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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.
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?
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
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
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
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.
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
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.”
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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 *
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.
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...
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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
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)
This right here is why I watch Filmento over literally any other movie review channel. I agree with basically every point made in this video. Honestly, if Megalopolis had any of the quick fixes you came up with as actual plot points, it would have been so much better.
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.
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
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
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?" 🔥🔥🔥📝
"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.
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.
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.
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
I am unsarcastically tickled that after decades bemoaning George Lucas's career was "derailed" by Star Wars, Francis Ford Coppola spent $120 million making his own Star Wars prequel with Megalopolis 😂
This movie was a RIOT! Terrible film, but about halfway through the audience started to "get" what kind of movie it is and the theatrical experience was a blast
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.
Back in Cinema Aurora, when Hollywood wasnt even a thing and films were starting, directors were insane. One of these minds was the brilliant (and controversial because DUH) D. W. Griffith. He was both a legend and insane Legend because he created some of the most used shots and techiniques used today. Insane because pretty much all his movies were financial disasters, to the point of himself spending mostly of his cash on doing it and literally creating cities and scenarios from the ground up... Just to burn it down, drown it and explode it, even having ACTUAL casualties Copolla is really trying to bring old movies feelings
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”
I don't care what anyone says, this is one of my favourite movies of the year. I saw this opening day and I was laughing my ass off throughout the whole thing in an almost empty cinema.
@josefkun7466 I think he absolutely did, he was kinda pretentious enough to think that he could have all of these high concept elements about a glorified property dispute, and how the bulk of the movie is about 1 man's vision needing to be realized if people just got out of the way.
The most you can say about this film is that Coppola did this as a passion project with no help from the studio so even if its a flop, he got to make a movie he always wanted to do.
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
I will translate this movie for you: 1. Time stop powers - its a Coppola trying to make movie for a long time, so he “stops the time” to have all the time in the world to make it 2. Big bad Major do not allow you to build the city like you want - no big investors gives you money for Megalopolis. 3. Meteors destroyed the New York anyway - Coppola pulled this movie anyway despite everything because the destruction of the society inevitable anyway with or without the movie. The Fate of the society in the hands of god, not the people. 4. Outcast actors - cheaper production and rebel motives against “marvel hollywood”. 5. He built the city in the end most anticlimactic way possible - its a Coppola actually tired of this idea and want just to finish it to close the gestalt 6. Acid mess in the movie - some actors see the movie production as a funny expensive trips to chill with a famous ppl and they don’t actually care about the idea itself, the director cares, and probably Coppola offended how many actors and stuff leaves him because of some production hell and do not want to finish the project, the idea, abandons it on a half way. What he by himself does not understand and takes it personally because it’s his personal money and idea. 7. Several settings in the movie - look in p.1 and because of the production hell, it’s a message of the timeless circled decadence of the society which is same for 1950, 2024, 2077 or 300 AD. 8. No plot - Coppola do not want you to enjoy the movie as ppl enjoy Marvel movies. He wants you to understand his vision or go fck yourself. As same as Lynch doing that. I am not saying this movie is good. I am saying everything in it has a very good reason behind, it’s not just a randomly bad movie. It’s a message “I can do that because I am closer to God than you. Empire will fall because I told you so, but you didn’t listen”.
"6. Acid mess in the movie - some actors see the movie production as a funny expensive trips to chill with a famous ppl and they don’t actually care about the idea itself, the director cares, and probably Coppola offended how many actors and stuff leaves him because of some production hell and do not want to finish the project, the idea, abandons it on a half way. What he by himself does not understand and takes it personally because it’s his personal money and idea." So you're claiming that Coppola just randomly added an overly long acid tripping scene to his grand "planning this for years and paid for it myself" movie out of petty spite for the actors and staff? That just tells me how little he card about the integrity of his own film making!
@@johnnywakeup5515 i think it comes out naturally during the process of creation, not intended at the beginning, maybe it just started as a typical decadent grotesque, it’s not just spite, it’s an actual caricature of the real hollywood - meaningless parties on the bones. They have nothing more to do
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”
@@docsamson198 to be fair, it would be much worse if he would making Godfather movie every year, right? You can’t create something new without trying something new. I guess this project could be much better in different circumstances, like no production hell and proper investments would allow him to be more chill on this stuff.
