Furiosa - The Flop Heard ‘Round The World
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:: Furiosa ::
Furiosa is a prequel to 2015’s Mad Max: Fury Road and the fifth installment in the Mad Max franchise. Join me for a review of the film, and take a look at why the movie flopped at the box office.
:: Timestamps ::
0:00 | It’s good, but…
01:06 | Horrible box office
05:41 | The story of ‘Furiosa’
07:04 | “Same, but differeeeent. But still same-same.”
08:24 | Special effects and VFX: a mixed bag
09:14 | Chris Hemsworth/Dementus: the best character in the movie
10:27 | Anya Taylor-Joy/Furiosa: Great actress, not enough to work with
11:22 | Tom Burke/Praetorian Jack: Mad Max from “Wish dot com”
11:58 | The supporting cast: a band of misfits
12:40 | Dialogue, pacing, run-time: great, okay, bloated.
13:07 | Why did this movie bomb?
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EXCELLENT WORK. THE MOVIE CYNIC FURIOSA FLOPPY REVIEW 👌
She's a terrible person to play this part. She is very inauthentic in any role she plays.
im eating pbj and rice and spaghetti rn, i dont have time to go to the movies, what is this, 2016? fuck no!
Watched it 2 times. Movies is amazing 👏
well, I started watching furiosa and then I stopped watching Furiosa, without reading any reviews, without seeing any trailers, enough said
We're in an economic depression. No shit it bombed. People would rather have groceries or gas in their vehicle than pay $15 for a movie ticket.
Our Great Depression is our lives.
True. But that doesn’t mean people would’ve been hyped to see a prequel about a side character who showed up in an unnecessary reboot of a beloved franchise
$15????????.... is that the IMAX price?
@@FrostSapphire-bm2tt that’s pretty normal price in California here on everything but matinee
@@christaylor7079 Normal?... i pay like $6 per ticket.
$11 for IMAX.
The heck is going on over there?
Really hate how this movie is flopping gives the studio another reason not to green light a fury road sequel
The same thing I said about Birds of Prey, its a good movie if you just forget the politics
Shouldn't have made a movie no one asked for and stuck with max
@@jackbower9087 I liked it 🤷♂
@@v_Shami that's cool. Movie failed
@@jackbower9087we were gonna get mad max after this movie the director said he wanted to explore furiosas story then max , fyi max was mentioned in the movie we saw him look down as furosa fell in the desert he took her to get taken care of off screen
Just gotta remember Madmax's $350,000 in 1979 is now the equivalent of 1.6 Million today. You'd do good to make a live action advertisement for $1.6 million today.
I think the movie is just released at a bad time. Hollywood has burned a lot of bridges with movie-goers.
shame the film was great
Yeah I think you're right - this film is good and is exactly the trend I'd like to see - end the girl-boss crap - let's just have people regardless of gender.
@wong2265 yeah, but then you see the comments people like Kathleen Kennedy make when new shows pop up (The Acolyte most recently) and it sours everything.
The main thing keeping me away from seeing it in IMAX is the horrible CGI, though. Hope and Glory (max max fan film) scratched the mad max itch pretty good too so I am okay waiting on Furiosa to come out on digital.
I dunno bout that, look at how ridiculously well "Dune Part 2" did both critically and commercially. Dune 2 is legit my new favorite film of all time and was masterpiece from beginning to end. Despite being nearly three hours long it raked in a massive box-office hall that dwarfed the success of the first installment. And though i def think this film isn't as brilliant as "Dune Part 2," that's not a slight or anything, it instead has to do with Dune 2 being just that effin good! "Furiosa" was an excellent movie in it's own right and I really wish it was getting the sort of box-office numbers that it deserves.
@8301TheJMan dune is a pretty popular sci-fi novel. Denis villeneuve is a popular director. It would have been crazy if it didn't do well. Mad Max is way more niche.
Dune pt 2 was a great spectacle in IMAX but suffers from one of the biggest problems in filmmaking today - everyone thinks they can do better than the original author. I wouldn't call Dune Pt 2 a masterpiece as it fails to deliver any of the deeper themes from the novel and hyperfocuses on trying to convey that Paul isn't a hero. It was a fun movie to watch on the big screen. But, it was "Dune" not Dune.
It's just weird that they said, "Oh let's give Furiosa her own movie," when Mad Max Fury Road WAS a Furiosa movie, with Max as a special guest character.
Well he had the whole thing written out before Fury Road.. One big epic. It wasn't an afterthought to make a Furiosa movie, it was there from the beginning.. He prob chose to do it the order he did because he knew he was getting older and it was going to take the most energy to do Fury Road lol
Right , i always saw fury road as MAX visiting different situations and individuals, i really was hopeing for another max film
@@kurtdewittphoto because he's just like every other Hollywood elite, subverting the culture by means of propoganda that pushes whatever his masters want pushed. In this case, feminism/anti-male leadership.
I disagree. For three movies Max is just wandering around hoping to get basic needs, and ends up helping people with specific goals. The entire ending of Fury Road is based on Max's plan. Ditto Road Warrior. Ditto Thunderdome. It's the same movie. Every movie had a bad ass woman in the plot. Warrior Woman, Savannah Nix( yes, I had to look it up), and Furiosa. Every movie ends with only a handful even knowing Max was involved. And...c'mon. Charlize Theron has EARNED her action movie cache.
Tell me you don't understand the Mad Max movies without telling me..
Given what Hollywood did to Luke Skywalker, Han Solo and Indiana Jones, perhaps we should be thankful that they didn't give Mel Gibson's Max the same treatment.
