trauma dump real quick. broke up with my boyfriend of over six years today and it was the hardest thing i ever had to do. watched river beast on yalls recommendation and it had me laughing my butt off despite the overall shittiness/sadness of the day. just turned on the podcast to listen to while i run. thank you for making even the worst days brighter.
i quit my AWFUL job a week ago and have been waiting for this, I really wanted to hear the guys talk about megalopolis. cheers to the rest of our lives
I liked it for the wrong reasons but also I think the guys are thinking about it too hard because the questions they had I wasn’t aware of being confusing lol idk
Megalopolis was an incomprehensible mess but I certainly was never bored. Everything was so disconnected, sporadic, and hilarious (intentional or not) that I had no idea what to expect next while watching and was laughing throughout much of it.
Seeing as you lads have mentioned how you wanted to drink Guinness in Ireland, I think it's best to give you some advice: *1. Make sure you pick the right venue:* Guinness in many ways is like ordering a cup of coffee; some places will pour it right, whilst others have no clue (Mainly in places outside the country). A small head, watery texture or not being in a Guinness glass are telltale signs that it wasn't poured properly. *2. Avoid the tourist traps:* Most outsiders who visit a place like Dublin will go to Temple Bar, as it's situated in the city centre. They're then greeted by a hefty bill, charging you €10 per pint. Most places will charge you around €5 on average, so try somewhere like The Grave Diggers in the city (With it getting an endorsement in a Bernardo Bertolucci film). *3. There's more to it than Dublin:* Try a city like Cork or Belfast if you want to broaden your horizons, as the pubs there have a unique atmosphere to them. For example, Maddens in Belfast was where they filmed some of the Kneecap film, so if you know what to expect when you go in there. *4. Patience:* Guinness isn't like usual beers, as it uses nitrogen rather than carbon to create its iconic look. Initially, it goes through its "surge phase", since it's resting for two minutes when the glass is 80% poured. After that, it's poured till you get a dome head. Now it rests for a further two minutes until it's set. I know that may seem like a long time to have a drink, but why not get a "chaser" (Either a whiskey or a shot of spirits) if you're on the night out or strike up a conversation with friends (Or punter if he's chatty). If you're going for another, do it when you're 3/4th's through your current pint, since you'll have plenty of time. This is what I've at least learned from drinking it in my lifetime, only covering the basics. But if you're looking for expert advice, Ian Ryan's book "A Beautiful Pint" goes into this in much more detail, as he gives you checklists and recommendations on the bests pubs to have it in and how to assess and ideal pint.
I am unsarcastically tickled that after decades bemoaning George Lucas's career was "derailed" by Star Wars, Francis Ford Coppola spent $120 million making his own Star Wars prequel with Megalopolis 😂
The divide between Megalopolis reactions seems to be whether or not you consider pseudointellectual sophomore philosophy major babbling about nonsense to be hilarious or not. I personally do, so i laughed my ass off the whole time, but i can imagine someone who doesn't think that would be bored out of their skull.
Did Adum really believe any cinema outside of a film festival would actually go through the trouble of having some poor employee be present at every screening just to do that one interactive question?
I think he was more bothered by the fact that Alex was shown a version of the movie where an outside person is supposed to be talking. Like, it's fine if theaters can't provide the person for the job, but in that case they should show a version of the movie where that converation doesn't happen.
1:26:50 WHAAAT. Please revisit it Adam! So many of Kendricks albums hugely grew on me after having the same lukewarm response. He's genuinely a once in a lifetime artist.
Megalopolis was bad, I 100 percent agree, but I loved it, I did get the Neil breen effect, the dialogue, the acting, and story felt like Neil breen level, I mean even the main character having a super power, the only thing that was different was Coppola didn’t cast himself in it.
im fairly confident that one of the driving factors for the making of Megalopolis was that it was an excuse to put actresses in sheer dresses its a trend in FFC movies
I say it once, I’ll say it again, Megalopoplis is like the Terry Gilliam movie Brazil, but it traded being good for making its whole personality huffing its own pretentious fumes
I know this is probably the opposite of what you guys intended but now I'm really curious about Megalopolis, and I will see it as soon as I can (in streaming, of course).
With Coppola in particular, he's had a long history of stressful production experiences and at this point I think he's simply too fried to care anymore. He doesn't care if people enjoy it or how much money it's gonna make. He's done everything he wanted at this point and he'd rather just make his weird little projects for himself. Sometimes they result into something that audiences can enjoy (Tetro is in my opinion an underrated little family drama) or are absolutely unwatchable.
Different creative processes. Also, Scorsese works with adaptations and doesn't often write his movies. And coppola also stopped making movies for prolonged periods of times.
@@nms7872 What gaps? Check his imdb. He directed a movie every few years throughout his career, like other directors. Not to mention producing and writing.
1:35:00, I think with the prequels, there could be something else going on, where now the people discussing them grew up with them or watched them from a much earlier age so aren't as critical. But yeah also nostalgia and hating on the newer movies.
