Megalopolis is a box office disaster.
But the movie will long outlive any Monday morning snickering.
Francis Ford CoppolasMegalopolishad a rough opening weekend.
Thats not even enough to crack the top five for the weekend.
And he spent 40 years thinking aboutMegalopolisbefore he finally made it.
There remains a decent chance thatMegalopoliswill be his final film.
Those quotes were fake and revealed a startling lack of due diligence or competency somewhere in the marketing department.
Instead it won the Palme dOr.
Yet here we are, after decades of gossiping, with the red meat finally on tap in 2024.
The latest (and final?)
Coppola epic is a financial quagmire and a critical failure.
Its a failure of reach exceeding grasp.
And the thing aboutMegalopolisis that Coppola didnt make it to turn a profit in September 2024.
He made it as a grand statement on art, and perhaps life, in modern America.
Its not even the first time the filmmaker ran into a public failure.
Forty-two years ago, Coppola released the almost painfully well-titledOne from the Heart.
But the movie is similarly tepid as a narrative, with the characters and emotions remaining dissonant and uninvolving.
Still, the film attracts its admirers and defenders four decades on by virtue of being a Coppola movie.
Conversely, its failure was a deep shame in its time.
Still, even American Zoetrope didnt really go away.
Francis Ford Coppola will clearly lose a fortune onMegalopolis.
But unlike hisOne from the Heartdays, he can now afford to.
After all the numbers are added and subtracted, the movie will remain forever.
In the end, the forever wins.
