Furiosa Failed. Here's Why

The latest film in the Mad Max series just suffered a fate worse than development heck (thanks, YT). In this video, we break down the many reasons why Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga is failing to connect with audiences.
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[@JohnWill86]

Whether it’s good or not no longer matters when the entertainment industry has spent years burning bridges and people no longer care about it

[@Noname15514]

What's funny is how nobody wants to admit the obvious, female lead action movies don't sell as well as the men. Of course, people forgot that Charlize Theron starred in her own action movie after Fury Road which was called Atomic Blonde and that movie FLOPPED.

[@deusexmachina9776]

@@Noname15514 Fury Road flopped as well. the odds of a femlae movie flopping are higher because there are less female lead films. but just as much if not more male led actions films floop - go to the bargin bin

[@theprovocateur9877]

You’re absolutely correct

[@southernloverecords1341]

I agree. On top of that, if we can have a movie night at someone’s home in a couple weeks with friends, food and drinks WHY THE FCK would I shell out a small fortune to check it out at a theater where I’ll roll the dice of being in a theater with jerks that talk through the whole thing. Streaming has kinda had the industry shoot themselves in the foot for box office income. For example when I was a kid if I really wanted to see The Abyss, we gotta convince our parents to take us to the movie because if we miss it, it’s gonna be at least a year before it’s at Blockbuster and at least two years before it’s on HBO so you have to get off your ass if you wanna see this thing. Especially if everyone’s talking about it. Nowadays, if all I gotta do is wait a few weeks and it comes to my ass: Why bother going to the theater? Seriously.

[@cmiles97x38]

@@Noname15514 Only in recent years. Alien, Aliens and Terminator 2 plus the whole hunger games did well but weren't the preachy crap Hollywood is shoving out now.

[@rvail136]

Mad Max without Mel Gibson isn't Mad Max. There are only 3 Mad Max movies.

[@alexkogan9755]

8 years too late and surrounded by a bunch of awful girl boss sludge that oversaturated the market. By now everyone wanted another Max entry starring Mel.

[@megaherd619]

It will never happen. Mel Gibson doesn't want to do it, he's already stated he's done with the character. Plus, at his age, trudging him out as Mad Max would be an embarrassment, just like the last Indiana Jones was

[@Trazynn]

He'd make a great Mad Max villain

[@markadler8968]

@@megaherd619 I don't think so. The recent Indiana Jones movie failed because of the insufferable femboss lead and not because of Harrison Ford. I guarantee if Indiana Jones had a funny male sidekick or even a women character that was even remotely likeable it would have done far better at the box office.

[@megaherd619]

@@markadler8968 It failed for for a few reasons but a main one is no one wants to see an action movie starring an 80 year old who should be in a retirement home. Having Mel Gibson coming back as Max would nothing more than a crass money grab counting on an audience looking for only memberberries. But the point is moot, another Mel Gibson Mad Max movie isn't going to happen. Gibson doesn't want anything more to do with the character. That ship has sailed

[@thomasfisher8793]

The Passion of the Max?

[@Gearparadummies]

Nobody asked for the backstory of Furiosa. Plain and simple. Marketing it as a "ecofeminist and anti-capitalist" tale didn't help, either. Also, it's not "Mad Max".

[@GOLDTR1GGER]

And nobody asked for your opinion, but here you are. especially when you didn't go and watch the movie

[@randomd286]

@@GOLDTR1GGER Having a comment section implies a desire for comments. When a video is titled "Here's why, furiosa failed" it is inherently inviting a conversation of why people thought it failed. It astounds me how one group of people wonders why movies didn't make as much money. A bunch of people helpfully tell you why they didn't go. Followed by the an angry response because it isn't the reason they wanted. This cycle then repeats over and over again. When one side doesn't want to listen to the other and constantly seeks to devalue anything they say (right or wrong) of course they are going to check out and not want to participate anymore. Insulting or berating them is never going to bring them back. If you don't care then they shouldn't spend as much on the movie so it can still be profitable with their preferred audience.

[@Nuthor]

If many people had seen the film. If it was successful then our opinions wouldn't matter. Now that we speak with our wallets they do matter.

[@moosejawt]

Well said

[@Evil_Spotify_Metal_and_Rock]

Backstories and prequels just feel like sitting through a school lecture. They are so long and drawn out. 2.5 hours for a side character's story is just painful. It's supposed to be a movie, not a mini series. I miss the days of 1.5 hour long movies about an original character

[@claudegarmon2958]

Girl Boss Fatigue

[@MrPiestro]

She’s not a girl boss in this. The problem is there has been too many girl boss movies and when movies like this come out, people like you who haven’t seen it make these comments which are flat wrong and people believe it.

[@neauvaltsultanadhityasukma9904]

​@@MrPiestroand this movie will failed and the Hollywood Will think that we don't want a movie like this and continue making another girl boss movie

[@matyasregenyi4214]

@@neauvaltsultanadhityasukma9904 Yup, that is my fear exactly.

[@dextermcgrubbin]

@@MrPiestro She is a girl boss b/c she's good at everything (actually the best) and we see virtually zero evidence of how she develops and struggles to master those skills. She's just that good- naturally! LOL

[@thrashjf83]

This is the stupid idea of mantling. The idea is that "The mantle is what viewers care about." No, we don't like or accept someone else having batmans mantle, we accept someone being cast as a new batman, new James Bond, etc, as long as they fit the character. The last 2 and a half doctor who doctors have not fit the character so those have failed. A female James Bond will fail. Mantles do not work.

[@aureateseigneur5317]

People have accepted Batmans Mantle being held by lots of other people over the course of 40 years. You speak for yourself and pretend it's everyone else's opinion when it's not.

