Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)

Originally posted by Q99
Wow, some people here may not have been thrilled, but it's a 98% (!) on rotten tomatos with critics, and a still very impressive 93% with audience.

That's mad-good for an action flick.

Originally posted by Q99
Wow, some people here may not have been thrilled, but it's a 98% (!) on rotten tomatos with critics, and a still very impressive 93% with audience.

That's mad-good for an action flick.

Most people have been loving it. No movie is for everyone though.

Just got back from this and it was fantastic. Brilliant action and a brilliantly simple, yet effective premise. It feels like an old school action flick, but enhanced in all the right ways with modern technology. Adrenaline filled... such great action and so well paced that it felt more like an hour and a half instead of the 2 hours that it is. Best Mad Max film yet by far. I didn't realize it had such an enormous budget until I looked it up today before heading to the cinema. $150 million. I'd love to see sequels, but it's honestly a pretty nicely self-contained little film. If they do get the chance to do sequels (which seems unlikely with such a huge budget) separate self-contained stories might be cool.

See it in 3D if possible. Definitely worth seeing on the big screen if you're an action junky.

Originally posted by Patient_Leech
Just got back from this and it was fantastic. Brilliant action and a brilliantly simple, yet effective premise. It feels like an old school action flick, but enhanced in all the right ways with modern technology. Adrenaline filled... such great action and so well paced that it felt more like an hour and a half instead of the 2 hours that it is. Best Mad Max film yet by far. I didn't realize it had such an enormous budget until I looked it up today before heading to the cinema. $150 million. I'd love to see sequels, but it's honestly a pretty nicely self-contained little film. If they do get the chance to do sequels (which seems unlikely with such a huge budget) separate self-contained stories might be cool.

See it in 3D if possible. Definitely worth seeing on the big screen if you're an action junky.

If you're wrong, expect a bullet.

Best kill him to be safe.

Originally posted by Mindset
You really think it's better than the first 2?

Originally posted by Mindset
You really think it's better than the first 2?

I absolutely think so. The updated effects and action here are extremely impressive. I'm telling ya, this thing is well crafted. The real star of the show is George Miller.

Oh, and f#ck off with the hollow threats. 😉

Originally posted by Golgo13
Most people have been loving it. No movie is for everyone though.

Yep. Even a well-tuned movie can fail to strike a cord.

Best movie of 2015 so far imo. Too bad it's getting shit on by Pitch Perfect 2 in sales.

Originally posted by Q99
Wow, some people here may not have been thrilled, but it's a 98% (!) on rotten tomatos with critics, and a still very impressive 93% with audience.

That's mad-good for an action flick.

fried green tomatoes err rotten tomatoes is absolutely no guarantee whether or not a film will be a financial success let alone good...

perhaps people need 5150 holds if they want to go by what that goofball trollish site says

^ Yeah the film's not doing well at the box office. So a sequel isn't likely unless that turns around. But perhaps it will have legs as strong as Kingsman did.

Google tells me 109.4million worldwide opening week.

That's not terrible at all for a franchise that most people haven't really heard about in 30 years and had more of a cult status than mainstream even back then.

Worldwide sales rarely factor into a film's financial success, unfortunately.

Not sure why they gave a niche R-rated movie such a huge budget if they wanted to create a franchise. It seems like $75 - $100 could have been plenty to tell this story, and even that would be pushing it.

Originally posted by Firefly218
Well, the first one sucked...

Originally posted by Patient_Leech
I absolutely think so. The updated effects and action here are extremely impressive. I'm telling ya, this thing is well crafted. The real star of the show is George Miller.

Oh, and f#ck off with the hollow threats. 😉

Whether it get a sequel or not depends on how much it was to make, I'm guessing it was a lot.

Budget was 150 million. It's made 45 million domestically so far.

I imagine it'll need to make around 300 million internationally before the studio considers a sequel.

Originally posted by Tzeentch
Budget was 150 million. It's made 45 million domestically so far.

Shut it down.

Dark days, brother.

Don't forget marketing costs on top of the budget, and the theatre cut from ticket prices (which is much higher internationally- well over 50% in places like China).

So I think $300mill WW would likely be breaking even, and it would need to make at least $350mill for any serious sequel talks.