>Lots of wide eyes and shaking heads outside the theater. “There are zero commercial prospects and good for him,” one top attendee told me this afternoon, saying it’s a bizarre mix of Ayn Rand, Metropolis, and Caligula. “It’s unflinching in how bat**** crazy it is.”
>Francis Ford Coppola finally unveiled his $120 million epic to all of the Hollywood bigwigs yesterday in Los Angeles in the hopes of securing a buyer.
>The legendary Oscar-winning director is self-funding “Megalopolis,” a passion project more than four decades in the making. He sold his lucrative winery to fund the film, which was said to cost around $120 million.
>It’s unflinching in how bat**** crazy it is.
Awesome. It'll be a refreshing change from all the uninspired normality.
It's just a star studded cast redoing the avengers in stage. The doctor strange parts are odd.
Have you actually seen it?
I saw it, it's basically "The Crow" but more goth and with unsimulated sex scenes and a golden retriever that can play badminton. Score by Tangerine Dream
This. It sounds promising
Now I am interested
>Media asks you how the movie is
>It's supposed to be this big thing, not a marvel movie though
>Just lie to people and say it's batshit and "a tough sell" (as if it's not already getting made) to get pseuds interested
>"This hecking isn't going to be like other movies! This is gonna be like one of them Citizen Kane movies!"
You know they can just lie, right? Every single marvel actor will say how good each of the 50 movies are and it's all the same slop.
hi leftypol
Nathan Forrest bros, we won.
sounds kino, i'll defend it without watching it
Based and same until it comes out on BluRay so I can pirate it and watch it weeks later than everyone else
been so long since anything worth it has been on the kinoplex that I might flip for it
I wish you were my agent.
I would say cringe but I do the same thing for Final Fantasy XVI
The spirit of Cinemaphile manifest!
Will Netflix or some shit take it if the corpos are scared to license it?
It'll depend on how many gay and interracial couples are featured.
So, I guess one might call this project…doomed.
Underrated and Masakado pilled
Why won't he just release a trailer to build buzz
Even if it turbo flops, at least he got to make it after struggling for years
about ten years ago i took a similar picture but everyone on my instagram flipped. it even had an orange tip i don't get the butt hurt. i find death funny though maybe i'm a freak
It would be funny if you killed yourself, Anon.
i will eventually don't worry
Likely his last film. At least he got to complete his dream project before he passes. Good for him.
Sounds cool.
more like megaflopolis
I liked Tetro.
I know this is all part of some viral marketing whisper campaign, but damned if it's not making me want to see it.
He is always trying to be an important artist, but he doesn't have the madness for it. He was best when he went behind the material, not in front of it. He wants to be a Scorsese, or Fellini so bad.
He went mad for Apocalypse Now and the experience kind of derailed his career
>but he doesn't have the madness for it.
>He is always trying to be an important artist
he literally is and important artist
yeah but at this point Apocalypse Now was 50 years ago. I remember when Youth Without Youth was screening and that also had similar buzz, "Coppola has recaptured the 70s". It was only 'okay' FFC was even surpassed by Sofia Coppola, with "Marie Antoinette"
Remember that you're talking to a subhuman who thinks mobslop is good and important.
Scorsese is a hack, it doesn't take ''madness'' to make the same embarrassing mobslop movie over and over again.
>Scorsese is a hack, it doesn't take ''madness'' to make the same embarrassing mobslop movie over and over again.
so you've seen 3 Scorsese movies
>3
You're being horrifically generous there anon.
-guy who never watched After Hours
He could have made nothing but Apocalypse Now and based on that alone, he would be ten times the director Scorsese could ever be.
Scorsese is just a name he doesn't even make movies
This homie made "The Godfather" - He doesn't have to try to be ANYONE... If anything Scorsese been trying to be HIM.
>trying to be Stifler's dad
You understand NOTHING about film.
im seeing it for thee
I've never seen this spaz in a film where he didn't overdo it
can I get a nude Tayne?
I will use AI to replace his b***h ass with Crispin Glover
Hey, Jordan Peele!
feels bad when the olds are more radical than the youths
The more that comes out about the project, the more kino it sounds. It definitely won't be boring for the most part and Coppola somehow pulled off a high budget personal art film.
>it’s a bizarre mix of Ayn Rand, Metropolis, and Caligula
Sounds like certified kino.
>Ayn Rand
it better be an anti chud movie or ill be pissed
I hope it absolutely blasts the frick out of everyone thinking in terms of internet buzzwords.
frankly I find the idea of not thinking in internet buzzwords offensive.
