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#StayWoke
Not to get all “Reaxxiony” on you, but the geek inside of me was excited when I saw the previews and marketing material for “1886: The Order.” Great period in Western Civilization history. An environment that one could get lost in. And technology (supported by Nikola Tesla) that promised those new, fun, fantastic weapons you’d need to take on an undead horde.
It flopped worse than Operation Market Garden.
Of course, this just reiterated a lesson that my hope (1886 would be a good video game) made me temporarily forget: Rarely does a game, book, or a movie live up to the hype surrounding it. And sadly the same thing can be said for “Mad Max: Fury Road.”
If you were like me, the explosions, fire tornadoes, even the symphonic score surrounding “Fury Road’s” first trailer made your attendance a foregone conclusion. It looked like a straight-up guy flick. No fucking around. Perhaps even a little, hidden acknowledgement from the director that when the shit hits the fan, it will be men like Jack Donovan Mad Max who will be in charge.
But then my spidey senses started noticing a couple things.
Charlize Theron kept showing up a lot in the trailers, while Tom Hardy (Mad Max) seemed to have cameo appearances. Charlize Theron sure talked a lot during the trailers, while I don’t think I’ve heard one line from Tom Hardy. And finally, Charlize Theron’s character barked orders to Mad Max.
Nobody barks orders to Mad Max.
Sure enough, what I suspected (but desperately wanted NOT to be true) was confirmed with two articles in the past week. One, Eve Ensler, author of “The Vagina Monologues” was consulted by the director to consult the female actresses in Fury Road about what it’s like being sex slaves. Her presumed expertise in this area was based on work she claimed to have done in the Congo. Work I investigated and deemed “fishy” in a recent podcast (around the 1hr 6 min mark).
Two, of all the outdated, obsolete, Baby Boomer leftist rags, TIME MAGAZINE just comes outright and says it.
“Here’s a surprise: Tom Hardy, a.k.a. Mad Max, isn’t the star of Mad Max: Fury Road. Charlize Theron is. An even bigger surprise? Vagina Monologues author Eve Ensler consulted on what turns out to be a very feminist film….Theron, not Hardy, leads the charge; she also does the majority of the fighting.” Alas, I was forced to accept reality. Fury Road was not going to be a movie made for men. It was going to be a feminist piece of propaganda posing as a guy flick. And like “1886: The Order” I would be let down, and would have to pin my hopes on something else.
The real issue is not whether feminism has infiltrated and co-opted Hollywood, ruining nearly every potentially-good action flick with a forced female character or an unnecessary romance sub-plot to eek out that extra 3 million in female attendees.
It has.
And the real issue is not whether Hollywood has the audacity to remove the name sake of a movie franchise called MAD FREAKING MAX, and replace it with an impossible female character in an effort to kowtow to feminism.
It has.
It’s whether men in America and around the world are going to be duped by explosions, fire tornadoes, and desert raiders into seeing what is guaranteed to be nothing more than feminist propaganda, while at the same time being insulted AND tricked into viewing a piece of American culture ruined and rewritten right in front of their very eyes.
The truth is I’m angry about the extents Hollywood and the director of Fury Road went to trick me and other men into seeing this movie. Everything VISUALLY looks amazing. It looks like that action guy flick we’ve desperately been waiting for where it is one man with principles, standing against many with none.
But let us be clear. This is the vehicle by which they are guaranteed to force a lecture on feminism down your throat. This is the Trojan Horse feminists and Hollywood leftists will use to (vainly) insist on the trope women are equal to men in all things, including physique, strength, and logic. And this is the subterfuge they will use to blur the lines between masculinity and femininity, further ruining women for men, and men for women.
So do yourself and all men across the world a favor. Not only REFUSE to see the movie, but spread the word to as many men as possible. Not all of them have the keen eye we do here at ROK. And most will be taken in by fire tornadoes and explosions. Because if they sheepishly attend and Fury Road is a blockbuster, then you, me, and all the other men (and real women) in the world will never be able to see a real action movie ever again that doesn’t contain some damn political lecture or moray about feminism, SJW-ing, and socialism.
That and you can expect Hollywood to further condition young women to be like “Imperator Furiosa” and not Sophia Loren. In the meantime, if you want to watch a real action flick I recommend watching “Kelly’s Heroes” instead.
