Furiosa flops at the box office

[BeenHereBefore 1,525]

7 hours ago, The Real timschochet said:

It’s gotten to the point where I can watch any movie at home within seemingly 30 days of its release. Why bother to go see anything? I don’t really understand why Hollywood is doing this. 

Cause Hollywood knows they been putting out crap that doesn't motivate one to drive to go and see them. Got to make money where they can.

[Mike Honcho 5,283]

6 hours ago, WhiteWonder said:

Fury Road was great and I’m a big Tom Hardy fan but I can admit Charlize made that film 

Furiosa is good, but I'd put it a step below Fury Road. But it would be nearly impossible to top Fury Road.  Glad I saw it on the big screen.

[DonS 3,292]

2 hours ago, Mike Honcho said:

Furiosa is good, but I'd put it a step below Fury Road. But it would be nearly impossible to top Fury Road.  Glad I saw it on the big screen.

Saw it this afternoon.  Agreed that it wasn't as good as Fury Road, but still very enjoyable.

Didnt see it in IMAX but instead saw it on AMC's Dolby Cinema fancy schmancy option.  Great for the sound of those engines. 

[gas 157]

Just saw it, thought it was very good.  That said, Charlize Theron could have been in this, and it would have been a better movie with her.

[WhiteWonder 2,738]

20 hours ago, Hardcore troubadour said:

It bombed. Got woke too. 

Had to google most recent toy story movie. When you said something, I assumed there had been a more recent one I was not aware of. Looks like the one you meant was from 2019 with the toy Spork character. I saw this with my god daughters and had absolutely no complaints about wokeness so no clue what you're talking about there. 

as for bombing or not.. also no clue. I did not see it in theaters with them but imdb has a 7.7 and rotten tomatoes a 97% 

[Mike Honcho 5,283]

3 minutes ago, WhiteWonder said:

Had to google most recent toy story movie. When you said something, I assumed there had been a more recent one I was not aware of. Looks like the one you meant was from 2019 with the toy Spork character. I saw this with my god daughters and had absolutely no complaints about wokeness so no clue what you're talking about there. 

as for bombing or not.. also no clue. I did not see it in theaters with them but imdb has a 7.7 and rotten tomatoes a 97% 

 

 

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Toy Story 4

Box office: $1.073 billion

Budget: $200 million

 

 

 

Seems like a catastrophic failure to me. 

[Hardcore troubadour 15,446]

1 hour ago, WhiteWonder said:

Had to google most recent toy story movie. When you said something, I assumed there had been a more recent one I was not aware of. Looks like the one you meant was from 2019 with the toy Spork character. I saw this with my god daughters and had absolutely no complaints about wokeness so no clue what you're talking about there. 

as for bombing or not.. also no clue. I did not see it in theaters with them but imdb has a 7.7 and rotten tomatoes a 97% 

No.  That’s not the one. The last one. That bombed. 

[Hawkeye21 2,399]

1 hour ago, Mike Honcho said:

 

 

 

 

Seems like a catastrophic failure to me. 

He's talking about the Lightyear movie that wasn't in connection with the other Toy Story movies.  It struggled for multiple reasons, being woke was one of them.

[wiffleball 4,790]

Should have called it Fabulouso. 

 

That stuff smells great! 

[Hardcore troubadour 15,446]

17 minutes ago, Hawkeye21 said:

He's talking about the Lightyear movie that wasn't in connection with the other Toy Story movies.  It struggled for multiple reasons, being woke was one of them.

It’s a character from Toy Story. How is it not connected? 

[The Real timschochet 6,774]

Haven’t seen it and don’t want to. But a couple of other things occurred to me: 

1. The title. If you haven’t seen the trailer, the title sounds like an Italian art film. If you called it “Fury Road Something” or “Mad Max something” then I know what it is. But I’m guessing a lot of people don’t: 

2. Anna Joy is a growing star but she’s covered in a lot of makeup and you don’t recognize her. So the star power attraction is lost. 
 

Little mistakes like this can make all the difference at the box office I think…

[WhiteWonder 2,738]

21 minutes ago, Hawkeye21 said:

He's talking about the Lightyear movie that wasn't in connection with the other Toy Story movies.  It struggled for multiple reasons, being woke was one of them.

thank you for clarifying. 

never saw it but i dont think it even had tim allen doing the voice? I wouldnt associate that with the toy story series at all. 

[Hawkeye21 2,399]

5 minutes ago, Hardcore troubadour said:

It’s a character from Toy Story. How is it not connected? 

There is a small connection but has nothing to do with the 4 Toy Story storylines.

[Hardcore troubadour 15,446]

Just now, Hawkeye21 said:

There is a small connection but has nothing to do with the 4 Toy Story storylines.

Ok.

[Hawkeye21 2,399]

1 minute ago, WhiteWonder said:

thank you for clarifying. 

never saw it but i dont think it even had tim allen doing the voice? I wouldnt associate that with the toy story series at all. 

