I don’t know who at Netflix is responsible for authorizing movies to appear on the service, however they do a task this month with new sci-fi movies in particular. Netflix had just added Interstellar and Inception, Christopher Nolan’s classics, but now they also received the two most productive sci-fi movies of 2024.
That would be Furiosa, the Mad Max: Fury Road prequel, and Dune Part 2, the sequel to well, Dune Part 1. You can debate which one is better, but both are absolutely excellent and they’re now both available on Netflix, currently placed inside the top 10. Furiosa, starring Anya Taylor-Joy and Chris Hemsworth, is #3, while Dune Part 2, starring Timothy Chalamet and Zendaya, is…oops, I just checked and despite being the top 10 list before, it just fell out, replaced by Despicable Me movies.
This is a bit unexpected since the two had a contrary functionality at the box office. Furiosa has underperformed at $173 million on a big budget. It’s not transparent whether George Miller will automatically download The Green Gentle for other MAD MAX projects, which is a shame.
Meanwhile, Dune Part 2 is one of the year’s top hit films, reporting $714 million worldwide, up from $407 million in the first part, and allowing Denis Villeneuve to make a third film. Matrix that is already in preparation. He says it will end after that, even if technically, there are many more books in the collection.
Both films earned very good reviews, a 90% critical score for Furiosa with an 88% audience score. Dune did even better with a 92% critic score and an audience score of a staggering 95%. Still, it’s a shame Furiosa didn’t do more and maybe we won’t get another apocalyptic crop of George Miller. Someone is forcing Elon Musk to watch the videos and maybe he will fund a new one himself. I don’t know, I desperately need more.
Chris Hemsworth is having a heck of a time on the Netflix top 10 list right now, not just co-starring in Furiosa at #3 but also starring in the #1 film, In The Heart of the Sea, a not-terribly-good 2015 flick loosely based on Moby Dick. Hemsworth is already an existing Netflix star in the form of two different Extraction movies, rare actual hits from Netflix’s original movie arm. Extraction 3 is in fact on the way.
So, watch these movies. Both of them. I guess you might want to watch Fury Road and Dune Part 1 first, both of which are also on Netflix, but those are also great. You won’t regret it.
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