All Style no Substance

Yes, because a movie must have a set amount of story for it to be good.

Have we forgotten how to judge movies on their own merits? When did we decide that each one of us should be able to write a checklist that every movie has to follow?

This movie had more story any any of the star wars episodes.

the only true mad max is the first
check yourself before you wreck yourself BOI!!

There was a story to it. Now it was half-assed, a bit cliche and randomly cobbled together into this abnormally long chase scene. It is baffling to me still how any of it was enjoyable though because the story wasnt really intriguing because of the long ass chase scene. Also the supporting cast acting was pretty bad. What's really funny though is the self-professed intellectual snobs who really think this movie had some grand artistic, symbolic, art-school story that was more than surface deep. It really was just another run of the mill summer blockbuster...and there is nothing wrong with that as those are much more appealing than artifical and fake depth, imo. I just however find the blowhards trying to force apply that mirage to this funny though.

This movie did have a sufficient Mad Max style story and the sphere was done well.
But....it felt way rushed and too much focus on the battle scenes.
Everything that we liked in the old Mad Max movies was contained in "blink and you miss it" scenes. The back story of the citadel could have used a lot more screen time.
It seemed the editors were too eager to make the race&fight scenes to show anything else. Even the action scenes were too rushed. We had to rewind and play several scenes in slow motion to be able to see what was going on. Otherwise it was just a red and orange blur of events.
I totally blame the editors. They ruined pretty much all the good effort that the prop departments and screen writers put in.

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Style IS substance.

yeah I am floored how crappy this is and yet the oscars are all over this

Kittysafe
There is quite a lot of story.


[quote]3 - The woman are owned as breeders, a lot of people in this society still want that

4 - A strong female lead who outshines the male lead in nearly every way but he does perform well, a good egalitarian balance overall

It's not perfect, but few movies are and ultimately it's far superior to the original films.

deadpixel128

Have we forgotten how to judge movies on their own merits? When did we decide that each one of us should be able to write a checklist that every movie has to follow?