Is Mad Max Woke? 3 Things You Didn't Know About Fury Road

[@applescruff1969]

I remember everybody calling this film a pro-feminist film and calling people who didn't like the film sexist. God, were they wrong.

[@darylrazon4872]

God 2/3 of feminist are retarded

[@hoonaticbloggs5402]

Landon Cooper It’s just a movie. People read too much into things.

[@fictitiousart6410]

The action sequences were awesome. The story sucked balls. That's all critics of the movie were saying, dumbass. Why not make a political issue out of it.

[@greenaum]

There's an associated comic that came out alongside the film, with the story being written by George Miller, the creator of the films. They explain quite a bit of stuff that wasn't in the film, I suppose due to time limits. It makes more sense when you've read them. Though you'd think if the film was too long, they could've cut 50 or 60 minutes out from the road battle that's basically the entire film. Of course, cbr's are available.

[@suwucidal6936]

@@darylrazon4872 2.5/3

[@thekinginyellowmessiahofha6308]

I think these reasons are why I like it as a film. It depicts a dark setting where there’s nothing that can be simply solved by just killing somebody, and everyone is a victim. Max himself did kind of take a backseat roll, and he’s been phased out is the protagonist, but overall, I liked it.

[@oceanside9508]

7:52 American accent: “Because he let his *god* down” Australian accent: “Because he let his *guard* down”

[@fbussier80]

An often forgotten detail in the movie: The pregnant womens were selected for their lack of diseases, wich could allow for clean stem cells, wich he harvested even on his dead child. The chastety belts on his womens had teeths pointing outward instead of inward: this was a rape prevention mechanism, not a rape punishment. His whole system looks like a refinery of humans: trying to find descent genestock to maintain his health and attempt to produce uncontaminated childrens (heck his elder son is a goliath of a human!). I'm not saying i approve...but i understand his motives.

[@greenaum]

Nobody harvested stem cells, and they'd be useless anyway in a world where "medicine" is a filthy nutter and his penknife. Yes, Joe constructed the dome to be clean on the inside, clean air and water, so the Wives wouldn't be contaminated and bear him yet more disabled children. It's a fairly obvious subtext, though, that it's not the women who are the problem. Admittedly Joe managed to sire one "perfect in every way" child, but it probably would've grown up to be ginger or something. Joe's an old diseased man who's far too poisoned to father healthy kids. The white powder he's covered in, which the War Boys mimic, is supposed to be a painkiller. Joe didn't want stem cells, he wanted an healthy heir, ideally a male one. Conquering the Citadel is his great achievement and he wanted to leave it to a son who could pass it down to his own son in turn, giving Joe historical immortality if not biological. After a son, he'd probably have worked on building a big statue. The chastity belts weren't for rape protection, he didn't give them to start with, when Rictus was sniffing around. They were a punishment for disobeying him. So they couldn't have sex with anyone else, couldn't have sex at all without Joe's permission and key. They're also a bit disgusting hygiene-wise. Not pleasant to wear.

[@jackmeyers7805]

Rectus may have been a giant, arguably making him a public icon, but its shown he was slow up stairs thus limiting his ability to lead and rule. Though I guess that's where his brothers would come in.

[@yevgeniyaleshchenko849]

What stem cells are you talking about, do you understand that there was no science and research in that society they lived in? He just wanted a healthy male heir, that's all. He KIDNAPPED and raped those women to get it. Chastity belts were punishment for Dag disobeying him, although he did defend them against other rapists by making Furiosa their bodyguard. You're justifying genocidal dictatorial mysogynistical raping resources and power-usupring eugenistic cruel maniac here. Yes he was smart, so what? He was still a twisted maniac dictator who only wanted power and glory in the end and he couldn't care less about society and people he was supposed to ''lead''.

[@yevgeniyaleshchenko849]

@@greenaum Absolutely agree except that Joe did eventually give the Wives ''protection'' against other potential rapists by making Furiosa their bodyguard. Of course cause not out of concern but cause only he could rape them... Otherwise, I agree with you, very well put. The OP clearly doesn't understand what he's talking about.

[@greenaum]

@@yevgeniyaleshchenko849 Yeah I suppose Rictus might eventually not have given a fuck what his dad says, and tried raping one or more of the Wives anyway. There's a comic that acts as a prequel to the film, I can't remember if it's in there or not, but Rictus is doing... what he might consider "flirting". Joe pulls him off and gives him a little slap on the nose, but Rictus partly stands his ground, like "I'm not scared of YOU! Well ok I AM still scared of you, but less and less so". Rictus is really the only potential rapist who could have got in there though. Possibly the only one to fight off all five women (plus Miss Giddy). The Organic Mechanic could, but he was more than happy as an honoured pet, given more luxury than he needed, from Joe. There was no better place in miles to be a partly-qualified three-quarters round-the-bend "doctor". He would have been happy with prostitutes or milkers or whatever, where for Rictus it was about challenging his father, the only person mad enough to want to.

[@MDPToaster]

What I learned from Fury Road: women are incompetent and shouldn’t be left to lead a post-apocalyptic society. EDIT: Jesus guys this is just a joke, calm down.

[@tylerghersinich576]

Is it arguable to say they stared the apocalypse. I don't know the lore on mad max

[@jenanali3342]

That sounds really sexist when you put it that way...

[@darkblood626]

Women in highly privileged position rebel against social boundaries and hierarchy that enabled that position. Lack of perspective regarding the nature of the world outside of that privileged position leads them to squander vital resources and open the doors to potentially hostile agents… Just like in real life.

