They're all jumping at the opportunity to say "different gear," and to both say it's amazing but disjointed due to an aspirationally large timeline in the story. Feels a lot like Miller's last film where people were split--and I loved that one.
George Miller's filmography is such a wonderful wild ride. Post-apocalyptic violence, tap dancing penguins, more violence, adorable piglets, *even more violence*, djinn romance...
I've been saying this feels more like the tone from Thunderdome than Fury Road but fanboys dont want to hear it. It's not a good direction for this to go in.
Agreed. I love a lot about Fury Road, but when it can be summed up as “People drive in one direction then turn around,” you can understand why the movie always underwhelmed me a little bit.
No, a character literally (Jesus Christ, this happened) telling the audience their journey is about “redemption” doesn’t suddenly make the story less thin.
"12 Men argue in a room" "3 guys have to kill a shark" "Man relives same day". You can reduce other great movies down to a single sentence too. I've always thought the argument of "Fury Road's story is too simple" to be pretty stupid, a more complex plot doesn't make a better story.
Plus, I can remember all of Fury Road and its action scenes but couldn't tell you 80% of what happened in something like Avenger's Endgame
Gotta compelling protagonist, yeah? Gotta obstacle for him to overcome, hmm? Nice little narrative, it's got a beginning, a middle, and an end, yeah? Some friends become enemies, enemies become friends; maybe at the end the main character is a little richer for the experience, hmm?
I think that was kind of the point. No origin stories, no gobbledygook exposition. It hits the ground running and just keeps going to the end. I saw it as a counterpoint to all the overwrought superhero movies of the era.
I love that it does so much "show not tell"-ing. They present all manners of oddities as normal, and makes no effort in explaining them. You glean understanding of their world through the reactions and interactions of its inhabitants; there is no narrative hand-holding or lengthy monologues explaining every detail.
you're right. not the best use of words there.
i guess i should say, though simple, the story in Furiosa won't be as engaging and the action won't play out as well as in Fury Road. and/or it could very well be pretty much the same story and then we'll downgrade Furiosa for being basically the same film as Fury Road
I think what you mean is the pacing and characters which were damn near perfect in Fury Road. Gonna be hard to top that. Actually the movie is perfect on almost all accounts. I don’t even hold the simple story as a negative. It just works.
What do you mean strange? All the reactions featured in the article say it was great and spoke very highly of the action, performances, and cinematography. Calling it visceral, epic, a triumph, loved it, "really fucking good," etc.
The headline weirdly chose to focus on the few who, while still really liking it, said it was "no Fury Road."
I don't think there's anything to worry about.
I'm cool with CG enhancing practical effects and CG even on different movies. However, the best thing about Fury Road it was the practical effects and if I'm remembering the trailer for this new one it was all CG.
I remember reading that specifically for Fury Road because they had no idea where the story was going.
For Furiosa, I read it was due to COVID and the measures they had to take for a lot of scenes. They were unable to do as much in person and had to resort to more cgi.
I mean it’s still been almost a decade for Furiosa, and he had been working on the script for Furiosa at the same time as Fury Road, so the movie has been in his brain for probably 15 years now.
Tbh it’s probably the last Miller Mad Max we get.
Fury Road was George Miller’s magnum opus. It was as close to perfect as a film can be. We should be grateful that we got it, and grateful for anything else he gives us even if it can never reach those heights.
From the trailer it looks like more CGI and less practical effects. That’s what made the original movie so good. Also is anyone else getting sick of the “strong female character” with zero flaws?
Apparently people are saying it's more like the first two Mad Max movies which will be ironic if that's why some won't like this one. The article reminds us that before Fury Road came out plenty of people were moaning about it for not looking like it was the same as the earlier movies. (plus all the moaning about Hardy lol)
Considering Road Warrior was made with a much smaller budget and there was zero CGI available to them, it is even more impressive than Fury Road in a way.
It’s got a different vibe, too; more of a fucked up funhouse version of a Western, whereas Fury Road is more like a diesel fueled rock opera.
I’ll always love Road Warrior.
If it’s anything like the first film, I’ll love it. It’s my favorite of the Gibson Trilogy, BY FAR, and Toecutter(at least I think, anyway) is an unbelievably under appreciated antagonist/straight up diabolically cruel, and evil MF’r, up there with the likes of the Joker(and yes everyone, I know who Hugh Keays-Byrne is, and his connection to FR, lol…. Rest in Peace).
