Furiosa was fine. In a vacuum, it was actually pretty good, but in being a sequel to Fury Road it can’t shake comparisons.
I figure that it looking so visually similar to Fury Road in trailers made a lot of people ask themselves why even bother watching it when they’d already seen Fury Road. The title including “A Mad Max Saga” is clunky and throws up big vibes of this being a tack on story (which it is), which really doesn’t create the kind of hype wave needed to reach out to people who are already cynical about going to a theater.
The word of mouth all seems to start with “Well it wasn’t as good as Fury Road, but…” which isn’t going to put a fire under the seats of undecided people.
sequel
Prequel.
Also Fury Road happens over 48 hours. Furiosa spans like 15 years.
Prequel
You got me. It’s still a follow up movie that looks very similar but lesser in the trailers, and has a clunky title.
Also Fury Road happens over 48 hours. Furiosa spans like 15 years.
What does that have to do with people not watching it? I’m talking about marketing and word of mouth impressions. Plot details aren’t very important to that.
What does that have to do with people not watching it? I’m talking about marketing and word of mouth impressions. Plot details aren’t very important to that.
I just think it’s unfair to compare the two when one movie is essentially one long chase sequence and another is a character focused story.
I was speculating on why the movie is underperforming by looking at the trailers, thinking about how people might form opinions based on those trailers, and by using what the word of mouth I hear and snap reactions I read online. In this analysis, the deep plot details are somewhat unimportant. While it might be subjectively “unfair” to compare the movie to Fury Road, that’s what is happening.
I’ve seen the movie, but I’m not factoring that into thinking about why a potential audience isn’t watching it. Because of course, the people who aren’t watching the movie, aren’t watching the movie.
I enjoyed all the weirdness of it.
Shame, i thought Furiosa was awesome, although there were only about 5 people in the cinema. The critics seem to be giving pretty favourable reviews too, would definitely recommend going and checking it out. Hope this isnt the nail in the coffin of Mad Max.
Hope this isnt the nail in the coffin of Mad Max.
Maybe it’s a sign that a Mad Max movie should have Mad Max in it.
Or that going the theater sucks ass. Why go when I have a 70 Oled and almos sound system. Dealing with the jack asses that talk, text, or chew loudly isn’t worth the hassle.
Dude, I only have a 36" LED and budget sound bar and I still wouldn’t go to the cinema. It’s cheaper to rent the movie online, I can ensure my popcorn is perfectly buttered and not burnt (truly a game changer), and I don’t have to shush 2.5 teenagers every matinee night.
Theaters are dead, man.
70 Oled
A TV needs to have more than 70 LEDs to look acceptable to me.
almos sound system
And it had to actually have sound, not almost have sound.
Atmos, new phone spellchecker is a dumb dumb.
I would like to live that dream too, for now I do fine with my 50 inch TV with light balls (I don’t even know how they are called, most likely dead leds), no sound bar, but hey, at least I have a Nvidia Shield TV 2019 Pro, which it is too damn slow for my setup on Kodi most of the times, but it behaves pretty well for everything else.
Mad Max had three movies already. I don’t think he needs more. One thing I enjoyed about Fury Road was that he was basically a supporting character for Furiosa.
This was the fifth Mad Max movie, actually.
Maybe it did have Mad Max in it.
The Dogman / Mad Max was in the credits but I don’t remember him in the film.
Furiosa has a few major challenges up against it, really:
- Its running time is longer than the average Blockbuster
- it’s R rated and violent
- Mad Max is a fairly niche IP to begin with
- It’s a backstory for a secondary (albeit important) character from Fury Road
- People are feeling the pinch financially right now
Having Tom Hardy playing Max as the main character might have bumped the opening weekend Box Office a bit, but not hugely IMO.
it’s R rated and violent
You listed positive among the drawbacks.
And yeah, even though it wasn’t constant action like Fury Road, it definitely felt gorier.
R is typically a drawback financially because it can’t be marketed as a “family friendly outing”. Even a PG13 movie gets mom+dad+kids ticket sales, where rated R gets Mom this week and Dad next week.
I don’t get the part about the economy not doing well, stock market is at all time high and houses are selling for insane prices
Sure, but how many theatergoers benefit from either of those?
Good joke mate. I laughed.
Im not paying to see ATJ
Watched it over the weekend and was rather underwhelmed. It felt “cheap” compared to Fury Road. The CGI was quite terrible in comparison, especially when they showed some scenes from the last movie during credits. It’s just so obvious they paid less detail to the effects and it seemed like a significant decrease in their use of practical effects. Add to that some of the effects were just plain bad. AND worse of all
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They skipped the final fight scene completely!
