The Most Divisive Film Of The Year
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- Опубликовано: 2 окт 2024
- What did you think of Megalopolis? I hope my review either influences your decision to see it or gives you some new perspectives on the film.
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As Mike Stoklasa once said (paraphrasing) If a movie gets a lot of 1 out of 10 reviews and then also gets a lot of 10 out of 10 reviews, there's a good chance it will at least be interesting.
Except Skinamarink
@@WhiteChocolate74 bro that movie is a passion project made with 15k dollars by a new filmmaker, and it was actually done quite well. I’d like to see you do better, and with such a minuscule budget. When you get a little older and mature a bit, you’ll (hopefully) realize that hating just to hate doesn’t make you cool. Stay in school, little buddy 👍
@austins.2495 totally fair. I respect the movie, it just didn't work for me at all
I didn't think this film was as weird as people say. Every element has a straightforward meaning. Take the Soviet satellite for example. It poses an immanent, existential threat to the city. Or does it? They're not sure where it will land, so there's a lot of uncertainty surrounding the perceived threat. In the worst case scenario, the response would be moot, so there's not much point in diverting all efforts to creating a contingency plan. Some consider exploiting the threat for political advantage. Soon, everything returns to normal. The threat may or may not still be there, but the time consciousness of a modern metropolis can only spend so much energy tracking a hypothetical scenario before other problems push their way to the forefront of our public attention. Here's the point: This is exactly how we process crisis events in today's world. You hear or read somewhere that the Doomsday clock is 3 seconds from midnight, so you freak out a little bit, maybe tell some friends.... And by the next day, your concern is how to get through a presentation at work or whether or not your girlfriend is boinking the neighbor behind your back. That's just how it is. So it's not like this was a plot thread that Coppola just forgot about. He wanted to represent the threat of the satellite as it really is: Something that scares the hell out of us, but then recedes into the background, and perhaps continues to exert a subconscious influence on our perspectives. Most of the film, though not all of it, works in the same way. Either you buy into the narrative structure of the film or you don't, but personally I don't think it makes sense for people to point out that Coppola never "developed" this or that plot line. Most of our concerns at the end of an imperial age don't achieve resolution. They just spin together in a chaotic jumble of forces that usually leads us to some kind of collective action paralysis, and this is exactly Coppola's point, and the thing he's trying to combat.
Shia's character I thought was obvious a cult of personality politician, like everyone in DC, and why nothing moves forward.
I thought it all fit together.
Great comment! You went into through detail that I didn't pick up on! Personally, I thought of the satellite as a consequence of decades of aggression. That war, cold or Hot, continues to impact generations to come.
Boner bow.
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Retard speak
This movie was a big weird mess, I was never bored. I wish it was more corsherient, but I enjoyed it. Made me want to rewatch some modern setting Shakespeare films like Hamlet and Titus.
Titus is actually set in a mix of different time periods much like Megalopolis.
@@yggdrasil2 wow thanks
@@elmoonfire No prob at all, it was just a piece of trivia from my end lol I love that movie and the similarities was partially what made me interested in Megalopolis.
I thought the crashing satellite was the reason that Caesar could realize his project after all because that district of the city was devastated and needed to be rebuilt. So that never was a dead end story line for me.
I imagine it didn't help Coppola that it was found out he helped Victor Salva bury a 12 year olds acting career, the same 12 year old Victor abused on film, on the set of Clownhouse. He would go on to make the Jeepers Creepers series. Apocalypse Now is my favorite movie of all time, but when I heard that, I knew that you can't put these dudes on pedestals.
Look up the Gardens of Stone controversy
@@danwroy Trying to find it, what happened, looks like it was memory holed.
Yeah also discovered this recently. I am very saddened. He also paid off the child's family to keep quiet about it and then bankrolled the rest of his career. I work in hollywood and have heard salva is a freak on set also.
and this has what to do with his filmmaking?
@@TheGreatBaronOBeefDip I'm guessing related to him replacing the main actor for getting his son killed in a boating accident?