Pretty sure Coppolla is an out and proud chud
He tried to get Cronenberg banned from Cannes over 'Crash', meanwhile he has a long term friendship with the known pedophile that made Jeepers Creepers, even paid the guys bail
You must not have seen many movies
I was familiar with Coppola protecting his pedophile friend but no familiar with his seething about Crash
>In a 2020 interview, Cronenberg stated that he believed Francis Ford Coppola, the jury president at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival, was so vehemently opposed to Crash that other jury members in favor of the film banded together to present Cronenberg with a rare Special Jury Prize. So great was Coppola's distaste for the film that, according to Cronenberg, Coppola refused to personally present the award to the director.
Why would he hate Crash of all films?
Isn't that the one where the guy fricks the car?
IIRC a bunch of car crash victims start to get turned on by the idea of crashing.
>Throughout Crash I have used the car not only as a sexual image, but as a total metaphor for man's life in today's society. As such the novel has a political role quite apart from its sexual content, but I would still like to think that Crash is the first pornographic novel based on technology. In a sense, pornography is the most political form of fiction, dealing with how we use and exploit each other in the most urgent and ruthless way. Needless to say, the ultimate role of Crash is cautionary, a warning against that brutal, erotic and overlit realm that beckons more and more persuasively to us from the margins of the technological landscape.
An anti porn film/book wasnt liked by "them"?
>guise watch my porno film with cars it's actually so deep and anti-porn
It's your problem if you get boner instead of getting disgusted by fetishism
Cronenberg has made that film a few times.
Videodrome is another example.
it's anti porn, anti fetish kino
he was making shit like Jack by then so he probably just got soft and easily offended. he was no longer the guy who made godather or apocalypse now.
I honestly thought Coppolla was dead.
>$120 million
Is that even that much these days?
If anything, it's moderate. Indiana Jones 5 was like a 350 million production.
>350m
>and I couldn't even be bothered to pirate it
You didn't miss much. It was about as bad as Crystal Skull, I'd say.
if the production has been 40 years i'd imagine you can stretch your dollars extremely thin and get tons of mileage out of them
It is if the movie isn't "sellable" as the media claims.
Though this buzz is probably just marketing. I remember people saying the same shit about Mother just to create buzz and the movie was lukewarm at best.
To be fair Mother was definitely fricking weird to the point of being unwatchable
Let's be honest, this is a man's life project and probably his last in his life. One has to admire that. He may well die before the release, he will have achieved it.
Rumble Fish is unironically the worst film i've ever seen
That's some terrible taste.
But the fish! They rumble and are in color, you must not have noticed the rest of the fine arte filme is in black and white!
The writer is a fat lonely old psycho anti-drumpf moron cat lady now, furiously dildoing herself to her chad greaser fantasies
I'm nervous for him since Coppola definitely got worse over the years and as he aged. It'll probably be in one sense shit but it'll probably be extremely interesting as well
He's such a weird guy. He pumped out nothing but kinos early on, then made trash for over a decade, then decided to make Dracula with nothing but practical effects and then made shit again.
It is what you get when you combine insane talent and poor taste.
When he was working someone else's material, that talent shown through.
>“The lights came on in the cinema, and an actor stood up and he started asking a question of Adam Driver’s Ceasar on the screen, and then Driver answered him as if he could hear the question. Theatre interacting with cinema.”
They should require this at every theater that plays it
>>“The lights came on in the cinema, and an actor stood up and he started asking a question of Adam Driver’s Ceasar on the screen, and then Driver answered him as if he could hear the question. Theatre interacting with cinema.”
>They should require this at every theater that plays it
Bro... with AI and shit we're not that far off from totally interactive movies that could react to the audience in real time...
Boomers are so behind the curve with media interaction. Twitch aired fricking yu gi oh and it turned into an entire phenomenon mixing a live chat forum with the source material on in the background. A genuinely funny MST3K because of crowd sourced scale of the bits but also totally ignorable and not overwriting what is happening on screen. All the boomers had to do was reinvent network tv broadcasting with live chat scheduled airings or marathon season shows with a live chat on the side. Instant profit. Imagine all the normies that would tune in nightly to a cycling of the office with in real time reddit jokes in a chat on the side.
>Megalopolis When?
>spend $120 million of your own money to make your shitty dream movie you've been wanting to make for 40 years
>5 years later you can make the same movie with AI for $500 and it looks and sounds better
KWAB
>he sold the only thing that made him money flop after flop
jesus christ, how did his family let him, should have put him into an old peoples home
this proves how this anon is wrong, you need to be absolutely insane to sell your fortune for a movie you know is going to fail
Imagine trying to sell this in the current year after seeing Scorcese continually shit the bed among the Barbies and capes. Madman.
