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Hi Filmento i love ur vids and i use them to learn about writing and stuff in my free time and recently there's a show that just finished in netflix called Arcane and it is so good and I feel like there's a lot to learn from the writing in that show. it would be awsome if you were to cover that show because I think as a writer and a critic you'll love the show and if that doesn't really interest you then it offers some good animation and fights too with sci-fi mixed into it. Also I think its one of the very few media where they get the badass female boss trope very well without downplaying other characters. Theres a lot of emotion too. Even if you don't make a video on it, just watch the show it is so good in terms of writing, world building, animation, videogame adaptation, etc.
We all know that in 10 years someone will make a 6 hour long video essay about how megalopolis was an underrated and misunderstood masterpiece that predicted the future and that video will get 7mil views in 1 day or something. edit. ok guys, I found it. first person to actually defend this movie: "Wrong, you're just too scared to admit it's an easy to admit, pro succession from the union film. Megalopolis was never unitelligible, people just hate the message it's for"
I think I’m in that camp of people who genuinely enjoyed this movie and adored how over the top every single scene was. I took a coworker who knew nothing and we were both rolling in our seats with laughter
*Megalopolis is a 2 hour and 18 minute perfume ad-movie* Literally...just pause the movie at any shot and you can essentially stick it in a Dior Pafum ad and no one would notice the difference.
Why do SO many people use 'literally' incorrectly these days?! This film wasn't 'literally 'a perfume ad. If it was, it would have actually been a perfume ad.
My favourite part was how Coppola decided to represent the fall of the Roman republic exclusively by finding vaguely relevant names in Wikipedia articles and pasting them into the script.
He only had decades and millions for this project. C'mon.. He's just one guy... with a skilled team...making a movie about how much greater one guy can be over everybody else if they just got out of his way.
@Dante-ki4ol A story about a big architect guy who is super cool and has to deal with all the little poor people having "interests" and "rights" that get in the way of his ego? A story that great surely can only be fountain the head of an absolute genius.
@@Dante-ki4ol But it is not just the story that is terrible. The basic cinematography, blocking and editing is atrocious. This dude make Apocalypse Now? How is that even possible?
Francis Ford Coppolla complained about superhero movies so he made a bad sci-fi movie and then he complained about Rotten Tomatoes giving it a bad rating.
Superhero movies are stupid says Francis Ford Coppola. So anyway in my superhero movie, my guy can stop time on command but he doesn't really use the power for anything constructive. Also Francis Coppola
“Well what are you going to do now, eccentric architect Adam Driver?” “I’m going to build a bigger city, a better metropolis. A megalopolis.” *Linkin Park’s What I’ve Done plays as the screen cuts to black.*
Apparently, Coppola never had a script ready before production officially began. He wrote it DURING production as he went along. No one, not even HE knew where the film was going and the cast and crew waited for hours while Coppola sat by himself thinking of ideas. Ignoring for a moment that it clearly shows this movie had no thought put into it, how in the fresh fucking hell do you write a script on the fly mid production for a film that you've been planning for nearly FOUR DECADES?!
True story: I was watching this movie with friends, and we were playing a drinking game. At one point in the movie we made a guessing game of yelling out the dumbest plot points that could happen and I yelled out that the kid talking to Adam Driver was going to shoot him in the face. When it happened a minute later, all of us started laughing so hard that we had to pause the movie while we cry laughed about just how stupid this movie is.
Even Guillermo del Toro when asked if about making a film with no budget limitations or any restrictions he said, “It would be suicide, restrictions are what gives you freedom.”
Mind you, half of his production crew left because he fired them for not "Creating his vision properly" or because they quit in protest when he fired the others
@@MurasakiTsukimaru Not only throwing a fit, but he was also mistreating\crunching them for this shitass movie, when they left plenty of articles talked about it.
Floppola forgot the saying "Less is More". bro crammed so much metaphors, symbolisms, plotlines, characters into this movie that they clouded his vision of becoming a movie in history.
Just from the explanation…. I think I figured it out. He stops time in the beginning of the movie leaning over the roof? He’s dead- this movie is just all the information moving around in your mind as your head hits the ground. Like the way a dream is only a few seconds but feels long. None of the movie makes sense … like your dreams the moment before you wake up. He’s dead. The whole movie, he’s dead.
I'm guessing Coppola had an image in his head that this movie would be viewed as this deep metaphor about filmmaking (ie Adam Driver's character is supposed to represent him, building the futuristic mega city is supposed to represent him creating a genius artistic movie masterpiece, and all of the people who oppose Adam Driver's character are supposed to represent the mean studios who wouldn't give him money because they wanted to make more superhero movies). Especially since the Academy absolutely adores high concept movies that are metaphors for filmmaking as a profession and wax poetic about how filmmakers are the best and smartest and most important people in the universe.
The thesis of the Movie: People should just let artists make whatever they want and not get in the way of their genius. The antithesis: The Movie. Synthesis.
Another thing to point out about this movie is that the concept of the film was proposed back in the 1990's and it was actually being worked on and was supposed to been released in the 90's, but due to a combination of various different things, development of the film was delayed so much that the film was stuck in development hell for over 3 decades / 30 years. In my opinion, the film should of been an 80 episode tv series instead, that way it would of had a lot more time to develop its characters, the world that they lived in, all of the different ideas, concepts, powers, and everything else.
When you added the what why when arrow to the tiktok, i was rolling. The fact that a 10 second shitpost has a clearer vision and understandable plot direction than a $130 million movie is just pure poetry
Wasn't like one poster made for it? I agree with him that Marvel studios releases mostly garbage but did he think that was a good reason to watch his thing?
Francis Ford Coppola: "Marvel is nonsense without a real plot and story" Also Francis Ford Coppola: *makes a nonsense movie without a real plot or story*
He doesn’t complain about it not having a real plot or story, he complains about it not being cinema. This is what 99% of internet armchair critics don’t understand. What you think is good film, is that it’s a good story. That has nothing to do with pure cinema, which is what film makers like Coppola, Lucas etc were always more interested in than normal stories.
Funny story: I accidentally walked into the set of this movie here in Atlanta thinking it was a parade or something (I do street photography in the city). Walking down I started snapping photos until finally noticed all the staff and camera equipment. All of a sudden Giancarlo Esposito came to my frame. He looked straight into my lens and I took his picture which I still have on Instagram. I was star struck and also terrified of him. The only reason I watched this movie was to find that scene they filmed on that street.
If Adam Driver can stop time, he could have been a fantastic villian. Manipulating events, people, setting up 'accidents' to eliminate them. All for 'the greater good' of the city. Then you could have had characters trying to work out what is going on, then doing whatever they can to prevent him from succeeding.
And when he's about to harm the mayor's daughter...she suddenly moves! She has the same type of power as him!! She then throws down a nearby road roller at him. And then ...wait...
My favorite parts of this film were when the audience busted out laughing when it was obvious those moments were supposed to be Very Serious And Important. * chef's kiss *
My take -- Adam Driver is not a good actor, he couldn't pull of the heavy handed script. The film went to Shia and Aubrey, the antagonists, were extraordinarily oversized. I think the film largely passes or fails on how you see their characters, thats not saying I am going rank it highly, but I was entertained by just how much they had fun playing horrible characters.
Man, a modern-day fall of Rome sounds like such a good movie, especially if it was shot like Succession. I have no clue how they made it look like a kid was playing with Legos.
It’d be quite boring. Economic strain, ethnic strife from conquered regions, governmental bloat and incompetence, general hedonism and decadence. The fall of Rome was like the fall of Greece’s economy in recent times: incompetence and complacency.
Imma be real, sounds like a fcking slog to me. Might make for a good game, book, or evn show -- something you can take your time with, that can lay out swathes of worldbuilding within which characters are only a miniscule detail, but its way too much for a movie... even if its 4 hours
It sounds like Coppola crammed in as many metaphors, allegories and messages he could. Only problem is, you can actually have *too* many of them, especially when most of them only make sense to Coppola and the rationale is incredibly tenuous to anyone else. Add in the almost indie/experimental/artsy vibe about it that gets Cannes audiences wet but seldom has general-moviegoer appeal and you can see why even studios that green light the most mind numbing projects were like “nahhh we think we’ll pass”
You're giving this movie too much credit: it's only message is that rich people suck. And that's coming from a rich guy accused of sexually harassing women on set, so, takes one to know one. Am I right?
I looked on imdb. Coppola hasn't directed a financially winning movie since "Bram Stoker's Dracula" in 1992. And if you remember that one, it has a lot of the same visual characteristics as "Megalopolis," in my opinion.
