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Is Furiosa a bomb similar to last year's Indy 5?


or is it even worse??!!

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Indiana Jones was much worse. It being a gigantic property(Accounting for inflation they were all the equivalent of billion dollar movies) yet Dial of Destiny with it's absurd $387m budget only pulled in $383m worldwide. Even an un-adjusted Crystal Skull made nearly $800m and that was back in 2008 without all the current price inflation.

Furiosa is a major bomba but not at that level.

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Flopiosa is Even Worse. Both films should have never been made and pretend to be "another installment" when they're really a belated followup that can't recapture the magic of the original trilogy's 1980s heyday, but Indy 5 has several things that place it a notch above Flopiosa.

For starters, Indy 5 has Harrison Ford back as the "star" and John Williams back as composer. I was dead set against making an "Indiana Jones" film in 2023 and trying to copy the "style" of the older movies, but the 25 minute opening prologue freakin' NAILED it and won me over, the ONLY thing that didn't work was Indy's voice sounded way too gravelly to buy him being World War II era Indy. Other than that, they convinced me when they had an INCREDIBLY high bar to measure up to. Too bad the REST of the film wasn't like that 25 minute opening.

Second, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny is actually about... yup, INDIANA JONES. It's not some fake spinoff with new actors pretending to be a proper "installment" of the franchise, like making SHORT ROUND: An Indiana Jones Saga (with a totally new actor portraying Short Round), and having Indy AWOL the entire movie except for a blink-and-you'll-miss-it cameo where he's "played" by Harrison Ford's stunt double.

Finally, in terms of being destroyed at the box office, Flopiosa is doing EVEN WORSE and hasn't even generated the revenue of the film's budget yet ($168 million), and its losing to a half dozen OTHER less-than-stellar films at the box office. Indy 5 flopped anyway, but it did manage to still gross nearly $400 million, and was #1 at the box office its first two weeks of release.

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I think Furiosa's budget was half of what Indy 5's budget was. Indy 5 cost 350 million and the Box Office was 380 million. Furiosa's budget was about 175 million and the Box Office will end up around 175-200 million.

I think they're about even in this regard, no?

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