If You Loved Mad Max: Fury Road, Watch These 8 Next

Fury Road is one long chase with no brakes. These eight scratch the same itch: wastelands, hunted crews, and leads who refuse to go quietly.

Number one is the movie everyone skipped, and I'll defend it forever.

1. 8
   Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)8.9

   A desert scavenger story that's basically a remix.

   Sand, junk, a scrappy hero fleeing across a wasteland. Sound familiar? It's also a 1977 remix in new boots, which is why it scores 8.9 but my take is 7.5.
2. 7
   X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)8.8

   Its ruined-future scenes carry real Fury Road dread.

   A burned-out future and a desperate run to fix it. Audiences beat 93% of movies on this one, though the time-travel rules need a whiteboard.
3. 6
   Black Panther (2018)8.9

   Danai Gurira's warriors are Fury Road's spiritual cousins.

   Fierce women running the action and a throne fight with real stakes. A+ CinemaScore, $1.35 billion worldwide, but the CGI finale looks softer than anything George Miller shot.
4. 5
   Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)8.7

   The best car fight Marvel ever staged.

   Like Fury Road, the chases feel bolted to the asphalt, not a green screen. $714 million worldwide, an A CinemaScore. The airship finale is the weak link.
5. 4
   Serenity (2005)8.5

   The scrappiest crew-on-the-run movie nobody saw.

   A battered ship, a hunted crew, nowhere safe to land. Just $40.4 million worldwide on a reported $39M budget, which is a crime against good taste.
6. 3
   Aliens (1986)9.4

   Ripley walked so Furiosa could drive.

   Sigourney Weaver leads a siege that never lets up. Made for a reported $18.5M, it holds a 9.4 movie.guru score. The slow first hour does test your patience.
7. 2
   Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)9.3

   The chase movie every chase movie is still chasing.

   Linda Hamilton is the Furiosa prototype, and the truck chase is pure Miller energy. A+ CinemaScore, 9.6 Guru's Take. Some of the kid dialogue has aged like milk.
8. 1
   Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024)8.0

   Furiosa is better than Fury Road. Yes, really.

   Same director, same wasteland, deeper story. Audiences skipped it: $174 million worldwide on a reported $168M budget. Anya Taylor-Joy barely talks and still owns every frame.

$523.61 says someone in the comments calls the Furiosa pick a crime and still hasn't watched it.

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