I rewatched Fury Road a few weeks ago, and damn… I would say it is the best action movie ever. At least I can’t name any better, and I have been pondering that ever since.
Fury Road has remained one of my all-time favourite action movies ever since it came out. I legit never though this franchise would get another movie solely because of how daunting a prospect it'd be to try and top the previous one 🤔
Well, I feel "Furiosa" DOES top "Fury Road" in one respect... how absolutely BUGNUTS the central villain's signature vehicle is. How do you top The Gigahorse, a gas-guzzling Sleipnir made of two Cadillac bodies smashed together on a monster-truck chassis? A chariot pulled by MOTORCYCLES. Seriously, I love that. Lord Dementus is this evil wasteland Achilles and I am here for that.
This might be closer than we think with *[S P O I L E R S]* scrotus in the leather skirt swinging around a gladius and dementus men sneaking into Gastown trojan horse style
4:09 (surf Dracula😆) first time i've heard that term, had to Urban Dictionary that term and I think that totally works as a term. the example they used with Smallville as far as Superman flying on his own, not in dreams, possession etc, really does take all the way to the end of the series. thank you for the new term for my vocab.😆🌊🏄♂🧛♂
Hemsworth gets to let out his inner Australian as Anya Taylor-Joy gets to add Furiosa to her list of "badass women who have to deal with charismatic bad guys".
Even though Thunderdome wasn't as good as Road Warrior, it was more fun and far more memorable. If Furiosa is the Thunderdome to Fury Road (I think that sentence made sense), that just means I'm going to have a great time.
The fact that her mentor wasn't Joe or a similar figure is actually my biggest complaint about the movie. In Fury Road, when Furiosa says she's looking for "redemption", I imagined that implies she had to do some nasty shit to survive and move up the ranks in Joe's army. This movie does nothing with this idea and lets her keep her hand(s) squeaky clean, with Pre Jack also shown as a fundamentally decent guy despite being a general in a murderous fascist death cult. There is NO way they'd find themselves in the positions they're in without brutalizing some civilians, executing Joe's enemies, kidnapping wives etc. It's an enormous wasted opportunity to actually add interesting character development and moral ambiguity to Furiosa. Instead, she's a righteous badass through the entire runtime, making the movie completely superfluous and not adding anything of substance to her story except for "ooh so that's where she got that gun" bullshit. Not a bad movie, I still mostly enjoyed it, but I don't think we really needed it. I liked Fury Road for not doing backstory dumps and leaving stuff to the viewer's imagination, and "Furiosa" did nothing to change my mind.
I know for years you’ve been looking to try to find ways to alter trailer footage so you don’t get copyright struck. I’m hoping this newest filter works because so far it looks the best compared to the other filters. I don’t feel distracted by watching it. Always love your reviews and video essays!
I feel like this should have been a miniseries. Furiosa's relationship with the wives, Jack, her community. These are all things I kind of wanted to be explored more.
Just got back from the theater and i must say i was pleasantly surprised the trailers made it look like spy kids 3d but i realize now those were the only scenes they could show that werent dialogue heavy or too gruesome for a trailer. That being said couldve trimmed like 30 minutes i had to pee
Am I the only one who wants to see George Miller make another talking animal movie again? Remember, despite being known for the "Mad Max" franchise, he also directed stuff like "Happy Feet" and "Babe". Both of which are pretty good movies. Like, imagining him making a modern film adaptation of "Animal Farm" or even an original story. I'd watch something like that.
There already is a modern (well, 1999) Animal Farm made somewhat the same way Babe was made, made in the UK. It uses real animals but in this case also lots (and lots) of animatronics. So if you’re curious you can dig that up. Babe: Pig In The City is a pretty good movie, pretty unique. Like The Road Warrior it is one of those ‘sequels better than the original’ imo, but they’ll never make movies like this again because although they use cgi for the mouths and such, it still uses real animals extensively and that’s become pretty taboo now.
Strangely enough, the only thing they didn't give us an origin story for is Furiosa's American accent. She just starts speaking that way as she gets older apparently! 😅
I Want an open world video game, a bunch of animated series, and a set of action figures (like star wars where everyone from walrus man to bib Fortuna got their own)
I know it's a joke but Australia isn't all biker leather and wasteland. It's about the same size as the lower 48 states and has a heap of different environments (with a fair bit of desert, to be honest). It would be like assuming all of the USA is like New Mexico as depicted in Breaking Bad.