[@Matt-ec5jn]

@@jenanali3342 still true

[@jenanali3342]

@@Matt-ec5jn Are you sure ? There are exception.... And that doesn't automatically mean that ANY man is able to lead a apocalyptic world just because he's a male /:

[@JoeMartinez18]

I always feld bad for Nux. He truly was just a victim of everything

[@YoRHaUnit2Babe]

Tbh he's a very exagherated version of all of our lives. But that doesn't mean that our lives don't have the same conditions as him. We all live with a more tame version of his life. I don't want to ever be enslaved or killed by feminism or somekind of dictatorship in the future

[@astronobo5001]

Nux deserved better, im still sad about his death

[@vanillabatcave5677]

Everyone is a victim.

[@yousef501st6]

After watching the movie and watching this I realized how much I feel bad for Nux because he became a slave and died as a slave like how men in real life are sent to fight and risk their own limbs and lives for us and suffer through it while being dehumanized by feminist as we are seen as monsters to them. That's why I support veterans and those who have suffered worse in their lives.

[@Supreme-Emperor-Mittens]

*FINALLY .. A REAL MAD MAX REVIEW !!!* You're absolutely right. Allot of people completely missed what this movie was actually about. They're so hooked up on "muh feminism" that the point of the movie flew way over their heads.

[@taliakellegg5978]

This is just muh anti-feminism this isn't a goddamn review

[@bigbag6709]

it is a review know what review means showing us all the things we missed.

[@jout738]

Yes they simply didnt care what the point of movie is and why they living that kind of lifestyle, when they were just so much hooked up in screaming that there is a lot females as the protoganists of the movie and so they could bot belive it.

[@yevgeniyaleshchenko849]

Noone missed the point, sheesh.

[@dustinneely]

This movie had a nothing plot and shallow characters. It is an overrated piece of 💩.

[@ThZuao]

Never got any feminist vibes from Mad Max. And I watched it three times. And this video was when I heard for the first time how George Miller came out saying it wasn't made as feminist propaganda. If all, this movie tells it like it is. There's nothing we value more as a society than young, beautiful, fertile women. Men are thrown into the the gears of society and war. But before I rant any longer, a few minor corrections: In the original Mad Max, the world became an inhospitable hellhole because of nuclear war. Miller said that Fury Road is neither a sequel nor a reboot, but rather it's own movie (so, it's a reboot. We'll see if they make any sequels). It's never mentioned in the newest movie how the world came to shit, but when I watched it, being a fan of the originals, I just assumed they kept the nuclear part in. Not only Warboys suffer from deformations, cancer and other health problems, but pretty much everyone else does, except Max (if you don't count his grunting) and the Victoria's Secret models, which brings me to the next point. The sex slaves were primarily breeders for Joe's Warboys. Joe didn't keep hot girls in his basement for sex. He kept the healthiest, prettiest ones as breeders to try and get rid of the genetic diseases plaguing mankind, but primarily, his own lineage. Because he could. And nowhere it was implied he was the only one allowed to breed. So, if anyone's still reading, my thoughts on why I didn't see feminist bullshit in Fury Road. I'm very curious as to how Furiosa came to such a position of power and was not confined to such a gruesome life as having all her needs cared for, reading and listening to music as a breeder. It's still fuckin' Charlize Theron, she's just missing an arm! But Miller used the "show, don't tell" formula, to great effect. Anyway, her character was a badass that happened to be a woman. Nothing like MaRey Sue from star wars, who was written to be a badass BECAUSE she was a woman. Furiosa's character could be of either sex, but being a woman helps support the narratives of escaping with the Victoria's Secret models. Maybe she was a breeder once, but found to be barren, so she climbed her way to be Joe's lieutenant. She could have entered the vault/harem without raising suspicions and sneaked the girls away, because she is a woman, so no drive for dick-to-puss action, nobody would have suspected. Her character synergizes well with Max, When Max grabs that M14 and tries to snipe the guy coming after them, missing all his shots, only for him to give the rifle to Furiosa. And withouth saying a word, she grabs the rifle, uses Max as a shooting platforn and nails the pursuer's spotlight. That was no "I'm a better shot than you because VAGINA" moment. That was a teamwork moment.

[@clivetrash9044]

Thauã Aguirre well said sir.

[@dragonborn5832]

Well said, if Furiosa was a man then some guys in these comments wouldn't be saying, "Max takes a backseat and allows a women to do the work, this movie's the worst!", when it is actually one of the better well made Mad Max movies. Unlike the haters we both actually watched the Dane video, because Max was always one of the main characters and is the backbone of this movie but some people's bias(which effects actual critical thoughts) gets in the way of enjoying this film.

[@rodrikofharlaw6848]

I'm fairly certain in the first and second mad max it was just oil. That's what was so terrifying about it. Just take away the seemingly simple luxury of travel in little time, communication and power. Then you have S&M bikers rolling around slaughtering people for food and gas. And I had a feeling since Furiosa was taken as a child she was raped causing infertility or was born so making her useless as a breeder or milker. But still possibly a warrior.

[@Chloe2000mm]

In response to your question about Furiosa's past, I was also curious so I found this explanation: "Furiosa was born in a fertile land known as the Green Place. A daughter of Mary Jo Bassa, she is one of the Vuvalini of Many Mothers. She was taught how to read by the many mothers.[2] Her initiating Mother was K.T. Concannon and her clan was Swaddle Dog. She was kidnapped from the Green Place at least 7000 days (around 20 years) prior to meeting the Vuvalini again. She was attacked and kidnapped along with her mother. Her mother died 3 days after the abduction. Serving Immortan Joe After she came to The Citadel she was traded into Immortan Joe's hands to become one of his Wives. He tried to breed with her but she was barren. As a result Immortan Joe gave Furiosa to one of his Imperators who let her ride on the War Rigs and taught her the art of war. When her mentor was killed she took over his command. Furiosa became Immortan Joe's finest warrior and earned the rank of Imperator. She lost her arm during one of the battles while serving Immortan Joe.[3] She was the only woman among the military ranks of Immortan Joe's army." madmax.fandom.com/wiki/Imperator_Furiosa Like you, I did not necessarily see Fury Road as particularly feminist, but I did find it incredibly entertaining, so much so that I saw it twice on the big screen. Regarding the breeders, there is nothing cushy or luxurious about being repeatedly raped. No one had it easy in this fictional world,. The entire society was based on violence.

