Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga - The Weekly Planet Podcast

It's time to go Beyond Thunderdome but also before Fury Road with the latest in film in the Mad Max story, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga. But before that we talk more news on the MCU X-Men reboot, a Vision series moves forward, more Disney lay offs through Pixar, Deadpool & Wolverine ticket sales, Liam Hemsworth's as The Witcher, Adam Wingard leaves the Godzilla/Kong franchise the first Look at Dwayne Johnson in The Smashing Machine, trailers for Beverley Hills Cop: Axel F and Beetlejuice Beetlejuice and why Kraven The Hunter moved to December?
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00:00 The Start
03:21 X-Men Movie Gets Writer
07:15 Vision MCU Disney Plus Series
09:55 Pixar Lay-Offs
11:56 Deadpool & Wolverine Promos
15:05 Liam Hemsworth's The Witcher Reveal
17:18 Adam Wingard Leaves Godzilla x Kong Franchise
19:39 Wake Up Dead Man: New Knives Out Story
24:46 First Look at Dwayne Johnson in The Smashing Machine
27:16 Beverley Hills Cop: Axel F Trailer
33:18 Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Trailer
36:30 Why Kraven The Hunter Moved to December?
41:57 Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga Review (spoiler warning 01:07:00 to 01:24:28)
01:24:28 What We Reading, What We Gonna Read
01:28:55 Letters, It's Time For Letters
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[@TheCortez47]

I'm really worried about Jame's hydration he's cracking open a drink at the beginning of the episode. If only there was another way he could've told me he was hydrated.

[@alexjames2264]

A big piss

[@preston9189]

That would be nice but I can't really thing of a... Hold on, I gotta piss so bad.

[@SmoothMoose13]

He better go for a big piss

[@NintendoConsoleGamer]

Respectfully (and i dont know if anyone reads these), Furiosa cutting off her map arm is a significant moment for her character because she is forced to choose survival in that moment over her dream of returning home.

[@lordly123]

Bit late on commenting, but I genuinely didn’t realise that until I read your comment. Thanks for giving me a greater appreciation of an already amazing movie!

[@EzaleaGraves]

As soon as Rectus paid specific attention to the map tattoo I knew that at some point she'd have to give up her dream for safety by cutting off her arm. I figured it was going to be earlier in the movie though

[@claytonkipling9822]

I think why comedic actors turned dramatic is more convincing than the reverse is because as a comedian, you already have to have an inmate sense of timing. There's a whole method to it that comes so naturally whereas actors have to train more for that. Many comedians call it "the blue harvest"

[@daddyyu-gi-oh4330]

“Mama Mia” “That is good Japanese” Your banter and wit is on point lads, never fail to get a laugh out of you both

[@stedyedy23]

Yeh yeh yeh yeh

[@thegoofystoic]

So quick hahaa

[@daddyyu-gi-oh4330]

@@thegoofystoic honestly I think that’s what made me laugh so hard was how quick the response was

[@hudsonclarkk]

1:29:20 starts his american accent with "Oou G'DAY MAte" 😭

[@KungFuWombat]

I was deeply concerned about how hydrated James was until I heard him crack open that cold beverage

[@toomuchtv6741]

I like that Dementus and Max have the exact same origin story. It's what they choose to do for other people that defines them

[@li-limandragon9287]

Even their monikers are the same “mad”, “demented”. Though it makes me wish Max had got to meet him.

[@toomuchtv6741]

@@li-limandragon9287 there's still a chance if we get any more of these movies

[@EzaleaGraves]

I honestly thought they were going to pull some kind of Dementus is Max twist at the end. Like we see him broken down, left in the desert, and then he gets into that car from the start of Fury Road

[@AlzheimersCaretaker]

OHH he did it again! he opened up a beverage again! how long can he keep this up?! Maso was right, people are going to worry about James being too dehydrated. I'm concerned for his health.

[@JustWandering]

1:29:40 I cannot describe the unexpected damage that I took from hearing James speak in an American accent.

[@aspacelex]

Yeah, it's not as good as his New York accent.

[@XDviper45]

I enjoyed Furiosa more than I thought I would. The expanded world building was great. I liked that they took their time to build up characters and their motivations. Some of the CGI was wonky, but not as bad as I was expecting. Definitely worth seeing in the theater.

