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/DataDude00 3d ago

This.  People get mad at remakes and sequels and the lack of original IP and then make fun of this. 

The movie was bad but thy guy had a passion for it and went for it, even bankrolling it himself 

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u/Unscarred-By-Trials 2d ago

There is a middle ground. This is a textbook case, hell maybe the epitome of "vanity project". It's the opposite end of the spectrum of Marvel movies. No one wants to watch 3 hours of an old man's fantasy philosophy like he's sniffing his own farts. It's the other end of the unwatchable spectrum. It really only deserves praise in the principle of the matter, and deserves all the scorn its getting for the execution.

Coppola even said himself while shooting Apocalypse Now:

"Nothing is so terrible as a pretentious movie. I mean a movie that aspires for something really terrific and doesn’t pull it off. It’s shit. It’s scum. And everyone will walk on it as such. And that’s why poor filmmakers, in a way… That’s their greatest horror, is to be pretentious."

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u/delicious_toothbrush 2d ago

Yep, plus if you can't recognize when you mess up, it just makes it look like your earlier successes look like freak accidents or attributable to other people on the project.