Megalopolis Reviews Surface Online

The TJCS crew discuss the reviews coming out for Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis as the first public screening took place at the Cannes Film Festival.
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[@ronthesinger]

Coppola: "I bring you love." The rest of Hollywood: "It's bringing love, don't let it get away."

[@karljaagola7025]

John said "Megalopolypse" every damn time :D

[@golyno]

John just cannot pronounce the movie properly 😂😂

[@daudimasinde6280]

Lol, thank goodness I’m not alone. For some reason I have to pronounce it mega-, then pause, then -lopolis, to get it right.

[@mr.doctor6774]

Hey! From a dude who played sim city for a lot of years, we knocked that one out of the park immediately! Lol. I feel you though!

[@timebandit1266]

Its a tongue twister to say

[@emad6702]

I don’t think John is gonna see Megalumpalips more than once

[@JoefromNJ1]

does john keep saying megalopolypse?

[@harryallsopp9136]

It looks like Jupiter Ascending crossed with Dark City presented like an Oscar contender.

[@Spartanlasermaster10]

The Last Duel deserved so much better than the money it got.

[@thelastattempt666]

Distributors only know what they can sell or work with with mainstream audiences. They are merely scared of the high cost this movie needs to be profitable. They arent in it for the art per se.

[@fatine88]

How are we ever gonna get artsy original films anymore then? It’s kind of depressing honestly

[@jeremiahr7861]

@@fatine88we still do. All the time. They are just much better than this. Just because something is an art house film doesn’t mean it has to be bad.

[@christopheraquino9214]

It sounds like Megalopolis is an art film created by THE cinema artist of all time. I, for one, am looking forward to being blown away by the artistic vision of FFC.

[@adambazso9207]

The bare minimum he could do to try to pronounce the title of the film correctly. If you don't give a damn, just don't do reviews. It's totally disrespectful and unprofessional. I don't care how casual you try to look. It's bad and not cool.

[@ronthesinger]

It's sad how flippant their attitudes are toward what amounts to be a labor of love for cinema and humanity (which btw won't be released anytime soon on a streaming platform). If it fails, let it fail, but just don't be facetious simply because you don't understand his impetus in making the film.

[@JoaqMan]

Not every word in the English language is easy for people to pronounce. How the hell you equate that to them dismissing the movie is beyond me.

[@ronthesinger]

@@JoaqMan Not exactly towards their mispronunciation, mind you, just their overall attitude.

[@adambazso9207]

Megalopolis is not hard to pronounce. And they don't give a damn about the film, that's for sure too. I get that they have to reach a certain amount of clicks and views, but man... don't create content if you don't have anything meaningful to say. Regurgitating reviews of a film you didn't even see yet is a complete waste of resources.

[@theketaminekid1241]

Agreed, really don't care for the cynicism present here.

[@freshparkfilms]

if I listened to other people reviews I wouldn't have gotten the special treat of seeing tenet, joker, and so many others I'm sure it will be fine I never take what other people say into my chances of seeing a movie

[@marcus_ohreallyus]

Megapopalolapocalypsolis.

[@davidking9605]

John: Mega lollipop lips

[@user936]

Saw the weird telescope on the advertisement and was like "I need to see this". *I am a simple man*

[@RB-.-]

You guys are right Adam Driver is one of the best actors right now but he’s more interested in working with legendary directors then anything else. 65 was puzzling though not sure what the thought process was. He’s just not getting good direction or writing. Ferrari and House of Gucci are the best example of this.

[@jeremiahr7861]

It kind of reminds me of Babylon. It wasn’t good. But it was pretty awesome.

[@AWSVids]

"Megalopo-lips"

[@brandonnezamoodeen]

This sounds like the kind of glorious disaster you want to experience with your most obnoxious cinephile friends in an empty IMAX theater 😭😭

[@kevinsmithfan37]

See you there buddy!

[@_TheViewer_]

Sounds awesome, have fun, folks ! 👌

[@pouryababalou892]

i watched it. it is all over the place. it is the craziest thing I have seen. Its godfather mixed with lord of the rings directed by Francis ford Coppola and Tommy weiso

[@theketaminekid1241]

How did you watch it? Man... I wanna see it so BADLY! Sucks I have to wait like half a year to see it...