[@TonyHopper-cm8dx]

A Mad Max movie with no Mad Max. Of course it would fail.

[@DragNetJoe]

Technically, Mad Max was in the movie...for about 7 seconds.

[@chirho100]

Just like Star Wars and no Luke Skywalker as main character, Hollywood doesn’t get it.

[@seanknowsbest2802]

Mad Max was never a hit. With or without him

[@adamant5550]

Max isn't really a main character in any of the movies outside of the first one; shows how much you've actually watched the movies in the franchise

[@adamant5550]

@@seanknowsbest2802 Right? I feel like these comments are from Gen Z'ers who weren't even born when the original trilogy came out

[@t1ll316]

I just feel bad for Miller, he had 3 scripts/ideas and ofc they only greenlit the girlboss one, it flops and for sure the executives wont accept that its their decision what screwed them, not Millers filmmaking. Now its gonna be even more difficult to sell another one to the execs, even if its a true Mad Max film (with Max actually in it) because of those ticket sales

[@mt_baldwin]

I just don't give a shit about movies or shows anymore, it's been 3 years since I watched a movie or show of any kind. The rotten stench that surrounds everything Hollywood makes or has ever made is too much for me, it's made me lose all interest because I don't associate being entertained with movies/shows, instead all associate with them now is arguing and hatefulness.

[@StuffILearnedFromYouTube-wn1pf]

The same for sports. They kneeled their way out of my interest.

[@pogue6327]

I feel the same. Hollyweird is a cesspool of evil degenerates. Far too many people including children have been used and abused over the decades. I cannot support anything produced in Hollyweird anymore. A Reckoning is needed, people need to be Exposed and Arrested, before any healing can begin.

[@danielwright3929]

Well . . . Enjoy entertaining yourself with hand shadow puppets in the cave you live in

[@themoviereviewwarriors939]

I have not gone out to see a film in years and I have a theater 5 minutes from me. I watch older films from the 70,80s and 90s for the most part.

[@Needler13]

​@@StuffILearnedFromKZbin-wn1pf wow, aren't you a special flower

[@mshake7056]

A movie that is about a character nobody talks about or cares for when they think of Mad Max. It's a prequel to a movie 10 years later lol you put Mad Max name on the title, yet it's nothing to do with him. How did they think this wouldn't fail!?

[@Not_Always]

and even Fury Road underperformed considerably when it came ou.

[@MrPiestro]

You also probably didn’t like Halloween III because Michael Myers wasn’t in it.

[@simonfernandes6809]

​@@MrPiestroHalloween III is my favourite Halloween film.

[@mshake7056]

@MrPiestro no actually I enjoy Halloween 3. Also, your point sucks because lol Halloween 3 isn't called "Michael Mayers" or has anything to do with it. This movie literally has "Mad Max" in the title and is a prequel!

[@phantombigboss8429]

@@MrPiestro Halloween 3 is considered shit because it had nothing to do with Michael Myers and it was disappointing and deserves so. but the movie did have a interesting plot and was executed blandly. it could be a good independent film if they didn't slap Halloween on it.

A movie that nobody asked in an IP without the main protagonist. The fact that they didn't do a Mad Max sequel because Charlize Theron apparently was more important than the namesake character and now a decade later they make this prequel, goes to show that Hollywood still wants to girl boss their way into bankruptcy.

[@kev30631]

Charlize apparently wasn't that important , because George kicked her to the side.

[@Blobby192]

in fury road they even destroyed maxes iconic car within the first few minutes to make way for Furiosa she is the driver of the franchise now because women are the best and all male franchises now belong to them, is their thinking

[@kpsk8031]

I already saw a Furiosa movie in 2015. Didn't want another one.

[@Gloomshadow100]

movie actually isn't much to do with her either its moslty about Immortan Joe's war against a huge hoard of Cannibalistic Bikers that attack the citadel

[@Terrel05]

Couldn't agree more

[@kev30631]

​@@Gloomshadow100 no one asked for that either. I was already tired of immortan joe and the warboys. Dementus is forgettable. If Chris Hemsworth wasn't cast as him , no one would have given a shit.

[@duke927]

That wasn’t a bad movie (Fury Road) but it was supremely woke. It also was a bait and switch. Mad Max (Tom Hardy) somehow passed the baton to Furiosa (Charlize) while we weren’t looking.

[@alexman378]

@@Gloomshadow100What? That’s like… Four-five scenes of the film.

[@kevinthetruckdriver353]

*Answers:* *#1)* Let's be real. Tom Hardy didn't have the screen time in Fury Road to assume Mel Gibson's Mad Max character. So the real last Mad Max movie was 1985's Thunderdome. It was 30 years betweem Thunderdome & Fury Road. Then 9 years to do a what?? A prequel??. *#2)* Trailer - ho hum. *#3)* My favorite was Road Warrior (Mad Max 2). *#4)* Real reason Hollywood is failing. They have used up all the goodwill their customers gave them over the years. Now it's time for Hollywood to put up & shut up. They can't do both. That's why they are failing.

[@reneestaniel3520]

I like the first one - it was so surreal and immersed you into a another world.

[@artsolano6762]

It’s hard to compare older movies to how they do now. I remember when I watched the Road Warrior and the theater was packed and shows were sold out. It’s hard for me to believe Fury Road had more demand than the Road Warrior. Domestic box office needs to be adjusted for inflation. After the theaters then it gets more complicated, you need to compare VHS sales to streaming and BluRay sales now. Mad max peaked at The Road Warrior which was a cinematic masterpiece.

[@stevedenis8292]

When you live in a future dystopia you don't want a movie about a different dystopian future.

[@RenlangRen]

Of all the reasons why it failed this is the scariest.

