If LOTR, which had full right to do a second third act (the sacking of the Shire) but, didn’t. Then any other movie has no right to a ‘second third act’.
A second third act is the most insane concept. Third acts just feel right, the pacing of the story is 'right', we are obviously psychologically built around that specific style of story telling and we are genetically engineered story telling machines, why in the hell would they mess with that.
You are correct a simple explanation of what happened and how he got to where they are. A nomad without a wife and family and best friend he lost trying to survive looking for a purpose to keep living.
Mad Max 2 (Road Warrior I’m assuming your talking about) was dumb. Saw it for the first time a year ago and when the raider boss died because he drove in front of the tanker and then slowed down… I almost couldn’t believe what I just watched. A cinematic disaster. The villains have simple personalities. Max is a cheesy strong quiet type. The only character worth mentioning is the boomerang kid
She did, in this one she barely speaks, and we see Anya Taylor Joy in action around 1 hour in. It's much more Chris Hemsworth's movie this time. It evens out - Mad Max Fury Road was a Furiosa movie, and now Furiosa is a Dementus movie.
You are spot on. Hell Max didn't say but 5 words the entire previous film. With all the emotional weight of the character of Max from the original movie and a non happy ending. Like the wondering nomad who can never find peace. I don't have any real interest to see more of Furiosa's story I wanted to find out more about Max.
They didn t need to make a bloody prequel to the mad max reboot , they should have done the og mad max route and did another "adventure" in the wasteland set after the first with Hardy coming back
@@greggibson33 Because its a mid tier movie with different parts working for it and against it. Depending on your tastes and what kind of movies appeal to you that means you may like it or hate it. Kinda like a CRPG fan may love a mid tier CRPG because it gives them what they want and they can work past its flaws to get to that, but someone who wasn't a CRPG fan may think the same game is terrible.
Being old, crap and Australian. I'm sort of not feeling much of a connection like the first 2 films which had some identifiable 'near future' elements I could relate to, the third MM3 wasn't bad but it was mostly carried on the talent of Mel, Tina and the stunt team really making it a sight to behold. Different, but not bad and I felt much the same about Fury Road, it looked and was acted very well to the point I think it schooled the shit out of a whole bunch of US directors in terms of this is how you make an action movie. I doubt I'll go to the theater for this one though
like Chris said it’s not his job to sell it. He’s telling you what he liked and didnt like. Don’t know why Chris keeps going on open bar seems like he’s not welcome…
There's not much to say in a world that's been destroyed by war and pestilence. Very realistic. Everything would become very utilitarian, even the language so people wouldn't be talking about much because there wouldn't be much to talk about. These modern alien invasion or apocalypse movies are so lame because the characters never shut the hell up like they would in the real world. I'm not saying I don't want an escape from reality but the best lies (movies) are based first in truth. The Road Warrior was epic in all respects.
Totally. Furiosa is 100% on brand. This one needed to be made. I saw the midnight showing. It's unbelievable. My only complaint is the casting for Immortan Joe's third son. They used the same actor from Fury Road. And it took me out of the experience.
I had a great time watching this in theaters, if you’re a mad max fan who’s on the fence because Max isn’t in it, I still think you should give Furiosa a watch.
He has been a brand forever, idiot. Outside of the very first movie he’s been a framing device for a story that doesn’t require him to be there at all.
To be fair he didn't call it shitty, he said it was enjoyable with flaws. That's pretty mid tier. Mid tier is fine, don't pretend you don't enjoy alot of mid tier stuff even if you wouldn't enjoy this specific movie.
@@Ralathar44 At the prices movie tickets are these days, mid is no longer an acceptable standard. It's an acceptable standard for streaming movies, but that's about it.
@@harrisfrankou2368 That actually could be good, it feels like it would be a different tone, similar to how we got Cloverfield, and then 10 Cloverfield Lane. They were extremely different tones, but complemented each other very nicely.
Watched it a few hours ago, and enjoyed it. Good storytelling, grounded believable characters, world building, acting, action sequences, SFX and music. I am disappointed in this videos discussion, chris seems like a boy trying to fit into a toxic club, like he enjoyed the film, but was afraid to admit that it was a good film to the others. Expecting a master piece with like zero things you dont like about a film is quite unreasonable, some of the best films in the industry have its own little problems or preference to each viewer. I have some things I too don't like about the film, but the overall experience is still very much way more positives than negatives.
Exactly. Look how him & the Film Threat guys were talking about it in their first video after their press screening. The HeMan Woman Haters Club in their sphere has him turtling now. Soy behavior.
Here's the thing - I can't judge the cgi but mad max has never been political(I mean it has been political in the sense of it being based on the cold war in a post nuclear apocalypse but that isn't to be construed as modern politics of feminism etc that movies and reviewers fall into nowadays). Here's a short diatribe:- fury road is genuinely one of the best stories of all time. Max loses his humanity is reduced to a single instinct of survival. You see him like an animal while he wears a mask and has no care for furiosa and the wives. He refuses to even reveal his name Through furiosa he learns trust and regains his lost humanity, and furiosa learns(from Max) not to run from her problems but to face them head on. When they work together society flusters It's a deep character study and unlike other action movies the general audience does not get it because they need exposition. For example when the warboy screams witness me and jumps on a car you learn 3 things from that scene alone:- There's a culture of sacrificing yourself for glory There's a higher figure and a reward in the afterlife And that these youngsters are brainwashed Any other director would have explained this stuff through dialogue but not Miller who paints a story visually not through dialogue Another example is the blood transfusion scene at the end between max and furiosa. There's no explanation because we see max nux get blood from Max in a similar fashion and the audience can infer through that Another example is when nux steals Max's shoes or when max takes furiosas guns. These items are returned to their respective owners once max learns to trust them and let's go of his survival instinct and becomes human again It's a story about a man who has forgotten his own name and humanity and who gains it back by trusting others. Every single scene is jam packed with story telling and there's no filler. For example the old woman gives a wife seeds. Bullets are called anti seed. It's not spelled out because the film follows a fundamental Assumption: i.e Our audience is smart and they can infer our message through little hints that need no excessive explanation. Even small details of the old lady giving the wife "seeds" that will lead to a new life in the wasteland vs bullets being called "anti seed". I can keep going but you get the point People compare mad max to fast and furious type stuff. In films like F&f or John wick, there's action then there's a pause to develop character and then the action continues. Whereas in mad max the action is the story So the entire woke debacle ends with this insight for the film:- When the women expelled the men from the green place, their society collapsed When immortan joe imprisoned the women, his society wasn't exactly ideal either When Furiosa and Max solve their respective internal psychological issues(max regains his humanity and furiosa learns not to run from her problems) and the decide to "Go Back" - instead of running- and reform society i.e. when man and woman become better people individually and then decide to uplift society only then does the world become a better place. Only then do the common folk get that fountain of Water. The green place is within your grasp and not a distant place where you can escape to to solve your problems. That is Mad Max fury road That's why a prequel is needed for Max and furiosa both because fury road is the perfect conclusion. Furiosa was written long before fury road even began filming.It's not like Miller wanted to make a feminist film, it's just that he made a film and people attached their own ideologies to it. Unlike the rings of power where a huge corporation went against the fans and the story to fuel an ideology. This is the Creator of the franchise making a film he always wanted to make. Hope Miller decides to work on the Wasteland and gives us one of the most creative trilogies ever told. Its Miller not your average Hollywood Director.
I watched Furiosa. It's not political at all. Its a solid movie about a side character. It's not as good as FR, but I do think it still kicks down 90% of other movies that come out nowadays.
Really think Miller should do one final Mad Max film with Gibson. A proper send off,maybe include the Gyro Captain. You can always go back and have more stories with Hardy but this one needs to be done while Gibson and Miller are still around.
@@darwincity Maybe he just appears as a character named "Raggedy Man" . lol Well, ain't we a pair, Raggedy man. Its one year ago today Tina Turner passed away.
In fairness, he comes across as someone who is unaware of Flashpoint Paradox. He's not good with adaptations IMO since he said She-Hulk was funny or Napolean was good. The common thread in these misses is he is unaware of older, superior media of these IPs.
Maybe I should re-watch what Gore said about The Flash. But as I recall, he didn't actually recommend it. But I might remember this wrong. And I find it kinda funny that because he might have had an different opinion about a matter of taste, he should apologize.
@@Juhno No he did, and hard at that on Nerdrotic channel before the movie came out. Felt It was like Back to the future 2 and that It becomes a good batman film almost an hour In.
For what it's worth - I liked it ★★★★ The world-building is awesome, the weird-ass quirky one-liners are so Aussie-as, and Chris Hemsworth is great as Dementus, stealing the show. There will be comparisons to 'Fury Road'. I reckon it's best to appreciate each movie for its own unique approach. Fury Road was a high-speed chase from beginning to end. By contrast, Furiosa builds up steadily until the end, like a marathon.
Honestly I preferred Furiosa. Mostly because I didn't care for Theron as Furiosa and Tom Hardy just didn't vibe as Max. I like Anya as an actress. It wasn't a perfect movie but it wasn't bad at all.
Most people watch the movie just for Max himself. I enjoy the world and characters of Mad Max, so Furiosa’s appeal was strong for me. If you appreciate rich storytelling, excellent world-building, and superb action, you’ll love it too.
