15 Problems Nobody Wants To Admit About 2015's Biggest Movies

15. Mad Max: Fury Road Might Be Too "Weird" To Be A Commercial Success

The first entry into the Mad Max series in 30 years has a ton of hype rolling behind it, from the accomplished cast to the utterly insane visuals, and with its huge $150 million budget (making it the most expensive R-rated film since 2003's Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines), there's a lot riding on the film's success. It goes without saying that Warner Bros. is taking a huge gamble on a relatively niche franchise which most youngsters under the age of 25 probably haven't heard of. Even if Warner manages to successfully re-start the franchise with this quasi-sequel-reboot, they're facing one major hurdle: Fury Road just might be too weird to be a significant box office success. Sure, that didn't stop the previous three movies from making their budgets back several times over (or in the case of the original movie, hundreds of times over), but the cinematic landscape has changed substantially in the last three decades. Simply, there's no guarantee that the audiences who gladly threw down cash for Furious 7 are going to be cool with sex slaves, odd-looking bad guys played by actors they've never heard of, and the pic's generally bizarre (if beautiful) aesthetic. It could quite easily bomb with all but the hardcore fans and pull in less than $200 million, which would be a huge shame.