@@michaelsieger9133 -- my point was the biggest complaint with this movie seems to be that the second half is rushed and doesn't make any sense. Seems a ton of content was cut to trim it down to two and a half hours. He could have left all that stuff in and made it a mini-series. Even the shows that were low rated by critics were still watched by millions of people. You don't have to buy a ticket to see a movie or show on a streaming service you are already subscribed to.
I came here to say this as well. It isn't horror or anything that I expect James to get excited for, but the only person you are shortchanging by not seeing the Wild Robot is yourself.
This was his dream project and it sounds like it has all the coherence of your typical dream. I may check it out. The Coppola movies I’ve seen - the Godfather movies and Apocalypse Now - were both based on books: Mario Puzo’s books and Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, respectively. It’s my theory that great film directors are primarily visual artists and aren’t that great at linear storytelling, so it helps if they have a ready-made narrative framework or at least a good screenwriter to collaborate with.
My Tentative Top Ten Movies of 2024 (subject to change): 👑#1. Dune: Part Two 🥈#2. The Substance 🥉#3. Strange Darling Oddity Hitman The Wild Robot Challengers Inside Out 2 Love Lies Bleeding Furiousa: A Mad Max Saga
@@RobertParks-h7r Wicked?! Hell nah. I saw the musical. I really like the musical. There is no way I’m watching the movie-no way! “Nosferatu”-I’ll agree with you on that one!
Anyone who does not put “Dune: Part Two” as their #1 is guilty of heresy against the Lisan al-Gaib; the Muad’Dib; the Shai-Hulud; the Timothee C-and they deserve to be banished to the most inhospitable corner of Arrakis!
I have watched Godfather 1 & 2 numerous times. Like the Sopranos, I can pick up those movies at any part of the movie, and just watch it from there til the end.
As a man in his fifties, it’s quite shocking to me that I work with valued colleagues who never saw the the Conversation, the Outsiders, Godfather, Apocalypse Now, and Dracula. While Coppola deserves better, his aging fan base isn’t enough anymore. He doesn’t connect to modern audiences. He’s about as relevant to cinema today as the statue of Gioberti which has always resided in Washington Square Park but barely anyone understands why it’s still there in 2024…
Not sure who funded Cloud Atlas, but that movie was a super ambitious passion project from the Wachowskis and Tom Tykwer, and though it didnt do much box office business, it was critically well received and I think it's a solid movie that will withstand the test of time. **Edit: Looked it up, and apparently it was polarizing when it came out, from critics and audiences alike. And it was independently financed from various unnamed sources.
Its not like Coppola and Costner haven't specialized in overproduced crap before. Neither one learned from their mistakes. No excuses for either one of these guys please.
I have an excuse. Coppola doesn’t care! He made this film for himself. “On one hand, you’re trying to aspire to really do something, and on the other hand, you’re not allowed to be pretentious. And finally, you say, ‘Fuck it! I don’t care if I’m pretentious or not pretentious, or if I’ve done it or I haven’t done it. All I know is that I am going to see this movie’ and that, for me, it has to have some answers. And by answers, I don’t mean just a punchline, answers on about 47 different levels.” -FFC
@@Stumme-40203 That's not an excuse. He's just saying I can aspire to fuck up whenever I want because I can; and so he does it again. It's about ego. P.S : He and Sofia will never live down Godfather III.
Horizon was in no way overproduced crap. It was a very good movie, where the biggest problem is that it wasn’t a complete movie. It was probably a mistake to release it in the summer and perhaps even as a theatrical movie. In retrospect it might have done better if it had limited its scope while including events from both chapter one and two and then released the full cut on streaming as a limited series, while work would have continued on chapters three and four.
11:28 - At this point, Tommy Wiseau's The Room has to be in the conversation. Based on midnight screenings, it has made some serious coin respective to the budget.
