as Francis Ford Coppola's MegaSLOPolis bombs hard. Gets D+ cinemascore as well
https://old.reddit.com/r/boxoffice/comments/1frg7oo/coppolas_megalopolis_made_just_18m_yesterdaywhich/
https://old.reddit.com/r/boxoffice/comments/1fr71f8/megalopolis_gets_a_d_on_cinemascore/
Every cringe thing you heard about the film is true as well. Some unfortunate theater wagie 
has to ask Adam driver's character a question so that they can break the 4th wall and talk directly to the audience.
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LMAO
Then people say directors should do more "passion" projects. Looks like it's either corporate capeshit previously designed and tested on a lab or director "artsy" slop.
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A lot of people are pooping on the acting calling it embarassing.
Also "it's satire, it's supposed to be goofy/bad" defences are already popping up.
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The Hollywood version of "I was only PRETENDING to be r-slurred"
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https://old.reddit.com/r/TrueFilm/comments/1fr8x9h/megalopoliss_satire_spoilers/
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!sophistry come and check how redditors overanalyze slop with "akshually is a super clever 150 IQ satire from a marxist POV"
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There was a brief moment in the 1980s-1990s where these two forces were almost in balance.
Example: Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. The first movie had gone way over budget, so the studio didn't pay a lot for this one. They got Nick Meyer, extremely artsy in a good way, on to direct and do the final draft of the script. They got Bob Sallin in as producer, a guy who had done a million commercials and knew how to actually fricking deliver a product on time on budget. So you get the best parts of Nick Meyer's imagination with him getting restrained from the excesses he gets into when he's uncontrolled. And the movie actually gets finished on time so it isn't some mess where in editing they have to try to stitch together a bunch of unrelated clips to try to have a coherent story.
That's how Hollywood should work.
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Iirc, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country was in a similar situation. The previous entry bombed hard (Kirk going to meet God, directed by Shatner lmao), so this time, Paramount kept the production on an increadibly tight leash. They even brought Nicholas Meyer back.
The result? The second-best entry in the Star Trek film series, according to many. Personally, I think it is the best.
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Wrath of Khan is not only clearly the best, it's one of the best movies of all time period.
I was actually thinking of 6 when I said this. It's a good movie for sure (just watched it yet again yesterday) but there's a few moments where, if you've watched these as many times as I have, you can see where Nick Meyer is being too Nick Meyer. Little things like he's really into having aliens talk in alien language with subtitles. I dunno quite how to say it. Maybe it's just that I find it distracting when I'm trying to watch a movie and I keep getting reminded of who made it. You don't want to think about how the sausage is made.
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Directors need to make films they want to make while having a studio periodically hit them over the head with a bat so they don't make this.
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