FURIOSA

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"

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— 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

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.

I liked Furiosa more than I expected to. I muttered "this rules" to myself many times.

I only watched Fury Road once in its original run, and I'm sort of glad to not have had any real expectations for this one. I thought it would be fun and it was fun.

The end credits rehash was a nice refresher for fake fans like me tbh.

also i mean again, reiterating similar praise from Fury Road - just such a masterclass in editing & camera placement for action and stunts — just so balletic and the way the camera points your eye to where you need to look so that you don’t lose the rhythm of what’s happening

another thing I like about this is the saturday morning cartoon feel of all these colorful villains talking in a cave lair

this was way too long tbh, for all that i liked everything they did

they just needed to do a lot less of it, like an hour less

also

the action felt and sounded distant compared to fury road.

im not even sure seeing it on the big screen made that much of a difference

Uh

https://www.cbr.com/furiosa-nathan-jones-fictional/

That's really sad. I imagine those trolls mostly didn't see the film. Where is that rage being stoked up now? Tiktok, 4chan? A variety of places?

Is this the whole "depicting bad things is endorsing them" thing again?

Was it me or was that a Mad Max cameo with his Pursuit Special near the end? Was it not him who returned Furiosa to the Citadel?

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