Thanks for this sobering analysis. I was hoping 'Megaloplolis' would be a box office success. I love most of Coppola's past work, too. Other than medium-budget risk-taking efforts from minor studios like A24 and Neon, I'm rapidly cooling on the idea of going to the theater to check something out on opening weekend. Major studio releases focus on re-hashing old IP, and I think while there is some entertainment value there (for the IP I like), that kind of thing is a better fit for streaming. 'Longlegs' was promising, though I don't think it has enough heat to change the current landscape. I hope some independent movie-maker comes up with something artistic and sensational to get asses back in seats... or perhaps we are going through a transitional period where traditional movie-making is dead, and some new form of audio/visual storytelling will rise. We'll see.
I think Coppola knew this would be a long shot and he has stated he doesn't care about the money and ticket sales but wanted to say something artistically. He put his money where his mouth was. Unlike Kevin Costner who really needs good box office to finish financing his four part series which may go unfinished unless Apple or Netflix jump in to make it a streaming series.
Honestly, with all its flaws, Megalopolis was still more interesting than modest hits like The Fall Guy. I’ll probably watch it again someday, but I’m not in a hurry. The biggest flaw of the movie is that the message is pretty old hat and kinda high-school “we’re all part of the human race” level. And when characters and story is all in service of the “message” (it’s a fable after all and fables are message-driven) it’s easy for it all to fall pretty flat when the message isn’t groundbreaking.
Apocalypse Now is a chaotic classic, but I swear, Heart of Darkness is more entertaining and even more chaotic! They should make a Coppola biopic movie based on Heart of Darkness.
Sorry that Coppola and Costner's passion projects failed so badly, not that they were anything I'd want to see, but the effect it will have on risk taking in Hollywood will be a loss for all of us who love films.
You do understand that Coppola made this outside of the studio and Hollywood system with his own funds. So not a Hollywood film but a independent film under no Hollywood control. So what you just said was "I enjoying seeing every film flop nowadays' Sound likes the Fox News anchors who cry tears that the market is soaring and not crashing causing massive unemployment like they want.
Coppola probably sold his winery for hundreds of millions of dollars he ain't going to starve he'll be okay but still its got to hurt, i wonder if this is the type of movie that a future generation will rediscover i just cant tell i didn't like it but there was a decent crowd in my theater so some must like it im surprised by the low box office
Are movie audiences in NY loud? You often refer to them applauding, hooting and hollering. I’m from the Midwest and live in east Asia. Audiences in both places tend to be more reserved.
The film is an avant-garde master class in hyperreality expressing the inevitable reality facing all civilization(s) based on the binary Human 2.0 paradigm. I, too, once had ambitions to be a filmmaker like Coppola, holding a mirror up to humanity. But as it turned out, that stage was not meant for this presenter of Truths. Now, I step out onto the world stage with not just a mirror to humanity's Heart of Darkness, but an intra-dimensional atomic microscope into the very Truth, Nature, and Analogous Ultimate Methodology by which we can SEEK Self-Evident Experiential Knowledge of Human 3.0. That is, at the end of the day, what Megalopolis is about...we cannot double-down on the same foundations of our mechanical nature to establish the New Golden Age. ua-cam.com/video/7djDy7kdPg0/v-deo.htmlsi=7AaQGIUPofsaSWRn
None of the negative reviews have convinced me not ro see and hopefully love this. People love comic book, immature shite, so im not listening and coming ro my own conclusions
You are the embodiment of pretention. When you say you won't see a movie ('the wild robot') because it's influenced by other movies you enjoyed that are less known, it's obvious that you just don't want to like it because it's more mainstream. You're just another pompous contrarian, which is highlighted by your your defence of a terrible movie like 'megalopolis', Francis Ford Coppola had his moment in the 70's and 80's, but he hasn't made a great movie in decades and 'megalopolis' is one of his worst.
@@MasonGrant0704 yeah, I'd been in the pub for a while before posting that, definitely a bit embarrassing. I stand by the sentiment, but not the delivery.
