FURIOSA

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.

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!

i could be wrong but i feel like the only part of this film that exists outside of the story at hand and is only there to connect it to a previous film called Fury Road is that brief shot of Max on the hilltop. and even then its so quick, and by that point youre just kind of riding with the flow of images that it doesnt seem forced or gratuitous.

my wife didnt really remember Fury Road and insisted on finding youtube explainers to try and refresh herself on the lore & untangle the chronology until she finally gave up in frustration and realized that it was all nonsense, and i was like "yeah dont sweat it, watch these cars go kaboom real big and it will all make sense." I like the fact that even George Miller is on the record as saying "I'm not really clear on how all the movies connect and dont care."

I do find it funny that the amazing last 20 minutes of Mad Max 2 are no longer merely the climax of the films but actually now comprise the majority of the movie.

they're basically road pirate movies, people on huge rigs endlessly having to repel boarders, and it never gets old to me watching these extended road war sequences. not least the choreography of it all

i rather like people being flung about about atop of elastic sticks it’s part if what feels missing irl

otm

why does that clip of the History Man saying "the darkest of angels" that was also in the trailer sound like a sample from a Burial song

kinda sad Octoboss got dispensed so easily, he had a cool getup w/ the horns and all

with all that drapery he seemed like one of the few people who actually figured out a viable way of dealing with the heat of the wasteland and being out in the sun all day, i bet he was comfy under there.

also love his line reading when the one guy says "i only take orders from the Octoboss" and Octoboss winces and goes "do what he says", just dripping with total disrespect, great delivery by that guy

I think my favorite Hemsworth bit is near the end when the fakeout leading up to the big battle is in place and he falls for it and goes something like "I regard him with contempt!" Somehow both matter of fact and just hilarious in how he sounds.

yeah his brutality and brute strength mixed with his abject stupidity despite being eloquent is delightful.

like being so stupid as to torture a dude hours after he's already died and not noticing the person who was meant to witness the torture escaped a while ago, then wrecking his own vehicle in pursuit because he started driving before he unhitched the thing that was hooked around his tire.

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

I think my favorite genius/dumb moment is when he rolls into Joe's lair with his crew and the Gastown dude in the contraption all rigged up in a 'Don't make me do this!' way which of course has obvious and immediately demonstrable downsides.

he's a very recognizable personality. most of the IRL villains I've encountered have very much been "Dementus types". very early on in Hemsworth's performance I got the charge of "oh I totally know this guy"

i like it because I'm tired of every baddie in action films being criminal masterminds, I mean...this is the wasteland, people seize power through opportunism more than they do ability. and he still manages to achieve a lot through brute force!

so easily

he’s the final boss in the movie’s biggest battle scene! they had to save the bommyknocker for him!

I loved this. The gleeful imagination and visual inventiveness on display throughout was exhilirating. I think I felt 12 years old when those parachutes opened during the central action set piece, and that image of it swirling behind the truck! Great, great movie.

he’s the final boss in the movie’s biggest battle scene! they had to save the bommyknocker for him!

― bae (sic), Friday, May 31, 2024 2:48 PM bookmarkflaglink

yeah but I mean I woulda preferred that he avoided the entire back end of the rig and outright made it into the vehicle, maybe stuck around for another battle or two.

not even really a gripe though, it's my way of saying I liked the dude

xpost Furiosa's entire rapid transformation from mechanic to deadly assassin in that one battle scene is my favorite. it's not unbelievable, it's totally in character because up until that point, she's already adapted every way she's needed to in order to survive - this is only an extension of that.

why do I have the feeling I'm going to see this again this weekend

Wisdom. Seen it twice myself.

Neando's still ahead!

WITNESS HIM (witnessing the movie)

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

― Iacocca Cola (Neanderthal), Thursday, May 23, 2024 10:48 AM (one week ago)

This actually happened when we saw it opening night! Group who sat to our left said it when the credits rolled and I laughed. Thought of you haha

Hahahaha

then wrecking his own vehicle in pursuit because he started driving before he unhitched the thing that was hooked around his tire.

Oh I didn't get this, I thought Furiosa booby-trapped the car before she slipped away!

Actually she might have

I was reaching to find things to make fun of him for.

Definitely plan on seeing this again in theaters. I remember loving Fury Road, and it's gotten some repeat blu ray views, but this one really hit me. Loved it!

i actually want to see it in proper IMAX, of which we only have one in town, but their screen has multiple, visible tears in it, and the seats are beaten to the point where they look like old Rooms to Go hand me downs. I will say the Dolby Atmos showing near me, I could feel the roaring engines vibrating in my chest, it was mega cool.

4DX might also be fun

i have the next week all locked down around seeing this.

- sunday : watch MM3 (watched MM2 a couple of evenings ago)
- tuesday : pick up mk2 from university
- wednesday : me and mk2 watch 'the fury road' via the dvd i recently bought for this very purpose.
- thursday : me and mk2 go and watch 'furiosa'.

the bullet town showdown was probably my favourite part. the sniping, the gunplay, the angles. when she has to rev her bike to drag him up to safety by that hook, i basically yelped.

praetorian jack is like a mirror image of mad max - kind, thoughtful, balanced, sane. the one male figure in her life she can totally trust

That felt like FURIOSA: The Miniseries

praetorian jack is like a mirror image of mad max - kind, thoughtful, balanced, sane. the one male figure in her life she can totally trust

he's a very recognizable personality. most of the IRL villains I've encountered have very much been "Dementus types". very early on in Hemsworth's performance I got the charge of "oh I totally know this guy"

Ha - well I was thinking the insecurity, a dumb guy trying to convince everyone (& himself) that he’s smart, most of the trouble he causes being the result of being out of his depth and not being able to admit it, etc. He’s like a classic bad boss type. In comparison with inscrutable monster men like Lord Humingus and Immortan Joe, its fun to see a villain in this series who’s a fast talking manipulator just trying to avoid failure.

Max didn't seem that Mad in Fury Road?

he's forgotten how to speak, given up on grooming, and has frequent intrusive hallucinations

Sad Max