If you were told the director of The Godfather and Apocalypse Now has been working on a sci-fi epic for the last 40 years and invested $120 million of his own money to see it through, would you want to see it? We thought we did too. And then we saw it.
Francis Ford Coppola has directed multiple masterpieces over the course of his career, but Megalopolis isn’t one of them. The film is a foul stew of big ideas and an incomprehensible plot splashed on the audience against their will. There is no nourishment to be found here. This is simply bad art from a director who should know better.
Join Jon and Tim as they discuss the late James Gandolfini, eating ring pops instead of popcorn, Adam Driver’s Elon Musk, Tim’s scandalous fan mail, the fall of Rome vs. the fall of America, Aubrey Plaza’s best performance, Jon’s Brewers update, Shia LaBeouf’s Hollywood exile, the haves and the have nots, Coppola’s dependence on source material, the perils of being over-pleasured, whether we want a democracy or a republic, and why it’s time for old white filmmakers to pass the torch.