[@thedeadpoolwhochuckles.6852]

Oh yeah what a dystopia we're in! Dictators having people murdered in masses, Billions dying every minute. or do you mean this is dystopia because there was a shitty movie in theaters?

[@Damon-xf4kt]

Awesome!!!

[@MatthewSmith-fy5hk]

You are a silly person.

[@alexman378]

Oh we’re not there yet. But we are approaching the stage of the first Mad Max film, and definitely will be getting Fury Road if Biden remains in charge.

[@brsubwayfc]

Riding a male role title to push girl boss movies is peak woke for the feminist message, which people are tired of. They won’t admit it but are feeling the effects of the customer’s message back to Hollywood. For me personally I have adopted a wait and sea approach to all of Hollywood’s trappings.

[@usMarinecuv902]

I agree 100% with people being tired of the woke bs and that probably prevented a lot of people from watching the movie, I love the mad max movies for the cars and action scenes and this movie definitely delivered. I didn't feel like the movie was pushing a woke agenda.

[@edwardjohnson6744]

I saw it today. I wish I could agree and tell you it was woke trash and not to see it, but it was fuckin awesome, and it isn't woke AT ALL! There is a MALE HERO character that befirends and mentors Furiosa. She likes MEN, she cares about HIM, He helps HER she treats him with respect. It's a very good movie, and one of the best "PREQUELS" ever made period. It only serves to enhance the greatness of Fury Road and fleshes out that whole world very nicely.

[@BeGoodBe]

Well I've seen it, it's amazing and everything you said couldn't be further from the truth.

[@kdkseven]

Furiosa is not a girl boss movie. You're missing out on the best action movie featuring a female character since Terminator 2 (imo).

[@deusexmachina9776]

Miller wanted to make a Furiosa film even when filming Fury Road, he was two films. everything is woke and bad to you guys,

[@duberdurm]

I didn't know the movie existed until Drinker's video yesterday. Also, putting 'Mad Max' in the title without the character in the actual film is desperate and underhanded. Get out of my face with that bs.

[@MrPiestro]

Wow you must live under a rock to not know of this movies existence.

[@xdomeman]

​@@MrPiestroor he doesn't care

[@demonicshadow]

I just saw it myself and yeah, I didn't know it already came out either lol probably poorly advertised or maybe not advertised enough online

[@theonlyspoon]

Shhhhhh puppy.

[@matsimurf_5900]

​@@MrPiestroMust be a good rock, sad for you. Get a better rock, son😂

[@markadler8968]

People are shocked that yet another action movie with a female lead is failing when most movies today with even a hint of progressiveness fail at the box office. Even if this movie was fantastic it would still be lumped in with the rest of the movies in this genre and be disregarded.

[@stsolomon618]

On film threat, Chris Gore stated that the marketing was bad. I also agree but to be honest it would have been nice if they did an old man Max film with Mel Gibson.

[@jculver1674]

The marketing was awful. Between the cheap CGI, trying to make Anya Taylor-Joy look like a badass warrior, and the obnoxious tagline "Remember Her Name" (which is ironic considering that the movie is hijacked from another character's franchise), the trailer completely turned me off.

[@stsolomon618]

​@@jculver1674I heard the cgi was off, but having the Mad Max Saga in the movie title. People will believe, oh Mad Max is in it and when they see it, they are disappointed.

[@Gloomshadow100]

​@@stsolomon618hes in it though .. just for a cameo.. it was a solid flick I'm gonna see it agian

[@MrPiestro]

@@stsolomon618no way. People aren’t that blind. They know it’s Furiosa and no Max. Give people more credit than that. Also GM said he doesn’t not have an old man Max in is. Mind at all

[@stsolomon618]

@@MrPiestro I was saying it would be cool if Miller did a Old Man Max.

[@thechuckjosechannel.2702]

Furiosa's story was already told before. This film feels pointless.

[@Pelicanzzz]

Should have named the movie Dementus then

[@edwardjohnson6744]

Having just seen the movie, NOTHING could be further from the truth.

[@MrPiestro]

I saw it twice. It was great though not as good as FR

[@BeGoodBe]

No, no wasn't.

[@JurassicRod]

Having seen the movie, you are correct. Nothing in it enhances Furiosa story in Fury Road or tells us anything extra we needed to know. Furiosa (Anya Taylor Joy) just stares and scowls her way through the film.

[@MrStoneDazPhuck]

The market has been saturated with Girlboss content for the last decade, when the movie that is actually really good, that’s released with a female lead, it’s hard to believe. It’s like the boy who cried wolf, but Furiosa is actually a good movie.

[@verlinswarey507]

I agree. I thought the movie was great and Im as conservative as you can get!

[@robdykejr]

​@@verlinswarey507: Did your wife use a "strap on" after your "special night"?🤔

[@dextermcgrubbin]

The script was poor. They focused on the wrong things. And the ending scene in the desert was anachronistic.

[@Austin-iv6di]

Who cares about critic scores. They don't rate movies based off of what the audience likes

[@neauvaltsultanadhityasukma9904]

I mean the audience score is the same as the critic scores in rotten tomatoes. And it got like 8 in IMDB and 4 stars out of 5 in letterboxd which is pretty high

[@Austin-iv6di]

@neauvaltsultanadhityasukma9904 yea i might pirate it

[@Fred2-123]

@@neauvaltsultanadhityasukma9904 Even the audience scores in Rotten Tomatoes are suspect.

[@Austin-iv6di]

@Fred2-123 that's the problem too, even audience scores are fake in a lot of cases. They take away negative reviews to raise the score. IMDB used to be reliable, but not anymore. Like Fury Road is an 8.1 when it should be a 6.