Not so much a joke, but more a metaphor in both countries, and both franchises I suspect for the dark underbellies of the respective countries. Grimly fighting for a diminishing resource using the products of another civilisation while by consuming the resource is Australian and was Australia at the time of the first mad max movie.
Isn't the point of the series that the world is going through total environmental collapse? Like..no Australia isn't all wasteland now, but give or take a few more decades of capitalism and a nuclear war...
@@snowdenwyatt6276 I just wish more people would remember that the matrix and ghost rider were filmed in Melbourne. Or that there is an island the size of Ireland with temperate rainforest and snow capped mountains that just not talked about.
I had to google it: Surf Dracula Syndrome A phenomenon in film/television series, most notably streaming series, where the main premise is drawn out to such a point that it takes an entire season or more to get the parts of the series the audience is actually interested in seeing. For example, if a series is titled "Surf Dracula," a majority of viewers would tune in expecting to see Dracula surfing by the first or second episode. However, the entire first season would instead be tedious padding and backstory before finally ending with Dracula surfing in the last five minutes of the season finale. Example: I watched "Smallville" on Netflix the other day. Dude, it was ten seasons of filler before he finally flew! Major Surf Dracula Syndrome!
@@dwsparks1 I remember watching an anime movie that was on tv. 2 samurai or whatever were getting ready to fight. 90% of the movie was flashbacks. Flashbacks without good fights!
No, it's a reference to a tweet from a couple of years ago making fun of how badly paced streaming shows are. It's a great allegory but Bob used it in a very strange way here.
Chris Hemsworth first became famous with a thundering superhero, now he plays a fury-obsessed warlord. I wonder if his next role will be tied to the oceans somehow.
I feel like what this lacks that you like about fury road youll get in fury road and what fury road lacks youll get int this movie. Which makes for a great companion piece
been thinking that fight scene at the end of Lethal Weapon 1 - is proof that Mel Gibson would have had that raw anger that Wolverine should have had in the X-Men movies.
"Big giant anime eyes" THANK YOU! I'm not the only one Who thought that! OT: This looks awesome and I will see it. I think the Mad Max movie I watched the least was the 1st one, because everything after eclipsed it. Also funny that this movie hit theaters a short time after the FALLOUT show hit Amazon Prime.
Why a prequel though? Given the implications of her history with Imorten Joe, this won't end well. Not unless they retcon a buncha plot elements to make her less morally ambiguous.
I figure it’s a prequel because a direct sequel to Fury Road would have to undo Furiosa’s happy ending somehow. It was either do an origin story or leave the character alone to follow Max again
Having actually watched the movie, we only see her working with Imorten Joe under duress or to secretly advance her own agenda which runs counter to Joe directly leading into Fury Road where she finally openly betrays him. She’s never depicted as being in the wrong but forced to deal with bad situations where she doesn’t make moral compromises beyond “I can’t kill the bad guy … yet”
"Fury Road" felt like a redone "Road Warrior" to me at points while "Furiosa" feels like a redone "Mad Max". Different vibes every movie but they're all pretty great.
I choose to believe that Hemsworth was never even cast in this film, he just showed up and went so hard that everyone was too afraid to ask him to leave.
I'd rather have had this story as a mini-series than a movie. A series can slow down and take time for side plots and have way too many characters and it not weigh down the whole thing. I still enjoyed the movie but it was all over the place and a little jarring given how tight Fury Road is.
Hemsworth was chef's kiss levels of perfect casting in this IMHO. The character could have easily devolved into scenery chewing doofus, but Captain America actually makes him feel like a dangerous psychopath cult leader.
Seriously, after seeing the movie I asked if Furiosa's eyes had been CGI-goosed somehow, and one of the people I saw it with said, "No, it's just the woman from 'Queen's Gambit,'" and suddenly it all made sense. Great, fun movie.
As someone who never bought into the whole Mad Max post-apocalyptic idea, this is super hard. It was years ago, and just going, "gas and diesal are unusable after 4 years, this is bullshit." let me skip the whole franchise. Now I can't think my way into believing enough of it to get into it. Poop.
I think this one leaned on digital backgrounds a bit more, but, I think Fury Road had to less elaborate set of stories. Making the mentor character Immortan Joe would be a really interesting way to improve this one but I don't know how you would do that without (as Bob said) making it impossible to believe that they were the same person as we met in the sequel
I can't quite explain it, but I feel very disappointed by this movie. the best part was Chris' "we are not so different, you and I" speech at the end and it just emphasized how wasted the entire character was. now if Miller actually does his sequel where Furiosa is just the next Immortan Joe once she got in charge, I will call it: dude got lucky with Fury Road.