That's boomers in a nutshell for you. That money could have set up his family for the next 1,000 years. It's why we're all counting the days until they're all dead.
You're a pathetic homosexual
>GIMMIE ALL YOUR MONEY DADDY I DESERVE TO DO NOTHING ALL MY LIFE BECAUSE I'M SPECIAL, TOO INTELLIGENT TO WORK, I MUST BE ABLE TO FEEL I'M BETTER THAN THE OTHERS!! I JUST WANT TO DRINK, DO DRUGS, WATCH SLOP AND COMPLAIN ABOUT WOMEN DADDY!! WHY WON'T YOU LOVE ME DADDY FOR WHO I AM AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH BLABBLUBBLURGHUHHHHHHHHH SOB SOB!!!
Yes that is a great condemnation of boomers' lack of ability to raise functional children, glad you agree.
Then you need to become functional on your own. But I guess it's easier to claim you're a victim deserving recompensation instead of doing anything with your life.
I'm a highly accomplished fine artist and you project and call people incels on the internet to feel better about yourself.
Sure thing. Firstly, I didn't use "incel" even once. Secondly, you seem to be triggered by simple truths, making it likely that you're actually a good-for-nothing who has no skills and copes by claiming he's a "fine artist", at the same time wishing to obtain money from daddy because, let's face it - your "art" is bad, you know you can't survive on it alone.
Indeed, I've noticed that tons of people with daddy issues claim to be "artists" with nothing to show for it.
It's not your money. Get a job.
Frick off with this, "I should inherit the world" type shit.
>there goes your multi-million dollar inheritance kids
even if its bad i still gots to see it cause i wanna lol
im going to see it in imax no matter what to support a filmmaker who doesn't give a shit about making money for corporations.
Good for him, no one does this kind of shit for passion anymore. I’m eager to watch it.
>it’s a bizarre mix of Ayn Rand, Metropolis, and Caligula
What's the problem here? This sounds pretty cool.
Its probably not anti all those things
I think this is the movie that will either confirm Coppola as one of the true greats, or another artist that started off with masterpieces and then fell off.
Dracula already confirmed the former 30 years ago
Probably one of my most unpopular opinions is that Reeves did a good job in that film.
Coppola's Dracula is pure kino
great movie. would be seen as a masterpiece if depp was cast instead of keanu
Keanu makes it absolutely unwatchable
When you make 4 movies that are considered all-time masterpieces, 3 of which are regularly placed in the top 25 ever, you are automatically a great director no matter how much shit you make afterwards. It's like discrediting Melville because no one cares about anything aside from Moby Dick
>3 of which are regularly placed in the top 25 ever
Let's not get crazy here. Godfather Part II, his best film, isn't even the best mob film. It's Once Upon a Time in America. There are better films out there.
Your opinion doesn't matter, in any list of the top movies you will see Apocalypse Now and both Godfather films near the top, sometimes all 3 of them
My opinion is the only one that matters actually
Apocalypse Now is is his best film though
>It's Once Upon a Time in America
Booooooringggg
Uhh anon
So you also believe Do the Right Thing is the 5th best movie of all time?
i did not care for the godfather
his best film is The Conversation you pleb. And Apocalypse Now is the best war film ever made
Apocalypse Now sucks.
Its a war film made by two larpers that never even got into a fist fight.
(You)
Delusional lol his legacy is already cemented. He could spend the next ten years making Adam Sandler movies and Paw Patrol direct-to-streaming releases and that wouldn't;t change the fact he directed Godfather, The Conversation, Apocalypse Now, Rumblefish, One from the Heart, Dracula - dude has clearly secured his status no matter what he does now
When I say true greats, I am talking top 5 directors ever. I don't think he earns that with Godfather and AN alone.
Haven't seen Godfather or AN but based solely on The Conversation he is one of the all time best American directors
>Rumblefish, One from the Heart, Dracula
we are now including his shit films as his good ones too? that is contrarianism at its finest
I can get not liking One from the Heart but RF and Drac are superb, what's your malfunction?
>He tried to get Cronenberg banned from Cannes over 'Crash'
Love his films but I am certain he's a POS and an actual moron. His response to Crash (while being chums with the frickin jeepers creepers nonce lol) was a bridge too far
He secured his status for me by defending Victor Salva before, during and after his proclivities.
