The Seven Deadly Sins of 2024 Cinema: 1. Pride - Megalopolis Thought it was an epic masterpiece; turned out to be a $200 million vanity project. 2. Greed - Rebel Moon Part 2 Zack Snyder’s quest for more explosions, more slow-mo, and more runtime. 3. Wrath - Joker 2: No Fondue Gotham’s Clown Prince is angry, but so are we for sitting through this trash 4. Sloth - Madame Web Lazy. From the directing, to the acting, to the CGI, outright lazy. 5. Envy - Borderlands Wanted to be the next big video game adaptation but ended up envying The Super Mario Bros. movie’s success. 6. Gluttony - Tarot Just plain slop 7. Lust - Imaginary A film that tried to sell itself with cute concepts, but left us with nothing to desire.
I'll switch rebel moon and joker since Joker 2 was a blatant cash grab sequel to a great movie that didn't need one, and Rebel Moon 2 is rage since why is there two of them
He dedicated it to his wife sooo. I guess he just wanted to make a film he wanted to make. I feel sorry for everyone who had to take part in his tomfoolery
This film took almost 40 years to get into production. 40 years. I can only imagine in all that time the changes that went into the script, setting, even the cast that were required to bring Francis Ford Coppola's, director of legendary movies such as The Godfather and Apocalypse Now, self described "magnum opus" to fruition. The crippling disappointment, the anxiety inducing uncertainty, the passionless movies he had to slave through in order to make his masterpiece come to life; the sleepless nights wondering if he would ever see what he believed to be his finest creation manifested, and the indescribable joy he must've felt when he finally shot the last scene of the movie that took half a life-span to bring together. Now after decades of waiting patiently, having 9/11 delay production for years, making studio friendly movies to pay off debts, selling his own family's winery to fund the production for this movie, it gets compared to The Rick and Morty Anime. That is fucking hilarious to me.
"Coppola adopted an experimental style that permitted improvisation during the shoot by letting actors write scenes and making his own spontaneous changes to the script. These methods proved divisive, leading to the resignation of the art department and visual effects team, among others, and raising comparisons to Coppola's history of challenging productions." I think I figured out why it's a battlefield of nonsense.
me and my friend had to spend an hour talking about the film afterwards just to process wtf we'd seen. There are so many weird subplots that end almost as soon as they begin- the one that stands out to me the most is the 'fake virgin' plot that ends super abruptly leading everyone to just be like 'what... was that for?????' I am not kidding that half of the cinema walked out on this film early because it's so poorly structured
You and Screen Rant are the only channels I've seen talk about this movie which is funny because I've seen: No Trailer, no ad spots, no hype, no other videos (yet) talking about how bad it is, No poster, no controversy, nothing, zilch. The lack of a presence in the zeitgeist for me is astounding.
My favourite fun fact about this movie is that the 9/11 footage used in a montage within the film was actually exclusively filmed for this movie... back in 2001. It was one of the few things filmed by the original production of this film when they were in New York on the day, before it was cancelled post 9/11. This film has been in production for so long that it has over 20 year old footage in it that was filmed exclusively for the film…
Francis Ford Coppola had to finance the entire movie and marketing himself because literally no one wanted it. When you're a big name like that and yet, everyone rejects your project, there's usually a good reason. You should go see Wild Robot. That'll be a great palate cleanser after those 2 awful experiences.
Imagine wanting to make Megalopolis since 1977 and it ends up like this. (No joke the director wanted to make this movie since then and it’s been delayed multiple times.)
He said he’s happy with it, and he said he didn’t really care what’s anyone’s opinion was, cause he made it for himself. I think that’s a dumb way to approach movies, and art in general
I feel a bid sad für Coppola. I read, that he sees this movie as his life-work, which he wanted to realize since many decades. Must be a shit feeling, when it fails this big. On the other side, i appreciate when filmmakers try to do new stuff and don't making the next prequel and sequel etc. Of course you can fail, but you tried something experimental and new. That's honorable
I personally worked on the miniatures for this movie and I still didn’t get anything that was happening on set… Coppola has put his own money and time to make this movie after the script got rejected over and over again by studios since 77’ (WITH REASON OF COURSE). It was lovely to bring back old practical effects for this movie but it all derailed when it was produced on a digital camera rather than film. It truly made the practical effects look CHEAP. I think we never got called back and the film went all CGI/Green screen after the whole Virgin “dilemma” since budget was getting tight. That’s what usually happens when you bloat your cast with high billing actors not willing to take a cut :/ Ultimately the film was trying too much ideas without having a solid storyline and style for cast and crew to commit themselves to. All these small storylines that seem like they are going somewhere but then end a minute later shows Coppola was wrestling with himself for years on how to end the story lmao. Honestly, this would have been a good bad tv series to tune into every week! I hope Charlie was able to get a screening with “live audience participation”…just a guy who walks into your theater playing a reporter talking to Adam Driver for 2 MINUTES. No audience participation at all. I saw the movie for free but still felt like I needed a refund for my time omg…
Thank you for your insight. As a practical effects lover and someone who has spent time working on various sets and is a camera operator this is so sad to hear. Are you saying that your practical models got removed in place of vfx? If so I wonder how far into the process this decision was made as it would be another reason as to why the vfx looked so shit, which ALWAYS comes down to deadlines. I hope that you came away from it with at least some money in the bank and portfolio pieces. It's sad to see your craft undervalued in modern cinema because practical still has such a strong place in cinema.
