FURIOSA

Look let's just have a new thread. Because there's a new trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVswuip0-co

Rarely is "more of the same" a good thing, but this may end up the exception.

shut up and take my money

xp I'm def down for more of the same here.

is there some 'man who sold the world' going on in that soundtrack?

For sure.

so excited

Will Max even make an appearance?

if they're going to do the Kenobi "oh hey I really did meet you years ago and forgot" angle

can’t wait for this

hoping Hemsworth doesn’t prove to be a distraction

looks like more cgi than the last one :-/

Bring it

i can't believe how soon this is!!!

??? Fury Road is almost a decade old

as in it’s coming up soon, i think is whar tracer means

Is this in 3D? I saw Fury Road in 2D and some of the 3D stuff looked kinda goofy

for Fury Road they tried to make their own 3D cameras and it basically didn't work so at the last second they were like pfffft, let's just do it in post. I saw it in 3D when it came out and tbh I thought it was amazing that way

let us pray

Definitely is the "Man Who Sold The World" riff.

Wanting to watch this now, but if it's like the first trailer I'll see it a half-dozen times in theaters in the next six weeks...

https://variety.com/2024/film/news/furiosa-first-reactions-mad-max-fury-road-action-classic-1235993908/

all systems nominal

i want to believe

Speaking to Total Film magazine last month, Miller’s longtime producing partner Doug Mitchell let it slip that “Furiosa” contains “one 15-minute sequence which took us 78 days to shoot” and required 200 stunt people on set daily.

“George and I would have these big conversations about why this particular set-piece was so long,” Taylor-Joy told the publication. “It’s because you see an accumulation of skills over the course of a battle, and that’s very important for understanding how resourceful Furiosa is, but also her grit. It’s the longest sequence any of us have ever shot.”

hnnnnnggggghhhhhhhhh

Oh, I’m 100% going to see this

booked imax for opening night; basically the only film series i will do that for. hyped!

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"

(via @Telegraph) pic.twitter.com/rnsPtOM6u6

— Culture Crave 🍿 (@CultureCrave) May 11, 2024

“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

It was him, yeah -- credits confirmed it -- but I guess the implication was he just sat up there and went "Huh, that's odd," and then went on his way. (Allegedly the other screenplay/story Miller has ready for this whole miniMax cycle is called The Wasteland and is about exactly what Max was doing there in the runup to Fury Road, but we'll see if that ever happens now.)

yeah, both me and mk2 blurted out loud : 'hang on, that's mad max .. '
loved the sneaky cameo ..

i literally yelled “MAX” in my theatre screening lol

i am a five year old

I definitely saw that part as it was Max who saved her

I don't think Max is handing her over to the human parts scavenger cave people!

I agree that it was probably just a little cameo to show he's out there in the wasteland prior to Fury Road

I took it more as she would have just died out there if not for some mysterious intervention

honestly, I think the History Men are doing a fair bit of unreliable narration in this part of the franchise

print the legend (on your own skin)

Mad Max saving a one-armed Furiosa and having no recollection of her years later, even for a drifter like him, would be some real Kenobi tv series shit.

i took it as an easter egg, hey, there's our Max. don't think we're meant to know who saved her. she was far enough away from her pursuers that anybody that came along could have taken her back.

Fair enough - just odd editing encouraging some ambiguous conclusions to be drawn! Either way, I was geeked at the cameo

i only take my orders from octobeard

Challenging my authority

I feel like Max seems less mad as this series goes on and we keep meeting crazier characters

Crazy parking situation at the theater, preceded by stressful planning/confusion as to whether or not we would be able to use the tickets we’d bought. Mall is mobbed and out of hand. Get in there: get to the bathroom, get to seats. Both of us start to mellow out and anticipate previews- and then are told that the movie is cancelled because AC isn’t working in this theater. Which must have been the case in other theaters, because the guest services line was such a nightmare that we left without a refund.

Between that and the fact that local theaters are cutting back on this movie, a library rental is probably how I’ll ultimately see it.

Who cares about watching a dystopian movie, you're living it

lol true

Furious: A Cinema Max Saga

Heh Ned

I sometimes wonder what the theater going experience is like now for people who go 4-8 times per month — cancellations, audiences, etc etc

(But that’s another thread, of course)

are you wondering about people who go that few times?

lol the movie was like $18 a ticket and i took my 18 and 20 yr old kids and they bought poison treats. so if they pulled Raymond's situation without a refund i would have been uh pretty agitatious. Agitatious Hunt3r is my madmax avatar name.

otoh furiosa was in like 3 or 4 screens of the multiplex and our seats were like, (p)leather recliners? which is fucked up and that's not what i want anyway and the entire main room (80-100 seats? dunno) was empty but for us, i think there were people in the upstairs luxury suite or something they had and... wtf. i tried hard, focused on enjoying the movie and i did, though i'll think hard about doing that again.

ha can you tell i'm not cinema guy

“ Agitatious Hunt3r” is a nickname that should come with a land trident or something

Raymond and anyone else interested: I can't emphasize enough the lack of stress at a screening before noon or on weekday afternoons. If your job and family permit it, do it! I watch at least four movies a month and have never dealt with lines or kids.

we always do mornings on weekends in our downtown cineplex, problem-free to date (touch wood)

and you can have lunch afterwards!

i resented it at first (not exactly a morning person) but now i like it

I go to about 20 movies a month and the only significant problem I’ve had this year was the only time I went outside of my regular clutch of 9 cinemas, to see Furiosa at the proper IMAX. It was the first time I’ve ever pre-bought tickets for a non-festival screening, and had to queue outdoors for half an hour while they sold walk-up tickets to the Science Center that contains the screen, and then exchange the tickets for another day, because the gate for separate entry was unstaffed.