>3 years for child sex abuse and recording it
What the frick is wrong with America. She wasnt even 17 or something, she was 12
Godfather is soapy Visconti. DNW
>He sold his lucrative winery
This seems like a bad move
You can't take money with you...
Yeah, if you're STUPID. Lol. Imagine NOT taking your shit with you into the afterlife? Literally why even live? Why even do anything? Fricking lol. Dude, seriously, this is so fricking embarrassing for you right now. Wow.
He does have a family you know
I am sure they are being taken care of.
You're a piece of shit. If you ever have kids (hahaha), I wonder how are you going to feel when they kick you out to a facility where angry wetbacks will "take care" of you, meanwhile they are going to wait until you die so that they can get $$$ for doing nothing, not even caring for you.
If my kids treated me this way, I'd squander all my fortune before I die and debtmaxx so if they want the house, they will also have to pay back the loans.
Sounds interesting/intriguing
>batshit crazy
>tough sell
>baffling
i wonder why david lynch can get away with this shit but no one else can
Lynchs feature films usually aren't THAT crazy. They can certainly be odd, and some of his films go really off the range (these ones are usually the lesser known/liked ones) but people overblow the strangeness of his movies. He directs them pretty straight edge most of the time.
To normies even the slightest deviation from a three act structure Campbellian heroes journey with instantly recognizable archetypal characters is "artsy" and to be treated with wary suspicion if not outright hostility
Lynch films have small budgets.
He doesn't dump 100 million on a project.
Oh no, how could Coppola be against the movie Crash? Anyways...
Copolla wishes he could make something as kino as Crash
it was weird crap. people were talking about it at the time only because of its shock element.
le epic contrarian prude take anon updoots to the left, DAE sex scenes in movie are unnecessary
Try mentioning the Haggis Crash that won the Oscar see how many Cronenberg Crashers crash the party. Epic kino.
Stupid trash, Coppola was right
I'm just glad a filmmaker is doing what he wants. Shame he had to sell an entire winery just to do that. Movies didn't use to cost this much.
then I hope you are supporting a.i. when you see brigade threads against it.
Will he give Johnny Depp a part in it and it no then why not?
i'm so sick of this redditor mindset
le heckin wholesome pirate man hasn't achieved a passable performance for fifteen years and he looks like a toilet sponge
i dont give a shit about any of the culture war shit behind the scenes or how awesome of a guy he is or whatever i want to see a movie where the acting is at least competent and the actors don;t look like subhuman monsters jesus frickin christ why do you cretins love to suck the dick of these Hollywood pedophiles so much
Copolla on 'Crash:'
>Francis Ford Coppola, the jury president at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival, was so vehemently opposed to Crash that other jury members in favor of the film banded together to present Cronenberg with a rare Special Jury Prize. So great was Coppola's distaste for the film that, according to Cronenberg, Coppola refused to personally present the award to the director.
Copolla on his friend, child rapist Victor Salva:
>"In 2006, Coppola said, "You have to remember, while this was a tragedy, that the difference in age between Victor and the boy was very small -- Victor was practically a child himself." Salva was 29 at the time while the boy was 12."
good fricking lord coppola
reddit
>In 2006, Coppola said, "You have to remember, while this was a tragedy, that the difference in age between Victor and the boy was very small.
>Victor was practically a child himself." Salva was 29 at the time while the boy was 12
ngl that's disgusting
if he really said that then i have to say dangerously based. few would have the audacity to utter those words
jesus christ
>Victor Salva
> his 1988 conviction for sexually abusing a 12-year-old actor who starred in his feature film debut Clownhouse (1989) and videotaping the encounter.
Pic related. And Victor made sure there we plenty of shit off and bathtube sceens in the movie.
>homosexuals and their usual perversions getting covered by the LGBT and Hollywood cartels
Nothing to see here
I wonder what Coppola considers a big age difference - perhaps diddling a 4 yo would be "a little bit too far". He's basically revealing his own personal taste in boys.
the homosexual is also a pedophile, who could've guessed
Maybe Coppola thought he was a lot younger than he was?
Like Brolin and Timothee Chalamet?
I would have watched it and taken my gf if it wasn't for this. Now I'm hoping it's a massive flop
>Ayn Rand
I mean obviously anyone in Hollywood is going to hate it.
This sounds like a vunch of pretentious bullshit. Just the kind I enjoy in movies.
I hope it inspires Lunch to give it one more shot
The Al Pacino curse
One you do a master piece with him you cannot top it thereafter
Carlito’s Way is better than Scarface.
im all about for passion projects
sides he's about to die
literally nothing to lose but his shackles
can't he just call them filtered incel chuds like everyone else?