[@ethanzane7648]

But muh woke robot arm woman, just like in WW2

[@ashkenazizionist9937]

battle field 5

[@joshmaddie4665]

Yeah bf 5 is set in ww2 you dumbass

[@bartholomewofthebotflies5960]

@@ashkenazizionist9937 Good job, jimmy! You got the reference!

[@bartholomewofthebotflies5960]

That's how prosthetic arms used to look back then though

@@joshmaddie4665 No, battlefield 5 is set in an alternate reality of WWII, otherwise we wouldn't see women with prosthetics at all

[@theepicmaxgod9648]

Me: This shit has spoilers also me: its dr shaym

[@TheCoomMan]

The Epic Maxgod bruh this movie has been out too long for you to have not seen it

[@TheCoomMan]

Nvm just saw how long ago u posted that comment

[@akhilnair1137]

But max ( a man ) gave blood to furiosa ( a woman ) so she could live , showing that even the most badass female character can't survive without a secondary male character . Also I was too busy watching some of the best hand crafted , practical action scenes to see if it's pro feminist .

[@chipsfries5638]

Yeah but, she saved him from falling, i think you missed the point here, it' not about who needs who. It's about helping each other, caring about other people. Being selfless i guess

[@dragonborn5832]

Another scene in Fury Road of working with each other(teamwork) is when Max trust Furiosa and allows himself be used as a stabilizer for the rifle.

[@ArthurMorgan-uz1px]

yeah but max is actually the main character

[@TheWaynos73]

Men and women working together makes the world a better place is the message.

[@TheWaynos73]

@@chipsfries5638 Max could have shot her in the back of the head when they first met but he spared her. Sparing someone’s life in a world of fire and blood is a pretty big thing.

[@TheZodiacRipper]

Very interesting points. A hardcore dictator isnt always a bad leader because in extreme situations he is the only one prepared to take extreme measures to ensure survival.

[@legion3356]

I wish people would just enjoy the movie for what it is and not some feminist propaganda

[@applescruff1969]

Welcome to the modern world, my friend.

[@legion3356]

@@applescruff1969 feels bad man

[@craigholmes3046]

Redbeard....shut up...that is why everyone not just white men hate shit like this

[@thedon7082]

Pussy Slayer even the smallest things are taken as pushing a feminist agenda.

[@craigholmes3046]

Theman Joe Well I wish they would not push it as much as they do, and shove it down our throats all the time...AND put down men just because they can and people do very little to nonthing about it....when that changes THEN we will talk about enjoying things

[@ModernDayGunSlinger]

Mr. Dr. Shaym, always posting excellent videos. All of these feminist movies usually display men as evil or victims of other men, and women as objects of oppression who must topple the tyranny of men in order to bring about true peace and equality. It’s beyond ridiculous. Funny how they ignore how women are generally shown as having relatively good lives compared to men. What’s so funny and ironic and something most people seem to miss about these feminist movies, like Fury Road, is that it is MEN’s sacrifice in these stories that allow women to succeed. Max not only helped the female heroes to escape and fight, but also gave his own blood in order to save Furiosa. Feminism has taught women to trample over the backs of men as they cry out for “equality”.

[@ThuderDragon2408]

FromBeyondTheVeil: How long have you been posting excellent videos Mister... Dr Shaym: Doctor! FromBeyondTheVeil: Mr Doctor? Dr Shaym: it’s ah Shaym FromBeyondTheVeil: Maybe who am i to judge

[@bdroie]

it's a good movie, but i want the next one to have max more involved. he seemed like a backseat character

[@pinkguy5537]

he did most of the fighting in the final chase scene

[@DerMoerpler]

Mad Max was always a backseat character, apart from the first movie. It's never his story. we're seeing.

[@nuberiffic]

How so? The first 15 minutes or so is only him, it follows him the whole time, he's in nearly every seen. I'd argue that Max is in Fury Road more than Luke is in Star Wars

[@Viewbob_True]

Max had his story in the first movie, he has just been a vessel for other characters ever since

[@turdferguson7105]

I want bothered that he wasnt more in the film but yes I agree I would live more of him. His dialog was ti a minimum, grunts but if you watch the progression of the films his dialog does diminish.

[@Dis_Dis]

I played the game of mad max and if i get it correctly it's set after the film. There is a scene where a blood bag war boy who gave Max blood when he needed it started yelling that he was called useless, weak by Scrotus. He was locked up there upside down used as a mere blood bag because he was "weak". Then he shouts out to Scrotus saying "My blood is coming for you Scrotus!" It was really badass and also very tragic

[@ΓιώργοςΠαπαμιχαηλ-κ4μ]

Bro i loved that game

[@coolbeans3752]

Immortality, doesn't necessarily mean you live forever. It also means you will be remembered forever a living legend.

[@Ekolop]

I loved the movie, but is not because is feminist, or anti-feminist. It's because the story, the characters, the ACTION, AND THE FIL WAS GOOD. GOSH

[@nuberiffic]

It was just really refreshing to see a movie made by someone who cares about movies instead of money

[@ksanishrai5750]

@@nuberiffic You people don't really watch a lot of movies, do you? Try watching something outside mainstream big budget movies and you'll find great movies everywhere.

[@nuberiffic]

@@ksanishrai5750 ...oh you sweet little idiot.

[@ksanishrai5750]

@@nuberiffic Yeah, just about what I expected. Eat poopoo buddy.

