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Comment on A Quiet Place: Day One Box Office Breezes Past Major Domestic Milestone, Prequel Close To Double Its Budget

The problem with Furiosa on that front is that so many of the cast appear in Fury Road that there is little jeopardy, as you can tell if a character lives of dies as soon as they appear and thr script did nothing to subvert that. Equally the setting was pretty much the same as Fury Road, just bringing in some locations that were mentioned and not seen.

Meanwhile, AQP:D1 has mostly new characters in an urban setting and, as it is the start of the invasion it gives proceedings a different dynamic as everyone is trying to figure out the “rules”. So it is familiar enough to appeal to fans of the original two films, while being original enough to be a story worth telling.

I think the main issue with sequel/prequel/franchise fatigue is that people are often not telling stories that need to be told, them are just fodder for the franchise - they need to get back to telling good stories first and building a franchise second.

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maegul@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

The problem with Furiosa on that front is that so many of the cast appear in Fury Road that there is little jeopardy, as you can tell if a character lives of dies as soon as they appear and thr script did nothing to subvert that.

Yep! Easily the weakest aspect of the film. I was actually surprised at just how much of the film’s setting and characters overlapped with Fury Road and how poorly it was done or managed. And I liked the film. Immortan Joe, for instance, was a let down of a portrayal compared to Fury Road while Dementus never hit the same heights as Immortan did in Fury Road.

While liking the film and being happy to have seen it … my final critical take was affirmed watching the credits which are full of snippets from Fury Road … I’m betting that the whole production of the film was too self conscious about being in Fury Road’s shadow and that being set right in the same set and setting as Fury Road assured it’d haunt the film, as it did in its release and audiences’ response to the film. Shame really, a whole new story in that world could have slapped.

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aleph@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I’m not sure that lack of jeopardy was the issue with Furiosa – after all, that’s always the case with prequels.

I also don’t think that Day One introduced enough new developments to keep things interesting. The concept of the monsters is so simple that the main characters figure out the “rules” (don’t make noise) within minutes of the first attack. And that’s pretty much it - we, the audience, are none the wiser about what they are, where they come from, or what they’re about by the end of Day One than we were by the end of the second movie. Personally, I didn’t find the character development as interesting as Furiosa, either.

Either way, i agree that the quality of the story matters and I think Furiosa succeed here, personally.

If I had to hazard a guess, I’d say the differences in the box office outcomes come down to the facts that the Mad Max franchise has more of a niche appeal than A Quiet Place, is more violent, and the movie was quite a bit longer in duration.

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