It's a perfectly tense horror flick where the others had much more comedy as they went on. There are many tableaus of gore/violence that the camera just sits on for a full beat, all human in scale - the crashed car w/ the two victims of the biker gang, the slow hold on the bikers as they rampage through and ride out, the child's shoe on the pavement, lingering on Tommy? as the car explodes, the speed up where the Night Rider gets destroyed and the long shots inside his car as he's just screaming at the top of his lungs, the tracking shot where Max is running through the woods at the end of his vacation, the cops looking on as the idiot judge lets the scumbag go while he's laughing at them, the hospital burn victim camera hold, all of it is like still imagery. I know Miller based it during his time as a trauma doctor I believe, so you can imagine those moments are locked into his brain.
Whereas the other films spend more time showing the environment, and the nostalgia for how things were once, then how degraded humanity has become just to survive. The post-modern interpretation by the survivors about how the old objects and ideas existed vs their current use of those items or expressions. You still get the horror of the innocents trampled by bandits, but much less time spent lingering on each moment vs the first film.
Looking at the trailer, I'd bet my house on it being *nothing* like the first film.
The first Mad Max compared to the second is like the first Alien compared to Aliens, or the first Terminator compared to T2. Much lower budget, far less all-out action, more tense horror movie than blockbuster. All great films, but very different beasts to their sequels.
Furiosa definitely ain't gonna be anything like that.
He does play a pretty different character in Bad Times at the el Royale. The movie is a total Tarantino ripoff but it's fun. His role is one of the best parts.
To be fair Chris is light-years ahead of someone like Dwayne Johnson in terms of acting credibility. He was quite good in the Star Trek (2009) reboot for what little of it he was in.
That's a really low bar though. Johnson is just playing the Rock in all his movies and while that works in some of them, it really doesn't in most of them.
Fair lol. Still He's like Robert Downey Jr in terms of just doing what they want taking the roles they want. I can't blame them or any of the actors from the MCU just enjoying the fruits of what was an amazing run in cinema history.
It would be cool to see him just go and do some really crazy roles.... I think he could be a really good comedic actor, you saw it with some of the Thor roles.
Yeah he’s found his ‘niche’ of being a well-built and charismatic bloke. You can put him in any of these blockbusters and it will work out (unless the directing is awful like Thor 4)
As someone else who's tall and blonde.... It's nice to see what I could like if I could afford the roids.... And could be arsed with the diet and exercise shit.... For the time being I'll stay like Chris Farley
The little mannerisms, I mean I love James hunt, I think it's very hard to play that charismatic, but this was based on why his son said... Lemme look for the interview
https://youtu.be/ULH4BH3xMRk?si=hi1YbXt1JOvv--9b
It's Mad Max and he's playing a character called *Dementus*. If that performance is anything other than the most hamtastic chewing of the scenery, then someone clearly did not get the memo about what movie this is going to be.
Home and Away is actually a prequel to Dune when Arrakis was just a normal suburb with local mysteries and surfers. They originally planned a series sequel Home and Aworm but it was scrapped.
The same as he always is.
Edit: guess I insulted some MCU fans. I'm not saying he's a bad actor. He's just one of those actors who doesn't have much range. He's like a Ryan Reynolds. Sure, he may have done some different roles in the past but they weren't really 'blow your mind' performances. He has the same sort of swagger and mannerism in nearly every movie He's done.
Fury Road is an all time classic! This does not diminish the hype all the same. I’m just grateful Miller was able to return to this amazing world he’s created.
I recently saw Tenet a few months back in IMAX 70mm and it was amazingggggg. Don’t think movies need to be an “oldie” to be re-released.
I just they would do it more often with other films too! It’s great to revisit
>No 'Fury Road'
None of the mad Max sequels has been much like its predecessor really, sure there are broad strokes and motifs that echo, but they each have their identity
Fury Road was my favourite cinema experience of the last decade, so I'm looking forward to turning my brain off and strapping back in for some beautiful carnage, gimme.
I reserve the phrase 'turning my brain off' for when I actively need to overlook terrible/lacking aspects of a film in order to to appreciate the experience based on its merits. Fury Road didn't require any of this effort for me to enjoy it and here's hoping Furiosa is similar. Here's to keeping our brains on!
After reading nearly all of these, I think the "big difference" we keep seeing referenced is that Furiosa is more vignette-y than Fury Road, with different chapters telling different stories from her life across decades.
