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Furiosa Movie Review: A Bold Saga in the Mad Max Universe
The Mad Max franchise has always been synonymous with high-octane action, visually arresting landscapes, and unforgettable characters. The latest addition to this adrenaline-fueled saga, Furiosa, delves deeper into the backstory of one of its most compelling characters, Imperator Furiosa. Directed by George Miller, the film is an origin story with an intriguing narrative, featuring Anya Taylor-Joy in the titular role and Chris Hemsworth as the antagonist.
While the shadow of Mad Max: Fury Road looms large, Furiosa attempts to carve its own path. Does it live up to the expectations? Let’s dive into the review of this gritty prequel.
Plot and Themes
Set years before the events of Fury Road, the story follows Furiosa’s journey from a young woman captured by the Immortan Joe’s forces to becoming the battle-hardened leader we know. The narrative captures her transformation as she faces moral dilemmas, betrayal, and survival in a post-apocalyptic world where resources are scarce, and humanity is at its rawest.
One of the film’s strengths lies in its exploration of themes such as resilience, loyalty, and rebellion. It doesn’t shy away from showing the brutality of the wasteland but balances it with moments of hope and humanity.
Performance and Character Development
Anya Taylor-Joy brings depth and ferocity to Furiosa, portraying her vulnerability and inner strength in equal measure. Her performance adds layers to the character, making her journey relatable despite the dystopian backdrop.
Chris Hemsworth surprises audiences with his chilling portrayal of Dementus, a warlord with a dangerous blend of charisma and menace. His dynamic with Furiosa creates some of the most intense moments in the film.
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The supporting cast also delivers solid performances, though some characters feel underutilized. However, the chemistry between Taylor-Joy and Hemsworth drives the story forward.
Visuals and Action Sequences
George Miller once again demonstrates his mastery of visual storytelling. The landscapes, filled with endless deserts and ominous skies, create an immersive setting. The practical effects and stunts, a hallmark of the franchise, remain jaw-dropping.
The action sequences in Furiosa are relentless, combining high-speed chases, explosive battles, and intimate hand-to-hand combat. While some scenes feel reminiscent of Fury Road, the film introduces fresh set pieces that keep the audience on edge.
A Unique Identity?
The biggest challenge for Furiosa is stepping out of Fury Road‘s massive shadow. While it succeeds in expanding the lore and giving Furiosa a compelling origin, comparisons to its predecessor are inevitable. The pacing occasionally falters, and certain plot points feel predictable, but the emotional core keeps the film grounded.
Final Verdict
Furiosa is a worthy addition to the Mad Max universe, delivering a gripping origin story with powerful performances and breathtaking action. While it may not entirely escape the legacy of Fury Road, it stands as a testament to George Miller’s ability to reinvent his post-apocalyptic world.
For fans of the franchise and newcomers alike, Furiosa offers an exhilarating cinematic experience that is both intense and thought-provoking.
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Say what you will about the Furiosa movie, but there is something so poignant about her demanding her girlhood back, her time, her innocence, all those she lost, and still not realizing at the end that there is no returning.
The throughline of 'there is no hope' and how Furiosa refuses to lose it, but not for the right reasons, not yet. She keeps the peach pit in her hair, her cheek, physical proof of a one day that is just the past, unable to truly move on from that nebulous dream. How she buries it in the body of the man who snatched her away from any clutch she could have of home, stole away her mother, stole away her family, stole away Jack, and grows the fruit of it to give to The Wives, just prior to their escape, to The Green Place, to what she thinks of Home.
But there is no returning. Home is not Home as she knew it. Home morphed and changed and drowned and soured.
Furiosa travels days and days, miles on miles, loses and loses and loses, and all to learn the lesson of this prequel: there is no going back. There is no back to return to. That girlhood is gone, all that she once had has dwindled. There is no more what once was, there is only what Is.
Furiosa works as a prequel because it sets up that Furiosa focused so much of her time on the act of looking back, an Orpheus of a character, who has long felt what she wanted dissipate into smoke, but who believed that if she just tried hard enough, she could get it all back. Her reasons are for 'redemption', to return, a replay, a record skipping re- re- re- but it is only when she sees that The Green Place is a wasteland in its own right, and when Max tells her to go back to the Citadel in Fury Road, that she realizes what she has been running TO was actually what she was running FROM: reality. The reality that she is where she is, and that her roots have grown in a place she now has the opportunity to mold for the better, and that she *can* make it better, even though the cost was (and always is) blood.
