Is it about time we blame the actors ? - Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024) Discussion

Why does it matter to people if a film flops? If you liked the movie, should not matter to you how much money it makes.

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It matters abit, first of all there's the feeling you get watching it like 'this movies a failure, no one wanted to see this' , then there's the fact its unlikely there will be sequels (in this case no Mad Max: The Wasteland that Miller said he'd be doing next but will now probably have to do as an anime or comic series/graphic novel, unless WBros decide to risk dropping about 120m on the chance it might do Fury Road box office bc itd actually be about mad max) , and when a film bombs on this scale (170m budget, probably going to struggle to make 200m unless explodes in china) it must affect other big 'original' movies being made from auteur directors like GMiller (i say original in comparison to the usual superhero, fast furious stuff)

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[–] Roguemail (1578) 15 days ago

Your first comment is bizarre...if you are watching a movie and enjoying it, why would the notion of it being considered a failure enter your head? If you thought that, surely you would not even be watching it.

It comes across as " I am enjoying this, but I shouldn't be because apparently it's supposed to be a flop".

Second, movie has only been out a few weeks. There is money to be made, not just from cinema but from sales to other mediums. Many classic movies were not hits on first release.

If they want to make another movie, they will. Hollywood can always find money to finance movies.

Hell, there are quite a few franchises still going and churning out inferior sequels, yet they still make more.

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[–] christomacin (4563) 15 days ago

The decline in BluRay and DVD sales means a lot of films will struggle to make money post-release the same way films in the past did. Even most streaming services are struggling.

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[–] ReelReviews14 (1174) 15 days ago

I don't think I can really point the finger to any of the film's cast members for Flopiosa sucking so badly.

The one thing I would disagree with my fellow Flopiosa critics on is them bashing Anya Taylor-Joy for looking nothing like Chalize Theron and the original actor not being asked back. As I noted, the exact SAME thing was true in the LAST Mad Max movie, and they were fine and dandy with Tom Hardy replacing Mel Gibson despite looking, sounding, and acting absolutely nothing like the character that Mel had established. The Johnny-come-lately attitude of whining about recasting in the Mad Max franchise NOW just amounts to rank hypocrisy.

I've seen Anya Taylor-Joy in other stuff. It would be one thing if she's a "bad" actress, but she's usually pretty solid and I doubt this film is an exception. Even though, she's apparently not even IN the movie for the first 40 minutes, so the whole first act of this film is carried by an even younger actress playing CHILD Furiosa, and by all accounts she does an excellent job "selling" the character.

Same thing with Chris Hemsworth. He's got the charm, looks, and attitude to pull off most action roles, I doubt this is an exception. More likely, he put in a good performance in a crappy movie, like how The Phantom Menace is filled with stupid Jar Jar Binks slapstick and idiotic plot points about "midiclorians", but there's nothing wrong with Liam Neeson's acting. He put in a solid performance despite the film around him being overhyped, overstuffed, overbudgeted CGI schlock.

There ARE box office bombs where the actors ARE part of the problem (including people trying to convince us of the reverse, and claim its not Gal Gadot's fault that Wonder Woman 2 flopped, when in reality her 'acting' in that movie was terrible), but I don't think it's the case for Flopiosa. I blame George Miller for losing touch with what made the franchise successful in the FIRST place.