WOW, smh... 🤦🏽♀️ I'm sorry your work got wasted on this. Thanks for the insider info!! And yeah, it really does seem like the glaring theme here is how the movie was rejected repeatedly for THAT long -- regardless of his status -- for an actual reason, but he just dug his heels in, embedded the project into his ego, and acted like it was a masterpiece beyond anyone else's understanding and its "brilliance" shall be unveiled no matter the cost... 💀
My best friend in middle school created his own futuristic city called Megalopolis. I hope his masterpiece doesn't get tarred with this same brush. Yours was much better, Grant!
I remember doing that project, we called it Future Cities of America, and we all had to design our own visions of progressive cities and towns of the near future
The worst part to me is that Coppola has been developing this movie idea since 1977. And his initial concept came together and was supposed to be shot in Rome in 1989 lmao
Jimmy Carter turned 100 a few days ago. That means it’s possible he saw the premieres of both Metropolis in 1927, and Megalopolis all in the span of a single lifetime. Godbless.
@@TrackpadProductions I’m just saying it’s possible. And they didn’t have a rating system back then, so mommy and daddy Carter probably thought “Hot diggity! Let’s take lil’ Jimmy to the picture show! Hollywood is the bees knees, baby!”
OMG METROPOLIS!!! I’ve been having the craziest feeling of a Mandela effect where I swore megalopolis was a remake of a 1920’s film but googling was bringing me nothing. That’s why, I was thinking of Metropolis!! That’s been driving me nuts since I saw the commercials earlier this week😂😂
I don't know which fascinates me more, Charlie doing that Shia Labeouf impression, re-enacting Adam Driver as a Reddit mod, or repetitively saying "Auntie Wow".
I've been developing a theory... There's actually no way these movies are using all of their budget. I swear there's some money laundering scheme going on behind the scenes while they hand us absolute visual garbage and a plot from Dr. Seuss.
Don’t insult the late good doctor like that. “One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish” would be a literary CHEF’S KISS compared to some of the UTTER TRIPE that these major Hollywood studios are halfheartedly “writing” now.
That's what's been happening with Russian cinema for the last 20-ish years, and lately it seems that this idea has reached Hollywood as well. Why bother making a good movie if you can steal most of the budget into your pockets and use the leftovers to make some kind of dogshit movie just good enough to meet a certain quota?
No producer was wiling to fund this movie, so Coppola spent hundreds of millions of his own money for the budget. He even sold a bunch of vinyards that he owned to scrape the budget together. This man basically said "fuck it, I'm rich so I'll rawdog making a movie without any producers external funding to create my dream movie." Honestly, you have to respect him for that. Charlie is wrong, this movie isn't for audiences OR critics. It's literally just for Coppola himself.
My friend Wenton saw this movie too, and he told me that it was a bad movie, but the fact that Francis Ford Coppola directed it made it that much worse. Like this was the same guy who gave us Apocalypse Now, The Godfather movies, The Outsiders, 1992’s Dracula, THX 1138, and the original Great Gatsby. Him giving us anything resembling mediocre is shocking but then again the man is also 89 years old.
1:30 the way he says it reminds me of when Happy Gilmore’s girlfriend says “all you ever talk about is being a pro hockey player. The only thing is… you’re not any good!”
@12:31 Our boy is so exhausted after a two-fisted sucker punch of bad movies that he forgot he already pointed out that Shia LaBeouf is in this movie at the start of the rant, lol.
Saw it last night and when it ended I turned to my friend and said, "Well, all I know is somebody gave grandpa hallucinogens and it made him think he was Shakespeare"
Am I the only one who's never heard of Megalopolis? Like actually. No trailer ads on RUclips, no one talking about it, nothing. Not a peep. How did Charlie even know this movie exists?
it's directed by one of the great american filmmakers. If you follow movie news and movie circles, then youd be aware. Otherwise, theres no reason to be aware of it. theres a reason no studio wanted to touch it . not trying to sound pretentious, it's just not in the mainstream at all
I feel like I’m having an aneurism just trying to comprehend any of this, even with it being drawn out in crayon by Charlie… I can only imagine the suffering he had to endure trying to relatively compute any of this.
And remember he put his own daughter on that movie and she ruined her entire movie with her presence. Thankfully, his daughter later follow his footstep as a director and never act again. She was also the director of Lost in Translation starring Scarlet Johannson and Bill Murray.
I was thinking this yesterday, have y'all seen the producers? That movie gives you a step by step on how to make big bank from a failed stage/movie production
Copala self funded it by selling some of his ownership in his wine company. It's not money laundering it's like Charlie says, a very expensive vanity project
@ministry.ofsound I'm not disagreeing with you. I was speaking more generally about the number of flops that have been happening I am sure someone is cashing in.
Dude Megalopolis was made for only one person: Francis Ford Copolla. He financed it from his own pockets (120-136 mil - he sold a winery that he owned), burned those money, and we all are just spectators :)))
Its a self-funded movie that took years upon years, so i think the budget makes sense on it. No major studio backing to provide all the recourses, all paid out of pocket.
As a writer, it drives me crazy how good they could've made this if they just did another draft of the script. Very often my stories are just as crappy as this one on the first draft, because there Im just throwing the ideas to the page to see what works and what doesnt. It normally takes me three drafts to actually turn a mix of random ideas into something worth reading/watching, and on Megalopois it seems they just kept a first draft as it was.