[@Morkins324]

Apocalypse Now also had a mixed reception when it first came out. In college I had a film studies course, and one of my papers was about the discourse surrounding the production of Apocalypse Now and the subsequent critical reception. It was not universally acclaimed when it first released, and frankly half of the reviews read like the authors attempting to untangle all of the metanarratives about the troubled production of the film (which was very widely reported and was very obviously well known by nearly all of the film critics reviewing the film since nearly all of the reviews reference it in some way). Several reviews were more about the production stories of the film than they were about the movie itself (because honestly I think many of the reviewers didn't actually know what to think about the film itself because it isn't something that you can just write a review about in a couple hours after you finished watching it for the first time). The 97% Apocalypse Now currently has on Rotten Tomatoes is NOT an accurate representation of where reviews were in 1979. It was regarded as baffling, unfocused, and generally batshit. Those words are now being used again to describe Megalopolis. History repeats itself. Without having seen the film, it is hard to say if it will land in a similar place as Apocalypse Now. Probably not. But I do think that people should perhaps keep this in mind.

[@carlhoston1654]

If we’re being honest, I’m more excited for this than anything IP related. At least it’s an original idea from a legendary filmmaker

[@j5eze]

Other than similarities in name alone - "Megalopolis", "Metropolis" - I'm curious if there are any comparisons to this film and the 1927 classic? From the look of it, it seems that it has the aesthetic of "Babylon" and story of "Metropolis".

[@chazzer6545]

i don't care how mixed the reviews are i'm going to be there when it's out

[@levoldunom]

Will see it if there are available screenings where I live. And I’ll watch it even if I don’t understand it at all.

[@archangelarielle262]

Reminds me of Cloud Atlas. Overly ambitious, doesn't reach it, but still fun, with an acquired style.

[@JosephDutra]

Oh I love Cloud Atlas! Most underrated film of 2012!

[@asellandrofacchio7263]

Stop the cope. Cloud atlas is a terrible mess.

[@archangelarielle262]

@@asellandrofacchio7263 it's an entirely subjective medium, there's no stance independent, non-circular, objective prescription to have a preference to. You don't like it, we do

[@mudd7331]

He gave us The Godfather… but he also gave us Captain EO…….

[@jamesfranco1997]

Captain EO is awesome dawg

[@mrcritical6751]

He also gave us Robin William’s Jack

[@thomasbaxter1371]

This IS gonna be in Imax and I'm gonna see it. Coppola should be applauded for swinging for the fences.

[@korovamilkbar8527]

Remember , people hated 2001 when it first came out. Might just be over everyone’s head.

[@HarlanEllisonlives]

Actually they didn't

[@RB-.-]

Source

[@HarlanEllisonlives]

Rotten tomatoes critic score 92% audience 89% movie made back it's production budget 6 times over took 30 seconds to look that up and my internet is slow.

[@ronthesinger]

"[Driver] was in the best movie of 2021 [Annette], the second best movie of 2023 [Ferrari], and in between made two Ridley Scott movies (one of which was Ridley’s best in decades) and starred in two of the most ambitious, impossible dream projects of all time. This is a legendary run." - Bilge Ebiri.

[@HenryLyons]

I hear one of the problems is the interactive part portion of the film. A paid actor gets on the stage and interacts with the film. How are they going to pull that off with a wide release?

[@benjaminb4407]

Honestly sounds like a blast.

[@isaacmartinez6904]

The mixed reception of Megalopolis is quite similar to Apocalypse Now when it got their first reviews at Cannes back in the day. Apocalypse Now took time to get tons of love in the long run. And I hope Megalopolis does too. And I can’t wait to see this movie, no matter what the critics would say.

[@PassiveAgressive319]

That’s really interesting.😊

[@keefriff99]

This film ain’t Apocalypse Now.

[@AWSVids]

If a movie is truly unique, unconventional and groundbreaking... it won't be fully understood or appreciated at first.

[@malclmhexed5978]

@@keefriff99so u saw it then ?