@@deufvelli Agreed. If he kept making Godfather movies, they would be nothing more than cash grabs. This might also be a case where the backstory of this flop might be more interesting than the movie itself. Like The Devil’s Candy was for DePalma’s The Bonfire of the Vanities.
the godfather and megalopolis have completely different intentions and ambitions through tone and style I think megalopolis is directed well but a sloppy script, sometimes too vague. the godfather is based on a book and coppola wasnt the only writer. very different scenarios
At a time when so many people are straggling to even have a roof over their heads, making a film about a privileged man wanting to demolish the houses of the poor just for his narcissistic desires is incredibly out of touch and ignorant of Coppola.
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)
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...
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.
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.
The general public’s instant hostility to this film and as nauseam repetition of things they read in articles about the film shows a) the effectiveness of propaganda and b) how simpleminded everyone has become when it comes to film.
putting Adam Driver as his main character was one of the biggest mistakes. No one goes to see movies because of him even he seems like a pretty down to earth guy.
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:
This could have been a really clever message about the struggles of being an artist, mirroring Coppola's own struggle with getting Megalopolis off the ground but he does nothing creative with it. This whole movie comes from the idea of someone who was smoking pot and throwing out all these ideas and was too up his own ass. 70's Coppola would never let this happen.
He had a dream, went with it and it failed. Thats still far more respectable than 90% of the sequel and "remastered" slop coming out of hollywood lately.
Yes, the movie may be terrible, but I can say with confidence that I have never seen a film like Megalopolis. Whether that's a good thing or not is up for debate but it's certainly something new, at least.
Nope. Francis Ford Floppala deserves the failure because HE REFUSES TO PUSH CINEMA FORWARD. There's a reason his movies have negative reviews since The Godfather Part 3 and it's because he's stuck in the past. People forget how big the leap in filmmaking was from the 70s to 90s. An even bigger leap from the 90s to the 2000s. And there's still progress even in the 2010s and 2020s despite what Floppala claims. There's a reason George Lucas' movies age much better than the guy behind The Godfather... Part 3.
It's just a shame, because it might of been a good movie if he had just someone in his friend circle capable of saying no to him. This film was crying out for someone in the room saying "That... doesn't really make any sense, its not high concept, it's just dumb dressed pretentiously. Change it." And force him to fix it.
This movie kinda reminds me of the Zack Synder movie Sucker Punch. It has a whole bunch of big ideas thrown together in a way that doesn't make sense, and ultimately just comes across as a wild, incoherent mess.
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?".
> Complains about Coppola calling Marvel movies irredeemable garbage. >Spends 20 minutes explaining exactly how Marvel movies are irredeemable garbage. Okay.
If you want an actually good version of Megalopolis’ attempted storyline, watch Motherless Brooklyn. Lots of similar themes, and it takes place in NYC as well.
I don't think I knew what was going on in this movie for more then 20 or 30 minutes total. I still enjoyed the visuals and was happy to see it on a huge IMAX screen. I remember reading somewhere that he didn't care if nobody saw this movie because he made the movie exactly as he wanted to. I can appreciate that he finished his passion project the way he wanted to at the very least.
5:09, To further that point, many of these concepts and fictional elements in these other films are explicitly interconnected in some way. Edge Of Tomorrow's time travel elements come from the aliens, who use it as means to further their invasion plot when faced with an obstacle, allowing them to arm themselves with memories of the future they experienced to adapt (which also gives these aliens specificity). The Avengers not only introduced and combined various concepts and fictional elements together, but also made some of them relate to each other (such as Thor being more of a supernaturally powered alien than a god or the same kind of mutagenic formula responsible for Captain America also creating the Hulk), which while still creating different fictional systems, ensures that they don't feel too random, that there are still limitations to this fictional universe (a rule that gets bent in further installments as their plethora of narratives and characters become gradually more disconnected). 12:26, The other saving grace of these movies is their casts and how each character bounces off each other (another aspect that begins to get lost in the Avengers' case as more comedic elements and sarcasm was crammed into each character.
