Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga via George Miller failed to light up the summer 2024 box office and will end its theatrical run with a peak of $170 million, give or take a couple million dollars. It’s a shame, because it’s a franchise movie with a lot to love. Here are my mini-reviews of all five films in the Mad Max franchise.
Before we delve deeper, it’s worth taking a moment to look at the extent to which Mad Max has influenced both film and pop and fashion culture.
Mad Max popularized and largely created the concept of a post-apocalyptic wasteland with roaming gangs of heavily armed heavy-metal/punk/S&M stylized villains who terrorize survivors and steal the few precious remaining resources. It’s really an extension of the western genre and its concept of the lone gunfighter roaming the plains, encountering small towns brutalized by gangs of outlaws.
And in the 1970s era of fuel shortages and nuclear fears, the latter continuing and worsening in the 1980s, Mad Max and its sequel Mad Max: The Road Warrior rang a bell that rings from science fiction and the post-apocalyptic narrative of the narrative. of telling stories in apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic of telling stories of telling stories of telling stories of telling stories in apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic in film, television, literature, music and games. You can see its influences in both the Fallout Game Series and the Amazon Prime series to adapt it excellently, or in the comedy series Our Flag Signifies Death in which Taika Waititi’s Blackbeard wears the same suit that Max wears in the movies science fiction.
The Road Warrior has the maximum of a policeman forced to use all the obligatory means to avoid marauders and protect or avenge his family, in a lone gun in the western style, from the city to a surviving but inevitably trained city in a heroic rescue that revives the intelligent component of him that is eliminated for so long.
My “rules” were simple: I thought the film on their own merits and context, then it was considered “objectively” as imaginable in relation to the rest of the films in terms of general technical quality, as well as the entertainment of price.
Finally, of course, as always, it’s my private opinion, so my private tastes and interpretations and tastes all have varying degrees of influence, no matter how hard I try to judge the technical qualities of one type of objective scale (once backArray either in the context of the film’s production and release, as well as from aspect to aspect supporting other films).
So without further ado, let’s get to the rankings of all five Mad Max movies, from “worst” to “best” — and as always, I use to the term “worst” loosely and just as the common-use way to frame such a list, since in this case I like or love all of the film to different degrees…
5. Mad Max – some would possibly take their sacrilege in consideration by placing the first film at the end of the list. But no matter how much it is so, and with all the credits imaginable by some of the basic elements of the franchise and its long -term impacts, it still does not deny its delicate problems and its technical limitations. And, above all, his dystopian world had not taken the perfect way as a real moor that came to define the series.
4. Mad Max Beyond Thundome: The third film of the series gained more popularity thanks to the incorporation of the pop star Tina Turner (and her successes “One of the living” and “We Don’t Need Another Hero”), which They are still all the successes of these years later) and the maximum of history in Bartertown, where the death fighting in cage are the main attraction.
3. Mad Max: The Road Warrior – Probably the ultimate vital film in the saga, because this is where Miller figured out who his (anti) will be and what his global will be, and established the fan base that would propel the series that is coming from here on Out Out. It also established the pop culture influences discussed above, with the aesthetic around cyclists, S
2. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga: When a series reaches a turning point that leads us to ask, “How can they top this?” It’s rare for a suite to live up to such an expectation, let alone deliver a defining moment. Here, the perfection of Fury Road led to a prequel that took the series in a new direction while maintaining the brilliance of this previous film and showing us the possibilities it still offers.
1. Mad Max: Fury Road: The film that reshaped the genre entertainment franchise with a low budget for the most productive film, and represented a primary replacement in the flavor and quality of Miller’s film. It’s all the franchise, everything it has to say, and all of its most productive perspective is perfectly wrapped up in Fury Road as a definitive film through Mad Max. It is also the greatest example of film editing in the history of cinema.
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga grossed a disappointing $173 million worldwide, during those early weeks of summer when it looked like the spring box office successes might overshadow summer’s would-be blockbusters. It was Memorial Day weekend, and so far the only May release that had any momentum was Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes.
In its second weekend, Furiosa stopped by Garfield, and during the following weekend, when Bad Boys: Ride or Die opened in multiplexes, Furiosa had already been left out of the top 5. But the last film in the Mad Max saga deserved better. And I hope it becomes a huge cult hit in home entertainment as more and more people notice it and realize what they were missing.
Miller and the study had planned to move forward with Mad Max: The Wasteland, a prequel to Fury Road that shows Max’s trips and reports before Fury Road (the same narrative technique used in Furious: A Mad Max Saga). Unfortunately, the news is nothing encouraging in this regard, and it turns out that Furiosa’s financial failure has probably finished – at least in the short term – with the plans of filming The Wasteland as a feature film.
Perhaps Miller can be convinced of a prestige series spin-off of Furiosa for HBO, where the budget is bigger and can tell a larger story set after Fury Road. There are also great prospects for a spin-off animated series, or maybe two. (Perhaps one for Furiosa and one for Max, and then their stories will eventually converge and intersect. )Charlize Theron and Anya Taylor-Joy have done a fabulous job as Furiosa in other stages of their life in Fury. Road and Furiosa, respectively, that it would be crazy not to bring them back for more.
Miller may be busy, now that James Gunn’s DCU is about to begin and his just Superman trailer sparked huge interest and viewership, as Warner’s one-day high visual trailer, with 250 million views.
Personally, I suspect that Gunn and his DC Studios co-CEO Peter Safran have George Miller’s call on a list of filmmakers to plan certain tasks (or just to see if there’s a DC task they have in mind) and I can believe he’ll direct without issue. something akin to the authority, for example, of a Justice League movie (since Miller in the past evolved the Justice League movie canceled by Warner in 2008).
But that’s obviously speculation, and if given a choice between another attempted DC project or a chance to continue telling his original stories, Miller just might prefer to stick to the latter anyway, if the choice were offered.
Mad Max is one of the few franchises that starts off strong, but then continues to grow until it falls apart, constantly reinventing itself with each film by keeping what worked best and finding tactics for it. of stories that are relatively undeniable (and, let’s be honest, somewhat repetitive overall) is even more inspiring.
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