-Aaron Clarey
#StayWoke
What a review, 5 stars, inspiring.
I wonder if the people that think the feminists and SJWs are everywhere and are out to get them also think that jet fuel can't melt steel beams.
I wonder if the people that think the feminists and SJWs are everywhere and are out to get them also think that jet fuel can't melt steel beams.
By IWMTB19 Go To PostWhat a review, 5 stars, inspiring.Aluminum patriarchy can't penetrate steel structure of The World Trade Center.
I wonder if the people that think the feminists and SJWs are everywhere and are out to get them also think that jet fuel can't melt steel beams.
This is the Trojan Horse feminists and Hollywood leftists will use to (vainly) insist on the trope women are equal to men in all things, including physique, strength, and logic
Yeah, women are the irrational ones...
By IWMTB19 Go To PostI just can't believe a site that wants to legalize rape would publish an article like this.
By db Go To PostWell it's named Return of Kings, guess what the nobility was allowed to do.Make films for us by us?
FUBU Films if you will.
Is Geoffrey Leonard a contributor on the website?
Do not YouTube Geoffrey Leonard if you don't know what I'm talking about already.
I assume he is.
Do not YouTube Geoffrey Leonard if you don't know what I'm talking about already.
I assume he is.
This article is amazing.
Not only does it suggest that men are superior to women in every way that matters, but at the same time it also claims that most men are too stupid to resist a movie with explosions and FIRE TORNADOES in the trailer
Save the men. Spread the word.
Not only does it suggest that men are superior to women in every way that matters, but at the same time it also claims that most men are too stupid to resist a movie with explosions and FIRE TORNADOES in the trailer
Save the men. Spread the word.
Good place to plug this: http://shitpeoplesaytowomendirectors.tumblr.com/
By Retro Go To PostThis article is amazing.I'm smarter than half the population but I got tricked by them fancy lights and sounds.
Not only does it suggest that men are superior to women in every way that matters, but at the same time it also claims that most men are too stupid to resist a movie with explosions and FIRE TORNADOES in the trailer
Save the men. Spread the word.
I tried the first Expendables. All my friends (college, HS) loved it. I thought it was stupid. I can do super heroes because I'm a comic book geek. I can't do testosterone-fests in the 21st century. That stuff was cool in the 80's with movies like Predator with Arnold, Bill Duke, Carl Weathers, and Jessie Ventura. Nowadays, the cheese exceeds the entertainment factor.
Didn't even do a double-take when the sequel was announced. Same folks who like the Fast and Furious (derived from a similar fanbase and target audience) gonna spend dat money. When I saw a poster for a third with Ronda Rousey, I was like, "Really?" If they're going to force a woman in the film for the sake of equality, why not Weaver (oh yea, she's too old to be considered sexy) or especially Michelle Rodriguez (bae) who are actually experienced in these genres like the rest of the cast?
Dumb movies are dumb.
Didn't even do a double-take when the sequel was announced. Same folks who like the Fast and Furious (derived from a similar fanbase and target audience) gonna spend dat money. When I saw a poster for a third with Ronda Rousey, I was like, "Really?" If they're going to force a woman in the film for the sake of equality, why not Weaver (oh yea, she's too old to be considered sexy) or especially Michelle Rodriguez (bae) who are actually experienced in these genres like the rest of the cast?
Dumb movies are dumb.
By Zero Tolerance Go To PostI tried the first Expendables. All my friends (college, HS) loved it. I thought it was stupid. I can do super heroes because I'm a comic book geek. I can't do testosterone-fests in the 21st century. That stuff was cool in the 80's with movies like Predator with Arnold, Bill Duke, Carl Weathers, and Jessie Ventura. Nowadays, the cheese exceeds the entertainment factor.
Didn't even do a double-take when the sequel was announced. Same folks who like the Fast and Furious (derived from a similar fanbase and target audience) gonna spend dat money. When I saw a poster for a third with Ronda Rousey, I was like, "Really?" If they're going to force a woman in the film for the sake of equality, why not Weaver (oh yea, she's too old to be considered sexy) or especially Michelle Rodriguez (bae) who are actually experienced in these genres like the rest of the cast?
Dumb movies are dumb.
You lost me here.