Also there was just too much talking. Fury Road was great because the world building was done without extra dialog. Furiosa just felt like any other Hollywood film with nothing special at all.
I saw a clip of her crawling on the top of a truck with some kind parachute or something attached to it, and it looked fucking terrible.
felt “cheap” compared to Fury Road. The CGI was quite terrible in comparison
This was my impression from the trailer. Eh, I’ll catch it on streaming, eventually.
It’s just so obvious they paid less detail to the effects and it seemed like a significant decrease in their use of practical effects.
When I saw the trailer that was my very first thought. “This is a cash grab that’s 90% bad cgi”
Well the advertising sucks then, because I didn’t even realize this was out.
The movie is great IMO and deserves better… but I had to see it in a filthy theater with non-reclining seats on a screen that was so tinted in green that the reds looks like rust.
Why are we supposed to pay for this experience?.. I literally would have been better off watching it at home on my crappy projector
I lost interest with Taylor-Joy playing the character to be honest. I’m sure I’ll watch it but not in the theater.
This from a guy with an original Road Warrior theater poster in my garage and a hand-built, contest-winning Imortan Joe costume.
Other than the ending dialogue, which i wasnt a big fan of probably because of the writing, her acting is superb. She is almost always silent so that makes it even more challenging. Her eyes do the talking.
How do you know which one to look at (listen to?)
She has like 30 lines in the whole film but she’s nailed Theron’s voice somehow. And for like first half of the movie, there’s even younger Furiosa played by different actress.
I watched an interview with her where she said they used CGI to slightly alter the actress(es?) playing her younger self to look more like her (grown up).
Why do they keep making Garfield movies they keep flopping
kids. my kids loved it
I guess I can’t talk, i absolutely loved master of disguise as a kid
I remember trying too hard to like Garfield as a kid and ultimately giving up. I don’t know if it’s not my kind of humor or if there’s a specific kind of humor for syndicated comics that just doesn’t translate well to other mediums
That’s a shame. Chris Hemsworth is fantastic in this. Felt like he was having time of his life.
Chris Hemsworth is in Garfield?
He played Odie
Would’ve been better if he was. Then after Barbenheimer we would’ve had Furifield.
Wait… theaters still exist? They were expensive before food prices doubled. How much are they charging for a bag of popcorn now? Do they accept bills less than $100?
Is it all self-service now? Are we now expected to push <play> on the movie computer AND clean the theater before we’re allowed to leave? Are you forced to watch ads while you clean up?Ever since Jiffy Pop hit $50 at the self-service Dollar General, I barely leave home anymore.
They do accept small electronics and children, in working order of course.
Yeah but what about Garfield?
Let’s talk about Rampart
I get this reference
The header is, Furiosa barely topped Garfield. So there’s that.
Garfield always struck me as a power-bottom.
“Furiosa edges Garfield”
apparently its not bad except it has nothing to do with Garfield, and it has nothing for grownups.
Come at the king, you best not miss
I plan to go see furiosa soon. Probably my only 2024 movie
It’s the same for me too. I went last night and there were maybe 20 other people in the theater with us. I live in a very densely populated area. RIP theaters I guess
We get it guys, you didn’t go to the theater because you haven’t left your basement in 4 years. You don’t have to keep commenting that.
My basement has an amazing home theater setup, complete with wet bar, popcorn machine, and a really nice recliner/couch set.
Why would I pay $20 to sit in some ratty, smelly, flop house of a theater when I can queue this movie up in a few months for free and watch it in the lap of luxury?
Looks more like it mildly underperformed relative to the overall market being very low, and getting lower.
I skipped Dune 2 in theatre’s. Watched it on Max last week. Why bother going to theatres?
There are a lot of movies I would agree with you on, but watching Dune (part 1 or 2) in the theaters was amazing. Having it on the big screen with theater level surround sound beats anything I have at home.
I’m really torn on Dune. I agree with everything you said, but once the runtime gets much past 2 hours I start worrying about how much my bladder is going to effect my enjoyment.
But those two I did see in theaters and thought it was worth it.
Other than the weirdly janky CG, which was both excellent in some parts while ruining my suspension of disbelief in others, I enjoyed it. No, it wasn’t as good as Fury Road but, let’s face it, that bar is so high it’s almost stratospheric.
