FURIOSA

holy shit it's almost here.

omg omg omg

I'm kind of astonished that nobody in London seems to be screening Fury Road (or all of them) in advance, not even the Prince Charles.

IMAX presale live now fwiw

(in the US)

Anya Taylor-Joy only has ~30 lines of dialogue in #Furiosa

Tom Hardy also only had 63 lines of dialogue in #FuryRoad

George Miller says “The problem with dialogue is that it tends to slow things down. Film is a medium often best enjoyed at high speed"

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“The problem with dialogue is that it tends to slow things down. Film is a medium often best enjoyed at high speed"

If George Miller tried this approach with a romantic comedy he'd make it about 15 minutes long.

Please. It would be all vigorous fucking for 1:45.

pretty sure he's talking about this specific genre here

Yeah. Plus I don't think any of us Max-heads are looking for Eugene O'Neill in a V8 engine after all these years.

saw the newest trailer at the theater yesterday and it went hard in a way watching it on my tv or phone could not approximate

cinema's back!

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-interview/what-george-miller-has-learned-in-forty-five-years-of-making-mad-max-movies

Great interview, got me hot to see the movie more than any trailer ever could.

Didn't make me want to watch Furiosa but did make me want to watch The Road Warrior on mute (he mentions editing it like a silent movie).

Yeah that was a fantastic read! Miller is very thoughtful and self aware not only cinema, but its craft, and is thoroughly honest and humble in how both have changed over the years, with the ultimate goal of audience pleasure in mind. Brilliant.

Few movies I've ever seen exhibit that breathless and intense first rush coupled with the depth that offers satisfaction through repeated viewings than Fury Road. It's like The Downward Spiral that way for me, and I love how he talks about how intentional it all was both in the backstory and lore, but also in the technical challenges of editing and presentation. The baby with the bathwater part when discussing the issues the guitarist character had with the initial screening was a perfect example. Simply adjusting some of the sound editing fixed the issue, whereas other directors less confident in their craft and movie making instincts might have cut the character entirely.

Tickets acquired for tomorrow afternoon. Kids' last day of school was today, so this'll be a grand way to kick off summer.

Urgent and necessary Fury Road rewatch complete. Bring the fuck on for tomorrow.

Also watching it tomorrow night, late showing too!

i have to see my brother's one act play tonight, and feel like I'm going to beeline to the movies right after....

The reviews are almost all really glowing, and the ones I've read that are a bit more middling or apprehensive still make it sound really good, and don't seem to be judging it as its own film but judging it based upon the Fury Road model of pacing and action.

i'm going in coooooooooold.

10:30 baby

And coming out hot

i kept wanting to rewatch all of the Maxes going in like I did with Fury Road but my brain kept saying "nah man, it'll be more exciting to just go in fresh ,then rewatch everything after'. hope I'm right.

i predict I will see this 5+ times in the theatre

my friends couldn't get it together to make plans around seeing this so i just bought myself a ticket for a 9am imax showing on monday... hope i make it lol

9am? I'm surprised that's even an option. Certainly gonna wake you up!

lmao I did that with Fury Road. booked myself like a 10 or 11 am film and it totally made the rest of my day

First show tomorrow near me is 9:30 AM.

almost tempted to hate it so I can yell MEDIOCRE! at the end

lmao

i am seeing it sunday with my boys. broken foot so no trek into town to the imax for me but happy to support the sad old local picturehouse

No spoilers but I thought this was entirely satisfying and by the end it really lands with an impact. Bit slow and expository in the early going, at least by Mad Max standard, but it keeps inexorably shifting gears and builds quite grippingly. Hemsworth and Taylor-Joy both terrific.

Yup, just got out, awesome and a half, see it immediately etc

I am IN THE THEATRE

I enjoyed it a lot, but it suffers from the comparison to Fury Road. It goes bigger in several ways, but everything that's bigger about it makes it lesser. In particular, the action sequences are even more insane in concept, but that requires much more conspicuous CGI in execution, which blunts the impact. By the end, I was envying the fraction of this movie's audience that'll see it without having seen FR first. Because by normal contemporary action movie standards, it's great.