Uh NO… they’ll be lucky if I pay anything to see it… oh… whoops… luck ran out. I’m not a poor fanboy beggar who is desperate for any sop they regurgitate into my mouth.
I watched it yesterday and enjoyed it. I agree that calling it a 'Mad Max Saga' is a mistake. Maybe they should've called it a 'Road Warrior Saga' instead? But overall fantastic world building - expanding on Fury Road's world, and even a nod to the video game. I agree with Chris Gore that she isn't the girlboss of the modern era. This is George Miller's creation and I respect his vision - and if you want a good high-budget rated R action movie, which is rare these days, go witness it--
@@greggibson33 For the fact that Max is abscent from this story. 'Road Warrior' would encompass any story held within the wasteland. But its a minor nitpick, maybe "mistake" was the wrong choice of words, but its still my opinion.
Nah, this guy was doing a sh*t job at giving his impressions on the movie. I had already seen it when I watched this video and yet I was thinking the whole time "what a way to sell a movie...". Than God the rest of the panel just said it out loud.
To be honest, I've stopped watching the FT channel because of that and also, Alan is just _so f***ing dull_ and for a lot of the time, doesn't seem to remember characters or actors in the film he's reviewing or much about movies on general.
No one should talk about FURIOSA without mentioning Chris Hemsworth. I definitely didn't expect a career best performance from him and a totally charismatic and (dare I say) classic villain... but there you go!
You can't have 2 straight people kiss anymore onscreen might offend someone hell they couldn't even show that in Ghostbusters 2 people possessed by the dogs actually kiss
@bartsullivan4866 no, that's retarded of you to say and assume they did it for that reason when they've established that's what they do in this universe in previous films
@@bartsullivan4866 Been noticing this for years. If a character is straight, there is no romance, and if there is a love interest then it's very surface level, no kissing or anything indicating they've started a relationship. Feels very sterile. Only gay characters are allowed to have love showcased on-screen now
I'll just replay the 2015 Mad Max game after rewatching the original trilogy. No Furiosa drama in that. Still like Fury Road though, but she totally stole Max's movie from him. On a side note, the only thing that had my interest in the Furiosa trailer was Chris Hemsworth as Dementus. And that was because I like that actor and that his character Dementus was referenced in the game.
@@zzygyy That's interesting. Originally the game was supposed to be a tie in to Fury Road, explaining how Max got into the circumstances he's in at the beginning of the movie. However George wanted it noncanon incase he did another movie... if I recall correctly.
@@zzygyy I'm going to be honest with you. I think a movie about Immortan Joe sounds more interesting than Furiosa. A pre collapse war hero turned antihero only to embrace becoming a villain, Paul Atreides style, sounds a lot more entertaining. Only problem is that Max wouldn't be part of that story either. Unless they made a sequel that involved the games plot essentially.
@calvinmartin1305 it's an amazing world with incredible options. The game showed us all the different gangs and different villains. I'm sure we will get another movie with "Max" in it.
I think Chris went a little too harsh on this one (just my personal opinion), maybe it's the cynicism from watching too many Marvel movies. I watched Furiosa on opening day and I really liked it. Is it as good as Fury Road? No. Is it a bit too long? Yes. But it's definitely a George Miller film with lots of great action, great world-building and some fantastic visuals. Both Anya and Hemsworth killed it (surprised he didn't talk about his villain role cause he was fantastic). Definitely a marketing strategy to use "Mad Max" in the title, but I'd still highly recommend watching it! Side-note: I watched Fall Guy a couple days before Furiosa and though it was fun, I'd say Furiosa was way more engaging.
Music isn't much better. No wonder there was a massive resurgence for nostalgia a while back, there has not being a single thing in the last 30 years that has made life better or more interesting.
@@kingcosworth2643 Music is worse than movies. A lot of songs I hear today are from the 20th century. Rick Rolling as a meme is just one example of how music from the 80s still has resonance today as pop music. Good 21th century music is in video game music as that is where the composers are making their quality scores, but pop music today sucks.
Basically, the Fallout show. People were unironically saying shit like "it's good if you ignore the flaws" and "it doesn't have to make sense" to defend it.
I'll be honest, I've been way too radicalized by Hollywood's "message" to be able to watch female main character movies anynore, even if the movie is not woke.
I understand for sure too, but just remember George Miller wrote this film over a decade ago so well before this whole woke stuff was around, plus its Australian, nowhere near Hollywood, probably won't be perfect movie but I reckon this film will show Hollywood how to actually write a good female lead.
Exactly I can't see spending my money on this type of film. Sick of seeing the 100 lb weakling lady kicking 300 lb guy across the room Walker Texas Ranger style. Can't show a simple kiss scene let alone a nudity sex scene anymore lord I miss the 80's films.
Yes... they've taught people to expect SFC's (aka "GB's") to be bad... in more ways than one. They've also done it so *often* that it looks like it's part of an agenda to just get rid of male characters...
It has to be woke at some level having a female protagonist engaging in physical combat constantly. She may not be kicking arse, but in a lawless wasteland scenario, her staying alive after engaging in constant physical combat is an insane assertion.
I thought it was "Furryosa," so I went into the movie with completely different expectations. I mean, it wasn't too bad, but I kinda felt out of place being the only one in costume, and don't even get me started on what happened when I invited everyone else to start yiffing in a furpile! I'm still on the run from the authorities. 🤯
He was trying to look for the positive but couldn't really get there. Not spending my money on this just wait for it to come around to TV. I like the cast
@@bartsullivan4866 The movie is WAY better then Chris had led you to believe. If you're willing to skip it at the cinema, you're doing yourself a disservice.
I don’t see the point in spending $20 to see how Furiosa lost her arm and ended up the war boss for Immorten Joe. I'll watch it for free on some streaming service in 2 months.
I'm in the same boat. Not interested in spending money to see a Mad Max movie with no Mad Max in it. I liked the Furiosa character, but her story was already told in Fury Road.
@@SeSeReRfRf Don't forget Hemsworth and what looks like over the top shit acting likely for jokes that aren't even funny. Are we sure Taika Waititi didn't direct that crap?
@@tjbrody But behind Darth Vader is a boy who was raised as a slave on Tatooine, adopted into the Jedi Order, was believed to be the Chosen One of an ancient Jedi prophecy, lost his mentor, secretly married a senator, had twins, and was manipulated into turning to the dark side by being told that his wife and children would die (as well as many other reasons). Behind Vader is a whole life story with many aspects to be told, which is definitely not on the same scale as Furiosa.
The movie is great. This review sounds like someone who is afraid to like it before he knows if his friends like it or not first. So he's just focusing on little surface details. The film earns the Mad Max Saga tag line. It feels like an odyssey into the wasteland. It doesn't drag. It's hardcore. And absolutely brutal. And probably the best performance of Chris Hemsworth's life in perpetuity. And it's super important to note that *George Miller wrote this story first. And had Charlize Theron read the story before she did Fury Road.* I was disappointed when I heard this was his next film. But now I'm so glad he did! It really immerses the audience into the world. It's not just a comic book version of the apocalypse. It's the real world they based the comic on, if that makes sense. By the end, you feel as though you got to live in it for a few hours. I have one complaint about the film. They should have gotten a different actor to play Immortan Joe's third son. Who was played by the same guy who was Nux's lancer in Fury Road. That was the only thing that took me out of it. I could tell myself that it was probably his illegitimate son who went on to be a warboy. But it would have been so much better if they got someone else to do that role. Other than that, the movie is damn near flawless. Just watch it. This is a horrible review. Drinker is going to love it. This guy is just afraid to say he liked it as much as he did.
Exactly my thoughts. It's quickly becoming apparent that this Chris guy is the caricature of the "anti-woke" ragebaiter. Like, he didn't like that part of the movie was her as a kid? Did he close his eyes in rage at the sight of a little girl and her mom and miss the brutal stuff Dementus did? Or their "siege" on the citadel? The ONLY valid complaint I'll acknowledge is that the cgi was too obvious. But I understand that fury road allowed for more practical effects due to its limited story scope, whereas this was waaaaay larger there. Furiosa as a character was exactly the kind of female character these guys are always complaining are NOT being done. She never relied on physical strength, and used cunning and grit to "win". If anything she did could actually be called that, given how damned dark this movie was!
@WW-bc1bq oh don't worry... There's plenty of us. Just give it a second. Word is getting around. Drinker will boost it. He's gonna love it. And he's not scared to do honest reviews around these ragebaiters. Who just live in a bubble called "audience capture". And don't want to seem enthusiastic about a female lead in an action film. Drinker will dive in there like he's high-awaited... "WITNESS ME!!!" style. 🤘🤬🤘
He was A LOT more positive in first FT video about it right after he & the other Film Threat crew got back from a screener. Then the pissbabies started working on him. I liked all of Furiosa’s tie-ins with the 2015 Avalanche Mad Max game.
The best part was when the crew of Dementus rides up to the citadel and demands Immortans surrender and then they rain hell upon them and make them retreat. They make you side with Immortan and the warboys.