Furiosa spends all of her titular movie looking over her shoulder at the past to set up for a Furiosa who spends the last half of Fury Road looking to the future.
#furiosa#mad max#mad max fury road#mad max furiosa#i know there are mixed reviews about this movie but the metaphors SLAP y'all
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Hey if anyone out there got dissuaded from watching "Furiosa" because of bad reviews: don't trust them. Go watch it. Don't wait til you see it some time down the line and think "aww damn, this would have been cool to see in theaters."
#it's 100% on par with Fury Road just differently structured#Mad Max#Furiosa#Fury Road#it feels SURREAL reading people trash the movie#like those reviews cannot be real
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My Week(s) in Reviews: June 9, 2024
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (George Miller, 2024)
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Disappointing. It's impossible to not compare this movie to Fury Road. The sad thing is, when you do compare this to Fury Road, every single aspect of it pales in comparison. Anya is really good, here, but just never feels like Furiosa. And Chris Hemsworth is a blast, but he goes full-ham in the most distracting way imaginable. Then there's Miller's direction, which is tedious compared to his work on Fury Road. The structure of the film is awkward, and the pacing is damn-near unbearable, draining the action set-pieces of almost all of the balls-to-the-wall adrenaline in which every single moment of Fury Road was drowning. And the cinematography is a complete bore compared to the eye-melting shots by which Fury Road was almost exclusively composed. All that being said, on its own, Furiosa is not a bad movie. Unfortunately, however, it's impossible to experience it on its own in a world where the infinitely superior Fury Road exists. - 6/10
In the Land of Saints and Sinners (Robert Lorenz, 2024)
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I really like this brand of slow-burn, quietly human, small-town action-thrillers. Add in this stellar cast and that pitch-perfect climax, and this is the best of its kind I've come across in at least the past few years. - 9/10
The Beekeeper (David Ayer, 2024)
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Far from good, but just action-packed enough to keep it from being a complete waste of time. - 4.5/10
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (Wes Ball, 2024)
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The absence of Andy Serkis felt significant. But other than that, this wasn't bad. Overlong? Definitely. But far from bad. I don't have much to say, really. The mo-cap work was fantastic, and there were some really interesting/exciting set-pieces. The cast were pretty solid straight through, with the highlights definitely being Freya Allan and Kevin Durand, who steals every second of screen-time he has. - 8/10 For Reference... My Updated Scores for the New Planet of the Apes Films: Rise: 7.5/10 Dawn: 9/10 War: 9.5/10 Kingdom: 8/10
I also revisited Peter Jackson's The Frighteners and Christopher Landon's Happy Death Day & Happy Death Day 2U. The Frighteners is every bit as amazing as it was the last time I watched it, except for how poorly the effects have aged. And the Happy Death Day movies were just as fun as they were in cinemas. I really wish we'd get more of that concept and delivery, and more of Jessica Rothe as a scream queen.
Enjoy!
-Timothy Patrick Boyer.
#movies#furiosa#anya taylor joy#kingdom of the planet of the apes#the beekeeper#in the land of saints and sinners#my week in reviews#film#movie#cinema#film review#movie reviews#etc.
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Second time watching Furiosa today, and I think I liked it even better than the first watch through!
I honestly have no idea how it stands as a solo movie for folks who haven't watched Mad Max: Fury Road, but for folks who DID watch MMFR and loved it (me), it's an awesome prequel that does not compete with, but rather uplifts and enriches the world and story of MMFR.
It's got the same kind of explosive action, fun post-apocalyptic innovation, and the overall tone of MMFR, while going into world-building details that MMFR didn't have time to explore. Acting was incredible throughout, and really loved the new characters!
Both times I've watched it, it's left me desperately wishing it was a double feature with MMFR right afterwards. I wanna see MMFR in theaters again ;_;
#Furiosa#furiosa a mad max saga#mad max furiosa#mmfr#YukiPri rambles#movie review#i am remembering my mmfr phase and feeling it y'all#i fell HARD for that movie like nothing in this past decade#only other standalone film that competes is maybe Godzilla Minus One but for completely different reasons#i am remembering my War Boys#and belatedly wondering if obsessing over soldiers who wear identical white and are treated as canon fodder is a thing for me
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Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga - Hope Takes Root
[The following essay contains MAJOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!]
