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Lady and Gentlemens. Nearly a decade later, the Mad Max Saga origins are revealed in IMAX. Experience #Furiosa : A Mad Max Saga in IMAX starting May 24. Tickets on sale this Wednesday. pic.twitter.com/5nCefezGX6

— IMAX (@IMAX) May 6, 2024

Heavy metal cinema. Has all the fire & brimstone of Fury Road but still delivers something entirely unique.

George Miller is a movie making God. Anya Taylor-Joy is a MOVIE star. Chris Hemsworth’s delivers the best role of his career.

Furiosa is why we go to the movies. https://t.co/EPW9H8LxV9

— Joe (@Cinema_Joe23) May 7, 2024

brings me great joy to report that Furiosa is really, *really* fucking good.

operates in an extremely different gear than Fury Road (in ways that i suspect will frustrate some people), but also manages to make that movie even richer while carving its own legend in the wasteland.

— david ehrlich (@davidehrlich) May 7, 2024

George Miller’s #Furiosa is powerhouse action filmmaking at its absolute best! A ferocious & relentlessly paced epic that expands the story of Furiosa and the Wasteland while delivering the craziest chases, the most bombastic characters & just plain stunning cinematography.… pic.twitter.com/tLEADO3Zc2

— Erik Davis (@ErikDavis) May 7, 2024

Well, I saw Furiosa tonight and it was great.

— Esther Zuckerman (@ezwrites) May 7, 2024

Jesus George Miller! #Furiosa engulfs you. At times it almost seems to exceed the canvas of the #IMAX format it is THAT big - and yet at times has a deeply affecting intimacy. Echoing cinematic elements from the 50s through the 80s, it’s a rich, smart vision the cast revels in 👍 pic.twitter.com/1C7NWHqUJ7

— Simon Thompson (@ShowbizSimon) May 7, 2024

I would and could easily watch 15 hours of Anya Taylor Joy and Alyla Browne as #Furiosa, however much of her film struggles with inconsistent pacing due to the segmented story. This won't match up to Fury Road's splendor but it also doesn't need to. #IMAX pic.twitter.com/q1vyUpYJeK

— therese lacson • 宋蕾蕾 (@bamfpire) May 7, 2024

Saw @MadMaxMovie FURIOSA last week and loved it. It's a totally different film from FURY ROAD and would more aptly be compared with the first two MAD MAX films. Likely not quite as easy for casual viewers to jump in, but should still perform well over Memorial Day weekend. pic.twitter.com/5tH9wyEuyj

— EmpireCity Box Office (@EmpireCityBO) May 7, 2024

#Furiosa is EPIC in every sense of the word! The world building and lore expansion of the Mad Max universe is front and centre to a bombastic film that has some explosive, exciting action. Taylor-Joy is great, but Hemsworth truly shines in a way he hasn’t before!@warnerbrosau pic.twitter.com/6zBmDAuCBC

— Nick’s Flicks Fix (@nicksflicksfix) May 7, 2024

Great news, #Furiosa is a masterful examination of one of the greatest characters of the last 20 years. A phenomenal, powerful shift in approach from FURY ROAD that continues to prove Miller is the master of the modern myth.

Hemsworth was born to play bad guys. LET HIM!! pic.twitter.com/8jtCRTll5l

— BJ Colangelo (@bjcolangelo) May 7, 2024

Set expectations. FURIOSA is not FURY ROAD. It's wildly different. More focus and emphasis on story, world-building, and connecting of threads to FURY ROAD without trying to replicate that rush. When the action arrives, it delivers. Miller, as usual, paints with his own brush. pic.twitter.com/zs5l0GkA0O

— Sean O'Connell (@Sean_OConnell) May 7, 2024

I usually take these early reviews with a large grain of salt these days, but in this case I'm buying into the hype simply because Miller has earned the benefit of the doubt. And I for one loved the first two Mad Max movies so I'm actually kind of excited to hear this one falls more in line with those two pacing-wise (at least that's the way I'm readings the reviews).

Tickets acquired for the very first showing, 3 PM on Thursday, May 23rd...

Witness the Epic Battle for the Wasteland. Tickets are on sale NOW. #FURIOSA : A MAD MAX SAGA - only in theaters May 24, Memorial Day Weekend. https://t.co/JxMCQhgsRK pic.twitter.com/4NN43yA0o5

— Warner Bros. Pictures (@wbpictures) May 8, 2024

If I suddenly became this famous, there's no way I wouldn't have multiple misdemeanors for punching/shoving these kinds of lunatics…

anya taylor-joy arriving in cannes today, ahead of the film festival pic.twitter.com/0c3SCtBT6z

— best of anya taylor-joy (@anyafolders) May 13, 2024

I'm a little confused by all of this random Furiosa hype as the greatest character ever but maybe I just didn't get into the first movie that much.

I really don't want to start a whole thing here, but she was a badass female character that defied traditional Mary Sue tropes, so she was universally liked in an amazing action movie. I could totally see a Twitter reviewer equating the two unabashedly.

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according to Miller, AT-J has only around 30 lines of dialogue in the whole movie.

