If I was still middle-class I'd have gone to theaters, but necessary costs have risen so much that I'm now poor. Let Hollywood rely on themselves to watch their own movies.

Guess who else is on strike in Hollywood? The audience.

People can easily live without hollywood.

"Why Mad Max movies dont need Mad Max anymore." Women can't help themselves can't they.... SMH

Imagine paying a industry that hates you

The way both dunes performed tells me it's not movie fatigue. It's hollywood fatigue. People can't trust hollywood to deliver quailty movies anymore, they pushed everyone away with... THE MESSAGE!

They need to drop the ticket prices. They're pricing families out of the cinemas.

The movie was absolutely brilliant I almost didn’t even give it a chance myself bc on the surface it looks like your generic girl boss movie , and I think that’s why it didn’t get the recognition it deserves. It’s honestly one of the best film I’ve seen in years, I blame disney and all the recent girl boss movies that were poorly made as of lately, I believe in the long run this movie will go down as a classic and a masterpiece, bc It completely caught me off guard! George Miller is genius!

I disagree. I think the reason this movie flopped is that people simply don't trust Hollywood anymore. They saw a female protagonist, assumed the movie would be bad and ran for the hills.

She isn't even a girl boss kind of character. She basically is getting her ass kicked constantly through the whole movie and then gets some key opertunities to get some good licks in. It's one of the best action movies since Fury Road.

$50(AUD) for one movie ticket and pop corn and 6% plus interest rate for mortgage .... No one's going to the movies when the banks and cinemas are taking that wet bite, they will slit their own greedy throats

I want to see "Mary Jane: a Spiderman saga" next, where Mary Jane is the hero and Spiderman dont even show up in the movie!

Hollywood has underestimated how long I can hold a grudge.

After fury road lost 20 mil, I don't understand why they thought the movie's side character would make money

Cost of living is one of the biggest reasons a lot of people I know just simply won't go to the cinema anymore. Especially when the movie will be streamed not long after anyway.

The state of the industry is one factor but here's the biggest reason I don't go to the movies anymore: During my lifetime the price of a movie ticket has increased tenfold in my country, my purchasing power has not. This means moviegoing has graduated from affordable pastime to expensive luxury and I can't afford any luxuries.

Where did the audience go? To paraphrase Lord Humungus, "They just walked away."

Just bought a 75" TV for like 600 Euros. Why go to the cinema to walk out of a movie full of "The Message". I can simply turn it off and watch something else on stream.

The movie did bad because Mel Gibson wasn’t starring as Max? Lmao what? The movie flopped because it’s been almost a decade since the last installment, and instead of making the sequel before this prequel they decided to release the spinoff prequel first. It also had poor marketing when compared to its enormous budget

Here's why movies are flopping... Why pay $18 per ticket times 2, per couple ($36), plus the price of simple refreshments ( maybe another $20) , so you are up to $56-60. Dealing with annoying people that don't realize they are in a cinema, not their living room, that talk and kick and have their lit phones on during a movie you paid good money for. Then that same movie is put ON DEMAND 4-5 weeks later for only $20 and you save money and don't have to put up with annoying jerks that do not respect the "movie going experience". Either make ticket prices less, police the theaters, or stop the instant ON DEMAND!

Why are these movies flopping? Economics. People no longer trust Hollywood to provide a good value for money. A trip to a theater is an expensive proposition.

I never minded a good female protagonist but flooding the market with them while intentionally flushing out male main characters is disgusting. Especially when they’re trying to replace them in their own franchise

Stop with the tough girl movies , why hasn't Hollywood figured this out yet ?

Hollywood 101 -We take something you’re nostalgic about, tease you with your good memories, give you nothing close to the original, and take your money, promising we’ll do better next time.

This is like Pirates of the Caribbean without Jack Sparrow; no wonder people abstain themselves from it.

Every hero has to be female now and its beyond played out

What is wrong with having a “good” masculine male hero kick the the living shit out of a “bad” masculine male villain. It used to be the norm, now it is non existent. TV and movies are just fiction, it’s not real life I want to escape from real life without being called bigoted (just because I enjoy my escape to mimmic the afore mentioned).

There are only three Indiana Jones films.

Guys don’t want WNBA Hollywood.

You mean a financial flop. The movie itself is amazing.

Furiosa is the best "flop" movie I will ever see... sorry the movie did not make buck$, but the movie itself is certainly worthy of a watch and rewatch, and watch it again and again

Hey Hollywood, how's making the general public your enemy working out for you? 😂

People are sick of Girl bosses, prequels, sequels, reboots , remakes. Why don’t Hollywood give us brand new stories, new characters and without the wOke “the message “ in them . How many iconic characters have we got in about 10 years.

