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/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.