Mel Gibson's getting old, like the rest of them, the only real solution, if they want to keep doing them, is to hand off the mantle to a new character. In a way, Fury Road was that, with stand in for Mel teaching Furiosa the harsh lessons of the wasteland. The problem, besides Furiosa being meh, is that this movie is something of a 'Han Solo, a Star Wars side story' movie. We really don't need to know how she got with Immortan Joe, or lost her arm, just like we didn't need to see Han meet Chewy, shoot first first, or win the Millennium Falcon, these details could only be lamer than our imagination, and they were.
Mad Max is an Aussie franchise. It's George Miller that's the driving force behind these Mad Max movies.
Its 2024, the franchise doesnt need gibson
@JokersVsZombies it doesn't need furiosa either
Most of the complaints I see are of people that 110% have not seen the movie
you walk into a restaurant and ask for a burger and fries (mad max). waiter takes your order, comes back with grilled salmon and a salad (furiosa). he's insisting you just eat the salmon and salad and also pay for it because trust him, it's good.
you see how that logic is flawed and ridden with entitlement? please stop pushing that narrative as a gotcha, it's dumb as hell
I saw it twice, loved it!
@@dreasdwolfox3435I hate metaphors because they equate two things that are too different to actually make sense if you go to specifics. However, since you like metaphors I'll give one: You walk into an art gallery of a famous painter, you always say how you love that he gets to paint what he wants to paint and that that is what makes him so good, but this time the painter has decided to do something different and you don't like it. Instead of taking his work for what it is, you feel entitled to tell him what to do with what he does because you paid to enter the gallery. Of course, you don't have to like what he is doing now, but to understand that it is his creation and he decides what he wants to explore and you decide if you are interested or not. Getting out of the metaphor, I find sad that one of the few remaining directors in Hollywood that has control over a franchise he created is getting slandered because HE is CHOOSING to explore a character from HIS CREATION. And then I hear people complain that movies are bad because they don't give directors creative liberty and instead push agendas. Furiosa is a project miller wanted to make, you don't have to like it, but at least in my case I respect the passion that he shows over a franchise he has been working with for more than 3 decades.
It might be a good movie, but I just don't care.
No mad max no party
This movie is actually really good, (if unnecessary). It's disappointing that Miller's next entry, Mad Max: Wasteland, hinges on the success of Furiosa
What movie is necessary?
@@pepsisoda8459 You've clearly never seen a film series that's meant to be a trilogy and never makes it past part 2 before.
@@BlazingOwnagerdudes asking an honest question and youre here to inflate your ego somehow.
@@LawsFiveTwo He was literally just implying no movie is necessary.
I’ve met more people who’ve liked it in person than who disliked it
Saw it, it was excellent. By the end I couldn't wait to see Dementus get his, and I was not at all disappointed. Seriously fuck that guy.
These mouth breathing normies will slurp up whatever slop is fed to them, so that's not really a reliable barometer for success.
Yea the internet isn’t real. Also 90% of people complaining on the internet haven’t actually seen it. People who have seen it loved it.
same
Fr great movie
Honestly, waiting 9 years for a follow up was probably its worst decision.
No, the worst decision was having a MAD MAX movie without MAD MAX.
Also, why a prequel to the last movie??
@@FrostSapphire-bm2tt the answer for it being a prequel is because George Miller already made a concept for this movie before even Fury Road when they were making furiosa as a character
George Miller actually saying madmax movies are hard to make. He can't afford to take this long at 80 years old.
and forget too put mad max in it
It isn’t a follow up though
I personally like "Furiosa" and think it was a nice addition to the Mad Max universe. However, I think Warner Bros. made a mistake by not promoting the film more, especially given the long gap between "Fury Road" and "Furiosa." Unfortunately, this will likely kill the planned "Mad Max Wasteland" movie, which I was really looking forward to.
Same! It really sucks but we're starting to get to the point where people are labelling seemingly anything and everything as being woke garbage. And the automatic assumption by many that this was going to be an example of that work garbage - due to it having a female lead in an action movie, and they carry that expectation into the movie and it taints their viewing experience negatively.
And waste money. It's not going to help. Millennials helped the government destroy the economy.
Furiosa made more than Fury Road did on it's Memorial Day Weekend.
@@8301TheJMan yeah 100% with you. I think there is a circle of movie critics that are biased against girl boss/woke movies which this movie is clearly not. Even Fury road was mostly about Furiosa and Max was only there as a secondary character but somehow Furiosa got a different reception and is mind boggling for me. Too bad since Mad Max the Wasteland could be an awesome sequel that will even add more lore to the Fury Road saga but now we probably won't get to see it.
@MK384 Almost all critics have left this movie a positive review, and are speculating about *why* it flopped at the box office. Your view seems more like perception and not observation.
$10 popcorn is generous. AMC charges $20 for a large tub and $20 alone for a ticket.
And then AMC wonders why they are going broke.
Yup, a small popcorn at the Regal I saw "Furiosa" at a couple days ago was $9...insane.
$10???.......................why?
@@FrostSapphire-bm2tt Because most of the ticket money is given to Hollywood.
For a new movie up to 95% of the ticket revenue goes to the distributor. Cinemas are in the popcorn selling business not the film business
The poor box office numbers could just be a result of people not going to theaters in general. Nothing that opened Memorial Day weekend did very well. Just saying.
There are still occasional big box office hits, they are just more rare, so it's not quite that. Audiences are simply more discerning now. They took one look at this and said "Girl boss. Im out." Maybe it will have legs if it's actually a good movie.
Sure. But this movie is literally competing with the likes of Garfield and still struggles for #1. There's clearly more to it.
Nah must be woman
@@JasonEdokpa yeah but lots of parents aren't going to take their young kids to see a mad max movie. I'm just saying that critically it's being well recieved and the majority of people who've seen it aren't complaining about it. If no one goes to see the product then it's a distribution failure not an artistic failure.