Dracula '92 was the closest to the source material that's ever been put to film. There are a few "artistic" indulgences in it, but the movie is perfectly coherent with logical cause and effect, and clear story progression. Some things are truncated for time constraints, but nothing just happens for no reason.
@@viriathas9910 Also I forgot to mention, Apocalypse Now, it is the master of handling conceptual elements, clear character directions, and progress!!!!
Ford Coppola's Dracula is and was brilliant - except for the love story part (also Keanu Reeves/Winona Ryder's lackluster British accent). This current film seems like a perfect visual feast & mental endurance for respectable/recreational drug use.
This movie feels like a dream. You have 2 main plots, 10 subplots, 30 characters, super powers, different settings and nothing makes sense. There's no conection between many of the characters, the settings or the plots. It isn't a bad movie, it's bad at being a movie.
As an enthusiastic follower of Roman history, the cateline conspiracy is one of the strangest choices to try to adapt. It's a blip the map of the fall of rome. Not only that, he's adapting a 50 year old outdated understanding of the conflict and slaps a happy ending onto it. This is one of the strangest visions of Rome ever made.
After Neil Breens last film was exclusively computer effects, this one incorporating so much practical was refreshing. Strange that Francis decided to pass it off as his film, but I would totally allow Coppola to pretend my movie was his as well.
Reminds me of how we live in a timeline where Shrek and Toy Story are the way they are because the original scripts were basically thrown in the garbage
I’ve made this analogy before, and I’ll repeat it here because it’s fitting. In this scenario, Francis Ford Coppola is Andrew Ryan, and Megalopolis is his Rapture. It’s an ambitious idea that ultimately collapsed due to its own ambitions.
@@ElGalgoNegro There's a character in Bioshock who resembles his exact type, an artist who thinks his work is better than life itself. That man is Sander Cohen.
I don’t this this movie is worse thn your list. Its definitely plotless, boring, messy and pretentious, but at least its not a preachy cheap woke money grabbers, RM2, J2, MW are for no one, but Megalopolis is for Coppola.
You called it. The others are misfires because of many things (mostly bad writing) but this was worst because this is a film maker that knows how to make some of the best movies ever and this just showed he lost the plot. I respect him body of work but this was as bad as his best was good.
You know... I think we can see 2 actually good movie concepts in Megalopolis. The First one: The story of an eccentric Architect with time stopping abilities who use this power to create unique buildings with a vision nobody else can have and who gets corrupted by his ego, wanting to rebuild the city not to improve the lives of it's habitants anymore but to satisfy his own power trip. Facing a mayor who thinks about the people living in this city but is completely obsolete in comparison of the novelty who brings the architect. The Second One: The story of a rich family with inner conflicts being so rich and so over the top that they always want to do more and more but end up destroying the city by making it fall on itself (tower of babel style) due to drama between the architect of the family (who happens to have time stopping power) and his cousin. A story of conflict between powerful people where the people living in the city are like ants and the city as a checkboard. Unfortunately, these two movie concepts don't really mix up in one.
I remember seeing this movie, there were only 3 people there, me, my dad, and some dude. And when it was done my dad said that “he wants the last 2 hours back”
he just wanted to do it for a long time and he did. and probably pissed because no one values his work. pretty simple, i don’t think he even tried to get money on it, why, if you have no investors to return it
@@deufvelliinvestor or not it's important that the project you're selling makes you profit because that's money you need to get back for whatever you're doing, contrary to popular belief millionaires are not economically imvincible. The director feels washed out tho.
@@massgunner4152 sure it’s good to get money back and appreciation. But it’s not critical for ppl like him, he certainly could live his pretty 1% population millionaire life, for ppl who have money - the release of the project like this itself is more valuable thn just a money. You can see that in the scale of the idea, if he wanted money - he could just make the movie investors wanted like Joker 2 did. The movie is shit but Hoakin and phillips got their 20mil, this wasn’t about the art, it was about money and arrogance. This - was about art. And it looks like art, this type of art no one wanted, no one cares which is gathering dust somewhere in the museum. Pretentious sculpture of the fallen Rome of Coppola itself.
The biggest problem was that he couldn't just choose one setting, all of the film's marketing involved a futuristic version of rome but then when you watch the movie, it's modern New York and then 50's New York and then Rome 2077. Any one of these settings could have made a decent backdrop on its own but he couldn't pick just one.
Some movies have (sort of) gotten away with that. I forget which, but I have vague recollections of other movies using a mix of time periods (like a neighborhood and clothing that look like the 1950s, but then it also has a mix of more modern tech and cars.) Some feel it helps the “suspension of disbelief” to try to make the movie time period more ambiguous and “timeless.” But agree in Megaopolis it went from “timeless” to “just confusing.”
He cleared this up: Marvel has created nothing new. And so he put his willpower in the right place and developed a style. And this blessing of a movie is inspiring.
all science fiction dystopia falls apart under examination and so does the real world along with the actual social order that you live within right now. Being able to figure out "something doesn't make sense" about the society in a dystopian fiction doesn't mean you busted a plot hole. It means you were paying attention. Cyberpunk as all about how things don't work as advertised. Please grow up into an adult.
Francis Ford Coppola was so far up his own ass that he essentially made his own epic when no one else wanted to make it for him. It turned out too be a HUGE clusterfuck.
Don't worry folks, the director will release his 10+ hours version that corrects all the mistakes and proves this is actually a masterpiece and you were all wrong, and you'll be all humiliated and punished for doubting the grandiosity of this director. (Just like Justice League and Ridley Scott's Napoleon)
@@romkobomko3200 Tell me you haven't watched Breaking Bad without telling me you haven't watched Breaking Bad The series starts out as Walt being diagnosed with cancer.
@@RipRLeeErmey But there was no foreshadowing in first episode about him being likely person to be diagnosed with cancer. He just starts coughing and faints on job. And then diagnosis. There was no implication that car wash causes cancer.
Guys, I saw this in theater with three of my buddies, and it was probably the most enjoyable movie experience I’ve ever had. Please go get a little bit drunk and watch this movie with as many people who are funny as possible because this movie is out of this fucking world, and I love it so much.
If Coppola said that if he had written the script when he was 14, I'd totally believe it. This movie was funny in the beginning, due to all the weird acting (Emersonian mind), but it does overstays its welcome - a group of pompous theater kids from some small city could've make this movie for a thousand dollars and it'd be the same. Also I think that the time stopping abilities are more metaphorical, in some weird ode to art that is much, much more awkward than uplifiting as Coppola imagined to be. Also I wish the baby flew in the carpet like Aladdin in the end
It all makes sense now why Francis hated superhero movies. This is how he saw them, just people with super natural abilities. And this movie was his spite attempt at proving a point that he could easily make one. Case and point: him willing to put up his own money to make it even when every studio shot him down. He was trying to prove a point. Except only the other point was further proven, he never understood why people liked superhero movies.
Peak dialogue "Ladies and gentlemen..... welcome to the Megalopolis" "Who am I? Im the megalopolis" "Who the fuck does this guy think he is some kinda megalopolis?" 🔥🔥🔥📝
I watched this movie and it was hysterically incompetent; truly one of the dumbest things ever - but when your movie also includes Adam Driver acting like a hyped up reddit mod, Shia Labouf's pubes as he's seduced by his aunt, and Jon Voight shooting someone with a tiny bow, I also think its the most unintentionally funny movies of all time.
its like a trend where directors who once made something great in their prime finally get full creative control to make a life long passion project but by that point they're too old and completely out of touch and cant tell that what they are making is an absolute convoluted pile of nonsense. This movie is literally on screen dementia coated in a early 2000's music video
The Randian premise is so absurd, especially for someone in the film industry, where collaboration is required. The fantasy of 1 Man & 1 Invention is so childlike its embarrassing he even thought of it.
"True is stranger than fiction because fiction needs to make sense." I don't know who said that but it makes sense. Film makers tell stories that need to make sense to the audience because the audience is expecting a satisfying conclusion and an understandable journey from beginning to end.
Coppola wanted to make a film with no studio/corporate oversight on his creative vision. He spent 130 million of his own money to do it. Whatever else happens. Respect sir.
He could have used his own money to make a normal gangster movie and probably would have made a couple hundred million profit for himself. But instead he bet his own money on an incredibly risky bizzare avant garde project and took a 100M+ loss
Man, at this point having Adam Driver in your movie is a recipe for failure. Dude's anti-box office draw, he's a box office repellent. Dude might be a good actor, but out of his last 12 movies only like 4 made profit or broke even, the rest were massive box office failures. Dude has that lancer luck.