Your point about his time stopping powers got me thinking. If this is Coppola pontificating mortality, then it's possibly coming from someone who feels like he wasted too much of his time. There's seemingly a theme throughout the film pertaining this, starting when Julia asks Cesar, "you have time to waste?" A young person will think he has all the time in the world, and Cesar wastes his time early on having meaningless sex, doing psychedelic drugs, etc. Meanwhile things start happening around him that have direct consequences. Having infinite time doesn't help, you still have to do something. You can't wait around for something to happen (Hoffman even had a line about "waiting it out" - not so smart). You have to act and be present if you want to make things happen. By the end he only stops time to savor the nicest moments.
Francis Ford Coppola sold his winery to fund this film to one-up Neil Breen.
Also of note, FFC has just been offered to direct a MARVEL film!
Contemporary cinema often resorts to vulgar expression, with both subtle and explicit ideas presented in a grimly, determinedly intense manner. This film brilliantly subverts that tone.This movie definitely isn't your condescending American therapist. Cult classic!
I loved it! I have a strong feeling that this movie will develop a huge cult following.
Completely agree
I mean this film was also vulgar in plenty of places.
This looks and feels like a high budget Neil Breen movie.
I liked it. I wish more people took risks and made weird films
Time to rewatch Idiocracy.
Yea Idiocracy is about corporations taking control of the government. 💀Brawndo poisoned the population. Now in 2024 the geriatric Supreme Court established corporations can regulate themselves.
Chevron U.S.A., Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc.
The plastics industry already lobbied to remain in business for several more decades. 🫴
I pledge allegiance
to immortal absurdist kino
and the majority of audiences that rightfully hate it
I pledge allegiance, to see metropolis after leaving megalopolis
It's not a masterpiece! It's naaaat! Oh hi, Kino Corner.
visually very impressive, kept me from ever getting bored. didnt think the story was that fantastic or mindblowing but it was enough of a spectacle to get 3 stars from me. normies who love going to the cluuuuuuub BTFO
I thought the movie was a long exploration of love on every level and from every side, and it is played on top of a retelling and twisting of an actual historical event. It showed the ugliness and beauty of love. There was grief, jealousy, sex as a weapon on the negative side. Catalina was in the middle of psychosis in the first half of the movie, but he was also an indifferent and uncaring; the visuals in the first half can be seen through the lens of his psychosis. We don’t see how Platinum falls in love with Catalina but we know how that drives her anger and jealousy; which is how Pulcher responds to rejection. It was love that redeemed him and the second half of the movie was how that happened. Beyond the personal love, the movie explores love through the lens of family and civics to the love of humanity and all beings. As love refines Catalina, he starts to care more about other people. The movie as a whole can be seen through the lens of a fable with magical realism. As a fable, it has a clear moral message. The structure was coherent and clear. For the historical events, the scandal with the Vestal virgin happened with the real Catalina being accused of trying to sleep with one, which was a potential death sentence. The Coliseum scene with the virgin also speaks to love misused, her virginity was being put up for sale. I also think the historical Catalina is split into two characters - the cousins portrayed by Driver, who is the superego, and Labeouf, who is the id. But Driver starts off with his id and superego fighting from the grief of the loss of his wife. Coppola subverted both fables and the ending of the real conspiracy. Rome became a dictatorship. And part of the point of the movie is we can't make it on our own. Love is what brought him out of the madness.
I can’t wait for Sofia Coppola to make a spin off about wow platinum
It was art, pure, and refined in how unrefined it should be.
"I pledge allegiance to our human family..." also, (holding birth certificate)"born in Indonesia"
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Everybody praised Deadpool and Wolverine. But call megalopolis is ridiculous
They both suck in vastly different ways.
Your analysis of the performances reminded me of something I read about The Mask of Fu Manchu, which I'd recently watched. Boris Karloff and Myrna Loy both decided that the only way they could play their characters was for camp. The hardest I've laughed at a line from a movie in a long time is when Fu Manchu tells his minions to "kill all the white men and take all their women!"
He can stop time when he's with his wife or thinking on her. She with him.
The baby can view this because Love makes Time stop.