There’s no “they” in this case. It’s just “him”. Coppola had 100% full creative control over this, and it’s obvious that he’s got too much of an ego to have hired a co-writer to help him out
@@Marksman3434 Ok that makes even more sense. I'm always at my best when writing on a team, so we can tell each other that our ideas arent working. Theres only so many angles a single person can consider, with more people you can also draw on many different types of experience, and since everyone has to be on the same page, its a lot easier to write something that others can undestand. Single writers have the risk of making the conections in their mind and forgetting they need to explain them to the audience
I can tell you why it cost 100 mil. Heavy CGI focus. It’s not that CGI itself is expensive to produce, it’s that all the production houses are completely booked and in high demand, so they can charge exorbitant prices. If more mainstream movies went towards practical effects it would offset the demand for cgi, drive down the price, and make movies more profitable. But, that would require producers taking time to develop these movies, and they’re not about that.
Finnegan’s wake is endless entertainment though. The audio books especially. It’s like to read finnegans wake as an audiobook is the equivalent of an organist who trains his whole life to play Toccata and Fugue only he has to do it for 27 hours with his voice.
Watching this movie feels like trying to explain a concept you are an expert in to someone new and the more you try to explain it the worse it sounds. Finally you realize your never understood it at all
This film was insane. Charlie is completely right here, it was trying to have a deeper meaning but it didn't. It came across as pretentious. I don't know if it was trying to be an "eat the rich, worship the artist" story but made by rich people so they had no idea??? What was with the Rome references and quoting philosophers? Charlie didn't mention how Audrey Plaza's character seemed to have Cleopatra references (snake noises, sleeping with Cesar.) She's even dressed as Cleopatra when she gets shot. But there isn't a Mark Anthony character ? Why set up the fable and do it differently ? The whole movie I was expecting Cesar to be taken out by his own people, stabbed in the back. But he's shot in the face and survives anyway.... I've lost too many braincells to this movie. I love Adam Driver, I sat through it for him. But my god. Looking into the behind the scenes drama for this film is a whole rabbit hole.
My Old Ass is pretty good, in a “sweet coming of age romcom” type of way. Agatha All Along is a whatever paycheck; I begrudge no actor a paycheck. I haven’t heard anything about it so it can’t be that bad, right? It’s not The Acolyte which I couldn’t escape. What else has she been in?
*insert witty joke here about Aubrey Plaza being in a lot of “stinkers” alongside an ACTUAL GOOD MOVIE called “My Old Ass” NGL, “My Old Ass” is a pretty HILARIOUS name for a movie that I can’t help but LOVE.
He actually lied about taking the shower, his body was just that steamed from seeing the megalopolis movie
francis ford coppola waterboarded him for 2 and a half hours before filming
@dfe-u5l now i want it to stop after reading this
The movie made his hair disgusted and cry out
@@PugLord3 LMAO
@dfe-u5l Ngl I'm kinda happy these gc "send this to five people or your dick will fall off" memes are still around
MegaloJoker is the barbenheimer nobody asked for
The evil version of Barbenheimer
“why so serious hmm hmm hm hmhmhm”
- a totally real and factual quote from Roger Ebert in 1971
God that just sounds like Joker used his laughing gas on a Megalodon Shark XD
sans
Jokerlopolis
Bro is speedrunning awful movies
Public service lol
How is bro still living?
But still not quick enough to talk about mrbeast
You new here? Been doing this for years
@@Viyqwe’re still talking about Mr Beast ?
The Seven Deadly Sins of 2024 Cinema:
1. Pride - Megalopolis
Thought it was an epic masterpiece; turned out to be a $200 million vanity project.
2. Greed - Rebel Moon Part 2
Zack Snyder’s quest for more explosions, more slow-mo, and more runtime.
3. Wrath - Joker 2: No Fondue
Gotham’s Clown Prince is angry, but so are we for sitting through this trash
4. Sloth - Madame Web
Lazy. From the directing, to the acting, to the CGI, outright lazy.
5. Envy - Borderlands
Wanted to be the next big video game adaptation but ended up envying The Super Mario Bros. movie’s success.
6. Gluttony - Tarot
Just plain slop
7. Lust - Imaginary
A film that tried to sell itself with cute concepts, but left us with nothing to desire.
✍️🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
I'll switch rebel moon and joker since Joker 2 was a blatant cash grab sequel to a great movie that didn't need one, and Rebel Moon 2 is rage since why is there two of them
Ok this needs more recognition 😂
Wait-is his writing THIS fire?????
No fondue is the best name for that movie i've heard yet
The movie was so embarrassing Charlie couldn’t even wait until his hair dried to start talking about it
@dfe-u5lI'd rather have a heart attack than subscribe to you.
@TheCoolDude4 911 is a number too
Haaaaaaahaaàhaha!
@TheCoolDude4This aint the place to exose yourself bro
@@9stripes_it's a bot
My grandma Came over to our house just to tell us about how bad it was. Like bro my grandma Drove 30 minutes just to shit on it 💀
Relatable grandma tho
Based Nan. Same thing when napoleon came out, my mom was so disappointed and so was I.
Gotta teach that woman piracy so she can stop supporting trash like this
W granny
She’s based
the fact that coppola sold his winery to make this is insane
Would've made more money on wine than this.
