Film - Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
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lightofdayeSo I promised walgesang my thought on Furiosa after I'd seen it. I saw it on Saturday so you can tell I've been slacking!
The problem is I've not got any strong feelings about it one way or the other.
For the uninitiated Furiosa is the prequel to 2015's Mad Max: Fury Road. In that film, Max (Tom Hardy) himself was something of a supporting protagonist to Furiosa (Charlize Theron). a commander for a warlord in a post-apocalyptic word. She takes it on herself to rescue the warlord's many wives and take them away to the green land paradise she was from.
This film came out nine years ago so they didn't exactly strike while the iron was hot on this one.
Anyway the film shows Furiosa now played by Alyla Browne as a child for the first part of the movie and the Anya Taylor-Joy for the remainder. She's shown being kidnapped from her greenland home, her mother tries to rescue but she ends up in the clutches of Dementus (Chris Hemsworth) a warlord, who then picks a fight with the warlord for the first film and she's traded to him as a wive (this is when she's a kid). She escapes and infiltrates his military, wanting to escape home but also revenge on Dementus. Action scenes ensue and she ends up forgoing going home to kill Dementus. The credits then re-iterate her actions in Fury Road.
So that's a summary. The two actresses for Furiosa are both good and alike. She's a very dry laconic character and mostly the plot happens to her rather than her driving it. I was surprised how long we got the younger version.
There's plenty of action, a reasonably amount of plot, characters good and bad being killed horrifically and well like I said, I didn't dislike it but I didn't have any strong connection the characters or really cared about them, I felt disconnected from it all.
Now I didn't watch Fury Road in theatres, I saw it once on Netflix years ago, so I'm really no judge of the connections to that one being the really obvious and how well it all links up. (The young furiosa has a sister in the first scene who never comes back which I thought was odd until i read up later and heard she was in Fury Road and I'd forgotten)
So overall it's a big meh from me. I don't regret watching it, it was a fine enough two and half hours (probably could have been trimmed) but it's not something I'm going to seek out to watch again.)
walgesang my thought on Furiosa after I'd seen it. I saw it on Saturday so you can tell I've been slacking!The problem is I've not got any strong feelings about it one way or the other.
For the uninitiated Furiosa is the prequel to 2015's Mad Max: Fury Road. In that film, Max (Tom Hardy) himself was something of a supporting protagonist to Furiosa (Charlize Theron). a commander for a warlord in a post-apocalyptic word. She takes it on herself to rescue the warlord's many wives and take them away to the green land paradise she was from.
This film came out nine years ago so they didn't exactly strike while the iron was hot on this one.
Anyway the film shows Furiosa now played by Alyla Browne as a child for the first part of the movie and the Anya Taylor-Joy for the remainder. She's shown being kidnapped from her greenland home, her mother tries to rescue but she ends up in the clutches of Dementus (Chris Hemsworth) a warlord, who then picks a fight with the warlord for the first film and she's traded to him as a wive (this is when she's a kid). She escapes and infiltrates his military, wanting to escape home but also revenge on Dementus. Action scenes ensue and she ends up forgoing going home to kill Dementus. The credits then re-iterate her actions in Fury Road.
So that's a summary. The two actresses for Furiosa are both good and alike. She's a very dry laconic character and mostly the plot happens to her rather than her driving it. I was surprised how long we got the younger version.
There's plenty of action, a reasonably amount of plot, characters good and bad being killed horrifically and well like I said, I didn't dislike it but I didn't have any strong connection the characters or really cared about them, I felt disconnected from it all.
Now I didn't watch Fury Road in theatres, I saw it once on Netflix years ago, so I'm really no judge of the connections to that one being the really obvious and how well it all links up. (The young furiosa has a sister in the first scene who never comes back which I thought was odd until i read up later and heard she was in Fury Road and I'd forgotten)
So overall it's a big meh from me. I don't regret watching it, it was a fine enough two and half hours (probably could have been trimmed) but it's not something I'm going to seek out to watch again.)
