It’s a Greek/roman tragedy and written like one , it’s not ridiculous but it surely is weird and very much outside the cinema standards So I get why it looks ridiculous and nonsensical but if you watch it like one it makes a lot of sense
@@h0pelessdreamerfilms I think it did it pretty well imo but I understand that people hate it because of how artsy the writing is The only thing I think is not that good is that some of the metaphors where a bit too under the nose compared to the rest (like the guy that represents fascism having as his sidekick a guy with a black sun on the forehead) but aside from that I thought it handled itself pretty well
I love Jodorowski, The Tree of Life, Masked & Anonymous, Infinite Jest, David Lynch, Donald Barthelme, Dadaist Art, and all sorts of absurdism. I was so prepared for this to be a diamond in the rough, and it was just ghastly. The audience in the theater I saw it at were laughing derisively within 10 minutes. Poor Adam Driver and Aubrey Plaza.
I really liked it 😊 I'm in the minority I know ! It's not difficult to understand 😮 It's a love story , with greed and family disputes ! Loved Shia LaBeoufs character . Different strokes for different folks 😊
I actually feel like Plaza understood what was going on. She knew it was a ghastly movie, and so she turned her acting duties over to April Ludgate. There's no way she was unintentionally that bad.
Oh man. Same. Seeing Megalopolis made me retroactively hate all movies. It made me sick to my stomach to think about ever watching a movie again. I don't think I've ever expeerienced that before.
I thought I was the only one… it really makes the art worse 😂 I am doing a short film currently and this made me incredibly paranoid of artistic agency
Sometimes a movie has a really deep premise and fails because it can't execute it, but I don't even understand what Copola thought was profound about the idea behind the movie. It's about a genius scientist who clashes with political powers that be in a modern society that's kind of an allegory for Rome. It's not bad, but this is a passion project of forty years?
You missed the best part. In the last 15 minutes, Aubrey Plaza exits the screen and gives everyone in the cinema a lap dance, so I think that explains the 5/5s.
This is the worst movie I have ever seen. Not even good trash like Hobbs and Shaw or The Room. Not even boring bad like Morbius or Madame Web. Boring, bad, and annoying. Like a Reddit mod giving a college presentation.
i'm from Romania , and what i understand from this movie is that Roman Empire depicted here is about USA from today and their internal problems ,in the end looks like a civil war is ready to start (like a second civil war in USA) and give clues how to avoid this to become real ... that kid born in the end represent Hope (anyway is confusing movie , but one is fore sure , the director of this movie give riddles in this movie all over the place , in every minute...and i believe all is about USA from present days (their internal problems) ,same problems that made The Roman Empire fall in the past
Chase, you summarizing the plot of Megalopolis with the phrase "I think", perfectly describes my thought process of when I was watching it and after it ended when I was thinking about it. Appreciate it for sure because a lot of ideas on the table when I could comprehend them are interesting and compelling, too bad it's all thrown together in a half-baked narrative where despite how huge the scale of everything is seems to not really be consequential and is just plain emotionally unengaging because the characters were so flat. I still can't get over that Francis Ford Coppola (director of how many iconic classics) wrote a narrative where his protagonist essentially does nothing but succeeds in what he was doing anyway, making the times where there is "conflict" feel even more pointless. Even with all that though, I do think people should check it out at least once. We're probably not going to get anything like Megalopolis again at least for the time being. I'm sure another filmmaker similar to Coppola's legacy in the next decade could attempt a project this ambitious with the only hope that it'll have better results.
Appreciate you as always Will! I almost didn't make a video because like I said, I've never been so baffled with how a movie this bad can be made by somebody so important to the medium, and I still feel like I'm going to watch it again to do a review/breakdown of the whole thing so I can show exactly what is so awful about it, but I just had to let some steam off here hahaha. Again, I respect his ambition too, but I need more to give something a 4/5 on letterbox'd.
10:20 Coppola really set himself up to be mock with the rant, cause as soon as he criticized a whole series of movies with his statement and being a master filmmaker, the entire world is now looking at him to bring "Cinema" back and prove his point. With this is just gonna prove the "old man yells at clouds" accusations right and even more ironic he ended up using the same CGI effects as any MCU movie. Hell, some of the crew ever worked on some past MCU film! Worse are the reports that Coppola still thinks making actors and the crew suffer equals a good movie like Apocalypse Now. Instead some of the crew was so pissed at him doing nothing on set and partying that they asked themselves if he had ever actually directed a movie.
I wanted to leave so bad but I heard there was a live theater aspect of the movie. And I thought I was going to get to see it because when I bought my tickets the whole row was full but when I got there it was just me and some other dude. So I was like “oh he’s the live performer and he needs all these seats to do the performance.” Well that never happened
Honestly, with the way Modern Cinema has been, I'm not shocked. A lot of directors I once respected have fallen from grace. This is genuinely how I felt about Ridley Scott after the Alien Prequels.
So fucking tired of reviews about cinematography or it has great messages Like I'm here to see a good movie and a good story. I don't care about the message or its visually stunning
Truth! I honestly don’t believe ANYONES liked this. If this was made by anyone else, everyone would be trashing it. Coppola is getting a pass, but his career shouldn’t make him bulletproof.
i love this movie. you have to put aside your preconceptions a little because he chooses to tell a story differently, not all the characters have satisfying arcs but that's okay because the points the movie is trying to make are more important
I liked it. Didn't love it. But I enjoyed it more than I didn't. I'm not a Coppola fan either. Just because you don't like or get something doesn't mean other people can't or won't. It takes incredible hubris to assume that people liking something you don't can only mean that they are deluded somehow.
