I have to ask. What about this movie is so bad
I haven’t seen it, I hadn’t even heard of it until yesterday. But you don’t get a flop THIS epic without some Morbius tier blunders
I haven’t seen it and, although I know it gets panned a lot for various reasons, I highly recommend at least reading the snippets of reviews of the film by critics to get an idea. Even a lot of the so-called positive films are basically ‘this movie clearly sucks, but I liked it anyway.’
Basically, it’s a very expensive, pretty, and totally incoherent mess of a film that a few people feel is profound but most people think is a colossal piece of shit.
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/megalopolis/reviews
Also, some theaters have a lady stand in front of the screen and lip synch to a specific scene and then leave for some reason. Don’t ask me to explain that.
Edit: also, that link provides you with gems like this one from Richard Roeper-
it’s a very expensive, pretty, and totally incoherent mess of a film that a few people feel is profound but most people think is a colossal piece of shit.
It sounds like what people should have thought about Inception, but everyone instead apparently fucking loved that movie.
All the hate given toward Megalopolis makes me want to see it. Before that, I wasn’t interested just based on the poster.
I eventually want to see Megalopolis too.
I like watching art house movies and then figuring out what I don’t like about it. Even the ones everyone loves. Magnolia was one people loved and I just didn’t get.
I feel like I need to watch this like I watched tenet, barely giving a shit while sick, lying in bed and from my phone
Nah it’s just an expensive passion project art movie. It was never going to make money, it was Francis Ford Coppola finishing his last project that’s he’s been working on. I quite enjoyed it, despite there being obvious flaws, and many things that would make your average viewer not really care.
It can be a bit dated in references but generally they all land. There isn’t really a single unifying message which is what I would say is the biggest problem. It’s more interested in asking questions and posing that against our current real world than actually trying to answer them.
Apart from that the performances are generally all good, and while the characters feel like archetypes as opposed to clearly defined people, it works, for me at least.
It’s also just really weird. There’s dream sequences but seemingly they aren’t, just a perspective shift of what’s actually happening.
Overall I’d much rather watch Megalopolis than whatever Disney Corporate Movie Product comes out next. I’d prefer misses the mark but tries for something different and interesting, over cookie cutter formulaic plot beats and generic quippy characters.
