Film Megalopolis | Francis Ford Coppolla | Adam Driver

Hoof the ball

Full Member
Joined
Jan 16, 2008
Messages
12,442
Location
San Antonio, Texas.
Honestly at this point I wouldn’t be surprised if Driver finds a way to work with Kurosawa and Hitchcock.

Synopsis: An architect wants to rebuild New York City as a utopia following a devastating disaster.

Cast includes :

Adam Driver
Shia LaBoeuf
Giancarlo Esposito
Dustin Hoffman
James Caan
Talia Shire
Jon Voight
Forest Whittaker
Lawrence Fishburne
Cate Blanchett
Jude Law
to name just a few.

It's absolutely stacked with talent.

 

RedDevilQuebecois

New Member
Joined
May 27, 2021
Messages
8,256
Hoof the ball said:
Honestly at this point I wouldn’t be surprised if Driver finds a way to work with Kurosawa and Hitchcock.
Click to expand...
Incredible that the man has worked under Clint Eastwood (J. Edgar), Steven Spielberg (Lincoln), the Coen Brothers (Inside Llewyn Davis), Shawn Levy (This Is Where I Leave You), J.J. Abrams (Star Wars: The Force Awakens and Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker), Martin Scorsese (Silence), Steven Soderbergh (Logan Lucky), Spike Lee (BlackKkKlansman), Ridley Scott (The Last Duel and House of Gucci), Michael Mann (Ferrari) and now Francis Ford Coppola for this. What are the odds that a single actor can work with this many among the greatest directors of the last 5 decades by age 40?

Hoof the ball said:
Cast includes :

Adam Driver
Shia LaBoeuf
Giancarlo Esposito
Dustin Hoffman
James Caan
Talia Shire
Jon Voight
Forest Whittaker
Lawrence Fishburne
Cate Blanchett
Jude Law
to name just a few.

It's absolutely stacked with talent.
Click to expand...
Stacked as hell.
 
Last edited:

Hamnat

Full Member
Joined
Feb 18, 2012
Messages
1,547
Location
Texas
The backstory to the making of this film is interesting. Trying to make this since the 80s and 120 million of his own money to fund it. Then still looking for a distributer to get it out there worldwide.
 

Wibble

In Gadus Speramus
Staff
Joined
Jun 15, 2000
Messages
89,621
Location
Centreback
Sounds like a disaster waiting to find a cinema chain to happen in.
 

Ubik

Nothing happens until something moves!
Joined
Jul 8, 2010
Messages
19,083
Shia LaBeouf is in it? How is that still a thing?
 

Mockney

Not the only poster to be named Poster of the Year
Joined
Jan 27, 2009
Messages
40,992
Location
Editing my own posts.
Hoof the ball said:
Cast includes :

Adam Driver
Shia LaBoeuf
Giancarlo Esposito
Dustin Hoffman
James Caan
Talia Shire
Jon Voight
Forest Whittaker
Lawrence Fishburne
Cate Blanchett
Jude Law
to name just a few.

It's absolutely stacked with talent.

Click to expand...
Yeah it’s stacked, but also stacked with a lot of talent that hasn’t really worked on a big film for a while, so I can see why it wasn’t a particularly big draw for studios. I mean Hoffman, Caan & Voight haven’t been big draws since the 90s and at least 2 of them are maybe dead?? Talia Shire is his sister and hasn’t been a draw for even longer, if ever. Whittaker is a solid working actor but just as likely to crop up in a CSI as a Star War these days, Esposito has been playing Gus on autopilot in anything that’ll give him a bag, LaBeouf has been semi-cancelled for about 4 years and was only really doing small kinda bad indies post-Transformers anyway, which leaves Driver as the only actual modern big name, and Law, Blanchett & Fishburne as the other ones you’d put on the poster.

So still good, but also probably a poster line up you’d think was okay for a mid-budget Amazon film about reporters uncovering a conspiracy involving fraudulent traveler's cheques that you watch 5 years after it’s released and forget instantly.

Still, I’ll definitely see it, cos it’s Coppola. Also Driver is generally great, or at the very least committed.
 

Pogue Mahone

Swiftie Fan Club President
Joined
Feb 22, 2006
Messages
134,491
Location
"like a man in silk pyjamas shooting pigeons
Mockney said:
Yeah it’s stacked, but also stacked with a lot of talent that hasn’t really worked on a big film for a while, so I can see why it wasn’t a particularly big draw for studios. I mean Hoffman, Caan & Voight haven’t been big draws since the 90s and at least 2 of them are maybe dead?? Talia Shire is his sister and hasn’t been a draw for even longer, if ever. Whittaker is a solid working actor but just as likely to crop up in a CSI as a Star War these days, Esposito has been playing Gus on autopilot in anything that’ll give him a bag, LaBeouf has been semi-cancelled for about 4 years and was only really doing small kinda bad indies post-Transformers anyway, which leaves Driver as the only actual modern big name, and Law, Blanchett & Fishburne as the other ones you’d put on the poster.

So still good, but also probably a poster line up you’d think was okay for a mid-budget Amazon film about reporters uncovering a conspiracy involving fraudulent traveler's cheques that you watch 5 years after it’s released and forget instantly.

Still, I’ll definitely see it, cos it’s Coppola. Also Driver is generally great, or at the very least committed.
Click to expand...
Peanut Butter Falcon is great!
 

