Thank you, love your honest review. One thing that has been bugging me (not having seen the film) is this interview with Coppola in which he states that his inspiration came from reading about the Catiline Conspiracy in ancient Rome, which he claims was a fight between tradition and visions of the future, this simply is not the case whatsoever. The Catiline Conspiracy was primarily a coup attempt involving many established Patricians at a time preceding Rome becoming an Empire, rather than a crumbling Empire in need of Futuristic vision. From watching many reviews it seems Coppola got the Catiline Conspiracy confused with Atlas Shrugged and also has introduced Flubber into the mix. Anyway, loved your review!
Good point. I also suspect that he was inspired by the comics by Schuiten & Peeters but lack the money to bring that type of fantastical architecture to life.
I was at the TIFF premiere and lost it when they said the baby's name. Also your reaction of "this movie is bad but I also recommend seeing it" is exactly what I've been telling people lol
I was also at the tiff premiere and yes that part got lots of laughs 😂 I have also been telling people it is worth seeing even though it is a bloated mess as it goes further along.
Honestly your best review yet. For each video I'm liking your content more and more. Your growth as a creator is awesome to see man. Keep up the good work
just watched it a few hours ago in IMAX. This movie absolutely has the most stimulating imagery you will ever see. Extreme sensory overload, and I loved that. it
@@maggie937 I like the story. It was pretty confusing. Honestly, I'm pretty impressionable and this movie spun around my head for a week. Did you enjoy the film? was it MAGnificent?
Oh wow, I actually came late to that same Monday AZ IMAX screening. Crazy experience, the unhinged QnA was a perfect primer to just how bizarre the movie was.
That movie is legit amazing, it’s the anti-Megalopolis The character work is great Filmmaking is consistent It’s crazy and original and exaggerated but in a sincere way Megalopolis is just absolutely all over the place and is DULL
Still confused? Here's my take: Imagine Ayn Rand finally sitting down to write Atlas Shrugged and to celebrate she took a bunch of LSD and watched gladiator movies and someone gave her 150 million dollars
I'm OLD enough to remember worrying that Coppola was going to lose his home after he screened the first of many versions of "Apocalypse Now" at the Cannes Film Festival in 1979. I used to live a few blocks from the former American Zoetrope Studios in Hollywood, which he lost after "One From the Heart." He has said for years that he's learned the only way for him to have access to money is to pretend like he already has it. That meant going into debt and occasionally declaring bankruptcy. This time he made the movie he wanted to make -- with his own money. I feel obligated to see it because of Coppola's career, but I'm in no hurry...
Coppola has made four of the greatest movies of all time in succession back in the 1970s: Godfather I & II, The Conversation and Apocalypse Now. One could even argue that his Dracula is a misunderstood masterpiece, Keanu Reeves' performance aside. I think he should be afforded some space to make an ambitious movie that disregard narrative conventions in trying to come up with new ways to express ideas on film: the mixture of the high and low in Megalopolis is the point. Many good movies fail to last longer than a week in our minds, while I expect this film to linger on for years because of its unevenness (akin to the Beatles' White Album). Overall, I think we are beyond good or bad assessments here, just the question of how much debate it can inspire in audiences regarding its ideas. Meanwhile, Coppola has already moved on, beginning to work on his next film project, a musical adaptation of the novel "Glimpses of the Moon".
Fact: Even the greatest, fails from time to time. Actually, it’s said that’s what defines greatness. The willingness to continue after failure. Over and over again to achieve the goal. It can’t be denied. Coppola was/is genius. At the least, a very talented person who’s been part of some of the best. It sounds to me as if, this one was truly over the top. Oh well. I’m sure he’ll survive it. This is like the fifth review I’ve heard of it. I’m sure I’ll see it somewhere on the net in the next year or two but I am glad I didn’ pay 100 bucks to go out, eat, and theater for this which IS sad considering he is someone who is worthy of it.
I loved it. It gave me the feeling of having just read a wonderfully colorful and crazy novel in two hours. So much imagery! I'm definitely going again. And yes, it has a coherence problem, but it's an art movie. It's meant to be thought about and interpreted. It's great!
Was there a helicopter in the movie? Because Coppola mentioned something like that but I don't remember there being any helicopters at TIFF. Maybe I was too tired or baffled at how all over the place the film was to remember
Nothing is better than the experience of an audience laughing AT a film. I experienced this once. EVERYONE laughed at the corny dialogue. The movie title should be YAWNfest.
I suspect that all these reviews about the movie are more entertaining than the movie itself. But its probably a thing to see in IMAX just for the spectacle of it.
It started off surreal with Francis Ford Coppola introing the film and then we all did laugh at the parts that were both genuine and unintentionally hilarious/dumb to see.
@@theprowler18Same with our audience. Lol One guy was upset that he paid $20.00 and got even more pissed when I said I got a promo code to see it for free! Lol 😂
it's giving that movie that came out couple years ago - i forgot the name - apparently in the beginning an elephant was shitting or something like that, about old Hollywood
@@samisfun868You might think differently. Just because I didn't like both movies doesn't mean you will feel the same. I think it's good to see all kinds of movies even if I don't end up liking them. Art is subjective, after all. 😀
SO many ideas though none that are actually very meaty and no actually very profound point is made about any of them!! Nonetheless YES i have to agree that I thoroughly respect the attempt … It’s for such brave visually mesmerizing attempts that we love Cinema!!!
