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Furiosa was fine. In a vacuum, it was actually pretty good, but in being a sequel to Fury Road it can't shake comparisons.

I figure that it looking so visually similar to Fury Road in trailers made a lot of people ask themselves why even bother watching it when they'd already seen Fury Road. The title including "A Mad Max Saga" is clunky and throws up big vibes of this being a tack on story (which it is), which really doesn't create the kind of hype wave needed to reach out to people who are already cynical about going to a theater.

The word of mouth all seems to start with "Well it wasn't as good as Fury Road, but..." which isn't going to put a fire under the seats of undecided people.

I really liked it. Bikes and cars go vroom, guns go bang, flamethrowers go woosh. 10/10. I'm contemplating going again next weekend.

My roommate was bored. Didn't like the writing, didn't like Taylor-Joy's performance. He rated it "not good." I didn't really disagree with any of his specific complaints, I just didn't care about them.

I suspect your mileage really depends on what kind of audience member you are.

Shame, i thought Furiosa was awesome, although there were only about 5 people in the cinema. The critics seem to be giving pretty favourable reviews too, would definitely recommend going and checking it out. Hope this isnt the nail in the coffin of Mad Max.

Watched it over the weekend and was rather underwhelmed. It felt “cheap” compared to Fury Road. The CGI was quite terrible in comparison, especially when they showed some scenes from the last movie during credits. It’s just so obvious they paid less detail to the effects and it seemed like a significant decrease in their use of practical effects. Add to that some of the effects were just plain bad. AND worse of all

Also there was just too much talking. Fury Road was great because the world building was done without extra dialog. Furiosa just felt like any other Hollywood film with nothing special at all.

Well the advertising sucks then, because I didn't even realize this was out.

If it's a good movie more people will go to see it. Opening weekend is a reflection of the hype machine and expectations

Not having mad max in a mad max film probably didn't help the opening weekend.

But a good movie will be good, and people will tell their friends, so let's see what happens next weekend.

The movie is great IMO and deserves better.. but I had to see it in a filthy theater with non-reclining seats on a screen that was so tinted in green that the reds looks like rust.

Why are we supposed to pay for this experience?... I literally would have been better off watching it at home on my crappy projector

Furiosa is 5 years too late. People who cared about her, stopped caring about the character years ago. They give us enough of her backstory in Fury Road. For viewers to know her history. If the viewer stops to connect the dots. So making this movie pointless.

I lost interest with Taylor-Joy playing the character to be honest. I'm sure I'll watch it but not in the theater.

This from a guy with an original Road Warrior theater poster in my garage and a hand-built, contest-winning Imortan Joe costume.

I saw Furiosa in the theater Sunday. About 7 people in the theater. Movie was good, tad slow in the middle, but definitely got me tense a few times. I don't know what it is about movie theaters but they always seem grimey and as I get older I don't tolerate grimey things as much. I'd give the movie 7/10 and the movie theater experience 4/10.

Why do they keep making Garfield movies they keep flopping

That's a shame. Chris Hemsworth is fantastic in this. Felt like he was having time of his life.

Yeah but what about Garfield?

Looks more like it mildly underperformed relative to the overall market being very low, and getting lower.

I plan to go see furiosa soon. Probably my only 2024 movie

Other than the weirdly janky CG, which was both excellent in some parts while ruining my suspension of disbelief in others, I enjoyed it. No, it wasn't as good as Fury Road but, let's face it, that bar is so high it's almost stratospheric.

I meant to go see this over the weekend, but I forgot…

Wait.. theaters still exist? They were expensive before food prices doubled. How much are they charging for a bag of popcorn now? Do they accept bills less than $100?
Is it all self-service now? Are we now expected to push on the movie computer AND clean the theater before we’re allowed to leave? Are you forced to watch ads while you clean up?

Ever since Jiffy Pop hit $50 at the self-service Dollar General, I barely leave home anymore.