Weekend Numbers [05.24 - 05.27, 2024] | 4-day actuals | 32.3M FURIOSA: A MAD MAX SAGA | 31.3M THE GARFIELD MOVIE | 22.3M IF | 17.6M KINGDOM OF THE PLANET OF THE APES

[BadOlCatSylvester]

41 minutes ago, kayumanggi said:

 

Sony said they had moved KRAVEN THE HUNTER to stay away from other R-rated movies, then I checked the release calendar, and I couldn't find any movie that they should be worried about. It's clear they are worried about the movie itself. 🤣

See, I initially thought that initial delay to August was because they were planning on doing massive reshoots to salvage the movie. But now it seems like they just don't know what to do with it.

[interiorgatordecorator]

2 minutes ago, Blaze Heatnix said:

 

Mad Max has never been a huge IP.

 

1979's one was, but that's pretty irrelevant 

[interiorgatordecorator]

saw the 2 gurren lagann movies in packed theaters a few days ago; wonderful experience and I hope a 20th-anniversary re-release happens 5 years from now

did we get any data for how this 15th-anniversary re-release performed domestically? pretty sure it came out in January in the states 

[kayumanggi]

4 minutes ago, BadOlCatSylvester said:

See, I initially thought that initial delay to August was because they were planning on doing massive reshoots to salvage the movie. But now it seems like they just don't know what to do with it.

 

Imagine if this ends up good? 😁

[AMC Theaters Enjoyer]

Atp I’m taking a “hope for the best, prepare for the worst” outlook on the box office. D&W will do great business opening weekend, Inside Out and Bad Boyd look promising. Just hope they follow through and more join them.

[AnthonyJPHer]

13 minutes ago, kayumanggi said:

 

Imagine if this ends up good? 😁

I think Furisoa has a better chance at being a big hit (not happening) than Kraven being good. Morbius, Madame Web and the Venom films don’t give me hope.

[thajdikt]

I think A quiet Place will do very well 

[JimmyB]

I thought Garfield would do better.  I bought into no animated movies since Panda would help it but I guess not.

 

Twister is the first movie I remember seeing in the theater.  I even remember seeing the commercial for it on TV all the time, lol.  In my own little world it felt like everyone was talking about it and all my friends were going to see it.

 

But, I have no nostalgia for it.  IDK, Twisters is just a huge wild card IMO.  Does disaster porn work in 2024?  

[cannastop]

I think Twisters might do pretty well. Maybe for the reason that it's the only July release I'd even consider watching.

[emoviefan]

6 minutes ago, cannastop said:

I think Twisters might do pretty well. Maybe for the reason that it's the only July release I'd even consider watching.

[Hatebox]

1 hour ago, Juliet said:

Maybe this summer will teach Hollywood that getting on the back of Marvel and giving it bad PR is not doing them any favours. Actors saying they would 'never lower themselves' to a Marvel movie. It’s not going to help the industry. They need Marvel and Star Wars hitting hard so those theatres stay open for their passion project 5 people and a dog will turn up to.

Totally agree. Every single cinema release should be an MCU film. All other movies should be banned. 

[reddevil19]

My two cents. Or more than two I guess...

 

Firstly, I have said it before and I'll say it again. Miller and the studio got high smelling their own farts with Fury Road when they went in on Furiosa. The fact that the idea was there from the get-go and it was always meant as a companion piece does NOT mean it's a good idea to actually make the damn thing. Truth if the matter is Fury Road itself wasn't a huge success and this completely misses what made that one work. It is simply dull. It's an anticlimactic ending, and the action throughout is nowhere near as good. It's not a kinetic, frenetic experience like Fury Road, the editing is so-so in comparison, the CG is frankly terrible in places, and a large part of the action is jarring with the very obvious sped up shots and so on.

 

The second point is actually a combination of factors. I don't think prequels as a whole are a viable option post-covid. Casual moviegoing is clearly no longer a thing. And a movie which had a clearly defined end point is not a sufficiently attractive proposition. Not when the rest of the movie fails to offer anything to compensate for a pre-established narrative - all respect and love to Hemsworth and ATJ, but they're not enough. So prequels not viable and ESPECIALLY this prequel, where Theron post Fury Road is what people wanted, not a prequel, releasing a decade after Fury Road.

 

I appreciate that Furiosa is not Fury Road but it's still too connected to get out of its shadow. As much as the story and pacing want it to be its own thing, everything else is not letting it be so the movie will always suffer by comparison.

Simply put, while it may be a good film, it's a bad, belated follow up which should not have been made... Flop unsurprising.

Next.

