The Most Divisive Film Of The Year

[@arngrim9159]

I pledge allegiance to go back to the club

[@metafication]

you think one comment entitles you to plunder the riches of this Emersonian kino

[@jekkijekster]

of the United Clubs of Picking Up My Hat

[@theactualTVB]

Talkin’ ‘bout the club Lookin’ at the club Hittin’ at the club Emphasizin’ "club"

[@iamtheeldestboy]

Going back to the club to go up in da club.

[@TheOdMan]

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.

[@WhiteChocolate74]

Except Skinamarink

[@austins.2495]

@@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 👍

[@WhiteChocolate74]

@austins.2495 totally fair. I respect the movie, it just didn't work for me at all

[@r.davidsen]

Except this movie. It's 0/10 if you ask me. There's nothing interesting about this movie, at all. I can't find one good thing to say about it. And that says a lot.

[@JukeHighwalker]

RLM is trash...

[@jpcneto43]

When I watched it, I had the impression that I was watching a play made in a movie studio. The costumes and the exaggerated performances reminded me of the theater.

[@EleaticStranger]

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.

[@Gee-xb7rt]

Shia's character I thought was obvious a cult of personality politician, like everyone in DC, and why nothing moves forward.

[@lymphomasurvive]

I thought it all fit together.

[@ricardocantoral7672]

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.

[@christopherlyndsay8611]

Boner bow.

[@biketickler65]

It's clearly supposed to be a Greco-Roman tragicomedy. Americans struggling to comprehend materials that switch between comedy, drama, and tragedy is not new.

[@rotanick8800]

Cesar is definitely a self-intert. The whole megalon ideia seems to be symbolic for artistic inspiration, being able to create anything. They even say that he found it when trying to revive his wife, like Copolla's wife tragically passing. Artists are really great at shaping melancholy into great art.

[@seancatacombs]

For an art form to still be worthwhile it needs to have its "What The Fuck Is That?" projects

[@tim8067]

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.

[@withnail-and-i]

When shit gets done in a capitalist country they basically go full on communism, the metaphor is in our face

[@Matt42MSG]

And of course none of this could be a surrealistic reference to Sputnik motivating the United States to emphasize scientific development, out of fear if nothing else.

[@michaelroseagain]

Yeah. The satellite was key the plot. I don’t get how critics didn’t get it. They say they were confused, it was incoherent, they kept looking at their watches. No wonder they missed the details.

[@xGodofAtheistsx]

@@michaelroseagain It was a perceived threat which changed the decisions and future then inevitably the push for change they needed to take the next step? lol

[@Fadzi2342]

Time to rewatch Idiocracy.

[@trvst5938]

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. 🫴

[@j.d.buchanan4897]

This is a great review. I really enjoyed the film and you really crystallized what I thought about the movie but couldn't put into words.

[@TOAOM123]

I pledge allegence As a stan To respectfully goon for only the purest of kino

[@Samvisualarts]

Retard speak

[@elmoonfire]

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.

[@yggdrasil2]

Titus is actually set in a mix of different time periods much like Megalopolis.

[@elmoonfire]

@@yggdrasil2 wow thanks

[@yggdrasil2]

@@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.

[@michaelroseagain]

The virginity piece and the satellite piece are key. One is symbolic of loss of innocence and loss of belief in the Empire (foreshadowed in the first voiceover) that’s when things south for the city. Read the headlines. Same for the satellite. This is more like a play with 4 Acts and many scenes. A scene delivers a key plot point. Done. You don’t need to weave it in anymore. Shakespeare didn’t, Sophocles didn’t. Read it like a play and you’ll love it.

[@ehrtdaz7186]

This looks and feels like a high budget Neil Breen movie.

[@jonchowe]

That was my exact thought about 10 minutes in. Bingo.

[@superfish0012]

Despite never being one, I felt through the whole movie like Megalopolis The Film was an adaptation of Megalopolis The Stage Play. I love the Art Deco-Roman fusion, too. Absolutely gorgeous.

