7. Mad Max: Fury Road
Fury Road was a beautiful movie. Whether or not youre the sort of person who would enjoy what is essentially a two hour car chase, its hard to deny that the world that director and producer George Miller portrayed was captivating. Post-apocalyptic dystopias do have their ugly side of course but deserts are pretty and the whole tribal thing was super cool. However While a searing desert might be an excellent backdrop for a movie such as this, its simply not the sort of landscape one would end up with after the nuclear war of Mad Max lore. In fact, its literally the opposite. The detonations of multiple nuclear warheads around the globe would throw millions of tonnes of debris into the atmosphere and start immense fires that would spew out masses of smoke. In a very short time, the sky would go dark as the suns light and heat would no longer reach the planets surface. As a result, temperatures would plummet and we would find ourselves in that oh-so-horrible-sounding of things; a nuclear winter. Radioactive snowmen and so on. That said, it would probably spell the end for the human race and so thered be nobody around to drive cars and kill each other in one of the greatest movies of the year. On that basis, Im willing to let things slide.
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