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A fortune was burned on “Don’t Look Up” (not to mention multiple efforts to retool the story of Noah’s Ark for pushing a global warming message that baffled Hollywood executives when religious viewers didn’t seem interested), but much like the industry pushed out an assembly line of anti-war movies during the Iraq War that no one wanted to see, followed by racism movies more recently than no one wanted to see, it’s time for more Warmunist preaching.
Some 20 years after it took root in the imagination of Francis Ford Coppola, Megalopolis screened this morning for the very first time.
“A accident causes the destruction of a New York City-like metropolis that is decaying anyway brings clashing visions of the future. On one side is an ambitious architectural idealist Cesar (Adam Driver). On the other is his sworn enemy, city Mayor Frank Cicero (Giancarlo Esposito). The debate becomes whether to embrace the future and build a utopia with renewable materials, or take a business-as-usual rebuild strategy, replete with concrete, corruption and power brokering at the expense of a restless underclass.”
I’m sure what the “restless underclass” wants most of all is rebuilding a city with “sustainable materials” that would cost twice as much, as opposed to actually rebuilding the city with the stuff it’s already made of.
Coppola has a whole bunch of homes and estates made the old-fashioned way which include a Napa Valley estate complete with vineyards (mandatory for the elite), the Palazzo Margherita estate in Italy, and a 19th-century island palace in Belize, two more Napa Valley estates, a place in Guatemala, and another in New Orleans.
Coppola apparently also travels in a Falcon 7X business jet known as ‘Sofia 3’.
None of this is “sustainable” and the “restless underclass” might have thoughts about a guy with more mansions than a Russian czar.
But the elites who push this propaganda are flagrant hypocrites who never actually live by the abusive rules that they would like to impose on that very same “restless underclass”.
Coppola has a good restaurant nearby, but I think he sold it. Had some really good red wine that didn’t give me a headache 🙂
I liked some of his movies. I never could figure out “The Conversation” though, until I read a spoiler recently 🙂
Megalopolis was also a city in Ancient Greece, that I was just reading about a few days ago. A big project that didn’t work out as planned 🙂
They sell Coppola’s label at supermarkets, too. It’s pretty good so he must pay his vintner well. I like some of his movies, too.
Lol, they’re already saying it’s so sophisticated and brilliant that it’ll take most people watching it many times, to “get it,” and many won’t still.
I love the way the ‘sustainable’ materials people in the movie are free of greed and corruption, unlike in the real world. It’s those building with the most durable and easiest to maintain materials that are greedy and corrupt. If I bothered to watch it I’m sure I’d “get it,” all too well. But I wouldn’t waste the time, much less money.
A Happy Madison production would be more intellectually stimulating, and fun, if sometimes painful, to watch.
Actually, “Hubie Halloween” was funny as can be. Surprising, I know. I sure don’t need to see some ecotard screed, though.
My roommate and I were wanting light comedy and had a Happy Madison festival at the house a few weeks ago. That was one I hadn’t seen that we checked out, and so was Father of the Year. Of course we had to rewatch “The Wrong Missy,” lol. Their worst movie would be better than that Coppola ecomasturbation fantasy.
I saw the “Wrong Missy.” The chick who played “Missy” was in that Pierce Brosnan comedy, “The Out-Laws” that came out in 2023. She was funny in that, too.
If Coppola had spent his life as a garbageman, the world would be a happier and more prosperous place. Instead we got the Godfather and Apocalypse Now movies and now this.
Thank goodness we have Greenfield to tell us why a movie is bad before it has even been released! Then again, it’s not like he’ll watch it once it’s out. He loves trashing on films he hasn’t watched.
He’ll watch the Spielberg ones, though. He’s a softy for Spielberg.
Talk about a softy. Not even Viagra could get you up.
And you love blathering about subjects you’re ignorant of. Given the subject matter, Coppola’s movie doesn’t have to be watched to know it sucks. It’s like “Don’t Look Up” and black Cleopatra. Only people who like suck-fests would like them and the rest of us know without watching them that they’re suck-fests.
We need a new word to describe this level of hypocrisy. And it’s not just Coppola, these people are everywhere now.