Despite being the first Mad Max adventure in 30 years, Mad Max: Fury Road treated character backstory like post-apocalyptic gasoline -- rationing off very little while assuming that audiences were familiar with the basic concepts of "loss" and "nuclear annihilation." After all, thanks to every new Terminator film, we've been repeatedly walked through the nuclear holocaust like it's a goddamn team-building mantra.
Paramount Pictures
Paramount Pictures
Paramount Pictures
Somehow, I'm bored by the fiery deaths of millions.
Just how many times do they think we need a movie about stopping Judgment Day before the series can die? Every new Terminator film neurotically fears that the audience has never seen the previous one, spending at least 10 percent of its runtime re-explaining the entire franchise. It's almost as frustrating as Peter Parker's doomed life as an eternal teenager, watching his Uncle Ben get murdered and reborn over and over like a wailing Prometheus.
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