Why do Furiosa fans REFUSE to admit it failed?
It’s now been over two weeks since this film premiered, and it’s been clear since day one that Furiosa was one of the biggest box office failures of 2024.
Despite the fact it’s obvious to EVERYONE by now that the movie was a colossal misfire and probably won’t even break even at the box office by the time it finishes its theatrical run, there are STILL endless people shilling for this movie all over social media, and trying to convince everyone how “popular” and “amazing” this film is with “Mad Max fans”. Just yesterday, some Furiosa fanboy was over all social media pages on Facebook, posting fawning reviews claiming all the audiences LOVED and trying in vain to convince the rest of us “Go see this s—t as SOON as you can! Chris Hemsworth steals the show!!! There was NOTHING wrong with it!!! A fantastic film!!!”
Why?
I understand the need for them to shill for this dumpster fire on opening weekend, given the bloated $168 million price tag and the fact it was technically part of the “Mad Max franchise”, the stakes were high, and the studio wanted to try and fool people into thinking it was the greatest Mad Max film ever, so of course they had all kinds of shills posting endless “****, It’s a Masterpiece!” puff pieces when the film premiered. They were probably hoping to get HUGE gullible audiences to show up opening week, BEFORE the bad word of mouth caused the numbers to drop. There’s no point in trying to salvage this film now, though. It had pitiful numbers opening day, and it hasn’t improved in two weeks. Stick a fork in it, it’s done. Very bizarre how Furiosa fans continue to tilt at windmills, anyway.
I haven’t seen this level of delusion since Steven Spielberg's West Side Story remake crashed and burned at the box office spectacularly, but the media simply ignored that inconvenient truth and kept PRETENDING the movie was a huge hit and audiences LOVED it, putting our ridiculous articles like “Why was Rachel Zegler SNUBBED at the Oscars? ::GASP!!!:: (Shockingly, its fellow musical box office bomb 'Dear Even Hansen' was likewise “snubbed” at the Oscars and nobody invited Ben Pratt. Gee, I wonder why?) There were similar levels of “Let’s just pretend it’s a hit and everyone loved it even though its bleeding viewers like crazy” when Suicide Squad bombed in 2016, and for the BBC (and now Disney+) for every post-Peter Capaldi version of Doctor Who.
Ah, the power of self-delusion. I thought the Robert Downey Jr. version of Dr. Dolittle was the ONLY adaptation faithful to the source material, but the reality is it bombed horribly at the box office. Maybe I should just PRETEND it was a huge hit and “Dr. Dolittle fans” LOVED it!