chemicalmarriage
02.04.25 | Movies are straight fire
Fight me |
Vercetti
02.04.25 | I won't fight you. I love Furiosa & Fury Road |
bellovddd
02.04.25 | fury rd was fantastic no doubt. furiosa was no where near as good. but still decent enough. |
neekafat
02.04.25 | furiosa is so much weaker |
Shuyin
02.04.25 | I think Furiosa had some pacing issues and lack of music, but was still a fun movie |
farmerobama
02.04.25 | I agree Furiosa was weaker, but in contrast to the best action movie of the last 25 years. It's still a great movie |
Gameofmetal
02.04.25 | I don't trust anyone that thinks Furiosa was significantly worse, fake Maxhead posvr shit. Ur a mark and weak and don't like good action movies. |
Vercetti
02.04.25 | I don't trust anyone that thinks Furiosa was significantly worse[2] |
Gameofmetal
02.04.25 | idk how you can watch literally any of the fights in that movie and go "meh" afterward, you gotta be stupid. Well paced for its length, true mythic action epic shit, adds a LOT of emotional weight to Fury Road in hindsight. All you've got is the digital and cgi shit isn't as great for the look, but it's a necessary evil for the scale needed and it's used in service of some really unique stuff. |
Christbait
02.04.25 | Both are great but very distinct from one another. Fury Road was really all metal and bluster. Furiosa played out like a ballet at times. |
chemicalmarriage
02.04.25 | What's with all the furiosa hate |
Christbait
02.04.25 | People expected Fury Road 2 and got a film that was less bombastic and more contemplative. It also didn't help that the film was in incubation for so long and didn't immediately follow the success of Fury Road; they released nearly a decade apart from one another. And because it wasn't a continuation but a prequel of sorts, it maybe didn't align with what people were wanting out of the next film in the saga. |
chemicalmarriage
02.04.25 | Well said |
Devastator
02.04.25 | Fury Road is goated. I liked Furiosa and I think it would have been better received if it didn't sit in development hell for so long. |
bellovddd
02.04.25 | Fury rd was in production for years and years. It’s just a better movie. Simple. |
Gameofmetal
02.04.25 | bum ^
any conversation about production does miss the point though because it's a masterpiece duology with each piece profoundly complementing the other through entirely different approaches. They didn't mess up, they made two of the best action movies ever. Again, poser shit if you think Furiosa was just not in the same league, tomato tomato tomato. |
Futures
02.04.25 | furiosa was still awesome. chris hemsworth was so good hamming it up. a bit long for me and thought the first half was a little slow. otherwise no real complaints, the action was still top notch. fury road is just one of the best movies ever made and so tightly edited, not a wasted frame. so in comparison it was always going to fall short. |
Wildcardbitchesss
02.04.25 | Well said christbait, totally agree.
Didn’t watch any trailer for Furiosa, by the time were introduced to Chris Hemsworth and see Furiosa’s mother die it’s clear that they were not at all trying to make the same movie again. Kinda had to switch gears in my brain while in the theater lol. I wasn’t sure how much I liked it until I sat and thought about it for a couple of days. I think it’s almost as good as Fury Road now tho, they’re just completely different films doing completely different things. |
Wildcardbitchesss
02.04.25 | Would be cool to have someone watch them for the first time, only watch Furiosa first then Fury Road. I’d love to hear their reaction. Watched them back to back a few weeks ago and it’s honestly wild how well they go together. |
farmerobama
02.04.25 | 2 is a fantastic album btw, how is this not reviewed yet |
bellovddd
02.04.25 | lmao. ye poser shit. for not thinking furiosa is better then one of the greatest action movies ever made. cool bro. |
Wildcardbitchesss
02.04.25 | Furiosa is fuckin fire tho, and it’s still got two insane action sequences that are just as good as most of Fury Road. |
Wildcardbitchesss
02.04.25 | I don’t think we’ll get it but I pray that George Miller gets one more movie. It feels kinda weird having the last film in the franchise not have Max in it at all (not counting the very unnecessary cameo) |
FrozenFirebug
02.04.25 | both good
fury road better
furiosa had some pacing gaps and felt like it needed 1 more big action setpiece to tie it together
i wish australia were real |
DocSportello
02.04.25 | The worldbuilding within Fury Road worked on audience intuition with an elegant simplicity. Furiosa’s, on the other hand, dealt in information…and maybe that’s how you like your myths, okay fine. Fuckin movies. |
Wildcardbitchesss
02.04.25 | I think one more setpiece with Jack would’ve been nice. We see one of them teaming up and the second one is where he dies. Their relationship could’ve used some more time. I think people would get kinda irritated, it’s already a long movie, but I honestly would’ve been perfectly fine with another half hour.