Did anyone ever watched the movie? It's actually pretty good and the movie is more about Dementus really than Furiosa, like Fury Road was more about Furiosa than Mad Max. It was surprisingly better than I thought.

I think people just don’t go to the theater anymore. MI7 had Cruise basically flopped, Indiana Jones DofD had Ford and flopped.

People are just sick of Hollywood and don't trust them.

Meanwhile, the local re-showing of the LOTR Trilogy films has been sold out every single night.

It's not that they removed Max, it's that the script is lame. We have no insights into how Furiosa become such a badass and killer by the time she was 9. No insights into how she becomes a badass climber. Mechanic. Driver. Road Warrior. They skip over all of that and we just take for granted that she's awesome without having to learn, fail, or grow. Show us the secrets about the tribe she comes from. Show us how imperators are selected, and rise to greatness. Instead the same old Mary Sue treatment. And the last scene in the desert was the lamest writing of all. "You stole my childhood!" Post-apocalyptic tribes wouldn't talk that way. The male prostration and female rage were also heavy-handed.

Furiosa suffers the same fate of Black Widow. Instead of setting up something in the future, these movies are prequel to characters we know their future. It didn't work for Darth Vader, until Disney Wars which made people appreciate the prequels a bit more, and it won't work for anyting else.

Nobody has any money. Groceries and rent are out of control

Give us a badass old man Mel Gibson Mad Max.

My parents NEVER go to the cinema and haven't in about a decade. But they actually went to see this movie and loved it! It's sad to see Hollywood has tarnished audiences trust so much that now they just refuse to see a movie if it has any diversity. Alien, Terminator, etc, had female leads, but weren't woke. We want that back

No surprise, people are sick of all there favorite movies going the way of DEI. Indiana Jones...woman, starwars....woman, mad max....woman. Even if its good, peo0le are sick of it!

Hollywood has lost the trust of the audience. It will take a long time to rebuild that trust. Until then, some good movies will flop. Hollywood has lectured and derided the audience for so long now that we have stop listening entirely. I know personally after being told so many times that "This movie was not made for you!" I have honored their requests and have stayed away from the movie theaters.

When I was a kid, TVs sucked ass and the right way to see films was absolutely a theater. Now, movie theaters are nervously eyeing the empty plot next to Blockbuster's grave.

I wanna add that it's a bad franchise to put such a huge budget into. Mad Max was never a mainstream success and doesn't have the recognition of spiderman, wolverine or even deadpool. It was an 80s trilogy wihout any more matterial till 2015's Fury Road, on top of that even the original trilogy was never a blockbuster. Also Hollywood has managed to lose audience trust with all the mediocre to bad movies it has given us in the last five years. Combine that with high ticket prices and an increasingly bad cinema experience -in opening nights there are tons of teenagers 12-18 that consider "funny" to make noise, throw popcorn etc, that ruins it for me so I have stoped going to the movies (ok maybe i am getting old and ranting about this).

A rather "nieche" franchise whose last movie came out a decade ago and was barely profitable, delivers a prequel to a character that nobody wanted a prequel for, who already had too much screen time in Fury Road and now falls face first into the "people are sick of girlbosses" concrete floor. And people are shocked by the result. Color me surprised, at the people that are shocked. Anyone with half a braincell left could have seen this coming.

The economy is in the toilet, inflation is hitting record high, but they still expect us to waste our savings in theaters when 4 movies out of 5 are unwatchable.

"Furiosa" is worse than "Fury Road" in every possible way. Anya Taylor is a huge miscast. I didn't enjoy watching the movie, while Fury Road I consider as one of the best action movies of all time. I was surprised that the original Fury Road wasn't a huge success. 10\10 to Fury Road. 5\10 to Furiosa.

Most of you didn't even watch the movie, did you?

a Mad Max starring an aging Mel Gibson playing an old Mad Max could be truly Epic.

It is 100% because Pedowood girlbossed too close to the sun. Even if it isn’t a girlboss movie, naming it Furiosa sells it as that. Audiences are sick and tired of pandering, and this film proves it.

