Mad Max - Fury Road - 99% on Rottentomatoes

You just make everything political, don't you?

IMO, as someone who is fairly conservative, I think the sex of a hero is irrelevant. I served with plenty of female soldiers. They are all heroines in my book.

Take your partisan hackery elsewhere.

 

Jeet Kune Do is not a style, it is a philosophy which most MMA fighters use. Which is incorporating what ever works and using your particular abilities and physical attributes to maximize your fighting ability. I think with a year training in BJJ, he would have annihilated the lighter weight groups.

 

I hear you, but it's not enough to cancel out the overall awesomeness of this movie. It's not that much worse than what you see from Ripley in Aliens or Sarah Connor in Terminator 2.

 

you have a problem with female protagonists in action movies?

 

Not necessarily. I have a problem with obvious feminist agendas, just like I have a problem with other tentacles of the left.

 

Sarah never kicks the Terminators ass, she plays a role of a protective mother who will do anything for her child. After suffering extreme PTSD after first Terminator she sort of takes on a machine like personality, its actually very well played by Cameron.
Ripley plays her role too, again of a protective mother. If this is what Mad Max is then fine, if its more like Frozen then (*)(*)(*)(*) that (*)(*)(*)(*).

 

a strong female protagonist in an action movie, isn't a "feminist agenda".

its just a strong female kicking ass.

and most people think its cool.

 

She loses the fight she has with Max in the movie.

She's plays the role of a protective mother type figure, except it's for the captive wives of the main antagonist in the movie.

The worst parts that I remember as far as the agenda is concerned... (SPOILER ALERT)

was when she had to take Max's rifle away from him because he kept missing shots he was taking. She nails the target on the first try. Then at the end, she saves him from falling out of a truck by holding him up with one arm. He then gives her a blood transfusion and saves her life.

I'm not going to say this didn't detract from the film... it did. I'm just saying that the rest of the film was very good, and it's not worth missing because of it.

 

George Miller, Charlize Theron, and many film critics have all stated that there is a strong feminist motif in the film. They've proudly announced this. I don't know why you continue to feel the need to deny it.

 

I see, that is acceptable was thinking worse then this.

 

It is both really. It is a style of martial arts influenced by the philosophy of Bruce Lee, but that isn't important. I remember when MMA started there were a lot of Jeet Kune Do competitors, and I don't remember any of them winning a fight. He was a unique specimen, very competitive, so it is very doubtful he wouldn't have fared well, and excelled as his experiences continued. He was a bad Mo-Fo!

 

Early on BJJ and grappling dominated no stand up style would have fared well. No one knew how to defend a take down, or what to do when there.

 

if feminism means, a strong female protagonist in an action movie, that's a good thing.

do you prefer women protrayed as subservient, docile, and obeying all commands?

 

I agree. And I believe if given the chance Bruce would have acclimated himself into utilizing whatever worked. No arguments here.

 

That's a nice false dichotomy you set up. I'm impressed.

 

Speaking for myself, I like seeing actors/actresses who fit the part of the characters they are portraying. Just putting a woman in a lead character and having her toss trained killers around like rag dolls is dishonest and unrealistic, and having an agenda to create such nonsense to create a delusion is reprehensible. You can have strong willed women, without making them out to be unbelievably capricious.

Is that so hard to understand?

 

You do know that the Quick and the Dead was intended to provide entertainment, right. Any resemblance to actual characters, living or dead, is just coincidental. Stone definitely is eye candy, but she wasn't on steroids. Besides, how big of a neck do you have to have to shoot a gun?

 

why couldn't Theron's character have been a skilled combatant?

 

You think women are likely capable of holding Tom Hardy out of the window of a fast moving car using one arm?

 

Haven't seen it yet, but with her physic it is doubtful she really can pull off a skilled combatant. Skilled combatants are ripped/muscular, and not anorexic types.

Sorry but this is not the image of a skilled combatant in my mind. It's more like Paris Hilton going to a costume party.

http://screenrant.com/wp-content/uploads/Charlize-Theron-Furiosa-Total-Film.jpg

She looks like she would have a hard time fighting her way out of a generic garbage bag. Looks can be deceiving but in this case...

 

you mean her prosthetic robot arm?

sure

 

attached to her normal arm?

 

oh no, a strong woman in a fighting role!!!

run!!! hide your kids!!!



I guess you also loathed "Kill Bill".

 

Kill Bill was at least honest. The trailer for Mad Max gave no impression that it was going to have Max as a supporting character.

 

Guys, guys, guys, it's just entertainment.