Can't believe you didn't mention the greatness that is Jon Voight in this film lmao. For me he hard carried. The scene with his 'weapon' had me laughing more than any comedy.
Anything that's different, creative and ambitious, I support. Do I think it's good? No. It's terrible. But at least it TRIED to do something interesting. I would rather have 10 total failures that tried to do something imaginative and ludicrous than one more fucking comic book movie that's been test-marketed into total mediocrity. Even if this movie gets people talking about its numerous problems and ideas while despising it is an improvement in terms of the brain-dead state of cinema today. Yes, it's a mess. Absolutely. It's bad. But at least it was TRYING to do something interesting.
now vary the elements so it is not so repetaitve and make it more tense more tension must increase as the story advances add your own elecments of insanity The Ultimate Absurd War Prevention In a world where time travel is possible, a group of bumbling adventurers, led by Captain Jack, must prevent 7 wars from occurring, or else Halley's Comet will crash into Earth, causing a chain reaction that will destroy the entire omniverse. Act 1: The Time Travelers' Quest The time travelers journey to ancient Troy, where they accidentally turn the Trojan Horse into a giant, flaming, mechanical spider, causing Mercury to crash into Earth. The spider's legs start to dance the Macarena, hypnotizing the Greeks and Trojans, who begin to fight each other with rubber chickens. The time travelers then visit the American Revolutionary War, where they turn the Boston Tea Party into a giant game of "Tea-Party Twister," but with a twist: the tea chests are filled with jelly beans, which start to multiply and cover the entire city. The British and American armies begin to slip and slide on the jelly beans, causing chaos and destruction. Act 2: The WiFi Jammer The time travelers decide to create a WiFi jammer to prevent the next planetary collision. However, they soon realize that they need specific parts from each of the wars they've been trying to prevent. They journey to the Napoleonic Wars, where they obtain a rare crystal needed for the jammer's antenna. However, they accidentally turn Napoleon's army into a giant game of "Simon Says," but with a twist: the soldiers start to turn into chickens, and Napoleon becomes a giant, talking eggplant. The time travelers then visit the American Civil War, where they obtain a crucial microchip needed for the jammer's processor. However, they accidentally turn the Battle of Gettysburg into a giant game of "Capture the Flag," but with a twist: the flags start to come to life and begin to fight each other, causing the entire battlefield to erupt in a giant, swirling vortex of color and sound. Act 3: The Final Confrontation The time travelers finally complete the WiFi jammer, but it fails to prevent the next planetary collision. They journey to the Thirty Years' War, where they obtain a crucial battery needed for the jammer's power source. However, they accidentally turn the war into a giant game of "Red-Light-Green-Light," but with a twist: the soldiers start to turn into giant, walking mushrooms, and the battlefield becomes a giant, psychedelic dreamscape. The time travelers then visit the Hundred Years' War, where they obtain a crucial antenna needed for the jammer's signal. However, they accidentally turn the war into a giant game of "Musical Chairs," but with a twist: the chairs start to disappear, and the soldiers begin to float in mid-air, causing the entire galaxy to implode in a giant, swirling vortex of chaos and destruction. Finally, the time travelers journey to World War I, where they obtain the final part needed for the jammer. However, they accidentally turn the war into a giant game of "Simon Says," but with a twist: the soldiers start to turn into giant, talking clocks, and the battlefield becomes a giant, ticking time bomb, counting down to the destruction of the entire omniverse. Epilogue The time travelers fail to prevent the omniverse from exploding, and every planet, star, and galaxy is destroyed. The time travelers' adventures become a cautionary tale, a reminder of the absurdity and hilarity of their failed mission. The omniverse is reborn, and a new timeline is created. However, the time travelers' legacy lives on, inspiring future generations to try and prevent the next great catastrophe. As the new timeline begins, a giant, talking eggplant appears, saying "The end is just the beginning. The absurdity will continue. The chaos will never end." The eggplant starts to laugh maniacally, and the entire universe erupts in a giant, swirling vortex of color and sound, as the absurdity and hilarity of the time travelers' adventures continue forever.
I was at that AZ showing too! Luckily not that far of a drive for me or I would’ve regretted it even more. I didn’t have high expectations going in, I was mainly going because people hyped up the audience participation element, and even that was incredibly disappointing. That interview beforehand I think was the perfect encapsulation of the disorganized cluster that was about to follow it.
@@banditfied2i think you are right. You just stop seeing the movie. It reminds me of Wong Kar Wai who in the 1994 was directing his big epic Ashes of Time. It was taking him years for pre production and production, that he got tired after, and had a pause and before editing it, he went and did very small movie, very unambitious, rock n roll style Chunking Express. Then, after restoring his breathe, he returned and finished it.
@@CATDHD I feel like francis shouldve done the same or atleast gotten a fresh perspective But I get that he's old and maybe scared about him not being able to make movies anymore come a few years
Saw it at Cannes. It’s trash I’m sorry. Just so grating and amateurish in its craft. It’s as if Coppola has completely forgotten how to make a movie. This guy made the Godfather for god sake. I know he’s old and probably completely overthought this movie considering it’s been basically 50 years in the making but this would have genuinely been better off staying in the can and being a dream for Coppola (and his biggest fans) rather than a reality. It’s disastrous!