Frankly, this was one of the best movies in recent cinema. Arguably, as good as Fury Road. I don't argue for a lot of movies, but this movie was well worth the watch. It's "Flopping" had nothing to with it being bad and I would posit that it had nothing to do with Anya Joy. I thought she played her part well. Though, every other character was completely overshadowed by Dementis. Mel Gibson returning to Mad Max would be awesome, but one thing should be kept in mind here is this: The Mad Max movies were never about Mad Max. The only movie about Mad Max, was Mad Max. That was the only movie told from his perspective. The other movies are told from another. Mad Max is a folk here and his story is told by others that Mad Max encountered. Fury Road was told from Furiosa's perspective and Furiosa was her story of becoming. So, to call it a Mad Max story is fine. I'm not sure what else you would call it, since The Wasteland was not established yet and will likely not be given the chance thanks to Furiosa's financial flop. I will argue that Hollywood is not doing well, but the world is not doing well. The American economy especially, is not doing well and when entertainment, as the last bastion of our escape from the grind of the world is so costly, that it reminds you of how crappy things are, it's no wonder theaters are not doing well.

I simply don't care about movies anymore. I used to go 2-3 times a month 10 years ago or so, but the *"Entertainment"* industry makes no attempt to disguise its contempt and outright hatred for guys like me so to hell with all of them.

It's not rocket science. Movies are too expensive to see in the theaters and people are BROKE!!!!

No one wants to admit most films coming out have a female lead no one cares about. Everyone loved Sigourney, Weaver, Jamie Lee Curtis, Linda Hamilton. But when it’s shoved down your throat it’s obnoxious

Old Hollywood went by the motto: Give the people what they want. Westerns make money? Make more Westerns. Big glossy musicals make money? Make more musicals. Woke Hollywood doesn’t get it: You can’t compel people to go the movies. They have to want to go.

Here’s the thing. The movie was actually good and wasn’t girl bossy at all. But because we are so tired of BS girl boss woke crap, it was automatically assumed to be a girl boss movie and it tanked.

The last quote “there’s only 3 Mad Max films” was epic and on point.

"But..but..she saves her lover." The fact that a woman is even alive in a world like that, is a massive testament to the goodwill of the men surrounding her.

Bring Max back

women don't watch women, men don't watch women. but men do watch other men for inspiration and for someone to look up to, and women do watch men for knowing what to look for in a future partner.

Personally I didn't watch it because of Anya. All I saw in the trailer was a skinny girl doing the chin-down-eyes-up 50 times in a row to feel menacing but she felt silly. I'm tired of the trope "women kicking butt physically" but if you want to do it, put a UFC female champion, not a model ffs. Or take some lessons from Linda Hamilton in T2.

The next Tarzan movie: Jane goes camping!

This is more proof that they would rather burn it all down to the ground, than make money.

It's not a Hollywood movie, It's an Australian movie. It's not a woke movie. It's a brutal gory movie, where Furiosa gets beaten up, stabbed, turned into slave, loses her arm, and becomes a great road warrior through madness. Go see it. It's closer to Mad Max 2 : Road warrior than Fury Road. It's definitely not a kid movie, nor a movie for a feminine audience.

I so badly wanted another GM Madmax Movie. Not whatever Furiosa is supposed to be. That’s a movie that could have been made for the TV/streamer by someone else and produced by GM. The directing was great. The movie was a sign of the sadly woke times Hollywood has taken on. As Jim Carey said “they’re no longer the cool kids.”

I love the smell of hollywood burning money in the morning.

As Drinker pointed out in his video, an Old Man Max movie, with Mel, would sell gang busters.

This was the farthest thing from a girl boss movie

Listen, the movie was REALLY GOOD! It didn’t flop. Most Hollywood movies don’t earn much in theaters anymore. They WILL make it up in streaming. It’s a financial success

Don't care if it's not that bad. We want Max and the Interceptor

Disney and Lucasfilm just shit their pants after seeing the box office for this weekend. How's that Rey movie coming along again?

Say your thanks to politicians who make us poorer and poorer... and those who STILL vote for them. Down with socialism forever already!!!

The movie was actually good and great world building flick for mad max-verse. That being said Chris Hemsworth the dude that plays Jack, more war boys, and just the carnage of road fighting are what made me love the movie. I need more Dr D!! I firmly believe that he's a reflection of Max if he went the evil route rather than the survivors route

Why Furiosa flopped? They - the Hollywood elites - despise my demographic. For more than a decade, with almost every single movie or TV series they tried to insult, belittle, and exclude me and others like me. They decided to destroy every franchise and every iconic character I cared about. So, now, when I hear they actually made a good movie, I don't care. I will not watch anything they produce. They achieved their goal - antagonized me. I don't want them to start catering to my needs as a viewer again. They can shove it. They wanted me gone, I want them gone.

