Megalopolis - Francis Ford Coppola

It's a bit crazy from him but it's also sad to see someone like Coppola not getting funded.

There's news recently of David Lynch trying to get an animated feature greenlit by Netflix but they weren't going for it. When you see some of the stuff that does get made and released it's just sad to see great artists struggle to get their art made.

Perhaps unintentional shades of The Hudsucker Proxy there.

The trailer's a bit on the nose, especially given current climate in the US and I find Coppola hit-or-miss. While I loved The Godfather Part 1 & 2 I found Apocalypse Now to be overrated (I realise I'm in the minority there). And I'm always wary of "Passion Projects" Especially if they have been gestating for many years. They tend to morph over the years and end up confused and bloated. I remember this being mentioned alongside Kubrick's treatment of "Supertoys last all summer long" which became Spielberg's "A.I", Scorsese was working on The Irishman for years also. A director needs a good producer and editor to keep them in check. Witness the tightness of the first Matrix movie over the "Have all the money and control you want" of the sequels. Even the Lord of The Rings trilogy, while three movies with decent running time, (Original cuts) may not seem "tight", they were laser-focussed compared to the god-awful plasticky Hobbit movies. And as directors

Im sure every director has a "Passion Project" that may or may not be actually a decent film And it's not that it's particularly that generation of directors (Scorsese, Coppola, DePalma, Spielberg, Lucas etc). It's just that that particular generation of directors is still on the go. I'm sure, 30 years from now, Zach Snyder will want to release a bloated, confused, pointless 2-movie Seven Samurai ripoff……

That's really quite bizarre. At time of posting, IGN had yet to take the trailer down from their channel.

ha, literally ‘be careful what you wish for’.

Ticket booked for the weekend. Attempting to approach with as open a mind as possible…

😂😂😂 I love Kermode. Says it like it is. This is a hard pass from me.

Sounds like he'll need another Bram Stoker's Dracula type miracle to save him.

What he said. It was a somewhat glorious mess that I'm happy I saw but would be reluctant to recommend to most people.

Fair dues to FFC for sticking to his guns but if he had listened to other voices, there's the bones of a great movie in there.

As it is, I reminded of his quote from Hearts of Darkness "We were in the jungle. There were too many of us. We had access to too much money, too much equipment, and little by little, we went insane."…

I'm not against seeing a "So-bad-it's-good" movie but not going to pay to see it in cinema. I AM against going to a "So-bad-it's-bad" movie at all. I have never walked out of a movie because it was bad (Came close with "Striking Distance" though. Only thing that kept me there was that it was pouring rain outside. GOD I hated that movie)

So I'll give this a miss and MAYBE watch it once it hits the streamers. As I and other said above, and Kermode/Mayo did also, a director needs a good producer. Needs a good editor. Needs someone to say "No". Especially as they get bigger… or older. More is not necessarily better. Prometheus is not better than Alien because it goes more into the lore of that universe. Alien was a tight, claustrophobic, blue-collar, grounded masterpiece (well, as grounded as a movie with aliens and spaceships can be). Prometheus was a bloated, shiny mess full of idiots who touch stuff they should know they shouldn't and in a Zoolander-level of stupidity, can't turn right to avoid a rolling spaceship. WOULD Scott have made Prometheus in 1979 if he had the technology? I'd like to think not.

Sometimes it's right to say "No". Just because you CAN, doesn't mean you SHOULD…. CoughSPEEDRACERCough