The REAL Reason Why FURIOSA FLOPPED at the BOX OFFICE!
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- čas přidán 27. 05. 2024
- FURIOSA: A MAD MAX SAGA is the latest summer blockbuster to make history for underperforming at the box office... but THIS one makes perfect sense.
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This movie flopped so bad, Critical Drinker is now sober.
Bruh
“It’ll be fine”
Go away now!
Lmao
Lol!!!
Let's also not forget that Mad Max historically has not garnered blockbuster levels of box office. It's a more niche franchise than people realize and giving it a 168 million dollar budget was a death sentence.
That's really it. This movie was a huge risk. So, while I'm not saying, don't take risks, they should obviously know that it was a huge risk to be successful.
Fury Road failed. It made 380 million at the box office, but it had a budget of 150-180 million.
@@JoybuzzerXFury road did the old bait and switch which caught people out. People thought they were going to see Tom Hardy play Mad Max but instead watched him being sidelined and were shown Charlize Theron playing Furiosa instead. Nobody’s falling for the same trick twice.
Yea the one that made the most money I believe was Fury Road, but that came out 9 years ago. The level of relevance for this franchise to be able to make a spinoff movie is pretty much gone imo. In other words, they waited too long to make this movie.
The original Mad Max was practically an indie film.
@@rochskier Yes, but that is because at the time, there was nothing like it. The influence Mad Max has had over filmmaking in the action genre is phenomenal. It makes sense to make a Mad Max movie in 2024. What doesn't make much sense is making a Furiosa prequel. Oh well, guess they know now.
My problem with going to the movies is the rude people in the theatre.
I pay a lot of money to enjoy a film and every time I go there are people on there phone or being loud. Sick of rude annoying people.
I hear you, and the problem is they don't want to alienate customers because they need every one they can get. If it were me, anyone caught using a phone inside the theater would be booted. Take it outside if you need to answer or text. If you aren't there to watch the movie then don't watch the movie.
That's modern day society for you. Many people don't respect themselves let alone others.
i've only experienced that in Colombia South Carolina and Austin Texas. every other theater ive ever been too has been a good experience. i ligit didnt go see this b/c i am done with girl boss.
Amen. ALWAYS people talking or on their phones.
There are no people at the movies anymore - rude or otherwise
I said this 9 years ago when Fury Road came out.
Mad Max was in it, but he was just there to assist Furiosa - it was her movie, not his. He spent some of his time being a captive, and some of his time losing fights, or barely winning them, while Furiosa owned that movie.
It was a good movie, but disappointing to go to a Mad Max movie and watch him be underwhelming.
Kind of like the last Doctor Strange movie, or the Loki TV show, or the Hawkeye TV show, etc.
Use the name to draw us in and then we see a movie about somebody else.
This time, the name is in the title but they didn't try to trick us; we knew Mad Max is not in the movie.
And, predictably, we weren't very interested.
Well ngl this film was meant to come out quite a while ago, then leading to another main mad max film with just max, web and miller had some disputes and Covid happened
Don't forget that abysmal Indiana Jones and Fleabag movie...
Ya but Tom hardy performance was so great.
So true. Back when woke was something strange to me, I was like where is the action in Max Max Tom Hardy here after watching it. I like the aesthetics, but nothing more... and then this garbage came out I was like oh I know why, either way nope to me... I rather play the video game.
@@rhyswong8976You probably didn’t even bother to watch Furiosa. You sound like one of those pricks on the far right or far left who are so obsessed about politics that you will judge a movie as “too woke” or “too toxic masculine” if the preview doesn’t look like it will cater to your side.
We just want a movie about a bloke who drives a Ford Falcon, carries a sawed off shotgun, and goes through life in the wastelands. Is that asking for too much?
Doesn’t hurt to have a badass dog as a companion either.
It would have been the next one… but since no one is going to see this one, that sail is about to ship forever…
I've seen this movie. It was really good. But I'm tired of remakes.
Yes...
Hell yeah 🤘
When I saw Fury Road when it came out, I wondered why they called it a Mad Max movie when it was more about Furiosa.
Rewatch the movies, besides the first one, they are about Max as told by other people in the movie. Mad Max 2 is told by a grown Feral Kid, Thunderdome is told by Savannah, Fury Road starts as Max telling it but the way the movie ends it's Furiosa telling the story.
No one needed a Furiosa story as she explained everything that happened to her in Fury Road.
Its tricky. As the name says: "Fury Road". Not "Furiosa Road".
Pretty much since the 2nd movie, its Mad Max passing by ppl/situations. Fury Road was Max meeting the Furiosa Arc and lending a hand. Pretty much, Mad Max movies about ppl/situations Max meets during his travels.
And Tom Hardy is a poor substitute for Mel Gibson
@@Nancy-yx4yzyour response is exactly why I was hesitant about going to theaters.
They dropped the ball by not calling this "The Road Warrior Saga"
Honestly that’s a much better title
Yes that would have made a better title .💯
Why didn’t anyone else think of that?
But that's not the name of the franchise.
