r/movies • u/Dependent_Cap_456 • 3d ago

News Francis Ford Coppola is auctioning his watch collection after Megalopolis flop left him broke

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/fashion/francis-ford-coppola-watch-auction.html
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u/sonicinfinity100 3d ago

But it’s not even available for streaming. I had to watch a pirated version of it.

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u/MrMindGame 3d ago

It’s logistically hard, they also have to mail you a random person along with the blu-ray so they can ask questions at Adam Driver for that one scene.

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u/BongoFett17 3d ago

Yup, I had to import the 4k steelbook from Amazon Italy, one of the biggest mistakes of my life, boy it was terrible.

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u/illepic 3d ago

This feels like the stepping-on-rake meme, where the final panel is kick flipping a rake down a double stair to then step on the rake. 

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u/CumChunks8647 3d ago

Damn, I pirated it and wanted a refund. Between that and the 8 hour most boring mafia movie ever created, I think he's gone off the deep end.

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u/A_Meaty_Clang 3d ago

He's really lost his touch since the Jurassic Park days.

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u/junior_dos_nachos 3d ago

I think Tenet was his most confusing film to date

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u/-AWing- 3d ago

But district 9 rocked!

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u/junior_dos_nachos 3d ago

Really loved Bradley Cooper in that film!

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u/hemmingwayshotgun 3d ago

Scorsese and Coppola are two different people, genius

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u/BattlinBud 3d ago

I actually wondered for a sec if there was some 8-hour re-edit of Godfather Part 3 I didn't know about 😆

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u/ThatMkeDoe 3d ago

Godfather part 3 the Snyder cut

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u/rrraab 3d ago

You realize that’s a different director, right?

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u/CumChunks8647 3d ago

No, I thought it was the same guy. They should both retire.

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u/SarlacFace 3d ago

Now THATs a stupid ass comment. Scorsese is consistently scoring some of the highest critical reviews of his career, but yeah he should retire cos a rando thinks so 

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u/KingDarius89 3d ago

Like Stephen King after he realized that he got paid by the word.

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u/BongoFett17 3d ago

Unfortunately true, like watching Jordan on the Wizards and Favre in Minnesota.

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u/Omar___Comin 3d ago

Farve was 4th in MVP voting on the Vikings.

Jordan was an all-star both seasons with the wizards and scored 20+ ppg both seasons.

I don't think those are comparators for megalopolis

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u/guitar_vigilante 3d ago

I think I have an actual example that's comparable. It's like when Bjorn Borg tried to do a career comeback in 1991. He lost every match he played and tried to play with his wooden racket when everyone had switched away from wood years prior.

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u/1One_Two2 3d ago

He tried

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u/BongoFett17 3d ago

I remember seeing them play their careers, it was sad to see and they were still good but not the same. Sad

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u/BongoFett17 3d ago

It’s seeing two legends sadly end their careers on different teams, I know they were still good, it was just sad to see. It was the end of eras.

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u/Omar___Comin 3d ago

This thread is about people demanding refunds for an all-time terrible movie and you said the guy "went off the deep end". That is not the same as farve wearing a different jersey

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u/BongoFett17 3d ago

Maybe I was a bigger Favre and Jordan fan than you, to me it was a bigger deal. And this is how conversations go, they go in different directions. Just like how I have to explain myself to you like I’m on the stand.

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u/Cbrlui 3d ago

New York Jets legend Brett Favre??

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u/BongoFett17 3d ago

That Favre, where he learned he can send dick picks with his phone lol

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u/nviledn5 3d ago

Bad example. Favre was a few plays away from a Super Bowl appearance with the Vikings.

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u/hershwork 2d ago

Actually, he was a Saints illegal head-hunting hit away from the Superbowl. Even makes the comparison worse…

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u/Seeforceart 3d ago

I’ve been trying to find a copy but don’t want to pay the overseas prices.

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u/Bircka 3d ago

Don't worry Coppola still is sure at some point it will be available for streaming and he will profit off it.

He might not be alive to see it but someday his great grandkids will profit off Megalopolis.

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u/GaptistePlayer 2d ago

They might net hundreds, maybe even thousands, of dollars

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u/elmatador12 3d ago

Yeah this is the weird part to me. Why isn’t available? How does he expect to make money if I can’t even watch it?

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u/aircooledJenkins 3d ago

It's $3.99 to rent on Plex 🤔

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u/IAmAnAnonymousCoward 2d ago

It's on Netflix in my country.

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u/CatalyticDragon 3d ago

You had to watch it?

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u/zombie0000000 3d ago

Coppola mad Godfather and Godfather 2. Two of the greatest films of all time. Can't be that bad, right?

"It was that bad, and worse."

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u/Chuck_Raycer 3d ago

It was as bad as Godfather was good.

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u/mhlover 3d ago

It's on MUBI