[@tommyjames2448]

Given the topics this movie is taking on. Mixed to poor reviews is exactly what I want to see. There's not a group of people I trust less or disagree with more than movie critics, especially on deep thought-provoking topics. My biggest fear was this movie getting into the 90s on RT. Seeing this news has me more hyped than I already was!

[@slate49]

I’m completely and utterly interested in seeing this! Good or bad..I gotta see this.

[@freshparkfilms]

I think it will be good but not alot of people will get it...I'm gunna go see it just to say I can see a Coppola movie on the screen

[@teamrainbow7674]

After quite recently seeing “Hearts of Darkness” and what a mess that whole production was yet Coppola somehow still managed to create an epic masterpiece, I can’t stop thinking that maybe prime Francis Ford Coppola would’ve been able do the same with “Megalopolis”. Who knows there might be an alternate timeline where “Megalopolis” is one of the masterpieces he’ll be remembered by while “Apocalypse Now” is an 85 year old’s passion project that is being slammed as an ambitious but incoherent and unmarketable mess

[@juanluismendoza8655]

These polarizing reviews kind of remind me what happened when the Wachowskis directed Cloud Atlas. Some people thought it was an overstuffed mess while others thought it was an ambitious masterpiece. I discovered Cloud Atlas for the first time two years ago and I LOVED it. As someone who loves the concept of reincarnation in storytelling, Cloud Atlas blew me away. I think the same thing will happen with Megalopolis. Some people might hate if it’s a mess but I think that the ambition behind it might win others. Maybe M. Coppola most likely understood that while making the film.

[@adambazso9207]

I can't say I liked Cloud Atlas as a whole, but it was ambitious and interesting. The fact that actors played multiple characters took me out of the film at times and it could've been a bit shorter. But it had storylines, mainly the one with Tom Hanks in the future and of the componist, who created the Cloud Atlas Suite, which were really touching and engaging.

[@laurapalmer7120]

I honestly thought that the castings were bad. Like Adam Driver, Aubrey Plaza, Jason Schwartzman. Your Francis Ford Coppola. Call up the biggest stars and tell them you directed The Godfather and Apocalypse Now. No one’s going to get excited about another indie Adam Driver movie and I love Adam Driver.

[@timgregory82]

It's indie, but really it's not

[@cgtabler]

Terrible take I think. He can make the movie with whoever he wants

[@TheZozozo2010]

Big problem is quite simply that not enough movies are being made for Actors, regardless of how great , famous, bad, creative or whatever they are . Very low amount of total movies are being made and put out….

[@courtneywilliams5565]

I thought this was a remake of Metropolis 😮

[@samd2013]

It is its own thing, but apparently metropolis is one of the inspirations for the film.

[@jesusislordj146]

I’m glad FFC is getting to make whatever he wants, his way, but don’t count on this having any commercial prospects whatsoever… This is not made for the masses, but one man alone. I hope he can be proud of the end product.

[@keefriff99]

Burning through $120 million of your own money and selling off a successful business…I dunno. He’s 85 and obviously you can’t take it with you, but I wonder how his family really feels about it.

[@film-maniac]

Make that 2 men. People forget that reviews for films like Apocalypse Now, Dracula...initially had mixed reviews. Now one of our last filmmakers (todays people are digital movie makers, not filmmakers) is offering to break expected boundaries. Not for the Garfield/Super Mario/Fast Freddy crowd. Critics will act the same if David Lynch ever makes another movie. I'll take this over the soon to be dated Barbie. Cant wait to see it.

[@KarthikNarasimhan-jg3mk]

@@keefriff99 His wife and firstborn son are dead and his surviving kids are all nepo babys who became extremely successful in Hollywood. I don't think they care.

[@007robotchicken]

I'm not sure I'm expecting it to be good, but I want to see it because it's Coppola.

[@benjaminanders7261]

I’ve read many different valid sources that there is a scene in this movie where it breaks the fourth wall and Adam Driver’s character interacts with the audience and a paid actor speaks back to Adam Driver. How is that going to work in every movie theater? How is that going to work with Home release?

[@Morkins324]

It'll almost certainly just be edited differently, with an off screen voice asking the questions, likely mixed to sound like it is coming from the back of the theater. For home release where surround isn't necessarily available, it'll probably just be mixed to be as "off screen" as a stereo mix is able to manage for the stereo mix.

