I'm so lost... What have we been reduced to? How do critics and so many people think this is great?

Rating: 6/10 (26 February 2020)

What has happened? Have people become so blinded by explosions and spikes that real characters and story are forgotten in our collective conscious? I was mostly just bored watching this mindless cliché. I give it 6/10 because it's mildly entertaining and fast moving, plus the sets, cinematography, action sequences, costumes and sound design are all great. But the characters and the story left no mark on me whatsoever. In fact they just made me a bit angry, especially when I realised how many people give acclaim to this empty ride.
5 years later writing this review, I forgot there were "the wives" or the old ladies or what the characters were even doing, so I had to read other reviews to remember it. Do you just forget an actual good story?? No!
I didn't just forget Lord of the Rings, 12 Angry Men, Back to the Future, Toy Story, The Shining, even Frozen for god's sake! - actual memorable stories
What the hell happens in Mad Max: Fury Road?!
There's a cliché evil bad guy with absolutely zero depth. There's a 1 armed women who is the main character and there's a guy called Max who says nothing, we know pretty much nothing about and does nothing to care about. And the same goes for all other characters we're supposed to root for. Why do we even care where they're going? The characters themselves don't even know or care where they're going, as evidenced by the fact: they just go through a bunch of desert car chases in the desert then get to somewhere quiet in the desert, meet some old ladies who have no depth, then they drive back so they can do some car chases again. Oh yeah and the evil dictator has a big stash of drinking water. Okay let's kill him and release all the drinking water onto the floor. Yay, now we're the rulers! The end.
What happened in our generation to gain critical appreciation for this mindless crap? Yes it's got explosions and great vehicles and spikes to look at, but where's the soul?
I wonder if an older film with actual soul like... 12 Angry Men... would still hold up to this generation, maybe it's just lost like tears in the rain....