[@kapiteinbadmuts5043]

Say what you will, I didn't go see the movie simply because there was no Mad Max in my Mad Max movie.

[@elskeletor3566]

Same here I wasn't interested in this film because they pretty much a summed up her story in Fury Road. I'd prefer to see Mal Gibson back as Max.

[@kurtdewittphoto]

What you probably like about Mad Max isn't actually Max, but George Miller's filmmaking. And Furiosa is more of his great filmmaking, albeit reliant a little more on CGI this time around. It was worth seeing.

[@phantombigboss8429]

​@@kurtdewittphotonah

[@GOLDTR1GGER]

you didn't see the movie but yet you have an opinion.... Watch the movie first and come back with a more informed opinion, ya sheep.

[@kapiteinbadmuts5043]

@@kurtdewittphoto While I also like Miller's filmmaking, its not the main reason why I watch a MAD MAX movie. I watch to see what tales are told about the lone wanderer who went mental after losing his family. Even if he is often a side-char in his own movie. The sole reason why it;s called Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, and not just Furiosa, is because even Miller knows he needs to bank on the Mad Max name.

[@impudentdomain]

Funny how insulting, disappointing, and generally treating your customers like crap for a decade has real consequences.

[@thor3279]

who knew?!

[@franlpk9587]

I think its very simple: NOBODY ASKED FOR THIS!

[@nitroxylictv]

When you dont give customers what they want you lose. The fans want MAX. The fans dont want "FuRioSa".

[@BeckerFlag]

This line sums up most of Hollywood's output these days.

[@Ragnar6000]

nobody ask for the endless Marvel shit either!

[@seanknowsbest2802]

That argument makes no sense. No one asked for John Wick, no asked for another Willy Wonka, another Kong fu panda.. all killed it at the box office.

[@sci-fi.tsunami]

What a dumb thing to say! Nobody asked for the original Mad Max. Nobody asked for Star Wars but it ended up being the greatest thing ever! Nobody asked for Alien, Predator or Terminator.

[@chuckhorus3228]

Everyone is tired as hell of all the mary sue girl bosses shoved into our faces...

[@Nugtroen]

Furiosa is not a girl boss like Disney's garbage product. She has great character development.

[@james8518]

Shill

[@FULANODETAL]

@@Nugtroen yes but why?...nobody asked for that

[@markadler8968]

@@Nugtroen It doesn't change the fact that it is being lumped in with all of the other similar movies and being disregarded. No one wants these movies.

[@sparkster1314]

She isn't. I avoided all the marketing and trailers. She is a wily girl who suffers tragedy, has to learn lessons from her stronger male counterparts, including the villains! She doesn't overpower anyone physically, and the movie is pretty much all her developing as a character. The opposite of the Mary Sue.

[@elskeletor3566]

The reason this isn't doing well is because people aren't interested in this movie or the Fall Guy, the Fall Guy had nothing to do with what the TV show was actually about so its a pass. Furiosa failed because her story was told in Fury Road and we didn't need this movie and people want Mel Gibson back as Max not Tom Hardy. The reasons why these movies are not making profit are simple.

[@MrAdamske]

Hardy is a pretty dope Max though

[@elskeletor3566]

@@MrAdamske For you

[@LeeONardo]

Best Mad Max content out of Fury Road and Furiosa to me was neither, it was the game.

[@Ergeniz]

@@MrAdamske Hardy is not Max, he came off as a confused NPC in Fury Road. He is as far from Mel's portrayal as you can get.

[@MrAdamske]

@@Ergeniz You dont fully understand his character then. Max isnt the main character, he's meant to be a static point in the storytelling because he's so messed up by his past and everyone around him goes through their own growth like Nux for example. Also id argue Hardy is decent Max, someone like fvcking Milo Yiannopoulos would be the furthest you could get lol

[@judgementday2024]

Bring back Mel Gibson as old Max

[@MrPiestro]

GM doesn’t have a old man max thought in his head based on an interview. Move on.

[@michaelfreedom.1966]

H€ll yeah! 👍

[@Damon-xf4kt]

No please don't! Tom Hardy was great.

[@joeboo8626]

I don't think we will have to worry about it. I saw Furiosa and liked it, but it is a bomb that has pretty much killed the franchise.

[@BEN-pk4dj]

Old mad max. Maximum pain!

[@LordRollo]

The Ultimate girl boss Brie larson was right when she said these films aren't made for us....& yet studios & media shills get upset when we choose not to pay for them...simply noone wins / everyone loses with DEI.

[@Trazynn]

Hollywood has Anya Taylor-Joy in way too high regard, and I don't mean she's a bad actor, I mean she's not what draws in the crowds that Hollywood thinks she would.

[@MS-ii1sv]

Actress.

[@lindasmith320]

She also is a bad actor, has no charisma and looks stupid.

[@dextermcgrubbin]

@@MS-ii1sv Both work, at least in American English

[@MS-ii1sv]

@@dextermcgrubbin That's newspeak.

[@the1magageneral323]

The media like Rotten tomatoes only praises this film because of the girlboss trope.

[@marineboy1964]

The future of mad max ? Mad max ain't in it The world has gone mad

[@turdfurgason8476]

I was annoyed with the bait and switch in Fury Road. Focusing on what annoyed me for an entire movie? LoL

[@Ergeniz]

Even without the bait and switch, I hated Hardy's portrayal of Max. Give us back Mel, please.

[@TheRealVolk]

My new rule is that I refuse to see movies where the lead actress has three names or one name.

[@pladampa]

💯

[@matthewmarek1467]

Always be wary of someone with 3 first names.

