Watched it on Friday. I liked it, but Fury road was better. More action and i was just more into it. Still good
I watched it on Imax and the sound and picture were great.
I watched it on Imax and the sound and picture were great.
Film FURIOSA (A Mad Max Saga)
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Fury Road did well at the box office.
Ah my bad. Just looked it up and it had a “poor” opening weekend. Finished second with $45 million compared to Pitch Perfect which earned $69 million.
Although according to wiki Fury Road overall net loss was around $20 to $40 million.
It did okay, got less in the US than noted greats San Andreas and The Spongebob Movie: Sponge Out of Water.
Really hope Miller gets to make his last Max one, the guy still puts more interesting stuff in than any other big budget director around. Will probably go see again next week before WB/Zaslav can consign it to streaming.
I thought this was better than fury road personally.
Just got back from watching it in IMAX and absolutely loved it. Really hope we get atleast one more movie.
Me too. Found FR good but they just went in circles after all that.
I really enjoyed it. I think it was more ambitious than Fury Road in wanting to tell a more complete story about its main character and her antagonist (FR was basically just a prologue, an extended action sequence, a pause, and then another extended action sequence, with hardly any plot at all - and that was its charm).
While it borrowed a lot of its best ideas from Fury Road, I still think there was plenty of interesting new stuff here. And the stunt work was as insanely brilliant as you’d expect. The first battle on the war rig was just a perfect action sequence.
And we had a career best performance from Chris Hemsworth as the most fully realised Mad Max villain since Auntie Entity. Anya Taylor-Joy was decent enough as a younger, greener Furiosa, although I feel it was always going to be a challenge to follow on from Charlize Theron.
Overall I thought it was a worthy follow-up to Fury Road, and it’s a crying shame that more people aren’t going to see it in a cinema where it’s going to be a much better experience (the sound design is incredible, with the roar of those engines vibrating through your seat). But that’s not an issue with Furiosa, but rather the movie industry as a whole. We’ve got to the point where only a small handful of bigger budget movies a year will turn a profit, and sadly it doesn’t look like this will be one of them.
While it borrowed a lot of its best ideas from Fury Road, I still think there was plenty of interesting new stuff here. And the stunt work was as insanely brilliant as you’d expect. The first battle on the war rig was just a perfect action sequence.
And we had a career best performance from Chris Hemsworth as the most fully realised Mad Max villain since Auntie Entity. Anya Taylor-Joy was decent enough as a younger, greener Furiosa, although I feel it was always going to be a challenge to follow on from Charlize Theron.
Overall I thought it was a worthy follow-up to Fury Road, and it’s a crying shame that more people aren’t going to see it in a cinema where it’s going to be a much better experience (the sound design is incredible, with the roar of those engines vibrating through your seat). But that’s not an issue with Furiosa, but rather the movie industry as a whole. We’ve got to the point where only a small handful of bigger budget movies a year will turn a profit, and sadly it doesn’t look like this will be one of them.
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Finally got around to seeing this and honestly it’s pretty disappointing.
The terrible CGI from the trailers is not just still here but smeared over nearly every shot. I guess it’s a deliberate choice by Miller but jesus it gives off Nostalgia Critic’s The Wall vibes. There’s so much CGI that it’s maddening - cgi dogs, cgi person getting on a horse, endless cgi mushy backgrounds, etc. Which means the action scenes have no weight to them.Reminded me of the last god awful Terminator film Dark Fate. The action is by far the worst of any Mad Max film. Hopefully the black and white version can’t hide some of it.
Chris Hemsworth is easily the best thing about the film. Maybe the greatest villain in the series. Very charismatic, funny one liners, great design and of course stupid but also a radical changing force - Freedom hurts.
But there is a downside to this which is you really see how weak Anya Taylor-Joy and Tom Burke are. Which tbf to Anya Taylor-Joy she is hardly given anything to work with as she is mostly mute for nearly all of the run time. Tom Burke as the Max stand in just isn’t Gibson or Hardy. The returning characters from Fury Road are grey and less muscular which is a bit shite.
Story wise there is a sense of grand myth building which is good. I’m not a “lore” guy so finding out how Furiosa how she lost her arm isn’t that interesting but seeing the history men and other parts of the Mad Max world was fun.
The message is similar to Fury Road but this time Furiosa is a bit dumb and doesn’t understand the need to move beyond. Also the run time is definitely felt and tbh there’s far too many scenes which didn’t need to be shown.
