Box Office: ‘Furiosa’ Just Barely Beats ‘The Garfield Movie’ in Disastrous Memorial Day Weekend — the Worst in Decades
Box Office: ‘Furiosa’ Just Barely Beats ‘The Garfield Movie’ in Disastrous Memorial Day Weekend — the Worst in Decades
In a box office nail biter, "Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga" emerged victorious over "The Garfield Movie" on North American charts.
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I really liked it. Bikes and cars go vroom, guns go bang, flamethrowers go woosh. 10/10. I'm contemplating going again next weekend.
My roommate was bored. Didn't like the writing, didn't like Taylor-Joy's performance. He rated it "not good." I didn't really disagree with any of his specific complaints, I just didn't care about them.
I suspect your mileage really depends on what kind of audience member you are.
Bikes and cars go vroom, guns go bang, flamethrowers go woosh. 10/10.
That's just it, I went in to see a Mad Max movie and that's what I got. Very satisfied! I think anyone complaining about this movie went in with the wrong expectations. I told my gf before the movie, "I want to see high speed chases, shit flying through the air, explosions, stunts and at last one thing I've never seen before.". I got all that shit and then some! Fuck yeah!
If I wanted to see that, and turn my brain off, I'd watch a Fast and Furious movie.
Mad Max Fury Road was not a "turn your brain off" movie. It was extremely well written and acted. It ALSO had cars that go vroom and flamethrowers that go whoosh. It was one of the best movies of the last few decades. That's a high bar to meet.
Apparently a lot of people aren't very thrilled about mad max movies, though. Most of the analysis seems to just be saying "it's a R movie with niche appeal".
This is exactly the experience with me and my wife too. She was not at all impressed with any of the performances. And I don't disagree I just don't really care that much.
Though it's not even close to as good as fury road. I described it as "fine"
ADHD moviegoer, here; sounds like my kind of film. Dialog never mattered much to me because I can't follow it half the time. Which really sucks because I can't enjoy shows like The Wire, Sopranos, and Boardwalk Empire. People spend too much time talking and not enough time doing, and I just get confused and annoyed cause I have no idea what's going on.
As someone with ADHD I now want a website tailored to ADHD moviegoers for recommendations, as I have exactly the same problems.
I was thinking the same thing when I was typing up that comment; I'm sure someone's already done it. Unfortunately I can't find anything of the sort because search engines are useless now.
I adore Fury Road, and re-watched it the night after seeing Furiosa, and it's definitely the far superior film. That being said, Furiosa is alright for what it is. It has far more plot and dialog, which I really don't think was needed given what they managed with Fury Road, but was decently well written and fun enough.
It definitely lacked a lot of the stronger feminist themes of Fury Road, which is honestly pretty funny given they're almost 10 years apart. I'm 100% sure if they came out in the opposite order, Fury Road would be heavily criticized now for being "too woke" compared to Furiosa.