“Every day, I come by your house and I pick you up.

[benji]

I saw Megalopolis, and in order to confirm that I am not some weird automatic-liker-of-bad-movies, I can confirm that it is Actually Bad.

There are some striking visuals in here, and I have a certain respect for Coppola really fucking going for it but like...the movie doesn't really justify its thesis. And structurally it's a total fucking mess. It's obvious at times that Coppola is having a goof--either with specific scenes or entire arcs/characters--but that constantly gets in the way of the message he's trying to communicate.

I could more easily buy this movie as a parody of it's own themes than, y'know, an earnest assertion of them.

I DO think the movie has huge potential as Rocky Horror for a future generation.