[@juniorjames7076]

Ultimately, I actually felt it would have been MORE enjoyable as a live performance. I would have rather paid to see this performed live (with all the mishaps, improv, mistakes, and surprises inherent in a live performance) than see this as a film.

[@jonl7893]

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.

[@springshowers4754]

Yeah, it came off as pretty Randian. Wonder if Coppola is a fan of The Fountainhead?

[@leohoffmanofficial1541]

@@springshowers4754 He did compare Adam Driver's character to Ayn Rand in an old interview. That said, politically, the film's very different from Randianism since it's arguably in favor of central planning and state-run education which she disliked

[@purpleblah2]

We don’t need funding for teachers or garbage pickup, we just need to let Elon Musk do whatever he wants with no oversight and we’ll live in a utopia 🤔

[@sagelobu]

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.

[@PolubriousSneed]

I saw this movie twice in theatre so far. I wept tears of joy during the second viewing. This has never happened to me while watching a movie before. Unquestionably my favorite movie experience ever. So many scenes that have meaning for me on many levels, it has truly moved me. Definitely buying any physical release that becomes available. For brainchads only. You will not like this film if you do not have a tall brain.

[@Daneiladams555]

agreed!

[@bozoc2572]

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!

[@ricardocantoral7672]

I loved it! I have a strong feeling that this movie will develop a huge cult following.

[@christopherlyndsay8611]

I mean this film was also vulgar in plenty of places.

[@levinskevich2180]

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.

[@rlh1984]

This point is so obvious that I’m baffled by how many people don’t get it. People who say, “This movie is incomprehensible and has nothing to say” are projecting their own lack of curiosity, and it seems like they’re saying that if they don’t get it that there’s nothing to get.

[@leohoffmanofficial1541]

Great interpretation!

[@michaelroseagain]

It’s theatre. It’s not supposed to be subtle.

[@pedrocacela1885]

It''s a metaphor for art and the creative process of art. The artist controls, but also depends, on the time it takes for his works to be brought into existence, which, by the way, is also time. It can also mean that art is eternal and, therefore, stops/abolishes time, because one can have an impression or perception of eternity during a simple, fleeting instant, while having sensory contact with it. Just my two cents on it, i could be wrong.

[@PaulHillery]

⬜☢ I felt the Soviet satelite about to crash to earth (for the longest in Canada - and who cares, in New Rome or most of present day earth, if it's in Canada) is about our extinction level destruction of the planet few pay attention to. Even though it finally comes down in New Rome, nobody cares except the poor people who are killed or have to clean it up . The new building m,aterial might comne in handy then...

[@FineLineMotionPictures]

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.

[@Wol333]

It was art, pure, and refined in how unrefined it should be.

[@ronthorn3]

Pure art? That doesn’t mean it’s good.

[@Wol333]

@@ronthorn3 I don't care

[@spencerlane415]

Isn’t art supposed to be a showcase of actual talent? The screenplay, the performances, the set pieces, the cinematography, how it tackles its themes are all completely broken and misguided in this movie.

[@Wol333]

@@spencerlane415 no, it's an expression of the artist.

[@securityg]

After watching that juvenile slop called 'DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE', 'MEGALOPOLIS' is an artistic revelation. Coppola catered to this vision for the last 25 years plus and it showed. It was bold, audacious and in some parts psychedelic. Yes, it was a long in certain sections but the overall creative arc was outstanding. Yes, it's not for the masses because sublimely it touches upon The Tower of Babel, Greed, Lust, Anarchy, Power and The Architecture of the Mind,...so believe me, not everyone is going to get into this movie. However, what Coppola and that cast and crew conveyed was that art, commerce, culture and creativity can be used to hopefully uplift and elevate the human mind and thinking and by creating and financing 'MEGALOPOIS' on his own, FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA has certainly done that. - James D. Watkins, artistic director of PHOENIX PRODUCTIONS.