FFC’s ego made him do it
@@Darthwgamer **THAN this, not THEN this
Making a sendoff auteur piece sounds awesome actually icl
He dedicated it to his wife sooo. I guess he just wanted to make a film he wanted to make. I feel sorry for everyone who had to take part in his tomfoolery
This film took almost 40 years to get into production. 40 years. I can only imagine in all that time the changes that went into the script, setting, even the cast that were required to bring Francis Ford Coppola's, director of legendary movies such as The Godfather and Apocalypse Now, self described "magnum opus" to fruition. The crippling disappointment, the anxiety inducing uncertainty, the passionless movies he had to slave through in order to make his masterpiece come to life; the sleepless nights wondering if he would ever see what he believed to be his finest creation manifested, and the indescribable joy he must've felt when he finally shot the last scene of the movie that took half a life-span to bring together. Now after decades of waiting patiently, having 9/11 delay production for years, making studio friendly movies to pay off debts, selling his own family's winery to fund the production for this movie, it gets compared to The Rick and Morty Anime. That is fucking hilarious to me.
Hes so full of himself is the problem, that and how fuckin old he is
@TheCoolDude4 then stfu if you dont care
all that and you spelled manifested wrong
@dfe-u5l
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skill issue perchance
the double shitter feature is crazy
@TheCoolDude4 this comment works both ways y'know
I just want a movie with a lil hype that holds up to it. I’m glad I didn’t see either of them but I really wanted to
This film sounds like something ya buy a ticket to when your stoned off ur ass with nothing better to do 🤣🤣
@@cMind607I’m seeing both these movies stoned, it makes a huge difference. Honestly this is the norm for me now, movies suck so fucking bad now.
@@Queso1526 I guess they're up there with last year's "I.S.S."
I genuinely didn't even know Megalopolis existed, the advertising team clearly knew it was already gonna fail
Francis Ford Coppola actually contributed his own funds to market the film, approx 20 mil, because Lionsgate wouldn't bet their own money on it.
It didn't have any advertising. The entire thing was just a passion project self funded by Francis Ford Coppola.
@@NameTaken123 Seemed more like a project, cause i didn't pick up on any passion from Charlie's review
Nah it had passion behind it for sure
It's a bad sign when my mother knows about a movie before I do, unrelated but that was my Megalopolis introduction
"Coppola adopted an experimental style that permitted improvisation during the shoot by letting actors write scenes and making his own spontaneous changes to the script. These methods proved divisive, leading to the resignation of the art department and visual effects team, among others, and raising comparisons to Coppola's history of challenging productions."
I think I figured out why it's a battlefield of nonsense.
LMAO "do you like my boner" had to be improvised
I felt like Aubrey Plaza had to have written that "Auntie Wow" scene. And Shia all the political riot ones.
Femdom made the movie good
Coppola is like the complete opposite of Kubrick. Matter and Antimatter.
The jonkler 2 directly into megastinker 9000.
This isn't about that movie kid
Third times the charm
wow
Charlie is scared to talk about mrbeast lol
@@Deuteriumaddictthis isn't about that
Damn, Charlie looks like he's been waterboarded
Florida does that to you.
it was me
you must be new, its just wet hair charlie, just a common pull, not even a rare like a long sleeve charlie
@@ViyqShut up bro nobody gives a shit
@@Viyqwhut
Listening to this sounded like someone trying to explain a fever dream.
That's exactly what the movie is like! Charlie nailed the review.
It’s literally the most trippy film I’ve ever seen
me and my friend had to spend an hour talking about the film afterwards just to process wtf we'd seen. There are so many weird subplots that end almost as soon as they begin- the one that stands out to me the most is the 'fake virgin' plot that ends super abruptly leading everyone to just be like 'what... was that for?????' I am not kidding that half of the cinema walked out on this film early because it's so poorly structured
It's not a cool trippy type of Movie, like Lynch's. It's like a bunch of drafted ideas.@@Leviperlman
@@luigi1606the visuals and writing style were so new to me, and it was trippy, especially the montages
I like how he calls every character by their names, but Shia LaBeouf is just Shia LaBeouf
To be fair that's how Hollywood people talk about movies too
He also did that with Halle Berry in Moonfall and Jason Statham in Meg 2
Edit: and Patrick Wilson in Insidious: The Red Door
I mean, Shia LaBeouf has never interpreted a character in his life. He's just himself all the time.
That hair flip at 2:02 was diabolical
On diddy
Searched for this comment
Zesty as hell
@@jackloo7233”zesty as hell”🤓
Girl talk mode. Activated
You and Screen Rant are the only channels I've seen talk about this movie which is funny because I've seen: No Trailer, no ad spots, no hype, no other videos (yet) talking about how bad it is, No poster, no controversy, nothing, zilch. The lack of a presence in the zeitgeist for me is astounding.
And pitch meetings(Ryan George) which is technically screen rant adjacent
*Pitch Meeting
Right me too tf 😭🤣 opened the vid seen megalopolis n was like huh what is that shit
there was a little controversy about the trailer having AI generated critic reviews in it.
Same. I had no idea. I saw something yesterday about it, but it wasn’t even a trailer. That 100 million went in someone’s pocket.
“I just saw Megalopolis.”
You have our sympathies, Charlie, and our gratitude for taking one for the team.
he could be making half of this up as he goes and no one would ever know because none of us are ever going to see it, lol.
