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Megalopolis | Official trailer
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- Title
- MEGALOPOLIS (2024) Official Trailer - Adam Driver, Giancarlo Esposito, Nathalie Emmanuel
- Authors
- Lionsgate Movies
- Duration
- 2:34
- Published
- Aug 21 2024
'Megalopolis' Trailer Pulled Due to Fake Critic Quotes: 'We Screwed Up' https://variety.com/2024/film/news/lionsgate-pulls-megalopolis-trailer-offline-fake-critic-quotes-1236114337/
Meta: is it now common to have a trailer for the trailers? The first five seconds flashes something and then the proper trailer starts ...seen it a couple times now, so weird.
I haven't seen any of the other Coppola films..... But the cast looks to be very impressive
Yeah, they started doing that a while ago so they can get the title in before you hit the skip ad button.
Which has frustratingly permeated into Tiktok and other short form stuff as well. Random clips from comedies will start with the punchline and end with the build up to it. Drives me bonkers.
SponsorBlock takes care of that by automatically skipping it: https://sponsor.ajay.app/
Definitely seek out those other Coppola films, he is regarded as a master for a reason.
I'm not sure where to start....I strongly disliked Conrad's The Heart of Darkness, on which Apocalypse Now is based. I have a negative avoidance response to mob films about terrible people doing terrible things to other people; I still watch them but very rarely. Last one was The Departed / Infernal Affairs
10+nearly 20 years ago. And I don't want to watch Dracula for the creepy esthetics. I might have to circle back round to Godfather after Megalopolis if it ends up being intriguing (doesn't have to be good or liked).Maybe Rainmaker? (Just watched the trailer) Because "there's nothing more thrilling than nailing the insurance company".
It sounds like his stuff might just not be for you. His daughter has done a lot of really interesting and amazing work as well and might find her style easier to get into!
Critics put out the hit indeed
r/mcj is leaking. I miss that place now that I don't comment on Reddit anymore.
I was a power user on there from like 2017-2019. I remember when I started using it there were only a handful of active users posting, and we all had similar sensibilities. We all liked The Last Jedi so that became a subreddit consensus. I remember my dislike of YMS ended up becoming mainstream through my posts on there.
Interesting times.
My biggest claim to fame on there is posting a poster of fucked up photoshopped monster of one of the right wing nuts (not Shapiro) and titling it as Taika Waititi's Akira (20xx) aand getting banned over and over again for some reason. Now it all just seems funny.
I was on that subreddit a LOT...I had some very good posts on it, people are saying they were the best of all time...but then I got banned for being racist but they wouldn't explain what I had done that was racist. It was funny because pretty much my favorite thing to do on the subreddit was to make fun of racists. The subreddit had definitely been getting worse by that point, so it wasn't the biggest deal, but it was a bit sad given how much I had enjoyed it throughout the years.
I also got banned from /r/gamingcirclejerk for a comment where I was supporting the mods, so that was weird, but I never subscribed and never really enjoyed that subreddit so it wasn't a big loss.
The last time I checked on the MCJ subreddit was 2021. It seemed fine back then, I got in by making fun of certain Letterboxd users like Sally Jane Black. But I haven’t been on there since.
I also used to be on r/criterion a lot back in 2020/21 but sometime in the past two years it went downhill towards a lot of low effort posts.
YouTube says the video is private now. Just “This video is private” on a black background.
What happened?
Edit - It’s still available on other channels. Mirror
Trailer got pulled because it featured fake quotes in the beginning
Trailer's counters against bad reviews are pretty impressively persuasiveThe quotes were fake, though the movie still looks like a mashup of multiple different movies -- maybe that's built in the narrative though.Not much is said but I found the trailer pretty good but I was always interested in this.
What's up with the Morpheus voiceover?
Not, imo, a good trailer. But I thought Arrival had a terrible trailer even though, in my view, that movie ended up being a masterpiece.
I did like the blurbs of bad reviews. That part was quite funny.
I will definitely see this regardless of the trailers.
You probably represent the majority. Just most of the shots individually (not the most visible green screen) look good and since I have no clue what's the overall plot, I find the ambiguousness is captivating.
Yeah I think so too. Though I did notice that for The Godfather, they cited two lines from the same critic, but separated them by a different one to make it seem like it was 3 different critiques. Of course I wasn't even alive when that movie released so I have no idea what the reception of it was upon release and maybe it was not as critically praised initially as it came to be later, but using the same critic review twice on that movie makes it seem more like they were stretching it to fit the narrative that he's always been poorly received by critics initially only to be redeemed later. It's also possible that it wasn't critically well received but they just really liked those two lines that guy wrote about The Godfather and wanted to use them more than other stuff critics said at the time, or perhaps there just were so few critics back then that getting panned by 2 critics was a large percentage of critics. In any case, it's overall still very effective and persuasive to me.
I actually gained no insight into what this movie is about by watching the trailer. Perhaps that is a good thing oddly, since trailers that tease what the movie is about sometimes give away too much about climactic moments.
Seems kind of disingenuous to use the same critic piece twice to build a narrative. The other thing is that no movies are without at least one critical opinion, even a masterpiece will have some decision or inattentive moment which is entirely the critics' job to point out, even if overall they loved the movie.
The other day an Ebert review was linked, and his opinion was that movies are worth watching, even if bad.
The narrative that the trailer presented is that critics (1) universally (2) hated the film (3) because the geniuses were ahead of their times. Obviously it's not an essay and has no responsibility to put supporting arguments behind any of those claims. That's the difference between a critique and a puff piece.
I have a feeling this is going to be a disaster, but the kind of disaster that is utterly compelling and needs to be seen to be believed. Kind of like Caligula only without all the meddling from a porn studio.
Unlike Borderlands, which is just bad in a very bland and uninteresting way.
Trash fire or wonderful or anything between I do think that it’ll actually be unique which is something lacking in many movies these days.
Apparently all of the reviews are fake. So…
That's actually very funny. They should've leaned into it.
https://variety.com/2024/film/news/lionsgate-pulls-megalopolis-trailer-offline-fake-critic-quotes-1236114337/
Vetting aka “ChatGPT give me a list of major critics bad ratings for Copala films!”
“sure thing!”
Apparently that is exactly what happened.