Whether it’s good or not no longer matters when the entertainment industry has spent years burning bridges and people no longer care about it

I just don't give a shit about movies or shows anymore, it's been 3 years since I watched a movie or show of any kind. The rotten stench that surrounds everything Hollywood makes or has ever made is too much for me, it's made me lose all interest because I don't associate being entertained with movies/shows, instead all associate with them now is arguing and hatefulness.

Nobody asked for the backstory of Furiosa. Plain and simple. Marketing it as a "ecofeminist and anti-capitalist" tale didn't help, either. Also, it's not "Mad Max".

8 years too late and surrounded by a bunch of awful girl boss sludge that oversaturated the market. By now everyone wanted another Max entry starring Mel.

People wanted more Max. Not a Furiosa origin story.

Girl Boss Fatigue

I still think fans want Max Rockatansky as the story's hero and main character. It's like making a Robocop movie and focusing on Lewis as the protagonist, but you know, people want Alex Murphy, the guy in the movie title.

Mad Max without Mel Gibson isn't Mad Max. There are only 3 Mad Max movies.

A Mad Max movie with no Mad Max. Of course it would fail.

A movie that is about a character nobody talks about or cares for when they think of Mad Max. It's a prequel to a movie 10 years later lol you put Mad Max name on the title, yet it's nothing to do with him. How did they think this wouldn't fail!?

This is the stupid idea of mantling. The idea is that "The mantle is what viewers care about." No, we don't like or accept someone else having batmans mantle, we accept someone being cast as a new batman, new James Bond, etc, as long as they fit the character. The last 2 and a half doctor who doctors have not fit the character so those have failed. A female James Bond will fail. Mantles do not work.

I already saw a Furiosa movie in 2015. Didn't want another one.

Riding a male role title to push girl boss movies is peak woke for the feminist message, which people are tired of. They won’t admit it but are feeling the effects of the customer’s message back to Hollywood. For me personally I have adopted a wait and sea approach to all of Hollywood’s trappings.

Furiosa cost more but looked half as expensive!!??

On film threat, Chris Gore stated that the marketing was bad. I also agree but to be honest it would have been nice if they did an old man Max film with Mel Gibson.

The market has been saturated with Girlboss content for the last decade, when the movie that is actually really good, that’s released with a female lead, it’s hard to believe. It’s like the boy who cried wolf, but Furiosa is actually a good movie.

Say what you will, I didn't go see the movie simply because there was no Mad Max in my Mad Max movie.

I just feel bad for Miller, he had 3 scripts/ideas and ofc they only greenlit the girlboss one, it flops and for sure the executives wont accept that its their decision what screwed them, not Millers filmmaking. Now its gonna be even more difficult to sell another one to the execs, even if its a true Mad Max film (with Max actually in it) because of those ticket sales

I didn't know the movie existed until Drinker's video yesterday. Also, putting 'Mad Max' in the title without the character in the actual film is desperate and underhanded. Get out of my face with that bs.

A movie that nobody asked in an IP without the main protagonist. The fact that they didn't do a Mad Max sequel because Charlize Theron apparently was more important than the namesake character and now a decade later they make this prequel, goes to show that Hollywood still wants to girl boss their way into bankruptcy.

I like how Immortan Joe and Chris Hemsworth's character had a war that we the audience didn't get to see any of. It just gets skipped over towards the end of the movie. It had a great middle with lots of action but a really boring beginning and end of the movie.

*Answers:* *#1)* Let's be real. Tom Hardy didn't have the screen time in Fury Road to assume Mel Gibson's Mad Max character. So the real last Mad Max movie was 1985's Thunderdome. It was 30 years betweem Thunderdome & Fury Road. Then 9 years to do a what?? A prequel??. *#2)* Trailer - ho hum. *#3)* My favorite was Road Warrior (Mad Max 2). *#4)* Real reason Hollywood is failing. They have used up all the goodwill their customers gave them over the years. Now it's time for Hollywood to put up & shut up. They can't do both. That's why they are failing.

Furiosa's story was already told before. This film feels pointless.

It’s hard to compare older movies to how they do now. I remember when I watched the Road Warrior and the theater was packed and shows were sold out. It’s hard for me to believe Fury Road had more demand than the Road Warrior. Domestic box office needs to be adjusted for inflation. After the theaters then it gets more complicated, you need to compare VHS sales to streaming and BluRay sales now. Mad max peaked at The Road Warrior which was a cinematic masterpiece.

I think its very simple: NOBODY ASKED FOR THIS!