[@bradybunch8458]

You guys have to start filming these pleaseeeee

[@oceaninks]

I agree with this person. We want to see your faaaaaaaaaaces dammit

[@Itabouttodo]

Robert Redford’s Sundance Festival is named after his character from “The Sting” is the type of S-tier heady comedy that keeps me coming back.

[@SmoothMoose13]

I always think that the boys don’t sound too Australian but then James tried to speak in an American accent and started it with “G’DAY MATE”

[@Elnis888]

Well ... for someone who claims he's not a comedian, James sure does make me laugh on a very regular basis!

[@JesseMaurais]

Those complaining that Rian Johnson ruined Star Wars are giving too much credit to the force awakens and all the prequels, where "Just Okay" was their high water mark.

[@SuzakuX]

I mean Return of the Jedi and even A New Hope don't stand up super well to me on rewatch now. There's good bits in all of the movies, they pioneered VFX, and were very influential on pop culture, but there's so much better stuff out there to consume. I'd say taken as a whole maybe 10% of the Star Wars franchise is legitimately good, and that's including pre-Disney expanded universe which was just as hit or miss. There just wasn't much quality control, the comic books were cheap and poorly drawn, most of the games are trash...

[@JesseMaurais]

@@SuzakuX I agree with that. Hope was the right movie for its time but is not timeless. Empire on the other hand is a legitimately good movie. Return's B plot is not good but the Luke story arc concludes in a satisfying way. They are certainly better together than apart with Empire being the tent pole holding the entire thing up. Nothing since then has surpassed even the worst of the trilogy though.

[@Takuat]

In regards to Praetorian Jack just being a normal dude, Miller explained that Jacks parents were soldiers that served under Joe when he was a colonel. Probably why he gotta skip the whole Warboy stuff and it was probably his parents who used to drive the convoy

[@li-limandragon9287]

Still his entire character was just discount Max, I think the whole movie should’ve been just her and Dementus. Like a more violent Treasure Island.

[@Goldmanvision]

R E S I D U A L C O C A I N E

[@HorseJoint]

It’s 5:46am right now, you Aussie bastards. Appreciate the upload though

[@HORRORMOVIEREVIEW100]

2:55am over here😂

[@twintalk2943]

3:23 am yoooouuuuuuuuu Aussie sonsofmitches

[@xavmanisdabestest]

lunch time here right when my break starts. the boys looking out for the brits

[@chrissadler6459]

It can't be 545am then as it's 535am now 🤷‍♂️ you crazy person

[@William-Morey-Baker]

... and you are waking up to a perfect video to watch with coffee?

[@li-limandragon9287]

We’ve gone from the same actor appearing twice as different characters to completely different actors playing the same people in these movies.

[@KillaD69]

Well that's what happens when a franchise spans for nearly 50 years. People are going to get recast

[@li-limandragon9287]

@@KillaD69But Fury Road was only a few years ago. Is Charlize that expensive they couldn’t shot even a couple of scenes with her?

[@KillaD69]

@@li-limandragon9287 Charlize Theron is almost 60 years old now. Can't realistically see her playing a 20 year old Furiosa

[@jazzycat8917]

​@@li-limandragon9287unironically, yes.

[@tofubutcher7456]

Tom Hardy is a different person to Mel Gibson

[@Stand_By_For_Mind_Control]

The Elsa Patacki thing I'm glad you honed in on it but they do that with so many minor characters throughout Furiosa where there's just an implied backstory and you see them in further points of development later. Toejam, The 'Octoboss', and that little lackey guy Dementus bosses around all have a lot of subtle storytelling around them.

[@rflxPoint]

tbh, the only ad I saw for Furiosa was at the Elizabeth Street tram stops, and I I've been all about the end of the city, and around Knox and Fgate SC. Melbourne central had Extra gum ads on the clock tower (Dune Pt 2 and Little Mermaid remake had massive posters and ads running on the screen) and there wasnt any unique flags at the imax when I went to see it. Feels like WB wanted it to fail commercially

[@nathanlemire8944]

Scavengers Reign is the best modern animation I've seen! It's wonderful and weird.

[@JacobRavenglass]

25:30 Obi-Wan episode 1 synopsis. "Go die in a square!! 😡" Lol.

