Megalopolis (Francis Ford Coppola, 2024) • Page 4

I saw a reaction for this that basically boiled down to that this was like HBO’s Rome written by a thousand monkeys and now I’m curious

 

Wow people are so creative!

 

If anything, that description made more curious about the movie than the trailer did

 

His Post-Apocalypse Now career is more interesting than it's reputation


One From the Heart
The Outsiders
Rumble Fish
Peggy Sue Got Married
Tucker: The Man and His Dream
The Godfather Part III (It's good. Not one of the greatest films of all time like the previous 2, but it's a good movie. Not bad)
Bram Stroker's Dracula
The Rainmaker
Youth Without Youth
Tetro

I haven't seen all of these, but I've heard from enough sources I trust that these are worth checking out

 

Rumble fish is good

 

the babylon comparisons only have me more excited

 

Dracula fucking slaps

 

One From the Heart is the only Coppola I've not seen. Need to pick up the new 4K release.

Rumble Fish is such a cool film. I've heard people lodge the complaint that it's "all style and no substance." But, at the risk of sounding pretentious, the style IS the substance. It's beautiful and, again, just so fucking cool.

I watched Twixt for the first time a few months ago. I enjoyed it. I went in wanting an offbeat, stylish old school ghost story, and that's what I got. Not entirely sure what people were hoping for from that one to draw such a vitriolic response, but it worked for me.

 

Twixt was torn apart in America but beloved in France.

 

I tried watching One From The Heart because I love Tom Waits but I couldn't really get through it. Dracula is pretty great.

 

watching Jack now

 

@imthegrimace What the hell

 

Did you not know he was joking?

 

How would I know that?

 

here for the Dracula love, and have to give a special shout out to Roman Coppola's incredible practical effects

also a huge fan of The Outsiders & to a lesser degree Gardens of Stone, outside of his major masterpieces, obviously

I always forget that Rumble Fish even exists, and I think I conflate it with The Outsiders in my head

 

Yeah I won’t tolerate Adam driver slander

 

It is a notoriously bad film. I'm surprised you hadn't heard of the reputation.

 

65 is what really seals the deal

I kid, I kid

 

Driver is the ideal example of taking the franchise money to secure your financial future so that you can do real work.

 

The only thing I had heard about any of his films after AN was that GF3 was bad

 

The Godfather III discourse always focuses so much on Sofia Coppola's performance but it really isn't the worst thing. The way the major characters behave and think is so inconsistent with the trajectory they were taking at the end of II. It is like bad fan fiction. Connie becoming semi-consigliere and elderly Al Neri still being the top muscle is so bizarre, and Michael seeking redemption and forgiveness misunderstands the point driven home in II about how dark he had become.

 

The Godfather talk always reminds me of that scene in The Royal Tenenbaums, where Godfather 3 would be Owen Wilson's Eli Cash on the phone asking: "Let me ask you something, why would a review make the point of saying someone's *not* a genius? Do you think I'm especially *not* a genius? Now dontcha- you didn't even have to think about it, did you?"

Godfather 1 & 2 are arguably two of the greatest achievements in American cinema. Godfather 3 is a decent movie with some glaring (some say fatal) flaws.

It's like the difference between Jaws and Jaws 2: one happens to be another of the greatest American films of all time, and the other is a decent, schlocky, late 70's killer shark movie.