I really liked Chris Hemsworth's performance too. The character seems to be patterned on Lord Humungus from Road Warrior somewhat--a meathead S&M cult leader, trailed by a meek flunky who acts as sort of a spokesman. But Dementus has a playful, childlike quality that Hemsworth seemed to be having a lot of fun with.

Yeah some amazing lines to deliver, and how he delivers them is part of the fun.

It's funny that they had to ugly him up. He's just too dang handsome otherwise.

They give you a real good look at his fake nose right away. I thought it suited him pretty well, actually

;_;

Loved it.

I feel like there's one visual that will stick with me and I think you all know what it is

Not as focussed as fury road, but beyond that, it was more of the same and that same was pretty bloody fantastic. The long action scene so good it kinda makes you wish the whole movie was just that.

I dunno about that one visual! It was a bit too on the nose for my liking!

Oh and after watching The Fall Guy it was SOOOOOO GOOOOD to hear an ocker aussie accent done right. Kinda made me cringe everytime Ana spoke, taking me straight outa that homely Australian blanket that I had been tucked into by the surrounding dialogue

Second viewing in one hour

Thank God for AMC A-List lol

I really really loved this, it really surprised me because I think I like it even better than Fury Road, love the increased set of characters, love how grotesque and nasty it got (I'm gaining confidence that mainstream culture isn't going to soften too much). Praying Miller can make more of these, really astonishing that he's kicking it so hard

The 150-min length made me pause.

Fortunately it’s backloaded with action, the only time I felt any drag was in the first hour. By the end I wanted more.

the first half hour is one of my favorite sequences in the entire franchise.

after two viewings, I'd rank Furiosa as follows:

Fury Road > 2 > Furiosa > 1 > 3

the only real drawback in this movie is that part of the reason so many of the sequences in Fury Road were so exciting, besides the fantastic staging/practical effects, was that you were palpably rooting for Furiosa's escape and the vanquishing of Immortan Joe, so like, the moments that are purely Immortan Joe-Dementus warring don't have the same impact as the battle scenes where you're seeing the formation of Imperator Furiosa as a byproduct of these battles, such as the sequence where the second in command gets offed and she basically takes over due to sheer survival instinct, then tries to hijack the war machine.

likewise, the typical drawback of any prequel, when you know who bites it and who doesn't sheerly based on who was and wasn't in Fury Road, it blunts impact of battle sequences a little bit. that and you're kind of locked in, design wise, so it's probably the first Mad Max film that didn't really have any significant advancement in the costuming design, vehicular design, tribe makeups, etc.

however....I still enjoyed it a ton, esp on second viewing. particularly, as stated upthread, Dementus's dialogue. he's a remarkably brutal warlord, colossally terrible leader - the only difference between him and Immortan Joe is that Joe knows how to weaponize his brutality to gain subservience whereas Dementus can't conceal the loathing he has for his own soldiers, including killing them intentionally in battle to gain a tactical advantage, which causes him to lose his second-in-command. it does kinda seem funny to me that the first War Machine seems significantly more advanced than the one in Fury Road, with the bobbyknocker and the arms that can lift vehicles off of the ground. maybe they didn't have the leftover parts for that.

1 being 4th seems criminally wrong considering how much I love the original Mad Max but that's more a compliment than anything

Kinda made me cringe everytime Ana spoke, taking me straight outa that homely Australian blanket that I had been tucked into by the surrounding dialogue

tbf she had to kinda match the way Charlize spoke

No I totally get it. Good write up too

Keep wondering if nipples guy is going to become a meme

Every Mad Max film is stylistically, tonally and editorially different from the previous. Complaints about this are the product of weak, diseased minds.

did read somewhere that in the younger actress's later scenes they cgi'd her to look more like taylor-jo

she’s 35% cgi at the start (eyes are obv in the green place, toned down during the heist), 80% during the stowaway chapter

(I ddg’d these deets after my first viewing bcz it was so apparent. complaints abt the producer/writer/director of the Babe movies from THREE DECADES AGO using cgi for effect, esp if they’re arguing they were fooled, are equally dismissable.)

you've got multiplex audiences whose minds have been dulled by blockbuster story beats and clean, flat directorial styles and they're not used to this kind of thing. I still remember when Fury Road came out and a co-worker of mine thought it was just a sloppy mess, he kept negatively comparing it to San Andreas lol.