The worst part is that he isnt @theghostofthomasjenkins9643
@@theghostofthomasjenkins9643true lmaooo
What a weak comment
This sounds like someone trying to explain a conspiracy
My favourite fun fact about this movie is that the 9/11 footage used in a montage within the film was actually exclusively filmed for this movie... back in 2001. It was one of the few things filmed by the original production of this film when they were in New York on the day, before it was cancelled post 9/11.
This film has been in production for so long that it has over 20 year old footage in it that was filmed exclusively for the film…
what the hell...
So you're saying the production has more lore than the movie itself? 😂
@@Quzgayes
@@Quzga100% yes
Almost everything was practical too. All the bar scenes. The invisible dress. Falling statues. Parallax city scenes.
Amazing effects.
Couldn't interpret this for a minute and thought you were joking that they started and filmed 9/11 for the film
Francis Ford Coppola had to finance the entire movie and marketing himself because literally no one wanted it.
When you're a big name like that and yet, everyone rejects your project, there's usually a good reason.
You should go see Wild Robot. That'll be a great palate cleanser after those 2 awful experiences.
FFC hasn’t been relevant since godfather 2. Dude also got Vincent Para out of prison, so fuck him anyway for siding with a convicted child rapist
I’ve only ever read snippets of Wild Robot. Is it faithful?
@@ferretyluv i hear its really good, ive read the whole book and its amazing
the movie is full of his resentments about ever being told no or recieving any pushback on his "genius", that is the entire problem.
Transformers One is also amazing.
This is a terrible way to find out Francis Ford Coppola is still alive.
That and learning about his connections with Victor Salva…
Crappola should retire.
Megalopolis and joker 2 is the reverse Barbenheimer😂😂
Imagine wanting to make Megalopolis since 1977 and it ends up like this. (No joke the director wanted to make this movie since then and it’s been delayed multiple times.)
And he self funded it. The whole situation is kind of sad, to be honest.
He said he’s happy with it, and he said he didn’t really care what’s anyone’s opinion was, cause he made it for himself. I think that’s a dumb way to approach movies, and art in general
I feel a bid sad für Coppola. I read, that he sees this movie as his life-work, which he wanted to realize since many decades. Must be a shit feeling, when it fails this big.
On the other side, i appreciate when filmmakers try to do new stuff and don't making the next prequel and sequel etc. Of course you can fail, but you tried something experimental and new. That's honorable
@@diegeticfridge9167that is the only way to approach movies or art
@@diegeticfridge9167 He's just coping while burying the depression deep down
“I just saw megalopolis”
Hearing those words make me quiver in fear
I can just imagine Charlie complaining to himself in the shower, just waiting to make this video 😂
lolllll
Bro imagines charlie in the shower
I miss actually funny comments like this
@@Simeon-i8z i also am so ur not alone bro
@@Simeon-i8z exactly 🤣🤣🤣
Yeah uh...that 'love interest can see the guy freezing time and isn't frozen' thing is a story prompt I found on Pinterest YEARS ago.
I personally worked on the miniatures for this movie and I still didn’t get anything that was happening on set… Coppola has put his own money and time to make this movie after the script got rejected over and over again by studios since 77’ (WITH REASON OF COURSE). It was lovely to bring back old practical effects for this movie but it all derailed when it was produced on a digital camera rather than film. It truly made the practical effects look CHEAP. I think we never got called back and the film went all CGI/Green screen after the whole Virgin “dilemma” since budget was getting tight. That’s what usually happens when you bloat your cast with high billing actors not willing to take a cut :/
Ultimately the film was trying too much ideas without having a solid storyline and style for cast and crew to commit themselves to. All these small storylines that seem like they are going somewhere but then end a minute later shows Coppola was wrestling with himself for years on how to end the story lmao. Honestly, this would have been a good bad tv series to tune into every week! I hope Charlie was able to get a screening with “live audience participation”…just a guy who walks into your theater playing a reporter talking to Adam Driver for 2 MINUTES. No audience participation at all. I saw the movie for free but still felt like I needed a refund for my time omg…
Thank you for your insight. As a practical effects lover and someone who has spent time working on various sets and is a camera operator this is so sad to hear. Are you saying that your practical models got removed in place of vfx? If so I wonder how far into the process this decision was made as it would be another reason as to why the vfx looked so shit, which ALWAYS comes down to deadlines.
I hope that you came away from it with at least some money in the bank and portfolio pieces. It's sad to see your craft undervalued in modern cinema because practical still has such a strong place in cinema.
WOW, smh... 🤦🏽♀️ I'm sorry your work got wasted on this. Thanks for the insider info!! And yeah, it really does seem like the glaring theme here is how the movie was rejected repeatedly for THAT long -- regardless of his status -- for an actual reason, but he just dug his heels in, embedded the project into his ego, and acted like it was a masterpiece beyond anyone else's understanding and its "brilliance" shall be unveiled no matter the cost... 💀
As a texture artist, the design of the sets and clothing were the only redeeming parts. You did great!
Got any more stories mate? Sorry your hard work went into this
@@canaldecasta Same, I'd love some more stories too, if it wouldn't be a bother. The behind the scenes of cinema is so interesting!
My best friend in middle school created his own futuristic city called Megalopolis. I hope his masterpiece doesn't get tarred with this same brush.
Yours was much better, Grant!
