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Sharpattack said:
Watched Coppola’s Megalopolis this afternoon. Sorry to report it’s awful. An incoherent, tedious, self-indulgent mess.
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There were a lot of murmurs a few months back about it being a car crash. People working on the film bewildered by how badly Coppola was doing things to the degree that if they didn't know better they'd have sworn it was someone who'd never made a film before.

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‘Has this guy ever made a movie before?’ Francis Ford Coppola’s 40-year battle to film Megalopolis

The director has spent half his life and $120m of his own money to make his sci-fi epic. Just days ahead of its debut in Cannes, some of his crew members are questioning his methods
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“He would often show up in the mornings before these big sequences and because no plan had been put in place, and because he wouldn’t allow his collaborators to put a plan in place, he would often just sit in his trailer for hours on end, wouldn’t talk to anybody, was often smoking marijuana … And hours and hours would go by without anything being filmed. And the crew and the cast would all stand around and wait. And then he’d come out and whip up something that didn’t make sense, and that didn’t follow anything anybody had spoken about or anything that was on the page, and we’d all just go along with it, trying to make the best out of it. But pretty much every day, we’d just walk away shaking our heads wondering what we’d just spent the last 12 hours doing.” As a third crew member puts it: “This sounds crazy to say, but there were times when we were all standing around going: ‘Has this guy ever made a movie before?’”

 


Oddity.

A low budget, Irish horror movie. Really liked it. Very well shot, and a director who clearly knows how to build tension and get a creepy vibe across.

Kinda slow and precise, relying on shot composition and tone to set the mood, so likely not for everyone, but I really enjoyed it. A decent creepy movie as we get into Halloween season.



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Never Let Go.

Very mixed reviews for this and I fully understand why.

The first two acts of the film are painfully slow, meticulously dropping tiny clues for the viewer, as you try to work out what’s going on. The film finally bursts into life in the final act.

Halle Berry ( who produced it ) plays the mother of two young boys, holed up in a dilapidated, remote forest house, trying to protect and keep them alive, from an unseen evil, that may or not be in the woods.

I really enjoyed it, as for most of the film you don’t actually know what’s real or imagined and whether Berry is sane or has gone mad with paranoia, due to the isolation.

It’s a real “ thinking “ film, as you constantly try to link all the tiny clues that are dropped throughout the film, but again I understand why some will find it boring and ridiculous.

Berry is very good, but is eclipsed by the two young lads who play her sons, which I believe is what she wanted.
 

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