Mad Max: Fury Road - A One Paragraph "Buddhist" Film Review

Mad Max Fury Road

Mad Max: Fury Road has incredibly brilliant art direction, great casting, and an amazing cultural vision. It was made by some seriously talented people, which probably accounts for its 98% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. It also includes great feminist themes. But by the last super-repetitive fight/chase scene, I was profoundly bored by the silly violence and lack of story (spoiler alert: we chase you for a while, then we chase you back the way we all came, thus pretty much repeating all the fight scenes that already happened). During the boredom that always overtakes me when writers don't know that they have other choices than to heap violence upon violence, the thought arose in my mind: "maybe if we spent less time and money (billions of dollars) on apocalypse stories, we could put those resources to use...you know...making sure the apocalypse doesn't happen. Imagine that." Quite a hypocritical thought for someone who paid good money to see the movie and actually profoundly enjoyed its aesthetic vision, but the thought was there nonetheless. If climate change really does destroy our society, the future historians who study us 1000 years from now are going to think that spending all our money making apocalyptic movies right before the sh-t hit the fan was quite a hilariously ironic choice.  The flame throwing guitarist, however, was awesome. :)