I will watch this just to see Daniel Larson's obsession's big break
Sounds like Polanski's latest work that shits on "elites" and got negative review bombed and no distribution in the US. It's a nice little comedy making fun of rich globohomos and not at all atrocious.
How long before some Slav or Jeet rips it to YouTube?
its on hurawatch
Is Polanski still mad about having to sacrifice his pregnant wife in exchange for being one of the elites? Him shitting on "them" in such a mild way kinda proves the deal wasn't worth it in the end.
I bet you think the lower middle class israeli family down the block is also "in on it" moron
chinatown and rosemary's baby are incredible anti elite masterpieces, almost as good as your screeching on the internet!
>reddit spacer defending israelites
Kek
Shalom.
I hope it makes a billie just so these film-by-committee homosexuals get BTFO.
More like Megakinopolis
if its filtering normies this hard then it must be good, also i thought coppola was dead
so is this shit set in the 1920's or nah?
>indeterminate art deco retrofuturistic-ish timeline
Adam Driver is in it so it's confirmed trash unfortunately
unfiltered neurotic judaism
But enough about you
>read OP
>get sort of hype
>look movie up
>main character is Missandei, dealing with an autism fight over architecture between her husband Kylo Ren and her dad Gus Fring
lmao
no
why is adam driver in all these terrible movies? it's weird, everyone liked him in star wars and it seemed like he'd have a big career
but he decided to tank it by only taking roles in complete garbage
I'd say that mostly every movie is complete garbage so what are you going to do
Ferrari, The Last Duel, Silence, they were all big budget prestige movies
>main character is Missandei
So Coppola still has his "hire the worst frickin actor in the world to play the protagonist" fetish intact from Dracula and Godfather Part 3
i imagine it has more to do with slim pickings
apparently a lot of people were approached to be in the movie, including christian bale, and none of them wanted to be involved
although i have to ask, if you're already taking such a big chance and making a $120 million movie on your own, why not go the whole way and cast some nobodies?
Why do you need $120 million to film this premise
The fight about architecture is supposedly due to a metropolis being destroyed and in need of rebuilding.
I can see if he wants to make something "epic" that he would spend a lot on sets and vfx.
the main character isn't missandei, it's kylo
he's the architect
why does he have just frick my shit up haircut
>and Caligula
No shit, I'm sure it's a demonic tour de force all of Hollywood will love
wish he got to make it back in 70s, I can already see it'll be the same digitally shot and disgustingly color graded shit as any other new movie
Why did he put Adam Driver if it' an independent film? Can't stand this mutt. He's not just a bad actor, he has no charisma. He has a normie aura. A guy who would never pass a casting session because he's just too bland. I bet Sofia is the culprit. The entire cast is shit and super israelitey
it's israelitey because he probably got these people to agree to doing his movie through their israeli connection
as stated above, much bigger actors were approached for roles in the movie and wanted nothing to do with it
in other words, the israelites were not the first choices, they were the only option left on the table
but i agree with you on driver, coppola is a moron
driver was bad in silence, bad in last duel, bad in gucci, bad in ferrari...
at best i'd say he's serviceable, but far from some top tier actor and his star's already faded
andrew garfield mogged the SHIT out of him in silence
Literally no-one on earth thinks this guy is Italian. He is israeli. See also, Scorsese, De Niro, etc.
It's kind of amusing and depressing simultaneously to think about how Coppola was the world's most respected director for ten years and an irrelevant joke for forty years after
Feels like a gypsy curse
He's gonna get knighted for Megalopolis and show you all what he's capable one last time.
>the world's most respected director for ten years and an irrelevant joke for forty years after
>N-NOOOOO, YOU CAN'T JUST MAKE A NON-COMMITTEE APPROVED NPC SLOP!!! WON'T YOU THINK OF THE TOYS AND TWITTER??!?
Yeah Coppola is really breaking new ground making a movie about an interracial marriage
That's the kind of brave, dynamic stuff Hollywood is afraid to do these days
>The legendary Oscar-winning director is self-funding “Megalopolis,” a passion project more than four decades in the making.
I hope is a good mess. That he did what he wanted at least, even if critics and the audience hate it I hope he achieved his dream.
I'm tired of slop. Get them one last time Francis.
So it is either going to be genuinely utterly terrible or kino of the highest order. Either way, seems like it will become a cult classic.
Anything that's not a cookie cutter action comedy is considered commercially unviable these days. Even something like Titanic would be treated as completely unmarketable if it were made now.