27 Hilarious "Megalopolis" Posts That Have Left Me With More Questions Than Answers
by Julia Corrigan · BuzzFeedIf you haven't heard about Megalopolis, what you need to know is that it's Francis Ford Coppola's new movie, he's been trying to get it made for literal decades, and it has been described by critics as both a "glorious mess" and a "legendary piece of garbage." Naturally, nothing could be more intriguing to me.
Following its release over the weekend (where it garnered a whopping $4 million at the box office), those brave enough to see the film have flocked to social media to discuss whatever the hell they'd just watched. But even the most disparaging of their posts have only convinced me that I need to see this movie for myself. So, in the interest of convincing you all the same, here are some of the best posts about the movie:
Also, I feel like I have to warn for spoilers even though everything about this movie seems so random and confusing that I don't think it's actually possible to spoil it for you; but consider yourselves warned.
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Post Megalopolis really feeling like abandoning the 5 star rating system altogether
— Sydney🚀 (@CountVolpe) September 29, 2024
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I will keep talking about Megalopolis as long as I live. A near-perfect stylistic and tonal fusion of two of my favorite movies, Citizen Kane and Revenge of the Sith
— Erik Baker (@erikmbaker) September 29, 2024
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i keep being like “i saw megalopolis yesterday” and my friends are like “was it good or bad” which then turns into an exploration of what “good” or “bad” even mean
— todd bonzalez (@doinkpatrol) September 28, 2024
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You need to go watch Megalopolis. You need to watch it in the theater. Do NOT take your family; they will be bored and confused and frustrated and deeply concerned about your mental stability and life choices in general. You need to go watch Megalopolis in theaters pic.twitter.com/lBIrX9hDzZ
— Analytic Valley Girl Chris (@ChrisExpTheNews) October 1, 2024
Fox / Via Twitter: @ChrisExpTheNews
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I truly, genuinely say this from deep within my heart, without a hint of bias or hostility:
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— bailey (@baileylikemovie) September 29, 2024
Lionsgate Films / Courtesy Everett Collection / Via Twitter: @baileylikemovie
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Megalopolis is a lot of things, and one of them is like if Baz Lurhman made a Batman movie but lost the rights half way through production
— bi-onic rad-neck (@danielleradford) October 1, 2024
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Megalopolis is a train wreck but importantly is also actual cinema. I’d rather watch 1000 Megalopolises than another Marvel outing.
— Sturgeon's Law (@Sturgeons_Law) September 30, 2024
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Megalopolis feels like the cutscenes you’d see if Hideo Kojima made SimCity
— Mike Drucker (@MikeDrucker) October 1, 2024
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there are entire sequences in Megalopolis that just look like this pic.twitter.com/DQXsBB1JWi
— Blake ™ (@NeilNevins) September 29, 2024
Scholastic Press / Via Twitter: @NeilNevins
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You could type any combination of words and say it happens in Megalopolis and I would believe you. https://t.co/w5YuSBA1yq
— Liam (@WilliamPrice413) September 28, 2024
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i basically mean it as a compliment when i say megalopolis feels like watching someone else's life flash before my eyes
— cole? (@krondotcom) September 27, 2024
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having seen it, I get why Megalopolis haunted Coppola for like three decades pic.twitter.com/gdVymiNFlr
— Walter Hickey (@WaltHickey) September 30, 2024
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the thing about Megalopolis is that Aubrey Plaza IS Wow Platinum
— molly mary o'brien (@missmollymary) September 29, 2024
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MEGALOPOLIS fans: a symphonic fugue of thought and feeling, Coppola’s magnum opus redefines the Wagnerian notion of “the total art.”
MEGALOPOLIS the movie: hi my name is Lucretia Stupid from Dingbat World News.
— john (@johnsemley3000) September 28, 2024
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I cannot stress enough there are acting choices, line deliveries, and physical acting in Megalopolis that I have literally never seen in movie before https://t.co/cteaCst5uA
— Reverend Oda 🔎 (@Oda_CM) September 27, 2024
Lionsgate Films / Via Twitter: @Oda_CM
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So many people are talking about the “go back to the cluUuUuUb” line in that MEGALOPOLIS clip, but they’re completely glossing over the actual funniest line in the clip: “And you think one year of medical school entitled you to plow through the riches of my Emersonian mind?”
— muad🔻dyke (@CadenToMyHazel) September 28, 2024
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i swear to god this is how 90% of the scenes in megalopolis look pic.twitter.com/wwnX7E1gvO
— addams family stan account 🤰 (librarian) (@NorthernIion_LP) September 30, 2024
Miramax / Via Twitter: @NorthernIion_LP
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maybe megalopolis doesn’t explore its themes enough but at no point in the entire runtime did i know what the next thing that was going to happen would be and that was enough for me
— brianna (@justbrizigs) September 28, 2024
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more than anything Megalopolis is the work of a man who thinks that knowing a lot of quotes makes you a smart person
— guy online (@fellawhomstdve) September 29, 2024
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*the camera focuses on a statue of Lady Justice chained to the ground and lingers for 15 seconds*
Megalopolis character: “we’re surrounded… by injustice”
Coppola: yeah I just got diagnosed with Being A Genius and it’s terminal
— guy online (@fellawhomstdve) September 29, 2024
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There is a scene in Megalopolis between Aubrey Plaza, Shia Leboeuf, and Jon Voight that I’m confident in saying is the funniest scene that’s ever been in a movie
— Austin (@awoodustin) September 30, 2024
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i keep thinking about random moments from Megalopolis. right now it's the part where adam driver really dramatically takes his coat off and then puts a different coat on
— molly mary o'brien (@missmollymary) September 30, 2024
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Francis Ford Coppola allegedly smoked a ton of weed on set of ‘MEGALOPOLIS’
“He would often just sit in his trailer for hours on end, wouldn’t talk to anybody, was often smoking marijuana… Hours & hours would go by without anything being filmed”
(Source:… pic.twitter.com/3oxlaPYzWl
— DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm) May 14, 2024
Lionsgate Pictures / Via Twitter: @DiscussingFilm
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one of my thoughts about megalopolis is that some audiences have trouble digesting pure earnestness
— anna livia 💚 (@not_a_heather) September 28, 2024
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ok so I think everyone who hated megalopolis is right and everyone who loved it is right I don’t know how else to put it
— bkr (@bkrewind) September 27, 2024
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You couldn't make Megalopolis today
— Steven (@StevenWallaby) September 28, 2024
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the consensus among you all on megalopolis seems to be roughly "it is a bad movie that you should go see immediately"
— William B. Fuckley (@opinonhaver) September 30, 2024
Feel free to take to the comments with your take on this movie. I need to hear what the people have to say!
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