Looks like I made a mistake! The clip from "Obi-Wan Kenobi" that I showed at 6:57 was not shot on a volume, and was in fact filmed on location. - Editor Dean
Hi! I actually worked post production on this movie (before we all got laid off for the writers strike). The clip where you see his skull is a practical effect, not vfx. The first few days of dailies were testing that shot and the Adam Driver sideways shot. Essentially they had one clip of a skeleton that they used as a projection into the camera that would only be visible under certain lighting conditions. That’s why the lips are visible, it’s a practical shot
@@MrThankman360 If you look on the far right of the shot, you'll see an ornament or lighting fixture thing (I don't know what it is) and it's going crazy moving all over the place, so maybe it was a spinning room?
@camerafx24, Friend and colleague at Magic Film Company in Atlanta, worked on practical SFX on this movie. He had mentioned to me this was a practical shot. Also the shots with the statues were done practical with miniatures and then CG'd over.
Oh hey, Lady Justice here. It was an honor to be a living statue for FFC. We were painted head to toe. Real rain machines and basically a paper mache costume. We did about 30 takes for my scene. It was surreal and magical! Imdb: Ivy Lightsey
Got a chuckle at the troll saying mean things in the first reply. Clearly the star-struck performance Lady Justice statue was the sole reason that the movie wasn't successful! Shame on you for liking a legendary director for doing a bad movie! But seriously though, being shown three times in the "This movie had some good things in it" segment means you did something right, so well done.
Hey! I'm the 114th blade of grass from the left that Adam's foot slides past at 19:01. It was an honor to be a part of this film and Francis individually watered every blade before each take -- a painstaking effort when you think abou the fact that this took 839 shots to get the final look you see in the movie. I was honored to even be brushed up against by Adam Driver's shoes as he floated by!
Hey, that's me, the male statue. No latex suit. All me and all paint. Just prosthetic hair and beard. Great video. Was a ball to work on.Harder than it looks for sure. Love Mr. Coppola.
@@randomdude189why? He didn’t make the movie. Don’t shame a guy for doing his job. If I made LED bulbs for automobiles and they were great quality, I wouldn’t be ashamed if Musk used them in his joke of a vehicle cybertruck. Or if you grew delicious vegetables and some chef made a terrible meal with them, would you be ashamed of your carrots? No way, man. Your beef is with Coppola, not statue guy.
Not if you don’t know it’s spinning. It’s a medium of show. It’s like getting a hair transplant but gluing a hat to your head afterwards. Pointless. Coppola made another ‘room’. People will be laughing at this for the rest of time. Sad ego at play. My perspective for allowing delegation of creative decision has changed. Coppola clearly hasn’t got the brain to be in total.
I love the fact that they have this "we did it, we saved megalopolis" moment at the end of the movie after doing ABSOLUTELY NOTHING for its whole duration
Leonard Nimoy : My job here is done. Barney Gumble : What do you mean? You didn't do anything. Leonard Nimoy : [chuckles] Didn't I? [gets "beamed" away, a la "Star Trek"]
Hey, everyone. I’m the baby crawling on the magical carpet at the end. That take took 3 hours. Francis had so many ideas of what I would be crawling on - a car mat, a hallway runner, a slip and slide etc. Was a blast to work on. 10/10 would do it again.
I auditioned for the role and got it before you, but I had creative differences with Coppola. I had a different vision of how I should portray the future and hope. He wouldn't budge, neither would I. Looking back, it was the best decision for my carrier 😌
8:30 Given Coppola's love for old-school filmmaking, I wouldn't be surprised if he truly did want all the Volume backdrops to look slightly fake, like classic matte paintings. Same with that elevator shot. It reminded me of, like, old Buster Keaton shorts where he's high up and the comped-in background perspective doesn't quite match. I could believe it's all deliberate. Edit: For the record, "deliberate" does not necessarily mean "good idea."
He absolutely did. People just don't ask WHY. It's calling attention to the unreality, which is understandably anathema to VFX professionals. Of course, 2 of these guys didn't even watch it to begin with, so contextualization is impossible.
Doesn't this also look a bit like Vanilla Sky's outdoor elevator scene? That was inside a dream iirc. It's just so irritating to watch these guys do vfx reviews without understanding the context of the shots
Yeah, but here's the thing. The Buster Keaton shorts looked like that because that was what the 20s/30s technology allowed. This is 2025 (2024 when this movie was released) and has no right to look that mediocre.
@@calipurnioelreydelodio7141 And Coppola is old enough to have been inspired by those films. You can complain about the effects all you want but there's zero doubt this film wasn't going for realism.
Niko's mention about his college drawing class at the end is such a politely brutal roast. "If you have to write your message out, perhaps your picture is not successful in conveying your message." Oof =)
I agree in this case but I'd push back on the idea that it's a general rule. Sometimes good art can include an explicit message it's just that often inexperienced artists include a message in an attempt to tell the audience how they should have experienced the piece rather than to enhance the power of the piece. I'd like to give FFC the benefit of the doubt and say he knows enough to break that rule (some good art does write/say it's message explicitly) but I think this is yet another case where genius without restriction and editing becomes crap. .
I don't think the statement at the end is literally the message of the movie, it contributes to it but its part of a larger motif of important text to New Rome that still doesn't really make sense but ultimately I think Niko's criticism is unfair because he hasn't actually seen the movie beyond the clips shown here and so he can't fairly comment on what the message of the film is
@@petergerdes1094No, Megalopolis uses every conceivable vector to make its point, from the esoteric to the exoteric to the plainly stated. And as the public has made painfully clear, every one of them is beyond the average person's grasp these days. The American people elected Trump twice, made the Kardashians billionaires, and willingly DLd TikTok to their phones. It's time to stop pretending this is still an intelligent nation.
@@petergerdes1094 Also, in the case of a publicity, or propaganda poster, you build often build the image to enhanced the main written message, rather than convey it nonverbally - the message is more important than artistic merit and elegance of execution, so you lay it on thick. It can even have artistic merit of its own. If you look at a movie like Sorry to bother you, there is a very, very blunt message, in the imagery, in the dialogue, but the goal of the movie is to strip the logistics of realism to make its point as clear as possible (for an obvious example, telemarketers are literally dropped in people's living room to represent the two sided feeling of intruding). allegory is a very old artistic device and it can be used well.
