Maybe an unpopular opinion but Immortan Joe did nothing wrong. He set up a system where he had access to water. He traded it for other necessities and set up a trade network. He respected the terms he'd set up with other suppliers and formed alliances. He set up a security force and marked territory. He recruited and supplied an army.
The wasteland is a shithole. Nobody out there has a future, but he did give purpose to fighting age men and those with usable skills. Even the people who had nothing to offer and no means to move on were given water, scant as the supply was.
He sets up a stronghold. He grows food and gets himself set up well. Is it too much to ask to want a family who can carry what he's built into the future? Do these women really have a lot of options? He's the equivalent of a billionaire in the wasteland.
No matter where you were out there, if you appeared on any factions' radar, you got jacked. That's just how it is, and his raiding parties were a necessity or he'd be seen as weak. The man was an adapted homesteader.
As soon as he was 'defeated' in the dumbest way possible, the first thing the new matriarchy did was waste all the precious water in a spectacular display of profligacy.
The hollywood part is that the women were abused prisoners instead of happily riding his dick. IRL they'd be lording it all over anyone else that they're so pretty they get to live as royalty with the most powerful man around.
Yeah that they wrote "our babies will not be warlords" when they left was cringe. What would they choose for them otherwise if Furiosa hadn't filled their heads with the horseshit story of some green paradise inhabited only by women? Baristas and poets? If they hadn't figured out that it was a daydream by that point, in the world they were living in where everyone has serious issues, then he was right to lock them up for their own protection.
These girls living better than every other human for 1000 miles around are convinced by a dried up resentful old woman who filled their head with nonsense to leave for a pipe dream (the goal ended up being a dried up desert with dried up old ladies; ironic symbolism), only for 2 men to keep them alive long enough for them to listen to reason
Maybe an unpopular opinion but Immortan Joe did nothing wrong. He set up a system where he had access to water. He traded it for other necessities and set up a trade network. He respected the terms he'd set up with other suppliers and formed alliances. He set up a security force and marked territory. He recruited and supplied an army.
The wasteland is a shithole. Nobody out there has a future, but he did give purpose to fighting age men and those with usable skills. Even the people who had nothing to offer and no means to move on were given water, scant as the supply was.
He sets up a stronghold. He grows food and gets himself set up well. Is it too much to ask to want a family who can carry what he's built into the future? Do these women really have a lot of options? He's the equivalent of a billionaire in the wasteland.
No matter where you were out there, if you appeared on any factions' radar, you got jacked. That's just how it is, and his raiding parties were a necessity or he'd be seen as weak. The man was an adapted homesteader.
As soon as he was 'defeated' in the dumbest way possible, the first thing the new matriarchy did was waste all the precious water in a spectacular display of profligacy.
The hollywood part is that the women were abused prisoners instead of happily riding his dick. IRL they'd be lording it all over anyone else that they're so pretty they get to live as royalty with the most powerful man around.
Yeah that they wrote "our babies will not be warlords" when they left was cringe. What would they choose for them otherwise if Furiosa hadn't filled their heads with the horseshit story of some green paradise inhabited only by women? Baristas and poets? If they hadn't figured out that it was a daydream by that point, in the world they were living in where everyone has serious issues, then he was right to lock them up for their own protection.
It's an unintentional criticism of feminism.
These girls living better than every other human for 1000 miles around are convinced by a dried up resentful old woman who filled their head with nonsense to leave for a pipe dream (the goal ended up being a dried up desert with dried up old ladies; ironic symbolism), only for 2 men to keep them alive long enough for them to listen to reason
I doubt thats an unpopular opinion. Literally everyone loved him and his army, while the heroes are mostly forgotten