@@maggy40404 what is there to get please tell me. It’s a bunch of stoned thoughts lazily realised with even lazier attempts at creating a world and believable characters. Just because a director has high concept ideas doesn’t automatically make the film an achievement and just because a director spends 40 years trying to make a film doesn’t mean it’s some misunderstood masterpiece. Those ideas of Coppola’s have to be developed to the point where they actually make sense within the context of the story and mesh well together. In actuality they just hang there like loose threads. He tried making a film about so much and in the end made a film about nothing, empty, vacuous, pretentious and worst of all amateurish
I saw Megalopolis last night also, I feel the actors were farcical on purpose with their dialogue. Presenting Rome in modern times bares a righteous attitude while being serious with lines from the Stoics. A lot of the story was ham fisted also purposely ... while showing all forms of a visual spectacle is needed. It creates conversation and a need to see it again to pickup on what one had missed from first viewing. From 1 out of 5 ... I agree a 2.5 rating.
wait i’m sorry back to the question thing- WHAT? like wait do you ask adam driver a question and he can answer? can you ask adam driver to define Hawk Tuah???? what do you mean?
@@AlcideIzMine true but you can only decide if a movie is good or bad if you watch it, go on a low price day and see what you think, maybe it's amazing maybe it's horrendous
Why don't you actually go back again? Without seeing the film (it most likely won't be released in the city where I live, sodad...), I sincerely believe it calls for at least a second viewing, if not multiple viewings. What always upsets me is that almost all RUclips reviewers would review a film immediately after they have seen it ONCE, sometimes even as soon as they leave the theatre, at the car park or in their own vehicles. Good films require second or multiple viewings to be accurately and responsibly assessed and critiqued, just like a book, a piece of music or a painting.
It's bad and all over the place. It's a mess. Could not possibly recommend this movie l. But ironically for me Lebouff and Plaza gave the best performances.
Aubrey plaza should only do like two types of rolls. And it seems like this is one of them. I don't think she has the acting chops to pull off anything more than two kinds of roles. I just saw her in that new Disney series and she was fucking terrible. Trying to be like a serious / crazy / tough guy /emo goth was horrendous.
@@richardwhite2921 it’s like every big movie is 3.5 hours long now. It’s annoying. Like, your whole day becomes going to the damn movie theater and you’re worn out when you’re done.
@@forsaken841what ? I go to the theater to watch a movie. It doesn’t matter if it’s 5 hours long. Just as long as it’s worth my money.. you going to the movies and complain about watching a movie like somebody is forcing you to do it…
@@nilespeshay1734 then don’t watch it ? Why do you feel the need to complain about long movie when there are literary so many short movie. Is someone forcing you to watch extremely long movie ? It’s a choice.
I don't know why we keep thinking that movies like this are going to be anything other than a mess. I could look at it just over the last 6 months and tell you that it was going to be a big sloppy turd. Yes Coppola has made some amazing films but he's also old as fuck. Him and Cameron both need to retire.
It's beyond a train wreck. It's like that comet that wiped out the dinosaurs. If the 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse were promoting a movie, this would be it.
Auntie Wow and Clodio - Most Outrageous Sex Scene - Unofficial AVN Winners! Lol Aubrey and Shia need a spinoff. Yeah, I said it. I want to see whatever movie they were in. Lmao! 🤣🤣🤣 Other than that, and Emmanuel (didn't care for her, sorry), I agreed with what you said. Kudos to you for driving all that way! You got a subscribe from me. 😊
@nms7872 lol looking into it the controversial folks are Jon Voight, who is simply openly conservative, and Shia, who has sexual assault allegations. Shia has opened up revealing at least some truth to what is levied against him. But - this represents unity in Coppola's mind? Hiring an open conservative and someone accused of sexual assault? Voight and Shia aren't even comparable lol
@@TheLongestTakeDustin Hoffman is in the movie. He got a lawsuit case back in like 2018 from assaulting an actress so he stay quiet ever since. I’m sure the majority of the cast in this movie got some allegation
I remember seeing the trailer when it came out and being super confused that you thought it was good. I thought it looked like a B movie from 2006. Which, given the pro-American sentiment that it sounds like is in the movie, is what the movie was supposed to be. This movie should’ve come out 20 years ago and it should’ve starred Keanu Reeves.
Your mind is flapping around! Cohesion comes from within. Watch again, maybe on a small does of psilocybin, and let the trip take you somewhere new. This is about the old ways dying. It’s the most awake thing I’ve ever seen, because you can awaken to the movie, fall in love, as the characters do, with the vision. If you miss it, that sucks, but in 40 years time this will be seen as up there with 2002, Citizen Kane, Metropolis and leave even Godfather and Apocalypse Now in the dust. Utopia Tomorrow. It’s so close, can’t you feel it?
Some reviewers are going soft on this movie only because it's Francis Ford Coppola and an A-list cast. if this was a nobody director the reviews would be way harsher.
Last year, Godzilla Minus One was a movie I found so good, that I told everyone about it to see it because I thought it was that good. Megalopolis is that, but in a “you need to know what I just saw, I can’t bear this knowledge alone” kind of way.