Viewer: “I paid good money to watch this atrocious film.” Coppola: “And you think forking over your hard earned money entitles you to see a good movie?” Viewer: “Entitles me?” Coppola:”Yes.” Viewer:”Ugh. Entitles me?” Coppola:”Yeeeeaaaahhhhs.” Viewer: “Entitles me? You think I’m nothing. Just a fan of Marvel movies?” Coppola:”No, not nothing, but I reserve my time for viewers who can think. About fake boners, and tiny bows and arrows and shitty cgi. So back to the cluuhhhhhhb, go on Netflix, and watch the kind of films you enjoy.”
The part in AfrAId where everyone has to be afraid of the AI for no good reason reminds me of the part in The Family Simp where Homer gets irrationally made because thats the point in the episode where the drama needs to happen.
It doesn't excuse the bad execution, but apparently they wanted to add more to the audience participation part of Megaslopolis. They had a collaboration with Amazon Alexa so it could chose from multiple scenes based on what an audience member says, but when production finally started Amazon fired a chunk of the Alexa team.
"Megalopolis feels like what the cutscenes would be in sim city if it was made by hideo kojima", to paraphrase a twitter user. Those words were echoing inside my skull throughout the whole movie, and I haven't laughed this much in theaters in ages. It also really reminded me of the star wars prequels. Also love how Megalon literally is a life saving miracle substance that can basically resurrect the dead. What that's supposed to be a metaphor for is beyond me.
Hoffman has multiple assault and harassment allegations against him. If any of them went to trial, I don't know. He and Coppola had something to talk about.
Adam is right about Megapolis, it's just a Neil Breen movie but even more pretentious, basic story of straight white Cis guy solves all the world's problem by themselves because they are so smart. Like Chosen One archetypes are like done now, passe, boring, The Great Man theory is dead. This movie isn't revolutionary, it's old hat
40 years in the making. I wonder how many times Brando had to say no to playing the lead. Adam Driver seems a bit too impressed with directors whose classic output is now 40+ years old. Coppola, Gilliam, Scott, Jarmusch. Only rarely, as with "Silence", has this a better approach than working with younger up-and comers.
Jarmusch's current output is on the same level as his old one, and Scott may be inconcistent but still can pull a Last Duel once in a while, so i don't think what you say is accurate at all.
1:40:57 God of War: I think it benefits from the fact that Kratos can still do all the action he did in the originals, and Harrison Ford & Mark Hamill can't. So we don't have to see an old actor fail to capture (or a young actor fail to live up to) a character who inspired decades of sequels. They're making a story about getting older & passing the torch because they want to, not because they have to. But others I have no idea. FF7R had a boss fight against the concept of canon & the general concensus was that it was a much better idea than a straight remake (contrast with changes in The Last Jedi or Matrix Resurrections) For remakes with modern technology, it's possible we're just in the practical effects stage (The Thing, The Fly) & will eventually reach the digital stage (The Thing, Planet of the Apes, Star Wars prequels)
For me Megalopolis was a wild and messy ride of varying emotions. Very memorable theater experience which I do think will be talked about in the future. Unlike Deadpool 3. That intolerable piece of lazypoo was just plain boring and it should go back to the cluuuub.
I feel adam was a bit misinformed, overstating how active a filmmaker coppola has been recently. He retrired hollywood movies in 1997 and then decided to make smaller more personal "student films" 10 years later. 2007-2011 he did 3 movies. Then he left for 13 years
Alex's comment section on his letterboxd review of Megalopolis was one of the most inexplicably cancerous things I have ever seen. Truly a movie that is entirely unworthy of the discourse surrounding it
I felt about the same on Megalopolis, but I rated it higher, 4/10. The culture clash/pairing was pretty well done, although I wish it had stuck to Julius Cesaer and kept Driver a politcal star. He could take violence against Circero in the name of bettering people's lives with Megalon, and then suffer at the hands of Cottala in a "violence breeds violence" Macbethian tale. It's full of uninteresting characters, ruptured story arcs, and unimportant sideplots, but it's not the worst film of the year or the soggiest piece of wet bread ever released in cinemas. The live action Disney movies still exist
I loved Megalopolis. You don’t have to like it but it’s disgusting to me the amount of people who went into it wanting a Morbius level train wreck to goof on when it’s a tribute to Coppola’s wife who he just lost after over 60 years of marriage. It’s sad he thinks so highly of the human species when people are being so mean for lack of a better word.
Yeah, the conversations around Megalopolis have been dismissive and more pointless than their perception of the film. I recommend watching Coppola's interview right before the screening of the film where he dives deeper into what he meant with this film as well, for those truly attempting to engage with the art.
So sad people are being mean to the shady businessman who literally waited for Carl Sagan to die to file a fraudulent lawsuit on him saying he co-wrote a movie he wrote but Coppola never touched, and not to mention his list of allegations and what he did bailing out Victor Salva.
