Miguex
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Furiosa (2024)
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I am a simple dwarf of simple tastes.. what can I say....
And I have a wife who knows how to cook....
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Bald Brah
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Nah plenty of movies have made half a billion or more post covid. The new shitty apes movie is doing okay.
We'll see what happens with Wolverine and Deadpool. Two white alpha male leads. Something we never ever see in the movies anymore. It'll garner a few bucks from me just for the casting. So stunning and brave in this DEI era. I feel I have to support my fellow white homies if I don't want to see white male leads go extinct. And precisely why I won't spend any money on black or female led entertainment. I want to see more inclusiveness. Of white guys.
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Yeah, that should be a good test. If the movie sticks to the Deadpool formula of "Give the fans what you know they want, and make it gratuitous while you do it" and see how it fares. I just don't like to throw the problems under the now all encompassing blanket of "They went too woke/DEI/the MESSAGE!"
Although I think even if it hauls in a mountain of cash I don't know if they will be able to help themselves and keep producing content in that vein.
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Koushirou
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Eh, this was okay. Action sequences were fine. Didn't feel super girlbossy. The beginning was definitely slow and spent too much time on her childhood. There's also a massive fucking plot hole after she gets to the Citadel. It kinda just ruined most of the rest of the movie. Like...no reaction? What-so-ever? Stupid. There's practically no interaction with her and Immortan Joe to see why he eventually has her as an imperator. Maybe should have trimmed out some of the beginning to actually show some more of that 40 days war. Praetorian Jack just wasn't realistic to me. Missing/weak motivations for why he is the way he is. Hell, there's no interaction with her and the wives to see her thoughts of getting them out of the Citadel, never see her mentioning the green place to them, etc. For a movie supposed to be about filling in someone's backstory, there's a shitload missing that they just didn't have at all or are expecting you to infer.
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Bald Brah
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The whole 'put a chick in it and make her gay' is only funny because it's true. It's what they've been doing the last 5 or so years with big budget productions. Furiosa could be the best movie ever made and it won't get a dime from me. I'm done with their bullshit.
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Sevens
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Sevens
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See, it's not that we just hate women protagonist because they are women (See Ridley from Alien/s). And the fact that she isn't just flinging men around willy nilly is great....but I (and a lot of others I know) are just sick of having the whole "women as action stars" shoved down our throat. I'm just sick of every movie having to have some strong independent woman as the fucking lead. I don't want it, I won't support it. Fuck DEI
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Ome
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Tuesday night (which is over 50% off ticket prices) in San Diego and besides me and my 3 boys, there were a total 5 other people watching. Not good at all. As for the movie I pretty much agree with most of whats been said, little long but overall pretty decent.
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cabbitcabbit
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Yeah it’s not a “run to the cinema” see but it’s enjoyable. I can’t think of the last movie that was besides maybe endgame. We all have pretty decent home set ups now that ape the theater experience.
I actually really enjoy sitting in a nigh-empty theater on a Saturday afternoon so the slow death of chains is my jam.
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Gavinmad
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They probably thought the whole 'Joe filled her to the brim several times and then tossed her in a gutter when she never got pregnant' thing would offend all the women who were never gonna go see the movie in the first place so they just kinda glazed over it even harder than Joe glazed her cervix.
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Fucker
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She can sit in the front yard and count the cows in the back yard. She's like a horse or a fish, has 360 degree vision.
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Loser Araysar
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amigo
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Apparently they CGI'd her face so she would gradually transform from the chapter1/2 girl to ATJ. IIRC, RLM review mentioned that.
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Koushirou
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I mean, they didn’t even glaze over it, it wasn’t even a possible plot point in this version.
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Fight
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Joe presumably made her his imperator because she went out and...
murdered/captured his mortal enemy who was threatening their entire existence and waged a 40 days war against him.
She was still super young when she reached the Citadel and appeared to have escaped into anonymity before Joe would have made her a wife. Joe is a sick, sadist piece of shit, but I don't think it was implied that he was raping pre-teen girls. The only one that knew the details of her escape was Rectus and even he was smart enough to play stupid of the whole event when Scrotus noticed him.
So, his future prized wife just vanishes one day, he probably tosses a Warboy off the citadel in rage. Life goes on. Meanwhile, she shows up in the crowd as a mute Repair Boy/Blackfinger and proves her value and 10+ years go by. Dementus' horde get even more unruly and he has no choice but to amp up his aggression or be devoured by his own horde.
This is a complicated story. It isn't just Good Guys against Bad Guys. There are factions within factions and individuals within those factions who are using those factions to their own ends.
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