That's just the name of the second movie.
@@kroanosm617she was never cannon in Mad Max soooo 🤷♂️
We just wanted a 4th Mel Gibson Mad Max, old man Max could work.
I’d go and see it 👍🏻
I think Fury Road wouldve been so much better if we got old man Mad Max, trying to save these girls as if they were all his daughters. Just look how awesome he was in Blood Father
Yess!
Definitely would go see a Mad Max movie with Mel. He's crazy enough to do so much with the role.
@@postive-vibes Right? He could literally act as crazy as the villain
This movie failed because there's no Bear in the movie. Grizzle Grizzle
😂😂😂😂
😂Come on man😂😂 I shouldn't be laughing at this.
😂😂😂PERFECT!!!!
Nice😂😂
Funny you mention Casper because Mel Gibson was it.
Hollywood will learn nothing from this.
Theatres in my area are so overpriced anymore I just stay home and wait for streaming plus I don’t have to deal with other people and their damn phones while I’m watching a movie.
100%
Spoiler Alert:
Mad Max has a 5 second cameo seen from a short distance, but you never get a close up of his face because he’s played by someone else doubling for Tom Hardy.
i think that was cgi.
No, it was a double. His name is in the credits
@@saltyamerican1677 who's name? Mad Max? 🤣
Ironic how a recent fan film about Mad Max is getting more attention that the one in theaters....
@@osmanyousif7849 "more attention" ? You're kidding, this fan movie is quite good, for sure, but nobody know nothing about it beyond the MM fandom.
What sucks, is that Audience scores show that it's not a bad movie.
None of that online scoring is reliable. People vote with their wallets.
Audience scores show that the people that liked Fury Road so much that went to the cinema to see Furiosa also liked this movie (somewhat exagerated but you catch my drift) . It's like with the user reviews of some obscure action movie that stars,say, Scott Adkins giving the movie an score of like 9.0 on IMDB for the first week... P.D.: I'm NOT saying Furiosa is a bad or mediocre movie
Honestly speaking it was a good movie and it wasn't woke. It just didn't have Mad Max.
Yea that tells me two things. Males are just pissed and won't watch a female lead movie, and two, people just aren't in to the theater experience anymore.
@@boneseyyl1060 It's not just males but specifically white males! Some of the best stars, writers, and directors in Hollywood have historically been white men and Hollywood decides to say "pale and male is stale" then enjoy those hot fresh flops Hollywood!
Good news Hollywood you can have 60 films come out every year and all of them written by J.K Rowling, played by Margot Robbie, and directed by Greta Gerwig.
Isn't Mel Gibson out of movie jail by now? Can you imagine the hype if he was returning to his breakout role.
Could have been his Top Gun Maverick
I don't know. I can get over the whole Jew thing but telling his ex-wife that he hopes she's ***** by a pack of ******* is a bridge too far even for me.
I don't think people care about Mad max (sadly) enough to support the franchise through this for Miller to be able to ever do that, but would be cool
They would never dare put a male as the protagonist in 2024
I KNOW RIGHT WHAT THE F*CK 🤷♂🤷♂🤷♂🤷♂🤷♂ they're too f*cking p*ssy to take that (BARELY??) risk
Furiosa did not need her own spin-off film, she just didn't. Anymore than we needed a whole video game centered around Gollum.
You'll be getting a whole movie centered around Gollum in a couple of years.
You mean movie centred around Gollum
Gotham, Gotham Knights, Krypton, same idea as this film: let’s make a show/movie about this character, but let’s make that unknown person that they met once in a bus stop be the main character instead…
They should've just continued the Mad Max story and had them team up again. Not every character needs their own movie
The problem with that is that the actor and the actress didn't really get along
@jelanihamblet9943 wow! That I didn't know 😲
@@BinxandDan yeah also you can look at the video the making of mad max fury road was a sh*t show
Furiosa's origin story was written as an anime back in 2010 which is why it gets reverenced so much in Fury Road.
@@jelanihamblet9943even if that's the case, they didn't have trouble recasting furiosa for this movie. what was stopping them for making a movie with Tom hardy and Anya Taylor joy.
I think it's a combination of inflation and people wanting to see something new. Hollywood keeps milking existing franchises because they're too scared to be original.
People especially Ken are tired of watching masculine women in screen
Even if they get something original, they ruin it by shoehorning in every trendy thing they can to "expand the audience" to the point it is generic committee driven crap. Then inevitably blame it on "no one wanting original things".
I agree. Sequel after sequel after sequel is causing people to zone out. There needs to be a compelling reason for sequels, and not just, "well it's probably time we made Fast and Furious 23, is the AI script ready yet?"
@@rp-2f how the fuck is furiosa masculine? were Ripley or Sarah Connor masculine? or Rita Vrataski (Emily Blunt) in Edge of Tomorrow
I would somewhat disagree as if you look on box office mojo the top 5 films this year were franchises. An original may do well in the domestic market but you need the global market to be successful. In fact, 1-4 did better globally. Other than Covid years you can see it is mainly franchises every year in top 5.