[@adamwiggins9865]

That is exactly how I felt when I first watched the end of the movie!!!!! They’re wasting water as soon as the leader is gone🤦🏻‍♂️ But I never even thought about fueling the water pumps... And the destroyed taker truck...

[@jennwheeler1430]

I would rather have that than be rape cattle. But in any case, if this was realistic, thise sex slaves would have killed themselves. No person can live an existence like that. I for sure would have. Survival is not the be all end all. If you are living such a painful existence yu would probably kill yourself.

[@elizabeth5561]

Plus, don't they need fuel for the cars too? So now they are even more screwed because they can't just migrate somewhere, also they're screwed if someone gets a car and raids them

[@doomguy19931]

So....you're telling me....a movie.....about a future where people fight in a megadesert basically drag-racing as a form of battle....is somehow feminist or something? These two things do not ever correlate.

[@paulmartinez992]

True Dat. - My favorite part of the movie is the opening scene or Max shows his true colors every single time. Max is out for Max through trial and error he knows getting mixed up Will get him killed

[@Jizukiru]

the whole immortal joe thing is actually preety accurate about tyranny . Tyrants did impressively great things to make the people think that it wasn't an unstable constitution and keep the people satisfied so they wouldn't rebel. It is a small , easy to overlook detail but it is very important if you want an accurate point of view about this movie's antagonist , who is actually the greatest hero of the movie

[@sjent]

There is two possible outcomes in this movie, both of them are worse than original state. One is total anarchy, everyone grabs what he can, and strong will decimate the weak, resulting in bloody "civil" war, that will end with Joe 2.0 rising to the top. Status quo will remain the same, except a lot of blood will be spilled meanwhile. Second is somebody replacing Joe from getgo. It will, yet again, result in "civil" war, unless new leader is as strong as Joe. Something that would never happen, as Joe was not a complete idiot to keep such people near him. It will be a bit less blood and damage, as first option, but it will be more of the same in the end. Nothing will really chance. There is no, in any scenario, unicorns and rainbows outcome after events of Fury Road. Only complete moron could believe that everyone will be nice to each other, democracy, feminism, acceptance, etc. Its a world of extreme scarcity with people knowing only one way to survive. There is only so much resources to go around, and if you dump lions share of it to please mob, then that mob will expect more the next day and if they wont get it, its gonna be a revolt. So you either give them more, till there is nothing left and everybody dies or you squash this rebellion, becoming, yet again, Joe 2.0 . Feminism do not work in reality because there is no unlimited supply of resources. Those resources have to come from somewhere, somebody has to process them. This mentality is perfectly shown in various survival shows, where men and women are separated into teams and have to survive by themselves. In every scenario women fail, fast and start leeching off male society. Just like in real life. feminists can claim as much as they want, that men are ones that hold society back. Problems is that men are only ones who develop society to begin with. Matriarchies have a few distinct traits, all of them - they exist only in conditions of (relative)abundance and they never grow or develop into something greater(technologically, socially or mentally). Men solve problems, women look for men to solve their problems. And this rule applies to every aspect of life. For every self-sustained woman, there is 9 other women that leech off state social services.

[@tackyman2011]

I am among the fortunate few to be dating a woman who does fine without men to rescue her all the time. She has her own money and can take care of herself, thank you. No manipulating or batting of lashes. She lived on a boat by herself and worked on it by herself. I really dig that, and we in all likelihood will become permanent. And, no, she's not an uggo.

[@Super-BallSharp]

LOL, no! There's a comic that states that three years later the Citadel is a thriving community, almost like a small city, and obviously furiosa wouldn't run the water forever, immortan Joe was just keeping the water from the people to fill his own ego. Not to mention all the gasoline being wasted on things like doof's guitar and all the aesthetic flamethrowers, explosives and harpoons strapped to cars that do more damage to themselves then to any enemy. Although you had some very good points, furiosa is running the Citadel better than anyone ever could, and immortan Joe was too obsessed with fulfilling his own ego and continuing his Empire to focus on anything actually important.

[@sjent]

@@Super-BallSharp _There's a comic that states that three years later the Citadel is a thriving community_ Of course it does. Its a fantasy after all. They could have written that everyone ascended to godhood. I was approaching this scenario from realistic perspective, not some delusional nonsensical standpoint, that operates on ideas that completely defy human nature. _Although you had some very good points, furiosa is running the Citadel better than anyone ever could_ Yeah, a feminist fantasy. In reality there isnt that many competent female leaders. Chances that Furiosa would be one of them, in settings presented, are next to none. _and immortan Joe was too obsessed with fulfilling his own ego_ Ego this and ego that. Got anything to support this claim ?

[@AxeTheViking]

Nux felt like more of a protagonist than Furiosa for me.

[@johnwax9606]

It shows both the pitfalls of being too far to the right(joe) and too far to the left(furiosas tribe). Both ended up in the same apocalypse with joe being a monster and the women being unable to control their environment. In the end we all end up in the same ash pile.

[@josephmagdalen9220]

Great point on Nux, he is definitely my favorite character in the film.

[@imnotcreative2214]

lmao Oh my God that opening 20 seconds. Also I agree with everything you said I have been in a few discussions where the were comparing MMFR to The Force Awakens and W okebusters 2016. They said that Furiosa was a mary sue but remember Furiosa was beaten by Max despite surviving a car accident from a suicidal war boy Nux. They he saved her life in the canyon, then saved her life from the Bullet Farmer and his squad. Then saved her life while trying to beat the Immortan Joe's army with some help from the Vuvalini. Oh and he saved her life at the end with a blood transfusion. Let's face it Furiosa was bad ass but she would not have survived long after they met in that scene where Max was chained to unconscious Nux and a car door.

[@imnotcreative2214]

Note to self time 11:38 or 11:39 am able to like video was showing 9,006 likes now showing 9,007.