Ultimately it’s still a Max Mad film so it has some great moments and a couple of incredible shots but overall a poor one.
The terrible CGI from the trailers is not just still here but smeared over nearly every shot. I guess it’s a deliberate choice by Miller but jesus it gives off Nostalgia Critic’s The Wall vibes. There’s so much CGI that it’s maddening - cgi dogs, cgi person getting on a horse, endless cgi mushy backgrounds, etc. Which means the action scenes have no weight to them.Reminded me of the last god awful Terminator film Dark Fate. The action is by far the worst of any Mad Max film. Hopefully the black and white version can’t hide some of it.
Chris Hemsworth is easily the best thing about the film. Maybe the greatest villain in the series. Very charismatic, funny one liners, great design and of course stupid but also a radical changing force - Freedom hurts.
But there is a downside to this which is you really see how weak Anya Taylor-Joy and Tom Burke are. Which tbf to Anya Taylor-Joy she is hardly given anything to work with as she is mostly mute for nearly all of the run time. Tom Burke as the Max stand in just isn’t Gibson or Hardy. The returning characters from Fury Road are grey and less muscular which is a bit shite.
Story wise there is a sense of grand myth building which is good. I’m not a “lore” guy so finding out how Furiosa how she lost her arm isn’t that interesting but seeing the history men and other parts of the Mad Max world was fun.
The message is similar to Fury Road but this time Furiosa is a bit dumb and doesn’t understand the need to move beyond. Also the run time is definitely felt and tbh there’s far too many scenes which didn’t need to be shown.
Ultimately it’s still a Max Mad film so it has some great moments and a couple of incredible shots but overall a poor one.
Saw it today. Certainly wasn't as good as the first one but still entertaining. 7/10
I thought it was amazing 9/10, while I’d give Fury Road a 10/10. It doesn’t quite reach the heights of FR and Theron was a much better Furiosa.
Immortan Joe was a badass, his origin story could be a cool third movie.
Immortan Joe was a badass, his origin story could be a cool third movie.
Yeah, good review. Just back from watching this and agree with everything you say. Chris Hemsworth is great, I do like ATJ but Tom Burke has no presence whatsoever. Came home and stuck on Fury Road and it’s in a different league entirely. Hardy and Theron are proper movie stars, with bags of screen presence and charisma (they even make believe they don’t hate each other!). Tom Burke is a complete nonentity in comparison. So insipid. In Fury Road you actually care about several characters. This time you kind of care about Furiosa (although she’s a cold fish) but don’t give a shite about anyone else.
And that’s without even getting into the way that Fury Road is so much more kinetic and better paced. Terrible decision to interweave some scenes from FR in the closing credits. Really just rammed home how inferior this version is.
Having said all that. It’s worth a watch. The world building remains excellent and the minor characters are generally interesting. Plus there are a few nice set pieces. Better than your average action blockbuster these days, that’s for sure. Just make sure to watch with low expectations.
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Finally saw this today and thoroughly enjoyed it, albeit not as much as Fury Road.
If it's worse than Fury Road then it's impressive.
I feel ATJ gets screwed by a bad script. The character of Furiosa doesn’t really have any development. She starts off already knowing how to survive the wasteland then learns some truck stuff later on but that’s it. Add in the inability to talk for most of the film and it’s an impossible task.
Which is a shame as she is a good actor and has a star quality look. The idea of Hemsworth character through his cruelty ending up forcing Furiosa to become a wasteland legend should have made some iconic scenes but it doesn’t which isn’t ATJ fault. It would have been great to seeing Furiosa struggling drag herself up a giant sand dune after losing her arm instead of what we got.
Yep the biggest sin any film can make is referencing a better film. In the build up to Furiosa I watched all the Mad Max films and tbh it’s very similar to the other non Fury Road films. They all have strange pacing issues with the Road Warrior pretty much skipping any character development and in the case of Beyond Thunderdome it’s two very different films mushed together.
Fury Road is imo the most different out of the series and I think the straightforward plot of it forces Miller to stay on track.
Agree. It’s worth watching for characters like the history men and Hemsworth performance. Plus some nice shots. Ultimately a ok Mad Max film is still far better than the average action film.
Saw this yesterday and really enjoyed it as a worthy addition to the Mad Max saga - I'd rank it behind Fury Road, obviously, but that's hardly a slight on it, I consider Fury Road to be one of the best films of this century and by far the action standout.