Hey guys this is me, the elevator you see on that first shot. Wasn't having a very good day that's why I was a bit tilted. Loved all 78 takes we had to do. Would definitely go at it again. 10/10
poor Adam Driver. It feels like he met an evil twisted jinn asking him what 3 wishes he had for his film career. "Oh, I would love to work with great directors like Ridley Scott or Francis Ford Coppola or have a big role in a super popular franchise like Star Wars" And the jinn replied: "I will grant you those three wishes. But they are not going to turn out like you expect hahahahar" And then Adam did the Sequel trilogy, House of Gucci and Metropolis and they were all disasters and wastes of his talents.
I am in an intro to drawing class in college right now actually. Our first assignment was to talk about our biggest art inspiration. I basically picked Corridor, as you guys have been inspiring me for well over a decade with your amazing at-home visual effects. Thanks for being such an awesome inspiration!
This might be my favorite episode of vfx artists react so far. I always love the ones where half of it is just them trying to figure out wtf is happening, and this one was amazing.
QR codes were invented in Japan in 1994. They didn't have smart phones then so maybe in this Megalodon world then have a device that just reads QR codes like they did in 1994.
Heyo, I'm the default rain vfx used on the lady in that one leaf scene. Francis didn't know if he wanted heavy rain, sideways rain, sleet, snow, or even just a drizzle. It was a blast to work with him! 10/10 would wet again.
I did all those Unreal Environments between the 18min-19min mark haha we had like 1 month to do it all and it was like 2 months before the movie came out XD
Thanks for appear and give some insights. That's hard. You have our comprehension. There's a hole video of corridor talking about vfx and the time you have to do it... and yes, it matters a lot.
I never watch the ad reads, but due to Jordon's passion and creativity in his performance I watched the entire thing. Great job, I bought all the space in the square, and can't afford my insulin now.
This was my favorite corridor video in a while, the pure shock on their faces, Niko expertly breaking down the most insane shots, and the editors montage made me laugh so hard 😂
Hey guys. That's me the cgi rain before the lady covers herself with cgi gold blanket thing like the linkin park video. Sorry I looked like default rain settings, but that's what Mr. Coppela wanted. He said "eh no one cares". Loved working with him as cgi rain. Hope to be cgi rain in more movies! Love yall!
I saw this movie in IMAX at launch and it was definitely a wonderful visual experience. I couldn’t really get behind the story or pacing but it was still wonderful to see Coppola just let loose to create something as unhinged as the film.
Seeing this movie in the theater with the live performer for one scene that lasts 2 seconds is one of the most memorable theater going experiences I’ll ever have. 11/10, would do again.
@ it’s the scene where Adam Driver looks into the camera during an interview or something. The person asking the questions was made to be someone standing in the theater at the bottom of the screen.
Even without the popup actor, this is most definitely a film you need to see in the theater. Unfortunately, most people didn't, and instead posted shit takes on social media lambasting something they never even saw. The United States of Dunning-Krueger.
Bold statement to make when these guys don't even know who Catilina was or what Vestal Virgins were. Rule #1 of the Dunning-Krueger Club is that you don't know you're in the Dunning-Krueger Club.
@@maxpower21c You should really take that rule #1 to heart, since you don't even know how to apply it. Having or not having knowledge of who vestal vigrins were doesn't matter one bit when analyzing visual effects.
Oh my gosh the arrowhead flash... There's that scene in _Shaun of the Dead_ at his mum's house where he's holding the bread knife and contemplates using it to kill Phil, and there's a slow dolly in as the knife gives off a few dramatic glints... But if you're paying attention, you can clearly see Simon Pegg actively twisting his hand around to give that effect manually. Complete opposite energy.
Proud to have been one the of the VFX crew members laid off of Megalopolis. 🎥✊ I didn’t see it in theaters out of principal. But proud of the VFX artists in post that did some great work.
I worked on the physical effects crew. I was the mold shop supervisor, as well as being on site for several things. I am actually the guy on the floor catching the car in that shot in this video. I was driving It with a remote control unit and catching it. 80% of the things they talked about this video I worked on. The miniature Director photography was Chris Warren, the amazing, Gene Warren, Junior’s son, he did an amazing job with the shoot. There were tons of miniatures that we shot. The cloud grabbing the moon was a physical cloud tank shot that we did. We spent a full day shooting the shot of Adam driver running to the Egyptian tomb that you see in one single shot in the film, I spent three weeks working on a scene involving Adam driver, pulling his own heart out of his chest. There’s a single shot of it that lasts about four seconds in the film, that’s Filmmaker for you. Francis was amazing to work with. I had personal involvement with him several times, and one of them was a true career changing moment for me. As much as this movie is bonkers, it was an amazing experience. There are so many physical effects we did that were covered over by CGI. When he fired the CGI crew he said it was because he didn’t want to use CGI in anything, it was also because he didn’t want to stop and do plates that they wanted so they got in a fight with him, and he said go home. I think this Film will be looked over and considered for many many years to come. I don’t think we will ever be called a masterpiece. In fact it probably will be called a interesting failure. But there are scenes in this field that I spectacular such as the drive to the city, all of those characters or people worry make ups, there was absolutely no CGI in any of that. In fact, in all three shots, they showed me this video. I was just off screen catch in the car while driving it. My hats off to Francis, he paid for it all and got what he wanted. You can’t argue with that.
It's a shame that the sum of the parts don't live up to the parts themselves, but that's just how it is, there are incredible shots with weeks of work and creative solutions behind them in even the humblest of films which are deserving of praise outside of the final product. There's no explaining that freaking budget though, the volume with Unreal is used precisely for its cost effectiveness, and oh how it was used heavily here, there's no excuse.
@@cenciende9401 You are so correct, that volume stage was at the time of the biggest available. 80 feet wide, and 25 feet tall with a complete ceiling when they had New York City on it he just in the middle of the road and look at the floor you felt like you were there it was crazy.
I loved the movie. It was well worth the time I spent with it, you could feel someone put a lot of passion and thought into it and really wanted to craft this whole story. Thankful for the experience, for the insights here. I applauded the movie when it ended, and while the room was pretty empty, the remaining viewers seemed to nod and agree. Thanks for making this! Greetings from Germany.