I. Living Off the Corpse of the Old World
Come on, Max. Tell me your story. What burned you out? Kill one man too many? See too many people die? Lose some family? Oh, so that's it. You lost your family. That makes you something special, does it?
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This monologue, originally uttered in 1981’s The Road Warrior, is still thematically relevant to the increasingly sprawling Mad Max Saga, resonating three films and more than four decades later. Every installment in the franchise—from its scrappy, low-budget debut to its most recent spinoff—revolves around loss. The desolate Wasteland takes, and takes, and takes again, consuming friends, family, resources, sanity. Those that linger are little more than disillusioned scavengers—“maggots living off the corpse of the old world.”
That description certainly applies to Dementus, the central antagonist of Furiosa. A charismatic, flamboyant warlord commanding veritable legions of bloodthirsty marauders, the self-proclaimed “King of the Bikers” (one of several grandiose titles that he flaunts like undeserved trophies) quickly establishes himself as a cunning tactician, utilizing an audacious Trojan Horse strategy to effortlessly overwhelm a formidable stronghold with minimal casualties to his own troops.
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Despite his short-term victories on the battlefield, however, Dementus consistently proves himself to be an utterly incompetent leader in times of peace, with his conquests almost immediately descending into chaos and disarray. He’s essentially a post-apocalyptic Ozymandias in the making: “Round the decay of that colossal wreck,” you can easily imagine the History Man saying of his ruined domain, “the lone and level sands stretch far away.”
II. A Fuel-Injected Suicide Machine
Of course, it is implied that Dementus’ numerous “failures” are actually intentional. Although he claims to seek a “land of abundance,” finding it isn't his true goal; rather, what he desires is the pursuit of paradise—the thrill of a chase without end, futile and fruitless. To paraphrase Michael Mann’s Heat: “For [him], the action is the juice.”
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Beneath his boasts, bluster, and pretensions of ambition, Dementus is a devout nihilist, so irreparably shattered by the tragic deaths of his children (symbolized by the stuffed toy that he constantly carries on his person) that even physical sensation—pain, pleasure, exhilaration—now eludes him. As he explains to Furiosa during their climactic confrontation, the gaping wound in his heart can only be healed (albeit temporarily) by violence—the fleeting adrenaline rush of seizing territory and crushing his enemies underfoot.
Perhaps this is what motivates him to “mentor” our young heroine: he wants to remold something untainted by rust and radiation in his own savage image—not merely as an heir or a replacement for his biological offspring, but as the ultimate validation of his pessimistic philosophy. To this end, he forces the poor girl to watch as he brutally murders her mother, burning every excruciating second of agony and torment into her memory. To add insult to injury, he literally tastes the tears that she weeps, reveling in her grief and misery.
III. Feels Like Hope
Nevertheless, Love somehow manages to endure amidst the despair—like a lush and verdant Green Place thriving in the middle of a barren desert. If Dementus is a dark reflection of Max Rockatansky’s worst qualities—selfishness, cynicism, indiscriminate rage—then Praetorian Jack anticipates his eventual altruism. Like Max, Jack’s parents were once “warriors searching for a righteous cause.” Unfortunately, nobility and morality are as illusory and insubstantial as a mirage among the merciless dunes; following their senseless deaths, their orphaned son resigned himself to an empty existence of defending an egomaniacal tyrant’s supply caravans from roving bandits and rival gangs.
In Furiosa, though, Jack recognizes a kindred spirit. While circumstances have reduced them to their basest survival instincts, they both dream of something greater: she of returning to the home from which she was snatched, and he of discovering a purpose beyond the “fire and blood” of the Road War. Together, they forge a relationship that transcends romance, nourishing the seed of Hope in one another. He wouldn’t hesitate to lay down his life in exchange for hers; and she, in turn, would gladly sacrifice a chance at freedom in order to protect him.
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Even Jack’s unceremonious demise can’t totally extinguish the faint ember of optimism that he sparked in Furiosa’s subconscious. Though she briefly succumbs to wrath and exacts cruel vengeance on Dementus, she refuses to fulfill her adversary’s grim prophecy that she will become his successor—the personification of his bleak worldview. Instead, she follows Jack’s example; inspired by his inherent goodness, she conspires to liberate Immortan Joe’s abused and exploited “wives” (glorified sex slaves, valued solely as breeding stock), leading them to salvation beyond his seemingly infinite reach.
