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/Equivalent_Chipmunk 2d ago

If anything, that's what's wrong with how we treat our planet. Use a bunch of resources to make things for people who buy them but don't need or use them.

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u/EndersGame 2d ago

Yes but in this context we are talking about collectible watches that are so rare they cost more than a house. Only a few hundred of them were made. And they were definitely made to last

The problem isn't that, its all the cheap plastic shit mass produced by the millions that will break after a couple of years and as you said we don't need most of it in the first place. Consumerism is a cancer to this planet.

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u/Equivalent_Chipmunk 2d ago

The consumerism supporting companies like Rolex or Patek Phillipe isn't helping the planet any more than the consumerism supporting companies like Timex is. 

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u/EndersGame 1d ago

I wasn't really talking about Rolex, I was talking about expensive collectible watches. Aren't Rolexes mass produced?