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IdleRich

IdleRich

IdleRich
I was wondering what happened to Coppola's latest film, I remember about six months or a year ago it was announced and had all the reviews and stuff and then.... nothing. Or I thought maybe I had somehow missed it or something, but now I read it's coming out in September this year. I don't know if the release was delayed or if the reviews were too early or what but it seems to have had a troubled birth with all kinds of complaints about Coppola re-writing it as he filmed and wasting days changing to new locations off the cuff, plus allegations of inappropriate behaviour from the aging, er, auteur.

Anyways, I guess it will be bollocks, but I'm hoping it will be one of those kinda grand spectacular failures that fails cos it's on and over the edge rather than by being too safe. The stuttering genesis and descriptions of chaos on the set remind me of what I've read about The Godfather and Apocalypse Now so part of me thinks - well hopes really - that maybe he will pull it out of the fire despite the lukewarm responses of trial screenings (but maybe they just can't understand his vision again like when he was hot).

I dunno Coppola is 85 I guess this is the last mad epic that he will make and I would like to give this big film - maybe big disaster - a try on the big screen.

 
mixed_biscuits

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IdleRich said:
I was wondering what happened to Coppola's latest film, I remember about six months or a year ago it was announced and had all the reviews and stuff and then.... nothing. Or I thought maybe I had somehow missed it or something, but now I read it's coming out in September this year. I don't know if the release was delayed or if the reviews were too early or what but it seems to have had a troubled birth with all kinds of complaints about Coppola re-writing it as he filmed and wasting days changing to new locations off the cuff, plus allegations of inappropriate behaviour from the aging, er, auteur.

Anyways, I guess it will be bollocks, but I'm hoping it will be one of those kinda grand spectacular failures that fails cos it's on and over the edge rather than by being too safe. The stuttering genesis and descriptions of chaos on the set remind me of what I've read about The Godfather and Apocalypse Now so part of me thinks - well hopes really - that maybe he will pull it out of the fire despite the lukewarm responses of trial screenings (but maybe they just can't understand his vision again like when he was hot).

I dunno Coppola is 85 I guess this is the last mad epic that he will make and I would like to give this big film - maybe big disaster - a try on the big screen.

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Critics will say it's a vanity project, forgetting that flaunting yourself on film for strangers is itself a vanity project. The whole damn show is a vanity project. As is writing about it. As is commenting about it.
 
IdleRich

IdleRich

IdleRich
Thing is I was ready for it to be self-consciously self-important etc and yeah I guess it was that to some extent... but not really as much as I feared - and as i was forearmed in a sense it mattered little.

Ultimately a fairly unusual movie where he was genuinely having a crack at creating something outside the runn of the mill. The first half seemed like one of films where they laboriously create a scenario - and if you are very lucky some suitable characters too - then various events occur within that scenario and hopefully that scenario plus those events are enough to keep viewers engaged until the end.

On this occasion however, in the second half something akin to a rudimentary plot emerged and it became, if not quite a plot-driven movie, at least one in which a basic plot did have one hand lazily on the wheel.

So the structure of film was thus something of a hybrid - with a small h - and so it feels a bit unconventional structure wise. To be clear here, I'm not saying it was formally radical or anything like that, I just think that that does lend a little weight to the reports from the set that he was kinda making it up as he went along and changing his aims from one minute to the next - but if you can't do that when you're 105 when can you? And if that sort of thing is gonna spoil your watching experience then you are probably watching the wrong thing.

That's not to say there aren't plenty of reasonable criticisms to be made of course.
 
vershy versh

vershy versh

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As baffled law enforcement scrambles for answers about a series of increasingly violent bank robberies, counterfeiting operations, and armored car heists through the Pacific Northwest in 1983, a lone FBI agent stationed in the sleepy, picturesque Idaho town of Coeur d’Alene comes to believe the crimes are not the work of traditional, financially motivated criminals, but a group of dangerous domestic terrorists inspired by a radical, charismatic leader plotting a devastating war against the United States government.
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yyaldrin

yyaldrin

in je ogen waait de wind
just saw megalopolis as well, it was a real drag to get through. it felt like it was made by either a dementing person or chatgtp. or maybe it was some sort of meta joke? that would explain why they chose that retarded face of adam driver.
 
yyaldrin

yyaldrin

in je ogen waait de wind
the whole thing now reminds me of the story about that elderly spanish woman who tried to restore an old spanish fresco of jesus with all her best intentions and the painting ending up with jesus looking like a monkey. the movie is like that, it's so terribly bad, such utter shit, while pretending to be something really grande and ingenious, that there is no other way than to see it as one big joke. it's the worst movie i've seen in my life i think.
 
shiels

shiels

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This was very entertaining and I laughed quite a bit, sonetimes in discomfort. It really gets under the skin with ageing anxiety, even more uncomfortable for women. It kind of descended into farce in the last half hour, having said all it had to say it felt way too heavy handed with Kubrick references and symbolism that felt spoon fed and unnecessary. Stylistically very effective though. Nods to the Witches and the goonies too 7/10
 
woops

woops

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yyaldrin said:
the whole thing now reminds me of the story about that elderly spanish woman who tried to restore an old spanish fresco of jesus with all her best intentions and the painting ending up with jesus looking like a monkey. the movie is like that, it's so terribly bad, such utter shit, while pretending to be something really grande and ingenious, that there is no other way than to see it as one big joke. it's the worst movie i've seen in my life i think.
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i approved enthusiastically of that lady's artistic intervention so i may well enjoy megalopopolipilis
 
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