I havent seen it yet..But watching pissed off 5 year olds giving reviews makes me want to. If it's not good (and that may be the case) I'll try and least be constructive in my criticism
I’ve never experienced anything like this before. I never want to experience that feeling again. I wanna give a hug to everyone that went to go see this clusterfuck
I don’t even make videos and I want to start a UA-cam channel just to complain about this movie. I thought I was gonna get a Babylon type of thing where the review was were wrong but Boy oh boy were they right.
FFC believes that this will be a perennial film that the whole family [yes, despite its R rating] will want to experience year after year, like the way Cecil B DeMille's "The Ten Commandments" airs on network TV around Easter every year. He truly believes viewers will watch it & glean something enlightening & profound after each yearly viewing, as film enthusiasts peel away every layer with the intensity that is given to the most complex works of Kubrick. As Coppola would proclaim, the result would cause a never-ending conversation about how we choose to move forward as a society. As with most things intended to "start a conversation" & "raise awareness," this pretentious ballyhoo is all style, no substance.
Frankly there isn't even much style. I was desperately grasping for some kind of coherent aesthetic to hold me through the movie and it was nowhere to be found. I later read that Coppola fired the art director and then the rest of the art team quit and everything made so much more sense.
@lymphomasurvive Oh I'm sorry, please explain the symoblism of Jon Voight pretending to have a boner then pulling out a mini bow and arrow with which he shoots shia lebouf in the ass twice.
I actually feel like Plaza understood what was going on. She knew it was a ghastly movie, and so she turned her acting duties over to April Ludgate. There's no way she was unintentionally that bad.
One movie I walked out of was The Thin Red Line. It’s an artsy fartsy movie that people couldn’t praise enough because of its theme “war is hell”. It’s based on a stream of consciousness story which didn’t translate well into film. The scene that really got me was this flashback of a girl on a swing. They kept showing it, and I told my date, “if they show her one more time, I am out of here. “They did, and I walked. It’s a crappy movie but people are afraid to admit because of its “themes” and they don’t want their friends to think they’re dumb. But crap is crap.
Yes. Yes it is! It's the worst movie ever made. And this is coming from someone who thought Coppola was a great director. He no longer is. This is like watching Alzheimer Now: Redux.
Saw this movie in Burbank CA (basically Hollywood) with a nearly full crowd who were all in on the joke (outside a few people), it was an incredible theater experience. Entire audience kept bursting out laughing at countless parts of the movie. I honestly loved it. Treat it as The Room and it's one of the best movies ever made.
I wanted to be blown away by this movie so badly- I’m a huge Adam Driver fan, I wanted it for him. I didn’t get to see the ending because I had to use the ladies room so badly. When it came time to go back in the theater I just couldn’t. Turned and then skipped all the way to my car.
This movie seems like what would happen if Richard Kelly adapted one of Ayn Rand's books. I think that the movie is like this is because everyone working on it knew that this is likely Coppola's last film, and they decided to humor him.
Ive heard this called "Coppolla remakes Jupiter Ascending" or something like that and by "ive heard" I mean, I totally just made that up because it looks like another terrible version of that terrible movie haha. Cheers.
@@chaseazarian Jupiter Ascending or as I so cleverly call it Jupiter Ass ending, ass beginning and ass middle. Yes, im very clever :D Its so so bad, like top 5 terrible movies of all time bad. Watching the trailer for Mega gives me ptsd flashbacks of JA. Cheers!
On a personal note, hope you get enough rest Chase. Panic attacks are scary but as long as there is not a lot of stress in your life and if it ever happens again you know what to do, you'll be ok.
Audiences should be informed front end this movie is a riff of the Cataline Conspiracy in the Roman Republic. If you know nothing about this period of history you will be lost. If you know, you will have a better idea of what they may have been going for.
I watched the offer recently about how the godfather was made and I was stunned by the genius of FFC behind the scenes etc. So I was in such utter disbelief for 2 hours watching it the first time, that the second time I watched it with friends (I hate myself), I pretended it was an Adam Sandler movie. But then I realized that the last Adam Sandler movie I watched was uncut gems which was a good movie. I just glitched
I actually thought I was missing something in the cinema. I felt like it was really self indulgent but then I was like maybe i'm just not smart enough. I feel better now though 😂
Perhaps after spending many years on the screenplay, Coppola fell into analysis paralysis, resulting in a chaotic and uninspired final product. What we ended up with was a tedious, disjointed mess. I was falling asleep by the middle of it. I didn't care for any of the characters.
I agree with you 100% !!!! 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?
I thought it was visually impressive at times , the production design was great , the costumes were great , some of the acting was fun to watch, the cinematography was great , Dustin Hoffman looks and sounds dead in this film , Jon Voight was a great creepy old man in this flick , but where this film fails the most is that all these characters are assholes , you just dont care about any of them , and you want them all to die .. I sat there watching wanting the film to end .. this is a film they should have locked in a value for a 100 years then release it Sept 27th 2124 and let those people not yet born look at it for whatever it is .. the last film from a legendary director ? ..
Because it's Francis Ford Coppola, people can't wrap their heads around the fact that it's utter crap. A similar thing happened with Martin Scorsese's The Irishman, although that wasn't nearly as bad. Quentin Tarantino is smart to stop at ten.
Your review was a million times better than Megapolis! Honestly, I'm not sure what you'd even describe in this movie-there’s really nothing there. Watching it felt like one of those bizarre dreams where you're running, then suddenly flying, and then just stuck in a dark room. It’s random, and utterly directionless. Very very very bad movie
Francis Ford Coppola definitely fell off years ago, his last critical and commercial success was Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992), that was it. From being known for classic masterpieces to now being known for making flop after flop.