I used to be a regular cinema goer regardless of cost. But in the last 8 years Hollywood has taken a very strange path. I watch reviews on CZcams first to see if it's any good. I am happy to see Hollywood fall.
Here’s something I really don’t understand within the film; so Joe specifically asked for Furiosa to be part of the deal with Dementus due to her being completely healthy and intact. Then Furiosa disappears, and presents herself as a boy for 10-15 years. Then her disguise is blown while she rides with Jack, and after that everyone is cool with her being there.
So neither Joe, nor anyone else ever looked for her? None of them ever wondered where she went? They didn’t realize the same girl that tried to disguise herself as a boy was the girl they specifically asked for, that went missing?
The plot holes were the main thing I disliked about the movie. Furiosa was one of Joe's wives. She disappeared and there was no follow-up to that. The was the MAIN catalyst for all of Fury Road was the wives being stolen and Joe losing his mind. Furiosa disappeared, disguised herself so she didn't have to be imprisoned and impregnated, but suddenly decides to stop hiding that she's a girl, goes by the same name that everyone knew her as, and they're all chill with it??? Joe literally wanted her because she was a full-life and perfect. It didn't make any sense that she was allowed to keep living with the warboys.
They didn’t recognize her 15 years later, it’s not that hard to understand. She grew up and they didn’t recognize her. I mean shit, Dementus didn’t even recognize her at the end of the film until she was holding the teddy bear. An 8 year old looks very different than a 23 year old, duh
@@dylan10011998 Appearance is the least of it. Same name, same description of the person that ran away. Reminder that people like her aren’t easy to come by in this world.
@@alexman378 I agree that this is a bit of a plot hole but when Dementus introduces her he calls her "Little D", nobody knew her name was Furiosa until she grew up and started working on the War Rig.
I feel Miller made the fatal mistake of making this movie long after the hype of Fury Road died down and releasing it at probably the worst time possible since Hollywood burned so much goodwill with the audience that they will *immediately* dismiss any movie with a female lead.
Preach
Just because you are a shallow nitwit...
Thank Covid.
movie was frozen because miller had issues with the production house over some money. took a few years to get that sorted. they could have just made the movie about max, which is what everyone wants anyway
Fury Road didn't even perform that well. Another case of a loud, obnoxious minority of people obfuscating the reality. Most people don't care about Mad Max, let alone a spin off of a reboot.
90% of people who've actually seen it, like it. It isn't a girlboss movie. Here's why: Mad Max hasn't been replaced. She has an arc. She doesn't always win. She makes mistakes. She doesn't punch out any 250 lb stuntmen. There are more powerful men in the movie than her, and they don't exist solely to be humiliated by her. There is no "women's justice" storyline in the film. Haters gonna hate, but if you like post apocalyptic automotive mayhem, it's your loss.
The reason it isn't making money, and people aren't going, is because the economic model of charging people $150 to take their family to the theatre, or $20 at home on their 70 inch TV a couple days later is completely unsustainable.
Hit the nail on the head 💯
Bingo. Thanks for talking sense.
One of the only sensible takes I’ve seen of the movie, I just watched it yesterday on a whim and thought it was an excellent blend of storytelling and action. Was sad to see a lot of people are parroting others opinions
So why Mario and Barbie made over 1B?
A female lead is a girl boss movie ,, they put out this movie when every action movie is girl boss so the timing of this movie is awful… maybe 7 years ago people would have given it a chance
It wasn’t bad at all, brutal, fast, and lots of good action
Yeah what’s bro on about
It sucks so much that it isnt successful. I really want a sequel to furry road and this movie was really good. I really hope they let him do another one.
@@deadshot0908 ur more likely to get furry road than wasteland atp unfortunately lol
Its a good movie but its hard to get over the "tack-on" vibe without Max
Bad cgi and it drags too long. Especially the first half
Undeserved. This movie is fun AF. Like it’s actually pretty good.
It was mid compared to fury road
@@hoonaticbloggs5402this was better
it was crap. you just have low standards.
@@ccdev you didn’t watch it STFU
@@ccdev sorry to disappoint you internet man
"IP mining" no thanks
I feel bad for all those involved , seems like a good movie that’s a victim of Hollywoods hubris .
The turnout doesn’t represent how good the film is. The film was really really good and had the whole theatre I was in invested.
People are so sick of the gender swap Mary Sue shit, even a well written female character is dismissed out of hand. It's a shame but understandable.
And it sucks cos there could be really good female characters but because we’ve been Mary Sued and virtual signaled to near death, we just can’t care
It wasn't a gender swap. It wasn't a Mary Sue character. She got the crap beat out of her many times. She got better at everything over 15 years(which the movie covers).
@@Werewolf.with.Internet.Access Thing is: We always had really good female characters. In fact, before the big push to force "good" female characters into everything we had much better ones. Ellen Ripley. Sarah Conner. Lara Croft. etc.
@@Godstud I think you missed my point. I am not talking about the movie but the conditioning of the audience.
Nope. Fury Road was also a box office disappointment in 2015. It has nothing to do what you're saying and more that people don't really like ultra gritty, ultra grimy movies when it comes down to it. Kinda like how so many people today yearn for the days when rock and metal ruled the airwaves but would then go and listen to/see Taylor Swift/ Olivia Rodrigo instead when presented with the opportunity. It's little surprise Fury Road was thoroughly trounced by Pitch Perfect 2 in BO haul back in 2015.
I watched it in the largest theater on Discount Tuesday for $7. Me and the two other people that were in the 800 seat theater agreed it was really good.