So this introduced me to the "Surf Dracula" trope, and I gotta say they missed the chance to call it the "Mother Meeter". Because "How I met your Mother" is totally suffering from Surf Dracula syndrome, and there literally was no "Suf Dracula" show or anything that this trope is based off of. I mean, why my generation codified "Jumping the shark" it's because the Fonz jumped a shark. We didn't have to make up a theoretical scenario. We just used what someone already did, and made it infamous.
When I think “Surf Dracula” I imagine something like Smallville where Clark Kent takes 10 years to be Superman. Not a 2 hour prequel movie where the protagonist will likely have their iconic look in the 2nd or 3rd act. Not even HIMYM quite counts as even though it is really long … it is an original story and I get from the title it is about finding “the Mother”. There was no previous show called The Mosbys that someone decided to make a prequel to explaining every piece of the lore I already know in an exhausting detail and where I almost never see the family unit I know from the original show. Better Call Saul arguably does Surf Dracula too in my opinion. But only in its initial seasons when the universe of the show has almost nothing to do with Breaking Bad. In the later seasons, while it is still highly prequelling Breaking Bad, Jimmy has assumed his identity as a crooked lawyer already and is increasingly recognizable as more-or-less the character he was in Breaking Bad
@@TheJadedJames Sure, both Smallville and Better Call Saul are better examples than a made up example you have to look up to understand the context of. If you say "This is totally smallville. 9 seasons of filler before he flies for the first time" then people get it.
On the one hand you're right that Smallville and How I Met Your Mother are works that displayed these issues and COULD work as appropriate name-starters, but I think memetic spread should be taken into consideration: Smallville ended 2017, HIMYM in 2014. Not only would you have to count on your audience knowing those shows, you'd also have to count on them having seen them long enough to build an understanding of why they'd have the reputation they do. But the Surf Dracula-tweet can be accessed and read by anyone in about ten seconds, and demands mostly that people are familiar with TV now in the age of streaming and tv then in the age of syndication. It's a far easier concept to spread, I think, than a reference to a pre-existing show.
@@goranisacson2502 I agree. Surf Dracula just requires that you understand the concept of "modern television shows are more likely to be concerned with lore and backstory than episodic adventures". Gotham is a more contemporary example than Smallville. It's not a Batman show, it is a show entirely about the origin of Batman stuff. Instead of watching Dracula Surf, we are watching the story of how he got his first surfboard
It's a term that refers to a Twitter post. The post in question says: "back in the day if u did a tv show called surf dracula you'd see that fool surfing every week in new adventures but in the streaming era the entire 1st season gotta be a long ass flashback to how he got the surfboard until you finally get to see him surf for 5 min in the finale"
I have to bring up another reviewer: I think Dan Murrell's description of it being, "a perfectly fine movie in the shadow of a masterpiece," mirrors my own experience. It's fine, a good movie, but with "Fury Road" arguably being the best movie of the 2010s it was always going to be a tough act to follow let alone be a prequel to. Is that necessarily fair? Probably not, but it's inevitable. Also i would have reworked the ending a bit because i usually hate voiceover, and here although i get that it ties into the historians it still felt unnecessary. So here's what I'd have done: We see Furiosa pick the peach, with Dementus murmuring in the background. She walks away while the camera stays on the tree. Pan down the tree to see his face while he's getting louder, pan down his body to show the origin of the tree, linger for a bit, then fast pan/track over to Furiosa entering the mother's chamber and presenting them with the peach.
Seriously, you aren't going to mention the atrocious CGI? They couldn't even bother to drive dirt bikes on a random dirt road... This movie was bad, the chapters would be better if it was non-sequential, the action was great, world building,m was fine, but there were more practical effects in The Phantom Menace 😢
@tonimashdane33498 using CGI to get a vision across, like Dune, where there are impossible things that needs to be done, or even there might be actor health reasons to use CGI, but using sub par CGI instead of an actual driving dirt bike is very disappointing from a director who usually have very good CGI. Its not the director's fault for the CGI being bad, but he should have known when to use real things. Probably was the studio making demands and so corners got cut
Im waiting for the RUclips bottom feeder grifter brigade to gripe about how this is WoKe and girl power/boss blah blah blah....🙄 But no seriously this movie looks amazing!
