–] call_me_xale@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

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 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

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 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

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 points 1 day ago

It had some real Fantastic Mr. Fox vibes.