IV. Some Kind of Redemption
“Who killed the world?” is a recurring question throughout Mad Max: Fury Road; the complementary characters in its belated prequel provide something resembling an answer. Dementus, haunted by his traumatic Past, destroys everything that he touches; by the conclusion of his journey, his band of loyal disciples has dwindled to a meager handful, and he finally marches towards his doom alone. Joe, meanwhile, rules the Present with an iron fist, but his single-minded obsession with producing a “pure” genetic legacy sabotages his dynastic aspirations; without any “perfect” progeny to inherit his cult of personality, his empire is too fragile to outlast him. Furiosa, on the other hand, realizes that the Future lies not in oppression and subjugation, but in cooperation, collaboration, and compassion.
Greed, authoritarianism, and Hate killed the world; it is therefore only logical that Love should resurrect it.
It’s a message as elegantly simple and universal as the archetypes that populate George Miller’s modern mythology. Furiosa is a worthy addition to the legendary series, expanding upon and recontextualizing its predecessors while simultaneously excelling on its own merits. It is magnificent, spectacular, and appropriately epic.
#Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga#Furiosa#Mad Max#Mad Max: Fury Road#The Road Warrior#Road Warrior#George Miller#Anya Taylor-Joy#Chris Hemsworth#Tom Burke#Lachy Hulme#Dementus#Praetorian Jack#Immortan Joe#film#writing#movie review
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Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024)
9/10
Just let George Miller make whatever Mad Max movies he wants. I will witness it.
A very different beast than Fury Road, this is a sweeping, ambitious, character driven story of vengence and violence. Splitting the story into 5 chapters, each having their own narrative goals, makes the film feel very episodic. However, this structure allows each segment to have a distinct feel, while familiarizing us with the key players and the motivating events in young Furiosa's life that lead her on the path to Fury Road. The themes, visual motifs, and symbols woven through the story create a rich tapestry that, like Fury Road, elevates this beyond action spectacle and into something grand and mythic.
Anya Taylor Joy doesn't actually appear as Furiosa until nearly a third into the movie, but once she does, she commands the screen with a nearly wordless performance, glowering with intense resolve and roiling emotions. This gives the few words she does say more importance and weight. Joy has much more to do with the character here than Charlize Theron, and, while evocative of Theron's version, makes it her own. Alyla Brown as young Furiosa is terrific as well in the first two chapters, also saying very little while using only her eyes and body language to convey feelings.
While many of the Wasteland denizens new and old are portrayed impeccably with that signature manic "Mad Max" energy, it is Chris Hemsworth's Dementus that basically steals the show. Equal parts charismatic and menacing, intimidating yet vulnerable, he provides Furiosa with an interesting antagonist whose motivations are as nebulous and volatile as a desert sandstorm. Hemsworth plays Dementus as a true product of the end of the world: a sad, pitiable, broken man acting the part of a cruel, bombastic leader, allowing himself to be corrupted by the unforgiving reality around him, using humor and eccentricity as a thin veneer over his brutal nihilism.
Much has already been discussed about the film's look. While John Seale's cinematography is missed, Furiosa still contains some terrific and creative shots, particularly during its many action scenes. The wasteland is once again presented using a variety of highly-saturated colors, which is always a refreshing deviation from the typical, washed-out appearance of other post-apocalyptic movies. Yet, the compositing, lighting, and computer effects are a step down from Fury Road, and can be distractingly noticeable at times, especially due to the grander scale of the setpieces requiring more CGI effects and background replacements. But these are relatively minor complaints, as the practical effects involving smashing vehicles and flailing stunt persons are still astonishing to behold. Miller's skill in staging action remains some of the best in the business, as even the most chaotic of sequences remain visually coherent.
While not as laser focused as Fury Road, Furiosa is still an incredible achievement in both character and world-building. It is perhaps one of the best prequels made, as it not only expands what was seen before in a satisfying way, but its added context improves its predecessor.
It is rather odd that Miller chose to include a montage of Fury Road scenes in the end credits... This movie would make a perfect double-feature with Fury Road, except it decides to show you "Fury Road: Cliff Notes edition" right at the end...