Are you all having the experience of big multiplexes with like 2-3 people working the whole place? At least at the Regal theaters I go to, they’re like ghost towns. (AMC was even worse, but they’ve closed all the AMCs around us.)

yeah. we’re down by a bunch of theaters because the handful of large theaters around town were owned by Carmike, who got bought by AMC, who then later shuttered almost all of them. staffing was abysmal before they did

yeah the local Regal started only opening the bar in the lobby on weekends and Thursdays, usually only two lines open.

AMC I've only ever seen 2-3 people working concessions at the one near my house, but the one at Disney Springs is fairly busy for obv reasons. there's another even lower-traffic AMC whose managers are trying to cut costs so much that they ignore the pre-orders that they advertise through the app, have one guy take the order and make the food, and wait for people to show up asking where the fuck their food is. went there twice, same thing both times - angry line of pre-ordered food people, two people in the actual line. and the line of new customers getting helped first.

Hemsworth pronounces big words as if he just learned them. It works!

― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, May 31, 2024 1:53 PM bookmarkflaglink

and the character even has a guy on staff whose job is to help him out with the big words!

saw this today and really liked it. I wasn't really enthused going in, kinda BECAUSE i love Fury Road so much. i think i was like, "best case, this is a not-as-good Fury Road and i don't really need that to exist." but i was pleasantly surprised to find it was its own thing --- MUCH plottier, surely about fifty times as much dialogue and shuttling between distinct locales rather than primarily focused on The Road itself. it's more of an "adventure" movie, though only in comparison with Fury Road could i be tempted to say it's not an "action" movie.

that is ---- Fury Road is this distilled, minimalist-story, maximalist-execution thing, taking its emotional payoffs to an elemental level. this didn't have anything that knocked my socks off like the conclusion of Nux's arc or the agony of Furiosa halfway through Fury Road, but it's a phenomenal yarn with a compelling lead performance and another incredible showcase of wacky characters, design details, and complications that could ensue in a car chase. the long run time flew by.

I have been thinking about this in terms of Furiosa omens that she is going to wreak havoc in the last act. teddy bears, scarfs, arms left dangling

i really loved this, though it's so drastically different from Fury Road that i can understand why some people might be put off. it's not a relentless action film (though in comparison to other films not named Fury Road it's vv heavy on the action), it's a survival and revenge saga, almost veering into that subgenre of "outback horror", so it's best to approach it like that. as befitting that type of film, it's a lot bleaker, and much gorier. the horrors are truly horrifying, vs Fury Road, which only hinted at horrors and that film was a thrilling escape from them, with the action being underscored by that tension of not just the pursuing vehicles, but what they represented and what would be lost if they were captured. what Furiosa goes through fully makes you understand that character in Fury Road even more.

Hemsworth is great and fully despicable, but this really belongs to Anya Taylor-Joy, who is incredible. And she sounds so much like Theron during her few lines of dialogue, it's a bit uncanny. They both absolutely own the part, and in another, more fair world they'd both walk away with Oscars for it.

i did read somewhere that in the younger actress's later scenes they cgi'd her to look more like taylor-joy, so that the transition between actresses would be smoother. i wonder if they did something similary with taylor-joy's dialogue near the end. it is pretty uncanny.

i thought the kid playing furiosa was also absolutely brilliant tbf

the episodic approach here worked,.in total contrast to fury road which never pauses at all

Yeah that kid was incredible

I've read reviews bemoaning the supposed pretentiousness of the chapter titles, and I mean gtfo with that, I loved it.

Apparently the Blu-Ray street date is August 13, which is probably when it'll be available for rent on Amazon for less than $25 (what they're currently charging). I'll check it out then.

"Whenever I hear [the word] 'pretentious'... I remove the safety from my Browning!"

Chapter titles are great

I prefer this to Fury Road.

Everything about this movie was so fun and imaginative. Genuinely depressing to me that people come out of this Leone-esque near-masterpiece griping about cgi and chapter titles.

I think I’ll always prefer Fury Road because it’s emotional pay offs are so unexpected and seem to emerge so effortlessly from the set up but this is a very rich film.

I do prefer Fury Road, but this film is great and it will likely grow in stature. The headlines primarily being about its box office performance are disheartening of course, but thank christ Miller was able to get the chance to make this.

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.