People are shocked that yet another action movie with a female lead is failing when most movies today with even a hint of progressiveness fail at the box office. Even if this movie was fantastic it would still be lumped in with the rest of the movies in this genre and be disregarded.

Bring back Mel Gibson as old Max

The reason this isn't doing well is because people aren't interested in this movie or the Fall Guy, the Fall Guy had nothing to do with what the TV show was actually about so its a pass. Furiosa failed because her story was told in Fury Road and we didn't need this movie and people want Mel Gibson back as Max not Tom Hardy. The reasons why these movies are not making profit are simple.

Everyone is tired as hell of all the mary sue girl bosses shoved into our faces...

When you live in a future dystopia you don't want a movie about a different dystopian future.

The Ultimate girl boss Brie larson was right when she said these films aren't made for us....& yet studios & media shills get upset when we choose not to pay for them...simply noone wins / everyone loses with DEI.

Who cares about critic scores. They don't rate movies based off of what the audience likes

No Mad Max in a Mad Max film. Thank you and goodnight.

Hollywood has Anya Taylor-Joy in way too high regard, and I don't mean she's a bad actor, I mean she's not what draws in the crowds that Hollywood thinks she would.

I was annoyed with the bait and switch in Fury Road. Focusing on what annoyed me for an entire movie? LoL

The future of mad max ? Mad max ain't in it The world has gone mad

The media like Rotten tomatoes only praises this film because of the girlboss trope.

Funny how insulting, disappointing, and generally treating your customers like crap for a decade has real consequences.

So, here is Average Movie Goer guys take on this? I liked Fury Road and this actually doesn't sound terrible. So, why wasn't my butt in the theater seat? Well, I"m not interested in driving to the theater, expending expensive gas, finding parking or paying for it, tickets, snacks, all of which will set me back around 100$. Then I get to sit in a theater with people who, let's admit, might shoot me or stab me for whatever the hell reason or, at best, I get to sit literally shoulder to shoulder with. Oh, and the seeming requirement of a screaming baby in every theater. OR, I can wait to watch it on streaming. Hmm...choices, choices. In the end, Hollywood needs to realize theaters arose because of the new technology of movies. A new technology has come along called streaming. You can try to fight it, but it seems you're losing?

I'm an Australian who loves Mad Max but will not watch this movie because I hate prequels and it doesn't have Max in it. 😮😮😮

Fury Road lost over 50 million dollars: >movie studios get approximately 55% of the domestic box office (being very generous because sometimes they get a lot less) >Fury Road made 154 million domestically; the studio got 85 million of that before taxes >movie studios get approximately 40% of the international box office (once again being generous because in some cases they get less) >Fury Road made 217 million internationally; the studio received just 86 million of that >Fury Road's production budget was 150 million dollars. The marketing budget is typically equal to the production budget or higher but we'll be generous again and say that only 75 million was spent on marketing >being extremely generous we find that Fury Road still lost well over 50 million dollars This highlights the extreme stupidity of hollywood. They spent hundreds of millions making a movie about a character that most people didn't like from a bait and switch movie that a lost a bunch of money. Hollywood studios deserve to go broke.

A Mad Max film with no Mad Max and a cringey, strong, independent woman that don’t need no man? Yeah, let me line up to see that piece of crap 😂

My new rule is that I refuse to see movies where the lead actress has three names or one name.

They took Mad Max, then stuck a chick in it, and made it lame and gay. Obviously the audiences noped out in droves.

People who identified as a young woman didn’t watch it. Half the population of identifying women didn’t watch it. Why aren’t they buying tickets? Maybe because the genre was male. Females don’t like action movies even when a main character is the same gender as them. They should have pink makeup, ponies, and Ken wearing pink leather outfits.

What "future of Mad Max in cinema"? The last movie in that franchise was almost 40 years ago. Don't get me wrong, I'd love to see Mel Gibson reprise his breakout role, showing us an aged, mature Mad Max. Logan style, not Luke Skywalker style. If anyone were to make that happen, I'd actually buy a ticket and go see that movie. Like I did with Dune 2, my first visit to a movie theatre after the travesty of a train wreck that was "The Last Jedi".

