Furiosa

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

Just watched it. I prefer Fury Road because of its relentlessness. Furiosa is more based on showing important bits of Furiosa's life, not an almost uninterrupted sequence of events. It does spend more time in building the world and the characters. Chris Hemsworth is definitely a great villain here, both due to the way he plays him, but also the way he is written. His strengths and flaws feel like they make sense for him.

And I just absolutely love the inventiveness with all the crazy constructions, vehicles and tactics used by these "Wastelanders"...

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

Went & saw it today and enjoyed it immensely; they do a great job of telling a great story with compelling characters with relatively little dialog. Good action pieces, but not all nonstop action to allow some story.

Watching Chris Hemsworth chew the scenery was just icing, too.

Though now I need to go back and watch Fury Road, because I really don't remember it well.

 

[Older Beholder]

Though now I need to go back and watch Fury Road, because I really don't remember it well.

I went straight home and watched Fury Road after seeing Furiosa, it's kinda hard not to, given they feel like 2 halves of the same film (was intended to be made together originally).

 

[Ruin Explorer]

Saw it today.

Absolutely loved it. I found Taylor-Joy's accent decision a little strange but like, that's a tiny nitpick in an absolutely great movie, with had it all - wild action, a lot of heart, actual ideas, amazing characters, incredible visual design. Wonderful performances (including Taylor-Joy and the child version - who looked even more like Charlize Theron than she did!) too.

(Also I may be one of the few people outside Australia who went "OMG MARK WALES?!?!" because I am an Australian Survivor fan - apparently his first acting gig - he's got the look for it.)

I prefer Fury Road because of its relentlessness. Furiosa is more based on showing important bits of Furiosa's life, not an almost uninterrupted sequence of events.

Agree. Fury Road is a decade-defining cinematic masterpiece - this is "just" an extremely good movie of the kind we so rarely see (but maybe will again in future? I feel like more really cool and watchable movie-movies are coming out).

 

[CapnZapp]

I just watched it: it's not horrible or even bad or anything, but Fury Road is such a masterpiece that my first and foremost summary will be:

It didn't ruin Fury Road.

That's the highest compliment I'm willing to give.

This movie just feels like Netflix version while Fury Road is the Cinemascope, the IMAX grand epic.

It's smaller budget, its storytelling is too complicated for the 'Max verse, it's stunts feel less epic, there's definitely a feeling of artificialness where Fury Road blew me away with how real it all looked like...and it feels just unnecessary and redundant. No character pops. Everything that's cool about Furiosa is from the other film.

Did we need to learn all these background details about Furiosa? Where her war paint came from (talk about another Max-like figure)? How she lost her arm?

The existence of this movie is all about Charlize Theron's performance. Again, at least this movie doesn't sully the other one. I'm not actively sorry I watched it.

This is a competent action movie that does not bore me despite its long running time.

It definitely deserves out of five.

But that's still three full stars short of Fury Road, already in '15 deemed "best action movie of the century"

 

[wicked cool]

Saw it today. Not bad. Funny how I ended up routing for the less bad. Hemsworth stole the show!

 

[payn]

Meh. Im not big on prequels as folks around here know. I think Furiosa does a good job of avoiding the prequel pitfalls, but at the end of the day it just felt like a Fury Road rerun. Didn't quite hit the marks like FR. Lot of characters bouncing around just to say "oh yeah that guy." That said, I could watch reruns of the warrig rolling down the road forever.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Finally saw this. Miller can direct the hell out of a movie, and it's fun to see him using the same techniques he used in Babe here.

Both actresses playing Furiosa did a good job and are clearly trying to draw a line toward Charlize Theron's version of the character, which is nice, but wasn't required.

Hemsworth did a fine job and is clearly having a ball, even though his villain suffers in comparison to Immortan Joe, who's the series' best villain.

I also liked the not-Max Praetor character and the extra bits of lore we got about wasteland culture.

If Free League wants to make a Mad Max RPG, they will have my attention.

Definitely not the best Mad Max movie, but certainly in the top two or three. (That said, they all distantly trail Fury Road, which is an absolute masterpiece.)

 

[billd91]

I finally saw Furiosa as well. And though I thought Fury Road was better and more gripping, Furiosa was still quite good. It's more of a slow-paced saga punctuated by action scenes as highlights of Furiosa's life than the climactic battles to thwart and dominate her oppressors that Fury Road is.

 

[Joshua Randall]

If Free League wants to make a Mad Max RPG, they will have my attention.

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