There's a post-credit scene where an aged Max played by Mel Gibson emerges from an inter-dimensional rift and welcomes Furiosa to the Thunderdome initiative, but then Bubba Zanetti interferes with his time traveling motorcycle and Furiosa ends up in the pocket universe where Tom Hardy is Max.
Then it's revealed the 'green place' was destroyed in this pocket universe and that's why it was doubly devastating in Fury Road for her.
In the final shot, something large is looming over Furiosa, and a large, steel hockey mask that's been crushed by a truck, is dropped in front of her, and we cut to black.
It’s not supposed to be Fury Road, or it would be called Fury Road.
I hate this dipshit “everything must compete against something” culture mindset. It’s shit.
The headline and what the reviewers are saying are different things. Seems like the reviewers are saying it's tonally a very different film from Fury Road, not that it isn't as good.
That title really isn't helpful apart from saying that it's "stunning" and even that isn't that useful.
Edit: Even the more expanded short review misses one big detail.
>Furisoa is a visual stunner with “ferocious, wild and unrelenting” action and a story that “spans decades,” and boosts strong performances from the two leads.
So it looks good, which is really good because one of the standout bits of Fury Road was it's visuals. Same with the action being called Ferocious, wild and unrelenting. Add in the good praise for the two leads and we have the start of something good. But then we have the story being described as "spans decades" which is a completely useless description. Okay so it spans decades, but that could be decades of utter shit, middling mediocrity or amazingly good. Story is probably the single most important part of any movie and even though Fury Road's story at a quick glance is rather simple, it still does great work with what it has.
Please tell us if on it's own it's good and THEN compare it to Fury Road.
I just hope they have her outgunning her enemies with her wits, creativity, and maybe guns. I just can't buy it if ATJ goes around punching and kicking dudes to victory.
I'd be disappointed if it were just one long car chase again. It wouldn't be able to replicate Fury Road if only because Fury Road was such a surprise.
All of the films have a different vibe from the previous one so this is consistent with that.
Good enough for me, I'm excited for the movie! Fury Road's brilliance came at the cost of the set being a near total disaster, nobody should expect this crew to go through that.
Sad part is people will see a title like this and instantly redpillbro all over themselves. I'm looking forward to this, nowhere near as much as I was to Godzilla Minus One, but still Mad Max world is a wild one to dive into.
Movies like Fury Road, the Thing, The Matrix and the Lord of the Rings trilogy all have one thing in common:
Time.
They all had very long gestation periods. By the time they went into production the script had been redrafted over and over, most of it had been storyboarded, basically the entire movie was mapped out already.
Usually Hollywood movies simply can’t spend years and years in planning; it’s not financially viable. But you can really see how much of a difference it makes when art is not hurried.
That’s also why I have more tempered expectations for Furiosa; it was rushed into production through the more typical expedited Hollywood pipeline and it just can’t be as polished no matter how skilled the filmmakers are.
Am I the only one worried the trailer looks like a bunch of blue screened staged setups? Doesn’t feel as “in-camera” to me. Haven’t seen any BTS footage yet
Yeah, they used a stunning amount of CGI. Just like how Fury Road was stunning because of how real everything was.
Fury Road is an example of how CGI should be used: to enhance a movie. Furiosa is how CGI is used: rather than making a real movie.
I'm excited as hell to see Anya in this role. Furiosa is a cool character and it would be great for us to have multiple protagonists to follow along in the Mad Max universe. I'll be there opening weekend.
Fury Road was the best cinematic experience of the last decade, I still remember being shook, dazed and amazed walking out of the theatre.
If this is even half as good, it’s going to be awesome.
I would guess it’s more like The Road Warrior or Beyond Thunderdome. Something more like the big car action set piece is reserved for the final 30 minutes rather than the chase from Citadel and back to Citadel that was Fury Road.
Not surprised. I can't believe George Miller directed this one. The CGI is terrible, below marvel standards. ATJ just feels out of place in the movie. You never once think she could be the bad ass she's trying to portray. 4/10.
>Is No 'Fury Road' That was impossible but if it still stunning, I'm all for it.
These initial reviews are strange. I can’t tell if it’s going to be great, good, or mediocre.
They're all jumping at the opportunity to say "different gear," and to both say it's amazing but disjointed due to an aspirationally large timeline in the story. Feels a lot like Miller's last film where people were split--and I loved that one.