It's like how Terry Gilliam's movies always run into production issues (culminating in Heath Ledger freakin' *dying* in the middle of filming Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus) The Onion joked that he can't even plan an outdoor barbecue without something going wrong "The man is cursed." - TvTropes
Hey don’t knock corn like that. At least corn you can eat It’s usually pretty good. This movie is just terrible. You think the director is different person compared to Apocalypse Now.
I think this movie was just an attempt at making something like the film Caligula in a modern context, but the main creative behind it didn't understand just how unsurprising Caligula's content would be in this day and age.
You should seriously consider create a new category to define mid or just decent movies, not everything is perfect or a complete failure there are many movies and shows in between both extremes! and I'm not talking about "Megaflopolis" which is a disaster for sure, I'm referring to "Alien: Romulus" which is far from perfection despite your review but it's also not a total disaster.
Every ad I saw for this movie was just “Megalopolis. Watch it!” like the fact that a flashy 5 second visual and a command was more than enough reasoning to watch it
The only thing I'd like to add is that confusing your audience can actually work if you manage to make it fun and intriguing. I remember seeing the start of Lucky Number Slevin on TV almost as background noise, I had absolutely no interest, but it got so confusing so quickly and in such an expected way that it made me want to keep watching just to figure out what was happening. I think one of the key elements of achieving this is that it has to feel like it's intentionally confusing and that it's only because you're missing something that will get revealed later. It's like a murder mystery: the audience isn't thinking about how the circumstances of the crime makes no sense, they are thinking "How can I make sense of it? What am I missing?".
Some guy say "is all ADs of fragances at once" and he didnt lie because in the same video you have equally the same scenes 😂😂 Like Invictous and the gladiators lmao
The audience: studios needs to stop interfering so much in the making of movies, let artists make their movies! The movie when artists are given free control:
It’s insane how clean filmento’s work is, introducing viewpoints that can only come from years of dedication to studying film, yet he also throws in memes and references that are actually funny and creative (like the shrek tiktok)
Only someone like Aubrey Plaza can do her best when she's given a character with a name as ridiculous as "Wow Platinum". And as someone who comes up with some wild character names in my screenplays, that's saying something!
@@ptonpc She genuinely looks like she has fun no matter what. Even if it's low energy sarcasm you can see the wry smirk underneath it which makes her so compelling to watch. She's a naughty girl with tonnes of flirt and knows how to read the room
Movie description feels like a huge stack of "high concept buzz-words". It feels like somebody was trying to squeeze "Foundation" or "Martian chronicles" into a single movie. You can assume there where some epic story lines - but everything is at 16x speed.
So your main point is that the movie flopped because of audience's 3 second attention span? This is probably correct. Which means that its actual audience without brain rot will find it eventually, and it will become a classic.
One of the points but not the only point. The movie is simply not that good, even if you forced everyone to watch it and pay attention, it wouldn’t get much better reception
When I watched this (on a pirating site not in a theater) with some of my friends, none of us could comprehend what was going on, but we did all burst out laughing plenty of times throughout the runtime. It wasn't a good movie by any means other than cool visuals, IMO, but it WAS very very very entertaining. Not even half way through the movie I INSISTED to my friends that this movie is gonna be viewed as a misunderstood cult classic at some point. I don't have any idea how, but I guarantee it will eventually.
It will become a cult classic but not because its misunderstood or something. It will be a cult classic the same way Tommy Wiseaus "The Room" or Ed Wood's "Plan 9 from Outer Space" are cult classics - just because they are so ridiciculously bad that they are involuntary funny.
I feel bad for Coppola. In spite of his hypocrisy for pulling a Scorcese with his opinion on recent blockbuster films like the MCU films, he invested tons of money for a horrible film even worse than the films he had disdain at. Shame considering his films like The Godfather, The Godfather Part II, and Apocalypse Now are some of the greatest films ever.
@@MelissaBlue, this needs lots of meetings and discussions. Too much studio interference and too much creative control are can be good or bad. It's been sitting idle for 40 years, and they all went indecisive with the whole thing when the cameras are rolling.
Scorsese was actually very right and is a much much better director tho. Like, you can't compare the 2, Coppola's comments were just empty insults to mainstream blockbuster slop, while Scorsese's was an intelligent criticism of movie producers and the whole movie industry itself, that is currently been proven true. Plus Coppola made literally something like...3 good movies in his entire career lmao
@@DeadKraken, Scorsese might be right but he isn't as profitable as Spielberg. New York, New York lost to Rocky in the 70's. Hugo and Silence were huge flops in the 2010s. Heck, the ones he made for Netflix and Apple+ like The Irishman and Killers of the Flower Moon never made money back. Profit-wise, Scorsese and Coppola are not the types of people who will bring seats to the nearby cinema. What saved Scorsese is his reputation, while Coppola is a big mess even back in the day. Goodfellas, The Departed, and The Wolf of Wall Street are great to this day, while Megalopolis will be remembered by its behind-the-scenes chaos.
"with 100 flavors of ice cream, you grow tired of ice cream" Do you though? I dunno if the analogy works for ice cream; I mean, this is ICE CREAM we're talking about
I'd argue that everything you've mentioned here *was* essential for movies even back in the 70's, even for stories as far back as antiquity: they're not some new writing concepts that only become relevant to the "modern" audience, they're timeless writing elements that every successful story must have. Even the 70's films you claim could coast off pretty imagery still had the sense that those images were being used to convey a point necessary to the story, and that the films that only relied on said imagery did in fact fall off and die, in the same way they would now. Even something like James Cameron's Avatar, which is held up as the very definition of a movie made to sell pretty images still had a very simple and understandable story that was easy to follow and get invested in.
This movie is the _bad_ kind of self-indulgence. Yikes. Just goes to show that the line between someone writing terrible sonic fanfiction, and a best selling author, isn't as far as we might think...
Avengers not only works because of the elements but because of how they rationalize them and because of the actors Example: Hulk in the MCU is not presented as "Bruce Banner was in a nuclear test" but as "Super soldier experiment but with Gamma radiation" meaning you get a connection with Cap America And second the actors such as Nick Fury, Black Widow and Coulson are introduce in Iron Man 2, Coulson even Hawkeye are also in Thor 1, you get barely a connection of characters into the big movie so you also get the connection of the big characters like Hulk or Thor If you wanted to compare a movie with another movie choose any one of Scorcese lmao you got Romans (italians), bunch of characters like 10 or more and a crazy plot Casino, Goodfellas a lot of shit happens and you understand all, in fact, you even remember the secondary actors because of the good scenes
I might be in the minority, but I loved it. "Megalopolis" feels like a modern-day Shakespearean drama. As a book lover, I appreciate how literature uses words to paint conceptual ideas, while movies are typically action-driven. "Megalopolis" is such a drama where the concept of the city symbolizes hope for humanity. The character akin to Gus Fring represents conservative thinking, contrasted by Caesar, who embodies youthful, innovative rebellion, his prowess underlined by a Nobel Prize. The narrative unfolds in scenes that feel like acts, illustrating the characters' journey towards their goals, reminiscent of Joseph Campbell's theories. The protagonist's wife is central to his existence and knowledge, mirroring real-life scenarios where personal pursuits sometimes eclipse family life. The notion of time stopping in the film suggests the character's ability to find peace in the present, a meditative trance rather than reality. His second love interest shares his vision and can exist normally within this temporal halt. Spoiler Alert: Towards the end, he loses this power, symbolizing how his pursuits led to the loss of his peace. His new love interest helps him recognize the value of what he left behind. The idea for Megalopolis came to him during his wife's drowning, marking a profound character arc of sacrifice. The film uses various characters like uncles or exes to explore different concepts, akin to bubble-world stories that add layers of realism or glamour. This approach is similar to how "Avatar" used an alien setting to discuss colonialism. The city draws heavily from Roman references, with Caesar as the protagonist, echoing historical figures but not retelling their stories. The mayor's plan, centered around casinos, represents a "sin business," while the architect's vision is to create Megalopolis. This contrast is like two sides of a book's page, both seeking growth but in diametrically opposed ways. An ego and social warfare of two approaches of growth of humanity, in exploration of sheer human love for beauty. The question of artistic or expressional, "elegant restraint" or "raw simplicity." So, which side To be or not to be IS the question. Reflecting on today, we see a shift from the architectural marvels of old -- Europe's forts, churches, India's temples -- to modern glass structures. Yet, the raw beauty of hand-crafted monuments like Akshardham or Trinity College Dublin captivates us, representing humanity's assets through "elegant restraint" or "refined simplicity." To describe "Megalopolis" in an analogy, imagine a story as a line on an xy plane, with each character as a point moving through various experiences. This film, however, presents scenes like beads, leaving it to us to thread them together with our imagination. That's my take on "Megalopolis." What do you think about its storytelling approach? Share your thoughts with me at @shivanstagram on Twitter. [x.com/shivanstagram]
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Hey Fil, what’s your thoughts on Arcane S1 and S2, and would you make some videos about it?