[@TheJohnnyCalifornia]

Ironically, these reviews kinda match how I felt about Cronenberg's COSMOPOLIS. So, now we have three auteur driven "-OPOLIS" movies - Fritz Lang's METROPOLIS, David Cronenberg's COSMOPOLIS and now Coppola's MEGALOPOLIS. Any others?

[@lilbaz8073]

Polis academy.

[@EarthKeeper13]

Persepolis (2007)

[@TheJohnnyCalifornia]

@@EarthKeeper13 That is a good movie. Should give honorary mention to Zentropa by Lars Von Trier. I believe it may have been entitled "Zentropolis." And finally, of course, ZOOTOPIA which was called Zootopolis in some regions.

[@EarthKeeper13]

@@TheJohnnyCalifornia I do respect a person who is knowledgeable. I learnt something new today. Thanks for that information. ;-)

[@TheJohnnyCalifornia]

@@EarthKeeper13 Very good, thanks. I suppose we should also mention that this isn’t the first time we seen “megalopolis” in a movie title. There are a couple films called “TOKYO: THE LAST MEGALOPOLIS.” Both based on the same source novel.

[@PassiveAgressive319]

When you call your film a passion project, you know it’s directors self indulgent mess

[@HarlanEllisonlives]

But it's CINEMA!!!!

[@CaptDeadpool32]

Its funny seeing directors like Coppola bashing modern day movies, like the marvel ones. And then he comes out and makes a movie like this. And before people attack me, Coppola directed the Godfather movies and Apocalypse Now. He will go down as one of the greatest directors of all time, I'm not arguing that. I just think it's a little funny

[@RB-.-]

Megalopolis was originally supposed to have this revolutionary form of VFX but allegedly Coppola was high all the time & fired most of the effect team like 3x. And the hilarious irony of it all is that they ended up using the same tech that Marvel uses.

[@CaptDeadpool32]

@@RB-.- serious? Wtf

[@asellandrofacchio7263]

This movie is terrible but at least it's terrible in an original way, like a great disaster dish that tried too hard and failed miserably. Marvel movies are just fast food frozen french fries.

[@CaptDeadpool32]

@asellandrofacchio7263 your first point is fair. But your second point is pretty off. marvel alone is a pretty huge brand that incorporates a large variety of movies and to label them all as 1 thing is not only wrong but it's lazy. Yeah some are creatively bankrupt but there are so many that are original and creative. It's like me saying horror movies are just cheap jump scares. Yes some are but so many aren't and grouping up movies and generalising like you are is what's killing movie criticism.

[@CaptDeadpool32]

@asellandrofacchio7263 I also disagree with the notion of it's ok if a movie is bad as long as its creatively bad. Like I get the point of a bad movie is better than a boring one. But also, bad is bad. And a movie that is competently made but a little forgettable still deserves praise for being competent

[@TwinRiver100]

I'm going to try and give this a watch if it gets in theaters. From the review i saw it seems like there are weird parts and it's kind of a lot and trying to say a lot. Not sure if this is one of those crowd pleaser type movies, I think it's largely a stylized movie that has good stuff but is kind of weird. probably has a lot of deeper stuff that is probably something that video essayists would love and would have a field day taking apart and breaking down. Probably the academic types will have a field day with it when if it hits DVD/Blu-Ray in limited release or something although due to current climate, probably not. 😔 would still be neat though if it had some commentary and all that.

[@monchichi5677]

Bah! The distributors thought Madame Web was a good idea!!😅

[@TripleD2156]

So you just don't know how the movie industry works. Gotcha

[@sufyanelmoumi7186]

im soooo hype for this movie the trailer was giving me Terry Gilliam imaginarium of dr parnassus vibes.

[@Zeppelin180]

Megaopilypse

[@j.r.cruzaguirre2734]

I think about filmmakers stretching out and doing things that no one else expects I remember movies like Tree of Life.

[@EduardAkano]

I think Adam Driver, more than a movie, need a good Mini Series, like coming back to HBO or something.

