Regardless of the blended opinions from critics and audiences, Francis Ford Coppola has given a perfect score to Megalopolis on Letterboxd.
Earlier this summer time, Megalopolis director Francis Ford Coppola joined Letterboxd, the social cataloguing service the place members can fee and evaluation movies and preserve monitor of what they’ve watched. He hasn’t been too energetic on the service, however he has given Megalopolis a perfect five-star score. The divisive movie has been receiving blended opinions from critics and audiences, with the common Letterboxd score sitting at 2.9. Coppola additionally gave 5 stars to The Final Showgirl, a movie directed by his granddaughter Gia Coppola.
Regardless of the blended opinions, Megalopolis is clearly a venture Coppola is keen about. He spent many years growing the film and even put up $120 million of his personal cash. Whereas it’s a disgrace the film wasn’t the universally acclaimed masterpiece that many have been hoping it will be, people can’t appear to cease speaking about it. In my guide, an fascinating failure is extra alluring than one other two hours of forgettable mediocrity.
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Our personal Chris Bumbray caught Megalopolis at TIFF, and sadly, he wasn’t a fan. “In the last forty minutes, Megalopolis becomes a real disaster, with so much jam-packed into the movie’s third act that it becomes almost impossible to keep up with it,” Bumbray wrote. “It becomes nonsensical as it races towards its ending. Again, one can’t fault Coppola for his ambition. He financed the movie with money he earned, so he had every right to make exactly the film he wanted to make. But it’s hard to imagine this ever connecting with anyone other than hardcore Coppola devotees or maybe connoisseurs of bad cinema.” You’ll be able to try the remainder of Bumbray’s evaluation proper right here.
The official synopsis for Megalopolis reads: “Megalopolis is a Roman Epic fable set in an imagined Modern America. The City of New Rome must change, causing conflict between Cesar Catilina, a genius artist who seeks to leap into a utopian, idealistic future, and his opposition, Mayor Franklyn Cicero, who remains committed to a regressive status quo, perpetuating greed, special interests, and partisan warfare. Torn between them is socialite Julia Cicero, the mayor’s daughter, whose love for Cesar has divided her loyalties, forcing her to discover what she truly believes humanity deserves.” The movie is presently slated to hit theaters on September twenty seventh. I’m wanting ahead to lastly getting to examine the movie out for myself.