I like Mexican IronMan's viewpoint and Chato's input on why they weren't interested in that movie. They elaborated well on what I also think. Mexican IronMan: Why pay $20 for ticket + snacks + drinks + gas + parking to watch a too long questionably good/bad/meh futuristic dystopian movie starring a female lead, when for the same price, you can go to Chicago/San Francisco/New York/whichever closest democrat's stronghold that displays the same type of insanity? People in the 80's went to watch Mad Max because life was good and that fictitious future was so alien, it was pure entertainment. Whereas nowadays, a Furiosa movie is our present day reality next door. Not some hypothetical future but what's happening already, right now. People go to the cinema for escapism, not to get slapped with more reminders of the same everyday reality reported in the news. Chato: For futuristic action movies with female leads, and considering the target audience of such genre is predominantly male, why would male viewers want to watch pretty actresses dewomanized and uglified to the max? No babes for the male gaze.

Mad Max The road warrior!

A MAD MAX film without Max Rockatansky ? Whats next, a James Bond flim with Miss Moneypenny ?

No one wanted or was excited by a Furiosa prequel except Miller. We learn all we need to about her past in Fury Road. The prequel is pointless. Audiences are also tired of girl boss action movies. Anya does what many do and just stares and scowls her way through the movie. Not very charismatic or compelling. People don't have the money now to risk wasting on a bad or even just ok movie.

When I see a movie I usually go out for DINNER and a movie - with high ticket and restaurant prices it isn’t worth going out anymore. Also, while I enjoyed Fury Road it was a bait and switch with Tom Hardy’s Max Rockatansky being sidelined. Bring back a grizzled old Mel Gibson as Mad Max and you’ll see a $Billion+ blockbuster.

My favorite Mad Max movie is Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior. I've probably watched it 30 times. It's probably the greatest post-apocalyptic action movie ever. Thunderdome is way more stylized, highly quotable, and with many, MANY, memorable scenes and characters but the appeal of Road Warrior is it's none of that. Road Warrior has style but it's not completely over the top. The Road Warrior is laconic, just a few pages of dialogue in the entire film. It has camp (like the Lord Humongous) but the camp is operatic, cruel and sparse. Road Warrior has one of the longest car chases in cinematic history yet the movie isn't bloated and over two-and-a-half hours long. It's visceral, brutal, unforgiving, and fast. And it ends with a heroic sacrifice. I only half wanted to see Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga but the price of admission is just too high when I know it's going to be free on streaming in the future. The other reason I didn't watch it in theaters is I'm tired of the bait-n-switch. Doctor Strange: In the Multiverse of Madness was a massive bait-n-switch. Hollywood burned that bridge. We know this is called "a Mad Max saga" but there's no Mad Max. A saga is a heroic tale. If it's a "Mad Max saga" then where is he?

Who here agrees the movies from the original Mad Max period have a magic to them? Mel Gibson's Charisma fills the screen despite the budget, camera, lighting and production technology being inferior to anything we have today.

Movie looks stupid

Going from the ticket sales I saw at my theater, we had more people coming for Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes and Garfield than we did for Furiosa.

I think people underestimate how much entertainment we get from KZfaq and other apps

A wise man once said; "Everything woke turns to shit!"

I don't recall a unique love for the Furiosa character in any of Fury Road's overwhelming critical praise, certainly not enough to warrant her own film, and a prequel at that.

Imagine having Mad Max in a Mad Max movie. I know, completely thinking out of the box, but it seems to be necessary.

At least Fury Road had the decency to put Max in the movie not only in the title.

The title of the movie should have been. Furiosa Flopped. A Maxi Pad Saga.

Deerface has got a special relationship with one of the producers . kind of obvious

It was a story no one wanted, about a group nobody was interested in based on an original character that wasn't even in the movie. Shocker it failed.

I paid $20 to watch Dune two but it was in theaters in less than 30 days later. It was on HBO Max. I will never pay for a movie ever again.

Hollywood keeps on making the same mistakes over and over again.

Mad Max movie without Mad Max!! I’m sure glad this failed

My favourite Mad Max movie is the "Bad Bob" episode of ReBoot.

This movie had a budget of 168 million dollars. It needed like $450 million dollars to break even. A box office bomb is not just when it doesn't break even. A bomb is when a film grosses next to nothing given its budget, a flop is when it doesn't break even.

The ratings don't lie on this one hoss. The movie was badass and has a lot of the great things we love about Fury Road, but I feel like they almost deserve this for making us wait 10 years, just to give us the story of a side character no one asked for.