At least it's different...making people like Kermode rant like a child is funny...I'm tired of the bland safe crap coming out of Hollywood..sequels remakes a comic book film for the 40th time...at least someone has made something different
I think the issue is with human world modelling and expectations. We want some amount of novelty, but within a predictable and well established framework. The story of the film must exist within the stories we tell ourselves about film itself. When something truly novel and new comes along, we attack it like white blood cells attacking a pathogen, it irritates people, it causes cognitive dissonance. Films like Southland Tales and Enter The Void are good examples. This is a “pretentious” sounding idea, but it takes a certain amount of intelligence and creativity to not be annoyed by that which is different, it requires a brain capable of reinterpreting reality on the fly, and adjusting our world models and narrative frameworks. One of the most consistent critiques of media that I hear these days is- “why isn’t it just more like everything else?!!” We have so many rigid rules and conventions that we defend and uphold to the point of banal creative homogeneity. I’ve not seen this film, I may hate it, but I’m sure that many people are simply annoyed that it’s not playing by the “rules”.
Terrible film, a nonsense that is not understood. The actresses are of very low quality and it shows in their acting and since the actor does not understand his role it is not known if the acting is good or bad. Now I understand why the movie studios didn't want to produce it. There is no script and it is the sum of incomprehensible philosophical scenes. Very BAD and a failure at the box office and in critics, even though there are some who rescue something from this disaster, probably some snobbish critic and friend of Coppola?
Stop letting old dudes write commentary with current vernacular. You are never going to get a Sly savvy well written movie by a dude that's 40 years older than his Target fucking audience. I don't ascribe to the whole you can make great art your whole life. The dude is done he needs to retire. That's the reason he had to sell his shit to make this movie everybody gets it except for Cinema nerds.
Coppola made an abstract art film its not meant to be digested like your typical marvel movie or even Hollywood narrative cinema just appreciate it for what it is.
I thought it was going to be a remake of Metropolis (1927), then I thought they misspelled the title, then I realized it was a whole different thing.
Thank you, love your honest review. One thing that has been bugging me (not having seen the film) is this interview with Coppola in which he states that his inspiration came from reading about the Catiline Conspiracy in ancient Rome, which he claims was a fight between tradition and visions of the future, this simply is not the case whatsoever. The Catiline Conspiracy was primarily a coup attempt involving many established Patricians at a time preceding Rome becoming an Empire, rather than a crumbling Empire in need of Futuristic vision. From watching many reviews it seems Coppola got the Catiline Conspiracy confused with Atlas Shrugged and also has introduced Flubber into the mix. Anyway, loved your review!
Good point. I also suspect that he was inspired by the comics by Schuiten & Peeters but lack the money to bring that type of fantastical architecture to life.
@@anonimo9933 The Obscure Cities! Thank you !
I laughed when the film ended out of disbelief...lol
Is it that crazy?
Dat awesome?
I was at the TIFF premiere and lost it when they said the baby's name.
Also your reaction of "this movie is bad but I also recommend seeing it" is exactly what I've been telling people lol
I was also at the tiff premiere and yes that part got lots of laughs 😂 I have also been telling people it is worth seeing even though it is a bloated mess as it goes further along.
Yes, it's the worst movie I've ever seen. It's so bad that I ranted on facebook telling people to watch the worst movie that they will ever see.
Hilariously bad. I hope it becomes a cult classic like The Room.
Honestly your best review yet. For each video I'm liking your content more and more. Your growth as a creator is awesome to see man. Keep up the good work
08:12 IM CRYING NO WAY THATS REAL
Yes, it's real. AVN territory. Lol 😂😂😂
@@luckybucksproductionswhat’s avn
@@ShionshowaAdult Video News, basically the 🌽 Oscars. That line of dialogue would fit into a movie like that. Lol
just watched it a few hours ago in IMAX. This movie absolutely has the most stimulating imagery you will ever see. Extreme sensory overload, and I loved that. it
@@maggie937 I like the story. It was pretty confusing. Honestly, I'm pretty impressionable and this movie spun around my head for a week. Did you enjoy the film? was it MAGnificent?
Nope. It was terrible and cringey imo Especially Adam driver’s character
Oh wow, I actually came late to that same Monday AZ IMAX screening. Crazy experience, the unhinged QnA was a perfect primer to just how bizarre the movie was.
If you wanted to watch a bizarre and over-the-top film, then you should’ve watched “The Substance” instead.
That movie is legit amazing, it’s the anti-Megalopolis
The character work is great
Filmmaking is consistent
It’s crazy and original and exaggerated but in a sincere way
Megalopolis is just absolutely all over the place and is DULL
I hated the substance with a passion. lol
The ending was bad. If it ended in the middle where the last package was obtained, it would have made more sense. Referencing the substance.
I went to back to back screenings of The Substance and Megalopolis yesterday, that was such a fun double feature lol
The substance was a good hour and a half movie. Unfortunately it's two hours long.
Still confused? Here's my take:
Imagine Ayn Rand finally sitting down to write Atlas Shrugged and to celebrate she took a bunch of LSD and watched gladiator movies and someone gave her 150 million dollars
Film Drunk, when are you going to review the cinematic masterpiece Talk Tauh?