He should have made this into a limited series and sold it to Netflix and millions of people would be watching it right now.
Exxxxxcellent idea
Acolyte and Rings of Power low ratings says maybe not.
@@raymondsmith6870 gee i wonder why those woke shows got low ratings 🤣
Yeah. It really does have the same tone as a lot of the slop that Netflix audiences love.
@@michaelsieger9133 -- my point was the biggest complaint with this movie seems to be that the second half is rushed and doesn't make any sense. Seems a ton of content was cut to trim it down to two and a half hours. He could have left all that stuff in and made it a mini-series. Even the shows that were low rated by critics were still watched by millions of people. You don't have to buy a ticket to see a movie or show on a streaming service you are already subscribed to.
Old men and their obsession with ancient Rome 🙄 I probably will check out The Wild Robot this week though.
Your missing out by not seeing the wild robot
The wild robot is peak cinema and I'm tired of pretending it's not.
I came here to say this as well. It isn't horror or anything that I expect James to get excited for, but the only person you are shortchanging by not seeing the Wild Robot is yourself.
a third of people walked out during the showing I saw yesterday.
Yep I saw a secret screening of Salem's Lot in Seattle last WK.about 20 people walked out 40 mn in.Its awful that's why its on HBO in 2 wks.
This was his dream project and it sounds like it has all the coherence of your typical dream. I may check it out. The Coppola movies I’ve seen - the Godfather movies and Apocalypse Now - were both based on books: Mario Puzo’s books and Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, respectively. It’s my theory that great film directors are primarily visual artists and aren’t that great at linear storytelling, so it helps if they have a ready-made narrative framework or at least a good screenwriter to collaborate with.
In many ways, Megalopolis feels like One From the Heart part 2. It bombing at the box office only adds to that narrative.
The Wild Robot almost was a new classic but still very good
My Tentative Top Ten Movies of 2024 (subject to change):
👑#1. Dune: Part Two
🥈#2. The Substance
🥉#3. Strange Darling
Oddity
Hitman
The Wild Robot
Challengers
Inside Out 2
Love Lies Bleeding
Furiousa: A Mad Max Saga
Its gonna change Nosferatu, will slide in you're top 5 along with Wicked.I like you're top 10 , oddity I was bored, otherwise I agree 9 of 10.
@@RobertParks-h7r Wicked?! Hell nah. I saw the musical. I really like the musical. There is no way I’m watching the movie-no way! “Nosferatu”-I’ll agree with you on that one!
Anyone who does not put “Dune: Part Two” as their #1 is guilty of heresy against the Lisan al-Gaib; the Muad’Dib; the Shai-Hulud; the Timothee C-and they deserve to be banished to the most inhospitable corner of Arrakis!
@@ziggy8253 Sorry but as a massive horror fan Substance for me was more entertaining.
My cousins saw a early view of Wicked in Nashville with 10 mn of effects and 2 songs with audio only.Best musical since Chicago or Moulan Roche.
You have every reason to be proud of the production quality on all of your videos.
I have watched Godfather 1 & 2 numerous times. Like the Sopranos, I can pick up those movies at any part of the movie, and just watch it from there til the end.
As a man in his fifties, it’s quite shocking to me that I work with valued colleagues who never saw the the Conversation, the Outsiders, Godfather, Apocalypse Now, and Dracula. While Coppola deserves better, his aging fan base isn’t enough anymore. He doesn’t connect to modern audiences. He’s about as relevant to cinema today as the statue of Gioberti which has always resided in Washington Square Park but barely anyone understands why it’s still there in 2024…
If Coppola still had it, he would've used it in the last 30 years.
Not sure who funded Cloud Atlas, but that movie was a super ambitious passion project from the Wachowskis and Tom Tykwer, and though it didnt do much box office business, it was critically well received and I think it's a solid movie that will withstand the test of time. **Edit: Looked it up, and apparently it was polarizing when it came out, from critics and audiences alike. And it was independently financed from various unnamed sources.