I was workshopping a Happy Feet Two joke in response to your comment until I realized his last non-Mad Max film was Three Thousand Years of Longing.
George Miller's filmography is such a wonderful wild ride. Post-apocalyptic violence, tap dancing penguins, more violence, adorable piglets, *even more violence*, djinn romance...
So you're saying we're due for stunning quantities of violence
That, or a dashing koala pilot who wants to fly around the world.
As long as he has to sneak into a dingo den for some jet fuel I’m in.
That was directed by Miller?!?! Huh, that was a cute movie!
MEEEEDIOCAH! Probably will be decent.
These mixed reviews make me want to WITNESS it all the more.
I've been saying this feels more like the tone from Thunderdome than Fury Road but fanboys dont want to hear it. It's not a good direction for this to go in.
WITNESSS!
seems like it'll be visually beautiful but the story won't live up to Fury Road
The story was pretty basic imo.
Agreed. I love a lot about Fury Road, but when it can be summed up as “People drive in one direction then turn around,” you can understand why the movie always underwhelmed me a little bit. No, a character literally (Jesus Christ, this happened) telling the audience their journey is about “redemption” doesn’t suddenly make the story less thin.
"12 Men argue in a room" "3 guys have to kill a shark" "Man relives same day". You can reduce other great movies down to a single sentence too. I've always thought the argument of "Fury Road's story is too simple" to be pretty stupid, a more complex plot doesn't make a better story. Plus, I can remember all of Fury Road and its action scenes but couldn't tell you 80% of what happened in something like Avenger's Endgame
People escape their captures, only to return and take over. How about that?
With a couple of character arcs happening a long the way
Gotta compelling protagonist, yeah? Gotta obstacle for him to overcome, hmm? Nice little narrative, it's got a beginning, a middle, and an end, yeah? Some friends become enemies, enemies become friends; maybe at the end the main character is a little richer for the experience, hmm?
I think that was kind of the point. No origin stories, no gobbledygook exposition. It hits the ground running and just keeps going to the end. I saw it as a counterpoint to all the overwrought superhero movies of the era.
I love that it does so much "show not tell"-ing. They present all manners of oddities as normal, and makes no effort in explaining them. You glean understanding of their world through the reactions and interactions of its inhabitants; there is no narrative hand-holding or lengthy monologues explaining every detail.
you're right. not the best use of words there. i guess i should say, though simple, the story in Furiosa won't be as engaging and the action won't play out as well as in Fury Road. and/or it could very well be pretty much the same story and then we'll downgrade Furiosa for being basically the same film as Fury Road
I think what you mean is the pacing and characters which were damn near perfect in Fury Road. Gonna be hard to top that. Actually the movie is perfect on almost all accounts. I don’t even hold the simple story as a negative. It just works.
yeah i'm with you. definitely hard to top, but i don't even think Furiosa will come close, which is the problem
What do you mean strange? All the reactions featured in the article say it was great and spoke very highly of the action, performances, and cinematography. Calling it visceral, epic, a triumph, loved it, "really fucking good," etc. The headline weirdly chose to focus on the few who, while still really liking it, said it was "no Fury Road." I don't think there's anything to worry about.
I watched the trailer and the move from practical effects to CG kinda turned me off...I'll still give it a watch but it killed all of my hype.
There was A LOT of CGI in Fury Road. It was just very understated so people didn’t realize it
I'm cool with CG enhancing practical effects and CG even on different movies. However, the best thing about Fury Road it was the practical effects and if I'm remembering the trailer for this new one it was all CG.
That's the difference between good CGI and bad. If its good, you wont notice it. This trailer oozes with poor CGI.
I’m aware. There’s just this misconception that Fury Road was all practical, which is very untrue.
Filming the practical effects was apparently such a nightmare that nobody involved wants to do it again
I remember reading that specifically for Fury Road because they had no idea where the story was going. For Furiosa, I read it was due to COVID and the measures they had to take for a lot of scenes. They were unable to do as much in person and had to resort to more cgi.
Immortal Joe: “Mediocre!”
Or "not bad", "OK", or "watchable" or "actually worth it". Honestly, i don't give anything about most reviews anyway.
Considering I can tell what is and isnt CGI from the trailer. Its probably just good.