[@finned958]

People who identified as a young woman didn’t watch it. Half the population of identifying women didn’t watch it. Why aren’t they buying tickets? Maybe because the genre was male. Females don’t like action movies even when a main character is the same gender as them. They should have pink makeup, ponies, and Ken wearing pink leather outfits.

[@matsimurf_5900]

lolworthy

[@GSmith-cd6ct]

A Mad Max film with no Mad Max and a cringey, strong, independent woman that don’t need no man? Yeah, let me line up to see that piece of crap 😂

[@iAkis4]

A MAD MAX film without Max Rockatansky ? Whats next, a James Bond flim with Miss Moneypenny ?

[@malificajones7674]

They took Mad Max, then stuck a chick in it, and made it lame and gay. Obviously the audiences noped out in droves.

[@kev30631]

I had a open mind and about 20 minutes in I started to reject. I don't recognize this as anything familiar that I would even like or be interested in. There was no emotional investment in any character. Wasn't for me.

[@cameronjones8641]

​@kev30631 I stopped having an open mind when the turd sandwiches I was looking at started tasting like shit. I give nothing the benefit of the doubt untill I see reviews from trusted sources.

[@malificajones7674]

@@kev30631 An open mind is like a fortress with its gates unbarred.

[@cobrallama6236]

You mean in 1985 when Tina Turner was cast in the third movie in the saga? Yeah, they were really pushing that woke agenda forty years ago. 😂 Max Max didn't even originate from the Hollywood system. George Miller is still directing outlandish R-rated Mad Max movies at almost 80 years of age for nothing other than the love of it, which is good enough for me. I'm not complaining that Miller shifted focus to a new character after 40+ years (and 4 movies) of telling Max's story. This is nothing like Disney Star Wars, to me. Plus, all of the Mad Max movies are actually good!

[@malificajones7674]

@@cobrallama6236 Tina Turner wasn't the protagonist, she was a supporting actress. Do I really need to spell that out? Furiosa is the protagonist of Fury Road. Men are sick of girl bosses. It was inevitable that Furiosa was going to be another financial disaster.

[@leviparenteau4383]

I think people underestimate how much entertainment we get from KZbin and other apps

[@markusfreund6961]

What "future of Mad Max in cinema"? The last movie in that franchise was almost 40 years ago. Don't get me wrong, I'd love to see Mel Gibson reprise his breakout role, showing us an aged, mature Mad Max. Logan style, not Luke Skywalker style. If anyone were to make that happen, I'd actually buy a ticket and go see that movie. Like I did with Dune 2, my first visit to a movie theatre after the travesty of a train wreck that was "The Last Jedi".

[@aahzmandiaz2767]

For me "Fury Road" did already off the franchise. Now, 10 years later, they did finally realize it. That was about time.

[@little_dandelion]

I like Mexican IronMan's viewpoint and Chato's input on why they weren't interested in that movie. They elaborated well on what I also think. Mexican IronMan: Why pay $20 for ticket + snacks + drinks + gas + parking to watch a too long questionably good/bad/meh futuristic dystopian movie starring a female lead, when for the same price, you can go to Chicago/San Francisco/New York/whichever closest democrat's stronghold that displays the same type of insanity? People in the 80's went to watch Mad Max because life was good and that fictitious future was so alien, it was pure entertainment. Whereas nowadays, a Furiosa movie is our present day reality next door. Not some hypothetical future but what's happening already, right now. People go to the cinema for escapism, not to get slapped with more reminders of the same everyday reality reported in the news. Chato: For futuristic action movies with female leads, and considering the target audience of such genre is predominantly male, why would male viewers want to watch pretty actresses dewomanized and uglified to the max? No babes for the male gaze.

[@Sea-Bass]

A Mexican iron man? He would be 5 foot tall, and use the suit to pick lettuce.

[@DanAdlingtonOnline]

Who here agrees the movies from the original Mad Max period have a magic to them? Mel Gibson's Charisma fills the screen despite the budget, camera, lighting and production technology being inferior to anything we have today.

[@Crimson_Hawk_01]

Mad Max The road warrior!

[@JDale56]

When I see a movie I usually go out for DINNER and a movie - with high ticket and restaurant prices it isn’t worth going out anymore. Also, while I enjoyed Fury Road it was a bait and switch with Tom Hardy’s Max Rockatansky being sidelined. Bring back a grizzled old Mel Gibson as Mad Max and you’ll see a $Billion+ blockbuster.

[@marcusaurelius5149]

My favorite Mad Max movie is Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior. I've probably watched it 30 times. It's probably the greatest post-apocalyptic action movie ever. Thunderdome is way more stylized, highly quotable, and with many, MANY, memorable scenes and characters but the appeal of Road Warrior is it's none of that. Road Warrior has style but it's not completely over the top. The Road Warrior is laconic, just a few pages of dialogue in the entire film. It has camp (like the Lord Humongous) but the camp is operatic, cruel and sparse. Road Warrior has one of the longest car chases in cinematic history yet the movie isn't bloated and over two-and-a-half hours long. It's visceral, brutal, unforgiving, and fast. And it ends with a heroic sacrifice. I only half wanted to see Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga but the price of admission is just too high when I know it's going to be free on streaming in the future. The other reason I didn't watch it in theaters is I'm tired of the bait-n-switch. Doctor Strange: In the Multiverse of Madness was a massive bait-n-switch. Hollywood burned that bridge. We know this is called "a Mad Max saga" but there's no Mad Max. A saga is a heroic tale. If it's a "Mad Max saga" then where is he?