I haven't see it either.  A lot of people complained about it before it even released.  They didn't like that it didn't have Time Allen but it's not the same character or based on the Toy Story movies.  It sounded like the movie in general wasn't all that good either.

[Hawkeye21 2,399]

Just now, Hardcore troubadour said:

Ok.

You've been corrected on this multiple times but for some reason you keep being wrong. Notice how people don't know what you're talking about when you say it was the latest Toy Story movie, because it wasn't.

[Mike Honcho 5,283]

3 minutes ago, Hawkeye21 said:

I haven't see it either.  A lot of people complained about it before it even released.  They didn't like that it didn't have Time Allen but it's not the same character or based on the Toy Story movies.  It sounded like the movie in general wasn't all that good either.

I liked the robot cat.

 

[WhiteWonder 2,738]

3 minutes ago, The Real timschochet said:

Haven’t seen it and don’t want to. But a couple of other things occurred to me: 

1. The title. If you haven’t seen the trailer, the title sounds like an Italian art film. If you called it “Fury Road Something” or “Mad Max something” then I know what it is. But I’m guessing a lot of people don’t: 

2. Anna Joy is a growing star but she’s covered in a lot of makeup and you don’t recognize her. So the star power attraction is lost. 
 

Little mistakes like this can make all the difference at the box office I think…

The full movie title is Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga 

i guess they could have called It Mad Max: Furiosa   but the Furiosa name should be familiar to fans. If you see any sort of imagery, commercial or trailer and hear Furiosa, you know what it is because its clearly a similar setting. You'd have to see just a list of movie names to not immediately put it together. 

I still have no clue who Anna Taylor Joy is looking at her pictures I recognize her from a few seasons of Peaky Blinders but had to google anything else shes been in. So I'm not sure where the star power is, makeup or not.

[TheNewGirl 1,494]

We were going to go see it this weekend but it didn't work out with our schedule. Probably still go see it this week despite terrible reviews. 

Also finding that if we wait about a month, we can see it at home for about the same price. 

[Mike Honcho 5,283]

5 minutes ago, WhiteWonder said:

The full movie title is Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga 

i guess they could have called It Mad Max: Furiosa   but the Furiosa name should be familiar to fans. If you see any sort of imagery, commercial or trailer and hear Furiosa, you know what it is because its clearly a similar setting. You'd have to see just a list of movie names to not immediately put it together. 

I still have no clue who Anna Taylor Joy is looking at her pictures I recognize her from a few seasons of Peaky Blinders but had to google anything else shes been in. So I'm not sure where the star power is, makeup or not.

During Covid she was in that Netflix series The Queens Gambit...I think that's her one big thing before this.

[jerryskids 6,800]

6 minutes ago, WhiteWonder said:

The full movie title is Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga 

i guess they could have called It Mad Max: Furiosa   but the Furiosa name should be familiar to fans. If you see any sort of imagery, commercial or trailer and hear Furiosa, you know what it is because its clearly a similar setting. You'd have to see just a list of movie names to not immediately put it together. 

I still have no clue who Anna Taylor Joy is looking at her pictures I recognize her from a few seasons of Peaky Blinders but had to google anything else shes been in. So I'm not sure where the star power is, makeup or not.

She was awesome in The Queen's Gambit.

 

[jerryskids 6,800]

Just now, Mike Honcho said:

During Covid she was in that Netflix series The Queens Gambit...I think that's her one big thing before this.

 

Just now, jerryskids said:

She was awesome in The Queen's Gambit.

 

Late again.   

 

 

[Mike Honcho 5,283]

1 minute ago, TheNewGirl said:

We were going to go see it this weekend but it didn't work out with our schedule. Probably still go see it this week despite terrible reviews. 

Also finding that if we wait about a month, we can see it at home for about the same price. 

You must listen to some outlier reviewers, cause most of the reviews I saw are pretty good.

Ratings

 

IMDb8/10

 

 

Rotten Tomatoes90%

[TheNewGirl 1,494]

She was also in a great horror movie called The VVitch. really really good. 

 

[Mike Honcho 5,283]

5 minutes ago, TheNewGirl said:

We were going to go see it this weekend but it didn't work out with our schedule. Probably still go see it this week despite terrible reviews. 

Also finding that if we wait about a month, we can see it at home for about the same price. 

Also, I said it was good, so you don't even need to listen to anymore reviewers.    

[WhiteWonder 2,738]

2 minutes ago, Mike Honcho said:

During Covid she was in that Netflix series The Queens Gambit...I think that's her one big thing before this.

Right and the Northman looks interesting but have not seen it. And she was in Split but that was 2016. 

Not saying she isn't a good actress but if anyone thinks there is an issue with lack of star power or thinks star pawer is lost because of makeup and costumes I would argue shes hardly a star and more people would be seeing it for Hemsworth. 

[Hardcore troubadour 15,446]

15 minutes ago, Hawkeye21 said:

You've been corrected on this multiple times but for some reason you keep being wrong. Notice how people don't know what you're talking about when you say it was the latest Toy Story movie, because it wasn't.