They're going to ignore it unless it blows up bigger than anyone expects. And even then, they may just try to appropriate it in hilariously backwards ways that misses the point.
Even seeing how much fun he was having in the trailers, I wasn't expecting how good Hemsworth was in this. All his time in the various Marvels and Netflix projects had me thinking he was just hot and funny, and it turns out when he's got an opportunity to bring his A-game he doesn't disappoint.
Haven’t watched one second or the movie. I know it’s trash. I’ve seen three trailers and I’m not one of them does the actress for the character the movie is named after said one total sentence the entire time. You don’t do that when your star gave a good performance of a well known beloved character. You so that when they shut the bed and you’re trying to hide it to recoup as much money as possible
Here's the biggest disappointment, for me: Fury Road had very little special effects (the storm), and was otherwise entirely practical. That's why it looks so great. Furiosa is wall-to-wall special effects. It's still an above average action movie circa 2024, but a major letdown for the visual reason alone. My biggest story disappointment is that Furiosa's relationship with the wives is never established. That's a huge missing piece. The whole point of Furiosa's journey was to rescue the wives and bring them to the green place (in addition to getting herself there). It would have been nice if the motivation was established on screen.
The idea that the effects in Fury Road were almost entirely practical is a myth. CGI permeates every scene of that movie, it's that you just don't notice because George Miller meticulously planned out every shot with his production team. Furiosa I think is supposed to look more artificial by design, Miller is telling the story as a heightened myth rather than a no-frills action flick.
"It's just not quite as good as Fury Road" given that Fury Road may be the best movie of the past decade is a very big compliment in my book.
“May be the best movie of the past decade” sounds like *someone* hasn’t seen Weird: The Al Yankovic Story…
@@ericweis1108 but that's a movie from the 2020's! Fury Road is the best from the 2010's
Yeah it's like the opposite of "damning with faint praise"
I rewatched Fury Road a few weeks ago, and damn… I would say it is the best action movie ever. At least I can’t name any better, and I have been pondering that ever since.
I hate that I soon won't be able to call Fury Road "the best movie of the past 10 years" anymore, like I've been doing for the past 10 years
Fury Road has remained one of my all-time favourite action movies ever since it came out. I legit never though this franchise would get another movie solely because of how daunting a prospect it'd be to try and top the previous one 🤔
Well, I feel "Furiosa" DOES top "Fury Road" in one respect... how absolutely BUGNUTS the central villain's signature vehicle is. How do you top The Gigahorse, a gas-guzzling Sleipnir made of two Cadillac bodies smashed together on a monster-truck chassis?
A chariot pulled by MOTORCYCLES. Seriously, I love that. Lord Dementus is this evil wasteland Achilles and I am here for that.
"evil wasteland Achilles" Now i have to see it.
This might be closer than we think with *[S P O I L E R S]* scrotus in the leather skirt swinging around a gladius and dementus men sneaking into Gastown trojan horse style
@@MariedeGournay_ I know, right?
Idk, Macklemore already did the motorcycle chariot thing like 9 years ago.
@@jeffreymonsell659 Oh, I'm sure... but in the context of a Mad Max movie, it's pretty awesome.
4:09 (surf Dracula😆)
first time i've heard that term, had to Urban Dictionary that term and I think that totally works as a term.
the example they used with Smallville as far as Superman flying on his own, not in dreams, possession etc, really does take all the way to the end of the series.
thank you for the new term for my vocab.😆🌊🏄♂🧛♂
I love how they kinda leaned into it with Hemsworth and gave him some outfits that are clearly just new Thor suits
Princess Peach takes on Thor in the Australian apocalypse. Sounds cool to me!
If Peach had a cool robot arm and Thor was this macho-posturing rage-case playing at being a 4chan shitposter's idea of a mythic Greek hero.
Hemsworth gets to let out his inner Australian as Anya Taylor-Joy gets to add Furiosa to her list of "badass women who have to deal with charismatic bad guys".
Does that include the Devil?
@@parallaxnick637 I think so
Now that I saw it in theaters, I can finally watch your review!
Even though Thunderdome wasn't as good as Road Warrior, it was more fun and far more memorable. If Furiosa is the Thunderdome to Fury Road (I think that sentence made sense), that just means I'm going to have a great time.