#furiosa#mad max#fury road#imperator furiosa#george miller#anya taylor joy#chris hemsworth#movie review
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Top 10 Best Movies of 2024
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Happy New Year everyone! Thank you to the two or three of my blog readers or the random Tumblr users who come across one of my reviews - always appreciate you spending your time reading my gibberish. 2024 - what a disappointing year for cinema. Naturally a primary cause for this was the SAG-AFTRA artist strike in 2023 that has had a ripple effect, however another reason would be that Hollywood is more-than-ever running out of ideas. It’s not that there were particularly bad movies, but more so okay films that left one underwhelmed. From big budget fare such as Gladiator 2, Moana 2, Deadpool & Wolverine, Argylle, The Lord of the Rings: War of the Rohirrim offering limited but forgettable entertainment, and even the indie market struggling, as I found myself hardly captivated by the likes of Longlegs, Drive-Away Dolls, The Vourdalak, MaXXXine and The Return, to name a few. It’s been a very so-so year. Nevertheless there’s always some movies that manage to offer that element of escapism we all seek from the theatrical journey, so here are my picks for my favourite films of 2024 (in my humblest of opinions of course)…
[DISCLAIMER: I have not yet seen A Complete Unknown and The Brutalist, so those will not be considered on this list, though I am very much looking forward to seeing both, especially The Brutalist]
HONOURABLE MENTIONS: Juror #2; The Last Stop in Yuma County; Challengers; The Beast; A Quiet Place: Day One; Late Night with the Devil
10 - WALLACE & GROMIT: VENGEANCE MOST FOWL - “He’s back! Again!” So I have been absolutely sleeping on these Wallace & Gromit joints. Me and my wife were in stitches after watching this new Aardman stop motion with its irreverent humour and wacky hijinks. Wallace is a self-absorbed prick, Feathers McGraw is one of the best silent villains in cinematic history and Gromit is bae. After seeing it we have since been on an endless binge of all the Wallace & Gromit shorts and films on BBC and have fallen in love with this cheese-loving mongrel of an inventor and his loyal friendly doggo. Yet Vengeance Most Fowl I still believe is maybe their best outing yet, as it takes everything that is great about this franchise and delivers it in one entertaining hilarious package. Also I can only imagine how much time it takes up for Aardman to do all the stop motion animation, with it taking weeks to make maybe only 30 seconds of footage. It’s impressive, and the result is one of the most heartwarming comedic gold features of 2024. Oh, and those Peter Kay one-liners are on point!
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9 - FLOW - The Robot Dreams of 2024. A wonderful, beautiful and immersive experience- a true vibe of a movie. Still questioning how these animals know how to drive a boat, but I’m happy to suspend my sense of disbelief and assume these creatures went to boat school in favour of admitting that this is my favourite animated feature of this year. Great for cat lovers too!
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8 - WICKED - Look, I’m as stumped as anyone about the fact that Wicked is on my Top 10 list. I’m trying to let that sink in…. Wicked in my Top 10… Wicked in my Top 10… Ugghh it grinds my gears it does!! Nevertheless, it’s a perfect adaptation of the musical stage production with catchy songs and superstar turns from Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande. My wife has also been non-stop singing “woooooo” from Defying Gravity ever since, so she evidently approves too. Now leave me be, I simply must be loathing… unadulterated loathing… For your face, your voice, your clothing… Let's just say, I loathe it all!!
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7 - HERETIC - I shall never listen to “All the Air That I Breathe” by The Hollies the same again. Hugh Grant delivers the most entertaining and uneasy religious studies lecture in history, by comparing the Bible and Quran to Monopoly - baller ass move, and a most entertaining little thriller.
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6 - CONCLAVE - In my eyes Conclave is a stunning piece of work. It manages to take what one would assume as such a simple premise, yet manages to entangle it with so many threads of twists and turns, as such turning a political and religious drama into a true mystery thriller, with Fiennes character acting as a detective, unravelling the dirty secrets of all the Pope candidates. Partner that with the great acting, sublime cinematography and a slow but engaging pace with a script filled with wit and realism, and we have ourselves one hell of a motion picture! Oh, and less one forget about the most diabolical vape hit ever!
