“There’s so many people when they die, they say, ‘Oh, I wish I had done this,’” Coppola said at Cannes. “But when I die, I’m going to say, ‘I got to do this, and I got to see my daughter win an Oscar and I got to make wine and I got to make every movie I wanted to make.’ I’m going to be so busy thinking of all the things I got to do that when I die, I won’t notice it.”
"Go watch it and form your own opinion." Time to wait if any distribution deals come through within the next year or if he makes some weird release in 5 years on Blu Ray only
@@Blue_Brawler That's too extreme. Sure, I'll take a moderately flawed movie over a moderately forgettable movie. But a moderately forgettable movie like Force Awakens beats the severely flawed TLJ
@@Blue_Brawler If Rian Johnson had made his own scifi movie and had risked something, ok, sure. But instead he spit and trampled on the legacy of a truely creative mind. He screwed up a already messed up trilogy and that is an (negative) art form on its own
@@SonGoku-tp8gb I mean, he do got a point. Hence why the comment above him says "I will take flawed movies that take risks over unimaginable, forgettable nothingless any day." And you're proving him Right.
Karsten, my mom said we can’t hang out anymore ever since you made that scathing 10 minute review criticizing the grilled cheese sandwiches she made for us
I don't even care if the story doesn't make sense, it looks epic and like all unique cinenma, entering another world. If a man is willing to spend his own money to make it, you know he's not going to compromise his vision and that makes it a rare breed that deserves attention. I really hope this one will be release in my country.
@@ronlui-n7c I was asked by the King of England to comment. He was asked by President Trump, who himself took orders from Nelson Mandela during seance. On the other hand your parole officer wants to know why you have a collection of "sexy diapers" buried in your garden.
There should be a term for movies that contain an equal amount of both legitimately great elements, as well as legitimately terrible ones, I've been noticing more and more of them, like they have some cursed half-life
@@SonGoku-tp8gb yea but mid is more boring and nothing rlly stands out to me, Im thinking of movies where one scene has something that amazes me, then the very next scene is absolutely terrible and it just kinda goes back and forth
I caught the last screening of it at Cannes and I'm so glad I did because I don't know when this will get distributed. Hopefully this year so more people can see it.
What did you think of it was Shia LaBouf in it a lot and is he insane also is Jon Voight in it a lot I read an early draft of the script and they were the most interesting characters do they both have a lot of screen time?
I have not seen it but it sounds like your boss's drug addicted favourite son who is always in and out of rehab but also happens to be an artistic genius that paints masterpieces between benders. Like you said... special.
Coppola With Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, George Lucas and Brian De Palma use to be Hollywood Renegates in the 70s, for how much their ideas were agaist the hollywood structure. And while Scorsese is still doing strong (even though he barelly gets an award), Spielberg and De Palma still working but not doing that great like they use to be, Lucas and Coppola suffer a severe creative stroke in wich they became too overshadow by their own sucesses (star wars and the godfather) as well as them beeing too obsess with their ambitious ideas (the prequels and apocalipse now) that they barelly find work anymore.
I am yet to see a work of art where the author says something along the lines of "i've been making this for ~35 years" or "THIS is my masterpiece, my passion project" and it doesn't turn out to be absolute cr4p 😒
i enjoyed annette so i'm interested to see this, you're right that it seems like a once in a life time sort of film with the hype and stories surrounding it
What a career and life, to already be one of the founders of the Hollywood new wave and have made a few of the greatest cinema works ever, only to then spend a fortune of your own money to see your own artistic vision come to fruition. Hes right, hes earned the right to die satisfied. Im envious but happy for the man.
He picked the wrong time to finally make this film - box office is at an all time low. Shame, looks interesting I will check it out. Even if it is as the reviews say, refreshing to see passion projects at this time.
I mean it's not like there was ever going to be a sequel and Coppola has basically stated he doesn't care if it's financially successful. He's still mega rich, but yeah it'll tank at the box office - like most things right now.
@@AndySomething He had to sell something - a home i think - it shows he isnt mega rich. a mega rich person pulls money easily, these are people with generational wealth. current rich people are rich in terms of shares, turning that into actual money isnt easy
I like visually great movies ("The Fall" is one of my favourites), and i don't care if the story doesn't make sense. Would i like it? I mean every image I see of this looks just absolutely stunning to me... How is the soundtrack? It's never mentioned in any review, but it's also always important to me. I don't mind if the music takes control sometimes...
I know this movie will probably be a mess, but just the visuals alone from trailers and all made me wanna see it, it's somewhat alike Copolla's Dracula, whenever I rewatch that it's mostly because of the weird and somehow stunning images, and hopefully this one has that too, at least from what I've seen so far gives me that spectacle vibe, definitely smoking a big freaking J before watching that hahaha
Do you think your knowledge of how much one of the most influential directors of modern times wanted to get this done heavily influenced how you reviewed this film? Asking because that determination is my main takeaway from what I just watched.
It beats all the superhero reboots, average film remakes, mindless summer blockbusters and stupid horror films. I'm open to something unusual or different.
That’s the lowest bar to set for cinema lol but yea American cinema is dead apart from a few directors. Streaming just made the 30-40million budget films that most classic films were around unlikely to be made cuz the brain rot masses only leave their houses for spectacle movies now
Given all of the controversies surrounding this (the casting of Shia LaBeouf who is a literal monster, and Coppola kissing extras behind the scenes), the fact that Coppola hasn't made a watchable film in decades, and the recent proof that's come to light about Coppola boosting the career of Victor Salva, a literal child r*pist, this video will be the most I ever see of this movie.