I'm not into nostalgia bait, sequels and the rest of the bankrupt Hollywood crap that comes out now. I used to LOVE going to the theater. This is every movie I watched in 1985 as a broke-ass college student: Back to the Future, Fletch, Beverly Hills Cop, Cocoon, Witness, The Goonies, View to a Kill, European Vacation, The Breakfast Club, Mask, Pale Rider, Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, Teen Wolf, Silverado, St. Elmo's Fire, Amadeus (which is currently on Netflix), Weird Science, Prizzi's Honor, To Live & Die in LA, The Gods Must Be Crazy, Starman, The Man with One Red Shoe,The Purple Rose of Cairo, Dune (technically released over Christmas holidays 1984, didn't see it until 1985), Vision Quest, Return of the Living Dead, 2010 (also currently on Netflix), The Sure Thing, The Killing Fields and Commando. I've watched just a handful in the theater since 2020: Free Guy, No Way Home, Dune Part 1, Top Gun, Everything Everywhere All at Once. Too many sequels, too many butchered IPs, too much out-right substandard trash.
Solid movies in 1985. Check out the films in 1982, 1983, 1984. It's a sad state of film when we cannot currently get a single film in FIVE YEARS as good as many of the top films released every year from the late 1970s until the early 1990s...
The movie was great. Yes, it was slower and had a lot more plot than Fury Road, but the acting is great, the music is great, the script is great, the world building is great. The criticism about the pressing forheads thing is bullshit, because it was well explained and justified in the story. In my opinion is not a "mixed bag", is just straight up good. If Fury Road was a 10/10, this is an 8/10.
The head touch was used in place of a kiss because the relationship was not romantic, it was one of kindred spirits recognizing each other and bonding. There are zero story points to indicate they are anything more than that.
Polishing a turd. As a die-hard MM1, MM2, and MM3 fan, I hated Fury Road and I don't give a * about anything going forward now on this garbage "ruined dream, wasted land..." franchise. Woke, CGI garbage with bad story, bad acting, and comic-book violence and action.
@@hugostiglitz9864 Modern generations have no discerning taste. They are entranced by big explosions and fast action without any care for actually good writing, directing, story, etc. The "Fast and Furious" generation. MM1 had excellent story telling and action. MM2 had a raw grit and realistic violence and stunts, excellent unspoken acting, to it unmatched by many other films.
They do the forehead press thing because it's something Furiosa does with people from back home, showing that she has become close to him, not because they are avoiding a romantic moment. Important, because Jack is the only person who acts decently towards her after her mother dies.
right - and we can have it both ways. In my mind, they absolutely consumated that night. But if ya don't want to think about it like that you don't have to. It doesn't matter. The point is that they had a connection and they trusted eachother
The foreheads touching shot was because that's how they showed affection in the green place and it's the only way she's ever known how to show affection
I think you guys are nitpicking this movie on litteraly the most irrelevant things. George Miller always wanted to tell Furiosa's story since the days of Fury Road. It's still part of the original Mad Max. George Miller wanted to continue Mad Max, but did it without Max because there was no Max story he wanted to tell at the moment. You can't say the title lies. It explicitly tells you it's not about Max. Of course they're gonna say it's part of the Mad Max franchise in the title. You guys also say people are gonna be upset about the first 40 minutes being about child Furiosa, but it's just not the case, most reviewers even seem definitely positive about it. Chris Gore, you kept saying "the movie is bad" and then you litteraly were talking about how amazing most of the movie's aspects were. Embrace the enthusiasm. If you liked so much about it it's a shame you're searching woke things at every corner to convince yourself and your andience that it's a bad movie. It's almost like you went into it wanting to dislike it because it's a spin off about a female character. It's not getting mixed reviews ! It just topped Mad Max 2 on Letterboxd ! Be passionate about things you guys actually like instead of trying to find even the smallest amount of woke in everything !
They started by saying this movie is not as woke as Mad Max: Fury Road and I was like "How dafuq was Fury Road woke"? When they call something that's not woke, woke, they're just diluting the meaning of the word and undermining their credibility.
I loved the movie, i knew going in that it's not going to be as good as Mad Max Fury Road but overall, it kept me entertained from start to finish. Kinda rare how i was invested to a character who only had 30 lines in a 148 minutes movie but i guess that's just the power of George Miller as an artist. So yeah, i liked it, i guess it's the best action movie of the year so far
Idk why Chris is shitting on the "forehead press" thing. That's from Fury Road, what she does with her people, and it carried through Furiosa at the start of the movie. She considered Jack her new family
All these channels are getting this so wrong. Furiosa is one of the best films ever made. It isn't as good as Fury Road... but the fact that it even comes close should tell you everything you need to know. It's phenomenal. The first 40 minutes are possibly the best in the movie.... okay he's being a little more fair as we go... nah I think the head to head thing is better than a kiss.
Diasagree on the moment of intimacy between the two characters.... I find it a breathe of fresh air they dont sexualise the character or the moment when its not needed in the movie, it was similar in the last mission impossible movie just a lean in and head in shoulder was enough to portray the characters feelings without some cheap makeout scene....
yeah I don't need to see people smashing their faces together in a fake rapture. I'm not 13. Example: I really liked how they handled the sex scene in Top Gun Maverick. They go to bed.... some abstract sheets and stuff then cut to comfy pillow talk. That's plenty. Everything that needs to be communicated to the audience is communicated
Wow, so much of what Chris says in his opening diatribe here ends up, almost word-for-word, in Drinker's review posted 4 days later :O Not saying any of it is wrong, though. Just saw Furiosa tonight and did enjoy being back in that world.
1st 40 minutes = focused on dementus Forehead thing = furiosa’s family/tribe/people’s custom No complaints about this movie except the third act was a bit stretched. Action scenes were excellent, story was solid, characters and world building was insane, war rig design was dope.
Everything neat about "Furiosa" just feels like a retread of what surprised and amazed us in "Mad Max: Fury Road." We are simply seeing the backstory, with visits to Bullet Farm and Gastown. Chris Hemsworth's nutter is the most interesting aspect in the whole movie. I get the sense that George Miller would prefer to make Mad Max movies with Mel Gibson, so since he can't, he barely includes the character in the newer films.
This movie was unreal. I hate woke hollywood but this movie had a great story and was very well done. I loved every bit of it. It was nail biting from start to finish.
I actually really enjoyed it. Sometimes it’s nice just to sit back and enjoy the spectacle without worrying what’s in the title or how quiet the main character is. It wasn’t faultless for sure but it was a really solid film with a great aesthetic and acting throughout.
Chris Gore seems like he's struggling to still fit in with the crowd and not praise the movie. Don't lose the plot guys. We are so lucky this movie exists.
So true. It's like these guys are forced to undersell the movie because they've created an audience that can't stand any females leading movies today. The movie was objectively amazing
@@greggibson33You seem rather easily swayed yourself to your own opinion, even to the point of using an emoji to sniff your own farts and bolster your point (it didn't work, but you can keep sniffing).
Because maybe what makes mad max good has nothing to do with max himself. Has to do with the director, setting, action, stunts, etc. Its like me saying i'm not going to watch blade runner 2049 because harrison ford's character isn't in it.
It's great, a must see if you're a fan of the Mad Max movies. Perhaps not quite as impressive as Fury Road, but not far behind. Furiosa's back story is certainly traumatic, and her character arc and portrayal by Taylor-Joy was perfect. Tom Burke was excellent as a character not unlike Max, and for me made up for the absence of Max. Hemsworth hammed it up a bit and as the main villain Dementus should have been less comical, especially as the film has some quite dark moments not seen since The Road Warrior. The only other fault is there's more use of CGI and some of it looks substandard. Overall though very much enjoyed it.
As a long time drinker follower it’s gotten obvious that u guys just getting paid to bash but as far as this movie Loved it ! I enjoy anything that takes place during this time !Love this cinematic world! George Miller is great!
It was definitely a fun experience in IMAX but Chris nails the fair critiques of it. And yeah, if you’re worried about a “girlboss” movie, this isn’t one. I’d say worth seeing, because the action scene in the middle with the attack on the convoy is truly spectacular.
@@randomcenturion7264 Yes, a great popcorn movie, but it's more like Mad Max 2 than Fury Road, a cross in between both. What I didn't like about Fury Road was it was just 90 percent a chase scene. This one actually explores a lot of different locations out in the wasteland, different characters, different timelines, etc.
Right. Im fan of the critical drinker. But I can see there is an attempt to frame this movie as “not good” It really is a good movie. A lot of fun. Well done. LOVED the villain vs villain thing. Great stuff.
I went and saw it on Friday, it was really good! Excellent world building in this, it fits right in to set up the great film that is Fury Road, and Hemsworth was fantastically fun in this! Go see it.
I have always disliked Furiosa as a characrer. I went to see a Mad Max film when I watched Fury Road, but instead I got a Furiosa movie and that always rubbed me the wrong way. I am no longer looking forward to further movies from the franchise. Great work Hollywood!
Wow, yall got Chris Gore on? I remember him from DVDuesday on Attack of the Show. 8:40 This sums up some of my problem with the film and why I think I am going to rate it higher on a second viewing. I remember watching the Grey for the first time and absolutely hated it because I went in with the wrong set of expectations. The trailer and the fact that it had Liam Neeson who started to be typecasted as an action hero led me to believe it was going to be some big action film about surviving in the wilderness. It's not that type of film. It's more of a dive into how people act in hopeless, life threatening moments. Great film the second time I watched it. I really was expecting Fury Road 2 but it is actually closer to the Northman.