Cause IMO they are better than Joker 2 and Megalopolis.
Hi Filmento i love ur vids and i use them to learn about writing and stuff in my free time and recently there's a show that just finished in netflix called Arcane and it is so good and I feel like there's a lot to learn from the writing in that show. it would be awsome if you were to cover that show because I think as a writer and a critic you'll love the show and if that doesn't really interest you then it offers some good animation and fights too with sci-fi mixed into it. Also I think its one of the very few media where they get the badass female boss trope very well without downplaying other characters. Theres a lot of emotion too. Even if you don't make a video on it, just watch the show it is so good in terms of writing, world building, animation, videogame adaptation, etc.
We all know that in 10 years someone will make a 6 hour long video essay about how megalopolis was an underrated and misunderstood masterpiece that predicted the future and that video will get 7mil views in 1 day or something.
edit.
ok guys, I found it. first person to actually defend this movie:
"Wrong, you're just too scared to admit it's an easy to admit, pro succession from the union film. Megalopolis was never unitelligible, people just hate the message it's for"
But the movie will still be objectively bad
This wouldn't be remembered as Tron.
It'll go with the reception of The Matrix Resurrections: a complex misfire that needs another rewrite to work.
I think I’m in that camp of people who genuinely enjoyed this movie and adored how over the top every single scene was. I took a coworker who knew nothing and we were both rolling in our seats with laughter
You mean 10 weeks
I believe so as well
This movie is basically like watching 2h of a fragrance commercial.
New jaguar car buyers loved it
TRUE! This is the exact vibe it gives off, with the Roman-ish architecture and gold accents everywhere
@13ShelbyGuy when you're so strong even visuals of fake cars make you cry
Jag was on life support making luxury cars with no luxuries anyway
@@Ramonatho 👈 jag customer
This.... Really makes me want to watch it lol
Coppola had a vision. But not a story.
I would say Coppola had a fever dream.
and he needed cataracts surgery for his vision...
He really thought that once he was out, he could PULL HIMSELF BACK IN....
He had more than 30 years to have an story on this.
All style, no substance and the style wasn't even that good. Inconsistent as well
I think the worst problem with this movie is that after watching a 20 minute video about it i still don't know what it's about lol
my thoughts exactly
the problem is you didn't watch the movie. Hope this helps.
@@dreaziemobbins the movie is an incoherent mess
@@sawyerstudio you're probably too young for this movie
@@sawyerstudio it's a self-aware comedy that draws from eclectic literary and media tradition. I'm not surprised people don't get it
*Megalopolis is a 2 hour and 18 minute perfume ad-movie*
Literally...just pause the movie at any shot and you can essentially stick it in a Dior Pafum ad and no one would notice the difference.
I've seen the side by side comparison before seeing the movie and it took me a while to realize that both side of the screen wasn't a Dior commercial
I paused the video at 7:58. Lol doesn't look very "perfume ad" to me.
Why do SO many people use 'literally' incorrectly these days?! This film wasn't 'literally 'a perfume ad. If it was, it would have actually been a perfume ad.
@@AdAstra78 You literally don't get it 😂
@jadelee6555 I do. It's just that your grammar is crap, so it's easily misread.
My favourite part was how Coppola decided to represent the fall of the Roman republic exclusively by finding vaguely relevant names in Wikipedia articles and pasting them into the script.
He only had decades and millions for this project. C'mon.. He's just one guy... with a skilled team...making a movie about how much greater one guy can be over everybody else if they just got out of his way.
Sounds like the guy who made the Napoleon film that had a lot of nonsense and started spatting about superhero movies when questioned.
@Dante-ki4ol
A story about a big architect guy who is super cool and has to deal with all the little poor people having "interests" and "rights" that get in the way of his ego?
A story that great surely can only be fountain the head of an absolute genius.
@@Dante-ki4ol But it is not just the story that is terrible. The basic cinematography, blocking and editing is atrocious. This dude make Apocalypse Now? How is that even possible?
AI do that
Francis Ford Coppolla complained about superhero movies so he made a bad sci-fi movie and then he complained about Rotten Tomatoes giving it a bad rating.
complains about superhero movies, proves why superhero movies is more likable because of his movie.
Superhero movies are stupid says Francis Ford Coppola.
So anyway in my superhero movie, my guy can stop time on command but he doesn't really use the power for anything constructive.
Also Francis Coppola
@@robertdascoli949 - He said 'Marvel movies are despicable.'
He is correct.
@@deathmagneto-soy When I read that I have Bugs and Daffy arguing.
@@KaiHouston-m6j - Duck season.
Rabbit season.
Duck season.
Rabbit ...
this movie feels like the mediocre Hollywood adaptation of an anime that doesn't exist
So...Adam Driver is a Roman, that crawls through a sewer, into a modern city, and is amazed by modern sewers....then......
Ah u mean metropolis? I didn't watch it but it sure looks like this movie
that's... that's a perfect explanation :/
And probably came out in the 80s or 90s
@@ajeshtantri9816 don't you dare compare metropolis to this monstrosity
“Well what are you going to do now, eccentric architect Adam Driver?”
“I’m going to build a bigger city, a better metropolis. A megalopolis.”
*Linkin Park’s What I’ve Done plays as the screen cuts to black.*
And just like that, the connection between Shia LaBeouf and LP will have come full circle.
It's perfect! We urgently need Michael Bay to film this story! And... big explosion in the end, of course!😅
😂 perfect
Apparently, Coppola never had a script ready before production officially began. He wrote it DURING production as he went along. No one, not even HE knew where the film was going and the cast and crew waited for hours while Coppola sat by himself thinking of ideas.
Ignoring for a moment that it clearly shows this movie had no thought put into it, how in the fresh fucking hell do you write a script on the fly mid production for a film that you've been planning for nearly FOUR DECADES?!
Same thing happened with Iron Man
Yeah, you probably shouldn't use the same writing method for your 100 million dollar self funded movie favored by chatroom roleplayers.
The film was in it's 63476543235676543235678765434567876543457845th rewrite he had various drafts for the script and he hated them all
True story: I was watching this movie with friends, and we were playing a drinking game. At one point in the movie we made a guessing game of yelling out the dumbest plot points that could happen and I yelled out that the kid talking to Adam Driver was going to shoot him in the face. When it happened a minute later, all of us started laughing so hard that we had to pause the movie while we cry laughed about just how stupid this movie is.
now that's what i call cinema
good times
And then everyone clapped
You and your friends sound quite prideful
I can remember doing the same thing with my friends in high school, even the "and then he shoots him" so I can imagine it.
Giving a director full creative freedom is either the worst or the best thing to do
Usually it's the worst
More like giving him to wrote the plot lol
Only a good writers would put all his elements at once
Even Guillermo del Toro when asked if about making a film with no budget limitations or any restrictions he said, “It would be suicide, restrictions are what gives you freedom.”
It all depends on the directors. For ones, it's good (Christopher Nolan, Denis Villeneuve), for others, not so much (Zack Snyder, Michael Bay)
I LOVE COMMITTEE DESIGN
Mind you, half of his production crew left because he fired them for not "Creating his vision properly" or because they quit in protest when he fired the others
Or because he wouldn't stop trying to kiss and grope them while they were just trying to work.
@@bretterry8356 Quite possibly. I didn't hear that one, just about him throwing a fit with all the FX people
@@MurasakiTsukimaru Not only throwing a fit, but he was also mistreating\crunching them for this shitass movie, when they left plenty of articles talked about it.
@@DeadKraken I'll take your word for it. I've seen this, a Pitch Meeting, and a Jeremy review on it. Haven't really gone looking for anything.
That is next level peoduction hell
Floppola forgot the saying "Less is More". bro crammed so much metaphors, symbolisms, plotlines, characters into this movie that they clouded his vision of becoming a movie in history.
Floppola, lmaoo. Spilled my tea over it.
Maximalism is based and this movie is great
@@nueks_2764 Bro didn't watch the movie.
Just from the explanation…. I think I figured it out.