Kung Fury looks 10x better than many of these shots... and KF was intentionally going for that look. This film seems like they failed hard trying at something else.
At least Kung Fury has some consistency and good vfx. This one looks like they gave up on every idea they had for the movie while making it but still kept it for some weird reason, resulting in a constant wtf :D
The Escalade Climbing Gym hoodie caught my eye at 6:35. I used to climb there, probably over 15 years ago, but the logo still stood out immediately when I saw it.
Can I just say I love how you guys have gotten to the point that you do a breakdown like this... and a member of the physical effects team, post-production effects team, and two of the statues just pop in casually. Also - the Linkin Park joke was *spot on* and I'm amazed if Niko actually pulled that one from memory on the spot.
Love how some of these scenes look. Kind of reminds me of old movies with painted backdrops and reminds us that movies are moving pictures and therefore Art.
RIP David Lynch. Even he, I think, might have had a difficult time parsing the theme of this movie....except for the helpful, just-explain-it-all-in-text at the end.
I just watched OK Go's new Music Video and they have a lot of really cool, trippy techniques that seem to be all done (or at least capable of being done) in camera. Would love to see you guys break down music videos too
Music videos would be fantastic. You could do a whole episode on Chris Cunningham's work alone. Daft Punk's videos have a lot to discuss as well. Especially the old ones.
My god. This isn't just a VFX breakdown, this is absolute THRASHING of an entire movie and I'm SO here for it. This is approaching MST3000 levels. Please do more.
@@rory_o Laugh all you want, but when the Video toaster was released it was absolutely amazing compared to what you could get for similar money from anyone else. From what I remember you had to step up to the over $100K range to do better.
Check out "Flow", it's the first movie fully made in Blender by just (edit) - three dudes from Latvia and has already won a lot of awards, it's up for an Academy Award too and streaming pretty much everywhere. Edit - Yes there were more than 3 people working on the project but outside the three people who acted as Writers/Producers/Director and soundtrack they were not hired for their creative input, simply to save time. So now all you nitpickers can stop typing in all caps.
It was just 2 dudes? It felt like half the planet worked on that movie because there's a solid 2 and a half minutes of literally nothing but corporate logos at the start.
@@leetri Those companies funded the movie, you need financial backing to create a project like that. It was directed by Gints Zilbalodis and written by Zilbalodis and Matīss Kaža. Rihards Zaļupe and Zilbalodis wrote the music, Zaļupe performed it, so I guess there were three dudes involved in the process.
@@ll7868 There was around 50 people working on this film. Though the idea of 2 dudes in their bedroom doing this film is charming, it isn't true. 50 is still really small for a fully animated feature film.
Cherry-picking makes anything look like whatever you want. Without context, understanding is impossible. But, of course, most people talking shit about this never saw it to begin with.
Damn, my company worked on the VFX of that movie and did a lot of stuff. But I never bothered to look up any of the shots. Now I'm curious if we did any of the shown shots here. It's Saturday night right now, but I'm tempted to go to the office now and look it up. This was so exciting to watch and listen to your impressions :D
Update... Yes I indeed looked it up now (there goes my Saturday night). I am very happy that we indeed worked on some of the shots that are featured here and whoooa this has been a trippy experience. (Fitting to the movie, I guess). Side note: What makes me particularly happy is that, yes, we were indeed involved in the scene which Jordan describes as "the greatest scene in cinematic history" :D
I have to say this was the best Squarespace advertising I've ever seen in this channel. I really loved Megalopolis, even with the low scores here and there, and the CRAZYYY vfx. I really appreciated it on cinema, is definitely a piece of art.
Coincidentally, just yesterday I watched the making of Bram Stokers Dracula. He fired the 1st effects crew because he wanted all his effects done the hard way and all in camera. The crew wasn’t having it so he fired them. Probably something similar here. He probably wanted the effects done a certain way and the 1st crew wasn’t up for it.
For what I understood, he wanted to use the less CGI possible. But considering the kind of film he was asking for, I can imagine the VFX team saying "Are you nuts?!" and getting fired for that.
@@calipurnioelreydelodio7141 On Dracula he wanted to shoot it like the very earliest motion pictures because that's when the book came out. (You actually see the very first one being played in one scene.) I would not be surprised if he had similar ideas for this.
HOLY SHIT Wren's confused face at the end had me shedding tears-- i havent crylaughed like that in so long!! truly captures my own reaction when i first watched this film, too!!!
It's interesting that you highlight Francis Ford Coppola's famous depiction of organised crime, because comparing the finished product to the budget for this thing, it's clear that SOMEONE learned a lot about money laundering.... 😅
Yup, you can also see the people behind the gate aren’t the same in the second shot. You can see a woman in a dress in the first shot but not the second. There’s a lot of small different actions that don’t match. It’s still super lazy because they just flipped a second take using the exact same extras.
Hey guys, I was actually the baby at the end of the film and that rug they put me on was actually a practical effect. They placed me on a glass pane and then Francis Coppola made the tiny rug appear between me and the glass using only his thoughts
@@maxpower21c It's more the fact that, they hired talented award-winning thespian Dustin Hoffman to be onscreen for four seconds to just show up and die. Like, did Coppola have a grudge against him? Hope that Dustin got a nice paycheque out of it.
@@MrSnaztastic There are no small parts, only small actors. And Hoffman has a couple of minutes of screen time, total, playing a Kissinger-like fixer- which he did perfectly.
Watching Wren's mind break every minute they continue to dive deeper and deeper into this movie is such a joy 😅 he is all the rest of us who even saw pieces of this movie, I temember being like wtf
Watching you guys react to the movie is so much better than watching the movie on its own. I watched half of Megalopolis and I'm fairly convinced seeing the whole thing wouldn't make me any less confused and afraid.
Looks like I made a mistake! The clip from "Obi-Wan Kenobi" that I showed at 6:57 was not shot on a volume, and was in fact filmed on location.
- Editor Dean
thanks dean
Where is wizard cops 2 and all the other stuff you promised to make???
Thank you for this correction.