There's issues with Furiosa, mainly casting a very uncharismatic guy as Jack and giving Anya Taylor Joy about 2 lines of script - which is a real shame cos I think she has massive star potential, and she handles the physicality of the roles well, but she's just given too little to play with here. The visuals are a bit dodgy at times, but not to the extent where it bothered me, first of all because the choreography of the action scenes is so good it makes up for it, and secondly because it lends it an almos charming/nostalgic vibe. It didn't distract me from the film at all. The pacing of the film is a bit weird, but most Mad Max films are in fact and it's a rhythm I kinda enjoy; Fury Road was different, but films shouldn't be judged vs Fury Road, it's unfair.
The plot is better than Fury Road's - which isn't very hard, there barely was a plot in Fury Road, which was kind of the point - and I was surprised at how long we stayed with young Furiosa. I enjoyed all the Mad Max mythology building, the returning characters from FR, and the new ones - Chris Hemsworth's nihilistic Dementus is obviously the stand out, you can tell he's having a lot of fun and it's contagious. Absolutely top notch performance, from start to finish. The action scenes, whether the grand scale ones (the first attack on the war rig when adult-Furiosa reveals herself is beautifully choreographed) or the smaller ones (the whole intro when Furiosa is kidnapped and the chase across the wastelands is so wonderfully tense), are all pitch-perfect, there really is no one that can touch Miller when it comes to that area of filmmaking.
It won't leave as strong an impression as Fury Road did, but then again films like Fury Road seldom come around, and this is still a very enjoyable fun ride.
There's issues with Furiosa, mainly casting a very uncharismatic guy as Jack and giving Anya Taylor Joy about 2 lines of script - which is a real shame cos I think she has massive star potential, and she handles the physicality of the roles well, but she's just given too little to play with here. The visuals are a bit dodgy at times, but not to the extent where it bothered me, first of all because the choreography of the action scenes is so good it makes up for it, and secondly because it lends it an almos charming/nostalgic vibe. It didn't distract me from the film at all. The pacing of the film is a bit weird, but most Mad Max films are in fact and it's a rhythm I kinda enjoy; Fury Road was different, but films shouldn't be judged vs Fury Road, it's unfair.
The plot is better than Fury Road's - which isn't very hard, there barely was a plot in Fury Road, which was kind of the point - and I was surprised at how long we stayed with young Furiosa. I enjoyed all the Mad Max mythology building, the returning characters from FR, and the new ones - Chris Hemsworth's nihilistic Dementus is obviously the stand out, you can tell he's having a lot of fun and it's contagious. Absolutely top notch performance, from start to finish. The action scenes, whether the grand scale ones (the first attack on the war rig when adult-Furiosa reveals herself is beautifully choreographed) or the smaller ones (the whole intro when Furiosa is kidnapped and the chase across the wastelands is so wonderfully tense), are all pitch-perfect, there really is no one that can touch Miller when it comes to that area of filmmaking.
It won't leave as strong an impression as Fury Road did, but then again films like Fury Road seldom come around, and this is still a very enjoyable fun ride.
Absolutely loved it. Just shy of Fury Road for me.
Just as good, maybe even better the second time - the Octoboss sequence 
Even something simple like a "time passes" shot becomes something beautiful, thematic and foreshadowing.
Even something simple like a "time passes" shot becomes something beautiful, thematic and foreshadowing.
Going to watch this tonight. Can't wait
Great movie. Really liked it.
I went back and rewatched Fury Road and the original trilogy after watching Furiosa and it has gone up in my estimation. Its a little long yes but I think the tanker scene in Furiosa is phenomenal and the world building is the best.
Saw this in the cinema yesterday. Maybe I had set my expectations a bit too high following Fury Road, but I was kind of disappointed. It's a decent action movie for sure, but it can't hold a candle to it's predecessor, in my opinion. I'm gonna compare a lot to Fury Road in the following, which might not be fair, but it's also extremely hard not to.
What I liked:
- Really good performances from Taylor-Joy and Chris Hemsworth. It was a quite convincing portrayal of Furiosa, and Dementus was an entertaining villain.
- It builds further on the world established in Fury Road. We get to see more of how the Citadel, Gas Town and Bullet Farm works, it is somehow believable.