I remember doing that project, we called it Future Cities of America, and we all had to design our own visions of progressive cities and towns of the near future
@@brqxton8974The perfect American city would have a Buc-ees and taco trucks on every block
@@bobbobson8087 This is the most Texas comment I have ever read
@@bobbobson8087 can’t argue, just add some regenerative power systems😂
I believe that someday Earth will produce an astronomically bad movie that will actually kill Charlie with pure, toxic, highly concentrated cringe.
Thankskilling 5
cabin tales i fear
Ill see you when the skibidi toilet movie comes out
You DO REALIZE the Minecraft movie is a thing that exists NOW?
All these comments are proven false as long as Charlie is still a live breathing human.
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Joker 2 and Megalopolis back to back is like Barbenheimer from Hell
The worst part to me is that Coppola has been developing this movie idea since 1977. And his initial concept came together and was supposed to be shot in Rome in 1989 lmao
This is his Heaven’s Gate. I wonder if this will sink his career like Kubrick.
@@ferretyluv well he’s 85 so I’m sure his careers mostly over already lol
@dfe-u5lI hope my heart stops
@@sheeps3685 DO NOT REPLY TO BOTS!
@@ferretyluvwhat movie sinked Kubricks career?
Charlie was so devastated by this movie that a mini raincloud formed over and completely drenched him
He’s a grumpy cartoon character lol
Every time Charlie puts his hands on the desk I hear the Vine boom. 🤣
I hear it too 😭 and at the perfect moments
Jimmy Carter turned 100 a few days ago. That means it’s possible he saw the premieres of both Metropolis in 1927, and Megalopolis all in the span of a single lifetime. Godbless.
He would've been 3 at the time, so. Probably not 🤷
@@TrackpadProductions I’m just saying it’s possible. And they didn’t have a rating system back then, so mommy and daddy Carter probably thought “Hot diggity! Let’s take lil’ Jimmy to the picture show! Hollywood is the bees knees, baby!”
@@TrackpadProductionshence the word "possible." Ya got some comprehension problems, huh?
OMG METROPOLIS!!! I’ve been having the craziest feeling of a Mandela effect where I swore megalopolis was a remake of a 1920’s film but googling was bringing me nothing. That’s why, I was thinking of Metropolis!! That’s been driving me nuts since I saw the commercials earlier this week😂😂
@@lisahoshowsky4251yeah metropolis is a classic!
The movie situation is insane
This is the greatest year for Hollywood of all time
Don't be like this movie
16:00 Charlie is just fed up and tired.
I don't know which fascinates me more, Charlie doing that Shia Labeouf impression, re-enacting Adam Driver as a Reddit mod, or repetitively saying "Auntie Wow".
0:34 you did what??
He's not a real gamer 🤢
I read it in that SpongeBob fish guy voice 😂
He’s not Asmongold…
@@marcosguillen6511 yeah me too lmao
This is so sad 😞
I've been developing a theory... There's actually no way these movies are using all of their budget. I swear there's some money laundering scheme going on behind the scenes while they hand us absolute visual garbage and a plot from Dr. Seuss.
Don’t insult the late good doctor like that.
“One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish” would be a literary CHEF’S KISS compared to some of the UTTER TRIPE that these major Hollywood studios are halfheartedly “writing” now.
That's what's been happening with Russian cinema for the last 20-ish years, and lately it seems that this idea has reached Hollywood as well. Why bother making a good movie if you can steal most of the budget into your pockets and use the leftovers to make some kind of dogshit movie just good enough to meet a certain quota?
That, and also spending absurd amounts of money to cast famous actors in the lead roles.
No producer was wiling to fund this movie, so Coppola spent hundreds of millions of his own money for the budget. He even sold a bunch of vinyards that he owned to scrape the budget together. This man basically said "fuck it, I'm rich so I'll rawdog making a movie without any producers external funding to create my dream movie." Honestly, you have to respect him for that. Charlie is wrong, this movie isn't for audiences OR critics. It's literally just for Coppola himself.
@@geokim8590Exactly this. The man was so delusional he self-funded this piece of garbage when no one else would. He's the one who lost $200 million.
The whole movie summed up in one sentence.
“A man saves society by building a city with escalators”
escalators!!
Hilarious. Thank you!
Eels....
Foundation is a much better take on a future "roman empire". And they had an elevator!
My friend Wenton saw this movie too, and he told me that it was a bad movie, but the fact that Francis Ford Coppola directed it made it that much worse. Like this was the same guy who gave us Apocalypse Now, The Godfather movies, The Outsiders, 1992’s Dracula, THX 1138, and the original Great Gatsby. Him giving us anything resembling mediocre is shocking but then again the man is also 89 years old.
“Claudio” “Hamilton” “evil uncle” bro this is Hamlet. I’m pretty sure this is at least partially Hamlet
he does the whole "to sleep, perchance to dream" monologue
it's pretty funny
@jt2aw15 I physically cringed the whole time listening to that monologue, and thats when I knew I was in for a ride
@@jt2aw15 oh god did they at least use it in the right context?
1:30 the way he says it reminds me of when Happy Gilmore’s girlfriend says “all you ever talk about is being a pro hockey player. The only thing is… you’re not any good!”
😂😂😂😂😂😂
Yeah. But she sucked at being a babysitter! 😂
@12:31 Our boy is so exhausted after a two-fisted sucker punch of bad movies that he forgot he already pointed out that Shia LaBeouf is in this movie at the start of the rant, lol.
