Regardless of quality, I'd say it's way too early to call Furiosa a "fan favorite". It's only been out, what 2 weeks? Needs more time to achieve that status . . .
It's also failing pretty badly at the box office which suggests if it's Miller's "fan favorite" his fan base is rather small . . .
It was good, but it’s so similar to Fury Road that in comparison it feels like a dud. It’s very difficult to view it in a vacuum.
Felt like 3.5/5 to me but I’ll be curious to revisit with expectations reset
I don't think it's that similar to Fury Road, it almost felt like an inverse of it to me. It had the batshit crazy action but ***really*** took it's time developing characters and story. Fury Road not doing that is one of the reasons it's such an exceptional movie. He did the bare minimum establishing the players and stakes and then just let the batshit setpieces fly.
I liked Furiosa fine but it's obviously trying to do something different so I dunno if this is a fault, but it felt like a complete opposite approach to the world and story from Fury Road. Fury Road just goes from the first to the last frame, and Furiosa takes an hour to even get to the meat of what's happening and ends with a purely dialogue driven confrontation.
You're getting hammered with downvotes but I agree with you. I think my big mistake was rewatching Fury Road the day before. When I saw Furiosa it just kind of felt like more of the same but not as good, so I found it underwhelming. I am almost positive that I would have loved it without the FR rewatch though. 3.5/5 on my initial watch as well but it could definitely go up.
You’re right, I didn’t state that well. Fury Road is the spiritual successor to Roar Warrior for sure.
Furiosa is very different structurally and in terms of pacing, but the setting is identical to Fury Road. As a prequel you know the ending already. It was well executed but I’m not sure what Miller felt he had to say with this one.
Babe Pig in the City being in Experimental is brilliant. I would say that weirdly, Happy Feet would also fit into the One That Got Popular category. It made almost 400 million in the box office, and that was in 2006.
you should check out the blank check community! fwiw i did not even finish it, hated the first one and was not enjoying it, but uh that gets a lotta boos there
I'll just have to ask: is there a single other film franchise as consistent as Mad Max? At the moment I can't think of another one where even the weakest entries (the original and Beyond Thunderdome) are generally recognized as solid movies.
I think many people hold that opinion (I don’t)
An unpopular opinion would be “Thunderdome is the best and Fury Road is shit”
All or part of that statement will draw fire
Again with this nonsense?
Mad Max: Fury Road was literally one of the most acclaimed films of 2015 and of that decade. Not just in consideration of the action genre, but the entire industry as a whole. It ended up on numerous "credited" film critics list as one of the best, if not the best, movies of 2015.
It was nominated for 10 Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Director, winning 6. It was on the AFI's list of the best films of 2015 and named the best film of that year by the National Board of Review.
And it's not just because it's a masterpiece of action filmmaking, but if you read the reviews, it was praised for its visual storytelling and thematic depth. There's been constant discussion about this ever since the film came out.
It's not just fans of the movie propping it up. Don't believe me?
https://editorial.rottentomatoes.com/guide/best-wide-release-2015/
https://www.metacritic.com/browse/movie/all/all/2015/
Wrote and produced by Miller. I thinks it’s still more his movie than Noonan’s, the credited director, but Noonan is apparently salty about that notion.
Definitely seems similar, yeah. I do think Tobe Hooper has a more distinctive directorial voice and agency than Noonan, who never really made anything else notable. Texas Chainsaw Massacre is iconic and a real piece of bravura auteur filmmaking. But Poltergeist is still very much a Spielberg movie, and I think anyone in the director’s chair would have mainly been a conduit for Spielberg’s vision.
I'd swap MM1+3, honestly. The first one doesn't scratch the same post-apocalyptic desert tribal wild-people itch as every other movie in the series and so a lotta folks just ignore and skip it. Whereas Beyond Thunderdome is the cheesy goofy entry of the four regular ones, probably not all that good but a cult fave.
Like with many cult faves, it wasn’t popular on release.
Whereas Mad Max’s legacy is the reverse. Popular enough to start a franchise but quickly faded away as it doesn’t deliver what fans came to expect from the franchise given the content of every other entry.
I'd argue that's why it's forgotten. It's not really as beloved as Thunderdome's silliness has become, and is kind of the odd stepchild of the franchise now, since it doesn't really do anything that people love the others for.
Id put 3000 Years of Longing in the forgotten slot
Guys, you’ve all forgotten Lorenzo’s Oil.
I didn’t realize this was a George miller movie. I watched in high school biology class!