Year two of asking you to review Brother 1&2 😔
Is 2 good? I’ve seen 1 and it was pretty cool
@@kitlawless3982 is fun, but i guess not as realistic as Брат
@@kitlawless398would still watch
@@kitlawless398 Two is even better imo, it’s very different in a way. It’s sort of a subtle parody of American movies of the 80’s/90’s (Arnold action comedy’s) but from a Russian POV where Danila is the typical Russian Hero of the time (good-hearted gangster/chechnya vet) going to America to take on stereotypical American villains (chicago gangs, rich Human traffickers with Ukrainian mafia support (lmao)) the movie is oddly relevant today to an almost bizarre extent.
It sort of “predicts” Russia taking Crimea, Epstein etc. it has a very odd tone also that’s hard even describe. Sergey Bodrov Jr is amazing in it also, better than in Brat 1, Extremely likable and extremely autistic. It’s a very 4chan-esque movie in a way.
@@joshuagunderson6593 with a sales pitch like that I can't not watch it now. I'll check it out this weekend, thanks for the info👍
Megalopolis: The Biggest Normie Filter of 2024
It just sucks bro
@@icantlayinthere filtered.
@@SegadromeWhat did you like about the movie
I've haven't seen it yet, but I can tell you right now it's an instant vlasic classic.
@@icantlayinthere I wouldn't really say it was about likes and subs, normie mcnorm
COPPOLA IS A GENIUS...MAKE PEOPLE TALK...ONLY PROBLEM....JOKER IS COMING OUT RIGHT AFTER AND PEOPLE WILL MOVE ON FROM THIS AND NEVER GO BACK....CHECK HOW FAST IMAX HAS GOTTEN RID OF IT ALREADY....🧐🧐🧐😔
Tom Waits in "Rumble Fish" that's a performance. I too like messy films otherwise how could one not love "Naked Lunch"
I saw the film with only like 5 other people in the theatre. I was very intrigued and still am by the presentation. It feels like Coppola was adapting a Greek tragedy like how Freeway was adapting Little Red Riding Hood and Romeo + Juliet. It was an interesting movie and definitely a good film. Although I feel like it would’ve been better if it was made in the 80s and even the 90s
Adam Driver does not deliver all of "to be or not to be". Here is what he doesn't say:
Who would ferdels bear to grunt and sweat under a weary life, but that the dread of something after death, the undiscovered country from whose bourne no traveler returns puzzles the will and makes us rather bear those ills we have than fly to others we know not of. Thus conscious does make cowards of us all and thus the native hugh of resolution is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought and enterprises of great pitch and moment. With this regard, their currents turn awry, and loses the name of action.
This comment doesn't matter. "None else of name" to quote Henry V
It's different. It's offbeat. It's most definitely unconventional in its presentation and delivery. It possesses supreme visuals. It's uneven, unbalanced, and somehow works to perfection. It's a Francis Ford Coppola masterpiece.
Edit: I also noticed the similarities between Megalopolis and Rumble Fish not only with the monolog, but also the clocks.
I definitely appreciate your honest review. Personally, I loved the film. I went in with high hopes and low expectations. I was pleasantly surprised.
My biggest issue was with the narrative of the film. There's a supposed "debate" over the utopian vision of Catalina and the immediacy of Cicero but the movie just ends up telling us life gets better once we get out of the way of the visionary.
every single review or comment i see about this film contradict each other and confuse me more and more... and every time i want to see it more and more
I pledge allegiance, to see metropolis after leaving megalopolis
kudos for mentioning Rumblefish, great movie
Of the year?
Perhaps the most divisive film of the DECADE
Probably the closest review to my opinion I’ve seen. Anyone calling it straight trash is wrong and should be banned from film discussions but at the same time it’s hard to convince me that this is a perfect film.
Read what I wrote in the main thread.
There were 4 people in the theater I went to. My cousin, me and two other dudes. One left half way through, and the other guy stood up at the credits and asked us if we understood any of it lol. I enjoyed my time with the movie, it was interesting, I haven't been filtered yet, but I'm on the fence lol.
