Anya Taylor-Joy rode home on VOD last week with Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga and the results thus far are all shiny and chrome. The latest adventure in George Miller’s cinematic wasteland topped the iTunes VOD chart for July 1 and similarly lorded over the competition on the Fandango at Home chart for June 24 through 30. It’s a slight bit of redemption for the critically acclaimed blockbuster actioner after it fell surprisingly flat at the box office with only $171.3 million globally against an estimated $168 million budget. Previously, the top spot on both charts had been held by John Krasinski’s family comedy IF.
iTunes and Fandango both utilize different measures for their respective charts, meaning Furiosa dominated both in terms of the number of transactions and total revenue. Audiences are clearly still interested in seeing how Imperator Furiosa became the powerful leader seen in Mad Max: Fury Road, even if many didn’t show up when the film graced theaters in late May. It seemingly marks the continuation of a trend that has troubled the industry of late, as viewers have shown they’re more than willing to wait for the relatively quick turnaround of digital releases rather than go out to see movies on the biggest screen possible with some exceptions. David Leitch’s The Fall Guy similarly struggled at the box office with a starry duo of Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt failing to draw crowds until its VOD release.
Could not notice any cgi in the theater but at home yeah, but I would prefer this more than unhealthy productions. The movie is peak entertainment. Not a masterpiece like fury road but pretty damn fun.
It is a fun Sunday afternoon movie. The exaggerated noticeable CGI hurt it too bad, and at times the frame feels way too clean for a Mad Max movie. It had too large shoes to fill being associated with Fury Road. On the cinema the green screen is much more obvious than on a home TV as well.
I didn’t even know it was in theaters, because fuck theaters.
What’s wrong with theaters?
Mostly inconvenience, but there’s also the other people.
Honestly, I had a good time with this one. Definitely worse than Fury Road, but it’s still a good enough popcorn flick
It was good. Not better than fury but way better than original mad max. Man that movie was horrible.
Did you see the version of Mad Max where they dubbed the Australian voices into American ones, because they felt Americans wouldn’t understand the Aussie accent? That made the movie 100x worse.
Never knew such a version existed!?! That’s… Mental.
No. they all had Aussie voices but while reading up on why mad max was so bad I did see that they released a north American version with American accent voice overs! That’s crazy.
Turns out the reason they made 3 mad max movies (initially) was because they made the movie on a shoestring budget and it went on the be “the most profitable movie of all time!” And that fact still holds up today.
one was shit, luckily the road warrior made sense at least.
Watching the road warrior tonight!!!
Had too much noticeable CG for my liking really hurt my overall enjoyment of it unfortunately. It also honestly could have been 30 minutes shorter, but that’s a criticism I have of nearly all movies coming out lately.
Funny. I watched it just recently. I noticed something a bit CGi very early on, realised that that whole thing would be a distraction and turned that off in my brain … didn’t notice a thing afterwards and didn’t care … the film looked great.
I keep saying it … this practical v CGI thing has gone too far.
I’m glad that works for you but I can’t really just turn something off like that. I was also speaking from recent experience as I just saw it two weeks ago.
I can understand that. Really don’t want to
stackattack you personally or anything. It’s part of why I describe it as a cultural thing that’sgivegone to far. If everyone is talking about it, it’s on our minds as it was on mine. My ability to ignore may be significantly attributable to not great eyesight (even with glasses, there’s something that’s lost from your peripheral vision IME).It reminds me of my feeling of mediocre acting. Fuck that. Give me good. Or shit. I wanna laugh or be swept up lmao
Blame the Asian markets. From what I understand movies are considered an “event” expected to last well over two hours.
I very much agree that most movies have way too much filler added to reach their current lengths.
I’d watch it in theaters if tickets didn’t cost at least $15 with additional service fees if you try buying them online.
I wish our theaters were that cheap
So yeah we watched this. First half was pretty ok, but you know, just felt like it was coasting off Fury Road…and the middle bit got…a bit long and the last part…holy fuck would someone please kill Thor and shut him the fuck up …my god the movie could have. should have ended so much earlier.
I disagree. The ending was quite satisfying. It wasn’t like the captain marvel ending.