[@ronthesinger]

Nahh, he good. Campea's crew have such an opposite POV from those who take art into consideration that they don't realize he's been doing fine starring in the films of Jim Jarmusch, Ridley Scott, Michael Mann, Martin Scorsese, Leos Carax, Noah Baumbach and Francis Coppola.

[@martysmith5260]

When a big name director takes on a "dream" project like this, it too often is a self-indulgent, ego-driven mess. I was hoping this would be an exception. But, this is not the first time for Coppola - anyone remember "The Cotton Club?"

[@robertlewis1812]

Seriously? A review of a film he hasn't seen. A review of other peoples' reviews. Ridiculous

[@WESLEY91896]

I got to see apocalypse now final cut in imax and it is in my top 5 theater experiences ever so i think this film is going to be hard to pass up in imax.

[@barbarjinx3802]

I’m seeing it. I’m curious.

[@stephennootens916]

As I understand it the movie will be in theaters in Europe.

[@HarlanEllisonlives]

Yeah they like Jerry Lewis in France.

[@JamesMeechan-os6sl]

Adam driver was in tv series called girls you might be only talking about films but l thinking he was really good in girls tv series

[@masonteague4039]

Definitely seeing it Loved Apocalypse Now Loved The Godfather trilogy Liked rumble fish Loved the outsiders

[@NissmahRoshdy]

maybe its gonna be the next "The Room" most loved disastrous film :D

[@jamesshelley7432]

“could be #1 on Netflix” 😂

[@computron100]

Damn, even the positive reviews sound negative

[@ronthesinger]

Depends on where you look. "Megalopolis might be the craziest thing I’ve ever seen. And I’d be lying if I said I didn’t enjoy every single batshit second of it." - Bilge Ebiri

[@theketaminekid1241]

Read more reviews, these guys picked the worst ones. They seem quite biased.

[@WilliamJames48]

Megalopolips!

[@spicymemes7458]

5:28 Extremely underrated commentary

[@queenofnevers6990]

So, Swan song turned Wilhelm scream? Actually I don't mind it smh.

[@mikejorsch304]

Watch One Life hard to watch but you'll be glad you did

[@cjspyker]

Babylon all over again

[@jcw8719]

Babylon was really good

[@slate49]

I really enjoyed Babylon. I was surprised because the reviews were hard on the film

[@cjspyker]

@@slate49 this movie might become a cult classic like you Babylon enjoyers

[@HeadHeldProductions]

There is no way John is going to like this film, if you what I mean

[@byronkennedy7203]

I just watched the trailer and couldn't make heads or tails of it

[@swerve361]

“Art is dead and we've killed it.” Nietzsche

[@HarlanEllisonlives]

Yeah so said the guys that about 17 people read.

[@garycolton6522]

Shia Lebouf playing a Caligulaesque character is a master stroke of unoriginality.

[@robertoeduardoriveragarcia3332]

oh no 😔

[@92retsekoj]

The trailer looks weird. I don't think this was made for general audiences. I like weird, but this might just be too weird.

[@forcesensitive6371]

When I saw the trailer, I thought, this looks weird and jumbled. So this is no surprise.

[@EuroNation]

The WORST thing is to pay attention to critics. Wait until the general audience gives their opinion before coming to conclusions.

[@thelastattempt666]

I think audiences might hate it MORE tbh

[@RB-.-]

The Cannes audience is the most receptive to weird out there stuff made by auteurs. Most of the general audience doesn’t even know who FFC is. I find it really hard to trust the audience these days because they just want something simple that doesn’t make them think too much.

[@user-kc6zo9nj1w]

Its not about the management changing the team is not going to do much for him. He is always getting stellar roles with bigshot directors. Problem in his case is he is not your posterboy pretty boy like austin butler or robert pattinson type .he is superbly talented though .he is kind like dustin hoffman type. He is clearly been unlucky. He has to choose his roles very carefull feom now on. Stay away from artsy stuff and grab tje good massy stuff. Neil maccaughly role will benefit him in the upcoming heat movie. After that he should sneak his way into a superhero lead hero or villan. Matt reeves batman universe will be massive for him i think he should play main villian in either one of the remaining triology. He will kill it as hush or scare crow.