*hawk tuah*
*why so feinous?*
This movie looks like a pile of shit, but I'll still watch it for the role reason that it's not a sequel or a remake
That's the most plausible reason I can think of as well LOL. Props
8:12 Aubrey Plaza thought this was Dirty Grandpa 2.
It's more of a dream than a normal movie
a Fable
You always upload specifically when I order Chipotle and need a video to watch while I eat, thank you
Video evidence of Jonathan actually being in public
I need to see this even more
I’ve been waiting for this
I was invited to the movie and I want my money back.
I'm OLD enough to remember worrying that Coppola was going to lose his home after he screened the first of many versions of "Apocalypse Now" at the Cannes Film Festival in 1979. I used to live a few blocks from the former American Zoetrope Studios in Hollywood, which he lost after "One From the Heart." He has said for years that he's learned the only way for him to have access to money is to pretend like he already has it. That meant going into debt and occasionally declaring bankruptcy. This time he made the movie he wanted to make -- with his own money. I feel obligated to see it because of Coppola's career, but I'm in no hurry...
Took director 46 years to make this film 🎞️
it's a masterpiece , magnum opus
Fair play for the dedication of driving there to give us your thoughts!
Coppola has made four of the greatest movies of all time in succession back in the 1970s: Godfather I & II, The Conversation and Apocalypse Now. One could even argue that his Dracula is a misunderstood masterpiece, Keanu Reeves' performance aside. I think he should be afforded some space to make an ambitious movie that disregard narrative conventions in trying to come up with new ways to express ideas on film: the mixture of the high and low in Megalopolis is the point.
Many good movies fail to last longer than a week in our minds, while I expect this film to linger on for years because of its unevenness (akin to the Beatles' White Album). Overall, I think we are beyond good or bad assessments here, just the question of how much debate it can inspire in audiences regarding its ideas. Meanwhile, Coppola has already moved on, beginning to work on his next film project, a musical adaptation of the novel "Glimpses of the Moon".
Should have been a mini series
Jonathan from the Film Drunk the typa guy to get insulted by a 5 year old then say “sticks n stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me”
Yea, I have to see this movie
I'm looking forward to watching it. thanks for your honesty! I love Adam Driver.
Driver is the worst, horrible voice and so unpleasant to look at!
Fact: Even the greatest, fails from time to time. Actually, it’s said that’s what defines greatness. The willingness to continue after failure. Over and over again to achieve the goal. It can’t be denied. Coppola was/is genius. At the least, a very talented person who’s been part of some of the best. It sounds to me as if, this one was truly over the top. Oh well. I’m sure he’ll survive it. This is like the fifth review I’ve heard of it. I’m sure I’ll see it somewhere on the net in the next year or two but I am glad I didn’ pay 100 bucks to go out, eat, and theater for this which IS sad considering he is someone who is worthy of it.
20 yrs from now Megalopolis will be a cult classic with midnight screenings at art house theaters
I appreciate your driving all that way to see this movie. I may just have to see it. Agree that Adam Driver is one of our best actors.
This is random, but you gotta watch cinema paradiso.
I loved it. It gave me the feeling of having just read a wonderfully colorful and crazy novel in two hours. So much imagery! I'm definitely going again. And yes, it has a coherence problem, but it's an art movie. It's meant to be thought about and interpreted. It's great!
Was there a helicopter in the movie? Because Coppola mentioned something like that but I don't remember there being any helicopters at TIFF. Maybe I was too tired or baffled at how all over the place the film was to remember
Bro at Cannes I did the Megalopolis/Emilia Perez double feature. How do you think I feel
But… why was he able to stop time?
I watched it last night. Self indulgent, yes, ridiculous, maybe, Ambitious, absolutely. But still totally dreadful
Nothing is better than the experience of an audience laughing AT a film.
I experienced this once.
EVERYONE laughed at the corny dialogue.
The movie title should be YAWNfest.
I suspect that all these reviews about the movie are more entertaining than the movie itself. But its probably a thing to see in IMAX just for the spectacle of it.
@@EndingSimple It is a unique experience. I have never been so united with the rest of the audience like that. Lol
It started off surreal with Francis Ford Coppola introing the film and then we all did laugh at the parts that were both genuine and unintentionally hilarious/dumb to see.
@@theprowler18Same with our audience. Lol
One guy was upset that he paid $20.00 and got even more pissed when I said I got a promo code to see it for free! Lol 😂
I liked it, insanity and all
Have you seen Cloud Atlas? If so does it compare?
I dug it. It felt like I was watching a big budget version of a Neil Breen movie.
Watch 10 mins and that was enough for me
That line is funny
I live in az too what theater did you see this at
it's giving that movie that came out couple years ago - i forgot the name - apparently in the beginning an elephant was shitting or something like that, about old Hollywood
Babylon. I thought this film was worse, though. I hated Babylon too, but at least Chazelle's story was cohesive and coherent. Lol
@@luckybucksproductionshell nah both are understood masterpiece
@@Shionshowa That's alright. They both weren't for me.
@@luckybucksproductions aw really i was looking forward watching this one ugh.
@@samisfun868You might think differently. Just because I didn't like both movies doesn't mean you will feel the same.
