Mad Max: Fury Road
Ok, looking with a bit more attention, the plot is not as silly as it seems, there’s plenty of justification for their actions. It still makes no damn sense, but at least the internal consistency is there. Doesn’t diminish the film a bit.
Furiosa is pretty calm, considering her name. Mad Max is also sane.
For the sequel, they did fuck up the timeline completely, I see why they went for the prequel route. They need to advance 100 years if they want a sequel to this, maybe Furiosa’s Citadel is taken over by marauders from across the salt?
As a simple, synopsis, for future reference, Furiosa is a trusted War Rig driver, tasked with bartering with Bullet Farm and Gaztown for supplies. The convoy is heavily armed, but it’s a routine job.
Or so it seems. The breeders, producing perfect babies (unharmed from the elements) escaped, in a burst of feminism. The slogans should be a part of any political movement.
This enrages Immortan Joe, so he drives his entire army to chase them, including indebting himself towards the other towns.
The War Rig goes through twists and turns but manages to give them the slip, losing one of the girls that went under the wheels. The Bullet Farm chief is dead.
They reach the alleged promised land, but it’s all sand, only a few Of Many Mothers are left. These are older biker ladies, they take no shit from anyone.
They decide to load motorbikes and attempt to cross the salt flats Rub’ al-Khali, but Max talks them into taking the unprotected Citadel.
They go for it, and the older biker ladies mostly perish, but also Immortan Joe and the People Eater of Gaztown. Faceless Immortan Joe is nasty!
They are brought up and release the water. Hopefully, they will plant the heirloom seeds the biker ladies were carrying.
As for Max, he needs to ride into the sunset by himself.
- “Witness me! I am awaited in Valhalla!”
- “MEDIOCRE!!!”
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