By Zero Tolerance Go To PostI tried the first Expendables. All my friends (college, HS) loved it. I thought it was stupid. I can do super heroes because I'm a comic book geek. I can't do testosterone-fests in the 21st century. That stuff was cool in the 80's with movies like Predator with Arnold, Bill Duke, Carl Weathers, and Jessie Ventura. Nowadays, the cheese exceeds the entertainment factor.
Didn't even do a double-take when the sequel was announced. Same folks who like the Fast and Furious (derived from a similar fanbase and target audience) gonna spend dat money. When I saw a poster for a third with Ronda Rousey, I was like, "Really?" If they're going to force a woman in the film for the sake of equality, why not Weaver (oh yea, she's too old to be considered sexy) or especially Michelle Rodriguez (bae) who are actually experienced in these genres like the rest of the cast?
Dumb movies are dumb.
Don't think that's what happened at all. Rousey is probably the biggest name in MMA right now, a huge get for them. She just got the cover story for the new issue of SI too.
You have a movie full of dumb fictional shit and people get up in arms about women being shoved in there as badasses.
Just like video games, got plumbers tripping on shrooms using pipelines to travel and hop on turtles. But oh man, women being strong? WHOA WHOA, my immersion is crushed here.
Just like video games, got plumbers tripping on shrooms using pipelines to travel and hop on turtles. But oh man, women being strong? WHOA WHOA, my immersion is crushed here.
By reilo Go To PostI Googled the author and found exactly what I expected:....
Douchery.
Return of Kings (as well as the entire MRA/PUA "movement") is unbelievably vile.
This site is a really good one-stop shop to follow their bullshit: http://wehuntedthemammoth.com
This site is a really good one-stop shop to follow their bullshit: http://wehuntedthemammoth.com
This part is rich:
One, Eve Ensler, author of “The Vagina Monologues” was consulted by the director to consult the female actresses in Fury Road about what it’s like being sex slaves. Her presumed expertise in this area was based on work she claimed to have done in the Congo. Work I investigated and deemed “fishy” in a recent podcast (around the 1hr 6 min mark).At first I believed Ensler, but then he called her claims "fishy" in a podcast. That lying bitch.
By Retro Go To PostJust download and listen to my podcast to hear moreCome on, how many of us haven't done that move before?
returnofkings is troll articles from the roosh v forum posters that non-ironically shows that groups views. They say stupid shit to get site hits. However underneath it all their just pure scumbags who hate women because women want things like equality.
By db Go To PostGood place to plug this: http://shitpeoplesaytowomendirectors.tumblr.com/
Damn, thas pungent
By ViewtifulJC Go To PostAll ya'll should see Mad Max Fury Road thoAction looks dumb as hell.
By db Go To PostYou have a movie full of dumb fictional shit and people get up in arms about women being shoved in there as badasses.
Just like video games, got plumbers tripping on shrooms using pipelines to travel and hop on turtles. But oh man, women being strong? WHOA WHOA, my immersion is crushed here.
No one complained about this.
By Moris Go To PostDon't think that's what happened at all. Rousey is probably the biggest name in MMA right now, a huge get for them. She just got the cover story for the new issue of SI too.
I think that speaks to the current state of MMA as a whole (men's and women's divisions) moreso than Rousey.
dwag.....In F&F; they launched a car between 3 skyscrapers in Dubai.....a man ran from the top of an overturned bus falling off a cliff and someone drifted the edge so he could nearly save himself with the spoiler. The fact that the driver was a woman shouldn't be testing anyone's suspension of belief.
Reminds me of people complaining about the casting of Wonder Woman because she was too thin to fight and appear threatening....while Toby MaGuire's 5'9" 150 pound ass stopped a speeding train in Spider-Man 2.
Those comments always seemed funny to me since a lot of them are coming from guys who have never worked out a single day in their life and don't know anything about real fighting
There's possibly room to be annoyed by the promotion of a woman lead in mad max. But it's not to "spite" feminism. It's because it's not what mad max was/is. It was about max's journey/survival. But without seeing it I couldn't say how/if this detracts from the traditional story.
Isn't he American? Is that still first world?