I've never seen any theater so empty... ever. Especially in an opening week!!!
My theater was almost full, I guess it depends on where your theatres at
@@onesaucynougat7471 Cool!
Same. Besides me and my SO there were only about 2-3 other small groups in the theater.
@@aldrichuyliong8143 When my showing was over, I stood up and yelled to the guy in the back. "Hey, this movie was really good!"
He said, "I know!"
I said, "Why the hell is the theater so empty?"
He said, "I dunno."
@@onesaucynougat7471 In the sniper scenes with Furiosa's mom, did it feel like the bullets were whizzing past your head? I actually flinched... then that bad guy's head exploded.
What's the point of spending $40-50 in theatres when it's going to be on streaming in just a few weeks.
Big screen. IMAX.
Literally no movie cost that much to see anywhere
I didn't mean just one ticket. If two people go out, they'll need two tickets, drinks, food etc... It's cheaper for them just to wait for a few weeks. Most people go out with someone and buy all that.
@@ardenaudreyarji50 bucks bro ? With my girl 100$ lol na we rather go to a restaurant get lit and eat and make love
@@lefloch9983 Introverts exist.
Furiosa is exactly what I wanted; more of the 2015 Fury Road format. George Miller depicts such distinct cinematography in Australia with Mad Max. The epic nature of the franchise is worth exploring with detailed world-building. The various factions, locations like the blue-tinted, stilt trodden remnants of the ‘Green Place’, Bullet Town and the Citadel fortress with its greenhouse, encased in that yellowish orange color palette and its intricately designed mechanical ‘steampunk’ technology.
Fury Road's an action movie at heart, while Furiosa sinks its teeth into the world with storytelling (albeit still having tons of action). The studios shouldn't have delayed this by a decade. Hopefully George Miller gets another crack at it!
IMO a lot more films will bomb. Hollywood has become way too insulative, sleazy and politically charged that I just assume I won't like a film. Haven't spent money for a ticket since Deadpool 1 was released. Hollywood actively insults half the country. Look no further than Robert Deniro, he is a great example. People are just tired of the shit IDK...
I'm really confused because it's a really good movie. It has a lot more world building that's done great. I wonder if it's because Anna-Joy is still new to some people
It's because it looks like a girl-boss movie and people are sick to the back teeth of girl-boss movies.
@@MachineMan-mj4gj Which is sad, because her character in this movie, (and the previous one), should be a blueprint for how to make an actual badass female lead main character in an action-flick
It's more that people need youtubers to tell them how to think and the CZcams channels that be are saying this movie sucks. But it doesn't, this guy complains about hoping there isn't a follow up to the movie when it is literally the prequel for Fury Road. At this point people seem to like to hate things just for the sake of hating something.
@@squatchit5700 lol Most of us folks don't got alot of money to go to theaters... Most youtubers (at least the main ones) are saying this was a good movie but this is hollywood ~Even critical drinker said he liked this movie~.. Hollywood haven't been doing well lately (Bad reputation) This movie LOOKED like another result of hollywood trash which led alot of people to avoid it. This movie was for furiosa but the fans wanted mad max... 9 yrs of waiting.....
It's because it's a Mad Max movie.
I am going to sound like an certain internet stereotype but the last female led reboot of a male led franchise i saw in theaters was the ghost busters remake and i am probably not all alone.
Most movies I see ads for make me say "that will be a fun watch on a streaming service".
I didn't see that Ghostbusters, but I was suckered into The Last Jedi...
Unlike western men with their "prey/cuck" mindset of over empathy, I just accept that I don't identify with female protagonists. Even though I may make "female main char" if a game allows, I only identify with the one I made. I think all men are like this internally. We don't like emphasize with woman protagonists. It's just reality and the same is for female audiences and male leads.
this isn't a reboot tho.
@@johannsampson2975 fair. In general Hollywood has burnt their trust to not be preachy. I could also be a cynic though.
Ironically Hemsworth played the exact same character in both movies. A botard you get sick of within 5 minutes.
Can we also mention that the soundtrack was dubbed down this time too. Not as great as Fury Road.
I was thinking exactly the same thing, today I listened the full soundtrack of Fury Road and it's wonderful. Unbelievable that the same person can make such a weak soundtrack for Furiosa, maybe he wasn't so inspired by the movie...
@@gastonruiz4061 it was halfassed. Not even the grungy upbeat sound in the chase scene.
Yup. The Fury Road Score was spine-tingling perfection ...
Thank you. I was disappointed by the soundtrack
The soundtrack is my ONLY mediocre take away from the film. Everything else was perfection. I was just confused by the overall lack of music in some scenes. Like the music wasn’t even bad…it was literally non-existent. I get it for certain situations lack of music creates intensity but if you overuse that then it actually just lacks music all together. But by the 5th act I felt the score had cam around was in full swing. Maybe it was intended idk?? But it was definitely a noticeable question I had throughout the first half of the film.
Thanks Movie Cynic for actually watching it, instead of pretending it is a girl boss movie and boycotting it like 80% of the youtubers.
It's a really fun action film and my favorite of 2024, behind Dune 2. I'm looking forward to Wolverine and Deadpool.
It definitely wasn't woke. I liked it!
I think it’ll do well on streaming. it’s clearly made for the theatrical experience but it exceeds being merely competent, Furiosa feels like a real character and not a girlboss just like Fury Road, and most importantly it’s a story and not a message. What Furiosa and a lot of other movies are teaching us this year. Is that massive opening weekends are back to being a sometimes thing and audiences are just going to wait to watch it at home.
People need to encourage there friends to see this on the big screen.
@@steveleeart As an introvert, no, just no.
@@detective2221 lots of screenings during the week where it’s quiet. I’m introverted too but see many movies in the theatres.