I think there is some unintentional humor from how awkward the theatrical and philosophical dialogue can get but I agree that the performances and a huge amount of the dialogue seem very intentionally funny - "pick up my hat" for example is obvious slapstick humor and Shia and Plaza are obviously directed to act that way. Honestly I thought the movie was mostly a satirical dark comedy with a love story, and the trailer had me expecting some sort of super grim serious thing.
Other bits were very unintentionally funny. Like Julia talking to Caesar on the rafters and him just randomly going “I didn’t kill my wife”. Or the sitar music whenever it cut to Caesar with his bandages off.
I loved the movie for its pure audacity! It's already a cult classic and it's only been out a week. Can't wait to see it again. Btw, I pledge allegiance to our human family, and to all the species we protect. One Earth. Indivisible. With long life, education and .Justice for All.
Coppola's last film should've been a Tom Waits biopic
YES
To the Megalopolis haters: It's OK. It's not for you. It's only for geniuses.
This is the best and most fair review I’ve seen so far
I loved it. Every single choice was wrong, but for some reason I just loved it.
I don't think it's a masterpiece, but I liked it.
Excellent and honest review. Bravo.
Rick Worley liked it
that's enough for me
The satellite was the reason for the people giving megalopolis a chance because in the movie the city was destroyed by the satellite.
Hey Kino, do you think the Jon Voight scene of him shooting arrows purposely funny? or bad its funny?
Surely a man who directed some of the greatest crime dramas of all time would not unintentionally create such a dumb scene. Especially when he has a much more "well done" version of this type of scene earlier with the kid shooting Adam driver
“George, you can write this shit, but you sure can’t say it.” (Harrison Ford on the set of Star Wars)
Regarding the intentional/unintentional humor… When you name one of your characters _Wow Platinum_ , it’s probably not meant to be taken entirely seriously. XD
One of my gripes with the film is that, despite all its discourse about the decadent rich who ignore the poors’ suffering… the lower class people feel like a complete nonentity. They’re just NPCs in the main characters’ wide open sandbox, even in a triumphant ending that’s supposed to solve or at least ease their problems. It’s a great man’s triumph first and foremost, the people it affects are incidental. That’s where you can feel it’s inspired from an Ayn Rand novel.
We're seeing cinema moving towards a stage, play like nature. Like Asteroid City. 🚶♂️➡️
I like it because I know liking it makes me special and not a normie and certainly not a pretentious bore.
I went in expecting nothing having seen bad reviews and I liked it.
Coppola is proof that lightening can strike even the most lightening proof of people at least twice. That would be The Conversation and The Godfather in case you couldn’t guess. They guy’s an opportunistic hack, kind of always has been.
architect cinephiles are eating good this year- Megalopolis and The Brutalist
It's messy yet daring. And honestly, it's refreshing to see someone go out on a limb and try something. Yet, this has *always* been the FFC MO if you like. Like him or hate him, he did it his way. He went big instead of going home. He bared it all instead of playing it safe. If this is the last thing he ever makes - certainly of a grand scale - then what a thing =].
My review:
I really like what it is trying to do. But it doesn't really pull through. I can appreciate the effort and attempt, but I won't praise it for ultimately failing and coping in an alternate reality where it didn't and is actually a cohesive masterpiece.
I still don’t know if I’ll go see it or not.
It's peak, simple as.
😂😂😂
So... it's peak cinema, then?
Maybe not for this time. Times and sensibilities change...often radically. It may be seen as the greatest masterpiece of the 21st century from the 22nd.
What you said at 12:00 is spot on! I've been waiting for someone to say this so it can be discussed. All the choices he made from lighting, to acting seemed wacky and over the top. Is that what he has to say about the film industry or our country? It seemed like he ignored traditional film logic as a way to point a finger at those who say "X won't work in a film" . It is just hard to tell what the intent was.
When are you going to make your own Megalopolis?
when I have 120 million dollars to spare
@TheKinoCorner no way you'd make something this horrible with $120 million
@@TheKinoCorner Just sell the winery.
@@themoviefan9990It wasn't horrible.