Hi! I actually worked post production on this movie (before we all got laid off for the writers strike). The clip where you see his skull is a practical effect, not vfx. The first few days of dailies were testing that shot and the Adam Driver sideways shot. Essentially they had one clip of a skeleton that they used as a projection into the camera that would only be visible under certain lighting conditions. That’s why the lips are visible, it’s a practical shot
Thanks! That's actually very cool to know.
Really cool to know that. Do you know anything about the glass bottle shot? Was he indeed in a spinning room? 😂
@@MrThankman360 If you look on the far right of the shot, you'll see an ornament or lighting fixture thing (I don't know what it is) and it's going crazy moving all over the place, so maybe it was a spinning room?
The real question is, do you put this on your CV?
@camerafx24, Friend and colleague at Magic Film Company in Atlanta, worked on practical SFX on this movie. He had mentioned to me this was a practical shot. Also the shots with the statues were done practical with miniatures and then CG'd over.
Oh hey, Lady Justice here. It was an honor to be a living statue for FFC. We were painted head to toe. Real rain machines and basically a paper mache costume. We did about 30 takes for my scene. It was surreal and magical! Imdb: Ivy Lightsey
phenomenal work! hope u get more statue jobs!
Got a chuckle at the troll saying mean things in the first reply. Clearly the star-struck performance Lady Justice statue was the sole reason that the movie wasn't successful! Shame on you for liking a legendary director for doing a bad movie!
But seriously though, being shown three times in the "This movie had some good things in it" segment means you did something right, so well done.
That's awesome! How long did it take to get all the painting done? Did all 30 takes get done in one day?
you were stunning, i mean that
@@randomdude189 wtf
The breakdown over the QR codes and lack of cell phones broke me completely
It got me real good, I started laughing uncontrollably
😂😂😂😂
Has anyone tried scanning the QR codes? 😅😂
@@williamfrancecamera yeah it's just text that says thanks for your pledge
@@williamfrancecamera Yes, the gold one has a message, not a link. I couldn't get any of the ones from the crowd.
Hey! I'm the 114th blade of grass from the left that Adam's foot slides past at 19:01. It was an honor to be a part of this film and Francis individually watered every blade before each take -- a painstaking effort when you think abou the fact that this took 839 shots to get the final look you see in the movie. I was honored to even be brushed up against by Adam Driver's shoes as he floated by!
😂😂well done sir😂
😂😂😂😂
Can I have your autograph?
What's your IMDB page?
I think in honour of David Lynch you should do a retrospective of all his crazy effects in his movies and tv shows. He’s got some wiiiiiild stuff.
yeah that would definitely make for a super interesting video
I would LOOOVE this
Hey, that's me, the male statue. No latex suit. All me and all paint. Just prosthetic hair and beard. Great video. Was a ball to work on.Harder than it looks for sure. Love Mr. Coppola.
Very cool. I would have loved to have been on that set. Thanks!.
High Five ✋
@@randomdude189why? Those shots are the best thing in the whole movie...
@@randomdude189why? He didn’t make the movie. Don’t shame a guy for doing his job. If I made LED bulbs for automobiles and they were great quality, I wouldn’t be ashamed if Musk used them in his joke of a vehicle cybertruck. Or if you grew delicious vegetables and some chef made a terrible meal with them, would you be ashamed of your carrots? No way, man. Your beef is with Coppola, not statue guy.
@@randomdude189 ...no one is talking about your achievements buddy
The poetic realism of using a spinning room after his binge is very real and truly poetic
Genuinely, like as jank as everything here is, that's a really cool decision for poetic storytelling.
Poetic AND realistic 👍🏼😂
Not if you don’t know it’s spinning. It’s a medium of show. It’s like getting a hair transplant but gluing a hat to your head afterwards. Pointless. Coppola made another ‘room’. People will be laughing at this for the rest of time. Sad ego at play. My perspective for allowing delegation of creative decision has changed. Coppola clearly hasn’t got the brain to be in total.
I love the fact that they have this "we did it, we saved megalopolis" moment at the end of the movie after doing ABSOLUTELY NOTHING for its whole duration
That's just politicians being politicians.
standard billionaire mindset tbh
Leonard Nimoy : My job here is done.
Barney Gumble : What do you mean? You didn't do anything.
Leonard Nimoy : [chuckles] Didn't I?
[gets "beamed" away, a la "Star Trek"]
@@JohnDoeHZ To be fair if they did nothing that would be best
Art imitates life it seems.
Hey, everyone. I’m the baby crawling on the magical carpet at the end. That take took 3 hours. Francis had so many ideas of what I would be crawling on - a car mat, a hallway runner, a slip and slide etc. Was a blast to work on. 10/10 would do it again.
I don’t know if you remember me, but I was the carpet underneath you. It was so much fun working with together. Fun memories.
Great Job! Were you conceived specifically for that shot?
I thought it took over 9 months
I can attest to that, I was Giancarlo Espositos stunt double for that scene
I auditioned for the role and got it before you, but I had creative differences with Coppola. I had a different vision of how I should portray the future and hope. He wouldn't budge, neither would I. Looking back, it was the best decision for my carrier 😌
8:30 Given Coppola's love for old-school filmmaking, I wouldn't be surprised if he truly did want all the Volume backdrops to look slightly fake, like classic matte paintings. Same with that elevator shot. It reminded me of, like, old Buster Keaton shorts where he's high up and the comped-in background perspective doesn't quite match. I could believe it's all deliberate.
Edit: For the record, "deliberate" does not necessarily mean "good idea."
He absolutely did. People just don't ask WHY. It's calling attention to the unreality, which is understandably anathema to VFX professionals.
Of course, 2 of these guys didn't even watch it to begin with, so contextualization is impossible.
Doesn't this also look a bit like Vanilla Sky's outdoor elevator scene? That was inside a dream iirc. It's just so irritating to watch these guys do vfx reviews without understanding the context of the shots
Yeah, but here's the thing.
The Buster Keaton shorts looked like that because that was what the 20s/30s technology allowed.
This is 2025 (2024 when this movie was released) and has no right to look that mediocre.
@@calipurnioelreydelodio7141 And Coppola is old enough to have been inspired by those films. You can complain about the effects all you want but there's zero doubt this film wasn't going for realism.
