Good news everyone! No, I mean actual good news: The MRAsterpiece Theater duo have started making videos! Here’s Professor Skull’s darkly enlightened review of Mad Max: Fury Road.
It kind of kills me that on a technical level this video looks and sounds more professional than anything the real-life Sarkeesian Effect duo of Davis Aurini and Jordan Owen have managed to produce thus far.
But there are two glaring omissions from this little masterpiece: No skull, and no pizza box in the background. This is a very serious breach of ethics, I think.
My cat typed that out so I’d thought I’d share.
@LBT
I’m going to see Mad Max tonight, so I can’t speak from first hand knowledge, but it’s gotten rave reviews the likes I’ve never seen an action movie or blockbuster movie get, outside of LOTR trilogy. It’s Metascore on Metacritic is 89, which is higher than Birdman (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)’s 88.
Wow, jeez. That’s impressive, for an action movie.
Oh, shit, I linked my favorites instead of the actual video. ><
For posterity, this is the video I was trying to post:
@LBT, it’s good. The action sequences are awesomesauce, not overloaded with CGI, so if the mister likes his films old-school then it’s a must. Plus battle cars. Plus Furiosa, a social justice road warrior who is all the awesome.
Oooooh. I myself am not into action flicks, but sounds up hubby’s alley!
@Misha
George Miller shoots his action sequences as staged practical stunts with almost no CGI, which is awesome if you’re an action fan but it also means he’s could have gotten someone killed if a stunt went arwy. I’ve read no one was seriously injured during the filming which is impressive.
@LBT: Also, there are a bunch of old-lady snipers/bikers who kick ass at the end of the movie. And the movie is quite obviously anti-patriarchy and pro-feminism (among other things), to the degree that some describe it as “an ultra-violent Handmaid’s Tale”. And there is a car with a guy on the front who plays a guitar that shoots fire. Basically, it is a real good time for everyone.
Old lady bikers! AWESOME!
Is MRAsterpiece Theater a parody of MRAs, or are they just that un-self aware? I mean, the “black people didn’t complain about being enslaved” has got to be a joke.
Please tell me it was a joke.
David Futrelle,
LOL! That puppet is more life like than the real Davis Aurini!
Ah yes, that would be the Doof Wagon, a name which couldn’t be more descriptively awesome.
Is Danny Trejo in this movie? Tell me Danny Trejo is in this movie.
@Jackie thanks for the bleach.
@LBT That would be a Danny Tre…no
Just say the movie and it was a lot of fun. They definitely did more showing the story rather than telling.
My best friend saw this movie lately, and liked it a lot. (Sorry, Alot, you’re gonna have to sit this one out.)
Anyhow, he also sent me this, which approves of all the feminism from a pagan standpoint, and totally explains why the MRAsshats are soiling themselves. Matriarchy rebuilding civilization after the Great Collapse? HERESY! Er, that is to say, MISAAAAANDRY!!!
Ugh. Just SAW the movie.
@quiet wolf The puppet is a parody of a real person, Davis Aurini. I just made myself sad remembering that Davis is a real person who talks about being a white nationalist “on paper”. This is one of the guys the MRAs and GGera are holding up to tell their point of view on video game criticism.
Do.they think once they limp over the finish line that Anita will melt away from public life as if she were the Wicked Witch of the West? Is that why they are so scared of criticism of video games?
RE: opium4themasses
@LBT That would be a Danny Tre…no
🙁 Aw. Oh well, can’t have everything.
After the explicit anti-fundamentalist satire of ‘Happy Feet’, did anybody really think George Miller was going to keep his women in the kitchen, cinematically speaking?
I was initially ambivalent about going to see this, but anything that pisses off the MRAs can’t be all bad. (See also: Michele Bachmann and ‘The Lion King’.)
My uncle had a bit part in the second ‘Mad Max’ too.
@brooked
I don’t think a PG-13 rating would have done the film justice. R rating gives Miller scope to really show the audience how brutal the Mad Max world is. I guess Warner Bros thought the same AND suspected that if they tried to put such an age restriction on the film the fan base would have reacted badly. If you’re trying to make an uber rough tough action flick for the love of God don’t Disney-fy it.
So glad to see you’ve been keeping the Deadpool content high while I’m on vacation, Jackie. xD
@Paradoxical
http://i.imgur.com/AmOXs48.gif
I try.
An R rating is absolutely appropriate for the genre. It’s just amazing that they made an entire movie without anyone going, “Hey, it’s R rated! Let’s show some boobies!”
@katz
Do you think the MRAs would have whined so much if there WAS boobs in it?
Probably.
@epitome of incomprehensibility Correct, you are seeing a skull on Professor Skull’s lapel. Well-spotted! It even has a pretty little bow.
Also, regarding the elderly women on motorbikes. They did their own stunts. Yes, that’s right: http://www.madmaxuniverse.com/the-old-ladies-of-fury-road-did-their-own-stunts/