Megalopolis l Francis Ford Coppola's future magnum opus l CINEMA HAS BEEN SAVED

[BigBoxOfficeBucks]

I will always take a wild, divisive movie over a safe and boring one.

[BigBoxOfficeBucks]

"I will always take a wild, divisive movie over a safe and boring one."

 

Sorry for double post. I guess I have to say something more to negate that.

 

 I cannot help thinking the majority of the criticisms of the movie comes from the reactions to that Guardian article.  

Edited May 17 by BigBoxOfficeBucks

[AniNate]

There are a few more "big swings" to go with high profile Cannes titles, it'll be interesting to see if what support there is for this lasts past those screenings

[Firepower]

The movie is so divise its metacritic is 65, but RT is 50/50.

[Brainbug]

We need more mad men and crazy persons to direct movies.

[AJG]

I bet good money that the movie will just be 'fine' and we'll all be upset we wasted our time debating the nonsense surrounding it.

[vale9001]

9 hours ago, ThomasNicole said:

65 on MC now

 

Reviews are actually quite decent, considering it’s strong divisive aspect 

 

If it win something at Cannes, maybe he can still have a shot at selling this well. Triangle of Sadness won Best Picture with very similar reviews 

 

If it doesn’t win, yeah i think he’ll have to accept a way smaller price and distribution with NEON or similar studio.

 

i really doubt greta gerwig is going to give a palme d'or to something like this. But having an american director- actor as jury president should help to take something, i don't see coppola without nothing at what should be his last festival presence ever.

 

Btw i think this s not this a kinda of divisive movie will have an impact or something, in 2 weeks no one will talk about it. 

Edited May 17 by vale9001

[AniNate]

Even in those metacritic reviews the most glowing one of them still calls it a "folly". This isn't a situation where half of them are giving it 5/5s and half are giving 1/5s

[SpiderByte]

The consensus is that it's definitely ambitious, the same difference is how they feel it executes on those ambitions

[DInky]

I feel like if Zack Snyder, for example, made the same exact movie then it'd have 0% on RT.

[Speedorito]

22 minutes ago, DInky said:

I feel like if Zack Snyder, for example, made the same exact movie then it'd have 0% on RT.

Lol bingo. Even the positive reviews are along the lines of “Well it certainly was ambitious…” or “He’s a legend and it’s one of his last films…”

 

They can’t quite articulate why they liked it.

[WittyUsername]

 

[ChipDerby]

6 minutes ago, WittyUsername said:

 

 

Babylon had a decent amount of junk in it. But Margot was on such another level it was astonishing.

[JustLurking]

I'm honestly still pretty pumped to see it

[AJG]

1 hour ago, Speedorito said:

Lol bingo. Even the positive reviews are along the lines of “Well it certainly was ambitious…” or “He’s a legend and it’s one of his last films…”

 

They can’t quite articulate why they liked it.

 

I WAS THERE WHEN #they TOLD ME THIS WAS A NEW LEVEL OF CINEMA

 

 

Remove Scorsese's name and we'd speak even less about The Irishman than we do now.

[BigBoxOfficeBucks]

42 minutes ago, WittyUsername said:

 

I know it is nonsense to compare the two movies by the RT score. But, if it were as good as Babylon, I would be so excited.

 

In terms of underrated movies, Babylon is one of the greatest . If anyone wants to fight me on that, you are FREAKING welcome.

[Jake Gittes]

2 hours ago, DInky said:

I feel like if Zack Snyder, for example, made the same exact movie then it'd have 0% on RT.

 

Zack Snyder couldn't make the same exact movie because he is Zack Snyder and not Francis Ford Coppola.

 

This line of argument is trotted out a lot but it's built on a false premise. No piece of work exists in a vacuum, and if it's made by someone who's been creating for a long time, no shit it's gonna gain a part of its meaning through the context of their life and work. You can't just decide to forget who made the movie.

[TMP]

34 minutes ago, AJG said:

 

I WAS THERE WHEN #they TOLD ME THIS WAS A NEW LEVEL OF CINEMA

 

 

Remove Scorsese's name and we'd speak even less about The Irishman than we do now.

Some of you guys put way too much stock in the opinions of others lmao

[Firepower]

Probably one of the dumbest RT and Metacritic critics scores out there, the movie is not even divisive.

Edited May 17 by Firepower

[AniNate]

Speaking of 1900

 

1900 | Rotten Tomatoes

 

 

Sounds like this is essentially gonna meet the same fate