I feel the complete opposite between Borderlands and Megalopolis, although I like Mega overall. Borderlands is studio slop, it is not interesting to me that they wanted to make money off an IP and failed. It's been done a million times, and it felt 100x longer. Megalopolis is a one man project which is all over the place but is also earnest and trying to evoke a conversation between people about our current status quo. I think saying that Borderlands is better is reminiscent of this very topic. It's the status quo of film conversation. We know how these movies come to be (pg-13 adaptions to make money), why not make something else? How is the film that's actually strange and new more boring and less interesting than Borderlands, a nothing movie. I also wanted more out of Megalopolis to be fair, and I did think that the question asked by the employee could have been exactly what Adum was wanting, but isn't that in itself so much more interesting than another IP cashgrab? I think it is by a longshot.
Saying Jon Voight hasnt done anything is not accurate. Sure hes an annoying conservative but hes also done films that people still talk about today. Deliverance, Midnight Cowboy.
I’ve gave up on caring or looking up to these guys, they don’t seem to be looked up as role models and show less respect for people who don’t reach their standards. Looking up to these guys give me less time to develop myself. TH-cam celebrities or celebrities in general are all the same and rely on followers who don’t focus on themselves. I use to be a fan once but now I realize that these guys are just likable a$$holes who don’t really matter in our lives.
He allegedly abused his ex-gf FKA twigs and another ex-gf named Karolyn Pho. Soon he is going to court as a defendant. He allegedly broke the law; he wasn’t “cancelled” in the way Aziz Ansari was.
He admitted to fabricating a childhood abuse story and falsely claiming it was true to his own childhood for the film Honeyboy, and himself confirmed the validity of some pretty extensive, harrowing allegations of physical assault and abuse of FKA twigs. The only allegation his lawyers went on to initially refute related to knowingly giving her an std I think. It's also why he went on the blatantly calculated "I'm religious now, God has forgiven me and I swears it was the mental illness and not me” pity party that unfortunately a lot of people have failed to see through.
@@TheMikenannersHe hasn’t been on any pity party and you clearly know nothing about him if you think he hasn’t taken accountability. It isn’t hard to do the littlest bit of research.
@@goregrindisthebestgenre he’s a total performative narcissist doing whatever he can to garner the support of extremely gullible people like you. If you want to be on the side of a guy who can mentally torture women to that degree and turn their faces into battered potatoes and give them a lifetime of trauma, whilst make it entirely about himself and his so-called ‘journey of recovery through Jesus’, all the while still expecting zero consequences and the same career trajectory - some purified image as this swell guy so soon after? Be my guest, I’m glad I’m not you.
“Inexcusable” is not the word you want people using to describe the multimillion dollar vanity project that was supposed to prove that everyone else is dumb and you’re an unassailable genius.
@@scene-kid_grindcore I really didn’t want to hate it- I don’t even think I DO hate it, given that there are worse things a movie can do than be too ambitious- but the dialogue is atrocious, and none of the points it’s trying to make about Rome, America, innovation, or the redemptive power of love make any sense- it’s all aesthetic, without any serious underlying meaning beyond “wouldn’t it be good if we had a dialogue, but all these idiots need to get the hell out of my way so I can do… something?”
I don't think that Coppola wanted to prove anything to anyone. I think he did it exclusively for himself just because. I can't comment on it's quality (cause it has not been released here yet) but the impression I get from all the interviews is that, since he's been trying to get it made for over 40 years at this point, he just wanted to complete it before he died, regardless of whether people liked it or not.
Adum please listen to Untitled Unmastered - Kendrick Lamar. I know you love more left field abstract and spiritual stuff, it's way darker and rawer than to pimp a butterfly and way more abstract. It's got a very consistent atmosphere, catchy songs, and it's like nothing you've heard before. For being one of the biggest artists in the world it's his most under appreciated album, and for how odd it is, it's a really easy listen.
1:41:16 It's kind of insane how many people don't realize how different movie and game remakes/remasters are. Movies are timeless, if you record it in any format, you will be able to watch it and distribute it without issues, but games don't work that way. There are many examples of old video games out there that simply do not run on modern machines, since they're so old. Remasters/remakes are a way to fix that.
... so weird your take on the AfrAId movie. Its a bad movie but its almost like you didnt even get why the ai is bad and why this movie is bad. Its just so hokey. I really wouldnt recommend it because the movie just suddenly ends with no third act.