My theory- inflation, streaming( you mentioned that in the fall guy video)
I heard Furiosa was good actually, I also think WB really overestimated the characters popularity.
never seen a mad max movie. when i watched mad max furiosa tho, i immediately could tell the creator is passionate about the series and really enjoyed it. when i really want to, ill watch fury road and then the rest
I didn't see the trailers or tv spot. I went full blackout and had a good time.
People wanted sequel with the mad max character. Nobody asked for this prequel.
Furiosa is a decent movie it deserves 1000x the box office of Godzilla X Kong which was the most cringe piece of shit Ive ever seen
I was annoyed with the last movie having a gimped Mad Max for most of the film; (and it not being played by Mel Gibson, his stupid diatribe notwithstanding.)
I absolutely don't want to see a Mad Max movie that has nothing to do with Mad Max.
If you hate that, then wait until you see every other one after the first
It would be like announcing a new movie and calling it "Pepper Potts: An Iron Man Saga", and it only featured Gwyneth Paltrow as Pepper Potts with no appearance by RDJ as Tony Stark/Iron Man.
Yup and Daily planet movie without Clark Kent/Superman, Gotham movie or show with no Bruce Wayne. A ping, Po Kung Fu panda's goose Dad having a prequel movie focused on his life before meeting Po. Rocky spin off focusing on Adrian without Rocky. Terminator spin off focusing on Conner before the terminator machines. Maybe black pearl before Jack Sparrow was ever born. A transformers movie without Optimus or Bumble Bee. A ninja turtles spin off focusing on April O Neil before she ever met any mutants. James bond spin off of the agency before they had a James Bond secret agent. Ghostbusters focusing only on Slimer.
I am out of the habit of going to a movie theater. If Furiosa gets on CZcams, I might rent it. Why did it flop? Young men are the main audience for the Mad Max series. But there is no Mad Max to relate to. And Furioso is not Raquel Welch, which men could fantasize about. Thus it flopped.
The movie is excellent. You will be missing a lot not seeing it on the big screen but do what you will.
I liked it. Don't care how many youtube reviewers are saying the same thing "mad max movie without mad max???! how could they!" ....he was in it, actually. For like....3 seconds? =b But the movie is called Furiosa...not Mad Max. ;) a saga from the Mad Max universe. We'll get Max's next hopefully. I want to see if they play out what happens in the game or not (with Scrotus and gas town/Chum, etc). Feels like they included many characters in early form. Possibly even Humungus.
IMDbPro: "Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga"
"the movie is called Furiosa...not Mad Max"
Maybe you should look that up again. If IMDB is wrong, you should correct them. Because it seems to me that the title of the movie says
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
And I can't help but see A Mad Max Saga as being something that is a Saga about Mad Max... not a Saga about a universe, or a cameo from a person who might look like Tom Hardy maybe.
@@BrettCaton It's a Mad Max Saga because it takes place in the Mad Max universe; not because it's about Mad Max. The subtitle tells you what universe the movie takes place in. The main title clearly tells you whose the focus of the movie- Furiosa.
Hollywood still needs people like George Miller more than ever
George Miller was the one who crafted this mess
I agree. He is a visionary and we need more voices like his in cinema.
@@MsDragonbal776 this mess? what mess? the idiocy of a part of "movie-goers"?
I watched Furiosa, and it was f*ing awesome. I even preferred it to Fury Road because of the characters.
This flop only shows that there's no justice in movie box office.
@@alr2157 Agreed, this was actually a very good movie. Not a mess at all.
@@MsDragonbal776 Nothing was wrong with the movie itself...what mess u talking.
Love Furiosa and going to see this but I was devastated when Miller announced he was doing a prequel without Max. I definitely agree with your assessment 👍
He did say In an interview that "MAD MAX movies don't need MAD MAX anymore" and he couldn't possibly be more wrong.
@@Monkeytheluffy56 No, he's right. Mad Max doesn't need to be at the center of every Mad Max universe movie. There are plenty of other great characters in this franchise besides Mad Max.
@@dannyknightblade4592💯
Now try make a Pirates of the Caribbean movie WITHOUT Capt. Jack Sparrow.
Well funny enough...Hollyweird tried to, until they were blasted by the fans when they tried to make jack Sparrow a woman......We living in sick times.
Yes please
@simbaking6338 Sparrow is gay anyways. Changing to a woman is no different.
@@couchguy427 I assume u made him gay
FURY ROAD started the whole bait & switch thing which DISNEY put on steroids.
No not really mad max was still the main guy! Hence the name Mad Max Fury Road!
The Drinker had good things to say about it so I'm guessing it's part economy, part girl boss fatigue though she wasn't presented that way and was pretty solid from what I've heard.
Screw that cynical bastard.