I think it's good to see all kinds of movies even if I don't end up liking them. Art is subjective, after all. 😀
I went into the movie and they were playing Law and Order audio with no visual before the film started I wish it just played Law and Order instead 😂
It's like reading a James Joyce book, only not as good
SO many ideas though none that are actually very meaty and no actually very profound point is made about any of them!! Nonetheless YES i have to agree that I thoroughly respect the attempt … It’s for such brave visually mesmerizing attempts that we love Cinema!!!
W review
driving very far to watch it, that's on you
Can't believe you didn't mention the greatness that is Jon Voight in this film lmao. For me he hard carried. The scene with his 'weapon' had me laughing more than any comedy.
“What do you think of this boner? 😂
is that the desert ridge theater? lol, i go there sometimes
Anything that's different, creative and ambitious, I support. Do I think it's good? No. It's terrible. But at least it TRIED to do something interesting. I would rather have 10 total failures that tried to do something imaginative and ludicrous than one more fucking comic book movie that's been test-marketed into total mediocrity. Even if this movie gets people talking about its numerous problems and ideas while despising it is an improvement in terms of the brain-dead state of cinema today. Yes, it's a mess. Absolutely. It's bad. But at least it was TRYING to do something interesting.
I do agree with you about that - I am SICK of the comic book movies and remakes!
Aubrey Plaza plays Wow Platinum...
now vary the elements so it is not so repetaitve and make it more tense more tension must increase as the story advances add your own elecments of insanity
The Ultimate Absurd War Prevention
In a world where time travel is possible, a group of bumbling adventurers, led by Captain Jack, must prevent 7 wars from occurring, or else Halley's Comet will crash into Earth, causing a chain reaction that will destroy the entire omniverse.
Act 1: The Time Travelers' Quest
The time travelers journey to ancient Troy, where they accidentally turn the Trojan Horse into a giant, flaming, mechanical spider, causing Mercury to crash into Earth. The spider's legs start to dance the Macarena, hypnotizing the Greeks and Trojans, who begin to fight each other with rubber chickens.
The time travelers then visit the American Revolutionary War, where they turn the Boston Tea Party into a giant game of "Tea-Party Twister," but with a twist: the tea chests are filled with jelly beans, which start to multiply and cover the entire city. The British and American armies begin to slip and slide on the jelly beans, causing chaos and destruction.
Act 2: The WiFi Jammer
The time travelers decide to create a WiFi jammer to prevent the next planetary collision. However, they soon realize that they need specific parts from each of the wars they've been trying to prevent.
They journey to the Napoleonic Wars, where they obtain a rare crystal needed for the jammer's antenna. However, they accidentally turn Napoleon's army into a giant game of "Simon Says," but with a twist: the soldiers start to turn into chickens, and Napoleon becomes a giant, talking eggplant.
The time travelers then visit the American Civil War, where they obtain a crucial microchip needed for the jammer's processor. However, they accidentally turn the Battle of Gettysburg into a giant game of "Capture the Flag," but with a twist: the flags start to come to life and begin to fight each other, causing the entire battlefield to erupt in a giant, swirling vortex of color and sound.
Act 3: The Final Confrontation
The time travelers finally complete the WiFi jammer, but it fails to prevent the next planetary collision. They journey to the Thirty Years' War, where they obtain a crucial battery needed for the jammer's power source. However, they accidentally turn the war into a giant game of "Red-Light-Green-Light," but with a twist: the soldiers start to turn into giant, walking mushrooms, and the battlefield becomes a giant, psychedelic dreamscape.
The time travelers then visit the Hundred Years' War, where they obtain a crucial antenna needed for the jammer's signal. However, they accidentally turn the war into a giant game of "Musical Chairs," but with a twist: the chairs start to disappear, and the soldiers begin to float in mid-air, causing the entire galaxy to implode in a giant, swirling vortex of chaos and destruction.
Finally, the time travelers journey to World War I, where they obtain the final part needed for the jammer. However, they accidentally turn the war into a giant game of "Simon Says," but with a twist: the soldiers start to turn into giant, talking clocks, and the battlefield becomes a giant, ticking time bomb, counting down to the destruction of the entire omniverse.
Epilogue
The time travelers fail to prevent the omniverse from exploding, and every planet, star, and galaxy is destroyed. The time travelers' adventures become a cautionary tale, a reminder of the absurdity and hilarity of their failed mission.
The omniverse is reborn, and a new timeline is created. However, the time travelers' legacy lives on, inspiring future generations to try and prevent the next great catastrophe.
As the new timeline begins, a giant, talking eggplant appears, saying "The end is just the beginning. The absurdity will continue. The chaos will never end." The eggplant starts to laugh maniacally, and the entire universe erupts in a giant, swirling vortex of color and sound, as the absurdity and hilarity of the time travelers' adventures continue forever.
I was at that AZ showing too! Luckily not that far of a drive for me or I would’ve regretted it even more. I didn’t have high expectations going in, I was mainly going because people hyped up the audience participation element, and even that was incredibly disappointing. That interview beforehand I think was the perfect encapsulation of the disorganized cluster that was about to follow it.
How does the q&a work?
Movie was fantastic. At the same showing
@@zeeshawnali4078It streamed live from Lincoln Center before the film.
Cool, stick to Transformers 285. Or maybe Fast and Furious 98??