Francis Ford Coppola comes to me as an incredible petty asshole who was lucky to be italoamerican and get the gig to direct The Godfather (Sergio Leone and Costa Gavras turned it down). When you realize Paramount ordered re shoots you start realize that film was a fluck, like, a complete miracle. Not to mention, they had the novelist to co-write the screenplay. We always mention Godfather 1 and 2, The Conversation and Apocalypse Now. But There is a reason why no one talks about movies like Gardens of Stone, Finneas Rainbow, Tetro, The Rainmaker, etc: He puts so much passion into boring, irrelevant and uneventful stuff. Nowadays, with all the controversies on him defending sex offender Victor Salva and working with Shia Labeouf...He just comes to me as a hack
It is more of him rising to prominence very rapidly, while not having being solidified as a director. If a film came out great by accident, that has to be Apocalypse Now (even if it were a failure, it would be much more meaningful one than Megalopolis). Also, Mario Puzzo... not a great writer overall; especially that insufferable chapter that centers around the Frank Sinatra like Godson, which is honestly unreadable, and it drags a looooot. So given that Puzzo also co-wrote Godfather 3, one can't consider him the basic reason the first two films were successful; Coppola must have had some competence back then.
Wrong. It can be the name of a real city and also a name a writer comes up with their own head. Just because something exists does not mean every person is aware of it.
@@dirrdevil Alright. There is a slight chance but Megapolis is a fairly know place with mythology and history behind it. I’d think the use in a work would most likely be symbolic. Especially if the movie alredy deals with antiquity and is heavily themed. It’s also a word that functions in English language. It just means a big heavily populated city. I was just surprised the guys repeatedly suggested Copolla ‚gave’ us the name.
Yes it is so disgusting when people don’t give their opinions unless they feel safe or it contradicts their coolness something that you have never done.
Go back to the cluuuub
entitles me?
yeeeeees
*NO NO NO NO*
😂😂😂
trauma dump real quick. broke up with my boyfriend of over six years today and it was the hardest thing i ever had to do. watched river beast on yalls recommendation and it had me laughing my butt off despite the overall shittiness/sadness of the day. just turned on the podcast to listen to while i run. thank you for making even the worst days brighter.
i quit my AWFUL job a week ago and have been waiting for this, I really wanted to hear the guys talk about megalopolis. cheers to the rest of our lives
Armie Hammer, Kevin Spacey, Ezra Miller, AND Jared Leto, for the perfect nightmare blunt rotation
Oof
And a Diddy cameo
Bill Cosby ain't dead
Jared Leto is still a viable actor who gets work though
Wait he's Blunt Man?
You liked Megalopolis?
Yes
Megalopolis?
Yeess
MEGALOPOLIS?
YEEEESSSS
I liked it for the wrong reasons but also I think the guys are thinking about it too hard because the questions they had I wasn’t aware of being confusing lol idk
no children by the mountain goats mentioned ✅
Jon Voight using a tiny bow and arrow made me laugh harder than anything in years.
33:56 Adum got so pissed at Megalopolis that his mic got scared and ran away
I’m high and this visual is very funny
Megalopolis was an incomprehensible mess but I certainly was never bored. Everything was so disconnected, sporadic, and hilarious (intentional or not) that I had no idea what to expect next while watching and was laughing throughout much of it.
Seeing as you lads have mentioned how you wanted to drink Guinness in Ireland, I think it's best to give you some advice:
*1. Make sure you pick the right venue:* Guinness in many ways is like ordering a cup of coffee; some places will pour it right, whilst others have no clue (Mainly in places outside the country). A small head, watery texture or not being in a Guinness glass are telltale signs that it wasn't poured properly.
*2. Avoid the tourist traps:* Most outsiders who visit a place like Dublin will go to Temple Bar, as it's situated in the city centre. They're then greeted by a hefty bill, charging you €10 per pint. Most places will charge you around €5 on average, so try somewhere like The Grave Diggers in the city (With it getting an endorsement in a Bernardo Bertolucci film).
*3. There's more to it than Dublin:* Try a city like Cork or Belfast if you want to broaden your horizons, as the pubs there have a unique atmosphere to them. For example, Maddens in Belfast was where they filmed some of the Kneecap film, so if you know what to expect when you go in there.
*4. Patience:* Guinness isn't like usual beers, as it uses nitrogen rather than carbon to create its iconic look. Initially, it goes through its "surge phase", since it's resting for two minutes when the glass is 80% poured. After that, it's poured till you get a dome head. Now it rests for a further two minutes until it's set. I know that may seem like a long time to have a drink, but why not get a "chaser" (Either a whiskey or a shot of spirits) if you're on the night out or strike up a conversation with friends (Or punter if he's chatty). If you're going for another, do it when you're 3/4th's through your current pint, since you'll have plenty of time.
This is what I've at least learned from drinking it in my lifetime, only covering the basics. But if you're looking for expert advice, Ian Ryan's book "A Beautiful Pint" goes into this in much more detail, as he gives you checklists and recommendations on the bests pubs to have it in and how to assess and ideal pint.
Expert advice on drinking a beer. This is the Megalopolis of drinks. More pretentious than wine sniffing.
RIP Ralph. It’s a shame he let the Riverbeast get him
He went back to the cluuuub.