Exactly. It's insane how people nitpicked the vfx for all the stylistic decisions.
Can we honestly just highlight how f****** genius Niko is? The amount of time he *perfectly* nails how a weird shot was made is honestly mindblowing
@@randomdude189 hes just being polite. good man nikko would never talk bad about a fellow sfx editor's work
glazing it
@@burritodog3634 Niko deserves it
Niko is so god damn smart it amazes me every time he does it. How tf did he know the room was spinning so quickly 😂
@@burritodog3634yall call anything glazing🤡
Niko's mention about his college drawing class at the end is such a politely brutal roast. "If you have to write your message out, perhaps your picture is not successful in conveying your message." Oof =)
I agree in this case but I'd push back on the idea that it's a general rule. Sometimes good art can include an explicit message it's just that often inexperienced artists include a message in an attempt to tell the audience how they should have experienced the piece rather than to enhance the power of the piece.
I'd like to give FFC the benefit of the doubt and say he knows enough to break that rule (some good art does write/say it's message explicitly) but I think this is yet another case where genius without restriction and editing becomes crap.
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I don't think the statement at the end is literally the message of the movie, it contributes to it but its part of a larger motif of important text to New Rome that still doesn't really make sense but ultimately I think Niko's criticism is unfair because he hasn't actually seen the movie beyond the clips shown here and so he can't fairly comment on what the message of the film is
@@petergerdes1094No, Megalopolis uses every conceivable vector to make its point, from the esoteric to the exoteric to the plainly stated. And as the public has made painfully clear, every one of them is beyond the average person's grasp these days. The American people elected Trump twice, made the Kardashians billionaires, and willingly DLd TikTok to their phones. It's time to stop pretending this is still an intelligent nation.
@@petergerdes1094 Also, in the case of a publicity, or propaganda poster, you build often build the image to enhanced the main written message, rather than convey it nonverbally - the message is more important than artistic merit and elegance of execution, so you lay it on thick.
It can even have artistic merit of its own. If you look at a movie like Sorry to bother you, there is a very, very blunt message, in the imagery, in the dialogue, but the goal of the movie is to strip the logistics of realism to make its point as clear as possible (for an obvious example, telemarketers are literally dropped in people's living room to represent the two sided feeling of intruding). allegory is a very old artistic device and it can be used well.
@@hallwaywarrior5286 I mean, I have seen the movie almost 3 times and I would say he is pretty much right lol
at 12:34 if anyone is wondering where the QR code leads to. it's just a message that says "thank you for your pledge xoxo vesta"
I just did that. 😂
Thank you for your pledge! xoxo, Vesta
I just did that too!
It's poetic realism
thanks pika petey, very cool
I'm willing to bet that almost everyone watching this on a laptop or pc, pulled out their cellphones and scanned those QR codes.
I know I did! lol
Hey guys this is me, the elevator you see on that first shot. Wasn't having a very good day that's why I was a bit tilted. Loved all 78 takes we had to do. Would definitely go at it again. 10/10
lol
I feel like this episode more than the others has slowly morphed into Mystery Science Theater 3000 and I am HERE for it.
I’m glad to see Francis Ford Coppola giving the VFX artists from Spy Kids some work
I was wondering how Robert Rodriguez' been doing lately... 😂
Say what you will about it, but Spy Kids is in the National Film Registry.
love spykids so nice of him
poor Adam Driver. It feels like he met an evil twisted jinn asking him what 3 wishes he had for his film career.
"Oh, I would love to work with great directors like Ridley Scott or Francis Ford Coppola or have a big role in a super popular franchise like Star Wars"
And the jinn replied: "I will grant you those three wishes. But they are not going to turn out like you expect hahahahar"
And then Adam did the Sequel trilogy, House of Gucci and Metropolis and they were all disasters and wastes of his talents.
At least The Last Duel was good
At least he came out of the star wars movies looking pretty good. No-one blames him for the disaster that was RoS
The Last Duel was also an utter disaster 😂
megalopolis was good actually
Yea but...BlacKkKlansman and Marriage Story.
nothing hits harder than the editors "nothing makes sense" montage that fucking busted me
I had to pause to video to laugh out loud!
yeah made me bust
I am in an intro to drawing class in college right now actually. Our first assignment was to talk about our biggest art inspiration. I basically picked Corridor, as you guys have been inspiring me for well over a decade with your amazing at-home visual effects. Thanks for being such an awesome inspiration!
I love that the revolution to bring New Rome to a new era is literally just the treadmills they have at airports
I watched Megalopolis while having an actual fever and I kept dozing off aswell. One of the strangest experiences in my life.
I did the same but with The Descent on the SyFy channel as a kid. I thought it was a fever dream for years. 10/10, would recommend
I was watching "Bringing Out The Dead" the night I came down with COVID. Phantasmagoric doesn't even come close. 😅
Going absolutely ham in that ad segment, love it
His ad segments are the best, I rarely skip ahead.
Would fit right in on this movie, you wouldn't even notice.
Going back to watch the ad segment because of this comment
this whole movie looks like the music video for Linkin Park's In The End
*edit* OH WAIT THEY ACTUALLY SAY THE SAME THING LATER IN THE VIDEO LMAO
One thing, I don't know why...
@@drunkaragdoesn’t even matter how hard you try 😂
@@Frey-Doh Keep that in mind....
@@UhnConscious I designed this rhyme
No, no stop it! We'll have none of that silliness here!
I love how you can see that the editor had fun with this one!
This movie has so many shots that you just don't ever see in modern cinema, very unique and well done.
That is some bollywood rivaling vfx right there ngl
LOL you right. For me it was nephew level
Bruh there are shit ton of bollywood movies with great vfx
China: hold my beer.
@@yasho9008 definitely not shit ton of them.
@@vdiitd I can name a lot of em from the top of my mind, the thing about vfx is it's not really always visible and often gets overlooked
This might be my favorite episode of vfx artists react so far. I always love the ones where half of it is just them trying to figure out wtf is happening, and this one was amazing.