Aubrey plaza was the only enjoyable part of this movie.
So he had all his life to bake this thing and it still came out trash?
When you think about something over and over again through your whole life, it becomes something entirely else than what was intended right
@@banditfied2i think you are right. You just stop seeing the movie. It reminds me of Wong Kar Wai who in the 1994 was directing his big epic Ashes of Time. It was taking him years for pre production and production, that he got tired after, and had a pause and before editing it, he went and did very small movie, very unambitious, rock n roll style Chunking Express. Then, after restoring his breathe, he returned and finished it.
@@CATDHD I feel like francis shouldve done the same or atleast gotten a fresh perspective But I get that he's old and maybe scared about him not being able to make movies anymore come a few years
Saw it at Cannes. It’s trash I’m sorry. Just so grating and amateurish in its craft. It’s as if Coppola has completely forgotten how to make a movie. This guy made the Godfather for god sake. I know he’s old and probably completely overthought this movie considering it’s been basically 50 years in the making but this would have genuinely been better off staying in the can and being a dream for Coppola (and his biggest fans) rather than a reality. It’s disastrous!
say you don't get it without saying you don't get it
@@maggy40404 what is there to get please tell me. It’s a bunch of stoned thoughts lazily realised with even lazier attempts at creating a world and believable characters. Just because a director has high concept ideas doesn’t automatically make the film an achievement and just because a director spends 40 years trying to make a film doesn’t mean it’s some misunderstood masterpiece. Those ideas of Coppola’s have to be developed to the point where they actually make sense within the context of the story and mesh well together. In actuality they just hang there like loose threads. He tried making a film about so much and in the end made a film about nothing, empty, vacuous, pretentious and worst of all amateurish
Jonathan from the Film Drunk, the type of guy who rubs his eyes when he can’t believe what he is seeing.
U just watched greatest film In existence
The only comment on this review would be: What is your skin routine?
I saw Megalopolis last night also, I feel the actors were farcical on purpose with their dialogue. Presenting Rome in modern times bares a righteous attitude while being serious with lines from the Stoics. A lot of the story was ham fisted also purposely ... while showing all forms of a visual spectacle is needed. It creates conversation and a need to see it again to pickup on what one had missed from first viewing. From 1 out of 5 ... I agree a 2.5 rating.
People comparing Folie à Deux to this is absolutely ridiculous 😂 Like I understand not liking joker 2 but cmon 😭
wait i’m sorry back to the question thing- WHAT? like wait do you ask adam driver a question and he can answer? can you ask adam driver to define Hawk Tuah???? what do you mean?
Some guy reads the scripted question
Please see it. Such a blast! Love or hate it’s what going to cinema is about.
Theater tickets are expensive. I'd rather spend my money & time on a good movie. Bad movies are for streaming at home.
@@AlcideIzMine true but you can only decide if a movie is good or bad if you watch it, go on a low price day and see what you think, maybe it's amazing maybe it's horrendous
One of your best videos
It's ok man. People had a similar reaction to Apocalypse Now. Watch it again in ten years.
Why don't you actually go back again? Without seeing the film (it most likely won't be released in the city where I live, sodad...), I sincerely believe it calls for at least a second viewing, if not multiple viewings. What always upsets me is that almost all RUclips reviewers would review a film immediately after they have seen it ONCE, sometimes even as soon as they leave the theatre, at the car park or in their own vehicles. Good films require second or multiple viewings to be accurately and responsibly assessed and critiqued, just like a book, a piece of music or
a painting.
That was the worst movie I've ever seen. I want to see it again
It's bad and all over the place. It's a mess. Could not possibly recommend this movie l. But ironically for me Lebouff and Plaza gave the best performances.
Aubrey plaza should only do like two types of rolls. And it seems like this is one of them. I don't think she has the acting chops to pull off anything more than two kinds of roles. I just saw her in that new Disney series and she was fucking terrible. Trying to be like a serious / crazy / tough guy /emo goth was horrendous.
At least it isnt 3 hours long, amirite?
Nothing wrong with a hefty length as long as it’s good.
@@richardwhite2921 it’s like every big movie is 3.5 hours long now. It’s annoying. Like, your whole day becomes going to the damn movie theater and you’re worn out when you’re done.
@@forsaken841what ? I go to the theater to watch a movie. It doesn’t matter if it’s 5 hours long. Just as long as it’s worth my money.. you going to the movies and complain about watching a movie like somebody is forcing you to do it…
@@Shionshowa Not everyone has as much (literal) time as you do, mon ami. (For a nearly infinite number of variant reasons.)
@@nilespeshay1734 then don’t watch it ? Why do you feel the need to complain about long movie when there are literary so many short movie. Is someone forcing you to watch extremely long movie ? It’s a choice.
I know desert ridge when I see it 😭
I don't know why we keep thinking that movies like this are going to be anything other than a mess. I could look at it just over the last 6 months and tell you that it was going to be a big sloppy turd. Yes Coppola has made some amazing films but he's also old as fuck. Him and Cameron both need to retire.
I'm more like train wreck excited....
It's beyond a train wreck. It's like that comet that wiped out the dinosaurs. If the 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse were promoting a movie, this would be it.
All in favor of seeing The Wild Robot over Megaflopolis say aye!