What does that mean ? What do you mean they got him 🐻
@@runningcommentary2125yEEs
He should have paid attention to the flashing red lights!!!
@@hellsapoppin9326 It ain't no easy grab, they got T!
Megalopolis should have been called:
Tommy Wiseau’s Atlas shrugged
I am unsarcastically tickled that after decades bemoaning George Lucas's career was "derailed" by Star Wars, Francis Ford Coppola spent $120 million making his own Star Wars prequel with Megalopolis 😂
15:50 at my local theater, they had “Megalopolis The full experience” as the showing where you could ask Adam Driver a question
Thanks for the song recommends at the end Adum and Alex XD
The divide between Megalopolis reactions seems to be whether or not you consider pseudointellectual sophomore philosophy major babbling about nonsense to be hilarious or not. I personally do, so i laughed my ass off the whole time, but i can imagine someone who doesn't think that would be bored out of their skull.
Did Adum really believe any cinema outside of a film festival would actually go through the trouble of having some poor employee be present at every screening just to do that one interactive question?
Its in theatres for a short time and Coppola already burned 100 million, whats another 10 so we can get the full experience
I didn't go to a film festival and they did it at my screening.
I think he was more bothered by the fact that Alex was shown a version of the movie where an outside person is supposed to be talking. Like, it's fine if theaters can't provide the person for the job, but in that case they should show a version of the movie where that converation doesn't happen.
@@xoxonaotchan_7902 it is, but only in IMAX theatres
@@eamk887 the conversation still happens, just with off screen voiceover
I clicked on this purely to hear them pronounce "AfrAId" from the creators of "M3gan".
26:05'And Joker's coming out next weekend, this film is fucked'.😅
Megalopolis felt like a mix between Sharkboy and Lavagirl and an Ayn Rand paperback
Gold Ninja Video (who distributes DLtRBGY) is Justin Decloux (co-host of No Such Thing As A Bad Movie)'s company/private label.
I hear that label does good work!
1:26:50 WHAAAT. Please revisit it Adam! So many of Kendricks albums hugely grew on me after having the same lukewarm response.
He's genuinely a once in a lifetime artist.
I didn't care for Megalopolis. It insists upon itself.
Megalopolis was bad, I 100 percent agree, but I loved it, I did get the Neil breen effect, the dialogue, the acting, and story felt like Neil breen level, I mean even the main character having a super power, the only thing that was different was Coppola didn’t cast himself in it.
If adum says its pretentious, it is VERY pretentious
Adam calling Matt Farley in the middle of his TIFF review was golden.
im fairly confident that one of the driving factors for the making of Megalopolis was that it was an excuse to put actresses in sheer dresses
its a trend in FFC movies
1:22 - Alex has a coffee cup with a photo of Mr. Grumpy for von Trier's The House That Jack Built?
Great choice with Possum, has had that on my watchlist for long time - will watch it til next time!
Thanks
You know it's a bad movie when Alex compares it to Southland Tales
IT'S CALLED A T-SQUARE!
I say it once, I’ll say it again, Megalopoplis is like the Terry Gilliam movie Brazil, but it traded being good for making its whole personality huffing its own pretentious fumes
Brazil is too good of a movie to be compared to this
I would like to thank my eyes, optic nerve and brain for confusing "fumes" with "furries".
So it's exactly like Terry Gilliam's "Zero Theorem" then.
Antichrist was covered twice on Sardonicast
I know this is probably the opposite of what you guys intended but now I'm really curious about Megalopolis, and I will see it as soon as I can (in streaming, of course).
“Everything is in service of nothing” damn the Everything Everywhere All At Once sequel is gonna be really nihilistic, huh? :o
Putting Alien and The Crow remake in the same category hurt my soul.
How can old school directors like Martin Scorsese create great movies at his age, but Coppola can't even be the director he was in the 70s and 80s.
With Coppola in particular, he's had a long history of stressful production experiences and at this point I think he's simply too fried to care anymore. He doesn't care if people enjoy it or how much money it's gonna make. He's done everything he wanted at this point and he'd rather just make his weird little projects for himself. Sometimes they result into something that audiences can enjoy (Tetro is in my opinion an underrated little family drama) or are absolutely unwatchable.
Marijuana
Megalopolis is better than the Irishman
Different creative processes. Also, Scorsese works with adaptations and doesn't often write his movies.
And coppola also stopped making movies for prolonged periods of times.
@@nms7872 What gaps? Check his imdb. He directed a movie every few years throughout his career, like other directors. Not to mention producing and writing.
She giving me that super gluck gluck megaslopolis 4000
Damn, I wish they were talking about The Substance. Oh, they did last episode! Brb!
Possum made me not want to eat for 3 days. It was that disgusting. I look forward to the upcoming discussion
Megalopolis is Francis Ford Coppola's most ground breaking film since Jack (1996) starring Robin Williams.