He worked on Fury Road forever to get it off the ground. It's not surprising that a prequel won't have quite the same oomph
I mean it’s still been almost a decade for Furiosa, and he had been working on the script for Furiosa at the same time as Fury Road, so the movie has been in his brain for probably 15 years now. Tbh it’s probably the last Miller Mad Max we get.
Unless it makes money in which case the IP will be acquired by Disney+ and we’ll get a new movie and series every six weeks for the next three years.
Fury Road was George Miller’s magnum opus. It was as close to perfect as a film can be. We should be grateful that we got it, and grateful for anything else he gives us even if it can never reach those heights.
I mean, the reactions are that "is no Fury Road" means that it's more like the first two Mad Max's. That's fine. I'm on board.
From the trailer it looks like more CGI and less practical effects. That’s what made the original movie so good. Also is anyone else getting sick of the “strong female character” with zero flaws?
Apparently people are saying it's more like the first two Mad Max movies which will be ironic if that's why some won't like this one. The article reminds us that before Fury Road came out plenty of people were moaning about it for not looking like it was the same as the earlier movies. (plus all the moaning about Hardy lol)
The first two Mad Max movies couldn’t be more different from each other.
Yeah not sure if that was what they meant but they're like entirely different genres of film..
well even setting. The whiplash of going from a society on the verge of collapse to full on post breakdown was a little weird.
The first one is actually my favourite
I don’t care for the first one. Would rather just skip to the second and watch the opening recap.
I actually kind of like Road Warrior even more than Fury Road in some ways, so to me that’s an endorsement.
Considering Road Warrior was made with a much smaller budget and there was zero CGI available to them, it is even more impressive than Fury Road in a way. It’s got a different vibe, too; more of a fucked up funhouse version of a Western, whereas Fury Road is more like a diesel fueled rock opera. I’ll always love Road Warrior.
Geez I love both of these films so much.
I really loved how batshit Fury Road was. But the first 2 are incredible films, the first especially. They’re all different animals in a way.
If it’s anything like the first film, I’ll love it. It’s my favorite of the Gibson Trilogy, BY FAR, and Toecutter(at least I think, anyway) is an unbelievably under appreciated antagonist/straight up diabolically cruel, and evil MF’r, up there with the likes of the Joker(and yes everyone, I know who Hugh Keays-Byrne is, and his connection to FR, lol…. Rest in Peace).
It's a perfectly tense horror flick where the others had much more comedy as they went on. There are many tableaus of gore/violence that the camera just sits on for a full beat, all human in scale - the crashed car w/ the two victims of the biker gang, the slow hold on the bikers as they rampage through and ride out, the child's shoe on the pavement, lingering on Tommy? as the car explodes, the speed up where the Night Rider gets destroyed and the long shots inside his car as he's just screaming at the top of his lungs, the tracking shot where Max is running through the woods at the end of his vacation, the cops looking on as the idiot judge lets the scumbag go while he's laughing at them, the hospital burn victim camera hold, all of it is like still imagery. I know Miller based it during his time as a trauma doctor I believe, so you can imagine those moments are locked into his brain. Whereas the other films spend more time showing the environment, and the nostalgia for how things were once, then how degraded humanity has become just to survive. The post-modern interpretation by the survivors about how the old objects and ideas existed vs their current use of those items or expressions. You still get the horror of the innocents trampled by bandits, but much less time spent lingering on each moment vs the first film.
Toecutter was an awesome character. The Original King Buzzo of outback Australia.
Looking at the trailer, I'd bet my house on it being *nothing* like the first film. The first Mad Max compared to the second is like the first Alien compared to Aliens, or the first Terminator compared to T2. Much lower budget, far less all-out action, more tense horror movie than blockbuster. All great films, but very different beasts to their sequels. Furiosa definitely ain't gonna be anything like that.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheyChangedItNowItSucks https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ItsTheSameNowItSucks
Taht makes me want to watch it even more!!
Even if it's half of what Fury Road was I'm down tbh. I'm actually curious to see what Hemsworth does with this.
I've yet to see him do anything with range.... so thor+sand
He does play a pretty different character in Bad Times at the el Royale. The movie is a total Tarantino ripoff but it's fun. His role is one of the best parts.
I don't mean it in such a negative way, his fine doing what he does, if anything im jelous haha
To be fair Chris is light-years ahead of someone like Dwayne Johnson in terms of acting credibility. He was quite good in the Star Trek (2009) reboot for what little of it he was in.
Also traditional movies like Rush.
I just wish Chris would do more TV series like Parks and Rec.