Saw it last night and when it ended I turned to my friend and said, "Well, all I know is somebody gave grandpa hallucinogens and it made him think he was Shakespeare"
If Dracula Flow wasn't funny?
at 11:00 when he starts explaining the movie he sounds like a kid telling the teacher what his bully just did.
We are in the era of megamind two, joker two, and the Minecraft movie, we are cooked💀💀💀
Madame web 💀
@dfe-u5lhow do you know or confirm who has translated and read this so that you can curse them? Maybe it’s embedded into your comment, but how?
@BozoChoso don't reply to them, they're a bot. Just report them for spam and move on.
@@WRLDofCHOSOit's a bot
@@WRLDofCHOSOthat’s a bot my dude
Am I the only one who's never heard of Megalopolis? Like actually. No trailer ads on RUclips, no one talking about it, nothing. Not a peep. How did Charlie even know this movie exists?
Coppola was dreaming about this film for like 30 years and maybe pr guy were thinking it was enough pr
Ryan George dropped a Pitch Meeting for it yesterday I think.
im with you - i never heard of this and I'm on youtube a lot
@@justinlast2lastharder749people still watch that ?
it's directed by one of the great american filmmakers. If you follow movie news and movie circles, then youd be aware. Otherwise, theres no reason to be aware of it. theres a reason no studio wanted to touch it . not trying to sound pretentious, it's just not in the mainstream at all
Reddit mod is a new character archetype
Meganuts after Jonkler 2? Damn, you really hit yourself with the double whammy. Really used two fists on this one.
Bro is watching everything but Transformers One 😭
Or Wild Robot
Ik right glad I ain’t the only one who noticed😂
I'm pretty sure he said on stream he tried to go watch it but it wasn't showing so he just watched a movie called "bagman" which was awful. 😂
HAS BEEN MILKED ENOUGH. I haven't heard anyone talk about it ... I dont think it's noticeably good. but maybe I dont know
@@Void637absolutely wrong. milked my ass, it is good. amazing, perfect even
if you think it was supposedly to be a cashgrab, definitely wrong.
Megalopolis is a Neil Breen movie without Neil Breen
I wish this had the earnest green screens of Neil Breen!
I feel like I’m having an aneurism just trying to comprehend any of this, even with it being drawn out in crayon by Charlie… I can only imagine the suffering he had to endure trying to relatively compute any of this.
3:24 “the daughter shows up and he talks to her, he’s like jimminy Christmas, well he doesn’t say jimminy Christmas” 🤣🤣🤣
Charlie’s monotone voice combined with him explaining the Auntie Wow scene was perfect 😂
It feels like the directors kink tbh
Francis really out here making the worlds most expensive High School Shakespearean play
This was all a ploy to make Godfather 3 not is his worst movie
His film Jack (1996) is worse than Godfather 3 but better than Megalopolis.
Godfather 3 is a masterpiece
F you. Godfather part 3 is a masterpiece
And remember he put his own daughter on that movie and she ruined her entire movie with her presence. Thankfully, his daughter later follow his footstep as a director and never act again. She was also the director of Lost in Translation starring Scarlet Johannson and Bill Murray.
@@margarethmichelina5146 she was 18 give her a break
16:38 when bro said it sounds like a fever dream he wasn’t kidding because wtf is this 😭
0:55 It's gotta be money laundering at this point
Yes, I think you're onto something
I was thinking this yesterday, have y'all seen the producers? That movie gives you a step by step on how to make big bank from a failed stage/movie production
Copala self funded it by selling some of his ownership in his wine company. It's not money laundering it's like Charlie says, a very expensive vanity project
@@ministry.ofsound Spending money just for the sake of spending it. That money could've been used far better imo.
@ministry.ofsound I'm not disagreeing with you. I was speaking more generally about the number of flops that have been happening I am sure someone is cashing in.
2:33 ah yes, the move that made LeBron cry
Goated comment
Dude Megalopolis was made for only one person: Francis Ford Copolla. He financed it from his own pockets (120-136 mil - he sold a winery that he owned), burned those money, and we all are just spectators :)))
I am WAY too high to begin to comprehend what you said. Wow.
Yeah this could either be the best or worst movie to watch high lmao
I wish I was high
10:14 charlie explaining this movie sounds like someone trying to explain their dreams 😭
Something immediately coming out and being even worse than Melvin: Brother of the Joker: Foie a Gras is actually insane.
Melvin, melvin, brother of the Joker 🎶
It's a distraction!
Can’t wait for Megalopolis 2: Flloür dè Deūxbøis
You know Charles, its actually OK to go see a good movie for your enjoyment once in a while
Bro had to shower to get the MegaFilth off
you know the film is bad when charlie doesn't even wait for his hair to dry
Bro is immersed in the bad movies. He needs to see Transformers One and The Wild Robot
>He couldn’t comprehend the depths of Cesar Catalina’s Emersonian mind
entitles me?
2:40 charlie gettin wacky jumpscare
Its a self-funded movie that took years upon years, so i think the budget makes sense on it. No major studio backing to provide all the recourses, all paid out of pocket.
this sounds like an 8yr trying to tell you about a dream they had
I thought my computer glitched out and sent me another notification for the Joker video. Charlie actually can't catch a break.