I think it failed for several reasons. One, Furiosa was not an interesting enough character to need a prequel. Two, releasing Furiosa before the next Max centered movie probably confirmed a lot of suspicions about what they planned on doing with the Mad Max universe which was doing away with Max. Three, Fury Road was only a mild success despite the accolades, and I think the studios misunderstood why it was well liked overall(it wasn't because of Furiosa or at least not primarily because of her). Four, while Furiosa isn't a girl boss in either movie really, I think her character and this movie suffer from audiences being skeptical at this point of female leads in action movies where girl bosses have been prevalent and poorly written in the 9 years since Fury Road came out.
Of all the comments I’ve read so far (many). I agree with this point the most.
It’s kind of sad because the over the top girlboss / unnecessarily stupid in your face feminist stuff has ruined it for movies like this one where they don’t try to actually shove any agenda in your face.
Definitely agree with your points. I remember when they announced the next movie was going to be about Furiosa I was a disappointed. But I was always going to see it on the big screen because how good Fury Road was, and it's still a great movie nonetheless.
@@Chrisbp38 Yep, the anti woke brigade will shun this movie on principal however watching the movie It definitely doesn't feel like your getting whacked over the head with woke feminism.
Hollywierd has lost ALL its credibility and any sense of forgiveness across the country. People are NOT willing to give an iffy movie the benefit of the doubt anymore. Is something looks questionable people just write it off now as a waste of time and money and skip it without a 2nd thought.
The insane egotistical “activists” and suits in California have warned all this. Hope they loose every last audience member asap. Fuck em.
To be honest, none of the movie (except the first one) was about Max. It was more about the world and their interactions.
Furiosa was a good movie and Anya Taylor Joy was great as Furiosa. But main reasons for theaters not having much audience is due to inflation and streaming.
i needs the 4k digital in my life. =b
Those are exactly the two reasons why I’m just deciding to wait it out until it comes out in august on streaming.
Agreed. But side character movies always make less than main character movies. Supergirl bombed, Bargirl--whatever. Even The Joker makes less than Batman.
And no Mad Max.
The streaming argument only goes so far when it comes to monetary losses since streaming took out the dvd business. But it doesn't explain bombing at the theaters when other movies do really well, like the last Spiderman movie, which made over $1B at the box office.
Simply put, most of their movies suck. Because even the movies that bomb at the theater don't garner any attention from streaming platforms. Usually the viewership is around equal to the theatrical release which means it's safe to say that it's mostly people re-watching it.
I didn't go see it because the last movie relegated Mad Max to a secondary character and there was barely any use of the Interceptor.
Nothing's screams disappointing than having to have watched Furiosa on opening day in an empty theater room by yourself. It was still enjoyable but man the box office numbers do not lie
Empty theater is far better than being surrounded by A-Holes on their phones, talking loudly the entire time.
@@37Kilo2 THIS 👆
This is the first movie I've gone to the theater to watch in months, based on how much I loved Fury Road. There was nothing particularly wrong with it, but it was much smaller in scope and slower paced than Fury - I wanted two hours of insanity and destruction
Basically: If you’re gonna make a prequel about a certain character, maybe make it about one that people are interested to know more about.
Or at least continue the story with the original protagonist.
Her best line in Fury Road is, "Bullet Farmer. They're coming from the Bullet Farm." I crack up every time, lol.
Furiosa was a major part of the story in Fury Road which is why she was on the cover/poster.
Seems to me like they did it backwards. They should have done this story first and finished with fury road with Max in it.
@@boneseyyl1060 They did. Furiosa's origin story originally came out as an anime back in 2010 before Fury Road was released. Which is why it's referenced so much in the movie and so many loose ends were left untied.
I don't care if it flopped or not. I loved watching Furiosa.
But the makers definitely care
@@Monkeytheluffy56 That's the makers problem. Not mine. I paid, I watched, I enjoyed. My role is complete.
@@quentin2047 I want Furiosa to do well enough to ensure we'll get more movies set in the Mad Max universe in the future. Hopefully Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga will do well overseas.
1. Theaters suck these days for a number of reasons and people just don't go as much anymore.
2. Not saying this is woke or anything but people have been burned too many times by movies with a strong female lead that has the MESSAGE.
3. It didn't feel like people cared enough about this character or a prequel story.
4. Hollywood being so uncreative and living off the same franchises from the 70s, 80s and 90s. Most people want new things.
People do not want new things! You (or myself) might want new things, but the general audience pays to watch sequels or old franchises and that's why they have been so succesful so far. Maverick was like the most succesful recent film and that was based on freaking Top Gun!
It is not "woke". Whatever the hell that means nowadays.
@@creepyrobsta5509 There's some truth in that but people go to the theater less overall compared to 20 years ago. Many people just gave up altogether. People with kids go to the event movies and going to the theater is no longer a cheap night out.
@@sup3414 I didn't say it was woke but people don't want to risk it because Hollywood has burned them too many times.
Are you joking? Almost every huge box office movie nowadays is a sequel. The biggest movie this year is the FOURTH Planet of the Apes movie, lol. The biggest movie of last year was the sequel to Avatar and the sequel to Top Gun. People DON'T want to see new things at all.