Fast bikes and fast cars..... Tearing down freeways........ Sucking nitro......... Carmageddon! Guns, arrow launching. Mohawks! Roadway piracy! Aside from the name, and the namesake character. These are the things that make for a Mad Max movie. These Fury movies are just bastard caricatures of Beyond Thunderdome. And while I like Thunderdome, as the part III of the Mad Max trilogy. It is the worst film to make a bastard caricature new film series off of. Even as much as I love The Original film most of all. Because Toecutter and Bobby, on their awesome Kawasaki KZ 1000's chased by Max in his Ford Falcon XB GT........ < The Greatest car/bike moments in all filmdom. Thank you Australia for that! The Road Warrior is the iconic film that is the world everyone wants to live in.....be a road pirate in......have crazy car chase mayhem in...... And on, and on, and on. The dirt road, unidentifiable car wreck, Twisted Metal nonsense of the Fury movies is trash in any way of comparison imaginable. Any little bit of CGI or green screen anything completely ruins the movie. It must be all camera captured effects, filmed in real light. With real cars. With real sounds....and sound effects. You have to be able to smell the fuel and burning rubber. If during the opening scene of Road Warrior when Max slams the brakes in a four wheel lockup, inducing wheelhop on the right rear, does not give you instant goosebumps, you are not a petrolhead, and thus not a Mad Max fan. And the Fury films are not Mad Max films. They are cheap modern knock offs of the worst kind.

This film was originally conceived as an anime, and it predates Fury road as a script, and had tons of production difficulties. I think it should have come out first as originally was intended. It might have carried in that case, but they probably wanted to push the mad max connection. Yeah the movie is unnecessary as it stands. The actress is good but lacked gravitas that Mad Max has and his story. The story of this one place in the apocalypse, and world building, feels super grounded and stunted to have two whole movies in a world we know is a lot larger. They could have explored the world as Walking Dead is doing in this movie, not just sat in the same place. I think that's more the reason of the failure than anything, lack of world-building and centering on a character that everyone is ambivalent to in the first place. Yup. I would have way rather seen a prequel about Tina Turner's character Aunty Entity, let alone a continuation and what happened to that place than Furiosa. This movie is the same movie as the last one, same characters, same places....just minor things that we didn't need to see. That's its real fault, it's not adventurous enough.

Fury Road sux. That's why I stayed home.

Maybe in the next Bond film, Pussy Galore can be the unbeatable protagonist.

its all because you cant trust the critics after rotten tomatoes got bought

I saw RW in the theater @12 years old and I immediately dragged out my Hot Wheels and played with them, reliving the experience in my own mind. Months later I rented MM and spent the rest of the summer constantly tuning up my BMX bike. These movies resonated with me…these are guy movies to the core. MMBT and all that followed were quite different movies trying to appeal to a broader audience and I still haven’t watched them all the way through.

The very least they could've done was pick an actress that actually looked tough and imposing -- you know, the kind that actually COULD get shit done in a Mad Max setting. You know, jacked-up Linda Hamilton from Terminator 2 or Michiko Nishiwaki from My Lucky Stars -- you're welcome, by the way. But no, they had to go with bug-eyed Anya-Taylor Joy, the least imposing actress they could find. Bloody hell, she somehow looks more frail than Immortan Joe's brood mares from Fury Road.

Anya Taylor-Joy in motorface looks like AOC

Apart from a few exceptions such as No Way Home, Super Mario, Barbenheimer, and more recently, Dune Part Two (off the top of my head), I believe that apathy continues to settle in for audiences around the world given how much garbage Hollywood has consistently released these past four years or so.

Corporate studios thay push perfect girl bosses that have no character development ruined cinema. Too bad for Furiosa, could have been a great spin-off story.

A more interesting spinoff film would have been about the backstory of Immortan Joe and how the War Boys came to be along with more information about the world and different towns/leaders like Gas Town and Bullet Farm, with the protagonist we follow being Nux. We could see his journey from childhood to where he ended up in Fury Road and Furiosa could have been a side character within the film. Nux was a far more compelling character than Furiosa in Fury Road and had the best arc within the film imo.

Also Mad Max was never a giant franchise.

I saw it yesterday and got thought it was decent. Not mind blowing but far from awful. Good acting (chris hemsworth as the villain i thought was fun), great action, good cinematography. Its not a bad film by any stretch. But its like you said: the time was too much. 9 years for a spinoff? It would have made more sense to do it then when you could have ridden the high from Fury Road. Having the recap and the "a Mad Max saga" sub title showed how much they had to catch people up and remind them what franchise its a part of. Again i dont think it was bad. But it just came way too late for it to have any relevancy.

What happened? They made an action movie that has always followed the male titular character star a 90 pound woman and you ask what happened?

I’d go see a Mad Max movie. I just don’t have one to go see.

ı dont now why but that movie is awsome.

It feels this is not the time for the movie. The interest in the universe is low. Plus we've got overhyped Dune. Yes, the characters are unknown and unfamiliar.

