• Sam, The Man@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    5·
    23 minutes ago

    It’s wild this mf made an Atlas Shrugged-ass movie while everyone out here is living like Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle.

    Read the room, guy

    Nice theater tho!

  • cordlessmodem@lemmy.worldEnglish
    32·
    2 hours ago

    From reading the penny arcade blog about it and watching the trailer, it seems to be an arthouse movie that just happens to be made by the most famous people on earth. You might love it or hate it but most people just won’t get it either way

  • TacticsConsort@yiffit.netEnglish
    19·
    3 hours ago

    I have to ask. What about this movie is so bad

    I haven’t seen it, I hadn’t even heard of it until yesterday. But you don’t get a flop THIS epic without some Morbius tier blunders

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      281·
      3 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-

      • celsiustimeline@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        5·
        25 minutes 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.