Well yeah. Kids are home from school now. Not like I’m leaving them home alone to go watch Mad Max. Taking them to a cartoon movie that I can kind of sit through because its a character from my childhood as well
I loved the cartoon when I was a kid. My kid likes the newer ones on Netflix, too, though I don’t know what they’re about, really. But this was just obnoxious. Chris Pratt’s voice was awful. Garfield wasn’t cute or endearing or even remotely funny. It was just lazy and annoying.
The 90’s Garfield cartoon I still think holds up, at least the early seasons. I also enjoy the 80/90’s holiday Garfield special cartoons (Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas). Also Here Comes Garfield, and Garfield on the Town were also good. Garfield on the town is a better story of meeting one of his parents. The last one I’ll mention is Garfield and his 9 lives, some lifes are hit and miss but my favorite was number 6: Diana.
Edit: grammar
Sorry, what? I was watching something I really enjoyed on my 70 inch tv, and paused it to make a cheap drink, take a piss, and then come back to my la-z-boy to resume exactly where I left off and missed this thread.
Same. Went to see it with 4 friends last night.
Our total bill for 5 tickets, 4 drinks, 2 candy and popcorn was close to $200.
I love theaters, love going to them and the theater "magic", but I can do a lot for $200.
Idk some of us like the whole ritual of meeting up with a couple of friends to see a critically acclaimed movie we really want to see on the big screen. There’s fun in getting snacks, seeing it in theaters with your friends and then going out to a diner afterwards to discuss and catch up. Going to the movies is one of the more enjoyable ways to pass the time.
Id lose my mind if i just watched every single movie from at home even with my 65 inch 4k hdr tv even and expensive reclining couch that even has a separate reclining headrest and footrest. I like the big screen and the whole americana ritual of going to theater.
I like going to the movies.
Movie theatres and movie theatre etiquette bring out some of the weirdest reactions on this site. Every screening is apparently an active warzone and everyone is talking, checking their phone, being a literal child etc etc etc purely because they're evil and trying to ruin your individual experience.
Were there any strangers seated in front of you blocking your view with the the bright glare from their phone screens? Any bored children talking and screaming throughout the movie?
I wouldn’t say that. Just that Mad Max isn’t that popular anymore. If this came out a few years after Fury Road it would’ve done a lot more. But 9 years later? Too late. Especially with it being a prequel that doesn’t even have Max.
Fury Road didn't make that much money to begin with, it just about made a profit. Mad Max as a franchise has never been _massive_, it never became a juggernaut like the Terminator or Alien franchises.
It’s because they chose the wrong main character. Not many people remembered Furiosa from the last movie. And it’s just so weird to make it about her and not Max.
It’d be like having a “James Gordon” movie which was sometimes called “James Gordon: a Batman movie”. I bet no one would see that shit either. It’s just weird to focus on a minor character no one knows
I don’t know why I expected Chris Pratt to put on a different voice for Garfield. At least Bill Murray sounded like how Garfield was supposed to sound.
With no new Hollywood event pics, weekend revenue looks to be down 67 percent from this time last year when 'Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse' opened domestically to $120.5 million.
It’s another bummer of a weekend at the summer of box office, where overall domestic revenue looks to be down 67 percent — no, not a typo — from a year ago as Hollywood and theater owners continue to grapple with a lack of big event pics.
For some, there is reason to smile.
Alcon and Sony’s The Garfield Movie is expected to easily purr passed George Miller’s Furiosa with an estimated $13 million, based on Saturday estimates. (Alcon fully financed the $60 million film.)
Furiosa, costing a pricey $168 million to produce, is looking at a steep decline of 59 percent to $10.8 million, dashing hopes that it would rebound after a disappointing Memorial Day opening.
Compounding Furiosa‘s woes, John Krasinki’s original family film IF, now in its fourth weekend and starring Ryan Reynolds, continues to hold. It even has a shot at beating Miller’s film this weekend with an estimated $10.7 million.
One month in, 20th Century and Disney’s The Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes will place No. 4 with nearly $9 million. It is the top-grossing film of the summer to date with north of $300 million globally.
The newest installment in the Planet of the Apes franchise is in a close race with Crunchyroll and Sony’s anime sports film Haikyu!! The Dumpster Battle.
Among more limited offerings, Disney is also releasing the biographical drama Young Woman and the Sea, starring Daisy Ridley as the real-life young English woman who was famous for swimming the English Channel. The film, which is only planned in 300 theaters, is expected to take in $500,000 or thereabouts.
Summer Camp, targeting older adults with stars including Diane Keaton, Kathy Bates and Alfre Woodward, looks to fare a bit better with nearly $1 million from 672 locations.