[@stefans8315]

For me, I felt it was like walking into a person's brainstorm of ideas about a film, about a man brainstorming about a better world, & the perils & human frailties that could get in the way of such a dream. Like looking through a creative person's sketch journal of ideas for a project, and the journal coming to life. It brought sureallism to screen in a way few films have successfully, and I mean not only the visuals, but the plot, the style of acting, etc. Has anyone seen an opera or other stage production by the designer Robert Wilson? Has anyone seen Lynch's Mulholand Drive?? Cronenberg's Naked Lunch couldn't go completely off the rails like it's source material, so it ended up being more about the writer writing the book - and any surreal moments were clearly the writer's drug-induced vision. So it was set more in our reality, really. Also, this film starts with saying it's a fable. It's like a picture-book/comic book. Does it have to follow typical conventions like The Princess Bride, Lord of the Rings or any of the billion other standard fantasy films? The Boy & the Heron, I mean, near the end that was WTF is going on?! As for storytelling techniques & different styles, look at Prospero's Books, Dick Tracy, Fellini's Roma, or Coppola's Dracula! Of course it's nothing like the Godfather, that was in a much more classical Hollywood style! If Un Chien Andalou (by Luis Bunuel & Salvador Dalì) were to premier today, it would be trashed.

[@lymphomasurvive]

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.

[@MichaelMichael-us6wq]

I pledge allegiance, to see metropolis after leaving megalopolis

[@nashjonas]

architect cinephiles are eating good this year- Megalopolis and The Brutalist

[@PurpleColonel]

Best movie of the year easily

[@barry4649]

I liked it. I wish more people took risks and made weird films

[@metafication]

I pledge allegiance to immortal absurdist kino and the majority of audiences that rightfully hate it

[@TheGreatBaronOBeefDip]

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.

[@danwroy]

Look up the Gardens of Stone controversy

[@TheGreatBaronOBeefDip]

@@danwroy Trying to find it, what happened, looks like it was memory holed.

[@BlunderB]

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.

[@TheFrenchmanCooks]

and this has what to do with his filmmaking?

[@GlacialScion]

​@@TheGreatBaronOBeefDip I'm guessing related to him replacing the main actor for getting his son killed in a boating accident?

[@finlaywelburn]

I can’t wait for Sofia Coppola to make a spin off about wow platinum

[@biancaluedeker]

Wow wow wow wow wow wow

[@tom-vj9lz]

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

[@decodr-ring]

The last bit that Cesar said from that Hamlet dialog was the word "bodkin". "Bodkin" has the following gematria cipher values 55, 28, 107, 35. It has a match on three cipher values with "New Age" 55, 28, 107, 26. So, bodkin appears to be a hidden reference to New World Order or Novus Ordo Seclorum.

[@Dadutta]

kudos for mentioning Rumblefish, great movie

[@mr.chocolaterobot]

NO ONE'S PAYING ATTENTION TO THE REAL GEM OF THIS MOVIE.... WE GET A MASTER FILMMAKER TALKING ABOUT FILM... WHETHER IT WAS GOOD OR NOT...THIS IS HIS LAST MOVIE... COPPOLA IS 85YRS OLD... CHERISH THE MAN BEFORE WE LOSE HIM.....🧐👑🍺✌🏾

[@tumppuman]

It's not a masterpiece! It's naaaat! Oh hi, Kino Corner.

[@biancaluedeker]

Yessssss yeeeeeessssss go back to da club.

[@yojimbo6879]

Tom Waits in "Rumble Fish" that's a performance. I too like messy films otherwise how could one not love "Naked Lunch"

[@PitNeex]

I'm pretty sure that one of the greatest director's of the past decades would be intentional with his work. The campiness is the most realistic part of the movie actually. Politicians and journalists in the news say way more absurd things. Adam Driver is a good actor but always a bit too much for my taste. Learning that Jude Law and Christian Bale were supposed to have his role makes more sense for the more grounded scenes about his wife for example. I still haven't seen a movie with Adam Driver having chemistry with an actress and the weak love story was a negative aspect of the movie. Everything else fantastic! I actually liked the fakeness of the effects paired with the Shakespearean dialog. Some visuals were actually pretty stunning! The whole movie was an F u to the Hollywood studios. Coppola wanted to let himself go without producers notes. Not a good movie, but also not a boring movie, and today most of them are....