It was so bad. It's hard to even put into words how bad every element of the filmmaking was. And you can't blame the actors because they were directed to say all those ridiculous words and behave in all those ridiculous ways from scene to scene to scene. It's shocking that anyone, ANYONE, let alone Hollywood royalty like Dustin Hoffman and Florence fishburne, could read that script and sign on to it. So I definitely fault them for that poor judgment, but the rest is squarely Coppola's fault. I CANNOT believe that he and his production team would allow it to see the light of day. It's cheesy, childish, nonsensical, self-indulgent, and lacks any semblance of artistic value. What a mess.
It must bd like them paintings that toddlers havd done and those stupid art critics are praising all the hidden details and saying things like you have to look past the picture envision what the artist hasnt painted pure joke
I expected another type of movie. This movie is not good. I agree with you. I left after an hour. First second time I walked out of a movie. The first time was with Solo movie. 😂
You sound like some dithering Marvel bro who is just yelling and cussing like you’re watching your home team lose on Tv. None of this is substantive analysis whatsoever.
Thank you for that review. I haven't seen it. And I have heard some... maybe bordering on the pretentious good reviews. The first movie I ever walked out on, the only movie, was the Deer Hunter. I thought it was extremely boring. And yet many people find it an exceptional experience of sorts. Won many awards. This sounds like the movie I would not like.
I feel like we can at least make fun of how shit TLJ is, this thing is just pretentious. Like being stuck in a room full the guys you’d see in American Psycho.
What I find most memorable is that the main character in this Roman world bears a striking resemblance to the main character from the roman-themed sitcom Up Pompeii... ua-cam.com/video/1Tc_CGyBvNg/v-deo.html
i am totally with you even if this wasn't a constructive crtiticism but more a rant at least it was honest about the movie and not like people dissecting this and rating it as bad but ok ,because to me it wasn't ok i also walked out. But after some time i noticed i thought way more about it then necessarry just because i couldn't believe how bad it is, just shocking i can't comprehend all the bad decisions even visually i didn't have fun nor was i untrugued and also not when i did check out the rest again, pretty painful to watch and i'd prefer many cheesy mediocre entertainment movies rated lower on imdb are a bliss in comparison where the crux foe me is that many are way too generous in rating this flop.
Coppola co wrote The Godfather screenplay lol and his co writer was the author of The Godfather novel so he had help writing. I’m sure either someone else wrote his hit movies or he co wrote. Which is probably why the movie sucked 😂
I'm genuinely intrigued not watching the movie why so many people hate it with a passion lol I assumed it was some artsy-fartsy surrealist shit like a Godard movie but apparently it isn't. I watched some really nice explanation of a dude who likes it, and his point is that key in "understanding" it is that "fable" in a title and that all actors in a movie are not real characters more like archetypes of certain idea or a thing, emotion- Plaza is lust, main character is this creative revolutionary to lead us into the new brighter future etc. I actually have to watch it now to see what to think of it. Two movies I hated like people hate this movie are Interstellar and Casino Royale. I think both are garbage movies for different reasons, but most people think they are great.
the director of this movie give riddles in this movie all over the place , in every minute...and i believe all is about USA from present days (their internal problems) ,same problems that made The Roman Empire fall in the past
If this is what "anti woke" movies are supposed to look like, sheesh, pull the plug on that right now. I'd rather a race-swapped character than whatever this mess was supposed to be.
Unpopular opinion but I loved basically whole movie. Theatrical farce of the actors is clearly seen as a narrative technique and Coppola surely knew what he was doing putting here and there esoteric symbolism and cross referencing real historical figures from Ancient Rome with similar destinies as characters in the movie weaving into these Shakespearian motifs and at the same time building each of main characters in a way to represent a social group. Besides that through whole movie one can see among main narrative theme of importance of the Artist, the Spirit of Imagination and connections of these two with the substance we call Time. This movie among other things provides an answer to our current problems exactly through the means of building advanced friendship with one’s imagination. By my personal opinion, Imagination is what all superpowers of Ceaser were metaphors for. Caesar is not in odds with his own imagination like most people. It does not rule him, giving birth to monstrous desires like in the case of the character of Shia LaBeuf. It is not degraded and restricted like in case of the main opponent of protagonist. It is befriended and cocrearive. Festives of Kronos, Saturnalia, lots of direct and indirect mentioning of pagan gods makes an interesting image of a modern city if Christianity would actually not become a dominant religion of post 300 AD Rome. (And also points out of how much of symbols would remain unchanged. Most Americans don’t know that the famous Eagle of America is non other than Zeus Himself) Also this movie does a good job of transition some very sacred states from psychedelic experience (whole time manipulation thing + parts like “if our mind can create gods, and gods have such an immense power, why don’t we have access to this power directly?”. And while lots of reviews are accusing this movie in pretentiousness, I find pretentious the very attitude of not getting a movie, which is has very obviously lots of indirect narratives through webs of cross references, and deciding that this a director’s fault. When Death Stranding was released it was bombed both by critics and the audience. But it was just what industry needed - absolutely alternative route, made by a visionary person, on times of flood of simulacra content. True to the director’s vision, not an easy to chew, because it is work of art, not a fast food product, a thing which should be pondered in attempt to understand why such figure would do something like this. Same goes for Matrix 4. Masterpiece which was destroyed by everyone’s opinion which was predicted in the scene where developers are arguing about what is the key concept of Matrix. Very same arguments which enraged fans was accusing fourth part be lacking. I am happy I have watched Megalopolis. Francis Coppola goes on a higher octave and weaves myth into his work and his work into myth. It is our problem as society that we lack common understanding of why myth is important disregarding myths as hollow fantasy and a way of uneducated people to explain where lightning comes from. A little dive into works of Plato just for an hour shows that people which were myth enjoyers were titans of thought and literal view of the myths was rather exception than a rule. Gods were life’s principles personified as characters, social behaviors like Zeus being an image of hospitality, prosperity and, therefore fertility. And also the finale of the movie -a message of hope with Sunny the Child, clearly reference to XIX Major Arcana and a promise of better future. But not in a naive way. Not in a way like “oh, a child is a symbol of renewal and new life, therefore future is bright”. Not. The future of Julia and Caesar IS bright because having a baby they don’t have another option except to take all of their resources and among many possible futures to go into that one which is bright. Because it is not for them anymore. Have good time, thanks for making it with me that far. Big hugs, hope this comment will help you understand this movie better and maybe give it another chance.