- The fact that Furiosa had the map of the stars written on her arm and thereby loses her way home when the arm is ripped off was a really nice touch. It adds some depth to a trait that was simply there in Fury Road.
- I liked that you couldn't really always tell where the movie was going. The sequence with Furiosa as a child was longer than expected and a really strong point of the movie. We know how the movie has to end, but the way we got there wasn't obvious.
What didn't really impress me:
- The action sequences didn't really do it for me. It seemed to rely much more heavily on CGI than Fury Road did, where there was an element "realness" to it. I also thought Fury Road made excellent use of music in some of these sequences to add tension, which wasn't really the case here.
- Furiosas brief love interest (?) was quite dull and poorly developed. I didn't get invested in that character at all, so it that really limits the impact of some of scenes later on.
- It's not really a knock on this movie per se, but revenge plots are just way overdone. We've seen them a thousand times now.
Fury Road was just lightning in a bottle for me. So many aspects of that film were extraordinary, and Furiosa doesn't really come close. If Fury Road was a 9.5/10, I'd say this is a 7/10.
What I liked:
- Really good performances from Taylor-Joy and Chris Hemsworth. It was a quite convincing portrayal of Furiosa, and Dementus was an entertaining villain.
- It builds further on the world established in Fury Road. We get to see more of how the Citadel, Gas Town and Bullet Farm works, it is somehow believable.
- The fact that Furiosa had the map of the stars written on her arm and thereby loses her way home when the arm is ripped off was a really nice touch. It adds some depth to a trait that was simply there in Fury Road.
- I liked that you couldn't really always tell where the movie was going. The sequence with Furiosa as a child was longer than expected and a really strong point of the movie. We know how the movie has to end, but the way we got there wasn't obvious.
What didn't really impress me:
- The action sequences didn't really do it for me. It seemed to rely much more heavily on CGI than Fury Road did, where there was an element "realness" to it. I also thought Fury Road made excellent use of music in some of these sequences to add tension, which wasn't really the case here.
- Furiosas brief love interest (?) was quite dull and poorly developed. I didn't get invested in that character at all, so it that really limits the impact of some of scenes later on.
- It's not really a knock on this movie per se, but revenge plots are just way overdone. We've seen them a thousand times now.
Fury Road was just lightning in a bottle for me. So many aspects of that film were extraordinary, and Furiosa doesn't really come close. If Fury Road was a 9.5/10, I'd say this is a 7/10.
Still didn't watch, but that would be a shame if it impacts possible sequels. George Miller earned a right to have as much creative freedom/movies as he wishes.
Considering am part of the problem, will go to see it on Thursday.
Considering am part of the problem, will go to see it on Thursday.
This and Fall guy, two good films not doing well. What is going on ?
The global box office is just well down on pre-pandemic levels, due to a number of factors, like the impact of streaming services and the cost of living crisis. Two or three movies a year, like your Top Guns or your Barbenheimers, can still make a billion if they get good reviews, good word of mouth and endless social media hype, but it’s going to be a real struggle for everything else, even well reviewed films like Furiosa. You’d think something has to change, because the current situation can’t be sustainable for Hollywood.
For Furiosa specifically, I think a few things fundamentally work against it in terms of box office performance. First of all, they might have waited a bit too long after Fury Road. It's been almost a decade, so many will have forgotten that excitement and hype that followed Fury Road. Second, it's a Mad Max movie with no Mad Max. It might sound simplistic and stereotypical, but I think some might not give it a go, because it's an origin story about a female side character in Max's story. And related to this point, it lacks some star power. Anya Taylor-Joy doesn't really have the same draw as Tom Hardy.
Isn’t June a strange time to release a blockbuster? I always thought they aimed to release them in spring/autumn as people don’t go to the cinema as much in summer.
Or Charlize Theron for that matter, and Chris Hemsworth is box office poison outside of Thor.
Now that you mention it, I can't think of a single movie he is in outside of Marvel and Furiosa.
Men in black, Ghostbusters, Show White... Yeah, utter garbage
I think it was released on Memorial Day weekend in the US which is apparently a big movie weekend over there. Also the new Bad Boys film which is out now is doing great box office numbers.
I did see someone put it bluntly by saying Mad Max is a movie series set in post apocalyptic Australia where people in BDSM gear fight over water and drink breast milk. It’s pushing the limit of what people consider mainstream.