Poor Ralph. He never recovered from that Joker 2 viewing
Watched this three times in theaters. Laughed hysterically. Four stars!
1:35:00, I think with the prequels, there could be something else going on, where now the people discussing them grew up with them or watched them from a much earlier age so aren't as critical. But yeah also nostalgia and hating on the newer movies.
Viewer: “I paid good money to watch this atrocious film.”
Coppola: “And you think forking over your hard earned money entitles you to see a good movie?”
Viewer: “Entitles me?”
Coppola:”Yes.”
Viewer:”Ugh. Entitles me?”
Coppola:”Yeeeeaaaahhhhs.”
Viewer: “Entitles me? You think I’m nothing. Just a fan of Marvel movies?”
Coppola:”No, not nothing, but I reserve my time for viewers who can think. About fake boners, and tiny bows and arrows and shitty cgi. So back to the cluuhhhhhhb, go on Netflix, and watch the kind of films you enjoy.”
The part in AfrAId where everyone has to be afraid of the AI for no good reason reminds me of the part in The Family Simp where Homer gets irrationally made because thats the point in the episode where the drama needs to happen.
It doesn't excuse the bad execution, but apparently they wanted to add more to the audience participation part of Megaslopolis. They had a collaboration with Amazon Alexa so it could chose from multiple scenes based on what an audience member says, but when production finally started Amazon fired a chunk of the Alexa team.
It's a dumb idea. A Choose Your Own Adventure Goosebumps story.
Adum not trying to inpersonate the police officer in River Beast is criminal.
"Megalopolis feels like what the cutscenes would be in sim city if it was made by hideo kojima", to paraphrase a twitter user.
Those words were echoing inside my skull throughout the whole movie, and I haven't laughed this much in theaters in ages. It also really reminded me of the star wars prequels.
Also love how Megalon literally is a life saving miracle substance that can basically resurrect the dead. What that's supposed to be a metaphor for is beyond me.
Hoffman has multiple assault and harassment allegations against him. If any of them went to trial, I don't know. He and Coppola had something to talk about.
Adam is right about Megapolis, it's just a Neil Breen movie but even more pretentious, basic story of straight white Cis guy solves all the world's problem by themselves because they are so smart. Like Chosen One archetypes are like done now, passe, boring, The Great Man theory is dead. This movie isn't revolutionary, it's old hat
40 years in the making. I wonder how many times Brando had to say no to playing the lead.
Adam Driver seems a bit too impressed with directors whose classic output is now 40+ years old. Coppola, Gilliam, Scott, Jarmusch. Only rarely, as with "Silence", has this a better approach than working with younger up-and comers.
Gilliam, Scott and jarmusch have definitely made memorable stuff in the last 20+ years. Even coppola's tetro was well received
Jarmusch's current output is on the same level as his old one, and Scott may be inconcistent but still can pull a Last Duel once in a while, so i don't think what you say is accurate at all.
Sometimes, I pretend to be a fire hydrant...
I kinda wanna watch megalopolis just because it sounds too bizarre to possibly be boring
1:45:37 he said food in anime looks so good
Don’t let the now destroy the forever. 😂😭
I kinda loved Megalopolis. It resonated with me and I love the passion of it all
My man
Well, some people just have bad tastes.
1:40:57 God of War: I think it benefits from the fact that Kratos can still do all the action he did in the originals, and Harrison Ford & Mark Hamill can't. So we don't have to see an old actor fail to capture (or a young actor fail to live up to) a character who inspired decades of sequels.
They're making a story about getting older & passing the torch because they want to, not because they have to.
But others I have no idea. FF7R had a boss fight against the concept of canon & the general concensus was that it was a much better idea than a straight remake (contrast with changes in The Last Jedi or Matrix Resurrections)
For remakes with modern technology, it's possible we're just in the practical effects stage (The Thing, The Fly) & will eventually reach the digital stage (The Thing, Planet of the Apes, Star Wars prequels)
For me Megalopolis was a wild and messy ride of varying emotions. Very memorable theater experience which I do think will be talked about in the future. Unlike Deadpool 3. That intolerable piece of lazypoo was just plain boring and it should go back to the cluuuub.
What’s Adum’s spotify?
I feel adam was a bit misinformed, overstating how active a filmmaker coppola has been recently. He retrired hollywood movies in 1997 and then decided to make smaller more personal "student films" 10 years later. 2007-2011 he did 3 movies. Then he left for 13 years
Alex's comment section on his letterboxd review of Megalopolis was one of the most inexplicably cancerous things I have ever seen. Truly a movie that is entirely unworthy of the discourse surrounding it
I felt about the same on Megalopolis, but I rated it higher, 4/10. The culture clash/pairing was pretty well done, although I wish it had stuck to Julius Cesaer and kept Driver a politcal star. He could take violence against Circero in the name of bettering people's lives with Megalon, and then suffer at the hands of Cottala in a "violence breeds violence" Macbethian tale.