With respect, man, I have to disagree with you. I just came back from watching it, and I was mesmerized by it. For almost a 2 and a half hour movie, it honestly didn't feel like it to me. A hell of a lot of big names in it, and even actors like Fishburne and Hoffman, for as few scenes as they had, gave their all without trying to overpower everybody. Every scene with Adam Driver and Shia LaBeouf was riveting. Even with the trailer, I immediately had this "The Fountainhead" vibe from it, a book that always stuck with me. Like Roark, Driver's Cesar was an idealist, an architect who envisioned a better future for everyone, and that's something I think all of us wish we had to look forward to, slim as that chance is now. Yes, there were definitely sci-fi elements that I didn't quite get, but the political and cultural struggles that we see even now, the ongoing battle between looking to the future and clinging to the past? It's all there, and a slap in the face to our society for those with two brain cells to rub together (again, sorry, no offense, but that's just what I came away with). I remember in grade school a publication we used to get called the Weekly Reader or something like that. One edition showed a monorail moving over a pristine city, and it was a futuristic idea of what great things we had to look forward to as we progressed as a society. That was over over 50 years ago now, and look at what we've become. With self-interest, racism, and extremism worse than ever, it's a dream we'll probably never achieve, but Coppola's move at least took us out of that sad reality, at least for a couple hours.
This movie is a cologne commercial gone on to be an out-of-control, cancerous growth.
Is the Thor gor fight on nyquil
perfect description
I gave this a chance. I really did. But within minutes, I knew it was gonna be ridiculous. And it was. And I hated it.
i cant wait till the 4 hour direct cuts version is out
It’s a Greek/roman tragedy and written like one , it’s not ridiculous but it surely is weird and very much outside the cinema standards
So I get why it looks ridiculous and nonsensical but if you watch it like one it makes a lot of sense
@@waeldra1548 I know what it was trying to be, and it didn’t succeed on any level in my opinion.
@@h0pelessdreamerfilms I think it did it pretty well imo but I understand that people hate it because of how artsy the writing is
The only thing I think is not that good is that some of the metaphors where a bit too under the nose compared to the rest (like the guy that represents fascism having as his sidekick a guy with a black sun on the forehead) but aside from that I thought it handled itself pretty well
@@waeldra1548 the writing is not artsy. it is bad. it is lame. not artsy.
I love Jodorowski, The Tree of Life, Masked & Anonymous, Infinite Jest, David Lynch, Donald Barthelme, Dadaist Art, and all sorts of absurdism. I was so prepared for this to be a diamond in the rough, and it was just ghastly. The audience in the theater I saw it at were laughing derisively within 10 minutes. Poor Adam Driver and Aubrey Plaza.
Both aré amazing in drivers fapping Snape style and plazas lobotomized tiktok accent
I really liked it 😊 I'm in the minority I know ! It's not difficult to understand 😮 It's a love story , with greed and family disputes ! Loved Shia LaBeoufs character . Different strokes for different folks 😊
I actually feel like Plaza understood what was going on. She knew it was a ghastly movie, and so she turned her acting duties over to April Ludgate.
There's no way she was unintentionally that bad.
Oh man. Same. Seeing Megalopolis made me retroactively hate all movies. It made me sick to my stomach to think about ever watching a movie again. I don't think I've ever expeerienced that before.
I thought I was the only one… it really makes the art worse 😂 I am doing a short film currently and this made me incredibly paranoid of artistic agency
What? How does that even work.
Sometimes a movie has a really deep premise and fails because it can't execute it, but I don't even understand what Copola thought was profound about the idea behind the movie. It's about a genius scientist who clashes with political powers that be in a modern society that's kind of an allegory for Rome. It's not bad, but this is a passion project of forty years?
You missed the best part. In the last 15 minutes, Aubrey Plaza exits the screen and gives everyone in the cinema a lap dance, so I think that explains the 5/5s.
The only explanation hahaha! Thank you for the comment!
This is the worst movie I have ever seen. Not even good trash like Hobbs and Shaw or The Room. Not even boring bad like Morbius or Madame Web. Boring, bad, and annoying. Like a Reddit mod giving a college presentation.
i'm from Romania , and what i understand from this movie is that Roman Empire depicted here is about USA from today and their internal problems ,in the end looks like a civil war is ready to start (like a second civil war in USA) and give clues how to avoid this to become real ... that kid born in the end represent Hope (anyway is confusing movie , but one is fore sure , the director of this movie give riddles in this movie all over the place , in every minute...and i believe all is about USA from present days (their internal problems) ,same problems that made The Roman Empire fall in the past
Megalopolis feels like someone gave Neil Breen 120 million
Chase, you summarizing the plot of Megalopolis with the phrase "I think", perfectly describes my thought process of when I was watching it and after it ended when I was thinking about it. Appreciate it for sure because a lot of ideas on the table when I could comprehend them are interesting and compelling, too bad it's all thrown together in a half-baked narrative where despite how huge the scale of everything is seems to not really be consequential and is just plain emotionally unengaging because the characters were so flat.