I love Mad Max 2 and I hate Road Fury because it is not about Max but Furiosa, so they took away Max and only show Furiosa... What a Shhhh.... !! No way I will watch or buy anything about it.

Garfield was just a good kids movie. It's refreshingly simple compared to other films that have been coming out

I tried reviewing the film on Rotten Tomatoes all weekend. I even tried today multiple times. Rotten Tomatoes is protecting this film by censoring reviews. Why? To protect “the message”. The film was bad. Outside of your girl boss theory. It was plagued with horrible CGI from beginning to end such that it didn’t look finished and repeatedly pulled me out of the experience. Anya Taylor Joy sounds like she was dubbed over with Charlize Theron. Chris Hemsworth gives a performance akin to an amalgamation of Drunk Thor and Kevin from GB2016. His character was poorly written and should have “exited the film” halfway through allowing the only good male lead Praetorian Jack, to double cross and try and kill Furiosa and turn her in to Immortan Joe after learning of the Green Place, effectively cementing her hate for Immortan Joe and establishing why she stuck around to take the females and why she distrusts all men until Max. But what do I know? I’m just a writer. The film is not good. It’s just this side of terrible. It’s right there with Thunderdome. The chases are good and that’s about it. Furiosa is the irradiated cousin of the good film that we don’t discuss. 👎🏻

Everybody in this comment section is so unbelievably ignorant of this movie's history and George Miller as a director. Desperately wanting to label this film as "girlboss, feminist trash" even though it's writing can be traced back to the early 2000s - an era in which these concepts were extremely uncommon in mainstream media. Written by a man now in his 70s who has never made the suggestion that he's attempting to shoe-horn in any kind of modern agenda. This script is a by product of the immense backstory writing that went into Fury Road, about a character that George feels passionate about. Nothing more, nothing less. This movie is not "hijacking a male lead franchise". It's an expansion of the world and the characters we saw in Fury Road. There's a reason this movie is not called 'Mad Max: Furiosa" - it is it's own entity within the Mad Max universe as described in the subtitle "A Mad Max Saga". Whether it was a necessary addition is an entirely different conversation - a more productive one I'd say. This movie and Fury Road are the best case scenario for female lead movies as they don't give into the "girlboss" tropes. But you wouldn't know that cause you reject it on sight.

1) It’s a Mad Max movie without Mad Max. 2) It’s a prequel for a character that wasn’t all that popular to begin with and didn’t need a prequel as her back story is explained in Fury Road. 3) Audiences are tired of female centric reimaginings of traditionally male franchises. 4) Fury Road came out almost a decade ago and wasn’t that big a hit either.

She has a sign on her face that says Next Eye 1 Mile.

I do get the sense that Furiosa would have done a heck of a lot better with a smaller budget and had come out before the girl boss era of film making. I liked Fury Road and I would have been fairly amenable to a follow up even if it was for a secondary character that I didn't find particularly interesting. The problem is that many moons have passed since Fury Road and we're now into an era of Hollywood dominated by crappy remakes and radical Feminist ideological drivel. In this environment you can kinda understand why people might be steering clear of Furiosa.

What we wanted: Mad Max What we got: Mad Maxipad

Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga budget being just as high as Mad Max: Fury Road is just insane plus it barely beat it’s competition The Garfield Movie despite Garfield having way more ticket sales than Furiosa!

Furiosa's story is best told in a strip club. They just got the setting wrong. But the movie will still have many big guns!

From what I've heard over with the Midnight's Edge gang, "Furioso" was meant to be done back-to-back with "Fury Road," but the studio didn't have faith and wouldn't front the cash for George to film both movies at the same time. He already had this story laid out, but had to wait and see how "Fury Road" would do first. Nonetheless, as others have noted, noone asked for a prequel to a character not many Mad Max fans care about.

Preposterous! Next thing you're gonna say is a movie about a Spiderman villain/character but without Spiderman is doomed to fail...Outrageous 😂

I truly believe the reason director George Miller hasn't done another Mad Max centric movie is probably because of Tom Hardy. According to that BTS book about the making of Fury Road, it sounds like Miller and Hardy also didnt get along at all, alongside Hardy and Therons on set fueds

I'm a huge fan of Fury Road & the Mad Max game. In the game, Hope tells Max that she used to run with Dr. Dementus. I'm happy they made Furiosa mainly to see Dementus in action. Now I have an awesome trilogy. So it's a win/win for me. Now George needs to make *The Wasteland* focusing on Max.