Your independent filmmaker friend is completely wrong in his assessment of reworking successful franchises. What he described has never worked.
What could have been…
George Miller
Ridley Scott
James Cameron
Please, one of you, listen to your fans.
They are so inside their own heads and will not listen.
I get the feeling that the filmmakers are trying to sell Mad Max to a new generation, just without the Mad Max. Weird.
The slew of bad girlboss movies have turned me off completely to female protagonists, or at least not make me enthusiastic about it unless it's a legacy female character. And even if it is a legacy female character, extreme caution is required. I have no interest in this movie and will probably check it out in 10 years when hopefully the girlboss meta no longer exists.
People are broke. And tired of women replacing men, and vice versa.
That is brutal and sad, and VERY TRUE. This comment needs to be pinned and referenced in future videos.
No woman has replaced a man in this film.
@@danielbear9183 It's a franchise whose name is that of the main character, a man. The protagonist of this film is another character, a woman. This is a first grade puzzle, friend. It's entirely possible it's a fantastic movie with a great lead character, and gender politics fatigue has caused an unfair audience reaction, but there is a reason for that reaction. Your comment is not only demonstrably untrue at the most basic level, it does nothing to make the argument you're trying to make here. You've contributed less than nothing, you need to try harder.
@@TheWarmotor the mad max movies have never been about max, he's a passenger to the events going on. your favourite part of mad max is max? the guy with 18 lines of dialogue? not the cars, the stunts, the crazy characters and design of the world? max… max is your favourite part? I don't believe you..
Also the film is called Furiosa, Mad Max is the brand. Max isn't called Mad max in the films, just max or the road warrior.
I think mainly people tired of strong women characters in action movies so they don't even give a chance
“Cool, but why” can be said about most Marvel movies
I was a little pissed with the bait and switch of Fury Road and I didn't like it. Have heard good things about this film but with a budget of $168 million dollars the CGi should be seamless at the very least. It's good to see the continuous downfall of Hollywood.
It was way too expensive, yes. Maybe it's time for lower budget Mad Max movies. Maybe a series.
The biggest thing for me is that it was such a beautiful weekend outside when it released… why would I want to spend that time inside watching a movie
This is by far the goofiest comment I've ever read😂
@@RayTheomo - Said the person stuck inside commenting on youtube
You’re not wrong and I think people aren’t realizing how many people were out spending the memorial day weeked with their families doing outdoor activities. I practically saw no one out in the streets, and mainly cause everyone was out at the lake, river, BBQing or vacationing out of state.
Because the movie blows and you know it. Stop coping.
@@Jericho396 what
If this film had been released before Captain Marvel started the Great Girlboss War of Attrition...well, it most likely would have done a little better. I feel like Hollywood conditioned people to stay at home with bad films and constant streaming. Ppl went to see Dune 2 and to a lesser extent Godzilla Minus One. To me this shows that they'll show up for good stories. I think the era of giant megaplex theaters is coming to a close.
My issue with alot of these strong female leads is they always pick the thinnest, wimpiest looking women. Same problem i had with wonder woman. Make her buff. If male actors have to get that fit for a role so do they. They really want to show women can be strong but pick petite women.
what you mean gal gadot was perfect for the role
She doesn't do anything crazy physical in this movie. She doesn't wrestle men twice her size and weight. She mainly shoots really good.
It actually is completely fine she is so small and thin because it makes her survival of things that more impressive. And she doesn't do anything super unrealistic (other than not bleeding out)
@@jesustyronechrist2330 Charlize Theron is much better than Anya Taylor-Joy. It doesn't logically make sense to cast Anya for this role, even if what you said is true.
@@detective2221 from what I recall george miller didn't want to have charlize theron play furiosa again because it'd either be too difficult to make her look young enough to fill the prequel role, or it'd end up looking bad. or both. working with what he had, as far as I'm aware
Action movie, put scrawny girl front and center on your movie poster: guaranteed flop, people have had enough of of it.
Even the "franchise high" of Mad Max Fury Road, at $383 mill worldwide is below things like Terminator Genisys from the same year which was considered a flop.
I can't wait for the next Indiana Jones movie without Indiana Jones and Batman without Batman.
Bet you never saw Beyond Thunderdome
@steveleeart Yes, I have seen it. What point are you trying to make?
That movie is GREAT this world is crazy now. Why would people spread a LIE saying the movie is not good
Because they may not like the movie? Have you tried listening?
Because it's not good.
Thats a shame that the movie is good, I think people saw anna taylor joy as the lead and thought it just be a pandering men are bad movie.
I saw this movie like 4 times in theatres, its so good and I hate that it's flopping. Probably the best action movie I've seen in theatres since infinity war.
Wait are you telling me that taking an established franchise and taking away the literal character the franchise is named after to replace him with a female character that isn't even being played by the original actress... isn't leading to a success???? How shocking!
I'm sure it will be due to men or something. Maybe it's the bears!
If they marketed better to bears, the movie would've made a billion dollars.
Have you seen it? Not a bad film
Sounds like somebody hasnt seen the film yet
It’s so good
@@TheVassal Sounds like a lot of people never will.
So I see a lot of people saying this movie sucks and bet they haven’t even seen it. This is going to be one of those movies that will be considered a classic 20 years from now.
I'm gonna see it and probably buy it on br. Fury Road is one or my all time favorites. Disappointed to hear more CGi used more in this though. Fury Road was so visceral.
@@himynameisaaron86 CGI looks like ass. That buggy jumping over that dune looks like a ps2 cutscene. Not realistic at all. And can't believe that girlboss actress couldn't even be bothered to learn how to ride a dirtbike si they had her bike rigged up ona pole so she doesnt fall over lmao. What trash.