I still can't get over that Francis Ford Coppola (director of how many iconic classics) wrote a narrative where his protagonist essentially does nothing but succeeds in what he was doing anyway, making the times where there is "conflict" feel even more pointless.
Even with all that though, I do think people should check it out at least once. We're probably not going to get anything like Megalopolis again at least for the time being. I'm sure another filmmaker similar to Coppola's legacy in the next decade could attempt a project this ambitious with the only hope that it'll have better results.
Appreciate you as always Will! I almost didn't make a video because like I said, I've never been so baffled with how a movie this bad can be made by somebody so important to the medium, and I still feel like I'm going to watch it again to do a review/breakdown of the whole thing so I can show exactly what is so awful about it, but I just had to let some steam off here hahaha. Again, I respect his ambition too, but I need more to give something a 4/5 on letterbox'd.
The acting is so bad, I was literally howling laughing out loud.
Maybe he's in mental decline and nobody wants to talk about it, maybe not, I have no idea.... but seems the film was at least self-indulgent.
10:20
Coppola really set himself up to be mock with the rant, cause as soon as he criticized a whole series of movies with his statement and being a master filmmaker, the entire world is now looking at him to bring "Cinema" back and prove his point.
With this is just gonna prove the "old man yells at clouds" accusations right and even more ironic he ended up using the same CGI effects as any MCU movie. Hell, some of the crew ever worked on some past MCU film!
Worse are the reports that Coppola still thinks making actors and the crew suffer equals a good movie like Apocalypse Now. Instead some of the crew was so pissed at him doing nothing on set and partying that they asked themselves if he had ever actually directed a movie.
Yup. Guy talked big and ended up shitting the bed.
After seeing a bunch of people on twitter trying to pretend that this movie isn't utterly terrible, watching this review was cathartic. thank you
I wanted to leave so bad but I heard there was a live theater aspect of the movie. And I thought I was going to get to see it because when I bought my tickets the whole row was full but when I got there it was just me and some other dude. So I was like “oh he’s the live performer and he needs all these seats to do the performance.”
Well that never happened
Honestly, with the way Modern Cinema has been, I'm not shocked. A lot of directors I once respected have fallen from grace. This is genuinely how I felt about Ridley Scott after the Alien Prequels.
So fucking tired of reviews about cinematography or it has great messages
Like I'm here to see a good movie and a good story. I don't care about the message or its visually stunning
@@FieldAndForumthe primary purpose of a movie is to ENTERTAIN. and if you as a viewer arent the film has already failed
Truth! I honestly don’t believe ANYONES liked this. If this was made by anyone else, everyone would be trashing it. Coppola is getting a pass, but his career shouldn’t make him bulletproof.
It's a good movie.
i love this movie. you have to put aside your preconceptions a little because he chooses to tell a story differently, not all the characters have satisfying arcs but that's okay because the points the movie is trying to make are more important
I liked it. Didn't love it. But I enjoyed it more than I didn't. I'm not a Coppola fan either. Just because you don't like or get something doesn't mean other people can't or won't. It takes incredible hubris to assume that people liking something you don't can only mean that they are deluded somehow.
So it is just Hollywood polishing its knob over its own mirror image again? What a suprise.
Hollywood wanted nothing to do with this trash, this was supposed to be FFC's "anti Hollywood" movie.
I was thinking this was a remake of the classic film ‘Metropolis’. He should of done that instead.
I did until a month before release. I was so excited, but no. At least there was a Nosferatu trailer before it. Eggers will deliver.
Coppolla is old, it was now or never, I think.
See what you did there 😂😂
I havent seen it yet..But watching pissed off 5 year olds giving reviews makes me want to. If it's not good (and that may be the case) I'll try and least be constructive in my criticism
I hated it. We were about an hour in and left. Horrible
Give a full shot. The best was yet to come
i hated it so much i walked out in 30 minutes. i rarely do not finish movies but this was just so bad
This was the first movie I walk out the theater on this movie was horrible boring piece of crap
I’ve never experienced anything like this before. I never want to experience that feeling again. I wanna give a hug to everyone that went to go see this clusterfuck
I don’t even make videos and I want to start a UA-cam channel just to complain about this movie. I thought I was gonna get a Babylon type of thing where the review was were wrong but Boy oh boy were they right.
FFC believes that this will be a perennial film that the whole family [yes, despite its R rating] will want to experience year after year, like the way Cecil B DeMille's "The Ten Commandments" airs on network TV around Easter every year.
He truly believes viewers will watch it & glean something enlightening & profound after each yearly viewing, as film enthusiasts peel away every layer with the intensity that is given to the most complex works of Kubrick.
As Coppola would proclaim, the result would cause a never-ending conversation about how we choose to move forward as a society. As with most things intended to "start a conversation" & "raise awareness," this pretentious ballyhoo is all style, no substance.
Frankly there isn't even much style. I was desperately grasping for some kind of coherent aesthetic to hold me through the movie and it was nowhere to be found. I later read that Coppola fired the art director and then the rest of the art team quit and everything made so much more sense.
Defintely glad i saw the wild robot/transformers than this.
Transformers one RULES!
@@randomcenturion7264 It is great, there is so much easter eggs from the film that i didnt see after a second showing.