The movie is a 9/10. I'll die on that hill. The movie had great pace, great action and awesome script. Loved it. Anya is GOLD! I liked the "not kiss". It was the way her mom and the people where she came from showed how to show love. I was thinking that in that wasteland there might be a "this is how a kiss works" moment with the mentor, but that "not kiss" was more telling of how survival is more important than anything else. There is no time for kisses and sex. Surviving is more important. The kiss is too little and a sex scene would have been too much. The fact she return to save him, or more correctly put: "support his scape"; is a way better show of love than any kiss. Also, she survives thanks to him getting executed and she adds him to her revenge. One more thing: is not only that she gets her ass kicked, it's also that whe doesn't win. She has to scape. There is no "I am now going to face you after you kicked my ass on this unchanged setting but I'm going to win now". No! She has to run away and get herself back up to form and succeed not on strength but in drive and planning. She doesn't beat anyone physically. She beats them with marksmanship and planning. It is a really good female character. GO WATCH IT ON IMAX!
Just saw it. I thoroughly enjoyed it. Its essential to approach it as a story that takes place in the Mad Max universe rather than being a "Mad Max" movie. It was good, not Fury Road good, but it was good.
Well, depending on how you might like it or not, you might've wished you'd seen it in a movie theater with the big screen and big surround sound. I don't think this movie's as good as _Fury Road_ but found it to be pretty good, and that awesome action scene about halfway through the film sure wowed me like the previous film and made me grateful to watch it in a movie theater.
Movie was great. Yes there's way more CGI than there was in Fury Road, chunks of the film were clearly shot on a green screen and not in an actual desert, but still this is lightyears ahead of the other slop we get in the theater nowadays. Go watch it, this is the kind of cinema we need. Also Chris Gore didn't pay attention to the film at all 3:04 "Let's press our foreheads together" apparently he missed the first 20 minutes of the movie where it's clearly shown multiple times that that's some kind of tribal show of affection used in Furiosa's tribe.
@@as3609 It might be a "which came first" thing... Modern girlboss movies could make anyone h8 all "GB movies", if they were a person's first (dozen) experiences. OTOH, if you "grew up" seeing good ones first, then you'd have a much different opinion.
Greg learned a new phrase and is just parroting it without a clue what it means. Uma Thurman/The bride was not a girl boss. Do you call Ripley and Sarah Conner a girl boss? No. The bride is more in line with those female action characters. Think for yourself, maybe form an independent thought.
Producers: “So what’s the second third act”
Everyone else: “the credits, leaving and getting some at home”
If LOTR, which had full right to do a second third act (the sacking of the Shire) but, didn’t. Then any other movie has no right to a ‘second third act’.
@@AHersheyHere LOTR also had an incredibly long ending. Like freakishly long. And even longer in the extended version.
A second third act is the most insane concept. Third acts just feel right, the pacing of the story is 'right', we are obviously psychologically built around that specific style of story telling and we are genetically engineered story telling machines, why in the hell would they mess with that.
Member when films played bloopers during the end credits? I member... It was so nostalgic seeing them at the end of Fall Guy.
its definitely worth watching on imax for the setpieces
(Hermione voice) "It's FuriosAHHH, not FuriOsah!"
Hahahahahaha
😂😂
Classic 🔥 Hermione
😂
Nobody’s made that joke before
Mad Max 2 with 8 min opening scene and zero dialogue is a masterpiece.
You are correct a simple explanation of what happened and how he got to where they are. A nomad without a wife and family and best friend he lost trying to survive looking for a purpose to keep living.
Saw it in theaters
It was epic
Exactly. The scenes in this one were terrible. Too CG and nothing epic. Last one was completely different.
Mad Max 2 (Road Warrior I’m assuming your talking about) was dumb. Saw it for the first time a year ago and when the raider boss died because he drove in front of the tanker and then slowed down… I almost couldn’t believe what I just watched. A cinematic disaster. The villains have simple personalities. Max is a cheesy strong quiet type. The only character worth mentioning is the boomerang kid
@@tjbrody I don't even know how to respond. Someone help me out, chully?
Worth buying a ticket just to see Hemsworths villain character. Fun as hell.
And very interesting character.
The forehead thing was her showing him affection in the same way as her family and all the people from "The Green Place". He reciprocated.
These people don't read they only hate especially if a woman is in it!
Furiosa already got her own movie.
She did, in this one she barely speaks, and we see Anya Taylor Joy in action around 1 hour in. It's much more Chris Hemsworth's movie this time. It evens out - Mad Max Fury Road was a Furiosa movie, and now Furiosa is a Dementus movie.
You are spot on. Hell Max didn't say but 5 words the entire previous film. With all the emotional weight of the character of Max from the original movie and a non happy ending. Like the wondering nomad who can never find peace. I don't have any real interest to see more of Furiosa's story I wanted to find out more about Max.
@@bartsullivan4866 I guess 3 movies about Max wasn't enough.
Bring back Mel Gibson!
After the first Mad Max film Max became an observer in his own films
Gundam's background gives me nightmares.
“Thoughts and Prayers.”
He's a genius that Gundam
Yeah, what is that thing? 🫣
@@Ladykyra101 it's Nurse Wot nonsense....
Papa Gundam is putting that up as a warning to us all.
They didn t need to make a bloody prequel to the mad max reboot , they should have done the og mad max route and did another "adventure" in the wasteland set after the first with Hardy coming back
DEI ESG says "No". 😮
GM wanted to make Furiosa back in 1987. So blame him.
Mad Max already has a trilogy about him. And there will be another movie "Mad Max: Wasteland".
Umm... no.
No, they shouldn't have done anything but make something new and original. The max story ends at beyond thunder dome
"Lower your expectations." Isn't that our default approach to Hollywood these days altogether?
EXACTLY! 💯👍👍
Yeah, how damn low do our expectations have to be.
No, default is: I dont watch it until all signs or heaven and earth convince me otherwise.
Your first mistake is listening to Gore's advice.
Yeah, let's waste our money on this. Brilliant idea.
Chris's entire point is, "watch it and have your own opinion."
Which is something I agree with.
Just a shame he takes so long to say nothing. He is a one man arguement for assisted suicide
Movies are expensive now. I ain't paying a $13 matinee to see if a movie is good or not.
Then why did he waste everyone's time with the word salad before that? Please Drinker, don't invite him back.
@@greggibson33 Because its a mid tier movie with different parts working for it and against it. Depending on your tastes and what kind of movies appeal to you that means you may like it or hate it. Kinda like a CRPG fan may love a mid tier CRPG because it gives them what they want and they can work past its flaws to get to that, but someone who wasn't a CRPG fan may think the same game is terrible.
@criticalcommenter
We should kill someone, because they take a while talking about if a mid movie is good or bad?
What a fucking psychopath
“You have not sold this film at all to me!”
Agree with AZ fully on this!
Being old, crap and Australian. I'm sort of not feeling much of a connection like the first 2 films which had some identifiable 'near future' elements I could relate to, the third MM3 wasn't bad but it was mostly carried on the talent of Mel, Tina and the stunt team really making it a sight to behold. Different, but not bad and I felt much the same about Fury Road, it looked and was acted very well to the point I think it schooled the shit out of a whole bunch of US directors in terms of this is how you make an action movie.
I doubt I'll go to the theater for this one though
like Chris said it’s not his job to sell it. He’s telling you what he liked and didnt like. Don’t know why Chris keeps going on open bar seems like he’s not welcome…
@@nolarima His job is continuing to be an incompetent film critic.
@@greggibson33 you sound like a Chris Stuckman fan🤣🤡
@@nolarima And that's... bad?
1981s Road Warrior is close to a silent movie
Best Mad Max movie IMO
There's not much to say in a world that's been destroyed by war and pestilence.
Very realistic.
Everything would become very utilitarian, even the language so people wouldn't be talking about much because there wouldn't be much to talk about.
These modern alien invasion or apocalypse movies are so lame because the characters never shut the hell up like they would in the real world.
I'm not saying I don't want an escape from reality but the best lies (movies) are based first in truth.
The Road Warrior was epic in all respects.
@@ANDunn-tf6xp Delete everything except 'The Road Warrior was epic in all respects.'
Totally. Furiosa is 100% on brand. This one needed to be made. I saw the midnight showing. It's unbelievable. My only complaint is the casting for Immortan Joe's third son. They used the same actor from Fury Road. And it took me out of the experience.
@@carpeimodiem
I'm sorry your testosterone has been reduced to such low levels.
I had a great time watching this in theaters, if you’re a mad max fan who’s on the fence because Max isn’t in it, I still think you should give Furiosa a watch.
Mad Max is a character, not a brand.
It's both actually.
@@Peer165 no it isn`t. Max becomes Mad Max. so he is the origin character. to those of us old enough to remember the originals anyway.
He has been a brand forever, idiot. Outside of the very first movie he’s been a framing device for a story that doesn’t require him to be there at all.
@@themagpie_1it is though, much in the same way that 007 is
@@loveone789 you've just doubled down on the dumb..
"This shitty movie is the least shitty, shitty movie you will find in the theaters" Way to sell Chris.
Zero credibility. Pure agenda driven.... the worst.
He and Alan have most likely been bought and sold. Some men have a price.
To be fair he didn't call it shitty, he said it was enjoyable with flaws. That's pretty mid tier. Mid tier is fine, don't pretend you don't enjoy alot of mid tier stuff even if you wouldn't enjoy this specific movie.
"You wouldn't go out of your way to watch it, but you wouldn't desperately search for the remote if it came on TV either" vibes.
@@Ralathar44 At the prices movie tickets are these days, mid is no longer an acceptable standard. It's an acceptable standard for streaming movies, but that's about it.