[@phantombigboss8429]

Movie looks stupid

[@Gloomshadow100]

that movie is hard as nails, don't listen to these guys.. it's all click bait.. she gets her ass kicked through the whole movie,,immortan Joe turned out to be a good guy and its full of psycho cannibalistic Biker Horde members

[@sparkster1314]

Just watched it last night. It's great. I don't care if nobody else watched it. It also fleshed out the world of Fury Road, which was interesting. Hemsworth was great as the antagonist. And guess what? There is literally a guy who is almost a Max clone who takes her under his wing who mentors her and helps her in her goal. There is no culture war, 'wokeness' or any modern politics. Just go watch it, enjoy, and form your own opinion.

[@SpecialAgentEBunny]

It did look stupid though, he’s not wrong. It may be good, but it looked dumb as hell

[@GWC1981]

​@@SpecialAgentEBunnyso did Star Wars

[@MrPiestro]

You should go see it b4 making a stupid comment. I saw it twice and it was great.

[@rayneoftera]

A wise man once said; "Everything woke turns to shit!"

[@matyasregenyi4214]

The film isnt woke...

[@frozen1762]

Imagine having Mad Max in a Mad Max movie. I know, completely thinking out of the box, but it seems to be necessary.

[@B-ROCK5150]

The title of the movie should have been. Furiosa Flopped. A Maxi Pad Saga.

[@gregorygant4242]

No, Mad Maxine.

[@Sarpiente]

At least Fury Road had the decency to put Max in the movie not only in the title.

[@jodi2847]

I don't recall a unique love for the Furiosa character in any of Fury Road's overwhelming critical praise, certainly not enough to warrant her own film, and a prequel at that.

[@adailyllama4786]

It was a story no one wanted, about a group nobody was interested in based on an original character that wasn't even in the movie. Shocker it failed.

[@JustTooDamnHonest]

Hollywood keeps on making the same mistakes over and over again.

[@russelljconquerslifehawkey]

I paid $20 to watch Dune two but it was in theaters in less than 30 days later. It was on HBO Max. I will never pay for a movie ever again.

[@Photoairbrushing]

Watching Dune 2 at home on HBO Max can't hold a candle to watching it in IMAX or Ultrascreen. It's like saying "I paid $20 to watch french fries be cooked by Gordon Ramsey, when French fries were available at McDonald's only 15 minutes later"

[@russelljconquerslifehawkey]

@@Photoairbrushing but at least I can smoke weed at home

[@mlongpre100]

Deerface has got a special relationship with one of the producers . kind of obvious

[@CuhShark]

Everybody in this comment section is so unbelievably ignorant of this movie's history and George Miller as a director. Desperately wanting to label this film as "girlboss, feminist trash" even though it's writing can be traced back to the early 2000s - an era in which these concepts were extremely uncommon in mainstream media. Written by a man now in his 70s who has never made the suggestion that he's attempting to shoe-horn in any kind of modern agenda. This script is a by product of the immense backstory writing that went into Fury Road, about a character that George feels passionate about. Nothing more, nothing less. This movie is not "hijacking a male lead franchise". It's an expansion of the world and the characters we saw in Fury Road. There's a reason this movie is not called 'Mad Max: Furiosa" - it is it's own entity within the Mad Max universe as described in the subtitle "A Mad Max Saga". Whether it was a necessary addition is an entirely different conversation - a more productive one I'd say. This movie and Fury Road are the best case scenario for female lead movies as they don't give into the "girlboss" tropes. But you wouldn't know that cause you reject it on sight.

[@Markbell73]

Fast bikes and fast cars..... Tearing down freeways........ Sucking nitro......... Carmageddon! Guns, arrow launching. Mohawks! Roadway piracy! Aside from the name, and the namesake character. These are the things that make for a Mad Max movie. These Fury movies are just bastard caricatures of Beyond Thunderdome. And while I like Thunderdome, as the part III of the Mad Max trilogy. It is the worst film to make a bastard caricature new film series off of. Even as much as I love The Original film most of all. Because Toecutter and Bobby, on their awesome Kawasaki KZ 1000's chased by Max in his Ford Falcon XB GT........ < The Greatest car/bike moments in all filmdom. Thank you Australia for that! The Road Warrior is the iconic film that is the world everyone wants to live in.....be a road pirate in......have crazy car chase mayhem in...... And on, and on, and on. The dirt road, unidentifiable car wreck, Twisted Metal nonsense of the Fury movies is trash in any way of comparison imaginable. Any little bit of CGI or green screen anything completely ruins the movie. It must be all camera captured effects, filmed in real light. With real cars. With real sounds....and sound effects. You have to be able to smell the fuel and burning rubber. If during the opening scene of Road Warrior when Max slams the brakes in a four wheel lockup, inducing wheelhop on the right rear, does not give you instant goosebumps, you are not a petrolhead, and thus not a Mad Max fan. And the Fury films are not Mad Max films. They are cheap modern knock offs of the worst kind.

[@PoolKid75]

My favourite Mad Max movie is the "Bad Bob" episode of ReBoot.

[@srfjolnir]

Mad Max movie without Mad Max!! I’m sure glad this failed

[@kd9749]

1) It’s a Mad Max movie without Mad Max. 2) It’s a prequel for a character that wasn’t all that popular to begin with and didn’t need a prequel as her back story is explained in Fury Road. 3) Audiences are tired of female centric reimaginings of traditionally male franchises. 4) Fury Road came out almost a decade ago and wasn’t that big a hit either.

[@babybenna1]

The ratings don't lie on this one hoss. The movie was badass and has a lot of the great things we love about Fury Road, but I feel like they almost deserve this for making us wait 10 years, just to give us the story of a side character no one asked for.

[@stevej8589]

its all because you cant trust the critics after rotten tomatoes got bought

[@Gloomshadow100]

na the numbers are correct the flick is hard as nails... it's anti woke but dudes can't see it.. all the female led utopias in the flick turned out to be nothing but fantasy .. Immortan Joe turned out to be right

[@dustinneely]

Fury Road sux. That's why I stayed home.