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5 - THE SUBSTANCE - Conclave may feature the most diabolical vape hit of the year, however The Substance takes the win for the most obnoxious chewing of shrimp ever put to screen! The Substance is the type of movie that is made to shock and unsettle an audience. There’s a lot of disturbing imagery, with blood and gore and body horror, very reminiscent of horror films of David Cronenberg like The Fly and Naked Lunch. The final 30 minutes especially are so fun to watch with a crowd of people in a packed theatre, as it’s the kind of visceral and grotesque experience that is at the same time disgusting, horrible yet funny. Let’s not even sugarcoat it - the final 30 minutes are so f-ed up and it was a thrill to experience that with an audience, hearing the gasps and squirms from fellow moviegoers. Definitely up there as one of my favourite cinema trips.
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4 - THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO - Some stories a worth retelling. The sets are great and really invoke the post-Napoleon era of France; the costumes are gorgeous; the music score is grandiose and epic, really engrossing you in this decade spanning saga of revenge; the classic Alexandre Dumas story is reinterpreted so well with the themes and the emotion, and the acting across the board is superb. Truly grandiose in scale, and Pierre Niney is effortlessly cool as the titular count, playing him off as a, dare I say, French Batman. So cool, so awesome, so very French.
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3 - HUNDREDS OF BEAVERS - Hundreds of Beavers is one of the most creative, inventive and entertaining comedies of the last decade, and I had a smile on my face from start to finish. From the punchy editing, funny music cues, well-timed cutaway gags, goofy costumes or the endlessly creative deaths, this thing has so much unhinged energy it’s unreal. This slapstick comedy offers the perfect rebuttal to “they don’t make them like they used to.”
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2 - FURIOSA - It was upon my second viewing, with an avid pairing of a glass or two of gin mind you, that I really accepted how spectacular this movie is. It’s a fricking sin that Chris Hemsworth is not getting any awards recognition for his turn as the diabolical Dementus - he bloody OWNS this role! Anya Taylor-Joy comes late in the game but does rule as a revenge stricken Furiosa, but I’d actually say that Alyla Browne deserves more praise as the young Furiosa, giving one of the most raw and bare bones child-actor performances of the last decade! The scene where her mother gets crucified…. this kid felt it and WE felt it! CGI is tacky at times; but to counteract that there are some ace action scenes…. dudes parachuting off motorbikes whilst blazing in fire is so METAL! I usually hate prequels as I don’t see the point in them, but this is that one rare exception where it truly allows one to unravel more of The Wasteland through the lense of a fantastical and engaging narrative. Sad to think this may be the last Mad Max flick due to the box office failure. Shame -I’d happily dig another!
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1 - DUNE: PART TWO - To use The Lord of the Rings terminology, and boy am I happy to refer to the dear-to-my-heart Middle Earth whenever I have the chance, then Dune: Part Two holds the scale of The Two Towers. I may not agree with all of it, and there are still some moments I believe drag, though The Two Towers is also guilty of that - I’m looking at you Treebeard! But overall this is one hell of a cinematic experience and achievement. I heavily disliked the first movie, so going into this one I was prepped on hating it too. However Dune: Part Two is a masterclass of science fiction storytelling. No other movie in 2024 has provided me with such a visceral and invigorating feeling of cinematic experience. I was completely lost in the deserts of Arrakis, enamoured in the rise of the Lisan al Gaib. Oh, and that Hans Zimmer’s music score - electrifying!!
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In conclusion, 2024 excelled in the horror genre, while the two best films are both set in the desert. Take that as you will. Anyway, onwards with 2025! If you liked this, please follow me on Letterboxd for my immediate reactions: https://boxd.it/9wQGT
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nothing more cringe than coaxing and half-forcing someone to go to the movies with you because you're talking up how good the last one in the series was and then they finally agree to go and then it ends up being over two hours long and also kinda the worst 😬
#this is about the latest mad max movie btw#IM SO UPSET I WANTED IT TO BE GOOD BUT IT WASNT GOOD#fury road is just one of my fave movies ever and i assumed this one would also be fun but it was like#weirdly paced kind of oddly boring and also uncomfortably gratuitously violent#and now i feel crazy because everyone is raving about it in the reviews#im like am i the only one who didn't like it??#chris hemsworth makes a shitty villain and also they didnt really give him anything of substance to work with as a character here#anya taylor joy did well but also took forever to appear and is either mute most of the time or awkwardly dubbed over by charlize theron#the fights and actions scenes didnt make a lot of sense much of the time and had random plot holes abounding#and half the cool and mysterious worldbuilding and character stuff from the previous movie were kinda wrecked a bit for me somehow#at least we still have fury road but dang thats like a 5 star movie to me and this was like a 2.5 star movie#and the good stuff in it is just stuff thats good about the mad max world in general really not this movie itself#wahhhhhh im sad#at least i paid for everyone's tickets i guess#i was like apologizing to the people i dragged to it haha#and then i checked the critics' responses and everyone is like 5 stars!! a masterpiece!!#im so confused by all the rave reviews#furiosa spoilers#movies#p
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Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (dir. George Miller).
