Furiosa (2024)

Shoe horning girl power shit into Mad Max movies is lame. That was the only part of fury road that irked me as well, how she did everything Max did but better. Gleeful that this is tanking!

In a world where despite inflation and devalue of the dollar that you can buy a ok 4k TCL 75" TV for $500 and a decent soundbar with sub for $250, the age of theaters should end.
That's a good fam home system for like 20 big macs.

Dr.Retarded said:

I think the first time I really saw her as attractive was in The Menu. Yeah she's got a unique look, but maybe that's part of her charm. She's not a bad looking girl and she's a pretty fantastic actress. I don't think there's a lot of movies that I've seen her in where I didn't at least enjoy them on some level.

Click to expand...

She was in monte carlo today for the grand prix. Brundle interviewed her. I didn't realize how tiny she is!

She Looks rather elfin in the face but is short so I dunno.

I'm not sure. I saw her in a movie a year or two ago, the viking one? I don't watch very many movies.

It's not like the first movie was some monster success, either, despite how well reviewed and liked it was. It just broke even theatrically given its budget. Any sequel was going to be a gamble, especially one without Max.

I rank it a little higher because there are some cool ideas here, like I appreciate seeing the lore of the Wasteland expand with us seeing Gas town and Bullet town for the first time and how it may operate and the trade routines between the three. Its not just member-berry bullshit of other movies nowadays, it actively tries to expand the world and show stuff we haven't seen, not do constant callbacks to old movies.

One cool example of world building I liked, a very minor thing, during the big War Rig chase scene they are driving on a very nice, thin asphalt road. That REALLY bugged me, "why the fuck would there be a clean road in the apocalypse, this makes no fucking sense". George Miller is way, way ahead of me though, near the end we see Dementus has control of an asphalt paver and its in the vanguard of his convoy, literally laying down asphalt for a new attack road (ignore clearing rocks and pits first). The movie has a lot of little touches like this, but thats like 80% of the movie... little bits of world building, but not much real plot and you never really hate Dementus. Furiosa seems checked out of her own story most of the movie so its just very unsatisfying. By the time the end rolls around you just don't really care about anyone.

Anyways Miller still rules, still excited as a schoolboy about the shit he gets to do. Its a bummer Furiosa is bombing, probably means The Wasteland movie will never get made:

Meh/OK. They lost me after the first 5 minutes, couldn't stop rolling my eyes, the next hour or so (first 2 chapters, kiddo Furiosa) didn't make it much better. Deviation in tone was too much for a MM movie imho, it felt like a parody of itself.
Overall, some good new stuff, lots of Fury Road rehashing and the same shots. And, expectedly, nowhere near as good as Fury Road. I liked the world building, I would be more intersted in Joe's story and how the Citadel/Bulletfarm/Gastown were formed... Maybe as a TV show.

This movie is going to lose a ton of money. Has a larger budget and grossing half of what Fury Road pulled in and it sounds like it's going to get worse in the next few weeks

I think red letter media nailed it calling this the kill bill vol 2.

it’s enjoyable but I wouldn’t tell anyone they have to see it in theaters.