Would rather see more divisive movies like this being made, but generally accepted mediocrity probably makes the studios more money.
Film Megalopolis | Francis Ford Coppolla | Adam Driver
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https://www.theguardian.com/film/ar...ppola-megalopolis-trailer-fake-quotes-critics
Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis trailer allegedly fakes critics’ quotes
Reports suggest Lionsgate may have manufactured quotes by film critics for new trailer of director’s self-funded movieInteresting review. It sounds absolutely mental but also definitely worth watching.
I wonder how they’re gonna recreate the audience interaction bit in every screening?
I wonder how they’re gonna recreate the audience interaction bit in every screening?
Kermode called it one of the worst films he's ever seen 
Looks like a utterly gorgeous pretentious mess. Will definitely check it out.
Edit. It's boring. So, maybe I won't check it out.
Edit. It's boring. So, maybe I won't check it out.
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Kermode called it one of the worst films he's ever seen
Wowzer. That's stinging criticism. No wonder no studios wanted to fund this movie....and Copolla risked $120m of his own money. Yikes.
Can't stand Adam Drivers face irritates the feck out of me
Kermode called it one of the worst films he's ever seen
"The most slappable performance he has ever given" is quite an achievement for Shia LaBeouf.
Kermode called it one of the worst films he's ever seen
The dialogue in that clip. Blimey.
The design in this looks really boring. You've got 100m to play with, it's your swan song, and your lead character just wears a black suit and has the most mundane haircut in the world? C'mon Francis.
Kermode called it one of the worst films he's ever seen
Can’t wait to see it!
Honestly, if it's that, I'm pretty sure I'm going to love it in an entirely non-objective way. Great directors producing messes is a lot more interesting than the standard fare released nowadays.
I have my tickets booked for Wednesday in the swanky cinema close to home, I might even forego my non-drinking and order a glass of wine with the film. Francis deserves it.
Nice! I’m tempted to see it at the big Imax but there’s a showing today at my local. If it’s good then I’m probably be seeing it again on the big screen.
Francis is definitely deserves it.
Apparently the dialogue is
Same just can't watch anything he stars in, no opinion of him as a person but its a uniquely annoying face
You sound like my kind of date.
Well, he can’t take it with him, can he. Might as well build an altar and set it all alight.
Nice!! Curious to hear your thoughts about it
Well my fiancée doesn't seem particularly enthused about it all so if you can make it over by Wednesday, you can take her seat and the Ribera del Duero is on me.
Exactly this!!
Just got back from this.
Incredible mixture of vibes and bullshit. Spends a couple of hours twatting you over the head with symbolism like a lead pipe and finally in the last half hour or so it just kind of gives up on itself and becomes a pretty great surrealist comedy.
Coppola has spent $120 million of his own money on a movie that only @Sweet Square and @Rooney in Paris could possibly like. Absolute nutter. I'm just kind of glad it exists for that reason alone.
Incredible mixture of vibes and bullshit. Spends a couple of hours twatting you over the head with symbolism like a lead pipe and finally in the last half hour or so it just kind of gives up on itself and becomes a pretty great surrealist comedy.
Coppola has spent $120 million of his own money on a movie that only @Sweet Square and @Rooney in Paris could possibly like. Absolute nutter. I'm just kind of glad it exists for that reason alone.
Like his other films in the internet age that are all absolutely awful, it's still gonna have die-hard desperate for Coppola to have some kind of relevant film in their lifetime fans claiming it's actually very good, probably should have accepted the Rainmaker was the best it was ever gonna get, a solid safe Grisham thriller in the 90's...
People use the "it's Coppola, it's at least worth a watch" or similar way too often for a guy who hasn't made a great film since 1979, not like he's Scorsese or Spielberg who still have chops.
People use the "it's Coppola, it's at least worth a watch" or similar way too often for a guy who hasn't made a great film since 1979, not like he's Scorsese or Spielberg who still have chops.
Just checked Wikipedia and I've never seen a Coppola directed film.. yes somehow I've never seen any of the godfathers
Not even Apocalypse Now ?Just checked Wikipedia and I've never seen a Coppola directed film.. yes somehow I've never seen any of the godfathers
Wow.
Kermode called it one of the worst films he's ever seen
I wonder where he rates it compared to the Entourage film.
Edit: the John Voight comment comment
He's on meth
It's good, but the documentary about it is even better.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hearts_of_Darkness:_A_Filmmaker's_Apocalypse
Yeah, I hear ya….
The movie spends two hours navelgazing, preaching hamfisted social commentary, and quoting Shakespeare and Marcus Aurelius - but by the end it doesn't have any fecks left to give. It's at this point that Jon Voight says "What do you think of my boner?", pulls back the bedsheets to reveal a miniature bow and arrow, and starts wasting fools.
If the whole movie was just like that last half an hour or so it's 12/10.
If the whole movie was just like that last half an hour or so it's 12/10.
Watched it this afternoon. I’ll give it a few days before posting my full thoughts but my god! I also definitely need to hear your views on it.
Saw it tonight and
It’s somehow both the best film of the year and one of the worst films my eyes have ever witnessed.
Incredible viewing experience.
Incredible viewing experience.
Not even —Just checked Wikipedia and I've never seen a Coppola directed film.. yes somehow I've never seen any of the godfathers
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Maaaaan you're so lucky, you have so many brilliant films to discover. Godfather 1 and 2, Apocalypse Now (I recommend the "Final Cut" version) and The Conversation are all top tier. His Dracula is worth a watch too, it's a fun, baroque mess.Just checked Wikipedia and I've never seen a Coppola directed film.. yes somehow I've never seen any of the godfathers
Not even —
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I always forget he made thisThe first credit is “dedicated to my beautiful wife Eleanor”
And I swear to god I almost said out loud “the feck did she do to deserve that?”