Madam Webb worst movie... Megalopolis hold my beer
And that’s saying a lot.
Walked out at 20 minutes
When you watch it with a friend, its a fantastic comedy. I could not stop laughing at how random the movie was
There was nothing random about it.
@@lymphomasurvive Really? You dont find Jon Voight pretending to have a boner and then pulling a mini bow and arrow out just a little random?
@lymphomasurvive Oh I'm sorry, please explain the symoblism of Jon Voight pretending to have a boner then pulling out a mini bow and arrow with which he shoots shia lebouf in the ass twice.
I actually feel like Plaza understood what was going on. She knew it was a ghastly movie, and so she turned her acting duties over to April Ludgate.
There's no way she was unintentionally that bad.
One movie I walked out of was The Thin Red Line. It’s an artsy fartsy movie that people couldn’t praise enough because of its theme “war is hell”. It’s based on a stream of consciousness story which didn’t translate well into film. The scene that really got me was this flashback of a girl on a swing. They kept showing it, and I told my date, “if they show her one more time, I am out of here. “They did, and I walked. It’s a crappy movie but people are afraid to admit because of its “themes” and they don’t want their friends to think they’re dumb. But crap is crap.
It's one of my favorite movies I love the setting and the despair in the grass battle sequence
It’s like visual poetry. Some people really like poetry, some people hate it
Thats exactly how i feel about Avatar and Frozen.
I disagree on that one
What happened to your date?
Okay I can understand Quantamania, but would you watch Dr. Strange and The Multiverse of Madness over this though?
Yes. Yes it is! It's the worst movie ever made. And this is coming from someone who thought Coppola was a great director. He no longer is. This is like watching Alzheimer Now: Redux.
he very well may be in mental decline and this was just a send off
Worst movie ever? Bad take
I’m so happy that you separate the art from the artist
Saw this movie in Burbank CA (basically Hollywood) with a nearly full crowd who were all in on the joke (outside a few people), it was an incredible theater experience. Entire audience kept bursting out laughing at countless parts of the movie. I honestly loved it. Treat it as The Room and it's one of the best movies ever made.
I wanted to be blown away by this movie so badly- I’m a huge Adam Driver fan, I wanted it for him.
I didn’t get to see the ending because I had to use the ladies room so badly. When it came time to go back in the theater I just couldn’t. Turned and then skipped all the way to my car.
This movie seems like what would happen if Richard Kelly adapted one of Ayn Rand's books.
I think that the movie is like this is because everyone working on it knew that this is likely Coppola's last film, and they decided to humor him.
Great to see you back in camera Chase! Love your reviews, down to Earth. Your passion for film shows through 🙌
Thank you as always!
MegaFLOPolis! MegaPLOPolis
Ive heard this called "Coppolla remakes Jupiter Ascending" or something like that and by "ive heard" I mean, I totally just made that up because it looks like another terrible version of that terrible movie haha. Cheers.
I skipped Jupiter Ascending so can't say for sure, but man is it a painful experience lol! Thanks Scott!
@@chaseazarian Jupiter Ascending or as I so cleverly call it Jupiter Ass ending, ass beginning and ass middle. Yes, im very clever :D Its so so bad, like top 5 terrible movies of all time bad. Watching the trailer for Mega gives me ptsd flashbacks of JA. Cheers!
@@scotthallgvit’s got Wachowski vibes for sure.
review starts at 6:45
On a personal note, hope you get enough rest Chase. Panic attacks are scary but as long as there is not a lot of stress in your life and if it ever happens again you know what to do, you'll be ok.
I appreciate it! Doing okay now, I put too much on my plate sometimes and this movie made me feel that lol!
Audiences should be informed front end this movie is a riff of the Cataline Conspiracy in the Roman Republic. If you know nothing about this period of history you will be lost. If you know, you will have a better idea of what they may have been going for.
Just watched it. I couldn’t agree more with your opinion. Was curious if people felt the same way as me
I went in with low expectations after all the bad reviews- but I loved it. It just worked for me. Maybe because I went in with an open mind.
I watched the offer recently about how the godfather was made and I was stunned by the genius of FFC behind the scenes etc. So I was in such utter disbelief for 2 hours watching it the first time, that the second time I watched it with friends (I hate myself), I pretended it was an Adam Sandler movie. But then I realized that the last Adam Sandler movie I watched was uncut gems which was a good movie. I just glitched
I watched it, and wanted to like it... but it sucks @ss
I actually thought I was missing something in the cinema. I felt like it was really self indulgent but then I was like maybe i'm just not smart enough. I feel better now though 😂
my impression from reviews is self indulgence, ya
It was worse crap than Trap (2024)
Perhaps after spending many years on the screenplay, Coppola fell into analysis paralysis, resulting in a chaotic and uninspired final product. What we ended up with was a tedious, disjointed mess. I was falling asleep by the middle of it. I didn't care for any of the characters.
I agree with you 100% !!!! 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?
gotta get some friends, some drinks, and stream this when it comes out.
And whoever asks to turn it off first downs a shot-
Is it as bad as Cloud Atlas?
Aw, Cloud Atlas was actually kind of fun.
Cloud Atlas is more coherent. This movie is a total shit show
I thought it was visually impressive at times , the production design was great , the costumes were great , some of the acting was fun to watch, the cinematography was great , Dustin Hoffman looks and sounds dead in this film , Jon Voight was a great creepy old man in this flick , but where this film fails the most is that all these characters are assholes , you just dont care about any of them , and you want them all to die .. I sat there watching wanting the film to end .. this is a film they should have locked in a value for a 100 years then release it Sept 27th 2124 and let those people not yet born look at it for whatever it is .. the last film from a legendary director ? ..