Its not like Coppola and Costner haven't specialized in overproduced crap before. Neither one learned from their mistakes. No excuses for either one of these guys please.
I have an excuse. Coppola doesn’t care! He made this film for himself.
“On one hand, you’re trying to aspire to really do something, and on the other hand, you’re not allowed to be pretentious. And finally, you say, ‘Fuck it! I don’t care if I’m pretentious or not pretentious, or if I’ve done it or I haven’t done it. All I know is that I am going to see this movie’ and that, for me, it has to have some answers. And by answers, I don’t mean just a punchline, answers on about 47 different levels.”
-FFC
@@Stumme-40203 That's not an excuse. He's just saying I can aspire to fuck up whenever I want because I can; and so he does it again. It's about ego. P.S : He and Sofia will never live down Godfather III.
@@Stumme-40203if he only made this film for himself then why release it?
Horizon was in no way overproduced crap. It was a very good movie, where the biggest problem is that it wasn’t a complete movie. It was probably a mistake to release it in the summer and perhaps even as a theatrical movie. In retrospect it might have done better if it had limited its scope while including events from both chapter one and two and then released the full cut on streaming as a limited series, while work would have continued on chapters three and four.
@@RosieOleanderDallingerTo share it with others.
People are waiting for Joker 2 this weekend; most people can't afford to go to the movies every weekend anymore.
Megaflopolis
oof😭
Whoa did you come up with that?
Damn you beat me to it
@@bertonspat129 No, I did not come up with it, but it was the perfect time to say it
Should i just wait for the inevitable directors cut or is the theatrical cut worth checking out
Man...this review was better than the dang movie...
11:28 - At this point, Tommy Wiseau's The Room has to be in the conversation. Based on midnight screenings, it has made some serious coin respective to the budget.
Thanks for this sobering analysis. I was hoping 'Megaloplolis' would be a box office success. I love most of Coppola's past work, too.
Other than medium-budget risk-taking efforts from minor studios like A24 and Neon, I'm rapidly cooling on the idea of going to the theater to check something out on opening weekend. Major studio releases focus on re-hashing old IP, and I think while there is some entertainment value there (for the IP I like), that kind of thing is a better fit for streaming.
'Longlegs' was promising, though I don't think it has enough heat to change the current landscape. I hope some independent movie-maker comes up with something artistic and sensational to get asses back in seats... or perhaps we are going through a transitional period where traditional movie-making is dead, and some new form of audio/visual storytelling will rise. We'll see.
I think Coppola knew this would be a long shot and he has stated he doesn't care about the money and ticket sales but wanted to say something artistically. He put his money where his mouth was. Unlike Kevin Costner who really needs good box office to finish financing his four part series which may go unfinished unless Apple or Netflix jump in to make it a streaming series.
This was to quote a reviewer " All Spaghetti No Wall "
You have to havr a cohesive story
It could have a Campy Cult Following at some point
Honestly, with all its flaws, Megalopolis was still more interesting than modest hits like The Fall Guy. I’ll probably watch it again someday, but I’m not in a hurry. The biggest flaw of the movie is that the message is pretty old hat and kinda high-school “we’re all part of the human race” level. And when characters and story is all in service of the “message” (it’s a fable after all and fables are message-driven) it’s easy for it all to fall pretty flat when the message isn’t groundbreaking.
Zero interest in seeing it until it drops on some platform. Shame, too. Giant of a director.
We saw Wild Robot and enjoyed it as a family.
Very interesting. I’ve bought the book and listened to it on Spotify. Francis Ford Coppola is like Val Kilmer meets Steven Seagal in a nutshell.