@@lymphomasurvive agree to disagree
"An honest mess" - sounds like Neil Breen to me alright
Excellent review. Thanks
It's a movie that was ever going to be for everyone. An 'anti blockbuster'
Some scenes reminds me of the anime movie Metropolis.
I pledge allegiance to weird movies and never gooning.
This has got to be the movie I was most excited to see the reception and discussion surrounding the movie than the actual movie itself
I don’t care how good the video was, I’m not reproducing the cringe of allegiance.
Aubrey's the best thing in the movie. But that's the case with any movie she's in.
I like the expression
“in his latest film Coppola destroys cinema”
I pledge allegiance to humanity! Great work as usual bro.
There was 12 people get the screening I went to, by the end there was 4 including me
I pledge allegiance
to the movie reviewers
& not the movies themselves
Which movie was more of a mind****, this or Beau is Afraid?
So, in other words, don't objectively judge the film on its own merits, but rather, through the lens of Coppola's name recognition and past contributions in cinema. Would the visionary praise exist if this were from an unknown director?
My biggest issue with the film is that it wasn't insane enough
The only review that matters!!
Just don't pledge allegiance to ball frog.
She mega on my lopolis
I paid money for that movie, did not regret it
Last time I was this early I didnt even exist
I think the tv show KAOS does it better
Everybody has missed the point of this movie. You seem to have a truer grasp of this movie.
He’s making another film
I loved it as a whole. While it is VERY flawed, the parts that were great definitely outweighed the slop. I do feel the end was a bit rushed, or at least chaotic to the point of it being nonsensical, but that's the biggest complaint I can throw at the film.
@@darthtater110 yeah that’s how I felt. It’s a VERY flawed movie but, in the end, I ended up liking it (against my better judgment maybe)
Thank you. I felt like I was laughing at the times he wanted me to laugh. Not that it’s bad. Idk
awful, terrible movie and not in a fun way. total shit.
One of my favorite films of the year, easy. You forget just how devoid of ambition and ideas mainstream film is...and then a Megalopolis comes along and reminds you what movies can be.
I find criticism of "sloppy, messy, is it supposed to be funny?" idiotically trite.
Absolutely spot on brother
That new pledge of allegiance in the comments
Is it that divisive? Seems like everyone just agrees that it’s awful 😂
Good review.
Keener Corner here
Masterpiece? It's not even good enough to be considered bad it's absolutely atrocious
You should probably stick with She Hulk.
@@fireinthesky2333 I mean if you like Megalopolis you're going to like She Hulk they feel like they were writing by the same person
What did you rate Deadpool and Wolverine?
@@themoviefan9990 LOL, you haven't seen the film. You just wanna jump on the bandwagon.
@@themoviefan9990written* and no, they don’t feel that way
It sounds like If Ayn Rand took acid and watched Gladiator and then wrote Atlas Shrugged but in a 'zine form.
If i go to see a movie where a dude start talking to a microphone in front of the screen, my man i have to tell you something, that is not a good movie
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hmmm
The film is an avant-garde master class in hyperreality expressing the inevitable reality facing all civilization(s) based on the binary Human 2.0 paradigm. I, too, once had ambitions to be a filmmaker like Coppola, holding a mirror up to humanity. But as it turned out, that stage was not meant for this presenter of Truths. Now, I step out onto the world stage with not just a mirror to humanity's Heart of Darkness, but an intra-dimensional atomic microscope into the very Truth, Nature, and Analogous Ultimate Methodology by which we can SEEK Self-Evident Experiential Knowledge of Human 3.0. That is, at the end of the day, what Megalopolis is about...we cannot double-down on the same foundations of our mechanical nature to establish the New Golden Age. ruclips.net/video/7djDy7kdPg0/видео.htmlsi=7AaQGIUPofsaSWRn
Atlas "meh"ed
Megalopolis a masterpiece, a mirror reflecting back at a dying society its own banality, frivolity, grotesque meaninglessness. Just as 'Kiss Me Deadly' was said to be the first film of the atomic age, this is the first real film of the post human Tic Toc era.