Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga

[Teufel]

Prequel to Fury Road with Anya Taylor-Joy taking over for Charlize Theron and Chris Hemsworth as a post apocalyptic outback warlord.

For some reason I thought the Furiosa movie George Miller mentioned back when Fury Road came out would star Charlize Theron and wasn't a prequel, both of which I could've completely made up, so a little disappointed, but George Miller's never let me down before so still pretty excited. Heck, even if it's not quite as good as Fury Road that's a really high bar and someone less could still be exceptional.

 

[Fero McPigletron]

Saw it.

Kinda dragged cuz it was so long but I kinda loved it. Anya is amazing in anything she does.

Also Hemsworth has no business being oddly charming even when he's evil. He's horrible as the character Dementus but, ugh, he's funny, talks well (sorta) and has a funky voice. I'm half annoyed that I liked him, haha

 

[Thylacine 2000]

A good movie. A good expansion of the franchise. You can tell it was as much a labor of love as the rest of Miller's projects.

But, hate to say it, I can understand why it flopped.

This is a movie for the hardest-core fans of Fury Road, a movie with a cult following that wasn't exactly a runaway smash hit. This isn't like Rogue One showing you Vader again, you have to go in already knowing and caring who People Eater and Rictus Erectus are; for that matter you have to really care about Furiosa, who was in one movie 10 years ago.

And what those hardest-core fans get is no Max, no Charlize, a new Furiosa actress who looks about 5'4" and 105 and is not credible in a fight, and while still some great practical effects, not nearly as many or as great as FR had, plus more and worse CGI than FR had. General audiences won't know what they're getting into, and fanboys can't help but compare it to the superior product. Just imagine "Bob Morton: A Robocop Saga," giving the story of Bob Morton's cutthroat rise through business school and an OCP apprenticeship, with no Robocop and a different actor, guest-starring Emil, with a five-second cameo of Murphy. It could be a perfectly fine Bob Morton story, but would it be a smash hit?

I'll definitely watch it again, but I watch FR once or twice a year. Furiosa is an expansion pack, and you're not going to make a half-billion dollars with an expansion pack.

It's a shame they waited so long. This exact same movie in 2019 with Charlize and safely distant from some of the CGI "advances" would have been so much better, and better-received.

 

[Dake]

I don't feel quite so harshly, but it's not far off. I enjoyed it, and felt it moved along at a pretty decent clip. The story was cohesive and it was pretty to look at. I didn't particularly feel the 148 minute runtime. I thought ATJ did a great job personally, and I didn't have a problem imagining her as a younger Charlize (also, I'd swear they dubbed in Theron's voice at the very end there). But in the end, it did still suffer from prequel-itis.

Not that it could've been made, but it would've been better for Furiosa to have come out first. Fury Road was as much her movie as Max's anyway, so viewing them chronologically vs by release date would likely be better.