[@SatansOps]

There was this tumblr-feminist in my hs class that I was kinda friends with. I like to discuss things, and I like to keep it civil; but I do retort and respond with logic. There is a certain point in a persons brain when they realize that they don't understand what they are saying but refuse to accept it. She turned bright red, some tears and then we switched topic. Really liked those conversations.

[@dzthenerd578]

You guys still friends?

[@SatansOps]

@@dzthenerd578 We attend different universities, but we've met afterwards and are still "friends".

[@alexburbank2443]

Joe was also a original actor Toecutter gang Leader from Mad Max 1. Literally a legend

[@Solas67]

Sorry. I have to bring you up on the one fact you got wrong at the beginning. If you listen later in the movie, it's mentioned that Joe pumps up the water from deep in the earth and calls it Aqua-Cola. In Australia, there's a thing called the Great Artesian Basin that has 15,600 MILES of pure untouched water that survived through the sedimentary level when Australia had Inland oceans. It's not hard to figure out when you set up the location in that country, in which I live. So it is very much unlimited. So they can turn out the pumps, but of course the REAL danger is people getting super greedy over the water. The point is NOONE is really the 'good guys' in this movie. Women aren't blood bags because in Joe's society because their function is to breed or make milk. The number of healthy females as you'd note outside of the Wives is *very* few, so of course they're not going to be wasted for blood. Joe wants to create his progeny and that's his priority. As far as Nux is concerned, the story there is one of someone breaking out of being in a cult mind, and becoming individual. You say he died as a slave to Capable, but it's still a choice he made that she wasn't aware of. So how then is she controlling him? Just from a story perspective it doesn't make sense. And I'm not arguing on the basis of gender politics or whatever, but more about the movie, which you're interpreting through the LENS of gender politics....which you argue in the beginning of this movie....isn't. I'm sorry, but your assumptions about this movie aren't supported by the facts of the movie. You're right, it's not a feminist movie, but it's not an anti-feminist movie either. Remember that as much as the Wives and Furiosa were running from what they considered oppression, the Vulvalini came to be bitter and distrusting of MEN as they saw as being the ones who 'killed the world.' What you see in the end is people putting both of those things aside and looking to an alternative, a different future. If I'm wrong, please let me know. And remember, I'm not talking gender politics, I'm talking the story of the movie.

[@Solas67]

@steve johnson wow, timely comment.

[@jp3813]

George Miller (Vanity Fair): "I've gone from being very male dominant to being surrounded by magnificent women. I can’t help but be a feminist.”

[@loganhunt87]

Fury Road is a movie for Feminism but Not the Man hating feminism. it’s also a movie for Masculinity, It shows the strengths and weaknesses of both sexes. Furiosa is Max’s equal not his better.

[@greenaum]

Gastown and the Bullet Farm traded with the Citadel for water. So even though their mayors are dead, it''s still in their interest to continue the trade. Water is infinitely valuable if you've got none. From the prequel comic, we know there's no other water around for miles. And the trade was a nice thing for all the towns, they'd be mad to give it up. All 3 towns now need new leaders, and they're not going to have any loyalty to their dead predecessors. So Furiosa hasn't fucked them up by killing Joe. The bit at the end where they open the water tanks, again from the comic there's "lifetimes" worth of water in an aquifer under the Citadel. Aquifers can be gigantic, there are lots of cities now that get their fresh water by draining ancient aquifers. Which is a bad idea btw, because that water won't refill any millennium soon. But tell that to Arizonans who love their lawns. Still, it is wasteful, but I imagine it was a one-off in the spirit of celebration. Doesn't mean it will happen every day. Joe gave out free water too, he just limited it, to keep the poor ground-dwellers at each others' throats rather than his. He was right, though, in not giving too much out, it would be seen as a sign of weakness. On the ground and also in the Citadel, if he gave away too much his opponents there might have been able to raise an army against him. But that's just because people are stupid arseholes with no gratitude. The power for the pumps I imagine was the same as for the huge crane / lift platform. Which is dozens of men walking huge treadmills. The water is pumped into huge tanks higher up. Again, this is mentioned in the comics. If it's not that, it's probably powered by petrol. And the hundreds of petrol engines all over the place. The fact he takes a huge armada of bonkers cars into the desert shows it's something he's not short of. Gastown is a refurbished oil refinery, presumably with drilling sites nearby. Previously run by the People Eater under Immortan Joe. Actually that big double-tanker thing in the People Eater's fleet was stupid. Apparently a vehicle that can process crude oil on the move. Because the People Eater, being a former banker, is so greedy. Except a mobile oil refinery is the stupidest thing you could take into any battle, for blindingly obvious reasons. The silly sausage.

[@nekipeh7373]

You have a movie with chase plot, bunch of different characters from various places, guns, explosions, cars, trucks, bikes, vast desert etc. For me this is one of the greatest movies. And i can watch it again with that same feeling like for the first time i watched it! Sure, someone could be offended, but dammit people, stop blaming the movie... Edit: and a guy with a flamethrower guitar!

[@Goblinsharkhundredsofthem]

"Look at this male privilege"* a field full of dead and a brave knights*

[@1wolftank]

Hear me out Wonder Woman was the first Theatrical appearance of Wonder Woman in modern culture, the god controlling the war was a god and when they killed him the war kept going, her ideas of how the war would end weren’t what she thought

[@Coldfront15]

a new video from our lord Shaym, I come to praise his great knowledge

[@ThuderDragon2408]

All hail Lord Mister Doctor Shaym

[@Anonymous-kt7le]

If life is hell then he's the doomslayer 😂😂😂

[@saul_goodman_review]

I love Nux, I’m so sad for him

[@Super-BallSharp]

There's a comic that states that three years later the Citadel is a thriving community, almost like a small city, and obviously furiosa wouldn't run the water forever, she was just giving them more. In Australia, there are these long sinkholes sometimes miles deep field with fresh water called aquafers, and that's what the Citadel must have been built on. immortan Joe was just keeping the water from the people to fill his own ego. Not to mention all the gasoline being wasted on things like doof's guitar and all the aesthetic flamethrowers, explosives and harpoons strapped to cars that do more damage to themselves then to any enemy, so obviously many of the assumptions you made were wrong. Although you had some very good points, furiosa is running the Citadel better than anyone ever could, and immortan Joe was too obsessed with fulfilling his own ego and continuing his Empire to focus on anything actually important.