Definitely the best. My favorite corridor crew video to date haha
The QR code/ cellphone continuity problem is quite literally the funniest thing I've seen all day and I've been watching "Farewell TikTok" videos
QR codes were invented in Japan in 1994. They didn't have smart phones then so maybe in this Megalodon world then have a device that just reads QR codes like they did in 1994.
@@Mojova1 "Megalodon world" lol. Also, smart thinking, but I guarantee you put more thought into this than the filmmakers.
"THEY HAVE TO! THERE ARE QR CODES!!!!"
@@DocWolph I wonder how difficult it would be to read QR codes directly. It certainly seems feasible.
@@chaos.corner With your eyes? Impossible lol
Heyo, I'm the default rain vfx used on the lady in that one leaf scene. Francis didn't know if he wanted heavy rain, sideways rain, sleet, snow, or even just a drizzle. It was a blast to work with him! 10/10 would wet again.
I did all those Unreal Environments between the 18min-19min mark haha we had like 1 month to do it all and it was like 2 months before the movie came out XD
Thanks for appear and give some insights. That's hard. You have our comprehension. There's a hole video of corridor talking about vfx and the time you have to do it... and yes, it matters a lot.
Lol I got your video recommended a couple days ago, what are the chances
This might be the single best vfx Artist react Episode ever
I never watch the ad reads, but due to Jordon's passion and creativity in his performance I watched the entire thing. Great job, I bought all the space in the square, and can't afford my insulin now.
LMAO
God bless you for keeping that Luigi's Mansion joke in there lmao
This was my favorite corridor video in a while, the pure shock on their faces, Niko expertly breaking down the most insane shots, and the editors montage made me laugh so hard 😂
Hey guys. That's me the cgi rain before the lady covers herself with cgi gold blanket thing like the linkin park video. Sorry I looked like default rain settings, but that's what Mr. Coppela wanted. He said "eh no one cares". Loved working with him as cgi rain. Hope to be cgi rain in more movies! Love yall!
Wren is flabbergasted, Niko is in awe... Jordan is constantly ROFLMAOing in anticipation 🤣🤣
The Boner Arrow scene absolutely killed me. I’m dead and this message is coming from beyond the grave.
Oh how I wish Sam were on the couch for this one. I can just picture him losing it and being unable to do anything but laugh
I need an episode where the guys show these clips to Sam.
Samity Meter would explode
I saw this movie in IMAX at launch and it was definitely a wonderful visual experience. I couldn’t really get behind the story or pacing but it was still wonderful to see Coppola just let loose to create something as unhinged as the film.
20:09 That is straight up the national anthem of Sweden!! WTF!
men guuud! you're rätt :)
Yes it is.. I wonder why?!
För att vi är Megalopolis.... Tydligen.
Visionen Coppola vill att vi ska fånga är att Sverige är framtiden! 😂😂
Va fan hahahaha
hahahaha
Seeing this movie in the theater with the live performer for one scene that lasts 2 seconds is one of the most memorable theater going experiences I’ll ever have. 11/10, would do again.
I wanted to experience that so bad. I hope the home release details that a bit in a special feature or bts segment.
Lmao, what did he say?
@ it’s the scene where Adam Driver looks into the camera during an interview or something. The person asking the questions was made to be someone standing in the theater at the bottom of the screen.
Jordan should've out of nowhere done that scene himself just to mess with them
Even without the popup actor, this is most definitely a film you need to see in the theater.
Unfortunately, most people didn't, and instead posted shit takes on social media lambasting something they never even saw.
The United States of Dunning-Krueger.
When the breakdown of a movie is better than the actual movie. Thankyou Megalopolis, for giving Corridor some content.
Bold statement to make when these guys don't even know who Catilina was or what Vestal Virgins were.
Rule #1 of the Dunning-Krueger Club is that you don't know you're in the Dunning-Krueger Club.
@@maxpower21c They're breaking down vfx buddy. No one is impressed with your cursory knowledge of Rome.
@@maxpower21closer lol
@@maxpower21c the movie was bold and risk taking so i cant hate on it but the vfx were just bad in most scenes.
@@maxpower21c You should really take that rule #1 to heart, since you don't even know how to apply it. Having or not having knowledge of who vestal vigrins were doesn't matter one bit when analyzing visual effects.
The editing of this video was really something special, props to whoever it was
You have made the best advertising integration I have ever seen in a UA-cam video. Congratulations.
12:46 hilarous phone situation breakdown
"Phone situation is CRAZY (not clickbait)"
The Megalopolis Phone Incident
Oh my gosh the arrowhead flash... There's that scene in _Shaun of the Dead_ at his mum's house where he's holding the bread knife and contemplates using it to kill Phil, and there's a slow dolly in as the knife gives off a few dramatic glints... But if you're paying attention, you can clearly see Simon Pegg actively twisting his hand around to give that effect manually.
Complete opposite energy.
Is it really?? When im watching this film i can't stop thinking that it was all on purpose.
Knife in a boot in Road House... ;) At least it was in 80s cheesiness ;)
Jordan - your passion is contagious. Thank you for sharing your excitement with us
Proud to have been one the of the VFX crew members laid off of Megalopolis. 🎥✊
I didn’t see it in theaters out of principal. But proud of the VFX artists in post that did some great work.
You can tell they hauled ass on the project, it has some very visually cool looking scenes
That statue scene, when I saw it in the trailer, actually made me pretty excited for this movie…..
I worked on the physical effects crew. I was the mold shop supervisor, as well as being on site for several things. I am actually the guy on the floor catching the car in that shot in this video. I was driving It with a remote control unit and catching it. 80% of the things they talked about this video I worked on. The miniature Director photography was Chris Warren, the amazing, Gene Warren, Junior’s son, he did an amazing job with the shoot. There were tons of miniatures that we shot. The cloud grabbing the moon was a physical cloud tank shot that we did. We spent a full day shooting the shot of Adam driver running to the Egyptian tomb that you see in one single shot in the film, I spent three weeks working on a scene involving Adam driver, pulling his own heart out of his chest. There’s a single shot of it that lasts about four seconds in the film, that’s Filmmaker for you. Francis was amazing to work with. I had personal involvement with him several times, and one of them was a true career changing moment for me. As much as this movie is bonkers, it was an amazing experience. There are so many physical effects we did that were covered over by CGI. When he fired the CGI crew he said it was because he didn’t want to use CGI in anything, it was also because he didn’t want to stop and do plates that they wanted so they got in a fight with him, and he said go home. I think this Film will be looked over and considered for many many years to come. I don’t think we will ever be called a masterpiece. In fact it probably will be called a interesting failure. But there are scenes in this field that I spectacular such as the drive to the city, all of those characters or people worry make ups, there was absolutely no CGI in any of that. In fact, in all three shots, they showed me this video. I was just off screen catch in the car while driving it. My hats off to Francis, he paid for it all and got what he wanted. You can’t argue with that.
