Megalopolis (Francis Ford Coppola, 2024) • Page 10

I saw it on Friday opening day and it was me and 3 other people. Curious to see the legs on this one, might see it again just to see if it gets better with expectations removed.

 

It's not currently expected to reach the low end of box office expectations.

 

I was the only one in my showing on Friday

 

You really shouldn't wait to see this in theaters. It is big with a certain online crowd but it is still a huge financial bomb.

 

Given the very wide reactions, I do want to see the movie eventually, but have no interest in going to the theater for it, tbh.

 

Seeing this in theaters is the ideal way. You need to be there for the laughter and you gotta be locked in a room with this thing to engage with it and go insane. At home it's too easy to go on your phone and tune it out.

 

But the theaters are empty. All I'd hear is my own laughter echoing back at me!

 

My theater was packed, but it was also one of the only two Ultimate Experiences in the area.

 

Yeah this is a beautiful mess that needs to be seen on a giant screen. The giant crazy wedding needs to be seen in theaters.

 

Everyone seems so concerned that this is a huge flop - but exactly what does it matter - Coppola got to make his dream project on his own terms and uhhh something tells me he will still be well off after this.

 

Plus his kids are oscar nominated/winners it's not like they'll wind up broke

 

This is sadly a case of people being so used to the corporate machine that when something is made solely for the purpose of existing as an artistic statement, they don't know how to engage with it.

 

I’m engaging with it right now and not enjoying it

 

Get off chorus

 

Nah live tweet the experience

 

No.

 

Sunny Hope or Francis lol

 

What are you afraid of

 

I didn’t like this haha. Gonna have to sit with it for a while to formulate more thoughts, but I was at times bafflingly bored, frustratingly confused, and thoroughly whelmed.

Funniest part for me may have been decrepit Jon Voight just barely pulling a quiver to launch an arrow hard enough to kill a person.

 

Just remembered the satellite crashing into the city.

 

certainly looked cool, shame nothing came of it haha

 

Agreed. I know they had talked about possible nuclear fallout, so maybe there could’ve been a thread about Megalopolis’s ability to harness it for power or protect the citizens?

 

I’m leaning on the side of not liking it but also respecting it

 

The indie theater that’s closer to me keeps playing the trailer for this but they aren’t actually showing it, and all the Regal showings are while I’m at work. Dumb!