It's full of uninteresting characters, ruptured story arcs, and unimportant sideplots, but it's not the worst film of the year or the soggiest piece of wet bread ever released in cinemas. The live action Disney movies still exist
I loved Megalopolis. You don’t have to like it but it’s disgusting to me the amount of people who went into it wanting a Morbius level train wreck to goof on when it’s a tribute to Coppola’s wife who he just lost after over 60 years of marriage. It’s sad he thinks so highly of the human species when people are being so mean for lack of a better word.
Yeah, the conversations around Megalopolis have been dismissive and more pointless than their perception of the film. I recommend watching Coppola's interview right before the screening of the film where he dives deeper into what he meant with this film as well, for those truly attempting to engage with the art.
So sad people are being mean to the shady businessman who literally waited for Carl Sagan to die to file a fraudulent lawsuit on him saying he co-wrote a movie he wrote but Coppola never touched, and not to mention his list of allegations and what he did bailing out Victor Salva.
@@spencerlane415Man Who Gets Joy From Telling People John Lennon Beat His Wife
Why is biographical trivia about a director considered in any way as anything more than that, trivia?
@@thanasis_milios Because it's not just trivia.
What’s YMS Spotify?
Shia Labeouf should be cancelled in a sane world
Borderlands was boring as Hell. It made me want to leave in the middle of it. Whatever you can say about Megalopolis it's not boring.
Urinonically the family quote " It insists upon itself" applies so much more to this lmao
I thought my family was the only one
I feel the complete opposite between Borderlands and Megalopolis, although I like Mega overall. Borderlands is studio slop, it is not interesting to me that they wanted to make money off an IP and failed. It's been done a million times, and it felt 100x longer. Megalopolis is a one man project which is all over the place but is also earnest and trying to evoke a conversation between people about our current status quo. I think saying that Borderlands is better is reminiscent of this very topic. It's the status quo of film conversation. We know how these movies come to be (pg-13 adaptions to make money), why not make something else? How is the film that's actually strange and new more boring and less interesting than Borderlands, a nothing movie. I also wanted more out of Megalopolis to be fair, and I did think that the question asked by the employee could have been exactly what Adum was wanting, but isn't that in itself so much more interesting than another IP cashgrab? I think it is by a longshot.
Saying Jon Voight hasnt done anything is not accurate. Sure hes an annoying conservative but hes also done films that people still talk about today. Deliverance, Midnight Cowboy.
1:37:18 ralph
they were duped
DUPED
When did Ralph leave ?
Day 86 of asking for an episode on the Evil Dead trilogy
1:13:00 gold
Do people not know that Megalopolis is a word? I'm confused why we're acting like that's the silly part
I’ve gave up on caring or looking up to these guys, they don’t seem to be looked up as role models and show less respect for people who don’t reach their standards. Looking up to these guys give me less time to develop myself. TH-cam celebrities or celebrities in general are all the same and rely on followers who don’t focus on themselves. I use to be a fan once but now I realize that these guys are just likable a$$holes who don’t really matter in our lives.
I’m 16 minutes in and have gotten 3 ads…
23:51 Didn’t Shia LaBeouf get cancelled because he SA’d someone tho? Or was that misinformation?
He allegedly abused his ex-gf FKA twigs and another ex-gf named Karolyn Pho. Soon he is going to court as a defendant. He allegedly broke the law; he wasn’t “cancelled” in the way Aziz Ansari was.
He killed stray dogs
He admitted to fabricating a childhood abuse story and falsely claiming it was true to his own childhood for the film Honeyboy, and himself confirmed the validity of some pretty extensive, harrowing allegations of physical assault and abuse of FKA twigs. The only allegation his lawyers went on to initially refute related to knowingly giving her an std I think. It's also why he went on the blatantly calculated "I'm religious now, God has forgiven me and I swears it was the mental illness and not me” pity party that unfortunately a lot of people have failed to see through.
@@TheMikenannersHe hasn’t been on any pity party and you clearly know nothing about him if you think he hasn’t taken accountability. It isn’t hard to do the littlest bit of research.
@@goregrindisthebestgenre he’s a total performative narcissist doing whatever he can to garner the support of extremely gullible people like you. If you want to be on the side of a guy who can mentally torture women to that degree and turn their faces into battered potatoes and give them a lifetime of trauma, whilst make it entirely about himself and his so-called ‘journey of recovery through Jesus’, all the while still expecting zero consequences and the same career trajectory - some purified image as this swell guy so soon after? Be my guest, I’m glad I’m not you.
1:38:49 Nothing bothers me more than grown adults making stupid grammatical mistakes.
RE: RIVERBEAST sounds like Alex is reeeally trying not to offend Adum for some reason and doing a poor job just say you hated it dude
“Inexcusable” is not the word you want people using to describe the multimillion dollar vanity project that was supposed to prove that everyone else is dumb and you’re an unassailable genius.
