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.
- Eyck_of_denesle ( @Eyck_of_denesle@lemmy.zip ) English15•3 months ago
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.
- corsicanguppy ( @corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ) English8•3 months ago
Argylle has a chance if it can escape the apple walled garden. It’s almost as bad as being launched exclusively on paramount.
Yeah, I enjoyed Argylle when I saw it in.the cinema, it"s a pity more people haven’t got to see it since.
- RobMyBot ( @RobMyBot@lemmy.ml ) English3•3 months ago
Argylle was so crazy and ridiculous, but they created no illusions about that, so I was prepared for it going in and honestly it was a pretty fun watch. It did feel a tad too long, though.
- jet ( @jet@hackertalks.com ) English8•3 months ago
- Mad Max 3 :Thunderdome
- Mad Max 4 : Fury road
- Mad Max 2 : The Road Warrior
- Mad Max: Video Game 2015 - (Not a movie, but great immersive world building)
- Mad Max 5 : Furiousia
- Mad Max 1
It’s a good film, the opening CGI sound stage was disappointing and probably turned off some reviewers, but ignore that and it’s a fine member of the franchise. Like its totally a good movie to watch in the theater and bring a date with, fun times, no real complaints. It’s only down in the list because the other entries were SO ICONIC!
- Mountain_Mike_420 ( @Mountain_Mike_420@lemmy.ml ) English6•3 months ago
It was good. Not better than fury but way better than original mad max. Man that movie was horrible.
- gramie ( @gramie@lemmy.ca ) English6•3 months ago
Did you see the version of Mad Max where they dubbed the Australian voices into American ones, because they felt Americans wouldn’t understand the Aussie accent? That made the movie 100x worse.
- Mountain_Mike_420 ( @Mountain_Mike_420@lemmy.ml ) English1•3 months ago
No. they all had Aussie voices but while reading up on why mad max was so bad I did see that they released a north American version with American accent voice overs! That’s crazy.
Turns out the reason they made 3 mad max movies (initially) was because they made the movie on a shoestring budget and it went on the be “the most profitable movie of all time!” And that fact still holds up today.
- Che Banana ( @The_Che_Banana@beehaw.org ) English4•3 months ago
So yeah we watched this. First half was pretty ok, but you know, just felt like it was coasting off Fury Road…and the middle bit got…a bit long and the last part…holy fuck would someone please kill Thor and shut him the fuck up …my god the movie could have. should have ended so much earlier.
- Eyck_of_denesle ( @Eyck_of_denesle@lemmy.zip ) English3•3 months ago
I disagree. The ending was quite satisfying. It wasn’t like the captain marvel ending.
- Someonelol ( @Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English4•3 months ago
I’d watch it in theaters if tickets didn’t cost at least $15 with additional service fees if you try buying them online.
- lud ( @lud@lemm.ee ) English4•3 months ago
I wish our theaters were that cheap