Nothing has changed. Think The Rocketeer, Galaxy Quest, The big Lebowski, The Crow, ... Some movies find their viewership later and than the money comes in.
That was when they had DVD/physical media sales to make that money. How will they make money on this film once it's left cinemas?
@@JurassicRod purchasing it or renting it on streaming services.
@@JurassicRod Stupid question...
@@DerHoschi Can you answer it for me then please? Streaming isn't proving to be very profitable and DVD sales are almost non existent now. There isn't even much merchandise or toys of Mad Max to generate income.
@@randomanton Physical media sales are down the toilet and streaming doesn't generate anywhere near as much as DVD sales used to.
There was a Mad Max. He is in Fury Road. The main problem with this movie was that it was NINE years removed from Fury Road. A lot of people who watched Fury Road have already forgotten about that story. Taste in audience changes in nine years especially when you have a pandemic in between. If Furiosa and Fury Road were released as a two part back in 2015 and 2016, it would have done better. As a stand alone I did like the movie and had a good story. But had to watch Fury Road when I got home to remind what that movie was about aside from the only thing I remembered which was the guitarist playing in front of that vehicle with all those speakers. Hollywood know if you want a sequel after a successful movie, you better release it a year or two after the previous one.
The Road Warrior was one of my favorite movies growing up. The practical effects were revolutionary. And while there was dark humor at times, it was mainly a dark movie. Mad Max and the Road Warrior are best seen as a pair. Didn’t like the sequels as much. Fury Road was well made on its own, but it was too silly (like the war boys sniffling paint) and had too much CGI. And Mad Max was almost a secondary character in his own movie. I agree that gender has nothing to do with the drop off. People loved Furiosa in Fury Road just like we loved the Warrior Woman in the Road Warrior. We just want Max in a Mad Max movie. I will definitely get around to it, but might wait for streaming.
Worth seeing in cinemas
The thing is George miller wanted to play it and make a world building movie immediately after fury road and mad max movie but it took awhile, also inflation isn’t helping theaters either especially post Covid
This isn't the first time we've had inflation in the U.S. The movie industry is historically recession-proof. Even during The Great Depression, people were still going to movies to forget their woes. The problem is bad movies, plain and simple. Woke, derivative, uninspired corporate crap. Even when talented filmmakers try to make a film these days they get stymied. Ridley Scott sucks now. James Cameron sucks now. Even Scorcese has lost his touch. Spielberg too. There is something in the water in Hollywood and it is poisoning the film industry.
@@jakeviolet2195 Idk man I just know George miller wrote all this at once and wanted to make it all but didn’t want to do a James Cameron and wait he was ready, also funny enough if fury road had Mel it was gonna be the last mad max movie
Saw it over the weekend in a mostly empty imax. It didn't feel as big as the previous film, seeming more focused on characters than action. Though it didn't really break any ground, technically speaking, it still had passion and good cinematography so I still liked it, It was my first time seeing Anya Taylor Joy really act and I was leery of her ability to come behind Charlize Theron, but I think she elevated it, she was REALLY good. The BBEG surprised me bc I found him likeable in an evil Jack Sparrow sort of way, and a role I enjoyed Chris Hemsworth in. A good addition to the franchise, IMO. That said, it was expensive to go see and in retrospect I could've waited for it to go to streaming bc I don't think its a cultural must-see the way the previous film was.
I caught it Thursday. Was great in Dolby Cinema. Was very much mis-advertised. Everything I saw advertised it as more of everything you enjoyed in Fury Road. Yet Furiosa wasn't more Fury Road... It was a character/story/world building experience with a slight bit of action. Not nearly the amount of action they showed in trailers. I still enjoyed it, but it was mis-advertised and the visual & special effects weren't up to Fury Road levels.
Lookin awesome in that outfit btw Jay. Absolutely stunning
This movie was awesome in dolby, the motor sounds will shake your seats, and the pic quality is next level
True but scenario is so bad
Mel Gibson coming back to do a final Mad Max would blow the box office apart. Grab your guzzoline...
No way the woke director would agree to that.
@@JDoe-gf5oz Is Miller a Wokie?
@@JDoe-gf5ozI think he would want Mel Gibson back! That saying Mel Gibson would want lot of money for him to come back as Max!
@@user-yy1tr9du1y If he wanted Mel back he would have made a proper Max movie with Mel instead of a stealth girl power movie.
@@CaptainTass He had a feminist advisor on Fury Road.
It's sad because, the movie is really good, even without Max
still no mad max
It is mid at best
I want a Mad Max movie with Mel Gibson as an elderly Max. Old Max. Or Cranky Max or Grumpy Max or Ornery Max. Fury Road was a Furiosa movie, Max was just there. I liked Hardy as Max, but Mel is Max to me.
Fury Road wad fun, but I disagree it's the best, Mad Max² The Road Warrior is the best one imo, and the Australian cut of Mad Max is really good
Going to see the Crow 30th Anniversary on the 29th. Only one showing time on May 29 & 30.