And wdym Doc, yes it shows more of the world but the film is still squarely focused on its characters, mainly Dementus and Furiosa. And like, it’s not the first Mad Max movie to have world building… |
chemicalmarriage
02.05.25 | You guys are awesome.
@farmerobama - review it!! Its a groundbreaking album |
neekafat
02.05.25 | praetorian jack or whatever is a joke lol |
Coast
02.05.25 | Whilst Fury Road is better Furiosa is still awesome. Meanwhile Hugh Keys Byrne who played Immortan Joe in Fury and the Toecutter in Mad Max, played an Arab cross dresser in Les Patterson Saves The World. |
Gameofmetal
02.05.25 | "praetorian jack or whatever is a joke lol"
bro the posvr takes are going so crazy in here, dudes rock lmao |
Christbait
02.05.25 | I think that's another thing that people were (quietly) upset about. Furiosa is a female-led and very feminist-driven action film whereas Fury Road had a strong female lead but allowed Max to have all the great action sequences so all the dudes in the theater could go, "hell yeah." Even the Wiki mentions that the film did so poorly at the BO because the demographics weren't hitting the four-quadrants of a blockbuster tentpole and that most viewers were men between 18-34. It was a movie that featured a strong female voice but somehow didn't appeal to that demographic. |
Gameofmetal
02.05.25 | Idk how anyone expected it to pop off, it's a 9 year late prequel-sequel not staring the lead from the previous movie, which was a disappointment at the time even if I remember right. Mad Max is not marvel.
Hopefully the fact it was halfway subsidized by australian taxpayers will soften the box office blow and help us get that third movie. Miller being able to make his best films at this age is crazy and we need another. |
KevinKC
02.05.25 | Furiosa is everything.
Fury Road is the conclusion. |
JeetJeet
02.05.25 | Both movies are amazing and set the bar for what great action flicks should be in the upcoming years. Hope George gets to do Wasteland but that seems like a pipe dream now. |
Christbait
02.05.25 | I'd be so down with Miller giving The Dark Tower saga a try even if that meant only being able to do the first 2 or 3 novels in the series. King's worldbuilding in those novels is right within Miller's wheelhouse. Plus Australia would be a great location to shoot a lot of it. Wastelands (book 3), especially, has Mad Max vibes all throughout. |
Wildcardbitchesss
02.05.25 | Do we even have a premise of what the wasteland would’ve been about. Never really looked into since I just figured we weren’t getting it |
bellovddd
02.05.25 | Charlize was the best thing about fury rd. |
Wildcardbitchesss
02.05.25 | I don’t think many people would disagree with ya there. The scene where she finds out what happened to the green place is fucking brutal. I think Furiosa makes that moment even more impactful. |
Mort.
02.05.25 | 'Furiosa is a female-led and very feminist-driven action film '
having watched it last night, i fail to see how its a 'feminist driven' film. do you mean it had some feminist themes? cos id agree but they were incredibly minor. most of the film is still just action and chris hemsworth hamming it up for comedic effect. |
chemicalmarriage
02.05.25 | " The scene where she finds out what happened to the green place is fucking brutal. I think Furiosa makes that moment even more impactful."