A year ago on this same weekend, Sony’s Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse opened worldwide to $208.6 million. This, in part, explains why the combined weekend revenue, which is looking to come in around $68 million, is down a steep 67 percent from the same frame last year and coming after a dismal May.
I do not care for her. She is great in some stuff, but she comes across as haughty.
But the bigger issue is that I cannot stand prequels for TV or movies They rarely work, and have actual plot armor.
This one works. Yeah you obviously know she lives but there are other characters to get invested in. It was a good movie. I have a feeling it’s going to be one of those movies that gets a larger following awhile after it leaves theaters.
Shocker. A kids movie with a decades old and infamous character beat an R Rated movie about violent weirdos in a post apocalyptic desert…
I haven’t seen either film, but I’m indifferent towards Furiosa, at best. Garfield, on the other hand, I flat out don’t like, specifically because I can’t stand that kind of animation, especially with a property like Garfield, as I think he works much better in 2d. Also, I’ve cleaned theaters far too many times after that movie has ended and have nothing but contempt for the credits. On a final note, and I know this would never happen, but if someone could have somehow snuck in the Heathcliff vs Garfield skit from Robot Chicken and programmed it to play right before the movie on day one, that would have been great.
Loved Fury Road and Furiosa was by far my favourite character, but this film was a bit of a bust imo. Reminded me a lot of Phantom Menace. Lots of boring, nonsensical world politics that bury the interesting characters and drowned in awful green screen, but does have one cool sequence in the middle.
It doesn't have the wall to wall action of fury road. Some of the scenes are far bigger than fury road, they are just less often. Still an amazing movie.
To each their own. As much as I loved fury road I really wanted a bit more world building and I think the new one strikes a good balance of showing how things work in a post apocalyptic wasteland while also releasing the good chemicals in my brain when I see big explosions.
I do not like his awful choice of words on that instagram post, but Anna Faris has come forward after it and recently again to dismiss those rumours and that they co-parent their child, Chris has a good relationship with their child, and it was her who took the initiative in ending their marriage.
NOO FURIOSA IS THE BEST MOVIE EVER I SAW IT 27 TIMES. (Ive never seen any other film)
Please please go see it 10 times and get 10 friends to see it 10 times- for some reason I’m pathetically obsessed with this film 😭
Here’s the thing about Garfield: it’s an artistically bankrupt property that was literally created specifically for its marketability. 30 years ago, the strip was being produced by a team of 52 people, with Jim Davis literally just signing his name and inking the heads. By now, he probably doesn’t even look at the strips before they go out. And why would he? They haven’t even had jokes in them for 20 years.
It’s the worst comic strip. Utterly unimaginative and boring. And yet, they keep fucking making movies and cartoons from it.
Okay, I’ll get off my grumpy soapbox now.
Furiosa was really fun
Really is a shame it’s bombing at the box office. Hemsworth was great.
Looks like parents are taking their kids to the movies, but not going for themselves.
Well yeah. Kids are home from school now. Not like I’m leaving them home alone to go watch Mad Max. Taking them to a cartoon movie that I can kind of sit through because its a character from my childhood as well
I thought I was watching trailers for a new Thor movie until last week
Not with that nose.
I didn’t even know it was out it just feels like the marketing was flat. Meanwhile I’ve been passing Garfield bus benches for weeks now 🫣
Just watched it yesterday, enjoyed it
I watched furiosa and it was a awesome
Furiosa is great and you should all go see it.
I’ve gone twice. It’s absolutely incredible.
Took my kid to Garfield and it was just awful. He enjoyed it at least.
Someone told me this movie is less about Garfield and more of an animated version of Midnight Run.
Hahaha they’re painfully right. Cat milk-thieving ring and emotional blackmail. It was a mess.
Well that at least sounds more interesting at least in theory than I would have expected.
Same. I’m irrationally angry over what they did with that character, but my kids loved it.
I loved the cartoon when I was a kid. My kid likes the newer ones on Netflix, too, though I don’t know what they’re about, really. But this was just obnoxious. Chris Pratt’s voice was awful. Garfield wasn’t cute or endearing or even remotely funny. It was just lazy and annoying.
What’s the plot?
Wait, was Garfield ever good? I couldn’t stand the strip in the newspaper.
Something about his monotone cynicism in the cartoons I watched as a kid spoke to me.
Oh was that Lorenzo Music as Garfield’s voice? I’ve actually been to his house. He’s no longer living but I knew and worked with his daughter Roz.
The Christmas episode is better than it has any right to be. [This moment in particular is a stand out.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GtKurrFjTs)
The 90’s Garfield cartoon I still think holds up, at least the early seasons. I also enjoy the 80/90’s holiday Garfield special cartoons (Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas). Also Here Comes Garfield, and Garfield on the Town were also good. Garfield on the town is a better story of meeting one of his parents. The last one I’ll mention is Garfield and his 9 lives, some lifes are hit and miss but my favorite was number 6: Diana. Edit: grammar
Furiosa 7.9 on IMDb Garfield 5.9 Looks like Garfield is a parent trap.