[It's] another stunningly harsh yet fantastical adrenaline rush of pure carnage on screen. How Miller hands action through trauma makes the bleak, dispiriting nature of loss and violence all the more viscerally impactful. It's more pure cinematic fury and spectacle.
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“The darkest of angels. The fifth rider of the apocalypse”
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🍿: Hollywood
📈: Box Office Report
📽️: Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
🌟 "Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga" crossed $168M at the worldwide box office on a $168M budget.
🥇Credit:@hollywoodhandle
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isn’t it like tumblr 101 not to tag something you’re hatefully writing about so it doesn’t clog up the tag for the people who actually enjoy it?
#yes this is about furiosa#I’m so tired of sifting through shitty reviews when looking for content#no one gives a fuck about your movie review like you hate fun we get it#no one cares ash
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Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024)
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Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga proves the wasteland has plenty more stories to offer. Is it on the same level as Mad Max: Fury Road? No, but keep in mind that Fury Road is one of the greatest action movies ever made. Even The Road Warrior doesn’t reach its ferocity or pulse-pounding excitement. What this prequel spinoff has are outstanding action scenes, gorgeous cinematography, a rich world you love to explore and loads of memorable characters.
In a post-apocalyptic Australia, Furiosa (played by Alyla Browne as a child and teenager) is taken from her home by the Biker Horde, led by Dementus (Chris Hemsworth). Given to Immortan Joe (Lachy Hulme) in a trade, Furiosa (played by Anya Taylor-Joy as an adult) remains determined to make her way home. To do this, she must make herself useful enough to be trusted with the resources she’ll need to survive the wasteland.
The standout in Furiosa is absolutely Chris Hemsworth as Dementus. We’ve seen evil people in this franchise, but he’s the cruelest and most bug-nuts so far. The thing is, Hemsworth is so charismatic and Dementus is so adept at navigating this world you find yourself admiring the character. Through the story’s five chapters, he’s constantly finding ways to increase his army, resources and influence. The more power he accumulates, the more dangerous he becomes. It’s like he knows he wants to be in charge, but not why, or what to do once he is, which leads to more chaos and destruction. You're never sure if he’s as mad as he seems, or if he’s putting on a show to mock this new world. Maybe it’s that he’s fully embraced the wasteland and wants it to remain as lawless and savage as it is now, so he’s determined to keep tearing it down. Maybe he was always like this but civilization kept him in check. What makes him so dangerous is that beneath the madness, there’s logic and cunning that reminds you of Heath Ledger’s Joker. You're not sure if even Dementus is prepared to deal with Dementus.
We got a pretty good look at this world in Fury Road but the film was constantly putting more distance between the protagonists and the Citadel. Furiosa, by contrast, allows us to sit and see the inner workings. The closeups we get help us understand but they don’t bring any comfort. This is a dreadful world dominated by violence. On the upside, that carnage sure is cinematic. What’s amazing is that we’ve seen vehicular destruction four times from George Miller and he still manages to bring some new ideas to the table. As I was watching our heroine fend off The Octoboss (Goran D. Kleut, playing a character whose name is as ridiculous as it is awesome) and his Mortiflyers, admiring the way it’s shot and the constant back-and-forth as the casualties rise, I suddenly realized how long this battle has been going on. There are few movies doing action on this franchise's level.
You’d think that by being a prequel, much of Furiosa would be predictable but the screenplay by Miller and Nico Lathouris repeatedly uses your expectations to surprise you. You know that Furiosa is, at some point, going to lose her left arm. You know because she wears a mechanical arm in Fury Road and because she’s got a map to her home tattooed on it. Dementus wants that map. We know Furiosa will do anything to keep it out of his hands. Does that mean she will eventually sacrifice her arm to keep it away from him? Is Dementus going to forcibly take it, giving our heroine another reason to seek revenge from him? Will she simply lose it during a violent attack? You don’t know and frequently, you think “This is it!”, only for the picture to prove you wrong.