Furiosa already shows up on JB Hi-Fi as a preorder DVD! So I’m not surprised by poor attendance at the box office. My family and I saw the movie at Gold Class Village Cinema in Hobart, Tasmania. The movie was great, the food not so great and discovered three days later I caught COVID (not Mad Max related), I’d would have preferred to see a Mad Max prequel in the days of the MFP and have max fresh out of the breaker squad take on crazy but not so much cgi related baddies. Great video as always Snarky!
I think super hard core fans remember the first movie. It was clear that the 'green place' was a kind of amazon utopia. Made this movie seem more like fan fic than that a real thing in the 'mad max' world. Without the hardcore fans driving hype, it had no chance of being a hit.
I swear on my life, right now, this very moment is literally the first time I have EVER heard of this film. I never even knew it existed.
Two Mad Max would be perfect. An older one played by the original, Mel Gibson. Tom Hardy would be the other one. The young boy from Mad Max Road Warrior. The theory that makes him the young boy would be perfect.
It's crazy how so many people are trying to find an excuse for the failure when it's really simple. People want to watch mad max not a spinoff about a sidekick and a dead villain
I mean Fury Road wasnt a huge hit either. That movie costed nearly 200 million.
I have to somewhat disagree, in that, nobody would have been excited about Fury Road without Mad Max because at that time Furiosa was a complete unknown, but post Fury Road Furiosa is a known entity & an interesting enough character to carry her own film.
I don't think the marketing was particularly deceptive as it does make sense to label this a "Mad Max Saga" so that the uninitiated instantly know what universe this IP is tied to.
I do agree that the cost of going to movies these days, combined with how quickly new releases come to streaming is causing a big problem for the industry.
I took a shot every time Snarky said "mad max". I ended up in the hospital
It's a prequel to a movie that also didn't do well at the box office. That's probably more than just coincidence.
I did not go because not only there was no Mad Max, the actress playing Furiosa was not the same as the previous movie.
It's a prequel showing the characters childhood and younger adult years why would they have the same actress playing her? Charlize is 10 years older than she was at the time of Fury Road. De-aging only goes so far and costs a lot of money that didn't need to be spent on an already expensive movie.
Charlise Theron is like 50 years old how the hell would she play a younger version lol see this movie it's so good y'all trippen
@@imagerydiversions6127 Well she can and the wonders of technology and a better script can make it happen. Yes it is about her young life but the face and body of the current actress does not match Charlise Theron at all. They did not even try to do so. This is BAD screen writing and execution. They failed to do so and the result is that many just did not want to go and see the movie.
@@warhippy6934 Yes De-aging can go only so far however this is BAD script writing as well. They could have gotten someone with similar body types to Charlize and progress her growth until we get a Furisoa that matched the previous movie. Even a Cameo would have help of Charlize, but that did not happen Again BAD story writing. But the biggest sin is no mad max at all. And they could have fitted a cameo of Max max doing his own thing as well aiming to a point where he is about to meet Charlize before the 2016 version started.
@@Dimythios but if you do go and see it then you can be one of the few to add a good score to an already whapping 89% critic and 92% audience review. You think to much just watch a good movie. That goes for all of you think hards lol
A 'Superman' movie about Lois Lane's reporting career and no Superman. What could go wrong?
"You're making a mad max movie without mad max"
Please, check one more time what's the name of the movie...
And beyond that, Miller's movie often flopped at the box office. Mad Max 2, Mad Max 3, Babe 2, Happy Feet 2, 3000 YOL bombed at the box office. Well, we forgot about that, and the movies remain.
Movie was fantastic, no woke propaganda shit at all, great film, more story, dialogue and world building than fury road, it's a must see at the cinema!! Hemsworth steals every scene, deffs his best performance/role by far!
This one is not the movie’s fault. It’s the economy. Nobody wants to go to the theater when they are worrying about groceries and gas and possibly working two jobs just to stay afloat.
I can't afford to pay attention to something that might just be a waste of time and money.
Exactly. Priorities. If you’re juggling a tight budget, eggs win out over a movie.
Keep that same energy when Deadpool does extremely well.
@@Sjcstro84 Comparing apples to oranges.
Also, no one was interested in a Furiosa prequel.
While I agree that people were turned off because there was no Mad Max in the movie, I think you were more on point that a) they were worried about it being a 'girl boss' flick (which is wasn't), and b) why go to the movies when you know it'll be at home in a month. I did see it, and honestly thought it was better than Fury Road. Chris Hemsworth and Anya Taylor Joy were both phenomenal, the action was bonkers, and the story was great. This was a 2 1/2 hour movie that flew by. But everybody has been trained to expect they'll be able to watch the movie at home in just a few weeks, so until they start holding back the home/digital releases of these flicks a while, a lot of people aren't going to fork over the cash or put in the effort to go see them in theaters.
They should have only marketed as a Furiosa movie. Only Mel Gibson is MM, and GM saying he has no story for an older Mad Max is BS. Get Brendan McCarthy on the case and I bet you would have a story worth telling.
Take a shot every time Jay says "Mad Max".