He stops time in the beginning of the movie leaning over the roof?
He’s dead- this movie is just all the information moving around in your mind as your head hits the ground. Like the way a dream is only a few seconds but feels long.
None of the movie makes sense … like your dreams the moment before you wake up.
He’s dead. The whole movie, he’s dead.
Wow, so Coppola just ripped off The Sixth Sense?
@@suburban-vampirebasically a shot for shot remake.
@patrickaker4380 my favorite part of the original is when the little boy is like "Now, go back to the cluuuuub"
@@suburban-vampire that made me cackle.. thank you
IT’S A JACOB’S LADDER SCENARIO!
I'm guessing Coppola had an image in his head that this movie would be viewed as this deep metaphor about filmmaking (ie Adam Driver's character is supposed to represent him, building the futuristic mega city is supposed to represent him creating a genius artistic movie masterpiece, and all of the people who oppose Adam Driver's character are supposed to represent the mean studios who wouldn't give him money because they wanted to make more superhero movies). Especially since the Academy absolutely adores high concept movies that are metaphors for filmmaking as a profession and wax poetic about how filmmakers are the best and smartest and most important people in the universe.
TLDR: he's polishing his own rod..
Omphaloskepsis
Megaloman
The thesis of the Movie: People should just let artists make whatever they want and not get in the way of their genius.
The antithesis: The Movie.
Synthesis.
@@AesoporificWe should let artists with a proven track record do their thing, but not with a blank check
I have no idea what this film was, however watching it slightly intoxicated with a bunch of friends was one of the best experiences of my life
Have heard that one way to enjoy The Core (2003) is to gather a bunch of people from different science disciplines and watch the film while drunk
Same, I’ve never laughed harder in the cinema than at the boner bow manoeuvre
You jest but it truly was an experience unlike any in history.
And imo, should be praised for that alone.
Watched it high with my friend and we were so locked in 😂
I KNEW IT! Move over Heavy Metal.
This film is so cinema i could literally smell Francis Ford Copolla's fart when watching it, truly a cinema moment of all time.
That’s crazy, I could literally smell his armpits while I was watching it
If only you could have gotten High off of those farts! The movie would have made sense!
Another thing to point out about this movie is that the concept of the film was proposed back in the 1990's and it was actually being worked on and was supposed to been released in the 90's, but due to a combination of various different things, development of the film was delayed so much that the film was stuck in development hell for over 3 decades / 30 years. In my opinion, the film should of been an 80 episode tv series instead, that way it would of had a lot more time to develop its characters, the world that they lived in, all of the different ideas, concepts, powers, and everything else.
He started planning it in the fucking 70’s I think, with an initial attempt to make it in the 80’s before it was stuck in production hell.
10 years of development hell is already insane but 3 whole decades???
I could totally see this as a Twin Peaks style high concept series.
When you added the what why when arrow to the tiktok, i was rolling. The fact that a 10 second shitpost has a clearer vision and understandable plot direction than a $130 million movie is just pure poetry
You make no sense
your inane and illiterate babbling baffles me.
“This shit sucked Megacockolis”
I'm stealing this
Did Moistcririkal say this?
@@AlkalineandAcid nah this was the top review in Letterboxd
@@AlkalineandAcid He wouldn't be able to come up with that masterpiece.
I died
the director really said "this has kylo ren and gus fring, it litteraly cannot fail"
Not really, this started before they were even born, this was just a bad movie and he tried to get people to watch it. Thats all.
Too bad it didn't have Fritz Lang directing
Wasn't like one poster made for it? I agree with him that Marvel studios releases mostly garbage but did he think that was a good reason to watch his thing?
Also oversexualizing April Ludgate/Julie Powers.
@@Thorninjag Not sexualizing enough ☺ She's the only reason I will bother to see it. The whole movie should have been focused on her
Francis Ford Coppola: "Marvel is nonsense without a real plot and story"
Also Francis Ford Coppola: *makes a nonsense movie without a real plot or story*
Coppola is the current form of "old man yells at cloud" meme
Coppola: "I'll show them!"
That is called irony.
If so he tried to prove a point and failed.
He doesn’t complain about it not having a real plot or story, he complains about it not being cinema. This is what 99% of internet armchair critics don’t understand. What you think is good film, is that it’s a good story. That has nothing to do with pure cinema, which is what film makers like Coppola, Lucas etc were always more interested in than normal stories.
Funny story: I accidentally walked into the set of this movie here in Atlanta thinking it was a parade or something (I do street photography in the city). Walking down I started snapping photos until finally noticed all the staff and camera equipment. All of a sudden Giancarlo Esposito came to my frame. He looked straight into my lens and I took his picture which I still have on Instagram. I was star struck and also terrified of him. The only reason I watched this movie was to find that scene they filmed on that street.
Avante Garde used as a spice = The Lighthouse, Wizards, Clockwork Orange
Avante Garde used as the whole-ass meal:
The Lighthouse is trash.
@@danielplainview2584bro can only watch films in colour
Clockwork Orange traumatized me, it's a good movie, but wtf.
@@danielplainview2584 Wrong
If Adam Driver can stop time, he could have been a fantastic villian. Manipulating events, people, setting up 'accidents' to eliminate them. All for 'the greater good' of the city. Then you could have had characters trying to work out what is going on, then doing whatever they can to prevent him from succeeding.
It seems literally everyone else has a better idea of what to do with this movie's plot, everyone but Coppola.
@laser__unicorn When you're high off your own farts it's hard to smell the stink-and this man is so deep up his own hole there's brown on his face.
*whispers* _the greater good_
@@laser__unicorn Coppola too busy burning Marvel Blu Rays and DVDs or sum
And when he's about to harm the mayor's daughter...she suddenly moves! She has the same type of power as him!! She then throws down a nearby road roller at him. And then ...wait...
My favorite parts of this film were when the audience busted out laughing when it was obvious those moments were supposed to be Very Serious And Important. * chef's kiss *
"Be with her..."
@@cassandrawilde *guffaws*
Beautiful. Humanity, never change
My take -- Adam Driver is not a good actor, he couldn't pull of the heavy handed script. The film went to Shia and Aubrey, the antagonists, were extraordinarily oversized. I think the film largely passes or fails on how you see their characters, thats not saying I am going rank it highly, but I was entertained by just how much they had fun playing horrible characters.
@@Gee-xb7rthave you seen marriage story? The dude definitely can act
Man, a modern-day fall of Rome sounds like such a good movie, especially if it was shot like Succession. I have no clue how they made it look like a kid was playing with Legos.
It’d be quite boring. Economic strain, ethnic strife from conquered regions, governmental bloat and incompetence, general hedonism and decadence. The fall of Rome was like the fall of Greece’s economy in recent times: incompetence and complacency.
But these characters aren't from the time of the fall of Rome. They're from the Roman Republic becoming the Empire.
@kman9884 Wow sounds like this would be easy to just apply to america, too easy, unfortunately
Imma be real, sounds like a fcking slog to me. Might make for a good game, book, or evn show -- something you can take your time with, that can lay out swathes of worldbuilding within which characters are only a miniscule detail, but its way too much for a movie... even if its 4 hours
@@kman9884that does sound interesting to watch though, maybe at least in a show
It sounds like Coppola crammed in as many metaphors, allegories and messages he could. Only problem is, you can actually have *too* many of them, especially when most of them only make sense to Coppola and the rationale is incredibly tenuous to anyone else. Add in the almost indie/experimental/artsy vibe about it that gets Cannes audiences wet but seldom has general-moviegoer appeal and you can see why even studios that green light the most mind numbing projects were like “nahhh we think we’ll pass”
All he succeeded in doing was proving to everyone's satisfaction that he really, r e a l l y isn't as smart as he thinks he is. Really.
You're giving this movie too much credit:
it's only message is that rich people suck. And that's coming from a rich guy accused of sexually harassing women on set, so, takes one to know one. Am I right?
The movie is basically Coppola trying and failing to satirize what he thinks movies are now.
Have you ever imagined what a Neil Breen movie would look like if he had a budget of 120 million dollars? Now you don't need to imagine anymore.
Man I wished Neil was given a budget this high for a movie 😂
Yes, that is an incredibly apt way of describing this movie. It even has the fucking press conference.
@@vsGoliath96 and the self insert protagonist incoherently lecturing his enemies.
Dude I'd go beyond and say this is a movie Neil Breen would make right after speedrunning through an Ayn Rand book and somehow securing a AAA budget
Imagine all the laptops he could destroy
I looked on imdb. Coppola hasn't directed a financially winning movie since "Bram Stoker's Dracula" in 1992. And if you remember that one, it has a lot of the same visual characteristics as "Megalopolis," in my opinion.