I have watched it. It is nowhere near the quality of the last film. 5/10 movie
Seen it and nope, no classic here. Not a terrible film, just one Girly Boss too many (and make no mistake, no matter what he says here, she’s a 120lb bunch of nothing who would barely be able to carry some of these weapons, never mind fire them accurately) at a bad time. Chris Hemsworth is awesome though.
No it won’t stop glazing
I watched "Mad Max--The Road Warrior" in a theater when it first came out, and though not an excitable man by nature I remember at the end of it I jumped into my '81 Toyota Corolla and burned rubber out of the parking lot as though I was escaping Lord Wez in a post apocalyptic wasteland.
Great if "Furiosa" is a good movie, or a "worthy entry in the franchise." I don't care. That's not going to get me into the theater. Tell me that I'm going to want to jump into my Yaris 1a and peel out of the parking lot.
The Seattle papers said something to the effect of "you have never seen anything like this. Trust me." (77 VW Golf)
Hollywood shot themselves in the foot. If they hadn’t of shoved years of crap movies with girlboss leads down out throats, people would have gave this a chance.
The markets seem tired of "girl boss" films. Go figure.
I personally find it hard to enjoy a film where the protagonist is some skinny waif of a human who spends the whole film physically dominating men twice her size. Its just too much of an ask and it seems wider audiences agree.
She doesn’t physically dominate the males, she generally uses her brains and skills.
@@OLICIT good to hear. I was speaking more generally about girl boss films in general. Rebel Moon is probably one of the clearest examples of what I mean. They get a skinny model waif throwing around professional soldiers for two hours and then wonder why people check out.
Ain't hard, I hate everything that Hollywood has become, and I'd rather watch it commit suicide by a thousand flops than keep limping on as it is.
I feel you but this is George Miller we’re talking about. He is the exception
@@TheIrishManXVIwho?
How many movies of skinny arm super models kicking 280 pound men around before Hollywood figures out people are sick of that schtick.
It’s sad that the “girl boss“ trope screwed this movie.
Fury road was already basically a Furiosa movie. Miller and co royally botched this one by not giving Max his own movie. Would have been really cool to see Mel Gibson make a cameo too
Miller hates Gibson. It will never happen. Plus, Miller is an old man. He will most likely never get a chance to direct another large scale film.
1. Mel was blacklisted a long time ago for telling the truth about Hollyweird and some other things thagt you can't even post on YT.
2. Miller devolved into a fassive maggot long ago as well.
I disagree, it was a story nobody wanted.
@@williampotter3369maybe because people would rather watch monkeys going at it than furiosa
Im broke, im not going to go pay what little money I have to watch a Mad Max movie with out Mad Max in it.
for me you can resume it in one short sentence : I DON'T GIVE A DAMN ABOUT FURIOSA !!! GIVE ME MAX TO THE MAX !!!
People are just tired of the same old franchises being rehashed, and this was a prequel to a sequel ffs.
Texas Chainsaw '06 is the only one I find acceptable for a prequel. Quite possibly one of the best remakes, which is hard to pull off.
Have you even seen the movie?
tbh i just dont want to watch a female lead in an action movie. idk feel free to call me sexist.
Yes BUT how about Ripley in aliens?
@@GorGob i will make one exeption
@@GorGobwell the series was MADE with a woman thats different this is a MAD MAX movie where is mad max ? Alien is great but she also is weak physically uses her brain it’s more realistic. Alien and Aliens is amazing
@@fabolousjada5070 true bring mel back
as soon as i saw the CGI i was out
We already saw a movie about Furiosa. It's called Fury Road. I'd like to see a movie about Max again.
A MAD MAX film without Max Rockatansky ?
Whats next, a James Bond flim with Miss Moneypenny ?
I think you mean "Moneypenny: A James Bond saga" that doesn't actually feature James Bond.
What was it? I heard at the end of one of the trailers "you stole my childhood " after that I was like nah. I don't think so...lol
How dare you!?
Good movie but basically it's just a 2.5 hour demolition derby with thousands of ugly people.
There were only 4 people in the theatre I saw it in, all of them male. Women don't show up to watch women lead action movies.
Madame Max
Mad Maxipad
@@Six_Gorillion Hoe Max
He was in Australia researching thunder domes with my mom right before she died.
Hysterical Harriet.
@@user-ef5ug6jx5n Histrionic Heather
Guys don't want to watch girl boss movies. It's not complicated
Why not? That sounds fucking weird to me.
Are you one of them guys than can't handle a girl boss movie?
I don't mind a "girl boss" movie if it's done well
I'm sure he can "handle it", but that doesn't mean he wants to pay to see a girl boss movie. I agree with the OP. Love the franchise but have zero desire to see a female led action film about a character I didn't need an origin story for with no Mad Max.
Speak for yourself
Neither women.
I saw it the other day. It was fun and entertaining, and ended abruptly. That said, ti was a revenge flick more than anything else. I'd still give it a 7/10 and they had Max appear for a brief moment, overlooking a scene. Chris Hemsworth was vile as the villain, which was good. He made you almost see Immortan Joe as a good guy.
It seems that people have forgotten the Fury Road was also a flop. It only made it's money back after half a year. Furiosa will do the same.
Set sail on the High Seas for this one!
For me, it's PTSD. I didn't see this film because it was yet another female-led entry in a previously male-led action series. Even if it turned out be decent, I have been burned way too many times to bother risking it.
What I heard as a glowing review was there's one really good action scene in the middle, then everything else is kinda eh. So just look that up on youtube and you're done.
If you watched Fury Road you kinda know the whole movie anyway, so what's the actual point?