Rooney in Paris

Gerrard shirt..Anfield? You'll Never Live it Down
Scout
Joined
Mar 11, 2010
Messages
36,097
Location
In an elephant sanctuary
Sky1981 said:
Will watch but is this one of those hypster movies with lots of allegory and stuff? Judging from the trailer, the synopsis dont seems to match
Click to expand...
Ah yes, Francis Ford Coppolla, the notorious hipster! :lol:

It'll be what it'll be, but it's definitely not gonna be hipster. Genuine question, you've seen some of his other films?
Sweet Square said:
It’s going to be great but the vast majority will think it’s shite.
Click to expand...
We'll know, Sweetums. We'll know.
Salt Bailly said:
We all owe it to ourselves to see this on the the biggest screen feasible.
Click to expand...
That's how I feel too. Well, if it ever gets a distributor.
 

Salt Bailly

Auburn, not Ginger.
Joined
Apr 23, 2017
Messages
9,894
Location
Valinor
RedDevilQuebecois said:
Incredible that the man has worked under Clint Eastwood (J. Edgar), Steven Spielberg (Lincoln), the Coen Brothers (Inside Llewyn Davis), Shawn Levy (This Is Where I Leave You), J.J. Abrams (Star Wars: The Force Awakens and Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker), Martin Scorsese (Silence), Steven Soderbergh (Logan Lucky), Spike Lee (BlackKkKlansman), Ridley Scott (The Last Duel and House of Gucci), Michael Mann (Ferrari) and now Francis Ford Coppola for this.
Click to expand...
Wes Anderson and Christopher Nolan conspicuous by their absence.
 

FrankDrebin

Don't call me Shirley
Joined
Aug 25, 2019
Messages
21,031
Location
Police Squad
Supports
USA Manchester Red Socks
Looks creatively stunning and operatic.
This, Anora and Shrouds are three of my main interests in film this year.
 

Wing Attack Plan R

Full Member
Joined
Jul 12, 2019
Messages
10,857
Location
El Pueblo de la Reyna de los Angeles
Hoof the ball said:
Honestly at this point I wouldn’t be surprised if Driver finds a way to work with Kurosawa and Hitchcock.

Synopsis: An architect wants to rebuild New York City as a utopia following a devastating disaster.

Cast includes :

Adam Driver
Shia LaBoeuf
Giancarlo Esposito
Dustin Hoffman
James Caan
Talia Shire
Jon Voight
Forest Whittaker
Lawrence Fishburne
Cate Blanchett
Jude Law
to name just a few.

It's absolutely stacked with talent.

Click to expand...
Stacked with talent, and Jude Law.
 

Sweet Square

ˈkämyənəst
Joined
Jun 6, 2013
Messages
24,059
Location
The Zone

There is nothing in Megalopolis that feels like something out of a “normal” movie. It has its own logic and cadence and vernacular. The characters speak in archaic phrases and words, mixing shards of Shakespeare, Ovid, and at one point straight-up Latin.
Click to expand...
 
Last edited:

Herman Toothrot

Full Member
Joined
Jul 12, 2021
Messages
1,857
FrankDrebin said:
Megalopolis review – Coppola’s passion project is megabloated and megaboring
Click to expand...
Peter Bradshaw is usually a pretty sensible yardstick. Sounds exactly as I feared. Coppola is a fascinating and flawed person who made some outstanding work in that run of Godfather, Conversation, Apocalypse. He's also made a lot of dreck, in fact, mostly dreck since Apocalypse Now with a couple of notable exceptions. His worst work is his most recent and he was always unlikely to arrest that pattern in his mid eighties.
 

FrankDrebin

Don't call me Shirley
Joined
Aug 25, 2019
Messages
21,031
Location
Police Squad
Supports
USA Manchester Red Socks
Post Apocalypse Now, I have a fondness for Rumble Fish, Dracula and to some extent The Rainmaker, though at times it felt like a TV movie.

I'll definitely be seeing this. Hopefully it's playing somewhere relatively close though.
 

Massive Spanner

The Football Grinch
Joined
Jul 2, 2014
Messages
28,525
Location
Tool shed
Definitely has the look of one of those terrible movies that posters like like RN7 and Sweet Square rate as 10/10 and claim is misunderstood all right.
 

Herman Toothrot

Full Member
Joined
Jul 12, 2021
Messages
1,857
FrankDrebin said:
Post Apocalypse Now, I have a fondness for Rumble Fish, Dracula and to some extent The Rainmaker, though at times it felt like a TV movie.

I'll definitely be seeing this. Hopefully it's playing somewhere relatively close though.
Click to expand...
I love Dracula. The Keanu problem is a big one though. Recently rewatched The Outsiders, and my God is it televisual.
 

Wibble

In Gadus Speramus
Staff
Joined
Jun 15, 2000
Messages
89,621
Location
Centreback
Herman Toothrot said:
I love Dracula. The Keanu problem is a big one though. Recently rewatched The Outsiders, and my God is it televisual.
Click to expand...
A good film but Keanu was really really wooden.

I only vaguely remember the Outsiders. I liked Rumblefish at the time but it now sounds terrible. Not sure I can bring myself to watch it again.

I remember the Rainmaker as a one of the better conversion of a Grisham novel (so nothing deep or meaningful expected) but I'm not sure I was even aware Coppola was the director.
 
Last edited:
You must log in or register to reply here.