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I anxiously awaited this for two decades, only to have it play three cities away from me. My old car isn't what I'd call "highway-primed", gas money is... yeah... and it'll probably be gone by next week, so I had to miss out. Excuse me...
You are in luck..streaming starts tomorrow! oh my Lanta
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You are in luck..streaming starts tomorrow! oh my Lanta
B-b-but I don't really attend theaters much these days, and I didn't spend all that time anticipating just to resort to streaming like a feeeelthy savage! Haven't been this deprived since the same happened with Bill & Ted Face the Music, which was an even longer wait. 
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America is too dumb, distracted and self-centered to understand this movie.
I haven't seen it yet myself but there is every possibility that it is just bad.
As mentioned above our own Mark Kermode didn't like it either, and he's not American.
I am a fan of Kermode´s reviews - but I don't always agree with his opinions, and that's as it should be.
I haven't seen "Megalopolis" yet but intend to. It´s possible I won't like it. But I already respect it for not offering the usual genre conventions audiences these days not only expect but demand.
Case in point: "JOKER: FOLIE A DEUX". Too many are disappointed because "they did not do what the fans wanted". I say: Fantastic! Otherwise it would have been just "Joker kills a ton of people and makes cruel jokes, yay!"
It is high time that more films just go their way instead of being prepackaged content to satisfy shareholder expectations.
People these days look at the box office and argue just on the merits of financial success. Not on quality or interesting concepts.
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The movie was objectively bad.
Visually, parts of it were engaging but much of the CGI was dated looking and poorly rendered (one scene where a character is stepping through grass looks wholly unnatural and it just doesn't seem like a stylistic choice but more a result of confusing direction). Admittedly, some scenes were visually impressive--the scene in the coliseum comes to mind.
The acting was the saving grace of the film. I don't know how the actors delivered some of their lines with a straight face. The script felt over cooked and heavy handed. Several characters were completely unnecessary and the plot was unsatisfying in the conclusion.
The parts of the score that stood out were very good though. It sounded nice in the theater. But a good chunk of the score was mostly etherial wall paper and only a handful of moments really stood out, which was disappointing. I may need to listen to the score separate from the film's troubling visuals to really gain an appreciation for it.
I couldn't tell if this was an adaption of Virgil, Shakespeare, or The Power Broker by Robert Caro.
I feel bad saying all that because I like FFC. But I know he doesn't care about my opinion.
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Bad Coppola is better than ninety percent of the stuff marketed as "prestige" by present-day Hollywood.
There is such a thing as settling in and absorbing a picture, whilst forgetting the legacy spin the media may try to impose on a Coppola project.
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I heard the New Rome track. Screamed Miklos to me.
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...Even if this IS a grand folly by the master director, that's still a value in itself. I sometimes think grand follies bring out the best of a director - Stone's ALEXANDER comes to mind, or Edwards' THE CREATOR in recent times. Dig both of them.
Sounds like a perceptive viewer who appreciates a brave stab at poetry. There are a number of the spoon-fed hereabouts who will take unnecessary umbrage.
And yes, Gareth Edwards' The Creator was one of the best Hollywood feints at something cool and different in recent years.
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Bad Coppola is better than ninety percent of the stuff marketed as "prestige" by present-day Hollywood.
There is such a thing as settling in and absorbing a picture, whilst forgetting the legacy spin the media may try to impose on a Coppola project.
I don't know, lipstick on a pig and all that.
I'm not so brainwashed by media that I can ignore that FFC was trying to accomplish something different with this film.
And yes, if your metric for "good" is "ambitious" then this film does meet that requirement. But I generally prefer a little more cognizance to my social commentary.
However, I was not aware of any media bias for this film before watching it--my sole knowledge of this film came from this very thread. After I watched the film, I did check out some of the reviews to see what others were saying but my opinion was definitely not influenced by any media narrative.
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