[@burritoboy2751]

Glad to hear you say that. Sometimes it feels like I'm the only one who hated Fury Road.

[@tinymetaltrees]

Fury Road is a bad movie!

[@sparkster1314]

Fury road was awesome and so was this.

[@dustinneely]

@@sparkster1314 enjoy your soy bro.

[@matsimurf_5900]

Yep, it was a real woke stinker and enlightened me as to how easy it is to sell pap to goofs.

[@jeremywatson9129]

Also Mad Max was never a giant franchise.

[@Damon-xf4kt]

Love Mad Max!

[@jeremywatson9129]

@@Damon-xf4kt yeah so do I. But it was never a giant franchise. And it seems like the studios expected it to be. 🤷‍♂️

[@MS-ii1sv]

Every single gen x guy has seen and loves Road Warrior.

[@Zenergist]

What we wanted: Mad Max What we got: Mad Maxipad

[@JohnHH59]

Maybe in the next Bond film, Pussy Galore can be the unbeatable protagonist.

[@Slitheringpeanut]

A key point you miss, is that Fury Road did SO WELL, that it took Miller TEN years to get actual funding. That's how 'good' it did.

[@bestbytes-x3v]

People who spend their own money will see how bad is furiosa. Critics that love this movie didn't spend their own money. This is why the movie theaters suffer. Reap what you sow.

[@philfortner1805]

Furiosa's story is best told in a strip club. They just got the setting wrong. But the movie will still have many big guns!

[@FenrirsBite77]

Corporate studios thay push perfect girl bosses that have no character development ruined cinema. Too bad for Furiosa, could have been a great spin-off story.

[@NinjaLawyerSteve]

I saw it yesterday and got thought it was decent. Not mind blowing but far from awful. Good acting (chris hemsworth as the villain i thought was fun), great action, good cinematography. Its not a bad film by any stretch. But its like you said: the time was too much. 9 years for a spinoff? It would have made more sense to do it then when you could have ridden the high from Fury Road. Having the recap and the "a Mad Max saga" sub title showed how much they had to catch people up and remind them what franchise its a part of. Again i dont think it was bad. But it just came way too late for it to have any relevancy.

[@centralpete6044]

I saw RW in the theater @12 years old and I immediately dragged out my Hot Wheels and played with them, reliving the experience in my own mind. Months later I rented MM and spent the rest of the summer constantly tuning up my BMX bike. These movies resonated with me…these are guy movies to the core. MMBT and all that followed were quite different movies trying to appeal to a broader audience and I still haven’t watched them all the way through.

[@MatthewSmith-fy5hk]

The brand showed exactly what it thinks of Mad Max. It introduces us to the closest thing to Mad Max in the whole movie with Praetorian Jack. Then it slowly and painfully kills him. And then, to rub salt in the wound, it pretends that Max is there watching this movie.

[@MrEmre3294]

ı dont now why but that movie is awsome.

[@Gloomshadow100]

its all those damn cannibals and kamikaze War Boys... "Whats Abundance?" ahahha

[@maddercat]

This film was originally conceived as an anime, and it predates Fury road as a script, and had tons of production difficulties. I think it should have come out first as originally was intended. It might have carried in that case, but they probably wanted to push the mad max connection. Yeah the movie is unnecessary as it stands. The actress is good but lacked gravitas that Mad Max has and his story. The story of this one place in the apocalypse, and world building, feels super grounded and stunted to have two whole movies in a world we know is a lot larger. They could have explored the world as Walking Dead is doing in this movie, not just sat in the same place. I think that's more the reason of the failure than anything, lack of world-building and centering on a character that everyone is ambivalent to in the first place. Yup. I would have way rather seen a prequel about Tina Turner's character Aunty Entity, let alone a continuation and what happened to that place than Furiosa. This movie is the same movie as the last one, same characters, same places....just minor things that we didn't need to see. That's its real fault, it's not adventurous enough.

[@Exlayer-pk8hy]

Garfield was just a good kids movie. It's refreshingly simple compared to other films that have been coming out

[@skatevidcentral]

A more interesting spinoff film would have been about the backstory of Immortan Joe and how the War Boys came to be along with more information about the world and different towns/leaders like Gas Town and Bullet Farm, with the protagonist we follow being Nux. We could see his journey from childhood to where he ended up in Fury Road and Furiosa could have been a side character within the film. Nux was a far more compelling character than Furiosa in Fury Road and had the best arc within the film imo.

[@saturn580]

Hollyweird needs to stop telling audiences what they SHOULD want, and just give them what they DO want. That's what it means to be an entertainer.

[@quietspark8703]

My main gripe was Furiosa tells us nothing new that we didn't already pick up in Fury Road when we were SHOWN instead of TOLD. Hemsworth hamming it up didn't help either.

[@aaronfarnsworth7653]

Hemsworth appears as the demented son of Lord Humungus and his NZ mother, Taika Waititi. Mad Max : Luv & Thunder Furiosaly.

[@stevenkraft8070]

Let's add another reason why Furiosa is not doing well--timing. Mad Max: Fury Road was released in 2015. So this Mad Max movie that is focused on two side characters and doesn't have Max in it is a prequel to a movie that is NINE YEARS OLD!!!! You could have F'd up the Harry Potter movies or the original Star Wars trilogy if you made people wait 9 years for The Empire Strikes Back or the next Harry Potter movie. In that time, lots of your audience will have moved on to other priorities and largely forgotten the previous movie, even if they really liked it. And Fury Road was not as good as A New Hope or Empire Strike Back, or most of the Harry Potter movies. And Mad Max in general works best as an 80s property.

