The box office for Memorial Day Weekend was at a 26-year small due to the audience’s indifference to Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga.
If that’s not degrading enough, Furiosa, AKA Mad Max with a Asexual Girlboss, is officially tied with still another , Garfield video for the weekend king.
As of now, both did bottom out at$ 31 million over the four- day holiday trip.
That’s not the end of the world for Garfield. The family movie’s reported production budget was just$ 60 million. Add another$ 30 million for promotion, and the fact it has already made$ 66 million worldwide means it might eke out a profit.
Furiosa is shaping up to be a monetary crisis. It cost$ 168 million to produce, so let’s call it an even$ 200 million with promotion costs ( which might be generous ). That puts split- yet at around$ 400 million. The world take this trip is a horrendous$ 59 million.
But what went wrong?
The answer is what’s been going bad with Hollywood for the last five years … It’s not the crisis. It’s not the attack. It’s never a lack of goods. The problem is the product—the product sucks cock.
A virginal woman would only be cast in a Mad Max film by a maniac. Who wants to spend$ 30 and three hours watching a 14-year-old boy dance around girlbossing while wearing the same outfit? Look at this. What happened to this? Or this?
The Woke Puritans have taken the joy out of everything.
Sex sells, idiots.
And that works both ways. There’s a reason the girls dig Mel Gibson.
Visualize the following …
Think if this Mad Max film was 40 years old and featured a aged, grizzled Mel Gibson in the lead role. Due to a secret and covert area where he’s built a self-sustaining substance, Max, who is now in his 60s, leads a lone but generally comfortable existence in the Wasteland. He’s managed to survive all these years by taking care of himself; Max is still the frustrated recluse who witnessed his family’s murder. However, he resents his single script of aiding people when he confronts it. This allows the bad men to get him, and now they want his element. Max is outnumbered but no ready, but let’s get it on.
Sure, we’ve all seen that prefabricated a million occasions, but it’s template for a purpose, and I’d see the crap out of it. Oh, and it would n’t cost a quarter of a billion dollars.
Hey, I’m a free man in a free state … I could’ve gone to see Mad Max with a Asexual Girlboss last evening, and my amazing companies would’ve reimbursed the price of the seat and overpaid me to write a review. Easy- peasy. Less than 20 minutes from where my lovely wife and I are camping are there theaters. Want to know what we did instead? In front of our 24 inch TV, we sat down in the camper for the fifth time to watch Lonesome Dove ( 1989 ).
It was n’t even a close call.
In fact, as much as I love the Mad Max series, including Fury Road, I might never see Furiosa. There’s no compelling reason to see it. You could say I’m on the fence. You could also say that a little sex appeal might lead to a potential Redbox rental.
Watch all that shameless propaganda fall into a pile of lies when Deadpool &, Wolverine blows the doors off movie theaters in a few weeks as you read all the Hollywood Media Sycophants make excuses for the 2024 box office being down more than 40 % since 2019…
Why…?
Because that is a movie that people actually want to see.
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