Thank God I'm not alone

Rating: 1/10 (30 August 2015)

There's little point in rehashing what others have said about this "film." To do so would require more effort than the producers expended. It's mindless, careless, utterly disposable drivel. Give me five minutes with any scene, if they can properly be called scenes, and I'll give you vastly superior results. Not because I'm an expert film maker, but simply because I care. I care about great titles from my younger years. I care about the craft of movie making -- good acting and inspired casting, with quotable dialog that involves the audience and makes them feel for the protagonists and despise the villains. I care about smart story with detail that paints a vibrant picture of another world, one that helps us understand our own. I care about dramatic tension and pacing, plot twists and strategies, and fresh ideas that show me something I haven't seen before.
None of those elements can be found in Fury Road. It's simply a long action reel with superficial Max Max theming. Video games have better plot. George Miller clearly doesn't care anymore, or has simply lost what talent he had.
The only interesting thing here for me is the wild and unprecedented disparity between ratings. One star or ten? Are you kidding me? Sample the writing from praisers and notice the slick marketing language and textbook film school speak. Are these people who can't discern packaging from product, a la unboxing videos? Was a substantial portion of the budget spent on an army of film industry shills? I don't know. But perhaps IMDb's review and rating system has been compromised. Trust me, those of you who think you honestly liked this movie -- it will be forgotten in a year, and you won't be coming back to it in five, fifteen, or thirty years. There's nothing to come back to. Even Thunderdome is a masterpiece compared to this abomination. I'm just glad I didn't actually have to pay to be insulted.