Except the elements, direction, and momentum was handled much better here as well as for Apocalypse Now.
Dracula '92 was the closest to the source material that's ever been put to film. There are a few "artistic" indulgences in it, but the movie is perfectly coherent with logical cause and effect, and clear story progression. Some things are truncated for time constraints, but nothing just happens for no reason.
@@viriathas9910 Also I forgot to mention, Apocalypse Now, it is the master of handling conceptual elements, clear character directions, and progress!!!!
and why is financial success important to find quality here? H
He semi retired 1997. and then he made 3 small independent movies from 2007-2011.
Ford Coppola's Dracula is and was brilliant - except for the love story part (also Keanu Reeves/Winona Ryder's lackluster British accent). This current film seems like a perfect visual feast & mental endurance for respectable/recreational drug use.
This movie feels like a dream. You have 2 main plots, 10 subplots, 30 characters, super powers, different settings and nothing makes sense. There's no conection between many of the characters, the settings or the plots. It isn't a bad movie, it's bad at being a movie.
It feels like the outline for a mid-00s SyFy original miniseries.
@@PedroSantos-um4dn that's one of the best ways of phrasing this I've ever heard: it's not a bad movie, it's bad at being a movie
@@tjenadonn6158Well, the miniseries "The Room" was actually pretty good
It's like a fever dream, but it even fails at that
@@ksh2596 it's just a fever
As an enthusiastic follower of Roman history, the cateline conspiracy is one of the strangest choices to try to adapt. It's a blip the map of the fall of rome. Not only that, he's adapting a 50 year old outdated understanding of the conflict and slaps a happy ending onto it. This is one of the strangest visions of Rome ever made.
After Neil Breens last film was exclusively computer effects, this one incorporating so much practical was refreshing.
Strange that Francis decided to pass it off as his film, but I would totally allow Coppola to pretend my movie was his as well.
Filmento's plot doctoring is always the best part of these vids. He should have a career as the Hollywood movie plot doctor and movie saver.
Reminds me of how we live in a timeline where Shrek and Toy Story are the way they are because the original scripts were basically thrown in the garbage
He already has a book released based on these videos. I am sure some hollywood writer references his book.
I’ve made this analogy before, and I’ll repeat it here because it’s fitting.
In this scenario, Francis Ford Coppola is Andrew Ryan, and Megalopolis is his Rapture. It’s an ambitious idea that ultimately collapsed due to its own ambitions.
I want a Bioshock where francis IS the bad guy
A man chooses, a slave obeys
@@ElGalgoNegro There's a character in Bioshock who resembles his exact type, an artist who thinks his work is better than life itself. That man is Sander Cohen.
Especially since "architect wants to do his own thing over the dead bodies of the people who use his buildings" is the plot of The Fountainhead
It insisted upon itself
Easily the worst movie of 2024. And for a year that had Rebel Moon 2, Joker 2, Madame Web and Borderlands, that's quite an impressive feat.
I don’t this this movie is worse thn your list. Its definitely plotless, boring, messy and pretentious, but at least its not a preachy cheap woke money grabbers, RM2, J2, MW are for no one, but Megalopolis is for Coppola.
I'm da joka baby
HW proving just how creatively bankrupt they are.
You called it. The others are misfires because of many things (mostly bad writing) but this was worst because this is a film maker that knows how to make some of the best movies ever and this just showed he lost the plot. I respect him body of work but this was as bad as his best was good.
the crow lol
You know... I think we can see 2 actually good movie concepts in Megalopolis.
The First one: The story of an eccentric Architect with time stopping abilities who use this power to create unique buildings with a vision nobody else can have and who gets corrupted by his ego, wanting to rebuild the city not to improve the lives of it's habitants anymore but to satisfy his own power trip. Facing a mayor who thinks about the people living in this city but is completely obsolete in comparison of the novelty who brings the architect.
The Second One: The story of a rich family with inner conflicts being so rich and so over the top that they always want to do more and more but end up destroying the city by making it fall on itself (tower of babel style) due to drama between the architect of the family (who happens to have time stopping power) and his cousin. A story of conflict between powerful people where the people living in the city are like ants and the city as a checkboard.
Unfortunately, these two movie concepts don't really mix up in one.
In a nutshell: Grumpy old Francis tries to do sci-fi one day, thinking he'll become the next Kubrick, becomes JJ Abrams instead...
brilliant.
Francis should have stayed in his lane.
Next Tommy Wiseau you mean
@RightWingDestroyer666 Yeah JJ hasn't made anything on this level of so bad it's good
JJ is a decent director
I remember seeing this movie, there were only 3 people there, me, my dad, and some dude. And when it was done my dad said that “he wants the last 2 hours back”
What the fuck is this year 2024 when classic, established directors just went and dunked on their own filmography???
i think it has to do with panic of old age. they cant accept that time has passed and they think they are still in their prime time no matter what
he just wanted to do it for a long time and he did. and probably pissed because no one values his work. pretty simple, i don’t think he even tried to get money on it, why, if you have no investors to return it
exception is George Miller with Furiosa
@@deufvelliinvestor or not it's important that the project you're selling makes you profit because that's money you need to get back for whatever you're doing, contrary to popular belief millionaires are not economically imvincible.
The director feels washed out tho.
@@massgunner4152 sure it’s good to get money back and appreciation. But it’s not critical for ppl like him, he certainly could live his pretty 1% population millionaire life, for ppl who have money - the release of the project like this itself is more valuable thn just a money. You can see that in the scale of the idea, if he wanted money - he could just make the movie investors wanted like Joker 2 did. The movie is shit but Hoakin and phillips got their 20mil, this wasn’t about the art, it was about money and arrogance. This - was about art. And it looks like art, this type of art no one wanted, no one cares which is gathering dust somewhere in the museum. Pretentious sculpture of the fallen Rome of Coppola itself.
The poetry of a Marvel movie being an exemple of much better movie than a Coppola's movie.
No
No
Marvel is great if you are 5-15 years old. It’s for children.
No marvel movie will never be anywhere apocalypse now
Well, not lately...
Filmento calling Edge of Tomorrow by "Live Die Repeat" is such an obscure throwback, nice
No it’s not it was marketed as Edge of Tomorrow: Live Die Repeat
The biggest problem was that he couldn't just choose one setting, all of the film's marketing involved a futuristic version of rome but then when you watch the movie, it's modern New York and then 50's New York and then Rome 2077. Any one of these settings could have made a decent backdrop on its own but he couldn't pick just one.
Rome 2077 would've rocked
Just a decent flow through might have saved it.
You cook things up. And the real problem of this film is its total clunkiness near the end.
Some movies have (sort of) gotten away with that. I forget which, but I have vague recollections of other movies using a mix of time periods (like a neighborhood and clothing that look like the 1950s, but then it also has a mix of more modern tech and cars.)
Some feel it helps the “suspension of disbelief” to try to make the movie time period more ambiguous and “timeless.” But agree in Megaopolis it went from “timeless” to “just confusing.”
Coppola criticising Marvel movies while writing a story about a super human character destroying new york.
He is a fine director with amazing movies, but I guess age did got to him.
He cleared this up: Marvel has created nothing new. And so he put his willpower in the right place and developed a style. And this blessing of a movie is inspiring.
And Coppola directed the 1992 Dracula movie, which was definitely a gaudy “popcorn” adventure movie.
Any time a movie makes you ask "ok, but _WHY_ are they doing all this?" and you can't find an answer is the moment the movie loses the audience.
all science fiction dystopia falls apart under examination and so does the real world along with the actual social order that you live within right now. Being able to figure out "something doesn't make sense" about the society in a dystopian fiction doesn't mean you busted a plot hole. It means you were paying attention. Cyberpunk as all about how things don't work as advertised. Please grow up into an adult.
@dreaziemobbins your mind is broken yet you can jabber a lot of words, strange
@@Ramonatho not as strange as your mom's face
Megalopolis truly feels like it was made for exactly one person, and that is Coppola. All this literally only makes sense to him
Me: Mom, can we get A Clockwork Orange?
Mom: We have A Clockwork Orange at home.
A Clockwork Orange at home:
Francis Ford Coppola was so far up his own ass that he essentially made his own epic when no one else wanted to make it for him. It turned out too be a HUGE clusterfuck.