This would be an interesting person to bring to the show! 😉
It's a shame that the sum of the parts don't live up to the parts themselves, but that's just how it is, there are incredible shots with weeks of work and creative solutions behind them in even the humblest of films which are deserving of praise outside of the final product. There's no explaining that freaking budget though, the volume with Unreal is used precisely for its cost effectiveness, and oh how it was used heavily here, there's no excuse.
@@cenciende9401 You are so correct, that volume stage was at the time of the biggest available. 80 feet wide, and 25 feet tall with a complete ceiling when they had New York City on it he just in the middle of the road and look at the floor you felt like you were there it was crazy.
I loved the movie. It was well worth the time I spent with it, you could feel someone put a lot of passion and thought into it and really wanted to craft this whole story. Thankful for the experience, for the insights here. I applauded the movie when it ended, and while the room was pretty empty, the remaining viewers seemed to nod and agree. Thanks for making this! Greetings from Germany.
You seriously need to get acquainted with the concept of the paragraph.
Okay, that transition into the ad segment was fantastic. Great work, Jordan!
All glory goes to the editor Dean, it was his brilliant idea 😂
@@vfxwithjordan Execution is every bit as important as vision, but great work to you both!
@@vfxwithjordandid Dean edit the whole video? That phone tangent was hilarious. 🤣 😅😅😂
Jordan's ads are always so nice to watch, prob the best on the channel, you can't help but watch.
17:05 "What do you think of this bow n arrow I got" lol
It’s giving ‘Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow’ by way of ‘Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus’ and ‘Mirrormask’
Very mirror mask
"It's like rhyming orange with door hinge".
That's a new favourite quote of mine.
when your 140 million dollar movie looks like Kung Fury you know you're doing something wrong (not knocking KF of course, that video was awesome)
Kung Fury is amazing
Kung Fury looks 10x better than many of these shots... and KF was intentionally going for that look. This film seems like they failed hard trying at something else.
At least Kung Fury has some consistency and good vfx. This one looks like they gave up on every idea they had for the movie while making it but still kept it for some weird reason, resulting in a constant wtf :D
It's truly bonkers how good KF looks :D
or perhaps you are doing something extremely RIGHT!!!
13:14 Loved the editors notes😂😂
The Escalade Climbing Gym hoodie caught my eye at 6:35. I used to climb there, probably over 15 years ago, but the logo still stood out immediately when I saw it.
Can I just say I love how you guys have gotten to the point that you do a breakdown like this... and a member of the physical effects team, post-production effects team, and two of the statues just pop in casually.
Also - the Linkin Park joke was *spot on* and I'm amazed if Niko actually pulled that one from memory on the spot.
21:15 that was my face sitting in the theater after the movie ended.
At 14:34 the shot of caesar on the alien ride is so good, it caught me so off guard.
Y'all are getting really good at getting me to not skip promo segments
Just as long as it's not a BetterHelp ad.
Best sponsored segment I've seen you guys do for a long time, LOVED it!!! Had me watching it all and not skipping!
Love how some of these scenes look. Kind of reminds me of old movies with painted backdrops and reminds us that movies are moving pictures and therefore Art.
10:51 "this just got very david lynch all of a sudden"
The guy just died
@@actionstudios9502 so? They made this episode before he died and they obviously had him in their mind even without the passing
because the director mustve been dead to let this slide?
RIP David Lynch. Even he, I think, might have had a difficult time parsing the theme of this movie....except for the helpful, just-explain-it-all-in-text at the end.
🤧😭😭 too soon
I just watched OK Go's new Music Video and they have a lot of really cool, trippy techniques that seem to be all done (or at least capable of being done) in camera. Would love to see you guys break down music videos too
They said before that they pretty much could never do music videos because of UA-cams copyright system, they might put it behind their paywall though
ok go's been my favorite band since the fourth grade and their mvs have always been so awe inspiring to me
Music videos would be fantastic. You could do a whole episode on Chris Cunningham's work alone. Daft Punk's videos have a lot to discuss as well. Especially the old ones.
I'm glad Man-Jordan is getting more spotlight on the couch. He's such a treat to see.
Okay I take back whatever I have said before. THAT was the best ad segment I have ever seen😂Love you Jordan!
I ADORE the weird ''phone'' intermezzo around the 13th minute. Please more of that in the future!!
My god. This isn't just a VFX breakdown, this is absolute THRASHING of an entire movie and I'm SO here for it. This is approaching MST3000 levels. Please do more.
You've be here regardless, as would I, as would everyone else.
I would so watch them do the MST3K treatment on a full movie.
21:20 - WREN'S FACE RN is exactly ME whenever I see this kind of CGI in movies! 🤣
Critic: "David Lynch is by far the most visually unhinged filmmaker"
Coppola: "Hold my Video Toaster rig."
~proceeds to always put ‘the’ before the name of a software~
@@comekfilms3602 Video Toaster was as much about the Amiga at the time as it was the software, hence the "rig" label. :-)
David Lynch must have watched this movie and died. RIP David Lynch. The industry has lost another visionary out of his mind.
Ahaha good call this mess does look like it was comped in 1997 on a Video Toaster sometimes.
@@rory_o Laugh all you want, but when the Video toaster was released it was absolutely amazing compared to what you could get for similar money from anyone else. From what I remember you had to step up to the over $100K range to do better.
One of my favourite episodes. Liked that you focus on one single movie
This was a great episode. Perfect amount of deep diving, BTS, speculation, and the pace was great. More like this please.
Check out "Flow", it's the first movie fully made in Blender by just (edit) - three dudes from Latvia and has already won a lot of awards, it's up for an Academy Award too and streaming pretty much everywhere.