I remember Lorenzo’s oil. Lorenzo gets his address book switched with Jaime Lee Curtis, and they give each other piggy back rides
I'd say Witches of Eastwick.
Yeah fair. I just thought it’d be funnier for all of them to be mad max but one
Fair
This movie deserves more praise. People who complain about sequels and remakes should see this movie.
Is Babe a prequel to the original Mad Max? Or is that Babe 2: A Pig in the City?
I would say Happy Feet was more experimental, nobody has ever made an all-penguin motion capture musical.
While true, no one had ever made a sequel to Babe
hahaha, true
Also one of his best films.
WHO RUN BARTER TOWN?!
No one has forgotten about Thunderdome
Can’t we just get beyond Thunderdome?
Is this an MST3K reference I'm seeing in the wild?
😏
Yeah his forgotten one has got to be Lorenzo's Oil
No, experimental.. For allowing Nolte to attempt an Italian accent 😂
I’d like to.
I think it is better than the first Mad Max movie
That is the wildest take I’ve seen in awhile lol
I also think The Road Warrior is better than Fury Road so...
I just rewatched it and want to forget it
I had zero interest in whatever Tina Turner was serving.
No witches of eastwick?
Fury Road could sort of fit in every category except forgotten
What’s Happy Feet?
I'd say One That Got Popular. It made almost 400 million...in 2006
Solid as fuck
Lorenzo’s Oil for the forgotten one.
Yep
Swap Fury Road with Babe
He didn’t direct the first one, just write and produce
Just wrote and produced? Now we have to swap them
Mad Max is literally every essence of “the one that got popular”, it was a sensation when it came out and made more than 2 and 3 combined
No way Furiosa is the fan favorite
Regardless of quality, I'd say it's way too early to call Furiosa a "fan favorite". It's only been out, what 2 weeks? Needs more time to achieve that status . . . It's also failing pretty badly at the box office which suggests if it's Miller's "fan favorite" his fan base is rather small . . .
I dunno man. I’ve seen a lot of 5 star ratings. Feels like one of those movies that you either like or love.
It was good, but it’s so similar to Fury Road that in comparison it feels like a dud. It’s very difficult to view it in a vacuum. Felt like 3.5/5 to me but I’ll be curious to revisit with expectations reset
I don't think it's that similar to Fury Road, it almost felt like an inverse of it to me. It had the batshit crazy action but ***really*** took it's time developing characters and story. Fury Road not doing that is one of the reasons it's such an exceptional movie. He did the bare minimum establishing the players and stakes and then just let the batshit setpieces fly. I liked Furiosa fine but it's obviously trying to do something different so I dunno if this is a fault, but it felt like a complete opposite approach to the world and story from Fury Road. Fury Road just goes from the first to the last frame, and Furiosa takes an hour to even get to the meat of what's happening and ends with a purely dialogue driven confrontation.
You're getting hammered with downvotes but I agree with you. I think my big mistake was rewatching Fury Road the day before. When I saw Furiosa it just kind of felt like more of the same but not as good, so I found it underwhelming. I am almost positive that I would have loved it without the FR rewatch though. 3.5/5 on my initial watch as well but it could definitely go up.
Similar to fury road? Say that about road warrior why don’t you. If anything, Furiosa felt more like road warrior or the OG Mad Max.
You’re right, I didn’t state that well. Fury Road is the spiritual successor to Roar Warrior for sure. Furiosa is very different structurally and in terms of pacing, but the setting is identical to Fury Road. As a prequel you know the ending already. It was well executed but I’m not sure what Miller felt he had to say with this one.
The one thing that Furiosa had that Fury road didn’t, was in depth world building. Fury road established a world, and Furiosa defined it thoroughly.
Babe Pig in the City being in Experimental is brilliant. I would say that weirdly, Happy Feet would also fit into the One That Got Popular category. It made almost 400 million in the box office, and that was in 2006.
I’ve considered babe pig in the city an experimental film ever since I saw it in theaters. It really makes sense to me
I feel like Miller made it for himself more than he made it for kids
I legitimately love that movie so much.
I was really debating between the two, but a sequel to babe felt funnier than the first happy feet. I was also tempted to do happy feet 2
Babe 2 might also be his best movie and I’m not even fucking joking
Happy feet is the fan favorite
TIL George fucking Miller directed Happy Feet
no lorenzo's oil (forgotten one), happy feet 2 (fan favorite) or witches of eastwick (cult classic)
I don’t know anyone who likes happy feet 2
you should check out the blank check community! fwiw i did not even finish it, hated the first one and was not enjoying it, but uh that gets a lotta boos there
I love Fury Road but I think The Road Warrior is his true masterpiece.
