I wasn't even AWARE they made AND released ANOTHER "Mad Max" movie until a few days ago or so, and its already out in cinemas and whatnot. But anyways, how is it, and also, as good, worse or better than 2015's "Fury Road", what about to original "Mad Max" movies from 1979, 1981 and even the lesser but still sort of OK 1985 sequel? Cheers.
shareNot a sequel. It's a spin-off movie starring the Furiosa character and chronologically a prequel to Fury Road as well.
Movie is decent though like the Max movies, it's different enough to be it's own thing. Like it's almost comparable to Thunderdome in that it's much heavier on the world building and has a sizable helping of the absurd but it still retains the Fury Road world and tone (No kids or family friendly stuff).
Action is still very good but the best sequences are mid-movie and there's no big action scene finale like in the other movies. So if you're not into the characters or world then one might find the back-end kinda flat.
I've only seen it once so my opinion could change over time but as of right now, if Road Warrior and Fury Road are in the 9-10 range then this would be like a 7.5.
The propaganda is in full swing. They're trying HARD to convince us how "good" this movie is and how we should ignore the awful box office numbers and check it out for ourselves because we MUST be able to experience its "epicness" on the big screen.
I'm reminded when The Flash immediately crashed and burned at the box office, and try tried a round-the-clock propaganda campaign to convince us how "good" it was and how we MUST see Michael Keaton back in action as the caped crusader. Not one word about Ezra Miller, even though he was the freakin' TITLE character:
https://www.reddit.com/r/comicbookmovies/comments/148iq5p/the_flash_breaks_records_with_98_audience_score/