The 1920s to late 60s (67) is the golden age of Hollywood
Not even close
@@chocolatewolfe that’s what many critics will tell you and 67 to 80 is the new Hollywood era
Apocalypse Now is a chaotic classic, but I swear, Heart of Darkness is more entertaining and even more chaotic! They should make a Coppola biopic movie based on Heart of Darkness.
Horizon part 2 - bring it!
Sorry that Coppola and Costner's passion projects failed so badly, not that they were anything I'd want to see, but the effect it will have on risk taking in Hollywood will be a loss for all of us who love films.
I always enjoy seeing a Hollywood film flop nowadays.
You do understand that Coppola made this outside of the studio and Hollywood system with his own funds. So not a Hollywood film but a independent film under no Hollywood control. So what you just said was "I enjoying seeing every film flop nowadays' Sound likes the Fox News anchors who cry tears that the market is soaring and not crashing causing massive unemployment like they want.
luvya. this rant is just like megalopolis. breathe, bb :) )
Coppola probably sold his winery for hundreds of millions of dollars he ain't going to starve he'll be okay but still its got to hurt, i wonder if this is the type of movie that a future generation will rediscover i just cant tell i didn't like it but there was a decent crowd in my theater so some must like it im surprised by the low box office
Future generations won't have the patience or knowledge to appreciate whatever Megalopolis was attempting.
He should get into the deep sea sub tourism industry……
Are movie audiences in NY loud? You often refer to them applauding, hooting and hollering. I’m from the Midwest and live in east Asia. Audiences in both places tend to be more reserved.
Missing a zero in those box office #’s but the film is a zero so he’s got that going for him
The film is an avant-garde master class in hyperreality expressing the inevitable reality facing all civilization(s) based on the binary Human 2.0 paradigm. I, too, once had ambitions to be a filmmaker like Coppola, holding a mirror up to humanity. But as it turned out, that stage was not meant for this presenter of Truths. Now, I step out onto the world stage with not just a mirror to humanity's Heart of Darkness, but an intra-dimensional atomic microscope into the very Truth, Nature, and Analogous Ultimate Methodology by which we can SEEK Self-Evident Experiential Knowledge of Human 3.0. That is, at the end of the day, what Megalopolis is about...we cannot double-down on the same foundations of our mechanical nature to establish the New Golden Age. ua-cam.com/video/7djDy7kdPg0/v-deo.htmlsi=7AaQGIUPofsaSWRn
Never understood the love of Citizen Kane or Shakespeare. Never liked any of them, but do admire their attraction to others. Just not me.
It’s easy to see why people like Kane and Shakespeare I’m baffled by the people that don’t
You should look at the reviews on what makes it great
subjectivity
Good bye to the Holy Mountains of the world
Devara Part-1 is better than Megalopolis this week
None of the negative reviews have convinced me not ro see and hopefully love this. People love comic book, immature shite, so im not listening and coming ro my own conclusions
Coppola is the most overrated Director in the history of Hollywood.
What a stupid statement. The director of The Godfather, The Godfather II, The Conversation, Apocalypse Now and Dracula is overrated? LOL 😂
You are the embodiment of pretention. When you say you won't see a movie ('the wild robot') because it's influenced by other movies you enjoyed that are less known, it's obvious that you just don't want to like it because it's more mainstream. You're just another pompous contrarian, which is highlighted by your your defence of a terrible movie like 'megalopolis', Francis Ford Coppola had his moment in the 70's and 80's, but he hasn't made a great movie in decades and 'megalopolis' is one of his worst.
Facts. He’s a few videos away from being nerdrotic at this stage.
@@Mogorman87 oh nooo. Nerdrotic is vile
Relax sugar pie.
@@MasonGrant0704 yeah, I'd been in the pub for a while before posting that, definitely a bit embarrassing. I stand by the sentiment, but not the delivery.
I refuse to watch your Megalopollis review. The movie is too perfect for what it is. Seeing hatred towards it would slowly kill me
The movie was great it sucks that fake Coppola fans let it flop