People had reservations about the Toby casting. But for "peter parker" he was/is a good cast. Nerdy bedroom bound beta. Spider-Mans "strength" isn't entirely derived from strength, but agility. This isn't like you cast Toby as Superman.
By Labor Go To PostNo first world country should be producing people with minds like this
Isn't he American? Is that still first world?
By Moris Go To PostReminds me of people complaining about the casting of Wonder Woman because she was too thin to fight and appear threatening....while Toby MaGuire's 5'9" 150 pound ass stopped a speeding train in Spider-Man 2.
People had reservations about the Toby casting. But for "peter parker" he was/is a good cast. Nerdy bedroom bound beta. Spider-Mans "strength" isn't entirely derived from strength, but agility. This isn't like you cast Toby as Superman.
"piece of American culture ruined and rewritten right in front of their very eyes."
dude knows that MadMax is australian? what a fucking idiot, i would laugh if it wasn't so sad.
Spidey was always nerdy.
also: http://i.stack.imgur.com/gc3rAm.jpg
dude knows that MadMax is australian? what a fucking idiot, i would laugh if it wasn't so sad.
By Moris Go To PostReminds me of people complaining about the casting of Wonder Woman because she was too thin to fight and appear threatening....while Toby MaGuire's 5'9" 150 pound ass stopped a speeding train in Spider-Man 2.i don't think that's the same. people would complain the same if they casted Michael Cera as Thor.
Spidey was always nerdy.
also: http://i.stack.imgur.com/gc3rAm.jpg
By Moris Go To PostReminds me of people complaining about the casting of Wonder Woman because she was too thin to fight and appear threatening....while Toby MaGuire's 5'9" 150 pound ass stopped a speeding train in Spider-Man 2.
Spider-Man was a nerd having wet dreams about Gwen Stacy and nightmares about Flash Thompson before he was bitten by that radioactive spider. That casting is accurate.
Wonder Woman is an AMAZON, not a walking ad campaign for fighting against teen girls purging.
Diablo III's female barbarian is the best-designed warrior-class female I've seen to date (in any medium). She's closer to 7 ft tall than 6 and well over 200 lbs. Look at that definition!
Armors up pretty well too for a fantasy chick.
Fan artists didn't like the design and tried to make their own. Frail thing looks like the chick from Heavenly Sword.
Twig.
Was expecting Lucy Lawless or Gina Carano-tier.
By db Go To PostOr you know how the comics aren't really drawn with buff women either except She-hulk.
I agree that this is a problem. She-Hulk isn't even really buff. Hulk actually looks like a body builder. She-Hulk is more like a fitness model.
By Moris Go To PostTraditionally Wonder Woman is hardly muscle bound.Don't know so can't comment on her, never really read comics / saw much about WW.
By Moris Go To PostTraditionally Wonder Woman is hardly muscle bound.
Traditionally, her weaknesses included BDSM tropes, but we're allowed to correct those mistakes.
This too:
ehhh..
first appearance:
http://wac.450f.edgecastcdn.net/80450F/comicsalliance.com/files/2010/06/wwcostume01-1277916374.jpg
later:
http://www.amazonarchives.com/Images/wonwm25.jpg
90s:
http://www.carolastrickland.com/comics/wwcentral/costume_indices/images/pyrates.jpg
i don't care about the casting at all but people would be up in arms if they cast skinny guys for muscly superheroes too.
first appearance:
http://wac.450f.edgecastcdn.net/80450F/comicsalliance.com/files/2010/06/wwcostume01-1277916374.jpg
later:
http://www.amazonarchives.com/Images/wonwm25.jpg
90s:
http://www.carolastrickland.com/comics/wwcentral/costume_indices/images/pyrates.jpg
i don't care about the casting at all but people would be up in arms if they cast skinny guys for muscly superheroes too.
By Frenchman Go To Postehhh..
first appearance:
http://wac.450f.edgecastcdn.net/80450F/comicsalliance.com/files/2010/06/wwcostume01-1277916374.jpg
later:
http://www.amazonarchives.com/Images/wonwm25.jpg
90s:
http://www.carolastrickland.com/comics/wwcentral/costume_indices/images/pyrates.jpg
i don't care about the casting at all but people would be up in arms if they cast skinny guys for muscly superheroes too.
meh you could do an even more unflattering montage with Captain America and Chris Evans back in 2009.