[@juniorjames7076]

Ultimately, I actually felt it would have been MORE enjoyable as a live performance. I would have rather paid to see this performed live (with all the mishaps, improv, mistakes, and surprises inherent in a live performance) than see this as a film.

[@BobbyGrand-xk9iw]

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

[@decodr-ring]

Yes, it is an adaptation of a story -- a real story -- the Conspiracy of Catilina in 63 BCE.

[@BobbyGrand-xk9iw]

@@decodr-ring you mean 63 BC

[@ultravisione9311]

I like the expression “in his latest film Coppola destroys cinema”

[@Lyendith]

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.

[@dilansmithee503]

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!

[@MrHootiedean]

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.

[@Squirrelmind66]

“George, you can write this shit, but you sure can’t say it.” (Harrison Ford on the set of Star Wars)

[@efrankjames]

This is the best and most fair review I’ve seen so far

[@l4ndst4nder]

My issue with the film if that it is completely hung up on great man theory. Combined with the Caesar’s total lack of practicality and focus on only his family at the end he doesn’t seem much better than Cicero. Sure the people stand behind Caesar at the end but why is his utopia mostly empty of people and the people we do see are only the absurdly powerful characters we follow.

[@metafication]

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.

[@christopherlyndsay8611]

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.

[@PolubriousSneed]

But it was never "laughable", it's like you are involved in the show and helping to power it. It all feels very deliberate.

[@mkaeterna9161]

To the Megalopolis haters: It's OK. It's not for you. It's only for geniuses.

[@aidanlastname0187]

That’s such a pretentious thing to say

[@mkaeterna9161]

@@aidanlastname0187 You find me cruel, selfish, and unfeeling? I am. I work without caring what happens to either of us. So go back to the club, bare it all, and stock the kind of people that you enjoy.

[@PolubriousSneed]

for brainchads only

[@spencerlane415]

A movie for people who have no knack for what a good screenplay is.

[@AustinBeeman]

@@mkaeterna9161*stalk

[@alexanderspencer4194]

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

[@purpleblah2]

It felt like an Ayn Rand fan fiction

[@Kordellcabe12]

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.

[@lymphomasurvive]

Read what I wrote in the main thread.

[@that1guy375]

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.

[@kimjongun2266]

The emoji movie had a similar reaction from critics when it first came out. Sometimes it takes a couple years til people can fully comprehend brilliance in filmmaking

[@TheAutistWhisperer]

I don't think it's a masterpiece, but I liked it.

[@lucasartscrafts6023]

"I pledge allegiance to our human family..." also, (holding birth certificate)"born in Indonesia"

[@roryasrorri701]

wkwkwkwkwk

[@Jay-jp4nv]

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.

[@eddyrose8596]

Great take! I think it is a masterpiece and film is pleading with its audience to consider where we want to go next.

[@matthewrikihana6818]

Just seen it, so glad I saw it. Not as messy as some would have us believe. It is its own context. I felt evocations of Rumble Fish, Bram Stoker's Dracula, but I also felt recollections of Lynch's Wild At Heart and Dune too. Should all cinema follow this example? No. But I'll watch this unfettered gem from one of our greats coz when will I ever get to see another new movie from Francis in a theater. Definitely cult movie status.

[@FilmSchoolDad]

Excellent and honest review. Bravo.

[@nerrisnassiri]

I loved it. Every single choice was wrong, but for some reason I just loved it.

[@joshuagunderson6593]

Year two of asking you to review Brother 1&2 😔

[@ultra-lib]

Is 2 good? I’ve seen 1 and it was pretty cool

[@nikolaitykvenko]

@@ultra-lib2 is fun, but i guess not as realistic as Брат

[@nikolaitykvenko]

@@ultra-libwould still watch

[@joshuagunderson6593]

@@ultra-lib 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.

[@ivanvoronov3871]

I second that. Kino corner would love it

[@Segadrome]

Megalopolis: The Biggest Normie Filter of 2024

[@j9million]

It just sucks bro

[@Segadrome]

@@j9million filtered.

[@j9million]

@@SegadromeWhat did you like about the movie

[@CowLiver]

I've haven't seen it yet, but I can tell you right now it's an instant vlasic classic.