[@Newspin]

The reviews "are completely all over the place"; as is your pronunciation of this movie. 😂

[@codywhite8427]

I feel like maybe going against the grain when writing a story, intention, just to do it, usually doesn't work out, I feel like you have to logical get there, the story should present a moment to go outside the box and you have decide if throwing the screenwriter handbook out the window will elevate the story. And idk if he realizes, since its remake of the fall of Rome, at its core the story is a another remake. There movies about the fall of rome. Not so original. I like his films tho, who knows maybe my theory is wrong

[@jamenta2]

What the heck happened to Coppola? It's like he lost his magic entirely.

[@heavycritic9554]

The thing is... and I'm probably going to get hate for this, but here goes: Coppola made three amazing movies and one great in the 70s; the rest of his filmography is kind of middling-to-good, with some absolutely *_atrociously_* bad. Don't get me wrong: Godfather 1&2 and Apocalypse Now are absolute masterpieces, and deserve every single ounce of praise they get. It's just that aside from those three, he never really had that magic you mention. The Conversation is a great movie, but doesn't reach the same heights. I've never been sold on the idea that Coppola is some kind of eccentric genius; not like Scorsese for instance. Coppola hit his stride for three fantastic movies and one really good movie over a roughly ten-year period, and then lost it. He never again managed to find it. He had some occasional good movies (Dracula and Godfather 3, for instance), but the stride was gone.

[@jamenta2]

@@heavycritic9554 It does make you wonder if some of these famous directors are not as responsible for their films as one might imagine, and it's actually those around them that were the real engines. I'm thinking, for example, of George Lucas and his wife at the time (Martia? Lucas) the editor of Star Wars. The original 3 Star Wars were remarkable - but since then? Bleh. So yeah - Coppola hasn't done anything good since Godfather. Now his daughter, Sofia - totally different.

[@heavycritic9554]

@@jamenta2 Yeah, that thing about the people around them; I've been thinking about that a lot over the years, tbh. We've been in a culture of "the male genius" for a very, very, very long time. I wonder how many of those were really the result of female intervention (or another male, as it were), or because of the actors they were working with, when talking about directors. Definitely not all of them, perhaps not even a majority, but I have a sneaking suspicion that it's a lot more than we know. "The male genius" has been a selling point for centuries. When talking about Lucas, I think Marcia had a *_LOT_* to do with how good the original Star Wars trilogy is. More than she's willing to admit, herself.

[@jamenta2]

@@heavycritic9554 I suspect so too. Film certainly is a collaborative effort for the most part. It's just so surprising when you see these bigger than life directors not do much after there first few big films.

[@marcocardia3960]

Copolla should be under investigation for using cinematic steroids in the 70's

[@joyful]

Adam Driver is a great actor, but he was probably due for a miss.

[@NissmahRoshdy]

Whats sad is that Adam was in all of those movie you listed that weren't hits, but those were actually made by A-list directors and he gave great performances in them, maybe the problem is that he trusts famous directors too much...even if they're out of their game now

[@ronthesinger]

From Bilge Ebiri: "The man was in the best movie of 2021 [Annette], the second best movie of 2023 [Ferrari], and in between made two Ridley Scott movies (one of which was Ridley’s best in decades) and starred in two of the most ambitious, impossible dream projects of all time. This is a legendary run."

[@raul5081]

He's already wealthy. I think working with great names and delivering will be better than being Dwayne Johnson.

[@NissmahRoshdy]

@@raul5081 you're right, I would say he can lay low and pick projects like actor Jake Gyllenhaal does, like he did with 65, but its sad to see him invest his talent and time with old famous directors who are not very focused anymore and make headlines in bad reviews, thats not good for Adam's resume.

[@ronthesinger]

@@NissmahRoshdy I don't think it hurts his resume to have the trust of talented & legendary directors like Jim Jarmusch, Spike Lee, Martin Scorsese, Noah Baumbach and Leos Carax to be cast in their films. And for many people, he demonstrated the finest acting out of the whole cast of the Star Wars sequel trilogy. :)

[@georgeworthmore]

they'd rather another Spiderman

[@Maya_Ruinz]

Uh oh...