 

[cannastop]

4 minutes ago, emoviefan said:

yeah not watching that lol

[Jerri Blank-Diggler]

Even though we've got a busy weekend, the hubby Dirk & I decided to steal away to the 11 am showing of Furiosa today to donate some fuel to her sputtering tank. I was expecting the theater to be almost empty, but there were about 18 people there, and the seats weren't discounted (around $15 each).

 

As for the film, It was... good. It could have stood a good 15-minute trim to feel tighter. It was honestly a big hard to equate the slightly waifish Anya Taylor-Joy with that towering Theron Furiosa presence from Fury Road. Theron's Furiosa walked all over Hardy's Mad Max in Fury Road. ATJ did commendably, but as the photo below shows, ATJ is a bit of a step down from the same commanding presence one got from Theron in Fury Road. Still, the movie's worth seeing on a big screen.

 

 

 

[emoviefan]

2 minutes ago, reddevil19 said:

My two cents. Or more than two I guess...

 

Firstly, I have said it before and I'll say it again. Miller and the studio got high smelling their own farts with Fury Road when they went in on Furiosa. The fact that the idea was there from the get-go and it was always meant as a companion piece does NOT mean it's a good idea to actually make the damn thing. Truth if the matter is Fury Road itself wasn't a huge success and this completely misses what made that one work. It is simply dull. It's an anticlimactic ending, and the action throughout is nowhere near as good. It's not a kinetic, frenetic experience like Fury Road, the editing is so-so in comparison, the CG is frankly terrible in places, and a large part of the action is jarring with the very obvious sped up shots and so on.

 

The second point is actually a combination of factors. I don't think prequels as a whole are a viable option post-covid. Casual moviegoing is clearly no longer a thing. And a movie which had a clearly defined end point is not a sufficiently attractive proposition. Not when the rest of the movie fails to offer anything to compensate for a pre-established narrative - all respect and love to Hemsworth and ATJ, but they're not enough. So prequels not viable and ESPECIALLY this prequel, where Theron post Fury Road is what people wanted, not a prequel, releasing a decade after Fury Road.

 

I appreciate that Furiosa is not Fury Road but it's still too connected to get out of its shadow. As much as the story and pacing want it to be its own thing, everything else is not letting it be so the movie will always suffer by comparison.

Simply put, while it may be a good film, it's a bad, belated follow up which should not have been made... Flop unsurprising.

Next.

 

I wish I could disagree  on this but yeah.  I like Furiosa but yeah in the last 24 hours or since I have seen it it has not  gotten better the more I think about it.

[Firepower]

3 minutes ago, reddevil19 said:

where Theron post Fury Road is what people wanted

People should be careful what they wish for since Miller considered to make Furiosa an evil tyrant like Immortan Joe in a potential follow up to Fury Road because it makes sense in his perception, but I don't think that's something people would want to see. Fury Road clearly ended on a note where there's no reason to come back to the character, her arc is finished, all Miller had to do is make another Mad Max with Hardy, but it's not happening after this.

[emoviefan]

2 minutes ago, cannastop said:

yeah not watching that lol

Okay to each their own. It proves something can be on track to be the biggest R rated opening ever and  their are people who are not into it or maybe too young?

[JustLurking]

14 minutes ago, emoviefan said:

Okay to each their own. It proves something can be on track to be the biggest R rated opening ever and  their are people who are not into it or maybe too young?

I'm not too young to see it and yet won't even watch it on D+. To each their own indeed.

Edited May 26 by JustLurking

[reddevil19]

10 minutes ago, Firepower said:

People should be careful what they wish for since Miller considered to make Furiosa an evil tyrant like Immortan Joe in a potential follow up to Fury Road because it makes sense in his perception, but I don't think that's something people would want to see. Fury Road clearly ended on a note where there's no reason to come back to the character, her arc is finished, all Miller had to do is make another Mad Max with Hardy, but it's not happening after this.

Ya, of course that was always an option. Clearly when I say a movie with Theron I mean the desire would have been to see her continue a hero's journey.

I just think nothing about Furiosa works in the way it did for Fury Road. But the absolute worst part is you walk out of Fury Road on a high, even if it's a "what the fuck did I just watch?" reaction. With Fury Road not only do you not have any question about where you end up at the end of the journey, the trip itself is meandering. As I said, it's a good movie but it's hitting none of the highs of Fury Road while shackled to its legacy. This should never have been greenlit, I'm sorry 

[emoviefan]

3 minutes ago, JustLurking said:

I'm not too young to see it and yet won't even watch it on D+.

Cool. We are all different. There are movies you probably like that me and a bunch of other people would not watch if we were tied to a chair.