Don't worry folks, the director will release his 10+ hours version that corrects all the mistakes and proves this is actually a masterpiece and you were all wrong, and you'll be all humiliated and punished for doubting the grandiosity of this director. (Just like Justice League and Ridley Scott's Napoleon)
Ah, the infamous cut of the Justice League movie, hours of my life i will never get back, mediocre movie was still mediocre.
i watched zack synder's justice league and my only takeway is was a slightly less worse version
"Someone froze our accounts" has the same energy as when a movie randomly has a character develop cancer.
But it was ok in breaking bad. Walter White got cancer out of nowhere
@@romkobomko3200 Tell me you haven't watched Breaking Bad without telling me you haven't watched Breaking Bad
The series starts out as Walt being diagnosed with cancer.
@@RipRLeeErmey But there was no foreshadowing in first episode about him being likely person to be diagnosed with cancer. He just starts coughing and faints on job. And then diagnosis. There was no implication that car wash causes cancer.
It's not random, it's the whole premise of the show
The room
Guys, I saw this in theater with three of my buddies, and it was probably the most enjoyable movie experience I’ve ever had. Please go get a little bit drunk and watch this movie with as many people who are funny as possible because this movie is out of this fucking world, and I love it so much.
Imagine having the power to stop time and not even using it to preventing yourself from getting shot in the head.
*Jonah Jameson iconic laugh*
Well done for trying to make sense out of Megaflopolis.
If Coppola said that if he had written the script when he was 14, I'd totally believe it. This movie was funny in the beginning, due to all the weird acting (Emersonian mind), but it does overstays its welcome - a group of pompous theater kids from some small city could've make this movie for a thousand dollars and it'd be the same. Also I think that the time stopping abilities are more metaphorical, in some weird ode to art that is much, much more awkward than uplifiting as Coppola imagined to be. Also I wish the baby flew in the carpet like Aladdin in the end
When Coppola was a kid?? 😂 Wouldn't that be a black and white movie made on 16mm silent film? Staring Charlie Chaplin.
I agree on the baby flying on the carpet lmaao
The demonstration with TikTok Shrek unironically sent me to the floor in laughter, Filip Mentos has done it again
It all makes sense now why Francis hated superhero movies.
This is how he saw them, just people with super natural abilities.
And this movie was his spite attempt at proving a point that he could easily make one.
Case and point: him willing to put up his own money to make it even when every studio shot him down.
He was trying to prove a point.
Except only the other point was further proven, he never understood why people liked superhero movies.
Yeah man this movie he has been trying to make since the 90s was made to spite evengers endgame.
0:16 hey mark!
Oh hi doggy
😂
47 years of development for the $120 mln.-version of The Room)
Peak dialogue
"Ladies and gentlemen..... welcome to the Megalopolis"
"Who am I? Im the megalopolis"
"Who the fuck does this guy think he is some kinda megalopolis?"
🔥🔥🔥📝
"What are we, some kind of Megalopolis?"
@@DeadKraken ''hold up, say that again?''
I watched this movie and it was hysterically incompetent; truly one of the dumbest things ever - but when your movie also includes Adam Driver acting like a hyped up reddit mod, Shia Labouf's pubes as he's seduced by his aunt, and Jon Voight shooting someone with a tiny bow, I also think its the most unintentionally funny movies of all time.
I laughed so much at this movie I'm genuinely glad I saw it
fucking jumpscare in nnn is diabolical work
What is the name of the song?
@@affenimperator9155navras from matrix revolutions I think
Was about to risk it all for Aubrey Plaza, yet again.
Filmento's transitions into the sponsorship plugs should win an Academy Award.
its like a trend where directors who once made something great in their prime finally get full creative control to make a life long passion project but by that point they're too old and completely out of touch and cant tell that what they are making is an absolute convoluted pile of nonsense.
This movie is literally on screen dementia coated in a early 2000's music video
filmento is the one channel where i dont mind the sponsorship plugs because i just keep being amazed at how he transitions into them
Making necessity into an art!
Yeah I felt like the movie started making sense, but then noticed the card said Adam Driver and not his characters name.
The Randian premise is so absurd, especially for someone in the film industry, where collaboration is required. The fantasy of 1 Man & 1 Invention is so childlike its embarrassing he even thought of it.
Rand is not anti-collaboration though. If anything, someone making that logical leap misunderstands Rand.
It would've worked if his Randian premise was shown to backfire in the end.
It's realistic if you make it realistic. It's not like there aren't historical examples.
@@RillianGrant There are but they always backfire in the end.
@@gimmeyourrights8292 American founding fathers were pretty successful
"True is stranger than fiction because fiction needs to make sense." I don't know who said that but it makes sense. Film makers tell stories that need to make sense to the audience because the audience is expecting a satisfying conclusion and an understandable journey from beginning to end.
Honestly the avengers still feels like a five year old playing with every toy they have at the same time, so basically Coppola remade avengers.
The 20 minute sequence in the coliseum was the only time in history I've ever had to leave the theater from laughing so hard.
Filmento here is going to take us to the CLUUUUB!!!!!
Up in da club!
Yeees
I thought the satellite crashed on it 🤔
Who the fuck starts a video like that? I just sat down
iykyk lmao
Ay Peetah
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What's that?
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Bruh, he removed it.
Coppola wanted to make a film with no studio/corporate oversight on his creative vision. He spent 130 million of his own money to do it. Whatever else happens. Respect sir.
they say Limitations foster creativity, in this instance I’d say it might be the case.
He could have used his own money to make a normal gangster movie and probably would have made a couple hundred million profit for himself. But instead he bet his own money on an incredibly risky bizzare avant garde project and took a 100M+ loss
Man, at this point having Adam Driver in your movie is a recipe for failure. Dude's anti-box office draw, he's a box office repellent. Dude might be a good actor, but out of his last 12 movies only like 4 made profit or broke even, the rest were massive box office failures. Dude has that lancer luck.
I think they should just not have him on advertising at all. Just let him show up out of nowhere
It's like how Terry Gilliam's movies always run into production issues (culminating in Heath Ledger freakin' *dying* in the middle of filming Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus)
The Onion joked that he can't even plan an outdoor barbecue without something going wrong
"The man is cursed." - TvTropes
Which is a pity because heàs a good actor.
Same with Matt Smith. It's like every big movie he touches (Morbius, Terminator, Soho, etc.) is bound to bomb. His TV career is fine though
I think he has more chance in a indie and small scale movie. He doesn't have enough charisma for a big budget movie.
What the hell was that beginning
I know right, I've seen corn with more subtlety
Hey don’t knock corn like that. At least corn you can eat It’s usually pretty good. This movie is just terrible. You think the director is different person compared to Apocalypse Now.
I think this movie was just an attempt at making something like the film Caligula in a modern context, but the main creative behind it didn't understand just how unsurprising Caligula's content would be in this day and age.
You should seriously consider create a new category to define mid or just decent movies, not everything is perfect or a complete failure there are many movies and shows in between both extremes! and I'm not talking about "Megaflopolis" which is a disaster for sure, I'm referring to "Alien: Romulus" which is far from perfection despite your review but it's also not a total disaster.
With the amount of content today you need to be better than 99% of stuff to be even considered watchable.
oh that video annoyed you didn’t it? I can understand, I actually liked Romulus despite its issues
Every ad I saw for this movie was just “Megalopolis. Watch it!” like the fact that a flashy 5 second visual and a command was more than enough reasoning to watch it
Thanks for that opening, definitely didn't scare my old father. But seriously what the hell dude
Lol calm down
Eh, ngl I could do without the screechy intro's too
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My cat didn't like it either 🐱
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@ct6502-c7w 😂😂😂😂😂
The only thing I'd like to add is that confusing your audience can actually work if you manage to make it fun and intriguing. I remember seeing the start of Lucky Number Slevin on TV almost as background noise, I had absolutely no interest, but it got so confusing so quickly and in such an expected way that it made me want to keep watching just to figure out what was happening.
I think one of the key elements of achieving this is that it has to feel like it's intentionally confusing and that it's only because you're missing something that will get revealed later. It's like a murder mystery: the audience isn't thinking about how the circumstances of the crime makes no sense, they are thinking "How can I make sense of it? What am I missing?".
Some guy say "is all ADs of fragances at once" and he didnt lie because in the same video you have equally the same scenes 😂😂
Like Invictous and the gladiators lmao
The audience: studios needs to stop interfering so much in the making of movies, let artists make their movies!
The movie when artists are given free control:
It’s insane how clean filmento’s work is, introducing viewpoints that can only come from years of dedication to studying film, yet he also throws in memes and references that are actually funny and creative (like the shrek tiktok)
Only someone like Aubrey Plaza can do her best when she's given a character with a name as ridiculous as "Wow Platinum". And as someone who comes up with some wild character names in my screenplays, that's saying something!