I'm actually excited to watch this, I expect it to be whatever it is lol. Love Rumble Fish and other "not good" Coppola movies. IDK, I kinda get it, but also I still enjoy them....
Coppola is a truly great director, one of the best of all time with a truly astounding body of work. However, a lot of his work is WELL over the head aesthetically of most people, apart from when it’s about gangsters 😎I’ve not seen this film but I know what he is so I’m sure it is at worst, brilliant.
I wonder if you could compare it to Cosmopolis. It had a simmilar trait in that the dialog was not how normal people speak, rather it was a collection of bizzare phrases and quotes
Shocked you talked about everyone in the cast.....but LEFT OUT Dustin Hoffman??? That's what I want to know about more than anything! Coppola and Hoffman, together at last! Even if it sucks, I'm interested, that's the number one attraction for me to see it!
The lesson here is that if you cant get your passion project made when you're at the height of your powers. Drop it! Or you'll just might end up like poor Francis here. Out 120 million and left only with people comparing you and your movie to Tommy Wiseau and The Room. The movie is built on a flawed premise to begin with. America as Roman empire is such a overused comparison I cant believe Coppola went with it. Too boring to be "so bad it's good" 1½ /5
i was also able to see the movie basically only because my friend is a critic for a media site and the best way i can describe the movie is it is a giant mind fuck like and to me has a lot of meaning considering the political and social climate today I can't even really say if its good or bad yet atleast its definitely something you need to sit with for a while since like Karsten said no questions are really answered its very open ended
i'm interested in how megalopolis adapts the historical event of the catiline conspiracy,,, obvs it's meant to be a loose adaptation but I can't get over the fact that in this catiline gets with cicero's daughter
"Don't come away with a clear idea of what happened" That sounds like a great thing. Why do I need to be beat over the head with a message. The ambiguity is what is missing from most films. Coppolla has never been for the small minded.
I saw "Cloud Atlas" just one time. I should have watched it after reading the book. I wonder if I am going to be in the same situation with this movie. Will I have difficulty understanding it?
What I gathered from this video is that the movie is simply an experimental film. It pokes and prods at the way movies are currently made. Frankly, I'm all for it. Movies have become really stale. High Life with Robert Pattinson received a lot of shit for the same reasons; being incoherent, having weird characters, etc.. I actually found most of it really interesting. The beginning was VERY strange, and there are some touchy subjects in it, but experimental works for me.
Everything I’m hearing about this movie makes it sound like a return to postmodern filmmaking with unclear themes and I think 2020 audiences are gonna hate it.
Looks like the Coppola that gave us One From The Heart, Rumble Fish and Bram Stoker's Dracula, all supremely-trippy and cinematic. Love Rumble Fish, like Dracula, not a fan of One From The Heart!
Exactly what me and my friends have been saying… Nolan and Tarantino broke film student’s minds by making them believe they need to self-mythologize themselves and the characters in their films
I just watched it last night. There were a lot of things I liked about the movie but I was still disappointed overall. I wanted it to be a timeless classic but I thought it was only slightly better than mediocre
DID THIS MOVIE JUST TRY AND "EMINEM IN 8-MILE'S FINAL BATTLE' ITSELF AT THE START OF ITS OWN TRAILER?!? "yeah you'll hate it but EVENTUALLY that 20$ movie ticket will feel worth it!"
their ad campaign really is; we know screeners said this movies a mess but there were a few bad reviews on the classics i made! (as there are with any movie without 100% on metacritic smh)
Sounds like a movie that doesn't force feed you and hammer a story point over and over as if you are a 5 year old ADHD crack addict like so many modern shows. Perhaps a movie that won't treat the audience as if they are morons. Maybe it's a film maker that respects the audience and because it's his own money and not corporate overlords he can write what he wants and lets his audience infer and come to an eventual understanding of the movie without having corporate overlords tell him to dumb it down for the ignorant pleb masses that have attention spans of Goldfish. I am looking forward to watching this movie. Of course it's going to be a beautiful movie, it's Francis Ford Coppola a Master of Film.
@@liamcarmody4217 I could be wrong but I thought that was still reliant on some distribution deal going through. Think IMAX was just trying to lend credibility to the film.
I keep asking people this but I’m getting extremely Southland Tales vibes from this movie (solely based on the trailer as I haven’t seen it yet). Anyone else??
I remember watching that movie and thinking "WTF is this?". The whole tone of the film was disjointed as hell and I honestly didn't know what to make of any of it, especially that ending.
I'm a big fan of Richard Kelley's sci-fi movie Southland Tales, with Dwayne Johnson. Is the movie a mess? Yeah, it is. Does it have some bad performances in it? Sure...particularly from The Rock. Do I love it anyway? Hell, yeah. It's got so many great ideas, is so determined to be one-of-a-kind, and reaches so high in the sky that I forgive its schizophrenic tendencies (particularly with the FAR superior Cannes Cut). That's kind of the sort of film I'm hoping for with Megalopolis.
Films like Blade Runner and apocalypse now we're disorientating and took extreme creative risks and didn't tie up loose ends, and we look back on them as absolute masterpieces, and while that doesn't apply broadly. I think there's a lot of poignancy in how believing in one man, Musk for example, can save us from our own misgivings, without appreciating how deeply flawed they, and how they will fail, will be a timeless tale in the future, it hasn't been fully realized yet.
so your telling me the, Jon Voigt; now an old man who posts bigotted Qanon videos every wk & is only in the movie cuz FFC wanted him in it originally in the 80s 'phones it in' - shocker.
