TheInstigator

1y

i mean its likely a room of his friends. This means nothing lol. Still excited ofc

Everest

1y

He pulled it off. He actually pulled it off

TheInstigator

1y

i mean its likely a room of his friends. This means nothing lol. Still excited ofc

Oscar Winner

1y

300 friends is a lot of friends

TheInstigator

1y

its one of the most well connected and reputable filmmakers of all time. He likely has thousands of friends and connections.

TheInstigator

1y

i mean its likely a room of his friends. This means nothing lol. Still excited ofc

Everest

1y

Held at the Universal CityWalk IMAX Theater, the epic film screened for buyers, and had every distributor in attendance. Also in tow were family friends and filmmakers, a list included Angelica Huston, Nicolas Cage, Andy Garcia, Spike Jonze, Al Pacino, Jon Favreau, Colleen Camp, Roger Corman, Darren Aronofsky, Cailee Spaeny and cast members Shia LaBeouf and Talia Shire.

Everest

1y

Held at the Universal CityWalk IMAX Theater, the epic film screened for buyers, and had every distributor in attendance. Also in tow were family friends and filmmakers, a list included Angelica Huston, Nicolas Cage, Andy Garcia, Spike Jonze, Al Pacino, Jon Favreau, Colleen Camp, Roger Corman, Darren Aronofsky, Cailee Spaeny and cast members Shia LaBeouf and Talia Shire.

TheInstigator

1y

yeah so its really not surprising they're gonna cheer it. Nobody in there is risking their career to not d***ride one of the most loved filmmakers of all time.

WT777

1y

You just instigating lol Coppola hasn't been powerful in Hollywood in a long long time , why you think he had to put his own money up to get a project with a budget like this made?

TheInstigator

1y

He put his own money up to get it made because he didn't want to make any compromises. It's actually a big d*** move that he can put up $80-100 mil to make a movie exactly how he wants.

You wanna talk about someone who hasn't been powerful in Hollywood, talk about George Miller who spent 30 years trying to get funding to get Fury Road made.

WT777

1y

Be real bruh Coppola hasn't even made a movie that went to theaters in almos5 20 yrs he been directing str8 to DVD shlock so he decided to push all his chips to middle of table

As for Miller, he stuck the landing and now has all the clout. If Coppola sticks the landing similar rewards await

TheInstigator

1y

I mean sure, but I bet Coppola gets offered scripts all the time. They're probably just generic movies or sequels to his old stuff. Getting funding for movies like Twixt or Tetro would be a tall order for even someone like Spielberg.

crakc

6mo

This hasn’t been bumped since March? No one ktt was hyped for this? Opened tonight.

The audience at the showing I went to had about 15 people. Half of them left in the first hour. I was really only interested in this because of the lore surrounding it as Coppola’s sprawling career-capping Epic.

I wanted this to be good but it wasnt. I think Coppola was waaay too self conscious about this being his final film that he couldn’t pick one or two solid ideas to explore, he felt that this one had to be everything. There’s so much in this movie but none of it seems to matter? The characters don’t appear to have any internal life they simply stand in for ideas that they constantly remind you of through spoken aloud platitudes. Like at one point Julia literally starts repeating Marcus Aurelius quotes. And she says “Marcus Aurelius” after each one. She does that 3 times in a row. That’s sort of how the whole movie feels. Such a great cast wasted. Aubrey Plaza and Shia Lebouf were the best part.

The more I struggle to figure out how this obviously 40 years old script holds up today, the more I think this might actually be an allegory for filmmaking than society.

ilgnd

6mo

Wrong thread

crakc

6mo

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