The fact that her mentor wasn't Joe or a similar figure is actually my biggest complaint about the movie. In Fury Road, when Furiosa says she's looking for "redemption", I imagined that implies she had to do some nasty shit to survive and move up the ranks in Joe's army.
This movie does nothing with this idea and lets her keep her hand(s) squeaky clean, with Pre Jack also shown as a fundamentally decent guy despite being a general in a murderous fascist death cult. There is NO way they'd find themselves in the positions they're in without brutalizing some civilians, executing Joe's enemies, kidnapping wives etc. It's an enormous wasted opportunity to actually add interesting character development and moral ambiguity to Furiosa. Instead, she's a righteous badass through the entire runtime, making the movie completely superfluous and not adding anything of substance to her story except for "ooh so that's where she got that gun" bullshit.
Not a bad movie, I still mostly enjoyed it, but I don't think we really needed it. I liked Fury Road for not doing backstory dumps and leaving stuff to the viewer's imagination, and "Furiosa" did nothing to change my mind.
I expected it to be not as good as Fury Road, but still awesome and this review just cemented that for me.
I know for years you’ve been looking to try to find ways to alter trailer footage so you don’t get copyright struck. I’m hoping this newest filter works because so far it looks the best compared to the other filters. I don’t feel distracted by watching it. Always love your reviews and video essays!
I feel like this should have been a miniseries. Furiosa's relationship with the wives, Jack, her community. These are all things I kind of wanted to be explored more.
I'm glad Anya Taylor-Joy decided to bless us by moving from the Macross dimension to ours,
That is really what we need Anya Taylor Joy doing big screen Robotech Macross!
Just got back from the theater and i must say i was pleasantly surprised the trailers made it look like spy kids 3d but i realize now those were the only scenes they could show that werent dialogue heavy or too gruesome for a trailer. That being said couldve trimmed like 30 minutes i had to pee
Am I the only one who wants to see George Miller make another talking animal movie again? Remember, despite being known for the "Mad Max" franchise, he also directed stuff like "Happy Feet" and "Babe". Both of which are pretty good movies. Like, imagining him making a modern film adaptation of "Animal Farm" or even an original story. I'd watch something like that.
R E D W A L L
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Adapt the album Animals instead, the superior version of Animal Farm
There already is a modern (well, 1999) Animal Farm made somewhat the same way Babe was made, made in the UK. It uses real animals but in this case also lots (and lots) of animatronics. So if you’re curious you can dig that up.
Babe: Pig In The City is a pretty good movie, pretty unique. Like The Road Warrior it is one of those ‘sequels better than the original’ imo, but they’ll never make movies like this again because although they use cgi for the mouths and such, it still uses real animals extensively and that’s become pretty taboo now.
Can’t we all just get beyond Thunderdome?
Haha keep circulating the tapes, may the riffs live on!
PACKERS!!!
All the children say...
All we want is life beyond it.
"In the not too distant future..."
It may not be my cup of tea, but I'm glad movies like these exist and hope they become a tradition every few years.
Strangely enough, the only thing they didn't give us an origin story for is Furiosa's American accent. She just starts speaking that way as she gets older apparently! 😅
I Want an open world video game, a bunch of animated series, and a set of action figures (like star wars where everyone from walrus man to bib Fortuna got their own)
maaan I'd collect the shit out of action figures of the wasteland factions
Anya has the biggest anime eyes since Eva Green but for some reason it works! I hope she shows up again for Dune Messiah.
Of course anime eyes work. That’s why we have anime 🍻
I know it's a joke but Australia isn't all biker leather and wasteland. It's about the same size as the lower 48 states and has a heap of different environments (with a fair bit of desert, to be honest). It would be like assuming all of the USA is like New Mexico as depicted in Breaking Bad.
I mean, it's not like that's _not_ an accurate depiction of a depressingly large percentage of the US.
Not so much a joke, but more a metaphor in both countries, and both franchises I suspect for the dark underbellies of the respective countries. Grimly fighting for a diminishing resource using the products of another civilisation while by consuming the resource is Australian and was Australia at the time of the first mad max movie.
Isn't the point of the series that the world is going through total environmental collapse? Like..no Australia isn't all wasteland now, but give or take a few more decades of capitalism and a nuclear war...
"fair bit of desert" is doing a lot of work here...😀 But yes, there are plenty of beautiful green bits (especially in the SE).
@@snowdenwyatt6276 I just wish more people would remember that the matrix and ghost rider were filmed in Melbourne. Or that there is an island the size of Ireland with temperate rainforest and snow capped mountains that just not talked about.