[@rinfinity930]

SPOILERS!! Hey James and Maso, I really enjoyed Furiosa, surprised you didn't talk about the peach seed that came up regularly in the movie. That was so thematic and poignant. Movie starts with young-young furiosa taking the peach from a tree in The Green place that felt so biblical like taking the fruit from the tree of knowledge and knowledge of this fruit could lead the Savages back to this green place which is why they must be stopped. She keeps that seed with her as one memory that she has of her home other being the map on her hand. She had to cut off her arm to escape as it was the one that had got damaged and Dementus hung her up on that arm. The map that was her connection to getting back home was gone and only thing left was the peach seed which she used to plants on Dementus. The seed was given to her by mother with the promise to keep the green place alive. I loved how vague the ending is. she might have just killed him and used his remains as means to try and grow another green place(maybe?) before she realizes that it isn't and she must escape with the bride. Atleast it's hopeful. Keeping him alive and using her last memory of her mother to seek vengence against the guy that killed her to exact life long torture shows that she got consumed by her revenge and becoming just like Dementus predicted.

[@MrHendrix17]

Dementus viewed Furiosa as his child and children are sometimes referred to as the fruit of ones loins. Dementus was only really capable of destruction and he'd change his personality or betray his closest allies or give away his heir if he saw an opportunity to further his goals so he believed that when Furiosa hunted him down she shared his malice and ruthlessness and his idea that hope is worthless but in the end Dementus ends up giving her the seed of hope that inspired her to free the wives, the end very literally showed the fruit of his loins being hope.

[@Heyzeus101]

Now I think we need Caravan of Garbage episodes of ALL the Bad Boys films. DO IT!

[@SchulzEricT]

Gerald of The Riviera, Mr Alabaster Alligator.

[@Dorian_sapiens]

Former daytime talk show host Geraldo of Riviera.

[@tincano-beans2114]

Can we get some complimentary waters in the recording room? Everyone sounds dehydrated.

[@valdvald5896]

Just as a touch of counter to what you folk were discussing at 1 hour 15, I like the lore in this, but I also love the adherence to show don't tell. Too often these days we, emblematic of them awful shorts that explains on screen what you're seeing, Rae not lore dumped; I really appreciated that.

[@andywoo0]

Thank you for the early upload! Always looking forward to listening during the morning at work

[@freshparkfilms]

1:28:31 James I think you watched the same two movies as I did suspiciously right when they had good quality rips on the great seas lol 😅😂 I enjoyed both also 😊

[@amodelcitizen]

I never saw Fury Road, and watching this as a stand alone movie was very good. Based on what you're saying it might be the best way to see it

[@kyleashley9294]

Please watch Scavenger's Reign. It is one of the most imaginative pieces of sci-fi I've ever seen

[@evanevans5428]

There were times, especially with the biker horde scenes, I felt like I was watching a movie that MST3K would be riffing on in 15 years.

[@eph6640]

1:04:45 I mean, it kinda is… a prequel that investigates the politics of a world and lore established in a precious movie…. It’s just done really well

[@vchris5378]

I think it's fun to imagine that the rest of the world is still fine, and only Australia is like this, and nobody wants to tell them

[@JakeFromYoutube]

25:04 it's actually a picture of Jwayne Dohnson😂

[@woody_you_want]

Not as good as fury road, but still extremely good. Also, I'm pretty sure dementus thinks the citadel is the green place

[@Scrambles_Deathdealer]

Mason leads a privileged life, doesn't he? He's best friends with Daniel Craig and his dad is Bob Iger.

[@jaysmith7062]

X-men was originally “The X-men” and it looks like the first time it was “Uncanny X-men” was issue 114 From October 1978 (coincidentally the month I was born).

[@rouenrobinson]

I agree with the Hot Tub Time Machine comparison.

[@drew_harrison]

1:28:23 if you liked immaculate you’d probably like the first omen, like the one that also came out this year around the same time and is also about nuns on the run

[@flywheelshyster6549]

Coffee and coke zero time, breakfast of champions

[@AcornElectron]

Woooo! Bank Holiday Monday Planet.

[@DianaStevens42]

I know the race car, but I don’t know the crazy frog.

[@DeanRavell]

"Paul Newman had the decency to die" is CRAAAAAZY! 😅

[@Hollicrombie244]

Beetlejuice caravan?

[@Archimedeeez]

14:44 😂bindle!? I never knew what they were called.