After being burnt too many times, I am blowing even in the youghurt
It was a decent post-apocalyptic action movie. Great stunts and action. See it. It won't trigger your PTSD. ;)
@@Godstud Is it really decent though? Or is it just a film thats not complete crap in a land of complete crap films?
Is there anything in this film that beats Fury Road? Is there anything here that's done better? With all the CGI? With no tension or real stakes for the protagonist?
"Great stunts and action" doesn't mean anything when it's all done in post.
@@user-ef5ug6jx5nShutup and watch the damn movie. All you people do is yap without any basis to go off. Y'all are insufferable
I mean lets be honest even the most successful of the three Gibson Mad Max movies was Beyond Thunderdome, and that was ... the 19th most successful domestic movie of 1985, below stuff like Jagged Edge, Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, and Brewster's Millions for box office. Mad Max: Fury Road was really honestly an outlier and was not even one of the top 20 biggest movies of 2015. A spin-off with an unknown in the lead released in this more challenging box office environment was always gonna be tough.
I watched this movie this weekend, on my firestick.
Fell asleep four different times during the day/ afternoon, and still felt like I was ripped off and wanted my money back, money that I didn’t even pay to watch.
‘Fury Road’ was a masterpiece of a passion project, because that movie was filmed eight years before it actually came out, and George Miller took his time with this passion project, with effects.
This movie felt like “I better get this out as quickly as possible.”
This movie was FANTASTIC. We should feel nothing good about it flopping, it sends a real bad message to Hollywood. Ok mad Max wasn’t in it, but cmon the movie is named after her FFS!
That's the thing I don't get, people say they made a Mad Max movie without Mad Max, when Mad Max isn't in the title
@@Th0rn5555 "A Mad Max Saga"!
@@frankspeakmore7104 Yes, but the main title is Furiosa
@@frankspeakmore7104referring to the franchise
Such a fun movie edge of your seat almost the whole time
Everyone talking about 50$ per person to see a movie, my wife and I was furious for like 18$ total. Sneak the candy and drink in, not that hard. Who is paying for all that overpriced crap?
as a life long sci fi fan ( I'm 52 ) all I can say about the movie is this is what happens when a woman writes a post apocalypse movie whit out either combat training or combat experience other wise yeah I think it was a good movie as well
I was thinking the horrible nose could have worked if there were a scene at some point where Dementus gets struck in the face and the nose falls halfway off revealing a gaping hole in his face. Now it works and makes sense looking that bad as it's a prosthetic made because of his vanity.
the nose looked cool, its the scripted that sucked ass
The biggest plot hole to me was her upbringing. She was traded to become Immortan Joe's bride, then escaped and hid undercover as a War Boy. She shows up on the rig, and no one is questioning who she is? Immortan Joe and Furiosa never have any dialogue that would suggest he respects her to drive the rig, or give any motivation as to why Furiosa hates him so much and wants to steals the brides and go home. No explanation is given as to why this random woman is allowed to live with the war boys, and not be a bride. No explanation is really given as to how she earns her reputation in the Citadel.
She was mentored by Praetorian Jack after her surprise appearance on the war rig. She became a Praetorian herself and was later promoted to Imperator. Even if Immortan Joe ever recognized her as his child bride she was damaged goods by then, with an arm missing and all.
@@AnnaDraconida how would a 90 pound model looking woman with long hair go on pretending to be a man for more than 10 years? come on. and why does she hate Joe? she should love him for saving her from Dementus and promoting her to imperator.
Mad Maxine might not be a Mary Sue, but the public is hyper-sensitized to girl boss movies given the last decade or so, and the *trust* that she's going to be an enjoyable protagonist just isn't there.
Am I the only one who felt like Dementus was just Captian Jack Sparrow, but wasteland?
Mel Gibson is Mad Max.
He is...but I think there are actors who could do the role well. Problem is, gake and fay Miller apparently has no interest in actually doing a Mad Max movie.
Yes, i agree. Say if like Batman or James Bond the movie industry change actor for main character i understand. But the case of this new mad max, they took the mad maxs universe and impose new main character on it and the way they do it then "distanced" from original mel gibson mad rockatansky.
The remake movies is good in action sfx given the massive budget but its not mad max.
Probably a good movie but half the audience is just not interested in seeing any sort of "Boss Karen" who ruined Hollywood over the past number of years. BTW The CGI looks poor from these clips.
The whole movie feels like it was trying to recreate what made Fury Road so special, but had none of the heart or talent put into it. A lot of bad camera work, the CGI and overlaying effects making it look too fake. Especially with the green screen. There is no excuse to not have good green screen in this day and age when it was being done competently in the late 90s.
Scenes drag on for too long. Nothing is shown that matches the grand scope and intensity of Fury Road, and that is its biggest problem.
This is definitely a case of a loud, vocal group of people making something appear more popular than it actually is. Fury Road did not perform amazingly at the box office. Most people don't care about Mad Max, let alone a spin off of a reboot.
As a huge Fury Road fan I didn't love this movie. It was overly long, poorly edited, and the filming as a whole felt strangely amateur. Very surprising for George Miller.
As soon as I saw the trailer my first thought was "So it's another girl boss movie replacing the male lead, and they even brought Chris Hemsworth in to play the large but kinda laughable goofball white male lead villain who of course is more mocked than actually a good villain. Cause for some reason they just love bringing in Chris Hemsworth to humiliate himself as a retarded himbo."
Like at least based on the trailers, the movie looks like Furiosa will be a badass action hero with, pretty much no personality or womanly qualities, so a super manly action hero without the physique or ability to do cool shit to compensate for the lack of unique traits, while Hemsworth will be loud and angry and the movie will not really take him seriously.