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Auntie Wow and Clodio - Most Outrageous Sex Scene - Unofficial AVN Winners! Lol
Aubrey and Shia need a spinoff. Yeah, I said it. I want to see whatever movie they were in. Lmao! 🤣🤣🤣
Other than that, and Emmanuel (didn't care for her, sorry), I agreed with what you said. Kudos to you for driving all that way! You got a subscribe from me. 😊
Fifth element meets Romeo Juliet meets tomorrow land - Aubrey is zaney chris Tucker
Any good?
Forget it babe. Ya got something else to do, like change your tires-go do it.
No.... no no no. Save yourself! Mega-boring.
I think I prefer the idea of Coppola making Dracula as based on the idea in the book Johnny Alucard.
That casting of cancelled people thing was so goofy. Like, ok? Coppola - you're old as fuck. Why do you care at this point?
I think his idea is supposed to be unity for humanity, regardless of beliefs.
@nms7872 lol looking into it the controversial folks are Jon Voight, who is simply openly conservative, and Shia, who has sexual assault allegations. Shia has opened up revealing at least some truth to what is levied against him.
But - this represents unity in Coppola's mind? Hiring an open conservative and someone accused of sexual assault? Voight and Shia aren't even comparable lol
@@TheLongestTakeDustin Hoffman is in the movie. He got a lawsuit case back in like 2018 from assaulting an actress so he stay quiet ever since. I’m sure the majority of the cast in this movie got some allegation
@@TheLongestTakebro shut up 😭
so being old means what? this man has directed so many works of art he deserves to do what he wants when he’s financing his own final film
Cuold be the worst movie ever 🎉😳😱
My goat
Omg the cringe!
I remember seeing the trailer when it came out and being super confused that you thought it was good. I thought it looked like a B movie from 2006. Which, given the pro-American sentiment that it sounds like is in the movie, is what the movie was supposed to be. This movie should’ve come out 20 years ago and it should’ve starred Keanu Reeves.
It's not really Pro America. Pro humanity as a whole but it definitely doesn't come across as pro American in the full movie.
Agreed, or back in the 80s when he was first going to film it in Rome. It has an 80s vibe and dated elements like the Soviet satellite.
Honestly I loved the experience of this movie
He should have made a small budget movie starring big stars
He should have stopped making movies long ago
That giant mic is distracting
Don’t do Katy Perry that😭
Knowing what you knew before your 'long journey'why did uou bother. It may be crazy to some but not to others, leave it to the professionals 😊😊
Your mind is flapping around! Cohesion comes from within. Watch again, maybe on a small does of psilocybin, and let the trip take you somewhere new. This is about the old ways dying. It’s the most awake thing I’ve ever seen, because you can awaken to the movie, fall in love, as the characters do, with the vision. If you miss it, that sucks, but in 40 years time this will be seen as up there with 2002, Citizen Kane, Metropolis and leave even Godfather and Apocalypse Now in the dust. Utopia Tomorrow. It’s so close, can’t you feel it?
Awful!
Some reviewers are going soft on this movie only because it's Francis Ford Coppola and an A-list cast. if this was a nobody director the reviews would be way harsher.
Last year, Godzilla Minus One was a movie I found so good, that I told everyone about it to see it because I thought it was that good.
Megalopolis is that, but in a “you need to know what I just saw, I can’t bear this knowledge alone” kind of way.
At least it's different...making people like Kermode rant like a child is funny...I'm tired of the bland safe crap coming out of Hollywood..sequels remakes a comic book film for the 40th time...at least someone has made something different
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I think the issue is with human world modelling and expectations. We want some amount of novelty, but within a predictable and well established framework. The story of the film must exist within the stories we tell ourselves about film itself. When something truly novel and new comes along, we attack it like white blood cells attacking a pathogen, it irritates people, it causes cognitive dissonance. Films like Southland Tales and Enter The Void are good examples.
This is a “pretentious” sounding idea, but it takes a certain amount of intelligence and creativity to not be annoyed by that which is different, it requires a brain capable of reinterpreting reality on the fly, and adjusting our world models and narrative frameworks. One of the most consistent critiques of media that I hear these days is- “why isn’t it just more like everything else?!!” We have so many rigid rules and conventions that we defend and uphold to the point of banal creative homogeneity.
I’ve not seen this film, I may hate it, but I’m sure that many people are simply annoyed that it’s not playing by the “rules”.
why not
Terrible film, a nonsense that is not understood. The actresses are of very low quality and it shows in their acting and since the actor does not understand his role it is not known if the acting is good or bad. Now I understand why the movie studios didn't want to produce it. There is no script and it is the sum of incomprehensible philosophical scenes. Very BAD and a failure at the box office and in critics, even though there are some who rescue something from this disaster, probably some snobbish critic and friend of Coppola?
Stop letting old dudes write commentary with current vernacular. You are never going to get a Sly savvy well written movie by a dude that's 40 years older than his Target fucking audience. I don't ascribe to the whole you can make great art your whole life. The dude is done he needs to retire. That's the reason he had to sell his shit to make this movie everybody gets it except for Cinema nerds.
Coppola made an abstract art film its not meant to be digested like your typical marvel movie or even Hollywood narrative cinema just appreciate it for what it is.
“I don’t like marvel movies. I am literally smarter than all of you.”