The always-reliable Anya Taylor-Joy does so much with her character’s limited dialogue and handles the action scenes exceptionally well but if we spend time on her, we won’t have time to talk about the side characters, my favorite of which is Praetorian Jack (Tom Burke). Can he get a spinoff movie too? He's so effortlessly cool. How about the multitude of loonies accompanying Dementus, like that guy with the one eye, or the lady whose face is all messed up? What I love about this film is that it even makes characters out of vehicles. Like, you’ll see this cobbled-together monstrosity and realize you've seen it before. Now, it's got new pieces welded onto it, or a new driver and you can tell that inanimate object has its own story it could tell.
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga is packed with so much story, worldbuilding, action and memorable scenes you don’t even feel the 148-minute pass by. In fact, when it reached the Chapter Three mark, I thought to myself “Already? We can’t be close to halfway done… not yet!” I can't wait to see it again. (Theatrical version on the big screen, June 4, 2024)
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Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
WITNESS ME!!!
... as I write another mini-review of another piece of media that I enjoyed. This time, about a film.
Furiosa is the fifth installment in director George Miller's Mad Max franchise, serving as both a prequel and spin-off to 2015's Mad Max: Fury Road, which I am a huge fan of 'til this day, even more so now since watching it. The movie tells the story of Fury Road's Imperator Furiosa, originally portrayed by Charlize Theron, portrayed here by Anya Taylor-Joy (The Queen's Gambit, The Menu) and Alyla Browne, as a younger version of her. Taylor-Joy stars alongside Chris Hemsworth (Thor, Extraction, The Cabin in The Woods) and Tom Burke (The Musketeers, Strike, Mank).
In the film, set in post-apocalyptic Australia, the warlord Dementus (Hemsworth) kidnaps Furiosa as a child (Browne), executes her mother, and sells her to Immortan Joe as a slave. Within a decade, Furiosa manages to escape slavery, adopts a new identity as a mechanic under Joe's army of irradiated War Boys, eventually becomes a soldier (Taylor-Joy) serving under Praetorian Jack (Burke), then avenges her mother by defeating and capturing Dementus, and is promoted to Imperator afterward, leading up to the events of Fury Road, where she, with the aid of Max Rockatansky (Tom Hardy), helps Joe's "wives" - his remaining sex slaves, referred to in-universe as Breeders - escape to Furiosa's home, the "Green Place of Many Mothers," incurring the wrath of Immortan Joe and his war boys in a lengthy battle across the wasteland.
I saw this film one June weekend ago on a date with my girlfriend, and I must say: personally, there was never a dull moment the whole time, commercial reviews of the film during its opening weekend be damned. Every moment had me at the edge of my seat, in anticipation of what's gonna happen next. Anya Taylor-Joy is well on her way to becoming Hollywood's next big action star. Furiosa's entire character arc, her struggles to survive and rise above, and her desire for revenge were portrayed well. Chris Hemsworth's unhinged delivery as Dementus had truly left its mark on me, as until the time of this writing, my lasting impression of him was his Shakespearean portrayal of Marvel's Norse God of Thunder. It was as if George Miller gave Hemsworth full permission to just let loose as an everyday Aussie, albeit with more villainous bloodlust and melodrama than the average bloke. I swear, the dude goes through so many eras in the movie, that he might as well just compete with Taylor Swift. It had left me both amused and genuinely impressed by his acting chops.
The setting, backdrop, and score are also worthy of my praise. The whole thing just served as a welcome expansion of Fury Road's wonderfully bleak dystopian landscape. No words can ever do justice to Junkie XL's musical accompaniment; it just complements the film's tense high-octane action and more somber dramatic moments really well.
Simply put, I would say that this movie is just one big modern-day Greek epic, and it shall ride forever shiny and chrome, along the hallowed halls of Valhalla.
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Furiosa: A Mad Max Story - Film Review
Director: George Miller Production Company: Kennedy Miller Mitchell, Domain Entertainment Country: Australia, United States Year: 2024 Finally I get around to setting my eyes on the most recent entry in the Mad Max franchise. Sufficed to say, I’m divided about the film upon eventually seeing it myself. George Miller, off the back of Mad Max: Fury Road in 2015, had been seen as somewhat of an…
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