Baby, you make me crazy

Elle Woods before her Legally Blonde era. Cruella before she was evil. A back story for Furiosa. Some origin stories should have just been flashbacks

- Karishama Kuenzang

It's bad enough that modern life is full of meetings that could have been emails. Now, Hollywood is doing it too. Films and TV shows are suddenly obsessed with telling elaborate back-stories of characters we love, but honestly would have preferred as flashbacks.

This year's Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga leaves Max out of Mad Max to explore how Furiosa became a one-armed warrior. It's got exactly what audiences would expect: Desertscapes, long chases, crazy warlords and a story about a young girl taken from her family. Boilerplate race and revenge over two-and-a-half-hours. It could have been a 15-minute interlude in Fury Road (2015), or avoided entirely.