I saw Megalopolis and thought it was awful
this post was submitted on 29 Sep 2024
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Any thoughts on why it was awful?
It was just all over the place. The story is so convoluted/ incoherent and storylines will start and stop at random without any sort of payoff. The actors all feel like they're performing in different movies.
The visuals were cool and there were a couple of funny moments, but I didn't enjoy myself at all the entire time. It was just absolutely a mess. Just because you quote Marcus Aurelius doesn't mean the movie is deep. It's like it's trying to make a point and never does because nothing connects in an impactful way.
I appreciate you taking the hit and also your elaboration. My sis and I were planning to see it in theater, but maybe we'll wait to stream if it's a long 3 hours.
Interesting. I wonder if it's one of those movies that only get better with repeat viewings, or if it really is just bad.
Sorry to hear
I saw Wild Robot with my kids and it was surprisingly very good. We all loved it.
“This was never destined to be a box office hit and is the very definition of a passion project,” says senior Comscore analyst Paul Dergarabedian. “That said, the film could enjoy long term interest from movie aficionados.”
In other words, some poor film students might be forced to analyze the shit out of this movie some decades into the future?
Also, "could". Yeah well. I could also win millions in tonight's lottery draw. Highly unlikely, but well, I could.
Coppola seems to have missed that memo. He's counting on the profits funding his next movie.
The thing with creating is that, when you do it long enough, you get bored by the rules/format. So you will try to break them in certain ways.
That is something you can just appreciate when you are bored by the rules yourself. It becomes a film for yourself and other filmmakers not necessarily for the average filmviewer.
Maybe this is a movie like that?
I’m curious but also don’t want to sit in the cinema for three hours to find out.
It'll be on streaming very soon at this rate.
Everyone keeps saying it's three hours, but Letterboxd lists at less than 2.5?
Ads and trailers though.