That’s a perfect description for Joy! Anime eyes! I’m gonna see this movie
Chris Hemsworth' Australian accent is so bad and inconsistent, it made me forget he was actually Australian for a moment.
Maybe his regular accent isn't Australian enough for a Mad Max movie.
This is the first time I ever heard the term "Surf Dracula."
I had to google it:
Surf Dracula Syndrome
A phenomenon in film/television series, most notably streaming series, where the main premise is drawn out to such a point that it takes an entire season or more to get the parts of the series the audience is actually interested in seeing.
For example, if a series is titled "Surf Dracula," a majority of viewers would tune in expecting to see Dracula surfing by the first or second episode. However, the entire first season would instead be tedious padding and backstory before finally ending with Dracula surfing in the last five minutes of the season finale.
Example: I watched "Smallville" on Netflix the other day. Dude, it was ten seasons of filler before he finally flew! Major Surf Dracula Syndrome!
It's twitter vocab.
@@dwsparks1 I remember watching an anime movie that was on tv. 2 samurai or whatever were getting ready to fight. 90% of the movie was flashbacks. Flashbacks without good fights!
Wait, is "Surf Dracula" a Dr. McNinja reference? Has that worked its way into slag like, 10 years later?
No, it's a reference to a tweet from a couple of years ago making fun of how badly paced streaming shows are. It's a great allegory but Bob used it in a very strange way here.
Chris Hemsworth first became famous with a thundering superhero, now he plays a fury-obsessed warlord. I wonder if his next role will be tied to the oceans somehow.
Phew! I was not expecting perfection on the level of Fury Road. I was hoping for a good solid action movie.
Seems it delivers. Off to the theatre!
Saw this last night. Rocking!
I def enjoyed this one for trying to do more than the first in terms of characters etc. And the action stuff was incredible.
_"Not _*_quite_*_ as good as Fury Road"_ is still pretty damn good, so I'm looking forward to this.
I feel like what this lacks that you like about fury road youll get in fury road and what fury road lacks youll get int this movie. Which makes for a great companion piece
Where does she get the gas for her vehicle?
Also, cash or credit?
been thinking that fight scene at the end of Lethal Weapon 1 - is proof that Mel Gibson would have had that raw anger that Wolverine should have had in the X-Men movies.
Anya Taylor-Joy is doing quite well for herself and showing some range. "Queen's Gambit", voicing Peach in "Super Mario Brothers", and now this!
She was also the Gelfling princess Brea in "The Dark Crystal: Age Of Resistance."
Is it better to traverse from Ithaca to Troy and back to Ithaca on repeat than to Troy alone with a guaranteed legend chiseled into stone?
I just saw it. It’s very good! A world building epic!
It was a great 4DX experience.
"Big giant anime eyes" THANK YOU! I'm not the only one Who thought that!
OT: This looks awesome and I will see it. I think the Mad Max movie I watched the least was the 1st one, because everything after eclipsed it. Also funny that this movie hit theaters a short time after the FALLOUT show hit Amazon Prime.
Why a prequel though?
Given the implications of her history with Imorten Joe, this won't end well. Not unless they retcon a buncha plot elements to make her less morally ambiguous.
I figure it’s a prequel because a direct sequel to Fury Road would have to undo Furiosa’s happy ending somehow. It was either do an origin story or leave the character alone to follow Max again
Having actually watched the movie, we only see her working with Imorten Joe under duress or to secretly advance her own agenda which runs counter to Joe directly leading into Fury Road where she finally openly betrays him. She’s never depicted as being in the wrong but forced to deal with bad situations where she doesn’t make moral compromises beyond “I can’t kill the bad guy … yet”
"Fury Road" felt like a redone "Road Warrior" to me at points while "Furiosa" feels like a redone "Mad Max". Different vibes every movie but they're all pretty great.
I choose to believe that Hemsworth was never even cast in this film, he just showed up and went so hard that everyone was too afraid to ask him to leave.
..."surf Dracula problem"? I guess I'm too old to have any idea that means.
I'd rather have had this story as a mini-series than a movie. A series can slow down and take time for side plots and have way too many characters and it not weigh down the whole thing. I still enjoyed the movie but it was all over the place and a little jarring given how tight Fury Road is.
This made me want to rewatch your old reviews of Fury Road and the other video you made that was freaking great.
