The Top Five Manliest Movies Of 2015
1) Mad Max: Fury Road
It was quite possible that Terminator: Genisys could have single handedly ruined the prospects for movies like the the new Aliens sequel or Rambo. It was loathed by everyone and could have sent out a message to dumb execs – ‘don’t update old ’80s action movies, look at Terminator 5’.
Then George Miller’s Fury Road came along.
The film is an assault on the senses, George Miller pins you to your chair and slaps you across the face back and forth. But in a good way. The speed is there, you can feel it, and the movie is mostly practical apart from the occasional noticeable greenscreen. When a car is wrecked in this movie, forget it – it’s written off in the real world. This counts for gearheads, we need to smell that gasoline and pungent rubber burning. There are monster trucks, there are black on black Interceptors and there are roaring engines that clearly need an oil top up. There is violence that simply does not belong anywhere outside an ‘R’ rated specification.
And I don’t believe it’s a feminist movie either, to me, Max is too busy bailing women out throughout the story. I love this movie. In fact, time to give it another viewing soon!
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