"Furiosa" Topic

I see a surge of sales in Hotwheels for kit bashing! And sales of rules like Gaslands.

"Do you have it in you to make it epic?"

Oh my gosh, yes they did and then some. What a film!

(I quite enjoyed it )

Oh – and it definitely needs to be seen on a big screen – the bigger the better! This is not a made for TV film

Thanks for the second post. That has become my criterion for going to a theater … I want the visual to flood my vision and the audio to cause a minor tremor.

I think part of this is because I now listen to things on video/TV/etc where the visual is not necessary to get the level of immersion I am looking for (most dramas, sitcoms, etc.). It might harken back to listening to hockey on TV when we didn't have good enough reception for the picture, but still did have good, useful sports announcers. The Washington Capitals announcers are still like that.

I expected Furiosa would be like that, but always happy to have confiremation before I go.

Haven't seen this one and don't intend to. Of all the Mad Max films, the only one I liked at all was The Road Warrior.

That's a choice. It might be the best SF film this year. Way above Kingdom of the Planet of The Apes and I'm currently thinking easily as good as Dune II. But I may calm down eventually.

It's beautifully shot though, and the spectacle is suitably spectacular. But I can see the case for sticking to Mad Max / Mad Max 2 (that's the one you call the Road Warrior, right?).

This one takes Beyond Thunderdome and raises it to the power of 81.3.

For some reason it has not been pulling in the crowds over here (Australia) and is not selling well. Those who do see it say it is a great film, so it kind of doesn't make sense about no bums on seats.

I'd read that it was doing below expectations – can't understand it as if one is looking for an exciting action film well it is that and if one wants a film to look gorgeous then it is that too. And it has a great epic sweep to the storyline. I'll see it again if I can.

I have no intention of seeing this. The bits and pieces of the last film were off-putting. This looks to be more of the same.

Interesting. I just read that it bombed in the theaters.

It is the problem of making very expensive films….

….one of the things about George Miller that I find quite amazing is that on the one hand he has the Max series of films, and on the other he has the Babe and Happy Feet series of films. That's a really odd combination. And between Fury Road and Furiosa he made the really rather wonderful Three Thousand Years of Longing which is pretty much a dictionary definition of Art House cinema. I can't off-hand think of anyone else with quite that range. Particularly since he has actually made only just over a dozen films.

To be a "success" in the movie industry, you have to basically double the investment.

MM:F cost about $200 USDM to make (~ +/-$25M depending on whom you ask). As the #1 intake movie for the weekend, I believe it only made $25 USDM in two days.

In wargaming terms, the expectation is to kill over 50% of your opponets with the first volley, otherwise you should have never been given command.

Just saw it with SWMBO.

Great flick. The visuals were spectcular, including the actor closeups. The writing had a good examinatino of what it means to be a human being and din't get preachy or roll in to saccharine soliloquy. The movie making bits (sfx, cutaways, time lags, etc.) were very well done and were in the service of the story. One bit made me squeamish (even though, or possibly because, I have seen similar in real lift), but even that did not feel gratuitous.