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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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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 :/
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 ...
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
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.
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
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
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
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.
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!
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
The poetry of a Marvel movie being an exemple of much better movie than a Coppola's movie.
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*
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
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...
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.
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 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.
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
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.
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.
“This shit sucked Megacockolis”
I'm stealing this
Did Moistcririkal say this?
@@AlkalineandAcid nah this was the top review in Letterboxd
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
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.
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.
Well done for trying to make sense out of Megaflopolis.
0:28 And just like that, I’m no longer interested in this movie. There is literally no reason for ANY of that
Yea wtf
It's actually IN the movie? 😱😣
Good riddance
What are you talking about, it’s the best part of this sorry film!
You didn't even watched the goddamn movie to know that lol
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.
"Its Megalopolis time." - Francis Ford Coppola, defender of pedarests, film genius
Adam Driver Was Morbius!
I take my hat off to you for watching this and Tenant with enough of a critical eye to make these when i found them so unbelievably hard to focus on
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
This right here is why I watch Filmento over literally any other movie review channel. I agree with basically every point made in this video. Honestly, if Megalopolis had any of the quick fixes you came up with as actual plot points, it would have been so much better.
>Criticizes Marvel
>Makes a movie worse than Marvel
🤔
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
😂😂😂😂😂😂
My cat didn't like it either 🐱
😂
@ct6502-c7w 😂😂😂😂😂
Who the fuck starts a video like that? I just sat down
iykyk lmao
Ay Peetah
😂😂
What's that?
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
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.
Filmento here is going to take us to the CLUUUUB!!!!!
Up in da club!
Yeees
I thought the satellite crashed on it 🤔
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
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?"
🔥🔥🔥📝
"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.
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.
The demonstration with TikTok Shrek unironically sent me to the floor in laughter, Filip Mentos has done it again
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.
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.
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.
This film might well have never even come out. It hasn't been in any cinemas, no adverts, no trailers - nothing.
I am unsarcastically tickled that after decades bemoaning George Lucas's career was "derailed" by Star Wars, Francis Ford Coppola spent $120 million making his own Star Wars prequel with Megalopolis 😂
This movie was a RIOT! Terrible film, but about halfway through the audience started to "get" what kind of movie it is and the theatrical experience was a blast
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
Back in Cinema Aurora, when Hollywood wasnt even a thing and films were starting, directors were insane. One of these minds was the brilliant (and controversial because DUH) D. W. Griffith. He was both a legend and insane
Legend because he created some of the most used shots and techiniques used today. Insane because pretty much all his movies were financial disasters, to the point of himself spending mostly of his cash on doing it and literally creating cities and scenarios from the ground up... Just to burn it down, drown it and explode it, even having ACTUAL casualties
Copolla is really trying to bring old movies feelings
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”
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.
I don't care what anyone says, this is one of my favourite movies of the year. I saw this opening day and I was laughing my ass off throughout the whole thing in an almost empty cinema.
The thought of seeing someone laughing like mad in an empty theater is strangely unsettling.
It's a great comedy in the same way in Rebel Moon is, but of course that's not either director intended.
@@gimmeyourrights8292I think Coppola didnt intend to make a full serious movie the absurdity and comedy in Megalopolis is working as intended
@josefkun7466 I think he absolutely did, he was kinda pretentious enough to think that he could have all of these high concept elements about a glorified property dispute, and how the bulk of the movie is about 1 man's vision needing to be realized if people just got out of the way.
The most you can say about this film is that Coppola did this as a passion project with no help from the studio so even if its a flop, he got to make a movie he always wanted to do.
"Ask me what it means! Ask me what it means!!"
A new wannabe blockbuster. Emphasizes the "wannabe".
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
I will translate this movie for you:
1. Time stop powers - its a Coppola trying to make movie for a long time, so he “stops the time” to have all the time in the world to make it
2. Big bad Major do not allow you to build the city like you want - no big investors gives you money for Megalopolis.
3. Meteors destroyed the New York anyway - Coppola pulled this movie anyway despite everything because the destruction of the society inevitable anyway with or without the movie. The Fate of the society in the hands of god, not the people.