Actually, going there right now
Hemsworth was chef's kiss levels of perfect casting in this IMHO. The character could have easily devolved into scenery chewing doofus, but Captain America actually makes him feel like a dangerous psychopath cult leader.
Seems like this movie wants to be witnessed!
Does she play chess in this one, too?
Seriously, after seeing the movie I asked if Furiosa's eyes had been CGI-goosed somehow, and one of the people I saw it with said, "No, it's just the woman from 'Queen's Gambit,'" and suddenly it all made sense. Great, fun movie.
As someone who never bought into the whole Mad Max post-apocalyptic idea, this is super hard. It was years ago, and just going, "gas and diesal are unusable after 4 years, this is bullshit." let me skip the whole franchise.
Now I can't think my way into believing enough of it to get into it.
Poop.
I think it would have been received better if Furiosa came first, then Fury Road.
Mad Max the Road Warrior was number 2. Beyond thunderdome was number 3.
Surely the Borderlands movie will put this series out to the farm.
I enjoyed it more than Fury Road but I feel like the quality difference between the two is so negligible it's not worth worrying about
I think this one leaned on digital backgrounds a bit more, but, I think Fury Road had to less elaborate set of stories. Making the mentor character Immortan Joe would be a really interesting way to improve this one but I don't know how you would do that without (as Bob said) making it impossible to believe that they were the same person as we met in the sequel
Slightly worse than fury road just means a solid 9/10 for me. I'm seeing this tonight in iMax and cannot wait!
I can't quite explain it, but I feel very disappointed by this movie. the best part was Chris' "we are not so different, you and I" speech at the end and it just emphasized how wasted the entire character was. now if Miller actually does his sequel where Furiosa is just the next Immortan Joe once she got in charge, I will call it: dude got lucky with Fury Road.
Someone finally said what we've all been thinking - Anya Taylor Joy is an anime character
So this introduced me to the "Surf Dracula" trope, and I gotta say they missed the chance to call it the "Mother Meeter". Because "How I met your Mother" is totally suffering from Surf Dracula syndrome, and there literally was no "Suf Dracula" show or anything that this trope is based off of.
I mean, why my generation codified "Jumping the shark" it's because the Fonz jumped a shark. We didn't have to make up a theoretical scenario. We just used what someone already did, and made it infamous.
When I think “Surf Dracula” I imagine something like Smallville where Clark Kent takes 10 years to be Superman. Not a 2 hour prequel movie where the protagonist will likely have their iconic look in the 2nd or 3rd act. Not even HIMYM quite counts as even though it is really long … it is an original story and I get from the title it is about finding “the Mother”. There was no previous show called The Mosbys that someone decided to make a prequel to explaining every piece of the lore I already know in an exhausting detail and where I almost never see the family unit I know from the original show.
Better Call Saul arguably does Surf Dracula too in my opinion. But only in its initial seasons when the universe of the show has almost nothing to do with Breaking Bad. In the later seasons, while it is still highly prequelling Breaking Bad, Jimmy has assumed his identity as a crooked lawyer already and is increasingly recognizable as more-or-less the character he was in Breaking Bad
@@TheJadedJames Sure, both Smallville and Better Call Saul are better examples than a made up example you have to look up to understand the context of. If you say "This is totally smallville. 9 seasons of filler before he flies for the first time" then people get it.
On the one hand you're right that Smallville and How I Met Your Mother are works that displayed these issues and COULD work as appropriate name-starters, but I think memetic spread should be taken into consideration: Smallville ended 2017, HIMYM in 2014. Not only would you have to count on your audience knowing those shows, you'd also have to count on them having seen them long enough to build an understanding of why they'd have the reputation they do.
But the Surf Dracula-tweet can be accessed and read by anyone in about ten seconds, and demands mostly that people are familiar with TV now in the age of streaming and tv then in the age of syndication. It's a far easier concept to spread, I think, than a reference to a pre-existing show.
@@goranisacson2502 I agree. Surf Dracula just requires that you understand the concept of "modern television shows are more likely to be concerned with lore and backstory than episodic adventures". Gotham is a more contemporary example than Smallville. It's not a Batman show, it is a show entirely about the origin of Batman stuff. Instead of watching Dracula Surf, we are watching the story of how he got his first surfboard
@@goranisacson2502 Fonz jumped the shark before *I* was born.
I'm a little old what is surf Dracula?
