• Flying SquidOP
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    5 hours ago

    I haven’t seen it and, although I know it gets panned a lot for various reasons, I highly recommend at least reading the snippets of reviews of the film by critics to get an idea. Even a lot of the so-called positive films are basically ‘this movie clearly sucks, but I liked it anyway.’

    Basically, it’s a very expensive, pretty, and totally incoherent mess of a film that a few people feel is profound but most people think is a colossal piece of shit.

    https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/megalopolis/reviews

    Also, some theaters have a lady stand in front of the screen and lip synch to a specific scene and then leave for some reason. Don’t ask me to explain that.

    Edit: also, that link provides you with gems like this one from Richard Roeper-

    • @TrickDacy
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      1 hour ago

      it’s a very expensive, pretty, and totally incoherent mess of a film that a few people feel is profound but most people think is a colossal piece of shit.

      It sounds like what people should have thought about Inception, but everyone instead apparently fucking loved that movie.

      All the hate given toward Megalopolis makes me want to see it. Before that, I wasn’t interested just based on the poster.

      • @[email protected]
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        31 hour ago

        I eventually want to see Megalopolis too.

        I like watching art house movies and then figuring out what I don’t like about it. Even the ones everyone loves. Magnolia was one people loved and I just didn’t get.

        • @TrickDacy
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          09 minutes ago

          Yeah, well the thing is for me a lot of those types of movies are great but some are absolute trash. And then there are some that I have a lot of mixed feelings about. I don’t really get most David Lynch movies for example, but I’ve rarely felt like watching them were a waste of time because at least you’ll see something interesting. Then there’s total bizarre experience films. I have no fucking clue what Holy Mountain was, but I was fascinated by it.

      • Flying SquidOP
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        11 hour ago

        Okay, but just so you know, it’s 2 hours and 18 minutes long.

        • @TrickDacy
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          211 minutes ago

          Yeah, depends on the film if that’s long or not. Lawrence of Arabia is one of my favorite movies. It is 3:45 long, and I’m glad they didn’t cut it shorter.

    • @[email protected]
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      92 hours ago

      FFC said he wanted to make this movie since he came up with the treatment for it in 1977. For one of the world’s most successful living directors with all of the connections in Hollywood, to never have been able to make the picture until 2024, you know it’s going to be some masturbatory incoherent mess.

      • @Skullgrid
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        158 minutes ago

        I feel like I need to watch this like I watched tenet, barely giving a shit while sick, lying in bed and from my phone