4. Outcast actors - cheaper production and rebel motives against “marvel hollywood”.
5. He built the city in the end most anticlimactic way possible - its a Coppola actually tired of this idea and want just to finish it to close the gestalt
6. Acid mess in the movie - some actors see the movie production as a funny expensive trips to chill with a famous ppl and they don’t actually care about the idea itself, the director cares, and probably Coppola offended how many actors and stuff leaves him because of some production hell and do not want to finish the project, the idea, abandons it on a half way. What he by himself does not understand and takes it personally because it’s his personal money and idea.
7. Several settings in the movie - look in p.1 and because of the production hell, it’s a message of the timeless circled decadence of the society which is same for 1950, 2024, 2077 or 300 AD.
8. No plot - Coppola do not want you to enjoy the movie as ppl enjoy Marvel movies. He wants you to understand his vision or go fck yourself. As same as Lynch doing that.
I am not saying this movie is good. I am saying everything in it has a very good reason behind, it’s not just a randomly bad movie.
It’s a message “I can do that because I am closer to God than you. Empire will fall because I told you so, but you didn’t listen”.
If this is real, this did not do the movie any favors for me. I even hate it more now
"6. Acid mess in the movie - some actors see the movie production as a funny expensive trips to chill with a famous ppl and they don’t actually care about the idea itself, the director cares, and probably Coppola offended how many actors and stuff leaves him because of some production hell and do not want to finish the project, the idea, abandons it on a half way. What he by himself does not understand and takes it personally because it’s his personal money and idea."
So you're claiming that Coppola just randomly added an overly long acid tripping scene to his grand "planning this for years and paid for it myself" movie out of petty spite for the actors and staff? That just tells me how little he card about the integrity of his own film making!
@@johnnywakeup5515 i think it comes out naturally during the process of creation, not intended at the beginning, maybe it just started as a typical decadent grotesque, it’s not just spite, it’s an actual caricature of the real hollywood - meaningless parties on the bones. They have nothing more to do
Thank you-the movie, whether you like it or not, is not particularly difficult to understand.
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”
Filmento calling Edge of Tomorrow by "Live Die Repeat" is such an obscure throwback, nice
Petition for Filmento to cover Transformers One (2024)
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Are we sure the same man directed The Godfather?
Is not the first flop of Coppola
@@docsamson198 to be fair, it would be much worse if he would making Godfather movie every year, right? You can’t create something new without trying something new. I guess this project could be much better in different circumstances, like no production hell and proper investments would allow him to be more chill on this stuff.
@@Morfe02 Yes, he’s made other flops. But none of them have been so savagely attacked like this one.
@@deufvelli Agreed. If he kept making Godfather movies, they would be nothing more than cash grabs. This might also be a case where the backstory of this flop might be more interesting than the movie itself. Like The Devil’s Candy was for DePalma’s The Bonfire of the Vanities.
the godfather and megalopolis have completely different intentions and ambitions through tone and style
I think megalopolis is directed well but a sloppy script, sometimes too vague.
the godfather is based on a book and coppola wasnt the only writer.
very different scenarios
I feel like every movie should be required to have its script reviewed by Filmento before it can be greenlit👍
10:23
The clip of finnish dub Bob the builder was quite suprise to see I must say
And very well fitted. ”It’s as easy as building a f*cking Kinder egg” -Francis Ford Coppola about making a blockbuster, probably.
That's the cinema I grew up on🇫🇮
At a time when so many people are straggling to even have a roof over their heads, making a film about a privileged man wanting to demolish the houses of the poor just for his narcissistic desires is incredibly out of touch and ignorant of Coppola.
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)
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...
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.
So true. It's like... How can the audience be surprised, when anything is possible.
Would love to see Filmento cover some David Lynch movies. Lynch has finnish ancestry, so it would be fitting, lol
I think Inland Empire would break people's brains. a true head scratcher, in every way
"Someone froze our accounts" has the same energy as when a movie randomly has a character develop cancer.