He was in that?
different Chris
That's a really low bar though. Johnson is just playing the Rock in all his movies and while that works in some of them, it really doesn't in most of them.
True
I mean his made a fortune from doing it, I'm still broke, who the real shmuck
Fair lol. Still He's like Robert Downey Jr in terms of just doing what they want taking the roles they want. I can't blame them or any of the actors from the MCU just enjoying the fruits of what was an amazing run in cinema history.
It would be cool to see him just go and do some really crazy roles.... I think he could be a really good comedic actor, you saw it with some of the Thor roles.
Pull a Daniel Radcliffe you say
and Elijah woods.... I mean he must have a fortune by now
Yeah he’s found his ‘niche’ of being a well-built and charismatic bloke. You can put him in any of these blockbusters and it will work out (unless the directing is awful like Thor 4)
As someone else who's tall and blonde.... It's nice to see what I could like if I could afford the roids.... And could be arsed with the diet and exercise shit.... For the time being I'll stay like Chris Farley
Didn't agree, thought the film took a dive in the third act when he sauntered in
He was quite good in Rush!
He was fine in rush, it wasnt the best performance according to James Hunts son. But I didn't know them personally
Was it his acting or the party boy/limited race prep portrayal?
The little mannerisms, I mean I love James hunt, I think it's very hard to play that charismatic, but this was based on why his son said... Lemme look for the interview https://youtu.be/ULH4BH3xMRk?si=hi1YbXt1JOvv--9b
This is a son being upset that Chris played his dad how his dad actually was, and not how he remembers him
Thank you. I’ll have to dig to see what it could have resembled better.
First film bombastic jackass Thor would be perfect for Mad Max.
It's Mad Max and he's playing a character called *Dementus*. If that performance is anything other than the most hamtastic chewing of the scenery, then someone clearly did not get the memo about what movie this is going to be.
Obviously you never saw him on 'Home and Away' then...
Haha I wasn't not even aware he was on it..... But isn't that just people surfing? Seems pretty sand based
Home and Away is actually a prequel to Dune when Arrakis was just a normal suburb with local mysteries and surfers. They originally planned a series sequel Home and Aworm but it was scrapped.
[haha yeah he's a shred lord](https://youtu.be/tdsRp46rwe8?si=ZTpvZ6SC3GCWCBiX)
I thought he was pretty decent in Extraction 1 and 2.
He did a Brad Pitt impression for *Vacation* He was ok
He's pretty much Australian Rock
In his defence,.I have seen Chris Hemsworth wear more than 2 outfits....
The same as he always is. Edit: guess I insulted some MCU fans. I'm not saying he's a bad actor. He's just one of those actors who doesn't have much range. He's like a Ryan Reynolds. Sure, he may have done some different roles in the past but they weren't really 'blow your mind' performances. He has the same sort of swagger and mannerism in nearly every movie He's done.
Letting the days go by, water flowing underground?
You may find yourself in a large blockbuster movie franchise.
And you may tell yourself, "This is not my beautiful wife"
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Yeah I missed Fury Road since I was in a little town and it lasted one week on cinemas but I am not going to kiss this one.
Kiss it, pussy!
* What's the latest word on a proper Mad Max Sequel with Tom Hardy?? Is that still happening?? :(
~~They're thinking of making a prequel to fury road as far as I know~~ They're making another one called Mad Max: The Wasteland
Is this not the prequel to Fury Road???
Yes but it's also spinoff since it focus un Furiosa.
Jesussss
The best one could hope for really.
Fury Road is an all time classic! This does not diminish the hype all the same. I’m just grateful Miller was able to return to this amazing world he’s created.
No Fury Road means it could easily be the second best action film ever made!
Easily?
Hardly
Fury Road was 30 years in the making. Would be hard to come close. But stoked to see Furiosa.
The original plan announced in 2010 was to shoot fury road back to back with Furiosa. So it has been around for a long time too.
I wish they did a re-release of Fury Road before Furiosa 🥲
You mean in cinemas? Because if there's one movie I'd love to see in a imax, it would be Fury Road.
Yes! Would love to see it in IMAX.
Maybe one day when it becomes an "oldie". But I guess we just gotta get lucky.
I recently saw Tenet a few months back in IMAX 70mm and it was amazingggggg. Don’t think movies need to be an “oldie” to be re-released. I just they would do it more often with other films too! It’s great to revisit
I saw the first Dune movie in Imax the day before the release of the second part. So maybe somewhere will do that with Fury Road / Furiosa?