Also imo audiences post Mavel films are incredibly random. What does and doesn’t hit and the reasons for it are almost impossible to know. All guess work in the end.
Saw this yesterday. Very enjoyable, even if at its core it's the same kind of kid-taken-from-family-seeking-revenge kind of romp we've seen a thousand times. Some nice long and pacy action scenes with the rig, that offered up more of the madness fans of Fury Road, such as myself, would've been craving.
8/10.
(Fury Road is 9.5 for me)
8/10.
(Fury Road is 9.5 for me)
Kind of hits
Surprised to see people saying it's better than Fury Road (I think it's probably the best action film ever made)
Not watched it yet and I'm not really sure I have that much desire to.
Not watched it yet and I'm not really sure I have that much desire to.
They are?
Well I am. I just think it was more entertaining. Fury Road kinda fell flat for me during the 2nd half when they ended up going back after all that.
Finally saw it tonight with my oldest. We looked at bits of Mad Max and The Road Warrior after to gauge the evolution in this style. I think what Miller did before the CGI circle jerk is make stunts that appear to be just this side of deadly. The stunts look like they are set up and performed without a lot of safety meetings, and that was part of the beauty of it.
In this one, the stunts are insane and impressive but they feel like movie stunts a lot of the time, and it’s because of the extensive paint-outs and background replacements they do, and the constant speed-ramping makes the action look jittery at times. They amped up the spectacle, and some of the attack sequences are awesome and hilarious at the same time.
That said, I liked Anya Taylor-Joy a lot in this. She’s kind of a little magical elf wisp of a girl so it’s a tough ask getting her to be a brute, but she pulled it off. She has very expressive eyes, which in other projects gave her kind of a otherness. But in this one, particularly with the buzzed head, she’s magical. This is her best work to date.
I don’t know what the plot of this was and I’m not convinced there really was one or that it even mattered. It was essentially 2.5 hours of set pieces and trailer shots, like a box of Lucky Charms that is all marshmallows and none of the stuff that looks like cat food. Somewhere after Road Warrior they gave up on the idea of it being any kind of possible future scenario, and this story may as well have been set on another planet, so little did the physics, art department, and human interactions resemble anything on Earth.
I was bothered by the implied jeopardy for the first 30 minutes where Furiosa is like 12 years old and being leered at like a piece of meat by a bunch of old dirty slobs. Then there’s the harem, women birthing mutants, and that den where they are harvesting grubs from human body parts — it took the feel in an uncomfortable direction. I never felt like Furiosa was in danger of being gangbanged in Fury Road, yet it was all over this film. Nobody pays even the slightest attention to their goddamn oral hygiene in this film, either.
Entertaining, insane stunts slightly cheapened by set extensions and CG tomfoolery, incoherent plot with wacky pacing, but really fun. 8/10
In this one, the stunts are insane and impressive but they feel like movie stunts a lot of the time, and it’s because of the extensive paint-outs and background replacements they do, and the constant speed-ramping makes the action look jittery at times. They amped up the spectacle, and some of the attack sequences are awesome and hilarious at the same time.
That said, I liked Anya Taylor-Joy a lot in this. She’s kind of a little magical elf wisp of a girl so it’s a tough ask getting her to be a brute, but she pulled it off. She has very expressive eyes, which in other projects gave her kind of a otherness. But in this one, particularly with the buzzed head, she’s magical. This is her best work to date.
I don’t know what the plot of this was and I’m not convinced there really was one or that it even mattered. It was essentially 2.5 hours of set pieces and trailer shots, like a box of Lucky Charms that is all marshmallows and none of the stuff that looks like cat food. Somewhere after Road Warrior they gave up on the idea of it being any kind of possible future scenario, and this story may as well have been set on another planet, so little did the physics, art department, and human interactions resemble anything on Earth.
I was bothered by the implied jeopardy for the first 30 minutes where Furiosa is like 12 years old and being leered at like a piece of meat by a bunch of old dirty slobs. Then there’s the harem, women birthing mutants, and that den where they are harvesting grubs from human body parts — it took the feel in an uncomfortable direction. I never felt like Furiosa was in danger of being gangbanged in Fury Road, yet it was all over this film. Nobody pays even the slightest attention to their goddamn oral hygiene in this film, either.
Entertaining, insane stunts slightly cheapened by set extensions and CG tomfoolery, incoherent plot with wacky pacing, but really fun. 8/10