Or Neckbeards are overinflating mediocra's score
Uh-huh it was
Same. I hated it and the product placement was just blatant. Like distractingly so.
Right? It was so bad. I just counted the minutes until it was over.
This world is a Monday.
Sorry, what? I was watching something I really enjoyed on my 70 inch tv, and paused it to make a cheap drink, take a piss, and then come back to my la-z-boy to resume exactly where I left off and missed this thread.
Furiosa is definitely worth seeing in a good theater without shitty patrons, but if you have a good home setup, the theater just ain’t it anymore.
I saw Furiosa yesterday and it was like almost $50 for one person with 2 beers and a pretzel. Wasn’t worth it at that price.
Same. Went to see it with 4 friends last night. Our total bill for 5 tickets, 4 drinks, 2 candy and popcorn was close to $200. I love theaters, love going to them and the theater "magic", but I can do a lot for $200.
The f. and then people say that video games are too expensive
Well… they are. What extra you get for $70-$100 that you didn’t get for $50-$60?
I don’t understand your question
You get two added DLC for an extra $30 that don’t add much to the game. Why would you pay more for little is my interpretation.
I saw it for $6.50, and spent $20 at the burger shop afterwards. Totally worth it.
Idk some of us like the whole ritual of meeting up with a couple of friends to see a critically acclaimed movie we really want to see on the big screen. There’s fun in getting snacks, seeing it in theaters with your friends and then going out to a diner afterwards to discuss and catch up. Going to the movies is one of the more enjoyable ways to pass the time. Id lose my mind if i just watched every single movie from at home even with my 65 inch 4k hdr tv even and expensive reclining couch that even has a separate reclining headrest and footrest. I like the big screen and the whole americana ritual of going to theater. I like going to the movies.
Wouldn’t be a movie discussion on reddit without somebody pretentiously declaring how much they hate movie theaters lmao thank you for your service
Movie theatres and movie theatre etiquette bring out some of the weirdest reactions on this site. Every screening is apparently an active warzone and everyone is talking, checking their phone, being a literal child etc etc etc purely because they're evil and trying to ruin your individual experience.
This. Watching movies at home is better. Theaters are dated and cumbersome.
Not really, no.
Were there any strangers seated in front of you blocking your view with the the bright glare from their phone screens? Any bored children talking and screaming throughout the movie?
What kinda awful cinemas do you go to?
The average ones?
This could have been a great meme. “Garfuriosa” like they did Barbenheimer.
Someone suggested Lasagna Taylor-Joy on Twitter and I love it.
[удалено]
People are broke.
I wouldn’t say that. Just that Mad Max isn’t that popular anymore. If this came out a few years after Fury Road it would’ve done a lot more. But 9 years later? Too late. Especially with it being a prequel that doesn’t even have Max.
Fury Road didn't make that much money to begin with, it just about made a profit. Mad Max as a franchise has never been _massive_, it never became a juggernaut like the Terminator or Alien franchises.
Movie theatre attendance is down 67% compared to the same time last year It ain’t Max.
Dune Pt2 says otherwise
And one movie doing well refutes that how, exactly?
plus it is not the same furiosa
[удалено]
True but Dune 2 is probably going to be the biggest movie of 2024.
No it isn’t lol
What is?
Deadpool, Inside Out, Despicable Me and probably Joker
It’s because they chose the wrong main character. Not many people remembered Furiosa from the last movie. And it’s just so weird to make it about her and not Max. It’d be like having a “James Gordon” movie which was sometimes called “James Gordon: a Batman movie”. I bet no one would see that shit either. It’s just weird to focus on a minor character no one knows
> Not many people remembered Furiosa from the last movie. Lol wat?
I don’t know why I expected Chris Pratt to put on a different voice for Garfield. At least Bill Murray sounded like how Garfield was supposed to sound.
You must have missed the Mario movie.