Mad Max without Max and with more CGI.... that's exactly what NOBODY wanted from this IP.
It should be Sergio Leone n the outback wasteland!
@@harrisfrankou2368 That actually could be good, it feels like it would be a different tone, similar to how we got Cloverfield, and then 10 Cloverfield Lane. They were extremely different tones, but complemented each other very nicely.
The next one will likely have less cars and more women talking.
Movie was great
Exactly. Am I crazy for wanting mad max in this mad max saga ?
"What about the third act?"
Screenwriter: "We already had it"
"We've had one, yes what about second third act?"
Came for the drinker got brain damage listening to Gore guy
He is insufferable.
Watched it a few hours ago, and enjoyed it. Good storytelling, grounded believable characters, world building, acting, action sequences, SFX and music. I am disappointed in this videos discussion, chris seems like a boy trying to fit into a toxic club, like he enjoyed the film, but was afraid to admit that it was a good film to the others. Expecting a master piece with like zero things you dont like about a film is quite unreasonable, some of the best films in the industry have its own little problems or preference to each viewer. I have some things I too don't like about the film, but the overall experience is still very much way more positives than negatives.
Exactly. Look how him & the Film Threat guys were talking about it in their first video after their press screening. The HeMan Woman Haters Club in their sphere has him turtling now. Soy behavior.
The young actress who plays Furiosa has a bright future ahead of her.
Chris Gore appears to be prepping for his upcoming gig as Santa Claus.
Continuing his role as a bad film critic.
Or Lash LaRue. Or Will Sasso’s impression of Kenny Rogers from Mad TV
@@greggibson33ok so he is a bad film critic so are all the others if they say things you dont like
He failed the audition. He’s chief elf. He doesn’t like to talk about it.
As long as he is doing something other than this I'd be over the moon.
Here's the thing - I can't judge the cgi but mad max has never been political(I mean it has been political in the sense of it being based on the cold war in a post nuclear apocalypse but that isn't to be construed as modern politics of feminism etc that movies and reviewers fall into nowadays).
Here's a short diatribe:- fury road is genuinely one of the best stories of all time. Max loses his humanity is reduced to a single instinct of survival. You see him like an animal while he wears a mask and has no care for furiosa and the wives. He refuses to even reveal his name Through furiosa he learns trust and regains his lost humanity, and furiosa learns(from Max) not to run from her problems but to face them head on. When they work together society flusters
It's a deep character study and unlike other action movies the general audience does not get it because they need exposition.
For example when the warboy screams witness me and jumps on a car you learn 3 things from that scene alone:- There's a culture of sacrificing yourself for glory There's a higher figure and a reward in the afterlife And that these youngsters are brainwashed
Any other director would have explained this stuff through dialogue but not Miller who paints a story visually not through dialogue
Another example is the blood transfusion scene at the end between max and furiosa. There's no explanation because we see max nux get blood from Max in a similar fashion and the audience can infer through that
Another example is when nux steals Max's shoes or when max takes furiosas guns. These items are returned to their respective owners once max learns to trust them and let's go of his survival instinct and becomes human again
It's a story about a man who has forgotten his own name and humanity and who gains it back by trusting others.
Every single scene is jam packed with story telling and there's no filler. For example the old woman gives a wife seeds. Bullets are called anti seed. It's not spelled out because the film follows a fundamental Assumption: i.e Our audience is smart and they can infer our message through little hints that need no excessive explanation.
Even small details of the old lady giving the wife "seeds" that will lead to a new life in the wasteland vs bullets being called "anti seed".
I can keep going but you get the point
People compare mad max to fast and furious type stuff. In films like F&f or John wick, there's action then there's a pause to develop character and then the action continues. Whereas in mad max the action is the story
So the entire woke debacle ends with this insight for the film:-
When the women expelled the men from the green place, their society collapsed
When immortan joe imprisoned the women, his society wasn't exactly ideal either
When Furiosa and Max solve their respective internal psychological issues(max regains his humanity and furiosa learns not to run from her problems) and the decide to "Go Back" - instead of running- and reform society i.e. when man and woman become better people individually and then decide to uplift society only then does the world become a better place. Only then do the common folk get that fountain of Water. The green place is within your grasp and not a distant place where you can escape to to solve your problems.
That is Mad Max fury road
That's why a prequel is needed for Max and furiosa both because fury road is the perfect conclusion.
Furiosa was written long before fury road even began filming.It's not like Miller wanted to make a feminist film, it's just that he made a film and people attached their own ideologies to it. Unlike the rings of power where a huge corporation went against the fans and the story to fuel an ideology. This is the Creator of the franchise making a film he always wanted to make.
Hope Miller decides to work on the Wasteland and gives us one of the most creative trilogies ever told.
Its Miller not your average Hollywood Director.
I watched Furiosa. It's not political at all. Its a solid movie about a side character. It's not as good as FR, but I do think it still kicks down 90% of other movies that come out nowadays.
Louder for the people in the back!
Thanks Cpt. Obvious.
Quality comment.
@@greggibson33Not so obvious for some people obviously.
Really think Miller should do one final Mad Max film with Gibson. A proper send off,maybe include the Gyro Captain.
You can always go back and have more stories with Hardy but this one needs to be done while Gibson and Miller are still around.
Frank Miller? Yeah.
Mel Gibson himself has personally claimed he's not interested in the role again and I think Hardy's set for one more Mad Max film
Warner will not dare bring back Gibson.
@@darwincity Maybe he just appears as a character named "Raggedy Man" . lol
Well, ain't we a pair, Raggedy man. Its one year ago today Tina Turner passed away.
No, thanks. Gibson is almost 70. Taylor-Joy is more believable in an action role than grandad Gibson.
Just a reminder that Gore recommended The Flash. Nothing he says should be taken seriously until he apologized for that.
In fairness, he comes across as someone who is unaware of Flashpoint Paradox. He's not good with adaptations IMO since he said She-Hulk was funny or Napolean was good. The common thread in these misses is he is unaware of older, superior media of these IPs.
Maybe I should re-watch what Gore said about The Flash. But as I recall, he didn't actually recommend it. But I might remember this wrong.
And I find it kinda funny that because he might have had an different opinion about a matter of taste, he should apologize.
@@Juhno No he did, and hard at that on Nerdrotic channel before the movie came out. Felt It was like Back to the future 2 and that It becomes a good batman film almost an hour In.
I liked the Flash,one of the best modern DC movies(wich is not saying a lot,mind you but its still fun(
For what it's worth - I liked it ★★★★
The world-building is awesome, the weird-ass quirky one-liners are so Aussie-as, and Chris Hemsworth is great as Dementus, stealing the show.
There will be comparisons to 'Fury Road'. I reckon it's best to appreciate each movie for its own unique approach. Fury Road was a high-speed chase from beginning to end. By contrast, Furiosa builds up steadily until the end, like a marathon.
Honestly I preferred Furiosa. Mostly because I didn't care for Theron as Furiosa and Tom Hardy just didn't vibe as Max. I like Anya as an actress. It wasn't a perfect movie but it wasn't bad at all.
Most people watch the movie just for Max himself. I enjoy the world and characters of Mad Max, so Furiosa’s appeal was strong for me. If you appreciate rich storytelling, excellent world-building, and superb action, you’ll love it too.
I hate that Anna Taylor Joy and Timothee Chalamet are just in everything. And I also would prefer Mad Max in my Mad Max movies.
Timmy is a real good actor. NGL.
Max has like a five second cameo in this, shot from behind standing next to his car.
Both have the same build and are as convincing of their martial prowess as an anorexic girl trying to act tough.
Timothee Chalamet Is a bit overrated.
I can’t take timothee seriously in dune. He’s a decent actor
At the end of the day we are extremely lucky to have got a movie as good as this, Really fleshed out the back story of Furiosa really well.
By the same token, who cares about Furiosa’s backstory? It didn’t give us anything that wasn’t already implied in Fury Road.
Uh NO… they’ll be lucky if I pay anything to see it… oh… whoops… luck ran out. I’m not a poor fanboy beggar who is desperate for any sop they regurgitate into my mouth.
Gore's film reviews are positively chaotic. He's all over
the map. He sounds like a schizophrenic arguing with
himself.
I think we should be worried about him. He needs meds.
@@greggibson33
"It's good! It's bad!
Do I love it? Do I hate it?
Who the fuck can tell?"
It's no damn wonder
AZ was confused.
@@Llewellyn2844 🤣
As the wise and great Jeremey Clarkson said "sometimes my genius is frightening"
Remember this guy said The Flash was good, and did a U-turn faster than any politician I've seen after the backlash
As someone who never enjoyed Mad Max, it was a well made movie and both Joy and Hemsworth were fantastic in the roles.
I watched it yesterday and enjoyed it. I agree that calling it a 'Mad Max Saga' is a mistake. Maybe they should've called it a 'Road Warrior Saga' instead?
But overall fantastic world building - expanding on Fury Road's world, and even a nod to the video game. I agree with Chris Gore that she isn't the girlboss of the modern era.
This is George Miller's creation and I respect his vision - and if you want a good high-budget rated R action movie, which is rare these days, go witness it--
A mistake for who? And why?
@@greggibson33 For the fact that Max is abscent from this story. 'Road Warrior' would encompass any story held within the wasteland. But its a minor nitpick, maybe "mistake" was the wrong choice of words, but its still my opinion.