[@ghostmojo7264]

Mad Max game also dropped right near MGSV, which was steep competition and ironically means Kojima indirectly went up against it

[@talljoke]

The movie will come out in 3 years and be called X-Men '27.

[@Jamesotronart]

No, the cliffhanger!

[@licechrispies]

The best part of waking up is residual cocaine in your cup

[@dylandamn1]

2 newbs, 2 beetle newbz!!

[@Football__Junkie]

X Men Year One starring Michael Cera and Jack Black

[@armandperez711]

i hope the rock can actually give us a good performance with the smashing machine

[@alexandersen1072]

Cinema is just not the same anymore. I dont think the box office should be a repesentation on how good the movie actually is. I haven't been to a theatre in years as oppose to early 2000s when i was seeing like 10 movies a year in theatres. They just arent the weekend outing like they use to be

[@freshparkfilms]

1:22:06 Furibosa

[@HumanPhonebook]

Spoiler: I think the point of her losing her arm is to explain why she took another 10-20 years to get back to the green place in Fury Road. Also possible someone found the arm map and that's why it's ruined in Fury Road,

[@humzakhalid7902]

25:14 this reminded me for some reason theres this ufc fighter named Mark Hunt:p and the poor man is from new zealand...its safe to assume the hell he went through in school was the reason he became a ufc fighter...

[@humzakhalid7902]

parents should know better than to put their child through that MASON

[@ZombEKing18]

I think you guys meant water world. The other Kevin Coster movie Post apocalyptic world...

[@bentucker2301]

It was a joke...

[@J.O.R.D]

26:05 when was the last time he did some acting… we all knew 😭😭 it makes it better that Maso couldn’t even name his last movie 😂 and tbh, neither can I

[@skilledwarman]

Spoilers for Furiosa So I really liked Jack. Not just as a character, but also I think it kinda plays into the idea of "we're hearing these stories retold as oral tradition and these are the folk heroes of the wastes,". I could see it being that as time goes on and the stories are retold his role just gets attributed to Max eventually. Kinda like in real life how it's suspected that stories of multiple different outlaws and folk heroes have been rolled into the legend of Robinhood over time.

[@paullucas9465]

This podcast is better than Madame Web

[@kingfield99]

sometimes...

[@billfrantz1638]

By the way, play Fortnite this week season. Imagine the Mad Max Xbox game, vehicle battle to the last man standing. It’s almost to fun. I make myself stop and play Zelda until my heart rate slows down.

[@davidblank420]

Jeffrey Combs was fantastic in The 4400. Anybody seen that dope ass show?

[@Archimedeeez]

4:47 blade grew up on soul train

[@jafarrizvi16]

Firstiosa

[@grkpektis]

@52:16

[@seanhurley9216]

Dude I am so old that I still have the DVD documentary "The smashing machine" that I bought in a sunset video store that was one of the only place that I could get overseas mma videos like pride fc

[@shufffle_]

James you really need to start taking your hydration seriously, your fans are concerned for you. I think we were all hoping you would tell us in some way that you were hydrated

[@BeldansFire]

9:53 Mason was right.

[@mcpaully136]

U bet ur aussie Asses I wanna here u guys talk about Bad Boys Ride or Die. 1st one is 90s cheese 2nd is frenetic and self indulgent 3rd is surprisingly great and coherent. Best of the franchise fs

[@mikeheil713]

Wake up to this.... nice

[@ariels3372]

cool you guys get it it never relly was about max its camp fire storys after the bomb in his world i loved this movie its the thunderdomb water world one but mann so good to see goos action and i think this movie is ideas he has had over last 30 years put togther also by 3 one thay never call him max if i rember also i herd miller talk in like 95 and whats werid is he kept talking aboy cyber human parts and it was rugder howerd vs mel at the timebut her arm is still from that movie

[@kingcanadahi11]

Mr. Sunday Movies doesn't sound too good. I'd be nice if he told us that he needed to a take pee just as the podcast starts; just to let us know that he is properly hydrated 🤔👍

[@thelightwielder]

Nice try, but we all know the Mad Max movies are documentaries about the day-to-day life in Australia

[@justingeer2543]

#Caffiend 4 Life

[@Archimedeeez]

21:39 😂

[@iplaylol25]

Holy fuck a greensborough plaza reference

[@theamazingbatboy]

I dunno-as a kiwi who used to regularly catch the train through Sydney's Western Suburbs I can tell you plenty of the folks boarding in Penrith and Blacktown spoke in what could very charitably be called a 'broad' accent. You might have some milieu-bias hanging out with a lot of inner city & media types.