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https://variety.com/2024/film/news/anya-taylor-joy-furiosa-set-not-speaking-1236000553/

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In a new profile of "Furiosa" director George Miller published by The Telegraph, it's revealed that Anya Taylor-Joy's eponymous character only has around 30 lines of dialogue in the upcoming "Mad Max: Fury Road" prequel movie. That shouldn't come as much of a surprise to fans of the road warrior franchise, as Tom Hardy and Mel Gibson barely had much to say in Miller's previous "Mad Max" movies.
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In an interview with The New York Times, Taylor-Joy said she would go "months" on the movie's set without speaking a single line of dialogue. She added: "I've never been more alone than making that movie. I don't want to go too deep into it, but everything that I thought was going to be easy was hard."
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One thing Taylor-Joy did make abundantly clear was that Furiosa needed a moment of female rage on screen, even if Miller was focused on making her as internal as possible on screen.

"I do want to 100 percent preface this by saying I love George and if you're going to do something like this, you want to be in the hands of someone like George Miller," Taylor-Joy said. "But he had a very, very strict idea of what Furiosa's war face looked like, and that only allowed me my eyes for a large portion of the movie. It was very much 'mouth closed, no emotion, speak with your eyes.' That's it, that's all you have."

"I am a really strong advocate of female rage," Taylor-Joy added, noting she's grown somewhat tired of female characters in movies often enduring hardships and only getting to shed a single tear.
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"We're animals, and there's a point where somebody just snaps," Taylor-Joy explained. "There's one scream in that movie, and I am not joking when I tell you that I fought for that scream for three months."

"With George, it's a long game," Taylor-Joy added.

Taylor-Joy stressed that whenever she had a note about Furiosa, she made sure that it was always a "conversation" with Miller and "I was never insolent in any way…at the end of the day, this is his vision. I can present everything that I have, but his word goes."

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https://parkridgeclassicfilm.com/2023/03/17/the-road-warrior-1981-at-the-pickwick-theatre/

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The dialogue would be done in a minimalist fashion. In fact, save for the opening narration which establishes the hero legend the first sequence in the film is all done without any spoken lines. Mel Gibson only has sixteen lines of dialogue in the entire film. Instead, George Miller opted to tell his story using film language.
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Google tells me that it's actually more than that (despite lots of hits on 16 lines):

https://www.mutedhorn.net/mad-max-2-dialogue

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. . . By my count, Gibson's Max has 38 speeches (totalling 326 words) in the film. This is not counting grunts, wordless shouts, or the little tongue-click he uses to sic his dog on the Gyro Captain.

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Regardless Miller isn't one to let his characters whinge on too much.

‘FURIOSA’ debuts with 90% on Rotten Tomatoes.

• Described as one of the best prequels ever made & a bold masterpiece

• A fierce & gripping performance from Anya Taylor-Joy.

• Just got a 7-min standing ovation at Cannes. pic.twitter.com/UTd3dD9ZDz

— DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm) May 15, 2024

tommyjohn said:

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Just got a 7-min standing ovation at Cannes.



At this point I think Medellin is the only movie that didn't receive a similar reception at Cannes

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They should have learned from the Vincent Chase fiasco.

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Mel Gibson rules! F$&k all these spoiled brats on their social media claiming to be film critics using it to bash Mel Gibson. They can go to hell

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Definitely a safer target than the ones Mel chose to go off on.

Looking forward to this one. But I also get the sense that I need to be well rested to truly enjoy it properly.

Brian Earl Spilner said:

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That felt at least an hour too long, and had far too much bad CGI and obvious green screen.

The action scenes got old and repetitive by about the one hour mark. (That said, the major action scene of the movie was pretty good.)

An enjoyable theater experience for the most part, but definitely not one I'll ever watch again.

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Sheesh.

I thought Fury Road was entertaining enough, but massively overrated.

Have not seen the OG Mad Max movies.

Brian Earl Spilner said:

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I thought Fury Road was entertaining enough, but massively overrated.

Have not seen the OG Mad Max movies.

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Gotcha. I'm a little older than you, grew up on the original 3 movies, love them all...love the world they exist in, love the Max character, love the way the movies are shot, etc.

And I loved Fury Road. You seem to be echoing from what I've seen of the critical reviews, which is, if you liked the first three movies then you'll like this one.

I need to rewatch Fury Road or at least read a nice summary of the storyline.

Re: the older movies - born in 76 and I grew up watching these on The Movie Channel and/or Showtime.

Mad Max - I didn't watch it as much growing up. As a little kid The Road Warrior was right up my alley, but the original was a lot more decline of civilization and story than my brain could handle. There were a few scenes I always liked, primarily due to the over the top violence.

The Road Warrior - movie mecca in the early 80's for my brain. I loved the sets, costumes, over the top personalities, and over the top vehicles. I also gravitated towards violent adult movies that had a boy someone what close to my age as one of the main characters. My parents thought that is why I was driven to the Shining - Danny boy was about my age.

Beyond Thunderdome - man I watched the s*** out of this as well. RW on steroids but something about it to me was always a little off. It definitely spent the most time on TMC/Showtime so I've probably seen it, piecemeal at least, more than the first 2 combined.

Over the past few years I've tried to get through Mad Max a couple of times. It still suffers from a lot of lag and I have yet to finish it. I'll suck it up. My wife watched RW with me a few months ago. Definitely some cheese but it was still fun and she didn't threaten divorce. Shouldn't be hard to get her in front of Beyond Thunderdome.

Das' my history. Looking forward to catching up and watchign the new one, thought I probably won't get to it in the theater.