It's a term that refers to a Twitter post. The post in question says:
"back in the day if u did a tv show called surf dracula you'd see that fool surfing every week in new adventures but in the streaming era the entire 1st season gotta be a long ass flashback to how he got the surfboard until you finally get to see him surf for 5 min in the finale"
she really dose have anime eyes doesn't she
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I have to bring up another reviewer: I think Dan Murrell's description of it being, "a perfectly fine movie in the shadow of a masterpiece," mirrors my own experience. It's fine, a good movie, but with "Fury Road" arguably being the best movie of the 2010s it was always going to be a tough act to follow let alone be a prequel to.
Is that necessarily fair? Probably not, but it's inevitable.
Also i would have reworked the ending a bit because i usually hate voiceover, and here although i get that it ties into the historians it still felt unnecessary.
So here's what I'd have done:
We see Furiosa pick the peach, with Dementus murmuring in the background. She walks away while the camera stays on the tree. Pan down the tree to see his face while he's getting louder, pan down his body to show the origin of the tree, linger for a bit, then fast pan/track over to Furiosa entering the mother's chamber and presenting them with the peach.
Cant wait...looks like a fucking rush
Yeah I'm gonna pass
Loved it
Not as good as Furry Road leaves a whole lot of room to still be good and enjoyable.
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I feel like I’m the only person who thinks fury road is just….fine.
Not bad, but just….fine
I’m just gonna rewatch the Rainbow Road Sequence from Super Mario Brothers.
This weeked im going to watch all of them while I grill
WITLESS ME, hah.
OoooO I can't wait! Should be sick af!
Seriously, you aren't going to mention the atrocious CGI? They couldn't even bother to drive dirt bikes on a random dirt road... This movie was bad, the chapters would be better if it was non-sequential, the action was great, world building,m was fine, but there were more practical effects in The Phantom Menace 😢
@tonimashdane33498 nothing cast shadows, bikes have no physics when driving over sand, and no sand is thrown in the air behind the bikes
@tonimashdane33498 using CGI to get a vision across, like Dune, where there are impossible things that needs to be done, or even there might be actor health reasons to use CGI, but using sub par CGI instead of an actual driving dirt bike is very disappointing from a director who usually have very good CGI. Its not the director's fault for the CGI being bad, but he should have known when to use real things. Probably was the studio making demands and so corners got cut
Im waiting for the RUclips bottom feeder grifter brigade to gripe about how this is WoKe and girl power/boss blah blah blah....🙄 But no seriously this movie looks amazing!
They're going to ignore it unless it blows up bigger than anyone expects. And even then, they may just try to appropriate it in hilariously backwards ways that misses the point.
Did you see this with Lindsay, lardass?
Even seeing how much fun he was having in the trailers, I wasn't expecting how good Hemsworth was in this. All his time in the various Marvels and Netflix projects had me thinking he was just hot and funny, and it turns out when he's got an opportunity to bring his A-game he doesn't disappoint.
APES. FURIOSA.
That's a good summer.
But this looks like a big shiny video game.....Max Mad is supposed to be grindhouse.....Memo: quit with the addiction to the frickin computers.
Haven’t watched one second or the movie. I know it’s trash. I’ve seen three trailers and I’m not one of them does the actress for the character the movie is named after said one total sentence the entire time.
You don’t do that when your star gave a good performance of a well known beloved character. You so that when they shut the bed and you’re trying to hide it to recoup as much money as possible
I’ve barely even seen any marketing. Like they’re embarrassed. Because they know they made trash
@@plagueCLUTCH You know you can edit comments, right? I
Here's the biggest disappointment, for me: Fury Road had very little special effects (the storm), and was otherwise entirely practical. That's why it looks so great. Furiosa is wall-to-wall special effects. It's still an above average action movie circa 2024, but a major letdown for the visual reason alone.
My biggest story disappointment is that Furiosa's relationship with the wives is never established. That's a huge missing piece. The whole point of Furiosa's journey was to rescue the wives and bring them to the green place (in addition to getting herself there). It would have been nice if the motivation was established on screen.
The idea that the effects in Fury Road were almost entirely practical is a myth. CGI permeates every scene of that movie, it's that you just don't notice because George Miller meticulously planned out every shot with his production team. Furiosa I think is supposed to look more artificial by design, Miller is telling the story as a heightened myth rather than a no-frills action flick.
On IMDb, there are 723 people credited for Visual Effects work on Fury Road. What do you think they were doing on the film?
I will never be able to take Chris Hemsworth seriously.
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