History lesson, the movie that made "Mad Max" famous didn't even have his name in the title. The big hit was titled "The Road Warrior". Sure, on IMDB now it says "Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior" - but that is NOT how it was marketed or appeared in theaters. Mad Max was a low budget Australian film - no one knew about it when the big Hollywood movie The Road Warrior was made and hit theaters. My point being, if they really wanted to try and launch a new character in that universe a better title would have been "Furiosa: A Road Warrior Tale" which wouldn't be a bait and switch.
" the movie that made "Mad Max" famous didn't even have his name in the title"
You might want to check that.
They renamed Mad Max 2 for low IQ audiences, but it still remains a Mad Max movie about Mad Max, as IMDB points out.
Even with the renaming for the low IQ audiences who would be confused by Mad Max 2 because they couldn't figure out how numbers worked, the title is still
Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior
So even a moron should understand that it is about Max, who was the road warrior, although an especially doltish example might think it was just maximised mad road warrior roading and warrioring.
If George had the guts, he would have cast Mel Gibson and put his finger up at the woke hollywood machine, but he doesn't. He wants a Not Mad Max movie that will still get him approved by the Central Committee? He should have just called it the Furiosa Saga.
My dad took me to see The Road Warrior at the dollar movies when I was a kid and I was spellbound. We had no idea who Mad Max was before that. I remember being really surprised when I discovered Mad Max and also disappointed that it was nothing like the mayhem of The Road Warrior.
@@Reyescult Lol, yes. I had a similar experience. The Road Warrior was enjoyable chaos and carnage. When I later saw Mad Max I was very underwhelmed.
There are are various reasons for the decline in cinema. Pricing is high, stories are recycled or just plain garbage. Political and social messages. Too many groups are being alienated, and it's more convenient to just stream movies at home.
The fall guy and furioso were actually good movies. So you're probably right about the lack of interest in the theater right now. At least until deadpool comes out.
I think you're missing why people are saying "girl boss fatigue" as to why people aren't watching this movie. It's not because she's a Mary Sue like in all the rest. It's just that Hollywood had conditioned everyone to expect that, so why shell out any money to go what the trailers portrayed as total girl-boss?
Nobody cares about a Mad Max movie without Mad Max… also the 130 pds girl boss beating up a bunch of 250 pds guys movies are massively played out
ok but the abbreviation for pound(s) is lb(s)... i know it doesn't make sense but welcome to the imperial measurement system
@@davidletarte214 oh wow lol im from Canada with french beeing my first language and lbs is the abbreviation we use 😝
@@seriousmike5649 so you're saying you're just a genius? 😉
@@davidletarte214 😂 not in a million years
3:21 Welllll....not quite. There is an "easter egg" scene. Can't say more than that.
Went and saw it this weekend---went on the off Monday. I was one of only 4 people in the entire theater----found a nice quiet dark corner way up in the back. I personally loved it. But Mad Max movies are something of an acquired taste---car chase movies with total savagery and guys screaming "DO YOU SEE ME MAN??? DO YOU SEE ME TOECUTTAHHHH????" and a protagonist who, upon achieving his revenge moment, looks at the villainous flunkie he found and gives him the choice between cutting through his cuffs or cutting off his foot, those movies are kinda hard to stomach with modern audiences. We old guys (I'm 53) who remember the Gibson run as the protagonist felt like Hardy was a nice pick to fill in. I personally don't understand why it flopped the way it did. Maybe---like the original---it'll take some time to catch fire and find its audience. I'm pleasantly surprised to see that YOU like the franchise---that gives me hope for humanity. :)
I would offer to you---take or leave it as you like---that spinoffs have worked previously. "The Mandalorian" worked out pretty well, so did "The Bad Batch". Disney peed in their own bed with firing Gina Carano though. The reimagined Battlestar Galactica (2004) improved enormously on the original. (Okay, that was a reboot, not a spinoff...oh well. Frak it, Imma die on this hill anyway. So say we all.) The spinoff can work, but the studios have to make sure the audience is really there.
I'm with you on a lot of what you said. I'm 54 as well. I rewatched all of the Mad Max movies prior to seeing Furiosa and it felt good revisiting the griminess of the old films!! While I love Fury Road for the high impact visuals and sound, Furiosa may not have had the same impact visually. But the characters of the movie made up for it all! For me, it was solid 7.5/10 and I'm looking forward to the future of what Miller will do with the franchise. True fans of the films will follow it regardless of it's lackluster opening, and I'm ok with that!!
it was a good action movie, BUT it was not really a necessary movie to the franchise. So most people just found the concept boring.
A Logan-like final installment with Mel Gibson himself is about the only thing that could get me back into a theater...
Furiosa deserves way better, how on earth is that awful Garfield movie doing better than Furiosa?
I didn't watch it because Max wasn't in it. Movie theaters are way too expensive now days though. $50 for 2 tix, popcorn and a drink?? Wild
No we just all gave up supporting Hollywood. Let them preach to empty seats.