@@lacquerdredd Fair enough.
Agreed. I feel like it was more of a studio push to include the “Mad Max Saga” part cause of some nonsense. For the most part on your points. I agree.
Ooh that's a great idea! Or maybe Road Wars Saga.
"You aren't selling this movie." Have these guys never seen a George Miller film?
Apparently ThunderDome should never exist because it's not up to par with Road Warrior.
They're outrage grifters.
Nah, this guy was doing a sh*t job at giving his impressions on the movie. I had already seen it when I watched this video and yet I was thinking the whole time "what a way to sell a movie...". Than God the rest of the panel just said it out loud.
@@chrislee5268 Grifter is a perfect word for these plebs!
Funny how Gore gave this more of a positive spin on his own channel, but then gives it a negative spin here knowing who he’s talking to…..
Drinker and AZ are beginning to see right through Gore’s facade.
Won’t be shocked if drinker invites Chris back less often, if at all.
Now you're seeing the pattern.
Gotta tow the line.
To be honest, I've stopped watching the FT channel because of that and also, Alan is just _so f***ing dull_ and for a lot of the time, doesn't seem to remember characters or actors in the film he's reviewing or much about movies on general.
the pressing heads together is like version of comradeship, a hand shake. A Mad Max lore thing
No one should talk about FURIOSA without mentioning Chris Hemsworth. I definitely didn't expect a career best performance from him and a totally charismatic and (dare I say) classic villain... but there you go!
@@DerrickMims 💯💯💯.
Tell us you only watch superhero movies without telling us you only watch superhero movies. Your ignorance of cinema is glaring.
@@Evan8787What you on about exactly? Nothing here was even superhero related. Where's your connection?
I think the forehead thing might be more of a lore thing? The people that Furiosa come from use the forehead thing in Fury Road.
You can't have 2 straight people kiss anymore onscreen might offend someone hell they couldn't even show that in Ghostbusters 2 people possessed by the dogs actually kiss
@bartsullivan4866 if they actually do have a "love scene" the woman is always on top.
I’m just suggesting that Miller is maintaining consistency within his continuity.
@bartsullivan4866 no, that's retarded of you to say and assume they did it for that reason when they've established that's what they do in this universe in previous films
@@bartsullivan4866 Been noticing this for years. If a character is straight, there is no romance, and if there is a love interest then it's very surface level, no kissing or anything indicating they've started a relationship. Feels very sterile. Only gay characters are allowed to have love showcased on-screen now
I'll just replay the 2015 Mad Max game after rewatching the original trilogy. No Furiosa drama in that. Still like Fury Road though, but she totally stole Max's movie from him.
On a side note, the only thing that had my interest in the Furiosa trailer was Chris Hemsworth as Dementus. And that was because I like that actor and that his character Dementus was referenced in the game.
I'm playing the game too. You will love the world building in this movie. They take a lot of the elements from the game. It's fun.
@@zzygyy That's interesting. Originally the game was supposed to be a tie in to Fury Road, explaining how Max got into the circumstances he's in at the beginning of the movie. However George wanted it noncanon incase he did another movie... if I recall correctly.
@calvinmartin1305 wait till you see the villains from the game in the movie.
@@zzygyy I'm going to be honest with you. I think a movie about Immortan Joe sounds more interesting than Furiosa. A pre collapse war hero turned antihero only to embrace becoming a villain, Paul Atreides style, sounds a lot more entertaining. Only problem is that Max wouldn't be part of that story either. Unless they made a sequel that involved the games plot essentially.
@calvinmartin1305 it's an amazing world with incredible options. The game showed us all the different gangs and different villains. I'm sure we will get another movie with "Max" in it.
I think Chris went a little too harsh on this one (just my personal opinion), maybe it's the cynicism from watching too many Marvel movies. I watched Furiosa on opening day and I really liked it. Is it as good as Fury Road? No. Is it a bit too long? Yes. But it's definitely a George Miller film with lots of great action, great world-building and some fantastic visuals. Both Anya and Hemsworth killed it (surprised he didn't talk about his villain role cause he was fantastic). Definitely a marketing strategy to use "Mad Max" in the title, but I'd still highly recommend watching it!
Side-note: I watched Fall Guy a couple days before Furiosa and though it was fun, I'd say Furiosa was way more engaging.
Seems like if a movie is around a 6 out of 10 theses days it's considered a win. Pretty sad state of movies theses days.
Music isn't much better. No wonder there was a massive resurgence for nostalgia a while back, there has not being a single thing in the last 30 years that has made life better or more interesting.
@@kingcosworth2643 Music is worse than movies. A lot of songs I hear today are from the 20th century. Rick Rolling as a meme is just one example of how music from the 80s still has resonance today as pop music. Good 21th century music is in video game music as that is where the composers are making their quality scores, but pop music today sucks.
Basically, the Fallout show.
People were unironically saying shit like "it's good if you ignore the flaws" and "it doesn't have to make sense" to defend it.
When you are surrounded by shit even dirt will look good.
Things have been so bad that people are just happy with something that is ok.
I'll be honest, I've been way too radicalized by Hollywood's "message" to be able to watch female main character movies anynore, even if the movie is not woke.
Yea i find myself fighting that also. Occasionally I watch Alien as a mental palette cleanser.
I understand for sure too, but just remember George Miller wrote this film over a decade ago so well before this whole woke stuff was around, plus its Australian, nowhere near Hollywood, probably won't be perfect movie but I reckon this film will show Hollywood how to actually write a good female lead.
Exactly I can't see spending my money on this type of film. Sick of seeing the 100 lb weakling lady kicking 300 lb guy across the room Walker Texas Ranger style. Can't show a simple kiss scene let alone a nudity sex scene anymore lord I miss the 80's films.
Yes... they've taught people to expect SFC's (aka "GB's") to be bad... in more ways than one.
They've also done it so *often* that it looks like it's part of an agenda to just get rid of male characters...
It has to be woke at some level having a female protagonist engaging in physical combat constantly. She may not be kicking arse, but in a lawless wasteland scenario, her staying alive after engaging in constant physical combat is an insane assertion.
I thought it was "Furryosa," so I went into the movie with completely different expectations. I mean, it wasn't too bad, but I kinda felt out of place being the only one in costume, and don't even get me started on what happened when I invited everyone else to start yiffing in a furpile! I'm still on the run from the authorities. 🤯
Why did you say any of that
What a day to have eyes...
I thought you would've learned from the last movie; it wasn't "furry road".
Damn sounds like fun, I personally am not a suit wearer nut still~
its not Furryosa, it's Furyiossaaa!
Glad Az and Gundam are calling Chris out. A fence sitting review convinces no one.
He was trying to look for the positive but couldn't really get there. Not spending my money on this just wait for it to come around to TV. I like the cast
About time. The guy is terrible and nobody ever seems to mention it.
@@bartsullivan4866 The movie is WAY better then Chris had led you to believe. If you're willing to skip it at the cinema, you're doing yourself a disservice.
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@@criticalcommenter Exactly. He ruins the discussion with dum dum wishy washy opinions.
I don’t see the point in spending $20 to see how Furiosa lost her arm and ended up the war boss for Immorten Joe.
I'll watch it for free on some streaming service in 2 months.
I'm in the same boat. Not interested in spending money to see a Mad Max movie with no Mad Max in it. I liked the Furiosa character, but her story was already told in Fury Road.
@@SeSeReRfRf Don't forget Hemsworth and what looks like over the top shit acting likely for jokes that aren't even funny. Are we sure Taika Waititi didn't direct that crap?
@@aaronfarnsworth7653George Miller directed this, the man who did the entire Mad Max franchise.
I mean with that same attitude why make prequel movies for Star Wars when we already knew Anakin was going to become Darth Vader
@@tjbrody But behind Darth Vader is a boy who was raised as a slave on Tatooine, adopted into the Jedi Order, was believed to be the Chosen One of an ancient Jedi prophecy, lost his mentor, secretly married a senator, had twins, and was manipulated into turning to the dark side by being told that his wife and children would die (as well as many other reasons). Behind Vader is a whole life story with many aspects to be told, which is definitely not on the same scale as Furiosa.
The movie is great. This review sounds like someone who is afraid to like it before he knows if his friends like it or not first. So he's just focusing on little surface details. The film earns the Mad Max Saga tag line. It feels like an odyssey into the wasteland. It doesn't drag. It's hardcore. And absolutely brutal. And probably the best performance of Chris Hemsworth's life in perpetuity. And it's super important to note that *George Miller wrote this story first. And had Charlize Theron read the story before she did Fury Road.*
I was disappointed when I heard this was his next film. But now I'm so glad he did! It really immerses the audience into the world. It's not just a comic book version of the apocalypse. It's the real world they based the comic on, if that makes sense. By the end, you feel as though you got to live in it for a few hours.
I have one complaint about the film. They should have gotten a different actor to play Immortan Joe's third son. Who was played by the same guy who was Nux's lancer in Fury Road. That was the only thing that took me out of it. I could tell myself that it was probably his illegitimate son who went on to be a warboy. But it would have been so much better if they got someone else to do that role. Other than that, the movie is damn near flawless.
Just watch it. This is a horrible review. Drinker is going to love it. This guy is just afraid to say he liked it as much as he did.