No studio wanted this. Francis Ford Coppola had to sell his winery and fund it himself.
It may have actually cost $120-140M depending on the source, self financed by Coppola's winery sale
14:03 the moment he started losing it
It's insistent. It insists upon itself.
“I did not care for the Godfather.”
@Airborne-zo8zb it has a valid point to make, it's insisting.
“It insists itself upon” makes sense. What does “it insists upon itself” mean? Stay in school, little buddy
@@austins.2495 it's a family guy reference little bro. go back to playing with play-doh and let the adults talk
It's a family guy reference.@@austins.2495
As a writer, it drives me crazy how good they could've made this if they just did another draft of the script. Very often my stories are just as crappy as this one on the first draft, because there Im just throwing the ideas to the page to see what works and what doesnt. It normally takes me three drafts to actually turn a mix of random ideas into something worth reading/watching, and on Megalopois it seems they just kept a first draft as it was.
If it took Coppola over 40 years to make the "first draft" who the hell has time to wait around for the second? 😜
I saw a bot copy your comment
There’s no “they” in this case. It’s just “him”. Coppola had 100% full creative control over this, and it’s obvious that he’s got too much of an ego to have hired a co-writer to help him out
@@sicarus1090 And it got more likes, too... 🤦🏽♀️💀
@@Marksman3434 Ok that makes even more sense. I'm always at my best when writing on a team, so we can tell each other that our ideas arent working. Theres only so many angles a single person can consider, with more people you can also draw on many different types of experience, and since everyone has to be on the same page, its a lot easier to write something that others can undestand. Single writers have the risk of making the conections in their mind and forgetting they need to explain them to the audience
My partner and I walked out halfway through this movie… It was indeed EMBARRASSING…
“Partner”
@@mattmurphy7030 99.9% of the world has called their significant other their partner ! seems like you’ve never had the chance to do so
Partner? Cringe.
oh boy the trump worshippers are mad now
ignore those two, their testosterone prevents writing paragraphs about their opinions
"It insists upon itself"
I can tell you why it cost 100 mil. Heavy CGI focus. It’s not that CGI itself is expensive to produce, it’s that all the production houses are completely booked and in high demand, so they can charge exorbitant prices. If more mainstream movies went towards practical effects it would offset the demand for cgi, drive down the price, and make movies more profitable.
But, that would require producers taking time to develop these movies, and they’re not about that.
Indeed 🤷🏽♀️
Crazy how none of that money actually goes to the cgi artists
Huh didn’t expect Charlie to whip out a Finnegan’s Wake reference like that
Bro same, like damn goated reference for real
Finnegan’s wake is endless entertainment though. The audio books especially. It’s like to read finnegans wake as an audiobook is the equivalent of an organist who trains his whole life to play Toccata and Fugue only he has to do it for 27 hours with his voice.
It’s mind boggling when you remember that the guy who directed this also directed the godfather.
And Apocalypse Now
Bro ran out of ideas
why do i hear a faint vine boom everytime charlie touches his desk
Daaaamn, going back to back with those two is crazy. Must’ve been exhausting lolol
Megaflopolis 19:55
Charlie's hair drying throughout the video had better character developement then this entire movie
Naming a character Wow Platinum is insane work like who the fuck thought that was a normal name...
If Charlie explaining this movie can't even help me understand it, this truly must be one of the worst movies of all time
Watching this movie feels like trying to explain a concept you are an expert in to someone new and the more you try to explain it the worse it sounds. Finally you realize your never understood it at all
16:25 Ok you just sold me on this movie.
This film was insane.
Charlie is completely right here, it was trying to have a deeper meaning but it didn't. It came across as pretentious. I don't know if it was trying to be an "eat the rich, worship the artist" story but made by rich people so they had no idea???
What was with the Rome references and quoting philosophers?
Charlie didn't mention how Audrey Plaza's character seemed to have Cleopatra references (snake noises, sleeping with Cesar.) She's even dressed as Cleopatra when she gets shot.
But there isn't a Mark Anthony character ? Why set up the fable and do it differently ?
The whole movie I was expecting Cesar to be taken out by his own people, stabbed in the back. But he's shot in the face and survives anyway....
I've lost too many braincells to this movie. I love Adam Driver, I sat through it for him. But my god. Looking into the behind the scenes drama for this film is a whole rabbit hole.
Im starting to think, the bad movies all along, were the friends we made along the way
I felt second hand embarrassment for everyone around me
Dude really bought a channel smh
cringe
I just don't understand how did they forget that a good script is the most important part of a movie.
This whole video sounds like Charlie recounting a dream he had after eating too much before bed.
Man, Aubrey Plaza signing up for some stinkers this year.
My Old Ass is pretty good, in a “sweet coming of age romcom” type of way. Agatha All Along is a whatever paycheck; I begrudge no actor a paycheck. I haven’t heard anything about it so it can’t be that bad, right? It’s not The Acolyte which I couldn’t escape. What else has she been in?
*insert witty joke here about Aubrey Plaza being in a lot of “stinkers” alongside an ACTUAL GOOD MOVIE called “My Old Ass”
NGL, “My Old Ass” is a pretty HILARIOUS name for a movie that I can’t help but LOVE.
Yeah Adam Driver is really struggling too. Star Wars fucked his career all the way up.
@@jaythomas468 I was not aware of that movie.
@@patrickboian8545 Which is sad because he is phenomenal.