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Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga – Why This Amazing Movie Deserved a Bigger Win!
The Mad Max franchise is legendary. It's been a cultural force for almost 45 years, evolving from a gritty Aussie thriller into those epic, high-budget Hollywood blockbusters; yet despite how enormous that impact has become, this consistency throughout remains quite amazing. The visionary director,George Miller, remained at the helm for the whole journey; the director kept this intense, creative level over those many years, making this series completely exceptional and unique amongst its contemporaries! Unlike others–such as the inconsistent Star Wars prequels or the much-criticized Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull— Miller has demonstrated an amazing, impressive level of quality across this vast production spanning an entire career. Mad Max consistently delivers top-tier quality!
The amazingRotten Tomatoesscores absolutely back this claim. Across those many decades, they consistently score remarkably high. This indicates amazing, widely shared approval; and these kinds of consistently superb levels over such long periods truly cement the amazing and outstanding brilliance in everyMad Maxmovie!
Furiosa's critical reception– the "Tomatometer" score on Rotten Tomatoes is nearly perfect (90%), and exactly identical to that original 1979Mad Maxmovie! And even more amazing; the rest score highly too. TheRoad Warrioris at 94%! OnlyBeyond Thunderdomehas anything below 90% (79%), but that is still above-average, something to really showcase this impressive production’s success across these varied titles. AndFury Road? That one is exceptionally impressive (97%!).Those numbers highlight exactly just how superb each entry consistently is throughout. Furiosa'sidentical score to the original truly cements how great Miller remains as a visionary filmmaker.
It’s important to look further than merely Tomatometer, we also look at those audience scores on the Rotten Tomatoes Popcornmeter which measures the overall audience responses toward the various productions that they already rated, creating yet another benchmark to evaluate those existing film scores.
ButFuriosa’sperformance wasn’t simply critical acclaim; its audience response is simply the highest (89%) amongst all the other titles and higher than even the highly-acclaimedRoad WarriorandFury Road! This suggests those fans also lovedFuriosaand shows their appreciation towardMiller'sconsistent style. That consistent success, however is only found here: the remaining titles scored far below compared toFuriosaand demonstrates just why critics and fans alike continued supporting Miller’sMad Maxthroughout these multiple decades! This really highlights just how critically successful each film actually has become, despite that existing contrast in success between critical response and audience’s viewpoints toward that specific film. Those huge differences however were never nearly this immense.
So, a critically acclaimed movie, a fan favorite… Why wasFuriosaa box office flop when it was initially released in May?This simply feels wrong, really highlighting that audience response versus box office success might never match. It could be explained in a simple way; there is still competition for that audience attention in cinema! Fury Road’sfame; however overshadows it; a smaller audience than hoped for makes its success extremely hard. Those ongoing problems affecting cinema– people moving away from theaters for those easily accessible streaming platforms is another issue. But despite the circumstances that prevented it becoming a hugely massive commercial success– Furiosaabsolutely deserved way better!
Furiosais undeniably a superb movie– one showingMiller'scontinued creative prowess and brilliant vision.The exceptional positive response only makes the relatively poor box office results an even more shocking display. However, the continued critical acclaim across the long period in the Mad Max franchise only proves a singular thing; the value provided far exceeds those shortcomings; emphasizing that while the specific production could’ve experienced difficulties surrounding marketing or that other unpredictable factors regarding movie releases– its continued, outstanding, overwhelmingly positive response will generate its needed successes across many different platforms.