[@Gee-xb7rt]

@@j9million I wouldn't really say it was about likes and subs, normie mcnorm

[@trogoautoegocrat666]

Coppola is showing his understanding of the teachings of the Rashi de Troyes; that is what is so fascinating! To his wife; I respect this very much. That is what it means to stop the time. And did anyone see the reunion of Midnight Cowboy? So many things! A jewel indeed. That is why only she can see him stopping that time.

[@PaulHillery]

It was also Coppola's benediction for his wife who had recently died. A project hw wanted to finish for her and his commentary on how life has become, although I suspect he is too old to see how wild and staid it is now. it is not AI produced stuff like most movies that would fail the replicant test.

[@bacarandii]

Robert Altman used to point out that he and the major Hollywood studios were not even in the same business. Isn't the same true of Coppola? He financed "Megalopolis" himself. Other than it being a feature-length audio-visual presentation with a few marquee-name actors, distributed (initially, at least) through existing movie theaters, it's not a conventional "release." Is it a narrative motion picture? Is it art? Is it entertainment? Is it a money-making (or -losing) venture? Are those questions even relevant (to Coppola or a prospective audience)? It's an experience that can be made to exist in the world under certain conditions. There it is. Make of it what you will.

[@motility1969]

I pledge allegiance (but only because I am out of Lysol). [loved your assessment of the film]

[@Ganderlow]

The biggest problem is the non-cohesive plot. There are several segments that wind on for 3-4 minutes without any actual dialogue where random visuals/music plays and Caesar rambles quietly in the background. Felt like a fever dream simulation.

[@chrisjsoto]

You clearly don’t have an amazonian mind.

[@PASTRAMIKick]

It's the ultimate source material for YT Poops and Out of context scenes videos

[@lackcerebro]

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

[@iAmiSaid]

Kino, I pledge allegiance to you my darling, thank you for a wonderful wonderful review I love all of your videos, ergo I love you!

[@juniorjames7076]

Ultimately, I actually felt it would have been MORE enjoyable as a live performance. I would have rather paid to see this performed live (with all the mishaps, improv, mistakes, and surprises inherent in a live performance) than see this as a film.

[@BIGTENFanatic]

I thought Megalopolis was incredible

[@fragbomb]

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

[@thatstherecipe]

it’s overloaded with fresh material bro it could easily be a top notch kino if edited differently and given a unique soundtrack but this version they released to the public was hot kaka

[@steven401ytx]

I like it because I know liking it makes me special and not a normie and certainly not a pretentious bore.

[@lymphomasurvive]

I went in expecting nothing having seen bad reviews and I liked it.

[@darthtater110]

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.

[@TheKinoCorner]

@@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)

[@Brhuno]

Of the year? Perhaps the most divisive film of the DECADE

[@TrojanLloydPer]

20-30 years from now this movie will end up as a form of Citizen Kane

[@BlindBison]

Interesting film, but I can’t see Coppola being satisfied with some of the effects shots. There’s no way that sky kiss sequence came out the way he envisioned it in his head. It’s odd like you said because some sequences looked great and others looked unfinished or like they needed to be redone entirely.

[@PaulHillery]

STOP TIME and read the quality and length of comments written here. That's what the movie is about: to generate Thought, while being entertaining in a different and way. This is Coppola's tribute to Shelley's 1818 poem "Ozymandias".

[@DerekPower]

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 =].

[@69jalo]

The satellite was the reason for the people giving megalopolis a chance because in the movie the city was destroyed by the satellite.

[@iAmiSaid]

Let's talk about New Rome as New York And here is the word that will draw it all together Regentrification Coppola's Old New York was a beautiful New York that we could take seriously The new New York is a joke and Coppola knows that

[@Melancholic_Loner]

When are you going to make your own Megalopolis?

[@TheKinoCorner]

when I have 120 million dollars to spare

[@themoviefan9990]

​@TheKinoCorner no way you'd make something this horrible with $120 million

[@dancooper4733]

​@@TheKinoCorner Just sell the winery.