It doesn't matter if your female protagonist subverts the girlboss expectations. Audiences no longer trust Hollywood. Enough of the gender swaps. Enough of the removal of strong male protagonists.

I was pretty entertained by Furiosa, it was well done and gave me another movie that definitely sold the Mad Max universe which I’ve been dying to see more of. Even if it was mostly the same stuff to see. I was hesitant on Anya Taylor because I didn’t think she could play a serious role but again I was pleasantly surprised. She did great

AND NOW; THE NEXT "BIG HIT" OUT OF HOLLYWOOD, THOR, IN AN APRON, SERVING DESSERT TO TRANS DRESSERS.

I see a poster in which there's a female in front of all the other characters - I give it a miss. I see a preview where there is a dumb-ass statement like "she is special" - I give it a miss. I see a presentation made by Disney, Lucasfilm, or Pixar - I give it a miss. I see a race/sex-swap in any presentation - I give it a miss.

I dont bother with new movies. South Park summed it up "make it gay, and put a chick in it" not for me. Bring back old school

I'm really glad it flopped, i dgaf how "good" it is, a mad max film without him is not a mad max film and therefore not worth watching, period.

The original mad max films are 40 years old Who tf wants to see prequels to their grandparents films We are tired of Prequels Sequels Trying to rehash old ass movies The younger audience has no idea who Mel Gibson or George miller is

It has gotten to the point that when i see a female main lead I automatically think feminazi prapaganda. So i never give it a chance :(

Every Mad Max fan wants one last run of old man Max, with Mel Gibson back behind the wheel. Give the people what they want.

I positively love that people are shitting on you, because you have so lost your way.

THIS MOVIE WAS INCREDIBLE. I get being scared thinking it’s another womanized bottled movie but this movie was incredible

Funny how they KEEP saying they don’t need male heroes/protagonists, YET this was “Mad Max Saga”…why use a male protagonist to sell your movie, then? Wasn’t Furiosa ENOUGH of a protagonist to go it solo?? 🤣🤣🤣

I dont think this was a bad film and i dont think it was as girlboss as people think Furiosa routinely struggled and was physically neutralized with one hand of Pretorian Jack i think the exras really enjoyed their roles and Dementus stole the show

Remember when Mad Max, was about a guy, named Max?

Did you even watch the movie? She didn't "girl boss" her way anywhere, she simply coped with life in the Wasteland while two warlords duked it out in the background, only to be promoted to top driver on the Fury Road after risking her life to save Jack and literally lost an arm in the process. This is the one time I've been excited to go to the movies in years and it kills me that people are so eager to trash Furiosa as "woke nonsense".

Marvel and Feige 'The action movie star doesn't matter..' Yes it does

it's pretty simple: it looks like a girlboss movie so the general audience doesn't show up

10 years ago I would have told you that I'm taking a break from going to the theater in hopes that others do too and Hollywood can get it's shit together. 10 years later they still haven't gotten their shit together and I still haven't returned.

Only three Mad Max films? I'm sorry, but that's ridiculous. Fury Road is easily in the top three action films of all time and to discount it because Mel Gibson isn't in it is simply absurd.

Going to cinema is pretty expensive nowadays. Why would you pay for your ticket, your wife’s, your kid’s, popcorn, sodas etc, when you already pay 1 or 2 streaming services?!

At this point it doesn’t matter if it’s a good or bad movie when it cost $100-$200 to take your family out to the movie theater. On top of that we see Hollywood for who they are now and it’s disgusting, we can’t un-see it. As long as they continue the same behavior and push out garbage and/or agendas most people won’t waste their money.

I'll just tell you why I personally didn't go to it: I am not particularly interested in watching a story and characters whose ending is 100% known. There are exceptions in the spirit of historical drama or comedy. But with the Mad Max franchise, I didn’t have the desire to go to the movies precisely because of the predictability. I knew from the very beginning that Furiosa would survive. From the very beginning I understood that her lover would die. I knew from the beginning that Joe would win. I knew from the very beginning that Dementos would lose. I knew from the very beginning that Furiosa's revenge would be successful, and it was. This film is an action movie but it is predictable from A to Z. And that's what makes any action movie - bad. Predictability

Studios are expecting their movies to make 400 million at the box office. That’s not going to happen. It’s ridiculous. Movies with snacks can cost almost $75 for two people these days.

Ffs, that forced 'tough' look alone annoys the shite out of me already.....I'm supposed to be impressed or scared of her or something? I'm not.....never in no lifetime. 🤣