Edit - Yes there were more than 3 people working on the project but outside the three people who acted as Writers/Producers/Director and soundtrack they were not hired for their creative input, simply to save time. So now all you nitpickers can stop typing in all caps.
Yes! Please!
It was just 2 dudes? It felt like half the planet worked on that movie because there's a solid 2 and a half minutes of literally nothing but corporate logos at the start.
@@leetri Those companies funded the movie, you need financial backing to create a project like that. It was directed by Gints Zilbalodis and written by Zilbalodis and Matīss Kaža. Rihards Zaļupe and Zilbalodis wrote the music, Zaļupe performed it, so I guess there were three dudes involved in the process.
They've killed it. As a cat owner, they're perfected so well Flow, and the other animals, making them conveying words without word.
@@ll7868 There was around 50 people working on this film. Though the idea of 2 dudes in their bedroom doing this film is charming, it isn't true.
50 is still really small for a fully animated feature film.
I’ve never watched this movie, but holy cow, I can’t believe that’s actually how the movie looks. 💀😂😂
Indeed. If they spent half that vfx money on coke for the crew it would have been still crazy, but a decent movie.
Yeah, the terrible VFX is somehow the least of its problems, too.
It’s givin’ sharkboy and lavagirl green screen and TikTok style Acting vibes
I would recomend watching it, very unique expierience.
Cherry-picking makes anything look like whatever you want.
Without context, understanding is impossible.
But, of course, most people talking shit about this never saw it to begin with.
Damn, my company worked on the VFX of that movie and did a lot of stuff. But I never bothered to look up any of the shots. Now I'm curious if we did any of the shown shots here. It's Saturday night right now, but I'm tempted to go to the office now and look it up. This was so exciting to watch and listen to your impressions :D
Update... Yes I indeed looked it up now (there goes my Saturday night). I am very happy that we indeed worked on some of the shots that are featured here and whoooa this has been a trippy experience. (Fitting to the movie, I guess).
Side note: What makes me particularly happy is that, yes, we were indeed involved in the scene which Jordan describes as "the greatest scene in cinematic history" :D
The Ad segment was art
I have to say this was the best Squarespace advertising I've ever seen in this channel.
I really loved Megalopolis, even with the low scores here and there, and the CRAZYYY vfx. I really appreciated it on cinema, is definitely a piece of art.
5:14 Honestly bravo, that's the best adspot I've seen on UA-cam in quite some time
This movie deserves a Corridor Hall of Fame for...something. We need Sam to induct this into some hall of fame.
I feel like this would make Sam genuinely angry.
HALL OF SHAME
Coincidentally, just yesterday I watched the making of Bram Stokers Dracula. He fired the 1st effects crew because he wanted all his effects done the hard way and all in camera. The crew wasn’t having it so he fired them. Probably something similar here. He probably wanted the effects done a certain way and the 1st crew wasn’t up for it.
YYYYYYYUP. They weren't up to the demands of working with a true filmmaker. Simple as.
For what I understood, he wanted to use the less CGI possible. But considering the kind of film he was asking for, I can imagine the VFX team saying "Are you nuts?!" and getting fired for that.
@@calipurnioelreydelodio7141 On Dracula he wanted to shoot it like the very earliest motion pictures because that's when the book came out. (You actually see the very first one being played in one scene.)
I would not be surprised if he had similar ideas for this.
Shout out to Jordan for always bringing all the knowledge to these episodes. BTS stuff and the VFX knowledge as well
HOLY SHIT Wren's confused face at the end had me shedding tears-- i havent crylaughed like that in so long!! truly captures my own reaction when i first watched this film, too!!!
It's interesting that you highlight Francis Ford Coppola's famous depiction of organised crime, because comparing the finished product to the budget for this thing, it's clear that SOMEONE learned a lot about money laundering.... 😅
18:35 I think it’s the same shot, but a different take. Guy in the foreground grabs a little rip in the first take, but missed the second
Agreed. There are slight variations in the movement, so it's definitely a different take.
Yup, you can also see the people behind the gate aren’t the same in the second shot. You can see a woman in a dress in the first shot but not the second. There’s a lot of small different actions that don’t match. It’s still super lazy because they just flipped a second take using the exact same extras.
14:09 I think all of Wren's neurons were activated all at once, he's achieved enlightenment
Hey guys, I was actually the baby at the end of the film and that rug they put me on was actually a practical effect. They placed me on a glass pane and then Francis Coppola made the tiny rug appear between me and the glass using only his thoughts
You should know that in over a decade, this is THE FIRST sponsored segment I've watched in it's entirety. BRAVAAA!!!
this movie has Dustin Hoffman dying in a 4 second throwaway scene that is baffling
He got hit when the satellite crashed.
The things that "baffle" people about this movie are just failures of cognition. 🤦🏻♂️
@@maxpower21c It's more the fact that, they hired talented award-winning thespian Dustin Hoffman to be onscreen for four seconds to just show up and die. Like, did Coppola have a grudge against him? Hope that Dustin got a nice paycheque out of it.
@@MrSnaztastic There are no small parts, only small actors. And Hoffman has a couple of minutes of screen time, total, playing a Kissinger-like fixer- which he did perfectly.
Watching Wren's mind break every minute they continue to dive deeper and deeper into this movie is such a joy 😅 he is all the rest of us who even saw pieces of this movie, I temember being like wtf
Gee, it's almost like you have to actually watch something in order to understand it.
Who knew?
I saw this one in theaters and it was one of the movies of all time.
Worst movie of all time?
@ not bad, not good, just one of the movies of all time.
I heard Tommy Wisseau made a lifelike Coppola mask after getting attacked by a big shark.
Guys this was the first squarespace ad I actually watched. BRAVO
First ad break I watched all the way through. It was that good. Well done.
Its crazy that the 2003 Linkin Park music video did the shadow better
It may not have been good but its absolutely great
100% agree
Better than The Room at least
😂 Yeah why not
It's both.
Watching you guys react to the movie is so much better than watching the movie on its own. I watched half of Megalopolis and I'm fairly convinced seeing the whole thing wouldn't make me any less confused and afraid.
And @17:10 you almost had hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil. Fittingly 😂😂😂