This is a great point |
StormChaser
02.05.25 | still didn't get to Furiosa, have to remember to check that one out because Fury Road is the best action movie ever for my money |
Wildcardbitchesss
02.05.25 | Dude just go into it *not* expecting another Fury Road. The red letter media guys described it perfectly imo, Fury Road is essentially Kill Bill Vol 1. Action packed, extremely entertaining all the way through, then Furiosa is Kill Bill Vol 2, slower, more meditative and far more character driven. |
StormChaser
02.05.25 | well it sure as hell ain't gonna be fury road when there's no Charlize, but thanks for the heads up. actually was thinking of not watching it at all because I'm kinda tired of this whole prequel sequel bullshit, but guess I have to now since ya'll say it's at least good |
Wildcardbitchesss
02.06.25 | I really just meant as far as structure. The films are just vastly different. There’s really only 3 action sequences. Now don’t get me wrong, they’re absolutely massive and probably take up like at least 45 mins of screen time, but it’s not the near nonstop action that you see in fury road.
And like I said before all of the action is about on par with what we saw in Fury Road imo, there’s just less of it |
Winesburgohio
02.06.25 | Furiosa fucking rocks |
zaruyache
02.06.25 | It fucking rules man, watch it immediately. It's not even a prequel so much as it is the first two acts of the story for which Fury Road was the climax. |
neekafat
02.06.25 | the action in furiosa feels like random dlc content he didn't get to shoot for fury road |
Wildcardbitchesss
02.06.25 | eh? Maybe the big chase with the war rig in the middle of the movie, even if I still think it’s amazing. But Furiosa’s mom chasing the bandits and especially the bullet farm action sequence do not feel anything like Fury Road.
And also the final confrontation is fucking amazing. I’m honestly glad it wasn’t some big bombastic action scene, it felt far more gratifying over some big chase. There’s nothing like that in Fury Road. |
chemicalmarriage
02.06.25 | Wildcard you are taking these movies to another level. I hope we get wasteland and in time a criterion release. Brilliant stuff |
Wildcardbitchesss
02.06.25 | honestly think Fury Road is one of the best movies of all time and it absolutely deserved the best picture and best director Oscars, as much as I like Room and Spotlight, it really should’ve swept. Big props to the academy for even nominating it in the first place tho.
Furiosa just isn’t quite on that level but George has big ol balls for making something so different. I think he had to have realized he wasn’t topping it so he made something drastically different but just as essential imo. I feel like it’s been long enough to finally start seriously saying that. It really feels like a two part chronicle of Furiosa’s life. Really just a fucking icon to me and one of the best characters in cinema. |
Gameofmetal
02.06.25 | nahhhh neeka is trolling for attention FOR SURE
or just never before seen levels of delusional |
Christbait
02.06.25 | I definitely consider it feminist-driven, Mort. There is a single redeeming male character (who is not a romantic interest) and the main thrust of the film is an extended revenge plot precipitated by the death of her mother and to prevent the Green Place from being discovered. This is my subjective take though. I came away from the film feeling like Furiosa really pushed female empowerment, especially against a fictionalized apocalypse run by crazed men. |
Aerisavion
02.06.25 | Furiosa is definitely a weaker film, but it really deserved better on the box office side of things.
Had a blast seeing it, regardless of some of its flaws. |
farmerobama
02.06.25 | @chemical
In the spirit of it being a german release I can write one in german lol
Writing in english is such a pain in the ass for me |
Wildcardbitchesss
02.06.25 | ya if Fury Road is a perfect 100%, Furiosa is like a 97%. I can’t believe it didn’t even make its budget back, Fury Road as cultivated so much love and respect over the last ten years that you’d think people would be stoked for a follow up starring the best character in the film, even if it’s not Charlize Theron. But shit, it’s not like Anya is some no name. I’m expecting to be disappointed but I’ll be really sad if we don’t get at least one more. |
Gameofmetal
02.06.25 | Lot of people just assumed it was a corporate ordered spinoff rather than a long time project from the mastermind of the saga. |