Comment on Megaflopolis

JoMiran@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• jballs@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Any idea on what the movie is actually about? I saw an interview with Aubrey Plaza where they asked her and she gave a very vague answer.

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  • TranscendentalEmpire@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    The professional reviews are hilariously mixed, I’m pretty sure Coppola unwittingly made a movie that also serves as a litmus test to see how pretentious and up your own ass you are.

    The honest reviews are basically, this made no sense, I don’t know what he was thinking. The positive reviews can be boiled down to “if you have to ask, you’re not sophisticated enough to understand”.

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    • BowtiesAreCool@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      And as is typical the truth is somewhere in the middle.

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    • frezik@midwest.social ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Is this going to be like Starship Troopers, where everyone comes back a decade later and says it was good, actually?

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      • LaLuzDelSol@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I think Starship Troopers had the opposite problem where people weren’t thinking about it hard enough.

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    • dubious@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      my kind of movie! ye of dimwit status be warned.

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    • TachyonTele@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Is it more or less pretentious than Tennet?

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      • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

        Apart from sound design, I had no problems with Tennet. Insomnia was more pretentious.

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      • TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Tenet was fucking cool as shit, call it what you want, person who probably never made a movie.

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      • BestBouclettes@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        I’d say less, because the movie makes itself completely clear that it’s a fable about power and greed.

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      • TranscendentalEmpire@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        The reception of it appears to be, but prob only because Coppola is seen as more prestigious by critics because he never made a batman movie.

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  • JoYo@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    it’s a retelling of the fall of rome set in modern new york city.

    it’s alright, wow platinum (plaza) was amazing.

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    • jballs@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      That sounds interesting. I feel like that tiny but of context would probably draw more people to see it. Not sure why they kept it all mysterious.

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      • dubious@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        because you don’t feed the viewer biases. like good music, it can be interpreted in many ways. let the viewer decide for themselves. if the viewer is too dimwitted to draw their own conclusion, then let them fuck off as dimwits should.

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      • JoYo@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        i think the trailer makes it pretty obvious. i feel like people are making more analogies to trump and musk that are kinda ridiculous. it’s like how populist characters in film used to be compared to Julius Caesar; like sure that’s apt but also stfu and listen to the story.

        also plazas ass is so nice.

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  • JoMiran@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Nope

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