Did you even watch the film? It’s sad he’s coming from such a loving place and people WANT to hate on it.
@@scene-kid_grindcore Oh, hey Fancis.
@@scene-kid_grindcorei’d hate on it less if it wasn’t an abject disaster with poorly calibrated metaphors and a head-scratching screenplay
@@scene-kid_grindcore I really didn’t want to hate it- I don’t even think I DO hate it, given that there are worse things a movie can do than be too ambitious- but the dialogue is atrocious, and none of the points it’s trying to make about Rome, America, innovation, or the redemptive power of love make any sense- it’s all aesthetic, without any serious underlying meaning beyond “wouldn’t it be good if we had a dialogue, but all these idiots need to get the hell out of my way so I can do… something?”
I don't think that Coppola wanted to prove anything to anyone. I think he did it exclusively for himself just because. I can't comment on it's quality (cause it has not been released here yet) but the impression I get from all the interviews is that, since he's been trying to get it made for over 40 years at this point, he just wanted to complete it before he died, regardless of whether people liked it or not.
awesome
Hard disagree. I think Megalopolis is a beautiful mess lol.
Adum please listen to Untitled Unmastered - Kendrick Lamar. I know you love more left field abstract and spiritual stuff, it's way darker and rawer than to pimp a butterfly and way more abstract. It's got a very consistent atmosphere, catchy songs, and it's like nothing you've heard before. For being one of the biggest artists in the world it's his most under appreciated album, and for how odd it is, it's a really easy listen.
1:41:16 It's kind of insane how many people don't realize how different movie and game remakes/remasters are. Movies are timeless, if you record it in any format, you will be able to watch it and distribute it without issues, but games don't work that way. There are many examples of old video games out there that simply do not run on modern machines, since they're so old. Remasters/remakes are a way to fix that.
I watched one clip of Megalopolis and the dialogue turned me off completely.
review Joker 2
filtered
RIP Ralph it’s a shame he had to go back to the cluuuuuub
I feel weird that I can enjpy slop so much both megalopolis and joker 2 were good to me. Last movie I dislike was Army of the Death
HOW DO YOU HAVE AN 8 DAYS OLD COMMENT ON A VIDEO UPLOADED TODAY?
@@hazmat4260It gets uploaded for patreon/youtube members a week earlier
@bubblespony Ooh
I was so confused for a sec
Thanks for the clarification
Well, damn, good for you ig
... so weird your take on the AfrAId movie. Its a bad movie but its almost like you didnt even get why the ai is bad and why this movie is bad. Its just so hokey. I really wouldnt recommend it because the movie just suddenly ends with no third act.
History will prove Alex and Adum wrong about Megalopolis.
No
Ye
History will not remember Megalopolis. No one in the year 2030 will remember it.
would you guys do a Bollywood movie discussion.
Here are some good ones to start with:
3 Idiots
Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara
PK
Sholay
In the cast, straight up sardoning it, and by it, let’s justr say……
A little longer….
My penor
Francis Ford Coppola comes to me as an incredible petty asshole who was lucky to be italoamerican and get the gig to direct The Godfather (Sergio Leone and Costa Gavras turned it down). When you realize Paramount ordered re shoots you start realize that film was a fluck, like, a complete miracle. Not to mention, they had the novelist to co-write the screenplay.
We always mention Godfather 1 and 2, The Conversation and Apocalypse Now. But There is a reason why no one talks about movies like Gardens of Stone, Finneas Rainbow, Tetro, The Rainmaker, etc: He puts so much passion into boring, irrelevant and uneventful stuff.
Nowadays, with all the controversies on him defending sex offender Victor Salva and working with Shia Labeouf...He just comes to me as a hack
It is more of him rising to prominence very rapidly, while not having being solidified as a director. If a film came out great by accident, that has to be Apocalypse Now (even if it were a failure, it would be much more meaningful one than Megalopolis).
Also, Mario Puzzo... not a great writer overall; especially that insufferable chapter that centers around the Frank Sinatra like Godson, which is honestly unreadable, and it drags a looooot.
So given that Puzzo also co-wrote Godfather 3, one can't consider him the basic reason the first two films were successful; Coppola must have had some competence back then.
megalopolis is a masterpiece
No.
Megalopolis is a city in Greece! It’s not a name someone came up with for a movie…
Wrong. It can be the name of a real city and also a name a writer comes up with their own head. Just because something exists does not mean every person is aware of it.
@@dirrdevil Alright. There is a slight chance but Megapolis is a fairly know place with mythology and history behind it. I’d think the use in a work would most likely be symbolic. Especially if the movie alredy deals with antiquity and is heavily themed.
It’s also a word that functions in English language. It just means a big heavily populated city.
I was just surprised the guys repeatedly suggested Copolla ‚gave’ us the name.
You guys shoulda just watched Smart House
Yes it is so disgusting when people don’t give their opinions unless they feel safe or it contradicts their coolness something that you have never done.