Anya Taylor-Joy rode home on VOD last week with Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga and the results thus far are all shiny and chrome. The latest adventure in George Miller’s cinematic wasteland topped the iTunes VOD chart for July 1 and similarly lorded over the competition on the Fandango at Home chart for June 24 through 30. It’s a slight bit of redemption for the critically acclaimed blockbuster actioner after it fell surprisingly flat at the box office with only $171.3 million globally against an estimated $168 million budget. Previously, the top spot on both charts had been held by John Krasinski’s family comedy IF.
iTunes and Fandango both utilize different measures for their respective charts, meaning Furiosa dominated both in terms of the number of transactions and total revenue. Audiences are clearly still interested in seeing how Imperator Furiosa became the powerful leader seen in Mad Max: Fury Road, even if many didn’t show up when the film graced theaters in late May. It seemingly marks the continuation of a trend that has troubled the industry of late, as viewers have shown they’re more than willing to wait for the relatively quick turnaround of digital releases rather than go out to see movies on the biggest screen possible with some exceptions. David Leitch’s The Fall Guy similarly struggled at the box office with a starry duo of Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt failing to draw crowds until its VOD release.
Could not notice any cgi in the theater but at home yeah, but I would prefer this more than unhealthy productions. The movie is peak entertainment. Not a masterpiece like fury road but pretty damn fun.
I don’t understand how people can say this. I saw both mad max movies in theaters, and the CG was so immersion breaking in both for me. Not just bits of odd looking shots here or there, but the majority of the movies. It looks like they did sky replacement or some other monkeying around. All the lighting looks off and there’s that classic grey-washing on edges throughout. I don’t know what I’m talking about; I just know it looks ass to me and I wish it didn’t because they’re fun movies.
I prefer movies like these than whatever the fk avatar 2 was. And immersion is idk, you can enjoy theatre performances even if the set is nothing. The bikes getting craned up in the first dementus vs evil guy was super rough. Other than that, it was very much fine for me.