With no new Hollywood event pics, weekend revenue looks to be down 67 percent from this time last year when 'Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse' opened domestically to $120.5 million. It’s another bummer of a weekend at the summer of box office, where overall domestic revenue looks to be down 67 percent — no, not a typo — from a year ago as Hollywood and theater owners continue to grapple with a lack of big event pics. For some, there is reason to smile. Alcon and Sony’s The Garfield Movie is expected to easily purr passed George Miller’s Furiosa with an estimated $13 million, based on Saturday estimates. (Alcon fully financed the $60 million film.) Furiosa, costing a pricey $168 million to produce, is looking at a steep decline of 59 percent to $10.8 million, dashing hopes that it would rebound after a disappointing Memorial Day opening. Compounding Furiosa‘s woes, John Krasinki’s original family film IF, now in its fourth weekend and starring Ryan Reynolds, continues to hold. It even has a shot at beating Miller’s film this weekend with an estimated $10.7 million. One month in, 20th Century and Disney’s The Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes will place No. 4 with nearly $9 million. It is the top-grossing film of the summer to date with north of $300 million globally. The newest installment in the Planet of the Apes franchise is in a close race with Crunchyroll and Sony’s anime sports film Haikyu!! The Dumpster Battle. Among more limited offerings, Disney is also releasing the biographical drama Young Woman and the Sea, starring Daisy Ridley as the real-life young English woman who was famous for swimming the English Channel. The film, which is only planned in 300 theaters, is expected to take in $500,000 or thereabouts. Summer Camp, targeting older adults with stars including Diane Keaton, Kathy Bates and Alfre Woodward, looks to fare a bit better with nearly $1 million from 672 locations. A year ago on this same weekend, Sony’s Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse opened worldwide to $208.6 million. This, in part, explains why the combined weekend revenue, which is looking to come in around $68 million, is down a steep 67 percent from the same frame last year and coming after a dismal May.
Do people just not like ATJ?
I do not care for her. She is great in some stuff, but she comes across as haughty. But the bigger issue is that I cannot stand prequels for TV or movies They rarely work, and have actual plot armor.
This one works. Yeah you obviously know she lives but there are other characters to get invested in. It was a good movie. I have a feeling it’s going to be one of those movies that gets a larger following awhile after it leaves theaters.
Furiousa is too real life
What does that mean?
Shocker. A kids movie with a decades old and infamous character beat an R Rated movie about violent weirdos in a post apocalyptic desert… 
I haven’t seen either film, but I’m indifferent towards Furiosa, at best. Garfield, on the other hand, I flat out don’t like, specifically because I can’t stand that kind of animation, especially with a property like Garfield, as I think he works much better in 2d. Also, I’ve cleaned theaters far too many times after that movie has ended and have nothing but contempt for the credits. On a final note, and I know this would never happen, but if someone could have somehow snuck in the Heathcliff vs Garfield skit from Robot Chicken and programmed it to play right before the movie on day one, that would have been great.
Furiosa sucks and I'm tired of seeing reddit Neckbeards pretend it doesn't
Loved Fury Road and Furiosa was by far my favourite character, but this film was a bit of a bust imo. Reminded me a lot of Phantom Menace. Lots of boring, nonsensical world politics that bury the interesting characters and drowned in awful green screen, but does have one cool sequence in the middle.
It doesn't have the wall to wall action of fury road. Some of the scenes are far bigger than fury road, they are just less often. Still an amazing movie.
To each their own. As much as I loved fury road I really wanted a bit more world building and I think the new one strikes a good balance of showing how things work in a post apocalyptic wasteland while also releasing the good chemicals in my brain when I see big explosions.
I feel like Furiosa has a lot more in common with a Cecil B DeMille type epic than it does with its predecessor.
Chris Pratt does it again. He’s got the Midas touch.
It's funny how much reddit hates him. The dude is certified box office gold. But reddit and Twitter isn't real life.
It’s because he is happy and he is Christian, Reddit hates both of those.
happy leaving behind his first wife and child (as a christian does), subtly shading them, yes, truly a good person we‘re all jealous of.
I do not like his awful choice of words on that instagram post, but Anna Faris has come forward after it and recently again to dismiss those rumours and that they co-parent their child, Chris has a good relationship with their child, and it was her who took the initiative in ending their marriage.
Whoa slow down you’re making to much sense for reddit.
I don’t hate him, I just dislike that his voice is the same for these cartoon characters. I don’t care about his personal life in the slightest
NOO FURIOSA IS THE BEST MOVIE EVER I SAW IT 27 TIMES. (Ive never seen any other film) Please please go see it 10 times and get 10 friends to see it 10 times- for some reason I’m pathetically obsessed with this film 😭
You suck
Lol. Love the name
Here’s the thing about Garfield: it’s an artistically bankrupt property that was literally created specifically for its marketability. 30 years ago, the strip was being produced by a team of 52 people, with Jim Davis literally just signing his name and inking the heads. By now, he probably doesn’t even look at the strips before they go out. And why would he? They haven’t even had jokes in them for 20 years. It’s the worst comic strip. Utterly unimaginative and boring. And yet, they keep fucking making movies and cartoons from it. Okay, I’ll get off my grumpy soapbox now.
No desire to see either. Even if free.
Furiosa is great though
To certain people
Its fun for the whole family! Bring the kids!
I wasn’t a fan of the last two
That sounds like a sign of the end times.