Megalopolis - Teaser Trailer

"Megalopolis was ahead of its time"

Lets not forget the flood of unpopular opinions

"The critically acclaimed multi-Academy Award winning Blade Runner 2049 is seriously underrated"

“Why did no one see this in theaters? I mean, I hate going to theaters but why did this flop?”

I wish overrated and underrated were able to be removed from the language.

Check out Moon severely underrated gem

RemindMe! 3 years

And then an echo chamber in the comments will ensue when anybody who didn’t like an actual bad movie was following the hive and missed all the nuance to a classic.

"Not enough."

Deco punk

Dark deco is what they called it in Batman the Animated Series. The best Batman.

Basically, Blade Runner meets Julius Caesar.

Genuinely thought Jon Voight died five years ago. TIL

Okay, so a modern adaptation of the Catiline conspiracy. Sounds intriguing.

Don't forgot the description on Youtube from the first look video:

Here is an a clear, concise analysis of MEGALOPOLIS:

“A man balances precariously on a ledge high above a once-grand city in the opening scene of Francis Ford Coppola’s MEGALOPOLIS, and the movie that follows is – at least in part – about an entire civilization teetering on a similarly precarious ledge, devouring itself in a whirl of unchecked greed, self-absorption, and political propaganda, while a few bold dreamers push against the tide, striving to usher in a new dawn. The man is called Caesar (Adam Driver), like the Roman general who gave rise to the Roman Empire, Cesar the labor leader who organized California’s farm workers in the 1960s, and a few other notably great men of history. But he is also clearly an avatar of Coppola himself – a grand visionary witnessing a once-great thing (call it cinema if you must) withering before his very eyes and determined to revivify it. And, after decades of planning, MEGALOPOLIS the movie is the powerful elixir he has produced: a sweeping, big-canvas movie of provocative ideas and relentless cinematic invention that belies its maker’s 84 years of age. Coppola seems to have been born-again by a strike of filmic lightning, and the movie – no, the experience (complete with in-theater “live cinema”) – that has emerged feels at once the work of a film-school wunderkind unbowed by notions of convention, but also the work of a wizened master who knows much about life and the ways of the world. To paraphrase Coppola himself speaking decades ago about his APOCALYPSE NOW, MEGALOPOLIS isn’t a movie about the end of the world as we know it, it is the end of the world as we know it. Only, where APOCALYPSE left us in a napalm-bombed fever-dream haze, MEGALOPOLIS, surprisingly and movingly, bestows on us a final image glowing with hope for the future.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZL3U1j3K1c

Damn that cast alone is something special.

I didn’t know his wife died… Now I am sad

I’m sure he kissed those extras in dedication to his wife also.

We're so fucking back.

“I love the smell of cinema in the morning.”

Im getting vibes of A.I., Cloud Atlas, and Gangs of New York- insanely ambitious fever dream projects from talented filmmakers just going for it. Im thinking, like those films, its gonna be a mix of brilliant stuff and stuff that doesn't quite work. In any case, itll be a fascinating watch.