She is severely underrated. I don't think I've ever seen her phone in a performance, even when she knows the film / series sucks.
@@ptonpc She genuinely looks like she has fun no matter what. Even if it's low energy sarcasm you can see the wry smirk underneath it which makes her so compelling to watch. She's a naughty girl with tonnes of flirt and knows how to read the room
Wow Platinum is Hunger Games levels of weird name
"Aubrey Plaza" and "Adam Driver" sound like they could have just been the characters' names
@@darthbiz2095That or like _Death Stranding_ character name. Oh gods. _Megalopolis_ better not have given Mr. Kojima any ideas.
Movie description feels like a huge stack of "high concept buzz-words". It feels like somebody was trying to squeeze "Foundation" or "Martian chronicles" into a single movie. You can assume there where some epic story lines - but everything is at 16x speed.
Yeah, everything I've heard about the film makes it sound very Ayn Rand, with direct references to The Fountainhead.
>Criticizes Marvel
>Makes a movie worse than Marvel
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Old man yelled at cloud and found out
I don't know, I haven't been to watch a single Marvel movie this decade, but I went out of my way to watch this.
@@MinorityRespecter88my condolences
@@MinorityRespecter88my condolences 😢 😞💐
@@MinorityRespecter88 Norm's is fine dining when all you're surrounded by is Taco Bell.
But....just because you stop time you can't fall of a building? Isn't that stopping gravity?
So your main point is that the movie flopped because of audience's 3 second attention span?
This is probably correct. Which means that its actual audience without brain rot will find it eventually, and it will become a classic.
One of the points but not the only point. The movie is simply not that good, even if you forced everyone to watch it and pay attention, it wouldn’t get much better reception
One of the problems from a marketing stand point was that nobody knew what was the movie about. How do you expect them to see it.
When I watched this (on a pirating site not in a theater) with some of my friends, none of us could comprehend what was going on, but we did all burst out laughing plenty of times throughout the runtime. It wasn't a good movie by any means other than cool visuals, IMO, but it WAS very very very entertaining. Not even half way through the movie I INSISTED to my friends that this movie is gonna be viewed as a misunderstood cult classic at some point. I don't have any idea how, but I guarantee it will eventually.
It will become a cult classic but not because its misunderstood or something. It will be a cult classic the same way Tommy Wiseaus "The Room" or Ed Wood's "Plan 9 from Outer Space" are cult classics - just because they are so ridiciculously bad that they are involuntary funny.
I feel bad for Coppola.
In spite of his hypocrisy for pulling a Scorcese with his opinion on recent blockbuster films like the MCU films, he invested tons of money for a horrible film even worse than the films he had disdain at.
Shame considering his films like The Godfather, The Godfather Part II, and Apocalypse Now are some of the greatest films ever.
Don't feel too bad for him though. He bullied and threatened the victim of his pe-do protégé.
Cases like this remind us that sometimes studio interference is not a bad thing. Or that at least a few people willing to say no to things are needed.
@@MelissaBlue, this needs lots of meetings and discussions. Too much studio interference and too much creative control are can be good or bad.
It's been sitting idle for 40 years, and they all went indecisive with the whole thing when the cameras are rolling.
Scorsese was actually very right and is a much much better director tho. Like, you can't compare the 2, Coppola's comments were just empty insults to mainstream blockbuster slop, while Scorsese's was an intelligent criticism of movie producers and the whole movie industry itself, that is currently been proven true. Plus Coppola made literally something like...3 good movies in his entire career lmao
@@DeadKraken, Scorsese might be right but he isn't as profitable as Spielberg.
New York, New York lost to Rocky in the 70's. Hugo and Silence were huge flops in the 2010s. Heck, the ones he made for Netflix and Apple+ like The Irishman and Killers of the Flower Moon never made money back. Profit-wise, Scorsese and Coppola are not the types of people who will bring seats to the nearby cinema.
What saved Scorsese is his reputation, while Coppola is a big mess even back in the day. Goodfellas, The Departed, and The Wolf of Wall Street are great to this day, while Megalopolis will be remembered by its behind-the-scenes chaos.
"with 100 flavors of ice cream, you grow tired of ice cream"
Do you though? I dunno if the analogy works for ice cream;
I mean, this is ICE CREAM we're talking about
I see a lot of people say it looks like a perfume commercial glad im not the only one
I'd argue that everything you've mentioned here *was* essential for movies even back in the 70's, even for stories as far back as antiquity: they're not some new writing concepts that only become relevant to the "modern" audience, they're timeless writing elements that every successful story must have. Even the 70's films you claim could coast off pretty imagery still had the sense that those images were being used to convey a point necessary to the story, and that the films that only relied on said imagery did in fact fall off and die, in the same way they would now. Even something like James Cameron's Avatar, which is held up as the very definition of a movie made to sell pretty images still had a very simple and understandable story that was easy to follow and get invested in.
This movie is the _bad_ kind of self-indulgence.
Yikes. Just goes to show that the line between someone writing terrible sonic fanfiction, and a best selling author, isn't as far as we might think...
Avengers not only works because of the elements but because of how they rationalize them and because of the actors
Example: Hulk in the MCU is not presented as "Bruce Banner was in a nuclear test" but as "Super soldier experiment but with Gamma radiation" meaning you get a connection with Cap America
And second the actors such as Nick Fury, Black Widow and Coulson are introduce in Iron Man 2, Coulson even Hawkeye are also in Thor 1, you get barely a connection of characters into the big movie so you also get the connection of the big characters like Hulk or Thor
If you wanted to compare a movie with another movie choose any one of Scorcese lmao you got Romans (italians), bunch of characters like 10 or more and a crazy plot
Casino, Goodfellas a lot of shit happens and you understand all, in fact, you even remember the secondary actors because of the good scenes
You know my mom thought I was lying that the movies were connected and we got into an argument over it. Guess what?
Using the MCU as an example of good film making against this mess of a movie... Please accept my like.
I mean…the formula exists for a reason. It’s just not often well executed anymore, which is why people have been throwing shade at it lately.
Wow; 837,000 subs!? Congrats! Been a while since I’ve seen the channel but my has it been growing!
I might be in the minority, but I loved it. "Megalopolis" feels like a modern-day Shakespearean drama. As a book lover, I appreciate how literature uses words to paint conceptual ideas, while movies are typically action-driven.
"Megalopolis" is such a drama where the concept of the city symbolizes hope for humanity. The character akin to Gus Fring represents conservative thinking, contrasted by Caesar, who embodies youthful, innovative rebellion, his prowess underlined by a Nobel Prize. The narrative unfolds in scenes that feel like acts, illustrating the characters' journey towards their goals, reminiscent of Joseph Campbell's theories.
The protagonist's wife is central to his existence and knowledge, mirroring real-life scenarios where personal pursuits sometimes eclipse family life. The notion of time stopping in the film suggests the character's ability to find peace in the present, a meditative trance rather than reality. His second love interest shares his vision and can exist normally within this temporal halt.
Spoiler Alert: Towards the end, he loses this power, symbolizing how his pursuits led to the loss of his peace. His new love interest helps him recognize the value of what he left behind. The idea for Megalopolis came to him during his wife's drowning, marking a profound character arc of sacrifice.
The film uses various characters like uncles or exes to explore different concepts, akin to bubble-world stories that add layers of realism or glamour. This approach is similar to how "Avatar" used an alien setting to discuss colonialism.
The city draws heavily from Roman references, with Caesar as the protagonist, echoing historical figures but not retelling their stories. The mayor's plan, centered around casinos, represents a "sin business," while the architect's vision is to create Megalopolis. This contrast is like two sides of a book's page, both seeking growth but in diametrically opposed ways.
An ego and social warfare of two approaches of growth of humanity, in exploration of sheer human love for beauty. The question of artistic or expressional, "elegant restraint" or "raw simplicity." So, which side To be or not to be IS the question.
Reflecting on today, we see a shift from the architectural marvels of old -- Europe's forts, churches, India's temples -- to modern glass structures. Yet, the raw beauty of hand-crafted monuments like Akshardham or Trinity College Dublin captivates us, representing humanity's assets through "elegant restraint" or "refined simplicity."
To describe "Megalopolis" in an analogy, imagine a story as a line on an xy plane, with each character as a point moving through various experiences. This film, however, presents scenes like beads, leaving it to us to thread them together with our imagination.
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