[@lymphomasurvive]

​@@themoviefan9990It wasn't horrible.

[@themoviefan9990]

@@lymphomasurvive agree to disagree

[@RaySosa007]

Hey Kino, do you think the Jon Voight scene of him shooting arrows purposely funny? or bad its funny?

[@scouthatesrainbows]

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

[@PolubriousSneed]

On purpose. Otherwise it reads grim and nasty like a Game of Thrones kill.

[@DisgracedPropagandist]

The only review that matters!!

[@Daneiladams555]

I love this fucking movie, im totally mind blown

[@benjamindover4337]

Good review.

[@michaelroseagain]

Why are people talking about weed? It’s clearly a psilocybin movie. Clearly psychedelic.

[@Alex-km7so]

Because apparently Francis Ford Coppola smoked a ton of weed on set

[@PolubriousSneed]

iykyk

[@michaelroseagain]

@@Alex-km7so and that’s way more conspicuous than him consuming a simple mushroom diet. Psychedelic people are more subtle than smokers.

[@lefszycic]

It feels like Coppola had his “Decker is a definitely a replicant and I say so” moment with Caesar long before this got made but the rest of the film doesn’t really support that.

[@jesustyronechrist2330]

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.

[@brotherhoodoflightshowcurr3318]

thanks for the review .Megalopolis the Francis Ford Coppola film 2024. I thought it was fantastic. Loved it despite the critics stuck in their remake blockbusters attitudes. I find a triple parallel in the storytelling. The first parallel story back in the late 70s after fuel shortage scientist and engineers came up with a thing called solar panels. Jimmy Carter put them on the White House. Then Ronald Reagan took them off White House. The trend in the 80ts started making giant gas guzzling vehicles again. now in 2024 I have a complete solar house and electric car fantastic technology it works , The status quo gas guzzlers consider it WOKE or bad to use these modern technologies to empower our lives. People are not willing to change. Number two parallel, the film Megalopolis has a scientist, engineer and architect that creates a substance Megalon that will build a better future. The status quo in the story Megalopolis does not want to accept this new modern technology and are not willing to change. The number three parallel Francis Ford Coppola produces this movie he maid something different. Francis took a fairly simple plot, painted it with his lens, writing depth, history and artistic interpretation. Megalopolis is getting good reviews by small percentage of critics. The status quo film reviews of these franchise, blockbuster, repeat and remake movies. These critics who didn’t want to understand the film. They took the easy way out by dismissing the film as a confusing mess and then complain about the green screen or a number of irrelevant bitchy complaints .It’s having issues at the box office because people are not willing to accept change or even look at it in art or film. But sometime in the future people will realize that we need change. We need art and science to help us break our old habits and create a better world. The film hopefully will be honored down the road when people are willing to accept a new and better future.

[@Lion0fTheDesert]

I pledge allegiance to humanity! Great work as usual bro.

[@televinv8062]

Excellent review. Thanks It's a movie that was ever going to be for everyone. An 'anti blockbuster'

[@AustinBeeman]

That new pledge of allegiance

[@josephnigoghossian]

I felt this film was a 0 and a 10 but definitely not a 5. I think the more jarring stylistic choices do serve as a sort of set up allowing the contrasting philosophical elements to resonate and really drive home the message of this film. people walked out in the first 15 minutes and I wasn't sure i was going to be able to stick with it but in the end the credits rolled to applause which is incredibly rare for a public screening in the uk. I think Megalopolis will become one of the most important films of the century.

[@hedmunds4]

Entertaining film. Plaza and Shia were excellent. Plaza was so good. Shia was completely bonkers and killed all his scenes. Recommended for lovers of unique, art films.

[@fiore3ky]

i really enjoy the movie, i think is going to be understood in the future

[@corborb69]

To be fair, the stop stopping was not a plot device, it was an excuse for FFC incorporate soliloquies into the script because he's delusional and thought he was writing Shakespeare.

[@Dataraptor-v9l]

Yes, it feels like a movie that is supposed to be discussed, not so much to be "rated".

[@picklejarmonsterfanboy9367]

Rick Worley liked it that's enough for me