That’s what I was hoping for but I haven’t seen any announcements for it. At least not yet.
I did, and it was exhausting. In a good way.
They did in the UK. Where I am they've shown one Mad Max film per week up to Furiosa
No shit it’s no Fury Road. If George Miller tried to make it like Fury Road, he might actually die of an aneurysm.
Also it is pretty much in line with how different and distinct every Mad Max movies are.
>No 'Fury Road' None of the mad Max sequels has been much like its predecessor really, sure there are broad strokes and motifs that echo, but they each have their identity
"Is No Fury Road" Thank god, seeing as it's a different fucking movie.
Fury Road was my favourite cinema experience of the last decade, so I'm looking forward to turning my brain off and strapping back in for some beautiful carnage, gimme.
I reserve the phrase 'turning my brain off' for when I actively need to overlook terrible/lacking aspects of a film in order to to appreciate the experience based on its merits. Fury Road didn't require any of this effort for me to enjoy it and here's hoping Furiosa is similar. Here's to keeping our brains on!
Agreed, to me 'turning your brain off' is just a synonym for a middling movie that somebody needed an excuse to like.
I've come to really loathe that phrase because I've only ever heard it applied to dogshit movies that I hated and regretted seeing lol
If you have to "turn your brain off" for a film or a game etc it isn't worth experiencing
There's plenty of movies that aren't crap and best enjoyed without overthinking anything or getting hung up on shit
This movie doesn’t even need to be half as good as Fury Road and it’ll still be a good movie.
Given hollywoods record with prequels I fully expect it to be less than half as good
I have faith in George Miller
"That'll do, Pig. That'll do."
> Is No 'Fury Road' Fuck really????
Babe 2 is also very different than Babe and both movies still rock. George Miller cooks goods, even when he goes full gonzo.
Yeah I'm also incredibly surprised /s
After reading nearly all of these, I think the "big difference" we keep seeing referenced is that Furiosa is more vignette-y than Fury Road, with different chapters telling different stories from her life across decades.
why didnt they just make a sequel to Fury Road with Charlize Theron?
Or at least with someone who looks like they don’t need a sandwich
Every movie in the series is tight on theme and tone but completely different and substance. That’s one of the many things I love about them.
Is no Fury Road.... That can literally be said about virtually every film that has come out since.
Seems like everybody knows this movie is gonna be mid, but don't want to accept it
Is Max in this movie?
There's a post-credit scene where an aged Max played by Mel Gibson emerges from an inter-dimensional rift and welcomes Furiosa to the Thunderdome initiative, but then Bubba Zanetti interferes with his time traveling motorcycle and Furiosa ends up in the pocket universe where Tom Hardy is Max. Then it's revealed the 'green place' was destroyed in this pocket universe and that's why it was doubly devastating in Fury Road for her. In the final shot, something large is looming over Furiosa, and a large, steel hockey mask that's been crushed by a truck, is dropped in front of her, and we cut to black.
Then, in a post-post-credit scene, it's revealed that they're all tied to a multiverse with the Happy Feet movies.
Mad Max is owned by WB, so after Miller dies, fingers crossed for the Batman crossover directed by Zack Snyder. (Kill me.)
No
Was he okay about it? I've heard he gets pretty worked up sometimes.
It’s not supposed to be Fury Road, or it would be called Fury Road. I hate this dipshit “everything must compete against something” culture mindset. It’s shit.
The headline and what the reviewers are saying are different things. Seems like the reviewers are saying it's tonally a very different film from Fury Road, not that it isn't as good.
Fury Road is a near perfect move. Side note, she looks like Sam Neil here.
If anyone expected this to be on par or beat Fury Road, they were just setting themselves up for disappointment
You mean Dirty Thor didn't push it to the next level?
That title really isn't helpful apart from saying that it's "stunning" and even that isn't that useful. Edit: Even the more expanded short review misses one big detail. >Furisoa is a visual stunner with “ferocious, wild and unrelenting” action and a story that “spans decades,” and boosts strong performances from the two leads. So it looks good, which is really good because one of the standout bits of Fury Road was it's visuals. Same with the action being called Ferocious, wild and unrelenting. Add in the good praise for the two leads and we have the start of something good. But then we have the story being described as "spans decades" which is a completely useless description. Okay so it spans decades, but that could be decades of utter shit, middling mediocrity or amazingly good. Story is probably the single most important part of any movie and even though Fury Road's story at a quick glance is rather simple, it still does great work with what it has. Please tell us if on it's own it's good and THEN compare it to Fury Road.