[@josskirk]

There's some pretty ocka accents even in Melbourne so not sure where he was coming from with that

[@freshparkfilms]

do I really have to see this in the theater[Dolby or IMAX] or can I just wait to see it at home, honestly...🤔

[@dlvnmedia]

Theater for sure

[@BearFOXThirty]

Comment for the algorithm!

[@teddybearington3]

❤❤❤

[@ciaranmurren]

Her name was always Furiosa? As a child in the green place?

[@SuzakuX]

IIRC the etymology actually means "little thief," same root as ferret. But her tribe was the Vulvalini and they knew her as Furiosa when she reunited with them, so yeah.

[@Archimedeeez]

11:38 😂

[@MicoDossun]

I think it’s kinda weird that they decided that Joe saw Furiosa and offered her a new life that he chose. Sure he wanted to turn her into a war wife but it kinds makes her quest for revenge in Fury Road seem weaker

[@li-limandragon9287]

I thought it was just insane she thought going with Immortan clearly serial rapist Joe was better than staying with the guy who genuinely viewed her as his daughter. Yeah I know Dementus killed her mom but that at least was aggravated.

[@dlvnmedia]

I will say I am still goth from the 80s until now

[@jaustill237]

Congratulations! It's back.

[@patgriffith9176]

In 1989 no one thought Mr. Mon Michael Keaton would be a good Batman, and we were all wrong.

[@Elfenlied8675309]

Mark Hamill has talked about that actually, because he mentioned that people were saying the exact same thing when he got cast as the animated series Joker in 1990. People thought that "Luke Skywalker" was terrible casting for a Batman show.

[@DianaStevens42]

How does she do it

[@elliotyourarobot]

Its like how comic writers ruined the mystique of Darth Vader in the comics after revrnge if the sith but before a new hope.

[@wontorres]

If James really loved cocaine there wouldn't be any residual

[@lrrroftheplanetomicronpersei8]

We need Beetlejuice Caravan of Garbage

[@kingfield99]

The fact that the character is called Betelgeuse but the film is called Beetlejuice blows my mind.

[@notmephisto1375]

Damn! I neee to piss so bad!

[@maxweller3214]

these larrikans should watch new Beetlejuice first and then the old one second. That way we can see if the new movie can stand on it's own merits. Plus no other channel would attempt such a heinous idea

[@RRRRRRP]

Strong "disagree" about those unnamed movies being better than this mildly successful podcast

[@yapdat7036]

Canned Coke

[@majormetcalf1225]

I really liked the movie but it felt too clean. Chris absolutely stole the movie for me I wish we saw him lose control of things more.

[@MrShadowswrath]

i feel like with x-men at this point we kind of need to free some of the characters from the x-men, none of them are like superman, batman, spider-man level of mainstream, but you could totally make a film/series about any of the cast of x-men '97 that would be more well known than something like the guardians, and you could just not mention the x-men at all. then after a few of them have mainstream established film or television franchises you could bring them all together to make one of the big x-men storylines hit as hard as infinity war/endgame.

[@li-limandragon9287]

The likes of Storm, Rogue or Gambit can totally carry their own movies, they’re gonna make Rogue black tho because god forbid Storm be allowed to be unique and not overshadowed.

[@marvelfantasy472]

X-Men aren't the Avengers or Justice League. They are a team first whilst Avengers and Justice League are more like all stars who need their own films but most X-Men cannot support their own films.

[@MrShadowswrath]

@@marvelfantasy472 I definitely get your point, but I also think that it's not entirely true. take gambit for example: you could definitely have a movie about his past with the thieves guild/sinister before even mentioning the x-men. you don't have to start out with xavier and then treat gambit's early life as a "backstory"

[@IonizedSmurf]

It's Furiosa, not Furiosa

[@johnnyrocketed2225]

Think the reason she loses arm in an accident instead of getting chopped off while tortured is because Hollywood won’t write a female protagonist that’s submissive to another character, especially a male character. Therein lies part of the recent problems. 🤔

[@KnialPiper]

First