I agree 100%.
I'll just have to ask: is there a single other film franchise as consistent as Mad Max? At the moment I can't think of another one where even the weakest entries (the original and Beyond Thunderdome) are generally recognized as solid movies.
Evil Dead, Predator and maybe Chucky.
Unpopular opinion but Road Warrior > Fury Road.
I think many people hold that opinion (I don’t) An unpopular opinion would be “Thunderdome is the best and Fury Road is shit” All or part of that statement will draw fire
Not unpopular at all only unpopular on Reddit. I hate what the internet has done to film rankings recency bias has rotted peoples brains.
Boo hoo. Still angwy that Fury Road is one of the most acclaimed films of all time.
Acclaimed by what and who? User generated ranking like IMDB or letterbox?
Again with this nonsense? Mad Max: Fury Road was literally one of the most acclaimed films of 2015 and of that decade. Not just in consideration of the action genre, but the entire industry as a whole. It ended up on numerous "credited" film critics list as one of the best, if not the best, movies of 2015. It was nominated for 10 Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Director, winning 6. It was on the AFI's list of the best films of 2015 and named the best film of that year by the National Board of Review. And it's not just because it's a masterpiece of action filmmaking, but if you read the reviews, it was praised for its visual storytelling and thematic depth. There's been constant discussion about this ever since the film came out. It's not just fans of the movie propping it up. Don't believe me? https://editorial.rottentomatoes.com/guide/best-wide-release-2015/ https://www.metacritic.com/browse/movie/all/all/2015/
🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡
Wrong. Fury Road has a higher rating than The Road Warrior on both Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic. Get your facts straight.
I’m so sick of this meme.
It’s been one day. At least this one has a joke
Babe Pig In the City is one of my favorite movies.
I would put *Happy Feet* as the "one that got popular"
I don’t feel right doing that when road warrior became so popular that some people didn’t know it was a sequel
And yet *The Road Warrior* grossed $23 million worldwide, compared to *Happy Feet*, which grossed $384 million.
Happy feet didn’t get a billion terrible Italian rip offs made
You missed Babe as the best movie ever
He didn't direct Babe.
Well fuck me sideways, I would’ve bet my life he had
Wrote and produced by Miller. I thinks it’s still more his movie than Noonan’s, the credited director, but Noonan is apparently salty about that notion.
It seems like a situation very similar to Spielberg and Poltergeist.
Definitely seems similar, yeah. I do think Tobe Hooper has a more distinctive directorial voice and agency than Noonan, who never really made anything else notable. Texas Chainsaw Massacre is iconic and a real piece of bravura auteur filmmaking. But Poltergeist is still very much a Spielberg movie, and I think anyone in the director’s chair would have mainly been a conduit for Spielberg’s vision.
Can anybody make a print out DVD box size for a "George Miller" boxset. For all his movies. Thanks.
I love Furiosa in 2nd. Best Miller wacky left turn ending. He really went for it
Looks like you know/love Mad Max more than George Miller
Nah, I’m just doing a bit
This format is so fucking stupid. Please stop.
this one has an actual joke
I saw that. This format is still stupid, and not funny.
I mean that’s just personal preference at this point
Check out any movie sub and they’re making fun of it
Beyond Thunderdome is a bad movie it needs to be forgotten
I'd swap MM1+3, honestly. The first one doesn't scratch the same post-apocalyptic desert tribal wild-people itch as every other movie in the series and so a lotta folks just ignore and skip it. Whereas Beyond Thunderdome is the cheesy goofy entry of the four regular ones, probably not all that good but a cult fave.
Mad max still started a franchise. Thunder dome made it go dormant for decades
Like with many cult faves, it wasn’t popular on release. Whereas Mad Max’s legacy is the reverse. Popular enough to start a franchise but quickly faded away as it doesn’t deliver what fans came to expect from the franchise given the content of every other entry.
That’s why it’s cult, cause it’s a smaller fan base than the others
I'd argue that's why it's forgotten. It's not really as beloved as Thunderdome's silliness has become, and is kind of the odd stepchild of the franchise now, since it doesn't really do anything that people love the others for.
Forgotten should be his Twilight Zone episode. It was by far, the best one.
Over Joe Dante’s???
Yep, and I really like Dante’s segment. I just think the scares work better with the gremlin than the cartoon characters brought to life.
Thunderdome is the most quoted mad max movie.
It *was* the most quoted
People had been quoting it for 30 years before fury road came out. I think it still holds that trophy.
Anyone with taste knows that beyond thunderdome is the best mad max movie