[@eraserstraw9252]

3 minutes in and just realized how screwed everyone is

[@raamskrill4813]

Thank god that the Mad Max game is good

[@winterweasel425]

the movie is good too.

[@nickm8591]

Winter Weasel shut up libtard, the movie is horrible because max isn’t even that strong in it, and the woman character is way stronger which isn’t how it would be in real life 0/10

[@raamskrill4813]

I want the main antagonists face mask

[@winterweasel425]

1 its just a fucking movie, i like the action scenes and the music which is why i consider it good. 2 i'm not a liberal, in fact i'm an anti SJW. 3 opinions and subjectivity. 4 why the attack and insults? also, why would making max a strong character better the plot, the action or anything else?

[@windowsVD]

+Will Smiff The woman character is way stronger? I guess you missed their first encounter where Max beat her and forced her into surrendering?

[@lucasvandersluis2377]

I was catcalled yesterday in my school and when I went to my mentor she acted like it was normal. But a guy was suspended for 2 weeks for catcalling. Like wtf

[@franks5312]

I'd rather be milked and well fed Than not be fed and be used as a weapon and a shield at the same time

[@TheREALSimagination]

I never even thought of this film as any of those things, even after rewatching it recently. Yes, I notice how the two sexes are practically unanimously opposed to each other as one "good" and the other "evil" and the thought of Furiosa maybe being too OP compared to Max, who had been starved, dehydrated and just broke off of a pike on which he had been chained. He also had gravity against him in the fight so maybe it was a little biased in her favor but he still pulled it off. Rewatching it was a lot more fun that the first time but despite realising I'm knee-deep in this pretentious and self-righteous woke cancel-culture, I didn't really pay much attention to idiotological narrative from either side.

[@josejoao1621]

Really good critic man! Congrats!

[@meltingdoggo8066]

Damn, I thought Nux was awesome already, but now that I've seen this, he's even better.

[@zadeify9596]

This is how you make a movie. I remember actually enjoying this movie in theatres and for a moment my faith in movies was renewed.

[@TheTektronik]

I haven't seen mad Max fury road as a feminist movie to me it is a depiction of wjat people experience in real life such as order and chaos great debunking it Dr. Shaym.

[@Sheehy223]

Seriously though, you know you made one hell of a great movie when people are still regularly talking about it 3 years later.

[@Alexander-the-Mediocre]

The main issue with your analysis is that yeah your right men are disposable even in today's society as soldiers and working in dangerous jobs. But why should women fight for change in those aspects? It doesnt affect them as much they have there own issues. That sad thing is that when men bring up these actual societal issues it's mostly just to put down feminism by saying we have it bad too instead of you know trying to actually change the culture. Also while I hate the term toxic masculinity different groups within feminism mean different things by it and it seems to me that most males that hate feminism only seem to pick up the most hateful uses by the extreme feminist. At least the ones I knew thought more on the lines of how boys are suppose to suppress there emotions and how these cultural norms are what make men more willing to be disposable pawns like the war boys. That's why I think feminist can see the war boys as another aspect of the negativity of masculinity cause they took what culture grooms in men to the extreme to critic the war culture and feminist have been against that as well.

[@lokipi1me982]

because if they want to fight for equal rights, then they have to deal with being equal. So they need to either take the "mans job" or stop complaining about it.

[@Alexander-the-Mediocre]

@@lokipi1me982 Saying "if feminist care about equality then they should also address men's issues or shut up" is like admitting men dont care about equality cause let's flip your statement "if men right activist care about equality then they should also address women issues or shut up" see it works both ways. Men as disposable pawns in dangerous jobs and war is a cultural issue and your answer is women should also be disposable pawns in war and dangerous jobs? For equality? Your answer is pretty much see this problem let's make it worst for equality...instead of you know addressing it. That's insane.

[@lokipi1me982]

@@Alexander-the-Mediocre name an issue women have that men don’t have (also no don’t say pregnancy) and yes they should address men’s issues or it’s not equality headass

[@Alexander-the-Mediocre]

@@lokipi1me982Intimate partner violence or IPV (domestic abuse) happens slightly more often to women. Death by intimate partner on the other hand vastly happens more often to women then men. IPV does happen to men in high numbers as well and is very under reported so it's even higher then official numbers. Mens right often complain that IPV is under reported for men. This is true. But the reason it under reported is because when they report it to cops, friends, etc they are looked down on and it's not taken seriously...not by women but other men. This stigma makes it hard to report because of shame. Women can talk about it but cant help here as this stigma is mostly on men. Men right also bring up how there are very few abuse center for men. The reason women abuse center rarely have men both abused and workers is because most women have PTSD so they cant be around men. I also think there should be abuse center for men but these men could also have PTSD so a separate center is needed for them away from women. Men need to run abuse centers for men. Once again women cant really help with this issue because of the nature with IPV. Also women need abuse centers more because they are more likely to be killed.

[@joshuaking8512]

Ummmm.....

[@itskitty808]

When I watched this film, I saw this film as a portrayal of human suffering, NOT a feminist empowerment film.

[@TheAutistWhisperer]

I think I love Fury Road even more now and I think one thing you missed out is whilst Max was in the background, the women still needed him, a man.