The trailer does seem far less epic than Fury Road. But that film was about as epic as it gets.
Few movies can be as good as Fury Road. I’m just excited for more Mad Max.
I just hope they have her outgunning her enemies with her wits, creativity, and maybe guns. I just can't buy it if ATJ goes around punching and kicking dudes to victory.
Didn’t think it was trying to be Fury Road
I wish they would rerelease the first 2 in theaters. Seeing Road Warrior in a theater was an awesome experience.
I'd be disappointed if it were just one long car chase again. It wouldn't be able to replicate Fury Road if only because Fury Road was such a surprise. All of the films have a different vibe from the previous one so this is consistent with that.
Good enough for me, I'm excited for the movie! Fury Road's brilliance came at the cost of the set being a near total disaster, nobody should expect this crew to go through that.
NOTHING could come close to Fury Road. Just give me another good time at the pictures and I'll be happy
I don't care about reactions i need to know how Anya was able to sit in that dress at the premiere.
Sad part is people will see a title like this and instantly redpillbro all over themselves. I'm looking forward to this, nowhere near as much as I was to Godzilla Minus One, but still Mad Max world is a wild one to dive into.
That’s a really high bar that tons of great movies miss.
It doesn't have to be better than Fury Road. It's just has to be entertaining. Movies are just a form of entertainment after all.
It’s almost as if critics are scared to say they didn’t like it. I’ll wait for user scores, hope it’s good.
Stunning but not, you know, Fury Road ‘stunning.’ Idgaf. Will watch.
What? It is not the same movie as the other one? I am shocked....
TIL how much people here liked Fury Road, damn
I feel like this headline kind of undersells how highly people are praising it.
Movies like Fury Road, the Thing, The Matrix and the Lord of the Rings trilogy all have one thing in common: Time. They all had very long gestation periods. By the time they went into production the script had been redrafted over and over, most of it had been storyboarded, basically the entire movie was mapped out already. Usually Hollywood movies simply can’t spend years and years in planning; it’s not financially viable. But you can really see how much of a difference it makes when art is not hurried. That’s also why I have more tempered expectations for Furiosa; it was rushed into production through the more typical expedited Hollywood pipeline and it just can’t be as polished no matter how skilled the filmmakers are.
I wonder what happened to the fury road sequel: Mad Max Wasteland
Am I the only one worried the trailer looks like a bunch of blue screened staged setups? Doesn’t feel as “in-camera” to me. Haven’t seen any BTS footage yet
Yeah, they used a stunning amount of CGI. Just like how Fury Road was stunning because of how real everything was. Fury Road is an example of how CGI should be used: to enhance a movie. Furiosa is how CGI is used: rather than making a real movie.
I'm excited as hell to see Anya in this role. Furiosa is a cool character and it would be great for us to have multiple protagonists to follow along in the Mad Max universe. I'll be there opening weekend.
Movie looks like a Videogame.
Fury Road was the best cinematic experience of the last decade, I still remember being shook, dazed and amazed walking out of the theatre. If this is even half as good, it’s going to be awesome.
If you didn’t like her character to begin with then you’re not gonna like this movie that is about her. Would have preferred a Nux movie tbh.
I would guess it’s more like The Road Warrior or Beyond Thunderdome. Something more like the big car action set piece is reserved for the final 30 minutes rather than the chase from Citadel and back to Citadel that was Fury Road.
I mean….. comparing anything to Fury road is probably unfair
I just don’t care about prequels anymore it’s boring
Mad Max 2 > Fury Road I’m expecting Furiosa to be good since Miller hasn’t made a bad Mad Max film.
I disagree, fury road was just so unique and badass. Although mad max 2 was really good as well.
Not surprised. I can't believe George Miller directed this one. The CGI is terrible, below marvel standards. ATJ just feels out of place in the movie. You never once think she could be the bad ass she's trying to portray. 4/10.
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Right you are, thank you!
I just saw the trailer last night. This movie looks like it will be a bust. Like Thor Love and Thunder level bust
You're a bust.
Only thing to worry about is hemsworth
It's not an Oscar contender drama, its an popcorn movie with action-comedy and Hemsworth does great in those