WHAT

what a maroon

I was appalled, I would have fired him except I'm not sure I had the authority anyway and unfortunately that's probably not a firable offense. Seriously though, I'm thinking I might try to watch furiosa again tonight.

it's a bizarre objection - one of its most noticeable aspects is that it's a single movement of a film. it more or less starts moving and doesn't stop, with a sort of bungee cord kineticism - go out, come back. that's it. incredible tightly edited and stage managed within that single dynamic. 'sloppy' holy moley.

I prefer this to Fury Road.

― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 11 July 2024 01:04 (eleven hours ago)

Likewise, it just has a chance to breathe a bit more.

watched it again, thought it was even better the second time around. it really achieves a nice balance of making you well aware that Furiosa is for the moment better off working for Immortan Joe but never for a second making him sympathetic or remotely likable. he and Furiosa never bond or have an uneasy truce, he basically ignores her for the most part and dismisses her, she's only able to achieve her final revenge by stealing a vehicle from his failsons and heading off into the desert. there are certainly film series or tv series which fall into the opposite Harvey Dent Dark Knight trap of "the villain either dies or stays alive long enough to become some kind of hero", but she remains aware of how horrific IJ and his crew are, she's just taking care of her priorities first. the final revenge is indeed epic.

This is on Max now; might check it out this weekend. (Three medium-sized writing projects may disagree.)

i have a feeling my tv is going to wreck the visuals given how old it is

Well... I made it to the end. I know I hated FURY ROAD the first time I saw it, and/but it eventually grew on me, but I really don't see that happening with this one. It was... dull. At this point I'm mostly just glad Miller's never let anyone else direct one of these, so the series will likely end with him.

I didn't like Fury Road but this was a big improvement - it dragged a bit (okay, a fair amount - you could totally cut this under two hours) in the last third but everything up to then was compelling in a way that Fury Road's music video aesthetic was not.

Watched Mad Max and Road Warrior over the last couple of weeks and it's an eternal lol that these movies are in the same universe.

*cough* sorry not to be that guy but George Ogilvie co-directed Thunderdome - bc of Kennedy’s death, Miller abdicated the majority if the movie to Ogilviw bc his heart wasn’t in it

and he bowed out completely until he was persuaded to join the production in progress to shoot the Thunderdome sequence

the idea that this was better than fury road is....something

I think it's 0.87% better than Fury Road, maybe.

I believe there was a low budget movie made after Fury Road set in this world with Miller's blessing but I can't find it

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some promotional art by Tesuo Hara (Fist Of The North Star)

i think it’s charlize theron’s voice dubbed in over anya tj once furiosa and pj escape the bullet farm - or at least they’re treating atj’s voice somehow to sound like theron’s from that point on

the big moments weren’t always the same for me seeing it at home vs the cinema. i noticed furiosa’s badass moments more. the severed hand and the “tying your shoelaces together” moment for dementus, and furiosa speeding away into the horizon on chekhov’s motocross bike. so good

furiosa actually having the temerity to grab immortan’s arm as he’s leaving, to physically stop him, to ORDER him, that if they find dementus “he’s mine”. woooof

rictus and scrotus’s utter haplessness reaching its apogee as she steals their harpoon coupe right out from under them

I didn't find it dull at all.

I liked Fury Road better than this. Fury Road was leaner, meaner and had just as much awesome world building and emotional punch without as much "do you see"/exposition and nigh-Marvel nonsense. Still, a very enjoyable movie.

Chris Hemsworth should get an Oscar for his line reading of "adorable" upon viewing Immortan Joe for the first time. His dunderheaded WWE nihilism/amiability was the best part of the movie for me.

I was disappointed when I saw it that it wasn't my movie of the decade the way Fury Road was. I might be ready to re-watch it on its own terms now.

I like all the callbacks to the 80s films in Furiosa

I watched it in the theatre after it was clear it wasn't going to be a blockbuster, so I savored the running time assuming it was the last time I was going visit that world. Seemed extra potent to be stuck so long in a world ruled by repulsive old men who've monopolized their power.

I really do love this movie, and again genuinely appreciate that Miller did something completely different in terms of pacing and scope compared to Fury Road.