[@jalex.musica]

Ah, the movie that many late 2010s feminist movies tried to imitate and FAILED MISERABLY. This one wasn't even trying hard and it still rocked!

[@GanonGhidorah]

I just love how they will literally attach themselves to anything they deem as Pro-Feminist; it really does show how inevitably their self-destructive downfall is in the future. BTW, it's about time someone pointed out the problems with Wonder Woman. I've heard too many people say it's good for being a Female-Led movie, and it's time someone finally deconstructed it. I hope you do a video on that next.

[@shackiechan8755]

Finally somebody called out Wonder Woman. It’s was that great

[@caiocesarm.q.5523]

Beautiful work man

[@TheDarkHarper]

It is woke, but Charlize Theron played her part so well and Max took a backseat to his own movie in a supporting role but the action scenes was so cool we don't really care.

[@Skinwalkerwave5115]

Mad Max is one of my favorite End of the War movies

[@philosotree5876]

1:28 Yeah, it's not like he's the only one with a weapon, and they're probably scares ****less, and not all humans are completely fearless.

[@vanillabatcave5677]

Plus, if they tried to make a move the chances are he'd shoot Furiosa who is the only character they can trust at that moment.

[@enderwarlord3226]

6:00 being a despendable warrior who is injured constantly or having sex . That's a difficult choice to make

[@prasadkadam4625]

8:38 TRUTH I also think like that to protect family & friends

[@libertiesbreathe5014]

Hey wonder woman was awesome. Wonder woman didn't come off as a feminazi. She was a compassionate warrior who cared about the fallen in battle

[@tonymaher9433]

man you hit it on the head with this one! so many people still to this day think men are disposable as humanity has always seen us as someone to die and women as something to protect. if you take the only jobs men are supposed to do away and we truly are and feel useless, no wonder men feel so depressed now.

[@jumpy_bunny686]

I don't think I've ever complained about too many ads on this channel

[@heyarno]

I noticed that the women kept to themselves. Apparently out of fear of men. Then they had a hard time to accept help from men, especially men in the protector role. There where some hints that showed the womens disgust for men. But when they where working together as equals that all went away.

[@el_9003]

Inb4 demonetization

[@pixeltitan6054]

Love your videos keep up the good content

[@lukeiamyourfather4922]

I am personaly a huge mad max fan and even have all the movies on disc but when i watched this movie i wasn't thinking 'man its so good to see women represented in film'. No i was thinking 'man this guy might even be good enough to replace mel gibson' and anyway all the other movies had strong females. The first had the mother max's wife the second that bland worrior chick. Hell the crapper 3rd move had the main villian a strong female who built one of the strongest towns in post apocalyptic australia. All this crap about strong females is a load of bull crap

[@ninc3d3m0n4]

Furiosa wants to speak to your manager

[@axslaps]

Haven't seen Fury Road, but now I know what points I may have missed if I watched it without this first.

[@shigeminotoge4514]

Is that last article a mother being praised for abandoning her five children? ... ... ... If you'll excuse me I have to go increase the rate of male suicide.

[@darkdragonseye7371]

Yea I already know about that but never got the guts to say it, in fear of being targeted by women.😰

[@TysonHorsewell]

So what you are saying is that it is "Blue Pill"... Max is "Red Pill" but the rest is just "Blue Pill" and if we follow the story just a little down the line it doesn't bode well for the citadel. Which is a great interpretation. I tend to agree in the post-mortem. The movie is a wonderful ride of action. The story just shows how much the possible post-apocalyptic future is probably not far from today's reality.

[@joshuawayneyork]

I miss this channel so much...

[@jamesstaggs4160]

I absolutely despised this film the first time I saw it. I thought it should have been named Furiosa instead of Mad Max, considering the fact he was barely in the thing. On subsequent viewings I liked it a little more each time (it also helped that the world they occupied wasn't very clear as to the culture and rules until later viewings). I still say it's not really a Mad Max film. Max is just along for the ride, whereas before he took advantage of various opportunities, but he still went his own way. I can certainly see why feminists latch onto the movie, as the women are the focus and the men just there to be the villains and sacrifice themselves for the women. I don't see it as a feminist film though. That's a bit of a stretch. Oh one more thing, did they have to kill the car? That things as much a part of the franchise as Max and now it's gone for good. Oh and that article that said "male victims of sexual abuse get sympathy from no one" reminded me of how true that it. I made out pretty good in the looks lottery, and I can tell you this, women can be very handsy and very aggressive when it comes to decently attractive men. I can't tell you the number of times I've been groped by women that I really had no interest in being groped by. I'm really picky when it comes to females, and I can say that many women get really pissed off when they just flat out offer you sex and you say "no thanks". The belief is that a man will fuck almost any woman when it's offered, and that's just not true. They think it is though and don't mind telling you off when you reject them. Oh and when I was in my late teens and early twenties I worked a lot of pizza delivery and for some reason that attracts gay men around here. I've never had any, problem with their lifestyle until their lifestyle keeps hitting on me even though I've already said that I'm just not into dudes, sorry. So anyways no men don't get any sympathy, not that I'm looking for any at all, but as many times I've heard feminists scream about double standards it makes me realize they don't actually care about double standards, just the ones that effect women. I think it's got something to do with the fact that a woman can't really ever force a man to have sex with her. First off they're usually not strong enough and second a man has to want to screw someone, or things just don't work out. Doesn't work out the same for women.