Because it's Francis Ford Coppola, people can't wrap their heads around the fact that it's utter crap. A similar thing happened with Martin Scorsese's The Irishman, although that wasn't nearly as bad. Quentin Tarantino is smart to stop at ten.
Your review was a million times better than Megapolis! Honestly, I'm not sure what you'd even describe in this movie-there’s really nothing there. Watching it felt like one of those bizarre dreams where you're running, then suddenly flying, and then just stuck in a dark room. It’s random, and utterly directionless. Very very very bad movie
YOU ARE ALL IGNORANTS, THATS WHY, YOU ARE JUST WHAT THE MOVIE IS ABOUT, YOU WILL NO GET IT BECAUSE YOU ARE NOT ILUMINATED PEOPLE SORRY.
Francis Ford Coppola definitely fell off years ago, his last critical and commercial success was Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992), that was it. From being known for classic masterpieces to now being known for making flop after flop.
haha yeah, I kinda want to see it again too.
Some bad movies are messes only a genius could make. Not Megalopolis. This movie felt like it was written by a douchey high schooler.
It was so bad. It's hard to even put into words how bad every element of the filmmaking was.
And you can't blame the actors because they were directed to say all those ridiculous words and behave in all those ridiculous ways from scene to scene to scene.
It's shocking that anyone, ANYONE, let alone Hollywood royalty like Dustin Hoffman and Florence fishburne, could read that script and sign on to it. So I definitely fault them for that poor judgment, but the rest is squarely Coppola's fault. I CANNOT believe that he and his production team would allow it to see the light of day.
It's cheesy, childish, nonsensical, self-indulgent, and lacks any semblance of artistic value. What a mess.
It must bd like them paintings that toddlers havd done and those stupid art critics are praising all the hidden details and saying things like you have to look past the picture envision what the artist hasnt painted pure joke
i didnt even watch the whole thing… I feel asleep and left a hour in 😭😭😭 it was so bad
i like falling asleep during movies, i’ll have to buy it when it ends up in the $5 dollar bin at walmart
I expected another type of movie. This movie is not good. I agree with you. I left after an hour. First second time I walked out of a movie. The first time was with Solo movie. 😂
You sound like some dithering Marvel bro who is just yelling and cussing like you’re watching your home team lose on Tv. None of this is substantive analysis whatsoever.
you don't like what i like, therefore you must like marvel and sportsball. top tier analysis.
Another hipster trying to tell everyone how "intellectual" he is 🙄
Thank you for that review. I haven't seen it. And I have heard some... maybe bordering on the pretentious good reviews. The first movie I ever walked out on, the only movie, was the Deer Hunter. I thought it was extremely boring. And yet many people find it an exceptional experience of sorts. Won many awards. This sounds like the movie I would not like.
Worse than the last Jedi?
Yes and it's not even close
I feel like we can at least make fun of how shit TLJ is, this thing is just pretentious. Like being stuck in a room full the guys you’d see in American Psycho.
Wait… so what’s Megalopolis ??
A good movie.
Hey man, no shame on you leaving. Life's too short to stay and watch garbage to the end.
Exactly. Why suffer another hour of crap?
I watched it on LSD and it was the most amazing experience in cinema for me.
I walked out of it 1 hr and a half in felt like a movie for socialites only
You didn't understand it.
Godfather 3 is garbage too.
At least it becomes painfully clear within minutes how truly awful the film is.
What I find most memorable is that the main character in this Roman world bears a striking resemblance to the main character from the roman-themed sitcom Up Pompeii...
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A better movie would be a film called "Passion" that is biographical of FFC and the whole 40+ year journey of making this
Remember ONE FROM THE HEART? This is that, for the 21st Century. Coppola has blown it...again. With his own money.
Thank you.... It's Coppola, so I thought it must be 'me' ??? 😵💫😵💫😵💫😵💫
Best rant ever! Thank you for this.😄
Thank you lol!
Same, first movie I ever walked out of. I only lasted an hour though.
i am totally with you even if this wasn't a constructive crtiticism but more a rant at least it was honest about the movie and not like people dissecting this and rating it as bad but ok ,because to me it wasn't ok i also walked out. But after some time i noticed i thought way more about it then necessarry just because i couldn't believe how bad it is, just shocking i can't comprehend all the bad decisions even visually i didn't have fun nor was i untrugued and also not when i did check out the rest again, pretty painful to watch and i'd prefer many cheesy mediocre entertainment movies rated lower on imdb are a bliss in comparison where the crux foe me is that many are way too generous in rating this flop.
Possibly a controversial opinion, maybe Francis Ford Coppola isn't actually that great a director.
Great review.
Its a movie so bad it gives u anxiety that ur wasting valuable time
we all get dementia its possible francis has lost mind cellsthat had the gemstone of the story for this movie who knows
Coppola co wrote The Godfather screenplay lol and his co writer was the author of The Godfather novel so he had help writing. I’m sure either someone else wrote his hit movies or he co wrote. Which is probably why the movie sucked 😂
You don't know shit. Tardski
He's written all his movies lmao
Honestly, this movie isnt rlly memed enough imo.
I fell a sleep during the film
So you don't think you missed anything?
I'm genuinely intrigued not watching the movie why so many people hate it with a passion lol I assumed it was some artsy-fartsy surrealist shit like a Godard movie but apparently it isn't.
I watched some really nice explanation of a dude who likes it, and his point is that key in "understanding" it is that "fable" in a title and that all actors in a movie are not real characters more like archetypes of certain idea or a thing, emotion- Plaza is lust, main character is this creative revolutionary to lead us into the new brighter future etc. I actually have to watch it now to see what to think of it.