I can’t believe I sat through the whole thing.
And I swear to god I almost said out loud “the feck did she do to deserve that?”
I can’t believe I sat through the whole thing.
It absolutely is. Nobody should listen to Kermode's bullshit about how it's not even 'so bad it's good'. Yes it fecking is, Mark.
I'm so glad I saw that rather than whatever 6/10 thing I'd otherwise have seen and probably forgotten by now.
In ten years, people will be hosting viewing parties for this like they do with The Room - with the whole audience quoting the best bits of the movie along with the actors:
- You're anal as hell, Cesar. I, on the other hand, am oral as hell.
- Entitles me? Yes. Entitles me? Yes. Entitles me? Yes. Entitles me? Yes.
- Doesn't everyone prefer girls?
- Yes, Auntie Wow.
- Pick up my hat! Pick up my hat! Pick up my hat!
- Revenge is best in a dress.
- Go back to the cluuuuUUUUuuuub.
- What do you think about my boner?
Yeah the Kermode review is rubbish now that I’ve seen the film. The film was never dull or boring.
I still can’t tell if the scene where Driver reinvents the travelator was meant to be satire or not. But it was very funny.
It’s as bad as you think it’s going to be.Maaaaan you're so lucky, you have so many brilliant films to discover. Godfather 1 and 2, Apocalypse Now (I recommend the "Final Cut" version) and The Conversation are all top tier. His Dracula is worth a watch too, it's a fun, baroque mess.
Worse, actually.
Just watched a couple clips on YouTube and one of the comments was spot on..
"This whole movie looks like a 2 hour perfume commercial"
"This whole movie looks like a 2 hour perfume commercial"
Francis Ford Coppola(Did some decent films about the mob)returns with this take on the decaying America empire.
The strongest moments are when the film is satirising the American political class. Framing it as the last days of Rome and fundamentally a family argument was a brilliant choice.
Jon Voight as the senile 1000 year old leader couldn’t be a more accurate depiction of the two most recent US presidents. Talia Shire plays the ultimate boomer who has nothing but destain for the younger generation especially her own child. Grace VanderWaal as the symbolic Taylor Swift who is celebrated for both her “purity” and emptiness and Aubrey
Plaza as the media presenter star desperate for political any power. All brilliant stuff.
It’s vulgar and funny while also getting across how much the rot has set in. Also in the first half at least Coppola has the working class/poor as nothing more than onlookers on the outside which I found interesting.
Things begin to get very bizarre when Coppola moves away from the satire elements. Shia LaBeouf as a far right “populist” leader is lightweight in terms of the thought put behind it and it gets dropped fairly quickly. The same can be said of MeToo sub plot.
Coppola world view seems to be a futuristic FDR New Deal but with Steve Jobs who has both the support of the union busting/landlord mayor and the poor working classes. It’s all very undecided voter brain but it’s really no more strange than current coalitions in America politics. Also I do admire the attempt to have a “great debate about the future” but a city made of gold with the main selling point of autowalks is a bit shite.
Megalopolis goes all in on the hallmark Christmas aesthetic. There are scenes which wouldn’t surprise me as AI generated or at least include images directly take from a 2010 photoshop demo. The same can be said for the acting which is very hallmark but deliberately done. Tbh seeing a film which is covered in the same gloss as Christmas At Pemberley Manor on the big screen was a unique experience. Although again adding to the overall weirdness of the movie there is a night drive section which is incredibly stylised and beautiful(Plus I did love the references to silent cinema).
A lot of great directors could never make something this bad and no bad director could make something this good. It’s stupid, it’s terrible, it’s beautiful and it’s sincere. A must watch.
8/10
The strongest moments are when the film is satirising the American political class. Framing it as the last days of Rome and fundamentally a family argument was a brilliant choice.
Jon Voight as the senile 1000 year old leader couldn’t be a more accurate depiction of the two most recent US presidents. Talia Shire plays the ultimate boomer who has nothing but destain for the younger generation especially her own child. Grace VanderWaal as the symbolic Taylor Swift who is celebrated for both her “purity” and emptiness and Aubrey
Plaza as the media presenter star desperate for political any power. All brilliant stuff.
It’s vulgar and funny while also getting across how much the rot has set in. Also in the first half at least Coppola has the working class/poor as nothing more than onlookers on the outside which I found interesting.
Things begin to get very bizarre when Coppola moves away from the satire elements. Shia LaBeouf as a far right “populist” leader is lightweight in terms of the thought put behind it and it gets dropped fairly quickly. The same can be said of MeToo sub plot.
Coppola world view seems to be a futuristic FDR New Deal but with Steve Jobs who has both the support of the union busting/landlord mayor and the poor working classes. It’s all very undecided voter brain but it’s really no more strange than current coalitions in America politics. Also I do admire the attempt to have a “great debate about the future” but a city made of gold with the main selling point of autowalks is a bit shite.
Megalopolis goes all in on the hallmark Christmas aesthetic. There are scenes which wouldn’t surprise me as AI generated or at least include images directly take from a 2010 photoshop demo. The same can be said for the acting which is very hallmark but deliberately done. Tbh seeing a film which is covered in the same gloss as Christmas At Pemberley Manor on the big screen was a unique experience. Although again adding to the overall weirdness of the movie there is a night drive section which is incredibly stylised and beautiful(Plus I did love the references to silent cinema).
A lot of great directors could never make something this bad and no bad director could make something this good. It’s stupid, it’s terrible, it’s beautiful and it’s sincere. A must watch.
8/10
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The @Sweet Square seal of approval. That's all I needed to see.