[@suolasfilms]

I thought the entire point of the film was anti-feminist. The "Green place, the Place of Many Mothers" was Furiosa's promised goal to leave the relevant safety of the Citadel (in the WEST) of returning to where she was taken from as a child. Yet the promised land of only women (clearly misandrist in nature given the reaction of the Vuvalini women when they spot Max and Nux), in less than one (according to Furiosa's recollection "Seven thousand days, plus the ones I don't remember") woman's lifetime went from a fertile "Green place of Many Mothers" to a place of Crows, "where the water became filth, it was poisoned, it was sour." They chose to return to the Citadel to undo all that was done by the men. So the women could turn that into a place of crows.

[@AK-wz9cy]

You change my perspective on this movie... I thought this movie was great but after listening to I think the movie is awsomly superb.. Will watch one more time (the 11th time)

[@ivanhale8114]

5:57 You really think of us like that? 😂

[@AxenfonKlatismrek]

im not a woman. but i would rather have been catcalled than been Homeless and have bigger chance of been killed. also one thing: I at least live in Society (Slovakia) where when women does one of these things in 6:49. she would have been punished whatever the punishment is. from been imprisoned to pay reparations. and at least in Slovakia Blacks (0,05% of Population) are treated like Whites (98% of Population)

[@lorddervish212quinterosara6]

In the Comics the Citadel actually grows with the time and a more civilized society rules the 3 cities that formerly where the Inmortal Joe empire.

[@spearspearspear]

I like how you say “everything.”

[@elizabeth5561]

Did you know that when the pregnant women escape, immortan Joe has every able bodied man go to find them, leaving the cidetel undefended? Also, there's a scene where one of the women get smacked off Max's car, and Joe swerves out of the way, flipping his car over and endangering himself to avoid hitting her. "Remember kids, objectification saves lives." -E;R Mad Max review.

[@nightdweller2902]

I saw Fury Road for the first time last week and it's gotta be one of my favorite movies ever.

[@_Drakey_1]

“Without him and his toxic masculinity”, way to put in a way feminists will understand

[@Tychohuybers]

On that first point: if you look at the comics released alongside the movie, the citadel flourished after mad max left. We see a historyman leading a bunch of children around and we see that all the plants are still growing and that there's plenty of water. The reason Immortan kept the water to himself was because he let his wives and milkers clean themselves, which is pretty much unheard of in the wasteland. The water that could've been used for drinking but was instead being used by women to clean themselves. As for the pumps, in the beginning when Max first sees the citadel and in the comic we can see that there's plenty of wind turbines on the citadel, which is probably what powers the pumps. The gas from gastown was most likely only used for vehicles.

[@bryan3754]

Feminists actually didn't like wonder woman because she wasn't fat and overweight

[@dededejostar6557]

That's weird considering the original creator of Wonder Woman was an early feminist

[@bryan3754]

@@dededejostar6557 well they might not have hated her in the comics but they hated her in the movie because she wasn't fat

[@vanillabatcave5677]

After Furiosa, this video is so much better. In Fury Road what we saw was an old and jaded Immortan Joe wasting his resources on a chase for his wives, putting at risk the continued survival of The Citadel, but in Furiosa we saw how smooth Joe's operation actually was in his prime and how much developed all the fortresses were, then we get Dementus, who is the bad guy not because he is particularly evil or sadistic (specially when compared to the rest of warlords) but because he's wasteful and unable to manage his outposts and production lines. Even with Furiosa's vendetta against him for killing his mother, he simply retorts that he himself lost everything and that it's just how the world is, everyone is either exploited by man or killed by The Wasteland, to which she agrees. The world of Mad Max just can't afford "good" or "bad", only survival. Also, in Furiosa one of Joe's wives begs to stay in the harem once kicked out, and even then she doesn't end up that bad as she ends a milking cow.

[@kevper0918]

Wonder women was a good movie tho. The villain sucked! But wonder women overall was dope!

[@AnimaVox_]

Wonder Woman wasn't a feminist film, though, or at least I fail to see it as one. The lesson was that people could be good and bad, regardless of who or what they are. I do agree that the final act of the movie was pretty weak, however. Really, it's the only thing I disagreed with in this video; perhaps I just interpreted the film differently.

[@riotctrl9703]

No matter what this film represents, it’s still an amazing fucking film.

[@pupper9474]

I was just watching this movie a while ago. Great piece of work.

[@Bullboy_Adventures]

This guy is basically sympathizing with an insane movie dictator. Like, yeah, he was a bad guy, but not ALL of his ideas were bad. Whats next, is he gonna argue that a family should put up with an abusive father because he makes good money and the rest of the family has nowhere else to go? A dead skunk with a little salt on it doesn't mean its WAY better than an unseasoned dead skunk

[@vanillabatcave5677]

Dead skunk with a little salt is the best the world of Mad Max offers, Dementus is an example of something worse and how much damage that does to whatever society there is left, not because he's evil, but because he's inefficient.

[@Bullboy_Adventures]

@@vanillabatcave5677 exactly, inefficient. But this guy essentially says: hey, he's not all bad, still better than the alternative! Like, cmon 😆

[@phyrinx3740]

You are quite active right now, compared to some months ago and according to your patreon site you don't even nearly reached your support goal. I can't really imagine how many videos you will create when the goal is actually achieved.

[@spookysioux1224]

Max gives 0 fucks all he wants is his car he doesnt care about anybody in the end

[@blaze-0-rama]

YaY I’m on the Patreon list :P

[@sulkingsookie]

Good job James Lee, you might have gotten a shoutout, but I don't think you were truly appreciated. We should have a national holiday for James Lee.

[@Ekolop]

The wives, one admits it was better in the prison. At the end it comes down to freedom. The freedom to choose. That's all. They don't care about the freedom of the Citadel. They wanted somewhere not to be slaves.

[@landonlogan2846]

8:41 that’s crazy man, this shows so many dudes they are amazing and truly aren’t human garbage solely because your not the dream guy you think the girl you loved deserves

[@BSGA22]

I remember seeing the clip of them washing with the only water they had in a world that had none and just couldn't believe it.