Just adding onto that she's "not a mary sue" doesn't, really fix it. Like the problem is we're tired of the same lazy shit over and over, this is still lazy and it's obviously not different enough to catch ANYONE'S attention. The movie seems totally pointless, and not just because anyone who watched Fury Road already knows the whole fucking story.
Like sure, maybe it's like a bare minimum quality generic action flick, but there's nothing DRAWING me to go see it. There's no big pull anywhere in there. So far the most glowing review I've seen amounts to "watch the action scene in the middle of the movie on youtube". And that's it. Furiosa isn't really a character and she doesn't have anything extra to compensate. Chris isn't allowed to be a real villain, so that part's wasted. There's apparently only ONE properly good action scene in the whole movie, so all of that's pointless too.
It's basically The Marvel's lesson all over again. Even if you cut out most of the woke garbage, that doesn't mean your movie has substance now.
Just like another famous George (Romero). You reach a peak...and then you backslide.
@@guyjperson I think he finally crossed the Out of Touch event horizon. Happens to the best of us, and he's still a legend.
blah blah blah
It felt long and meandering like a thousands of longing. Another George Miller thing that nobody saw
I just don’t care about this story. I don’t like prequels in general, and of this character… I just don’t need to see it. I also really don’t like ATJ, she’s a little rich brat that comes from a family who bought her way into Hollywood with blood money. She’s plays the same character in every film except The Witch.
you're really limiting yourself there pal I feel sorry for you!
I think she is a good actress. She is a bit one-note, I agree. But that's probably more due to the roles she picks rather than her lacking the acting chops.
Here, she shuts up most of the time and when she does speak, she sounds scarily similar to Charlize Theron (who played Furiosa in Fury Road). So she does a really good job here. I don't think you coming from a rich family makes you any less worthy to do a good job.
Facts
@@jesustyronechrist2330 she was fine in this, it's the script that's shitty. sorry, but Miller dropped the ball on this one.
@@legionman2441 Feel sorry for yourself.
I knew it was going to be bad watching the trailer for the first time 💀
I'm just sick of having people complain about Hollywood endless pushing agendas, having them promise they will stop, and just go right back to it. I'm sure this film is fine, but I'm fed up with Hollywood entirely. I don't care what they produce, if it's from Hollywood, I'm skipping it.
1. Not interested in a Mad Max movie without Mad Max
2. Reeks of girlboss and that's a stench I'm sick of at this point.
3. Cost of living is through the roof - you gotta seriously impress me to get me into the cinema now
4. 2023 is still fresh in my memory
5. Fuck Hollywood. Why would I give money to people who clearly hate me?
Great points!
People who talk about this being good are grading on a curve with a very short memory.
If nothing else the reliance on CGI for the SFX means this is a complete dead fish for me. Seen enough "my computer is strong" cgi action movies. I'll just play a video game, thanks.
But people are desperate for a good film. People who talk about films for a living especially so.
What I find interesting about people like you is that you seem to dislike "girlbosses" mainly because they are girls, and not because they're badly written. I've never seen you people react as strongly with badly written guy characters...
@@adraen5942 What I find interesting about people like you is that you completely ignore characters like Ellen Ripley, Cpt Janeway, Sarah Connor, Eowyn, et al.
I've never seen you people react to reality.
@@user-ef5ug6jx5n you completely missed my point... 90% of all movies that come out today are badly written with bad characters and yet none of you ever make such a fuss when the badly written character is male.
It's flopping because people keep making videos about it flopping. Damn, the movie was good as hell.
You are wrong.
10:39 she is an excellent choice for this role, and she blew The Menu away. The real issue is, this film in it's defense had Fury Road to live up to and fell short, and it doesn't help that people are just not feeling this convert a male lead in to a female lead for a film thing. We dont have any issue with female leads, look at Alien series, Hunger Games, Wonder Woman. Do it original and do it PROPERLY.
A major handicap is the film LOOKS like Snyder's 'Rebel Moon'. You place stills from the films side-by-side and they look the same.. People think 'If I turned down that one why would I watch this one?'
I wondered where I had seen the look before.
I will never understand the obsession with Fury Road. I'm sorry but Road Warrior is a much better movie all the way around
Gibson was so iconic in all 3 films
I genuinely don’t get it either. The whole story was ridiculous, and it wasn’t even about Mad Max. It was like a feminist wet-dream about patriarchy and oppression
They need Mel Gibson back for a final Mad Max movie.
@@cl20v87none of the movies have been about max apart from the first one
Road Warrior is my favorite action movie.
People that say they don't want another movie with a female lead replacing a man in its own universe really expose themselves they don't understand the franchise and that this has absolutely no relation to your average girlboss movie we have been plagued for the past 2 years. But .. what can we do its sad the industry made it upon its self
What I don't get is everybody loved Furiosa in Fury Road but now say "we don't want to be pandered to with a girl-boss" Its the same character from the movie you loved! Why do you assume its gonna be bad!!!??
@@JamesWalks-ft3beFR was decidedly preachy and ushered in the trope that deflated its own prequel.
I can get a steak dinner for the price of a movie ticket and popcorn.
I bought 4 tickets for Fury Road. I won't be purchasing a single ticket for Furiosa.
You're making a mistake and sending a message to Hollywood that better written action films shouldn't be made. Did you dislike the Furiosa character in Fury Road? Have a little faith in George Miller. He's not out to insult the audience.
@@JamesWalks-ft3be Have faith in him for what? For being dumb?
@@detective2221 haha are you just finding all my comments and trying to troll them? Its just a movie if you hate it that much without seeing it maybe find a better hobby.
Loved Fury Road, but I'm beyond tired of girlboss characters so despite my love for George Miller's work I'm skipping this one.