Two movies I hated like people hate this movie are Interstellar and Casino Royale. I think both are garbage movies for different reasons, but most people think they are great.
the director of this movie give riddles in this movie all over the place , in every minute...and i believe all is about USA from present days (their internal problems) ,same problems that made The Roman Empire fall in the past
I go into every movie with an open mind but this is the first movie that I’ve ever wanted to walk out on. Like EVER lol
I want all who contributed to this movie go to jail.. the worst movie in history
I wanted to leave but I finished it and honestly there was some stuff I thought was kinda cool like the time stop but he barley uses that in the film
Hey brother sounds like you have a lot going on. Me too.
Sending you love
If this is what "anti woke" movies are supposed to look like, sheesh, pull the plug on that right now. I'd rather a race-swapped character than whatever this mess was supposed to be.
I just watched it, and i have only two words for it... "Absurdly Teatrical" 😮💨
Unpopular opinion but I loved basically whole movie. Theatrical farce of the actors is clearly seen as a narrative technique and Coppola surely knew what he was doing putting here and there esoteric symbolism and cross referencing real historical figures from Ancient Rome with similar destinies as characters in the movie weaving into these Shakespearian motifs and at the same time building each of main characters in a way to represent a social group. Besides that through whole movie one can see among main narrative theme of importance of the Artist, the Spirit of Imagination and connections of these two with the substance we call Time. This movie among other things provides an answer to our current problems exactly through the means of building advanced friendship with one’s imagination. By my personal opinion, Imagination is what all superpowers of Ceaser were metaphors for. Caesar is not in odds with his own imagination like most people. It does not rule him, giving birth to monstrous desires like in the case of the character of Shia LaBeuf. It is not degraded and restricted like in case of the main opponent of protagonist. It is befriended and cocrearive. Festives of Kronos, Saturnalia, lots of direct and indirect mentioning of pagan gods makes an interesting image of a modern city if Christianity would actually not become a dominant religion of post 300 AD Rome. (And also points out of how much of symbols would remain unchanged. Most Americans don’t know that the famous Eagle of America is non other than Zeus Himself) Also this movie does a good job of transition some very sacred states from psychedelic experience (whole time manipulation thing + parts like “if our mind can create gods, and gods have such an immense power, why don’t we have access to this power directly?”. And while lots of reviews are accusing this movie in pretentiousness, I find pretentious the very attitude of not getting a movie, which is has very obviously lots of indirect narratives through webs of cross references, and deciding that this a director’s fault.
When Death Stranding was released it was bombed both by critics and the audience. But it was just what industry needed - absolutely alternative route, made by a visionary person, on times of flood of simulacra content. True to the director’s vision, not an easy to chew, because it is work of art, not a fast food product, a thing which should be pondered in attempt to understand why such figure would do something like this. Same goes for Matrix 4. Masterpiece which was destroyed by everyone’s opinion which was predicted in the scene where developers are arguing about what is the key concept of Matrix. Very same arguments which enraged fans was accusing fourth part be lacking.
I am happy I have watched Megalopolis. Francis Coppola goes on a higher octave and weaves myth into his work and his work into myth. It is our problem as society that we lack common understanding of why myth is important disregarding myths as hollow fantasy and a way of uneducated people to explain where lightning comes from. A little dive into works of Plato just for an hour shows that people which were myth enjoyers were titans of thought and literal view of the myths was rather exception than a rule. Gods were life’s principles personified as characters, social behaviors like Zeus being an image of hospitality, prosperity and, therefore fertility.
And also the finale of the movie -a message of hope with Sunny the Child, clearly reference to XIX Major Arcana and a promise of better future. But not in a naive way. Not in a way like “oh, a child is a symbol of renewal and new life, therefore future is bright”. Not. The future of Julia and Caesar IS bright because having a baby they don’t have another option except to take all of their resources and among many possible futures to go into that one which is bright. Because it is not for them anymore.
Have good time, thanks for making it with me that far. Big hugs, hope this comment will help you understand this movie better and maybe give it another chance.
Thank you for your opinion.
Yeah it's a full movie worth of awkwardness and wasted potential
And they did my girl Aubrey Plaza dirty she's so much better than that
With respect, man, I have to disagree with you. I just came back from watching it, and I was mesmerized by it. For almost a 2 and a half hour movie, it honestly didn't feel like it to me. A hell of a lot of big names in it, and even actors like Fishburne and Hoffman, for as few scenes as they had, gave their all without trying to overpower everybody. Every scene with Adam Driver and Shia LaBeouf was riveting.
Even with the trailer, I immediately had this "The Fountainhead" vibe from it, a book that always stuck with me. Like Roark, Driver's Cesar was an idealist, an architect who envisioned a better future for everyone, and that's something I think all of us wish we had to look forward to, slim as that chance is now. Yes, there were definitely sci-fi elements that I didn't quite get, but the political and cultural struggles that we see even now, the ongoing battle between looking to the future and clinging to the past? It's all there, and a slap in the face to our society for those with two brain cells to rub together (again, sorry, no offense, but that's just what I came away with).
I remember in grade school a publication we used to get called the Weekly Reader or something like that. One edition showed a monorail moving over a pristine city, and it was a futuristic idea of what great things we had to look forward to as we progressed as a society. That was over over 50 years ago now, and look at what we've become. With self-interest, racism, and extremism worse than ever, it's a dream we'll probably never achieve, but Coppola's move at least took us out of that sad reality, at least for a couple hours.