Exactly my thoughts. It's quickly becoming apparent that this Chris guy is the caricature of the "anti-woke" ragebaiter. Like, he didn't like that part of the movie was her as a kid? Did he close his eyes in rage at the sight of a little girl and her mom and miss the brutal stuff Dementus did? Or their "siege" on the citadel? The ONLY valid complaint I'll acknowledge is that the cgi was too obvious. But I understand that fury road allowed for more practical effects due to its limited story scope, whereas this was waaaaay larger there. Furiosa as a character was exactly the kind of female character these guys are always complaining are NOT being done. She never relied on physical strength, and used cunning and grit to "win". If anything she did could actually be called that, given how damned dark this movie was!
@@GreavesEc agreed. The idea of doing that entire film with practical effects would have taken another 5 years to make.
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@WW-bc1bq oh don't worry... There's plenty of us. Just give it a second. Word is getting around. Drinker will boost it.
He's gonna love it. And he's not scared to do honest reviews around these ragebaiters. Who just live in a bubble called "audience capture". And don't want to seem enthusiastic about a female lead in an action film. Drinker will dive in there like he's high-awaited... "WITNESS ME!!!" style.
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He was A LOT more positive in first FT video about it right after he & the other Film Threat crew got back from a screener. Then the pissbabies started working on him. I liked all of Furiosa’s tie-ins with the 2015 Avalanche Mad Max game.
The best part was when the crew of Dementus rides up to the citadel and demands Immortans surrender and then they rain hell upon them and make them retreat. They make you side with Immortan and the warboys.
The worst part was you spoiling it.
@@greggibson33 This WHOLE video had spoilers. Dunce.
@@wesleywarsmith1113 😆
Furiosa enjoys a very enthusiastic walk, alright.
Is... is that a Hellsing abridged reference? If so, you are the goat sir
VERY enthusiastic walk….
I'm not into nostalgia bait, sequels and the rest of the bankrupt Hollywood crap that comes out now. I used to LOVE going to the theater. This is every movie I watched in 1985 as a broke-ass college student: Back to the Future, Fletch, Beverly Hills Cop, Cocoon, Witness, The Goonies, View to a Kill, European Vacation, The Breakfast Club, Mask, Pale Rider, Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, Teen Wolf, Silverado, St. Elmo's Fire, Amadeus (which is currently on Netflix), Weird Science, Prizzi's Honor, To Live & Die in LA, The Gods Must Be Crazy, Starman, The Man with One Red Shoe,The Purple Rose of Cairo, Dune (technically released over Christmas holidays 1984, didn't see it until 1985), Vision Quest, Return of the Living Dead, 2010 (also currently on Netflix), The Sure Thing, The Killing Fields and Commando.
I've watched just a handful in the theater since 2020: Free Guy, No Way Home, Dune Part 1, Top Gun, Everything Everywhere All at Once. Too many sequels, too many butchered IPs, too much out-right substandard trash.
Look at all those good films!!! 😊
Solid movies in 1985. Check out the films in 1982, 1983, 1984. It's a sad state of film when we cannot currently get a single film in FIVE YEARS as good as many of the top films released every year from the late 1970s until the early 1990s...
Her not being Australian was an absolute crime.
Edit: I meant the *character* not being Australian, not the actors.
Tom Hardy wasn't Australian.
Nobody cares.
Neither was Charlize Therone, she's one of those funny Dutch Africans
@@chrisbfreelanceHe attempted an Aussie accent though.
@@kingcosworth2643She intentionally did an American accent, which was fucking stupid.
The movie was great. Yes, it was slower and had a lot more plot than Fury Road, but the acting is great, the music is great, the script is great, the world building is great. The criticism about the pressing forheads thing is bullshit, because it was well explained and justified in the story. In my opinion is not a "mixed bag", is just straight up good. If Fury Road was a 10/10, this is an 8/10.
The head touch was used in place of a kiss because the relationship was not romantic, it was one of kindred spirits recognizing each other and bonding. There are zero story points to indicate they are anything more than that.
I'm pretty sure they kissed before he was dragged to death and she got chained to the truck.
They have to have Mad Max in the title or no one would give a shit.
Polishing a turd. As a die-hard MM1, MM2, and MM3 fan, I hated Fury Road and I don't give a * about anything going forward now on this garbage "ruined dream, wasted land..." franchise. Woke, CGI garbage with bad story, bad acting, and comic-book violence and action.
@@timsimmons9995 I couldn't agree more. I hear people say how much they liked Fury Road...total garbage.
@@hugostiglitz9864 Modern generations have no discerning taste. They are entranced by big explosions and fast action without any care for actually good writing, directing, story, etc. The "Fast and Furious" generation. MM1 had excellent story telling and action. MM2 had a raw grit and realistic violence and stunts, excellent unspoken acting, to it unmatched by many other films.
I’d give a shit
@@timsimmons9995 how was Fury Road woke? You sound like a cranky old dude who pretends has high standards but simply doesn't enjoy anything anymore
Chris always comes off as Hollywood's ambassador to people they know hate Hollywood
When I say comes off as I mean that's like literally his job
Tbf, these guys are quick to hate on anything
They do the forehead press thing because it's something Furiosa does with people from back home, showing that she has become close to him, not because they are avoiding a romantic moment. Important, because Jack is the only person who acts decently towards her after her mother dies.
right - and we can have it both ways. In my mind, they absolutely consumated that night. But if ya don't want to think about it like that you don't have to. It doesn't matter. The point is that they had a connection and they trusted eachother
I think the reason there's no big incredible chase at the end is because "Fury Road" is basically the big chase "Furiosa" is building up to.
Good point
Makes perfect sense. Miller knows what he's doing, despite what the hacks say on this channel. My FedEx guy is a better film critic.
But there is a big incredible chase at the end...
@@emptyblank099a true, but it's on a much smaller scale compared to Fury Road
The foreheads touching shot was because that's how they showed affection in the green place and it's the only way she's ever known how to show affection
Pretty sure this mob are just disliking stuff for the sake of it now. Furiosa was a great movie.
I think you guys are nitpicking this movie on litteraly the most irrelevant things.
George Miller always wanted to tell Furiosa's story since the days of Fury Road. It's still part of the original Mad Max.
George Miller wanted to continue Mad Max, but did it without Max because there was no Max story he wanted to tell at the moment.
You can't say the title lies. It explicitly tells you it's not about Max. Of course they're gonna say it's part of the Mad Max franchise in the title.
You guys also say people are gonna be upset about the first 40 minutes being about child Furiosa, but it's just not the case, most reviewers even seem definitely positive about it.
Chris Gore, you kept saying "the movie is bad" and then you litteraly were talking about how amazing most of the movie's aspects were.
Embrace the enthusiasm. If you liked so much about it it's a shame you're searching woke things at every corner to convince yourself and your andience that it's a bad movie. It's almost like you went into it wanting to dislike it because it's a spin off about a female character.
It's not getting mixed reviews ! It just topped Mad Max 2 on Letterboxd !
Be passionate about things you guys actually like instead of trying to find even the smallest amount of woke in everything !
Their whole gimmick is hating on things.. It doesn´t matter that this or that show was actually good. Their audience watches them for this.
This is a good take. Nice to see someone with a balanced opinion in this comment section.
@@kubza4366 Yeah they are pandering to their audience by now.
They started by saying this movie is not as woke as Mad Max: Fury Road and I was like "How dafuq was Fury Road woke"? When they call something that's not woke, woke, they're just diluting the meaning of the word and undermining their credibility.
I loved the movie, i knew going in that it's not going to be as good as Mad Max Fury Road but overall, it kept me entertained from start to finish. Kinda rare how i was invested to a character who only had 30 lines in a 148 minutes movie but i guess that's just the power of George Miller as an artist. So yeah, i liked it, i guess it's the best action movie of the year so far
I enjoyed it too. A solid 7/10 . Fury Road was 10/10 .
@@zzygyyI agree. Pacing was a bit off for normies. GM should have tightened up the first part when Furiosa was 8 years old.
Furousia is a really good film enhanced by going to the cinema to see it. The sounds, effects & action sequences are brilliant on the big screen.
Don't think I wanna see a mad max film without mad max in it....
Did you watch Fury Road? Lol
@@RenR70 But it did have Max in it. Did you watch the movie yourself?
@@RenR70 Hey at least Max was in that movie even if he spent most of it as a hood ornament...
@@TheRedGauntlet I did, that’s why I asked. Lol
@@XaqNautilus Right, that movie was clearly a bait and switch. Charlize Theron‘s character was the main protagonist.
Idk why Chris is shitting on the "forehead press" thing. That's from Fury Road, what she does with her people, and it carried through Furiosa at the start of the movie. She considered Jack her new family
It was really good. Takes the best of the old ones. And makes it 10 times more fleshed out.
Aye, was that ChumBucket that gave furiosa her car at the beginning of the finale???? Cameo from the MAD MAX game. Sounded just like him.
All these channels are getting this so wrong. Furiosa is one of the best films ever made. It isn't as good as Fury Road... but the fact that it even comes close should tell you everything you need to know. It's phenomenal.
The first 40 minutes are possibly the best in the movie.... okay he's being a little more fair as we go... nah I think the head to head thing is better than a kiss.
Thank you az for saying what i thought about Chris's revjew of fury
Same.
Diasagree on the moment of intimacy between the two characters.... I find it a breathe of fresh air they dont sexualise the character or the moment when its not needed in the movie, it was similar in the last mission impossible movie just a lean in and head in shoulder was enough to portray the characters feelings without some cheap makeout scene....