I would normally care about Mad Max NOT being in a Mad Max movie, but I only see about 5 movies per year and this is one of the few that has interesting world-building and action design. I saw it on opening weekend and enjoyed it quite a bit.
Because hollywood is dying .
I really don't know at this point. Both this and the Fall Guy were flops? Is everyone just tired of acftion adventure films? Do they want original ideas, because those have been flopping as well. Do they just not like movies anymore? Do they not like theaters, are movie theaters going to out of business? As someone who genuinely wants to make movies, that terrifes me! What is it people want?!? What!?!
I watched it. Not a bad movie at all, although no where near as good as Fury Road, but it is a different type of movie. It is paced differently. Fury Road was a massive 2 day car chase, where as Furiosa is more of a character piece that spans ten years. My point is it shouldn't have done so poorly.
It failed because "A Mad Max Saga" without Mad Max. Just call it Furisosa. It's good as a prequel but they should leave out Mad Mad because he isn't even it.
Seems like everyone that actually sees it says it's amazing. People just aren't risking it. Only complaint is it being too long, with too much time on child furiosa.
As an Australian. Not seeing a post apocalyptic George Miller movie would be... Well. Un-Australian of me. Good or crap, I gotta see it. Or they revoke my citizenship. Lmao
fully f*cking agree CAN WE FINALLY F*CKING HAVE MAD MAX IN MAD MAX PLEASE SERIOUSLY WTF
Girlbossery has jumped the shark and the backlash has begun. If they want to sell me an action/adventure flick now, they need to bring back the over-the-top macho action heroes of the 80s. No cucks. No betas. No soyboys. No nerds. And certainly no girlbosses.
A girl boss is a character that arrives perfect. Furiosa is not a girl boss.
🍷 Well said, Good Sir👍
And boobies. Don't forget the boobies.
@@user-kb2nl7nv5i So? they drove many of us to a point where we don't want movies with female leads, minorities, etc.
10 years ago I had no problem with black main actors, female leads, etc, now, if there's any of them in the poster, it's a no for me.
@@albertov9664more power to you, vote and talk with your money
Absolutely agreed. Before anyone who wants to "reeee" starts "reeeing"...like it or not, people who would want to come out and pay $25-30 a ticket to see a Mad Max film are not interested in a "modern, strong, independent female" version of Mad Max," they are interested in seeing...MAD MAX! "Fair" or "unfair" doesn't matter, it's just reality. Having a strong female post-apocalyptic hero is fine, but the way to have one is not to replace the titular male character of a franchise...it's to write an original story and awesome female protagonist with a compelling character arc. Just like Ellen Ripley from the Alien franchise or Sarah Conner from the Terminator franchise.
This movie was the red Sonja of the mad max series. That movie also bombed at the box office.
MIddle class that used to have the time and money to go to theatres has all but been destroyed. Maybe thats why every movie in the last 5-10 years has "flopped".
They don't - and won't EVER - learn from this mistake.
You’re 100 right. The people that care about mad max, don’t care for a movie without max and instead a female lead. And the female audience doesn’t care about the mad max franchise even with a female lead. In product development this is called poor “product market fit”.
Why is your alternative to streaming to pirate the movie? You could also buy a high quality 4k disc. You’d own it and help, in a small way, film preservation through physical media.
The Box Office numbers have nothing to do without it not having Mad Max. It was flat out promoted poorly! The look, the tone, and the story were not conveyed at all in trailers. This is a dark and gritty movie that enhances and deepens Fury Road. It earns its R rating and is one of the most visually striking movies to come out recently even besting Dune!
2 hours and change to repeat the character arch you see in Fury Road it's just really unnecessary 😒
You cant have a mad max movie,without mad max.The minute they put mad max in the title ,it was doomed.We need Mel Gibson back for one last mad max movie to bring this beloved characters story arc to an end
I saw an artist rendering of Mel Gibson as a scared up battle weary version of max that was badass and immediately i thought how cool that would be
Love him or hate him,Mel Gibson is Max
Well, I liked Furiosa (all things considered), but yes, 'Mad Max w/o Mad Max' is a bit of a problem...
Last time I went to the movie theater, I spent over $100 on candy, drinks, popcorn and of course the tickets. People were disrespectful, staff was rude and apparently the seats I had reserved were taken by someone else. It was a disaster. Never again. I'd rather stay home and wait for the movie to be released on Prime. Most movies these days flop anyway...
I was originally going to turn my back on the Furiosa film due to my disappointment in the last Mad Max that released. But, I ended up getting some free passes and brought the family along with me. The later trailers made a greater impression on me as well. Turns out, Furiosa was a lot better than I expected it to be. Even better than the last Mad Max release. It’s fair to say that it’s definitely worth the watch. Give it a chance if you get around to changing your mind on it
The real reason… Max isn’t in it. It’s a Mad Max thing with no Max
Its a shame, really. Furiosa is a LOT of fun, and an *extremely* competent action movie.
Truth. I went to see FR because it had Max in it and played by freakin' Tom Hardy. Furiosa was cool, I have a crush for Charlize, but it's Max, damn it.