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From reading the penny arcade blog about it and watching the trailer, it seems to be an arthouse movie that just happens to be made by the most famous people on earth. You might love it or hate it but most people just won’t get it either way
For $120 million.
Damn, cinema tickets have really gone up in cost
To be fair, that includes a large popcorn.
Ticket is 50 cents without the popcorn
What’s the drink size like?
With or without butter? Gotta know if I’m getting my money’s worth here.
At that price I’m definitely sneaking in my own drink and snacks.
OP lives in Zimbabwe and built their own top-end basement home theater in preparation for the movie.
Sounds to me like some self indulgent, pompous, crap but that’s just me.
I agree, it was shallow and pedantic.
It’s wild this mf made an Atlas Shrugged-ass movie while everyone out here is living like Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle.
Read the room, guy
Nice theater tho!
It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.
I don’t understand what you are saying but I want to.
Care to tell me what is the message of atlas shruggs and the jungle are?
Atlas Shrugged is the conservative wet dream of “what if the rich people that totally do all the work and hold everything together got tired of the poors being so whiny and ungrateful and stopped.” It’s an-cap fan fiction.
Ayn Rand wrote robber baron fan fiction
And then died living off social security and Medicare.
Like a true hypocrite
S’what I said
“Robber baron” needs a resurgence for modern times
you missed out the part where they go to live inside a holographic volcano and pay each other with gold - which of course is useless inside a volcano but the book glosses over that
The Jungle was a book exposing the nightmares of the industrial revolution, especially in the meat packing industry.
Since others have explained what those stories are about, the juxtaposition is about the idea of the Ubermensch being the savior of humanity, namely one where the Ubermensch are capitalists, is a dead concept in a world where we’ve let the capitalists run everything and result is an unmitigated disaster.
Turns out, they just want money and power. That’s it, they can’t save us. Why is this movie venerating them?
Yeah, but then you have to watch Megalopolis.
Maybe your AC is out and you need a nap?
Maybe you are a career politician and need to wank off someone and vape without getting in the news about it.
Or a politician looking for a lot of vacant upholstery to vilolate?
This is how my wife uses The Carousel of Progress when we go to Disney World.
My favorite part is when the main character shouts “its megalopolin time” and then he megalopped all over the place
Mine too, but after that it was pretty slow
Ya but i heard there’s an Amy Plaza face sitting scene. Seems like this years movie of the year to me.
I’ve seen it and that’s the high point of the film.
perfect place to fuck in a theatre
When I heard about this movie I thought is was a live action movie adaptation of the anime classic Doomed Megalopolis.
Turns out is was a doomed Megalopolis of a different sort.
More like Megaflopolis
I just checked it out last night, i had a feeling it was a fun project for the actors, regardless of the overall quality, i wanted to see how they enjoyed performing.
To be honest i didn’t hate it. It was longer than it should be, sucked itself off while also having awkward theater kid feeling moments. But i didn’t find it as disjointed as everyone talked about, if you watch some media that’s figurative you’ll be fine, it’s mostly more or less just a linear narrative following the main characters.
Honestly it wasn’t the worse use of my time, for me. My partners watched with me and one left feeling frustrated at the conclusion (no spoilers) and felt their time was wasted, while the other just could not have their attention held, there were a lot of ‘i am deep’ shots that if you dont enjoy that you just wont.
All that is to say I didn’t pay anything for it, so i had less reason to come in with any expectations. Oh, and I never found I liked the Godfather or his other “classics” so i came in expecting an old man’s passion project and that’s what i got. The actors felt like they had a blast so i couldn’t help watching the whole thing for them.
All and all, if you can see it for free and appreciate it for what it was (a fun bad movie) i think it’s fine. If anything i found the ending to be a bit saccharin for a movie that tried to be dark? Some of the parts wrapped up ridiculously im still kind of stunned.
Is that South Bank Cineplex?