Not to mention the dude was old enough to be her father
yeah I don't need to see people smashing their faces together in a fake rapture. I'm not 13. Example: I really liked how they handled the sex scene in Top Gun Maverick. They go to bed.... some abstract sheets and stuff then cut to comfy pillow talk. That's plenty. Everything that needs to be communicated to the audience is communicated
Wow, so much of what Chris says in his opening diatribe here ends up, almost word-for-word, in Drinker's review posted 4 days later :O Not saying any of it is wrong, though. Just saw Furiosa tonight and did enjoy being back in that world.
1st 40 minutes = focused on dementus
Forehead thing = furiosa’s family/tribe/people’s custom
No complaints about this movie except the third act was a bit stretched. Action scenes were excellent, story was solid, characters and world building was insane, war rig design was dope.
Everything neat about "Furiosa" just feels like a retread of what surprised and amazed us in "Mad Max: Fury Road." We are simply seeing the backstory, with visits to Bullet Farm and Gastown. Chris Hemsworth's nutter is the most interesting aspect in the whole movie.
I get the sense that George Miller would prefer to make Mad Max movies with Mel Gibson, so since he can't, he barely includes the character in the newer films.
This movie was unreal. I hate woke hollywood but this movie had a great story and was very well done. I loved every bit of it. It was nail biting from start to finish.
I actually really enjoyed it. Sometimes it’s nice just to sit back and enjoy the spectacle without worrying what’s in the title or how quiet the main character is. It wasn’t faultless for sure but it was a really solid film with a great aesthetic and acting throughout.
Chris Gore seems like he's struggling to still fit in with the crowd and not praise the movie. Don't lose the plot guys. We are so lucky this movie exists.
So true. It's like these guys are forced to undersell the movie because they've created an audience that can't stand any females leading movies today.
The movie was objectively amazing
@@coldfire2753 they're unintentionally ironically doing the same fuckin thing Disney does
@@IDieHardForever Truth. Same thing only opposite..... cowards.
5:16 Chris hates the title "A Mad Max Saga". Nobody would know it was a Mad Max movie otherwise.
A movie that's only not terrible. Progress!
According to one hack reviewer. Man, are you easily swayed.😆
@@greggibson33You seem rather easily swayed yourself to your own opinion, even to the point of using an emoji to sniff your own farts and bolster your point (it didn't work, but you can keep sniffing).
@@OilFreeFeathers Ha! Awesome.
What, it's no-progress terrible then?
It was great. It's okay to like things, guys.
Why is everyone on the Internet acting like it's crazy that some dont want to watch a mad max saga without mad max.
Because maybe what makes mad max good has nothing to do with max himself. Has to do with the director, setting, action, stunts, etc.
Its like me saying i'm not going to watch blade runner 2049 because harrison ford's character isn't in it.
you're right it's not crazy, it's stupid
I'm a die-hard fan of the original trilogy, but Fury Road and Furiosa are another level of madness if you want to enjoy the action mayhem.
It's great, a must see if you're a fan of the Mad Max movies. Perhaps not quite as impressive as Fury Road, but not far behind. Furiosa's back story is certainly traumatic, and her character arc and portrayal by Taylor-Joy was perfect. Tom Burke was excellent as a character not unlike Max, and for me made up for the absence of Max. Hemsworth hammed it up a bit and as the main villain Dementus should have been less comical, especially as the film has some quite dark moments not seen since The Road Warrior. The only other fault is there's more use of CGI and some of it looks substandard. Overall though very much enjoyed it.
As a long time drinker follower it’s gotten obvious that u guys just getting paid to bash but as far as this movie Loved it ! I enjoy anything that takes place during this time !Love this cinematic world! George Miller is great!
Drinker clearly got paid to leave this movie alone. It's a terrible film.
I liked Furiosa and I liked Fury Road. Maybe I am a dirty, rotten simpleton, but I was entertained!
It was definitely a fun experience in IMAX but Chris nails the fair critiques of it.
And yeah, if you’re worried about a “girlboss” movie, this isn’t one. I’d say worth seeing, because the action scene in the middle with the attack on the convoy is truly spectacular.
So a good popcorn movie. Not exactly "Fury Road" levels of Awesomeness, but still a fun watch.
@@randomcenturion7264 Yes, a great popcorn movie, but it's more like Mad Max 2 than Fury Road, a cross in between both. What I didn't like about Fury Road was it was just 90 percent a chase scene. This one actually explores a lot of different locations out in the wasteland, different characters, different timelines, etc.
Right.
Im fan of the critical drinker. But I can see there is an attempt to frame this movie as “not good”
It really is a good movie. A lot of fun. Well done. LOVED the villain vs villain thing.
Great stuff.
I went and saw it on Friday, it was really good! Excellent world building in this, it fits right in to set up the great film that is Fury Road, and Hemsworth was fantastically fun in this! Go see it.
Mad max is in for 15 seconds. Lol
I have always disliked Furiosa as a characrer. I went to see a Mad Max film when I watched Fury Road, but instead I got a Furiosa movie and that always rubbed me the wrong way. I am no longer looking forward to further movies from the franchise. Great work Hollywood!
Exactly how I feel, furiousa is a dogshit character.
Sounds like you guys need to get laid (without paying for it). Furiosa in Fury Road made that movie.
im going to watch the 79 max.
I'm going to watch 737 Max videos because I love practical effects.
Wow, yall got Chris Gore on? I remember him from DVDuesday on Attack of the Show.
8:40 This sums up some of my problem with the film and why I think I am going to rate it higher on a second viewing. I remember watching the Grey for the first time and absolutely hated it because I went in with the wrong set of expectations. The trailer and the fact that it had Liam Neeson who started to be typecasted as an action hero led me to believe it was going to be some big action film about surviving in the wilderness. It's not that type of film. It's more of a dive into how people act in hopeless, life threatening moments. Great film the second time I watched it.
I really was expecting Fury Road 2 but it is actually closer to the Northman.
I just heard "Girl Boss Hero" and immediately checked out.
She isn't one
Furiosa is LEGEND!!
Just saw it. Was great. Enjoyed whole movie. Very fun.
The movie is a 9/10. I'll die on that hill. The movie had great pace, great action and awesome script. Loved it. Anya is GOLD!
I liked the "not kiss". It was the way her mom and the people where she came from showed how to show love. I was thinking that in that wasteland there might be a "this is how a kiss works" moment with the mentor, but that "not kiss" was more telling of how survival is more important than anything else. There is no time for kisses and sex. Surviving is more important. The kiss is too little and a sex scene would have been too much. The fact she return to save him, or more correctly put: "support his scape"; is a way better show of love than any kiss. Also, she survives thanks to him getting executed and she adds him to her revenge.
One more thing: is not only that she gets her ass kicked, it's also that whe doesn't win. She has to scape. There is no "I am now going to face you after you kicked my ass on this unchanged setting but I'm going to win now". No! She has to run away and get herself back up to form and succeed not on strength but in drive and planning. She doesn't beat anyone physically. She beats them with marksmanship and planning. It is a really good female character. GO WATCH IT ON IMAX!
Yes, yes and yes 👏
Preach brother.
In Mad Max 2 Gibson has 16 lines half of what Anna Taylor Joy gets.
I saw this before mad max and enjoyed it massively lol watched fury road last night was pretty cool.
Just saw it. I thoroughly enjoyed it. Its essential to approach it as a story that takes place in the Mad Max universe rather than being a "Mad Max" movie. It was good, not Fury Road good, but it was good.
I for one can't wait for 9 months or so to watch this on free tv to see mad maxine.
Well, depending on how you might like it or not, you might've wished you'd seen it in a movie theater with the big screen and big surround sound. I don't think this movie's as good as _Fury Road_ but found it to be pretty good, and that awesome action scene about halfway through the film sure wowed me like the previous film and made me grateful to watch it in a movie theater.
Just got back from seeing it. Didn't smash me in the face like Fury Road, but I still enjoyed it.
Movie was great. Yes there's way more CGI than there was in Fury Road, chunks of the film were clearly shot on a green screen and not in an actual desert, but still this is lightyears ahead of the other slop we get in the theater nowadays. Go watch it, this is the kind of cinema we need.
Also Chris Gore didn't pay attention to the film at all 3:04 "Let's press our foreheads together" apparently he missed the first 20 minutes of the movie where it's clearly shown multiple times that that's some kind of tribal show of affection used in Furiosa's tribe.
Gore's entire missive should be a case study in damning with faint praise.
Kill Bill was a awesome female led movie. You root for Uma throughout the whole thing.
What? She's a girl boss who literally kills everyone, including Bill.
@@greggibson33 ...and?
@@as3609 It might be a "which came first" thing...
Modern girlboss movies could make anyone h8 all "GB movies", if they were a person's first (dozen) experiences.
OTOH, if you "grew up" seeing good ones first, then you'd have a much different opinion.
Greg learned a new phrase and is just parroting it without a clue what it means.
Uma Thurman/The bride was not a girl boss.
Do you call Ripley and Sarah Conner a girl boss? No.
The bride is more in line with those female action characters.
Think for yourself, maybe form an independent thought.
@@greggibson33She gets her ass handed to her throughout both films, lay off huffing the aerosols.
I'm just happy that we got another great movie my George miller set in this amazing universe.
Exactly 👏
Preach