" modern audiences demand stories make sense."
Not the highest bar to clear
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.
The general public’s instant hostility to this film and as nauseam repetition of things they read in articles about the film shows a) the effectiveness of propaganda and b) how simpleminded everyone has become when it comes to film.
putting Adam Driver as his main character was one of the biggest mistakes.
No one goes to see movies because of him even he seems like a pretty down to earth guy.
This is what The room/any Tommy Wiseau movie would be if he actioly had a multimillion budget.
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:
Liked at 3:30❤
Yep!
Same
This could have been a really clever message about the struggles of being an artist, mirroring Coppola's own struggle with getting Megalopolis off the ground but he does nothing creative with it. This whole movie comes from the idea of someone who was smoking pot and throwing out all these ideas and was too up his own ass. 70's Coppola would never let this happen.
He had a dream, went with it and it failed. Thats still far more respectable than 90% of the sequel and "remastered" slop coming out of hollywood lately.
Word
Yes, the movie may be terrible, but I can say with confidence that I have never seen a film like Megalopolis. Whether that's a good thing or not is up for debate but it's certainly something new, at least.
Nope. Francis Ford Floppala deserves the failure because HE REFUSES TO PUSH CINEMA FORWARD. There's a reason his movies have negative reviews since The Godfather Part 3 and it's because he's stuck in the past. People forget how big the leap in filmmaking was from the 70s to 90s. An even bigger leap from the 90s to the 2000s. And there's still progress even in the 2010s and 2020s despite what Floppala claims.
There's a reason George Lucas' movies age much better than the guy behind The Godfather... Part 3.
It's just a shame, because it might of been a good movie if he had just someone in his friend circle capable of saying no to him. This film was crying out for someone in the room saying "That... doesn't really make any sense, its not high concept, it's just dumb dressed pretentiously. Change it." And force him to fix it.
I agree, but not in full because the bar is extremely low nowadays
This movie kinda reminds me of the Zack Synder movie Sucker Punch. It has a whole bunch of big ideas thrown together in a way that doesn't make sense, and ultimately just comes across as a wild, incoherent mess.
Always thumb up for BFG division
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?".
> Complains about Coppola calling Marvel movies irredeemable garbage.
>Spends 20 minutes explaining exactly how Marvel movies are irredeemable garbage.
Okay.
filmento is the one channel where i dont mind the sponsorship plugs because i just keep being amazed at how he transitions into them
If you want an actually good version of Megalopolis’ attempted storyline, watch Motherless Brooklyn. Lots of similar themes, and it takes place in NYC as well.
very surprised to see that movie mentioned. feels it has been forgotten since 2019
I don't think I knew what was going on in this movie for more then 20 or 30 minutes total. I still enjoyed the visuals and was happy to see it on a huge IMAX screen. I remember reading somewhere that he didn't care if nobody saw this movie because he made the movie exactly as he wanted to. I can appreciate that he finished his passion project the way he wanted to at the very least.
That's some opening lol
5:09, To further that point, many of these concepts and fictional elements in these other films are explicitly interconnected in some way.
Edge Of Tomorrow's time travel elements come from the aliens, who use it as means to further their invasion plot when faced with an obstacle, allowing them to arm themselves with memories of the future they experienced to adapt (which also gives these aliens specificity).
The Avengers not only introduced and combined various concepts and fictional elements together, but also made some of them relate to each other (such as Thor being more of a supernaturally powered alien than a god or the same kind of mutagenic formula responsible for Captain America also creating the Hulk), which while still creating different fictional systems, ensures that they don't feel too random, that there are still limitations to this fictional universe (a rule that gets bent in further installments as their plethora of narratives and characters become gradually more disconnected).
12:26, The other saving grace of these movies is their casts and how each character bounces off each other (another aspect that begins to get lost in the Avengers' case as more comedic elements and sarcasm was crammed into each character.
Can we at least agree that neo-roman outfits look great? Too bad they mostly limited them to female characters.
Megalopolis is my personal movie of the decade, but i understand the distain