[@alexprinsrealestateagent1263]

The trailer looks like a mess. There is something that just doesn’t sit well with me. I’m intrigued by it, but it reminds me of other high concept hot messes that have been released before.

[@juanluismendoza8655]

The weirdest thing about the trailer is that there were so many edit cuts in it. There wasn’t a single shot in the trailer that lasted more than 1 second.

[@user-rv9hp6bo3y]

From that trailer I couldn't tell you what on earth the film was about if my life depended on it

[@ps2progamer814]

Coppola doesnt know it either​@@user-rv9hp6bo3y

[@captaincorona9488]

Complete mess...as messy as Babylon?

[@captaincorona9488]

Yes, very disappointing reviews. I like Coppola. Liked all three Godfather movies. I can watch those movies over and over again. Also liked the Black Stallion and Apocalypse Now as well.

[@Stalagmize]

Sup time

[@TheGoon243]

I liked the Godfather part 3 more than part 2

[@HarlanEllisonlives]

What were those cracks about marvel movies and cinema?? I hear choking noises.

[@lordrayden3045]

Pretty much

[@ronthesinger]

I hear a man who's happy with his life and career and family, trying to at least help a culture in America save it from itself.

[@HarlanEllisonlives]

@ronthesinger ohhh please! Movies are a business period. From time to time good art comes out of that business and a lot of times that art losses money. At one point studios didn't mind that because they put out so much product it would cover the lost and they got some prestige out of it. He's over romanticizing a period of time in the industry that bears little to reality.

[@ronthesinger]

@@HarlanEllisonlives Thanks for replying w/ respectfulness. :) Movies are both a business and an artform, yes, but it will suffer overall if it conditions people to only support works that adhere to a set of commercial rules (Just look at the state of cinema in the Philippines, and the monumental collapse of its action films in the early 2000s because of how rote they became). Nobody's accusing Coppola of romanticizing a period, he himself IS a romantic, and it's his opinion that there should be space for artists to thrive in a business that's increasingly treating all films as mere content for streaming services.

[@theketaminekid1241]

@HarlanEllisonLives I really don't think he's overomanticizing cinema, movies have made deep cultural and social change, often times for the better. The world would be a darker place without cinema and the artist.

[@shimtest]

the "distributors" are the studio system he's giving the finger to, so don't go by their word

[@johncampea]

You mean the distributors he’s desperately trying to get to buy his film? Thus having distributor only screenings and events?

[@ktom5262]

"Megaopolips"?..🤦😂 Jee, is Campea trolling or just useless?

[@arkangelarkangel1302]

Cgi? I thought Coppola hated modern 🤔 movie tricks?... Tubi will screen it, for free, in a month.

[@RickAcklin]

I'll wait for the Snyder Cut... 🤔

[@allthingsnerdy5474]

dude is still living comfortably with his star wars money it's a shame though , i hope adam goes to a24 or DC or Marvel someday

[@jimjambaroo777]

He was in an incredible film on Netflix called Marriage Story

[@tism7710]

Yeet

[@jonwilliams916]

Seems like people are having just as much difficulty watching this as John is having saying the title

[@pouryababalou892]

the world building is 0.

[@liquadzcod5575]

Cinema fatigue

[@HarlanEllisonlives]

😅🤣😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@lordrayden3045]

It would be hilarious if it doesn’t get a theatrical release

[@harshckuk]

Sounds like a historic disaster is on the way

[@theketaminekid1241]

I doubt it's a disaster if it's 52% on RT, a disaster would be anything below 30%.

[@harshckuk]

@@theketaminekid1241 saying it from financial standpoint

[@theketaminekid1241]

@harshckuk Sadly I agree it will at least underperform badly.

[@alexrain1188]

The only reason I’m even interested in it is because I heard it is a $122 million dollar remake of THE ROOM.

[@Calers-gu1ib]

Apparently they knew a year ago that the movie would get attacked because Coppola did it on his own. Gives the impression someone in Hollywood, Netflix and others paid some critics because just as many critics liked it as hated it.

[@SomethingSomewhereJustOnce]

LOL, he made a bad film. He hasn't made a brilliant film in a while. It's alright to accept that he can make a bad film. 😂