Furiosa was fine. In a vacuum, it was actually pretty good, but in being a sequel to Fury Road it can’t shake comparisons.
I figure that it looking so visually similar to Fury Road in trailers made a lot of people ask themselves why even bother watching it when they’d already seen Fury Road. The title including “A Mad Max Saga” is clunky and throws up big vibes of this being a tack on story (which it is), which really doesn’t create the kind of hype wave needed to reach out to people who are already cynical about going to a theater.
The word of mouth all seems to start with “Well it wasn’t as good as Fury Road, but…” which isn’t going to put a fire under the seats of undecided people.
Furiosa is 5 years too late. People who cared about her, stopped caring about the character years ago. They give us enough of her backstory in Fury Road. For viewers to know her history. If the viewer stops to connect the dots. So making this movie pointless.
Your right, the new fans who were attracted to the franchise grew up and forgot about in that time. Why the Hell did it take 10 years to get another mad max(ish) movie out… its insane that it took that long.
Why the Hell did it take 10 years to get another mad max(ish) movie out…
I mean, COVID set a bunch of films back, just for starters. After that, Idk. WB has been making some disastrous executive decisions since they merged with Discovery. I’m a bit amazed Barbie was released, rather than getting torched for the tax credit. Could be they sacked their marketing department and told an AI to do the job, and now its just gone underpromoted.
We get it guys, you didn’t go to the theater because you haven’t left your basement in 4 years. You don’t have to keep commenting that.
My basement has an amazing home theater setup, complete with wet bar, popcorn machine, and a really nice recliner/couch set.
Why would I pay $20 to sit in some ratty, smelly, flop house of a theater when I can queue this movie up in a few months for free and watch it in the lap of luxury?