So it’s not a spin off? 

[Hawkeye21 2,399]

1 hour ago, Hardcore troubadour said:

So it’s not a spin off? 

Technically, I'm not sure what you would call it.  I suppose a spin off would be accurate.  I thought the whole idea of the movie was odd, to be honest.

[Hardcore troubadour 15,446]

8 minutes ago, Hawkeye21 said:

Technically, I'm not sure what you would call it.  I suppose a spin off would be accurate.  I thought the whole idea of the movie was odd, to be honest.

Oh good.  So I’m right. So much for me “being corrected “.   HTDS. It’s real. 

[Hawkeye21 2,399]

1 minute ago, Hardcore troubadour said:

Oh good.  So I’m right. So much for me “being corrected “.   HTDS. It’s real. 

You're not capable of having a normal conversation, are you?

[Hawkeye21 2,399]

2 hours ago, Mike Honcho said:

You must listen to some outlier reviewers, cause most of the reviews I saw are pretty good.

Ratings

 

IMDb8/10

 

 

Rotten Tomatoes90%

Pretty much everything I've read said it was pretty good.  Similar to the reviews here, not as good and Fury Road but still good.

[Hardcore troubadour 15,446]

39 minutes ago, Hawkeye21 said:

You're not capable of having a normal conversation, are you?

Sure. You say I’ve “been corrected “ numerous times, then one post later say I’m right, then act like I’m wrong for correcting that nonsense.  That’s a great conversation right there 

[DonS 3,292]

37 minutes ago, Hawkeye21 said:

Pretty much everything I've read said it was pretty good.  Similar to the reviews here, not as good and Fury Road but still good.

This statement sums up my feelings after seeing it yesterday. 

[Hawkeye21 2,399]

10 minutes ago, Hardcore troubadour said:

Sure. You say I’ve “been corrected “ numerous times, then one post later say I’m right, then act like I’m wrong for correcting that nonsense.  That’s a great conversation right there 

All you need to do is stop calling it the latest Toy Story movie.  That's not what it is and that's why people don't know what you're talking about.  It is it's own movie, separate from the Toy Story series.

[IGotWorms 4,058]

10 minutes ago, Hawkeye21 said:

All you need to do is stop calling it the latest Toy Story movie.  That's not what it is and that's why people don't know what you're talking about.

This is % correct. I do not know, or care, what stupid unrelated bullsh1t HT has been going on about in this thread

[Hardcore troubadour 15,446]

22 minutes ago, Hawkeye21 said:

All you need to do is stop calling it the latest Toy Story movie.  That's not what it is and that's why people don't know what you're talking about.  It is it's own movie, separate from the Toy Story series.

It’s a spin off, therefore not its own movie.  Anyone arguing that is probably you, hack and worms. I rest my case. 

[jerryskids 6,800]

The important thing that I learned from this thread was that Fury Road was a good movie.  I figured at the time it was yet another sad attempt to reboot an old franchise, with a woke attempt to make a woman (Charlize Theron) a gritty action hero.  Although I do respect Theron as an actress... anyway, I'll put that on the list to watch, then maybe check out Furiosa.   

[WhiteWonder 2,738]

1 hour ago, Hardcore troubadour said:

Oh good.  So I’m right. So much for me “being corrected “.   HTDS. It’s real. 

actually, even if we consider it a spin off, that would not make it part of the Toy Story series.  You'd likely describe it as "the toy story spinoff" not "the most recent toy story movie"  

I had no idea wtf you were talking about and I wasn't arguing it just for the sake of arguing, I was genuinely curious if I missed one.  (in my googling I see Toy Story 5 comes out in 2026)

[DonS 3,292]

8 minutes ago, jerryskids said:

The important thing that I learned from this thread was that Fury Road was a good movie.  I figured at the time it was yet another sad attempt to reboot an old franchise, with a woke attempt to make a woman (Charlize Theron) a gritty action hero.  Although I do respect Theron as an actress... anyway, I'll put that on the list to watch, then maybe check out Furiosa.   

Most impressive thing about Fury Road is that vast majority of action shots are performed by stunt people and practical effects.  Very limited use of CGI.

[WhiteWonder 2,738]

13 minutes ago, jerryskids said:

The important thing that I learned from this thread was that Fury Road was a good movie.  I figured at the time it was yet another sad attempt to reboot an old franchise, with a woke attempt to make a woman (Charlize Theron) a gritty action hero.  Although I do respect Theron as an actress... anyway, I'll put that on the list to watch, then maybe check out Furiosa.   

I was in because I'm a Tom Hardy fan.  By the time he was in Fury Road he had already been in inception, lawless, warrior, dark knight rises, and the drop to name a few. Even the tolerable 'This means war'... and the same year as Fury Road he starred in Legend and Revenant and was a recurring character on Peaky Blinders. 

both leading roles were stars.

I also never saw the old movies .