With a budget of $120 million, Francis Ford Coppola's "Megalopolis" grossed only $4 million on its opening weekend, making it one of the worst box office openings for a $100M+ movie to date. - eviltoast
  • mostNONheinous@lemmy.worldEnglish
    43·
    3 months ago

    Maybe if the trailer didn’t tell you how great and misunderstood Coppola and his works have been and how stupid people were for panning them when they came out, more people would have been compelled to see it. Not that it was pretentious, just arrogant to say hey come watch this this sure fire masterpiece. Also it looks like politics mixed with Inception so maybe too much for people to bother right now? Having said all that I would like to see it, just don’t need to go to the theater for this one.

    • TheImpressiveX@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      24·
      3 months ago

      Having said all that I would like to see it, just don’t need to go to the theater for this one.

      From what little I’ve heard, there’s a 4th-wall-breaking scene that involves one of the characters interacting with an audience member (the theater apparently has someone come in and participate). So if nothing else, I guess you could see it in theaters for the novelty?

      • Naboo_calls_for_aid@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        27·
        3 months ago

        Ah, so from what I’m reading it’s confusing now, but will be more confusing at home with a broken 4th wall break segment.

      • aasatru@kbin.earth
        10·
        3 months ago

        I think that was just in Cannes or something.

        Edit: It seems I’m wrong! Basically it’s up to the cinema to include it, but it doesn’t change all that much. I had my information from reading a review by a reviewer who thought he had witnessed something completely unique.

      • Odo@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        3 months ago

        My theater didn’t do that. There was one segment that was framed a bit differently, which I suspect is where the interaction would have been, but it played more like a short press conference and had no interaction.

      • ApollosArrow@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        3 months ago

        This most certainly did not happen in my viewing. I am now curious what scene this would have been or if it was just cut out.

    • Soup@lemmy.worldEnglish
      18·
      3 months ago

      Also, if your paraphrasing is accurate and we’re not playing a game of telephone here, regardless of how past experiences were later treated that’s kinda like saying “you’ll probably hate this unless you’re the kind of person who’ll still only appreciate it once a few critics tell you to in a few years.”