FURIOSA

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.

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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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.