Megalopolis, Francis Ford Coppola (Claims it’s his best work), Adam Driver

[Herpa Derpa 6343]

16 hours ago, UpperWestside said:

I told this to a guy I work with today. We sell Coppola’s wine where I work and I just kinda shrugged and said much of what you said. This movie connected better with him though. He thought it was all over the map, but that seems to be the point. The best way I described what I saw was what if you made a movie from the perspective of Grandpa Simpson. This is what would be the end result. That’s more/less how it felt to me, which made it hard to follow.

Give me five bees for a quarter so I can get a belt onion.

[HRSchenker 2340]

I saw this movie recently and had a multi paragraph rant developed in my head that I'll shorten to a few sentences. Hollywood is fucking dead. They're out of ideas, their stars are aging, their beauties are fading, and their films are dog shit. If this movie is nominated for a single Academy Award I think I might pop an artery. This was one of the most embarrassing films I've ever seen and I'm a dumbass for paying money to see it.

[Herpa Derpa 6343]

2 hours ago, HRSchenker said:

Hollywood is fucking dead. 

Hollywood is just fine. Plenty of young stars that draw an audience. Plenty of interesting and new ideas. You seem stuck in a mythical world of "Hollywood" that never existed. The film industry is churning out the same breadth and depth of product since it came into existence. Classics and crap every year. The world is only as small and narrow as you see it.

[MrBig 5626]

On 10/5/2024 at 4:27 PM, HRSchenker said:

Hollywood is fucking dead.

Hollywood has been churning out the same shit since it started. I remember watching Leprechaun 2 at the movies thinking it was just another B movie I could have seen on Cinemax. 

[Eskimohorn 5682]

Hollywood is just fine. Plenty of young stars that draw an audience. Plenty of interesting and new ideas. You seem stuck in a mythical world of "Hollywood" that never existed. The film industry is churning out the same breadth and depth of product since it came into existence. Classics and crap every year. The world is only as small and narrow as you see it.

There are less cinematic releases and less paths for profitability. And less butts in seats. Anecdotally and statistically you are wrong.

[Pato del Muerto 53445]

It doesn’t sound like Hollywood wanted anything to do with this picture. 

[Beau Vine 55859]

On 10/5/2024 at 3:27 PM, HRSchenker said:

Hollywood is fucking dead. They're out of ideas, their stars are aging, their beauties are fading, and their films are dog shit.

I wonder how many times this has been said over the past 100 years?

[NotActuallyALonghorn 4999]

21 hours ago, Eskimohorn said:

There are less cinematic releases and less paths for profitability. And less butts in seats. Anecdotally and statistically you are wrong.

Fewer, fewer, and fewer. 

[Eskimohorn 5682]

Fewer, fewer, and fewer. 

We have less here! He said less!



Take it to grammarly, poindexter.

[Herpa Derpa 6343]

On 10/16/2024 at 12:03 AM, Eskimohorn said:

There are less cinematic releases and less paths for profitability. And less butts in seats. Anecdotally and statistically you are wrong.

No, you've misunderstood that I use the term "Hollywood" to refer to the entire entertainment industry not just movie theaters. $2.38 trillion with a global streaming and a multitude of profitable markets says the industry is strong. The point of this particular line of discussion is that "Hollywood" has always churned out crap and that is not an indicator of the health of the industry.

Megalopolis is not a sign of a dying industry. It is the sign of a dying man that nobody dared tell no while his unchecked ego diminished his legacy and his estate.