Furiosa is slower and does far more world building than Fury Road. It was a sprawling film about the cyclical nature of revenge in a world gone mad. As a revenge movie, it's one of the most epic out there.
I can empathize with complaints about the movie feeling long and unnecessary in parts, but on whole the I appreciated the breathing room those scenes offered.
Chris Hemsworth ought to be nominated for best supporting actor. Two-thirds through the movie I was legitimately wondering when he was going to show up, like a child of Dementus or something.
Theatre was more than half full, for what it's worth.
Furiosa is slower and does far more world building than Fury Road. It was a sprawling film about the cyclical nature of revenge in a world gone mad. As a revenge movie, it's one of the most epic out there.
I can empathize with complaints about the movie feeling long and unnecessary in parts, but on whole the I appreciated the breathing room those scenes offered.
Chris Hemsworth ought to be nominated for best supporting actor. Two-thirds through the movie I was legitimately wondering when he was going to show up, like a child of Dementus or something.
Theatre was more than half full, for what it's worth.
Good post. A lot of prequels feel like they shrink their world with too many connections and Easter eggs, but Furiosa greatly expands the Mad Max wasteland world. Didn't mind any of the slower parts as there was still plenty of action and this helped with the world building. Reminded me a bit of Kill Bill, an epic revenge tale where a lot of the action is earlier in the story with the final act being more subdued and character driven.
Hemsworth was great, especially in the 2nd part when he was pretty much the lead. I really enjoy the over the top villains in the Mad Max series embracing their crazy.
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I have a method to avoid the mutants out there at movies, since I start work really damn early I can get to the theater on a weekday at 3PM. It's perfect.
If going during any evening I scan the seat map before buying, if there are too many people I don't bother. Nice empty row, I click that button.
That's very satisfying during booking and then it becomes nightmarish when a party of five inexplicably books seats right next to you when 95% of the theater is empty
That does happen once in a while, I've been quite lucky though.
I hit Furiosa for a 2nd viewing yesterday and there was a person chirping away, the funny thing was the AVX theater is so damn loud that it completely drowned them out. I think this person was kind of mentally off so I didn't tell them to shut up, plus my buddy and I were in a good mood so we laughed it off.
The 2nd viewing was even better than the first, I had no idea I was huge a huge George Miller fan, he's right up there for me right now.
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Here's an extensive breakdown of the awful AI 4K remastering James Cameron approved to butcher Aliens and True Lies:
So disappointing to see the best quality format get such an awful treatment.
Seeing a classic movie rescanned and improved for 4K while keeping the film grain is beautiful, this waxy AI garbage is just sad.
I picked up Aliens and the Abyss disks and I thought they looked good, but it was also the first time I watched those films. If it was a film I've seen many times before I maybe wouldn't have liked the transfer. For example the 4K of Friday the 13th I don't think it's good, it's far too dark I prefer my scream factory blu Ray. I think a lot of reviewers gave these transfers a pass is because they were so important for the format to continue the needed them to be hits. In a given week 4K rarely sells more than 20% of all home video movies (DVD is still the #1 selling format of home video).
I actually picked up an old 14 inch crt TV at a garage sale and have been watching movies on VHS and I actually like the vintage look especially for horror films.
Here's an extensive breakdown of the awful AI 4K remastering James Cameron approved to butcher Aliens and True Lies:
So disappointing to see the best quality format get such an awful treatment.
Seeing a classic movie rescanned and improved for 4K while keeping the film grain is beautiful, this waxy AI garbage is just sad.
I picked up The Abyss and True Lies and felt they were fine. Way better than my old DVD versions. Hard to imagine watching these and getting bent out of shape by the details pointed out in that YouTube video. “Oh noes, AI made skin creases too deep for that split second!”
Speaking of German WWII movies, I caught bits and pieces of Das Boot on TV recently. I haven't watched the whole thing in one go in years, but it's so good... It had to be good to make you sympathize with Nazi submariners who collectively sank thousands of Allied ships.
Another great German movie for those who've never seen it, is The Lives of Others ("Das Leben der Anderen"). It's about the Stasi, the East German "secret police".
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I picked up The Abyss and True Lies and felt they were fine. Way better than my old DVD versions. Hard to imagine watching these and getting bent out of shape by the details pointed out in that YouTube video. “Oh noes, AI made skin creases too deep for that split second!”
Sure they will be upgrades from DVD or VHS... but given these versions might be on the best and last format ever released, it's an ugly precedent. Highest resolution but messing with the actual art by using AI. There are a lot of fantastic restoration studios that painstakingly improve the quality for a new upgraded release, but these AI results are unsurprisingly bad.
It's not too different from when classic albums were remastered during the "loudness war", completely clipping the audio fidelity. Or as mentioned in the video, when George Lucas digitally ####ed with the Star Wars releases.
Again, not everyone will notice or care and I certainly get that. It's the same reason 4K UHDs are considered a niche or even unknown format themselves.
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Or as mentioned in the video, when George Lucas digitally ####ed with the Star Wars releases.
I found the unfinished things he pushed in, like Han walking on Jabbas tail, dodging greedos blast, music number, etc. sucked, but the other improvements like the atmosphere around the planets, etc made the suckier stuff less suckie. Good with the bad in that case. Minor things in these new AI upgrades are easier to take
I had no idea I was huge a huge George Miller fan, he's right up there for me right now.
Should watch Three Thousand Years of Longing, the movie he did in between Fury Road and Furiosa. It got mixed reviews and nobody saw it, I thought it was pretty good though and visually fantastic. Very strange and unique movie.
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Should watch Three Thousand Years of Longing, the movie he did in between Fury Road and Furiosa. It got mixed reviews and nobody saw it, I thought it was pretty good though and visually fantastic. Very strange and unique movie.
I'll say this, parts of it felt really 'filmed with heavy covid protocols'.
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Good post. A lot of prequels feel like they shrink their world with too many connections and Easter eggs, but Furiosa greatly expands the Mad Max wasteland world. Didn't mind any of the slower parts as there was still plenty of action and this helped with the world building. Reminded me a bit of Kill Bill, an epic revenge tale where a lot of the action is earlier in the story with the final act being more subdued and character driven.
Hemsworth was great, especially in the 2nd part when he was pretty much the lead. I really enjoy the over the top villains in the Mad Max series embracing their crazy.
A few days before watching Furiosa, I decided to watch Fury Road to refresh my memory, and I couldn't help but think, 'there's no way they can top this.' The film's intense sequences and relentless pace certainly leaves an indelible mark, making it hard to imagine a follow-up that could surpass it.
After watching Furiosa, my sentiment remained unchanged and I continued to think Fury Road was the superior film. Tighter and faster.
However, I've changed my mind on that. Furiosa's layers of storytelling, character development, and thematic depth became more apparent. It wasn't just an action-packed spectacle; it offered a richer, more nuanced narrative that resonated on a deeper level. It's just a meatier film, with substance that surpasses the initial thrills of Fury Road.
Furiosa is a masterful symphony of sound, action, drama, emotion, and depth, blending these elements; Fury Road is like a high-octane rock concert: intense, exhilarating, and relentless.
I think that Furiosa tried to have more depth, but I feel it lacked focus and coherence to really say that it did that well so to me it's just a bit shy of being excellent. It felt a little like "this happened then this happened and then this happened and this happened etc..."
Still really enjoyed it, much better than the typical fare.
And it did make me want to re-watch Fury Road.
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