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I have seen it. I don’t remember hating it but for the life of me I could not tell you a single thing that the movie is about.
I tried muddling my way through it but gave up.
I’ve watched some truly terrible movies but this one really irks me. I recall it being pretentious and yet banal.
You don’t remember “Call me Auntie Wow”?
Why?
Precisely what I clicked through to comment. 🤌🏼
It’s Megalollipolisin’ time!
This is what I came for!
But why tho?
Didn’t he have to sell his vineyard (the absolute indignation of it!) because the movie lost so much? He probably wants some money back.
Poor man must be so thirsty…
He had to sell one of his vineyards.
Desperately trying to make money?
Wouldn’t that be easier if they picked one of his watchable films instead?
But then the people who lost money on this film wouldn’t make their money back.
It was him; he financed it himself by taking out loans against properties he owned. He’s selling things off now to pay the loans back.
I love movies with abstract imagery and themes. Usually I can piece things together and figure out what the film is trying to say, but not Megalopolis.
Like, what was Megalopolis (the in-film construction project) supposed to represent? It was one guy’s vision for a better future that he was going to build no-matter what. Fine! But then Adam Driver’s character makes a big speech at the ribbon ceremony about how we need to start a conversation about the future. What conversation? The guy never listened to anyone else during the film! Maybe his wife?
Why was everything wrapped up in the names and imagery of late Roman republic? To imply that American society is reaching an end of its current unsustainable phase. Ok, but then you name Adam Driver’s character after the guy who turned Rome into a militarist principate. So what better future should we be looking towards?
What was the whole deal with Carthage, the crumbling Soviet satellite which destroyed part of the city? The Megalopolis project only got underway when the destruction cleared out a chunk of New Rome, so are we to assume that our bold conversation about the futute can only happen when the once-forgotten ghost of Communism smashes America? But then the satellite’s crash has no impact on anything except some buildings. The mayor doesn’t face any problems as leader during or after this disaster, and the MAGA-coded villains don’t really change tactics either. Adam Driver’s plans are obviously helped by this, but he already had buy-in from the Mayor. It’s not like the disaster was some catalyst for change, but rather a convenience so we don’t have to watch Adam Driver finger-snap another building demolition.
Megalopolis threw a lot of ideas on the screen, but I kept waiting for a payoff that never arrived.
I’m assuming this is entirely related to him financing the film himself by taking out loans against his properties, which are coming due and he’s now having to sell things off and take new loans. He’s convinced it will still become a cult classic!
…WHY?
Because he’s in a very deep financial hole.
Insert stick bike meme here
Megalopolis was the Nicolas Cage of Hollywood blockbusters. It wasn’t bad, it just didn’t do anything special.
I’d say “or the Nickelback,” but Nickelback is a better rock band than Megalopolis was a movie.
Nicolas Cage is his nephew!
That’s the joke. ;) (I thought he was his son though?)
Wikipedia says Nicolas’s dad is August Coppola, brother of Francis Ford and Sophia; I’m assuming that’s accurate
We’ll start bettering humanity by forgetting this movie.
That guy is out of touch.
I feel that the key to that riddle is in the pronunciation of his name: “Cope-uh’luh”. He’s tokin’ his own pud, back to his very molars, so ecstatic at the bouquet… and just oblivious as to why no one else is. 🤷🏼♂️
Hollywood, don’t ever change.
At first I was thinking, you know what…it’s a shame it was a flop, because at least it was a filmmaker trying something original that wasn’t just a sequel/superhero/crap action franchise movie that we’ve seen ad nauseaum.
But then I thought…no…that’s too easy. While that is true, it let’s Coppola off the hook far too easy than he deserves.
A better phrase would be, “It’s a shame that the movie turned out to be hot garbage”, because that is ultimately what made it flop, and we’re doomed to have even fewer investors interested in original content as a result.
The investors wouldn’t touch that film anyway. That’s why he paid for it himself.
It’s meggin’ time.
At the cluuuuub
And then he megalopolissed all over the place
MegaFlopOlis
“go back to the cluuuub”
Why can I remember almost zero about this movie? I saw it.
Astounding. At this point I have to assume an element of masochism is involved.
He’s sure it will become a cult classic at some point
