‘Furiosa’ First Reactions Say It’s a Stunning Powerhouse (But No ‘Fury Road’)

It's fur-ee-OH-sah, not fur-ee-oh-SAH!
- RON STOP

Measuring it against Fury Road is an almost impossible task. If it's a "stunning powerhouse" then it should be just fine.

The trailer didn't interest me at all with the overuse of CGI
- It is typical for trailers to be released while production is still in progress. Fury road had a TON of CGI, but it's impossible to tell because by release the work was completed. People don't realize how much CGI goes into movies these days and assume it's all practical FX.
- I thought so too. It was really disappointing compared to all the amazing practical effects in Fury Road.
  
  See my above comment, but fury road had a TON of CGI (maybe half or more of the action shots). People don't realize it because by the time the movie drops production is complete and good cgi is just invisible CGI. The production on Furiosa Is still in progress when the trailer was released.
  
  Fury road is up there with some of my favorites, so yeah I was disappointed.
  I read it's because the director is really getting up there in age and didn't want to make production as long as the first, but who knows the real reason.
- I saw the trailer on youtube when it first dropped and it legit worried me. I saw the same trailer again before Dune 2 and it looked significantly better, which was a bit encouraging. I do understand where you’re coming from though, and feel much the same myself.
- It's not that it's CGI that really bothered me, it's that it's not good CGI. I got the same feeling watching the trailer as I did the Hobbit.
- George Miller is almost 80 now and the movie was partly shot during the pandemic. It was always going to be much more CG heavy than Fury Road. Doesn't mean it's bad.
- For me, it wasn't the CGI so much as the bad green screen and compositing. CGI doesn't even need to enter into it if you get the fundamentals wrong, and that part stuck out even in the trailers.

That's fine, Fury Road would be difficult to top, I'll be happy if it gets close.
It's a pity Brendan McCarthy isn't involved - his wild designs really help make Fury Road stunning.

This is the best summary I could come up with:
The embargo broke for social media reactions to Furiosa, the eagerly anticipated prequel to the 2015 stunner Mad Max: Fury Road.
Early social reactions can sometimes be a bit different (typically more enthusiastic) than official critic reviews, and surely there are many more to come soon.
But based on the first batch Monday evening, Furisoa is a visual stunner with “ferocious, wild and unrelenting” action and a story that “spans decades,” with strong performances from the two leads.
Furisoa is in “a different gear” and “won’t match Fury Road’s splendor” in a way that “might frustrate” some audiences.
Different than is not necessarily bad, however, and this might be a case of viewers having a tough time shaking off their expectations going into the theater (the Furiosa trailers, after all, sell the new film as being rather exactly like Fury Road).
In any case, many consider Fury Road one of the best action films ever made — certainly one of the best this century — so any comparison, even one where Furiosa comes up a notch or two short, is still complimentary.
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