[@LeandroSFx]

I love Mad Max 2 and I hate Road Fury because it is not about Max but Furiosa, so they took away Max and only show Furiosa... What a Shhhh.... !! No way I will watch or buy anything about it.

[@supereldinho]

The very least they could've done was pick an actress that actually looked tough and imposing -- you know, the kind that actually COULD get shit done in a Mad Max setting. You know, jacked-up Linda Hamilton from Terminator 2 or Michiko Nishiwaki from My Lucky Stars -- you're welcome, by the way. But no, they had to go with bug-eyed Anya-Taylor Joy, the least imposing actress they could find. Bloody hell, she somehow looks more frail than Immortan Joe's brood mares from Fury Road.

[@wornoutshoes81]

I tried reviewing the film on Rotten Tomatoes all weekend. I even tried today multiple times. Rotten Tomatoes is protecting this film by censoring reviews. Why? To protect “the message”. The film was bad. Outside of your girl boss theory. It was plagued with horrible CGI from beginning to end such that it didn’t look finished and repeatedly pulled me out of the experience. Anya Taylor Joy sounds like she was dubbed over with Charlize Theron. Chris Hemsworth gives a performance akin to an amalgamation of Drunk Thor and Kevin from GB2016. His character was poorly written and should have “exited the film” halfway through allowing the only good male lead Praetorian Jack, to double cross and try and kill Furiosa and turn her in to Immortan Joe after learning of the Green Place, effectively cementing her hate for Immortan Joe and establishing why she stuck around to take the females and why she distrusts all men until Max. But what do I know? I’m just a writer. The film is not good. It’s just this side of terrible. It’s right there with Thunderdome. The chases are good and that’s about it. Furiosa is the irradiated cousin of the good film that we don’t discuss. 👎🏻

[@homunculus777]

One of the really great things about the original Furiosa movie was that it was filmed almost entirely with practical effects, whereas this new movie is clearly mostly CGI. For me that is a big turn-off.

[@vegetashairline3060]

What happened? They made an action movie that has always followed the male titular character star a 90 pound woman and you ask what happened?

[@LoneWolf-rc4go]

I do get the sense that Furiosa would have done a heck of a lot better with a smaller budget and had come out before the girl boss era of film making. I liked Fury Road and I would have been fairly amenable to a follow up even if it was for a secondary character that I didn't find particularly interesting. The problem is that many moons have passed since Fury Road and we're now into an era of Hollywood dominated by crappy remakes and radical Feminist ideological drivel. In this environment you can kinda understand why people might be steering clear of Furiosa.

[@andrewh88]

One thing to note is the Australian government subsidized around 40% of its budget.

[@TheLegendaryMovieCritic]

Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga budget being just as high as Mad Max: Fury Road is just insane plus it barely beat it’s competition The Garfield Movie despite Garfield having way more ticket sales than Furiosa!

[@haroldb1856]

Hollywood has been abusing audiences so badly, I'm surprised anyone goes out to see films on opening weekend. I get the impression that this one is pretty good. I might go see it in the cheap theatre in a few weeks.

[@dave23024]

They're conflicting themselves in the worst way! Nobody's gonna believe the "poor me" story when EVERY movie is starring a combination of Mary Sue, Rosie The Riveter, and AOC.

[@shawns9813]

I saw Furiosa and it is a legit good film. At no point did I feel this was a 'Girl boss' movie.

[@toxiccylon]

Me either

[@adamkallin5160]

Funny thing is Furiosa has 70/30 male to female audience ratio compared to 60/40 for Fury Road.

[@madmeh2929]

Everyone has forgotten that you need some decent sex/nude scenes to make this genre realistic to bring in the men who buy tickets. Too often the women doesn’t remove her shirt, has jaded potential ticket buyers. Just wait for it to come out on streaming or tv, you’ll still see everything you would have seen in the movie theater.

[@ThulrVOdinsson]

I think you hit the nail on the head. I was wary of Furiosa for fear the female protagonist indicated another DEI messaging disappointment. I went to see it in spite of cynicism, and I'm glad I did. Furiosa is a phenomenal film set in the Mad Max world. It's a real work of art and a wild ride.

[@UToobUsername01]

It's like the Ghost busters thing: when Ghost busters 2016 came out people were disapointed that the original GB were not in it. Mad Max Fury Road prequel is just more of a character that is not Max. It's not that Furiosa herself isn't necessarily good as a character, just that people wanted to see Max. It's like getting a star wars movie but instead of a movie about jedi it's about droids or moisture farmers. That story about the droids and moisture farmers might actually be GOOD. But it's not what audience asked for or expected to see. Imagine if they made a movie about Harley Quinn who we know is a Joker-related character. If people are told the movie about the joker will have the joker in it but it's 99% about Harley Quinn then people will wonder why they didn't just name it Harley Quinn instead of The Joker. The business man knows why: the Joker is universally recognised so attract more viewers. But the audience will feel like they were deceived. It's click bait for movies.

[@Shtf132]

150 million dollar budget with 1 recognizable actor and missing the title character.

[@foamformers]

It’s expensive taking a family of six to the movies. So when I heard there was no Max and Charlize wasn’t recasted that made it easy to pass.

[@joangratzer2101]

AND NOW; THE NEXT "HUGE HIT" OUT OF HOLLYWOOD, THOR, WEARING AN APRON, SERVING DESSERT TO CROSS DRESSERS.

[@foxeye245]

Woke used to be a shield that could deflect all criticism, but Hollywood overused it and now it turned into a sword that is pointed straight at their necks.

[@srksii]

Imagine: You just watched Broken moon and you see Furiosa poster. What do you do?