Gotta love how every Ayn Randian objectivist propaganda piece requires multiple varieties of literal magic to make any sense, and even then is so obviously just wankfuel for them that you feel the need to shower just from reading the plot summary.
I'd be able to stop time too if it weren't for the government holding me back!!
When Julia reveals herself immune to Cesar's ability to stop time, he brings her on to assist in the Megalopolis project.
Cesar laments the loss of his ability to stop time following his arrest but finds himself able to do it with Julia.
Protagonist can stop time, this apparently is never explained or elaborated upon
He somehow still gets arrested
He’s such a “great man” that he wants to win fair and square without superpowers!
I watched it. It does sound a lot worse when you read the plot because the movie is made in a way that makes it look smarter than it is. However it still drowns in cringe.
The reality that the US are collapsing is drenched in exceptionalism. The sole tragedy of it is that it's gonna end, boohoo. The evil of capital is depicted as individual failure. Homosexuality is suspiciously always represented in the context of decadence (worse, Julia is kissing a girl in the beginning, but everything becomes a lot cooler when she falls inlove with a man). Of course the main antagonist is a black man, but at least he can have a redemption arc, which is not the case of the overtly sexualised blond woman and her associate, a young queer man. Old cishet white men are cool however. The things that are utopian about Megalopolis are vague or perfectly achievable right now with DotP. Like, they say there's gonna be no homelessness, the least technology-related problem in the world lol. It goes on
I was looking forward to this based off of the visuals alone (what can I say I love some art deco) but Jesus this makes me not want to see it, I didn’t realize he was also a predator
So disgusting. Also looked into it a little more and discovered how he defended and funded another pedophile director, Hollywood sucks :/
there's that whole story arc in Jack where Fran Drescher's character is implied to be into a 10-year-old in a 40yo body
very weird
Tbh I completely forgot he directed that, pretty funny to do that right after wrapping up the Godfather trilogy and releasing Dracula
I hadn't really heard about this film before seeing this post, but holy shit does it look and sound terrible.
Same, that summary was one of the stupidest things I've ever read
Have you watched it? Given that plot I wouldn't be surprised if it was somehow worse than the plot suggests.
I watched it was visually nice, I didn’t interpret it as ayan rand stuff more as a weird rich out of touch Hollywood guys attempt to get people excited about a new very undefined kind of Utopianism. Mad Max Furiosa was 100x better and the best thing I’ve watched in a long time.
Can someone explain how someone got The World stand suddenly in the middle of the plot
In Dune Paul Atreides has tons of supernatural powers and he is still caught in mass movement and unable to do as he wants if it runs contrary to this mass movement. So it is kind of a deconstruction of Great Man Theory even with supernatural powers.
I mean great man theory is probably in this guys head, he is definitely a lib.
But the plot is very clearly using the post-Sulla Roman republic as the comparison to this new America, and the “new building technique” is the comparison to Caesar taking Gaul. It’s why America has spent 250 years expanding endlessly, because it’s only way to remediate any crisis is through expansion and “free real estate”. The guy just wanted to make a movie about Rome, but it’s easier to make it about sci-fi manhattan.
Just saw it last night. Definitely the most unintentionally funny movie I've seen this year. My group of friends and the 4 other people in the theater had a good giggle.
When I Can't Believe It's Not Taylor Swift, the sponsored virgin, is exposed as a sex -haver, the scene immediately hard cuts to a music video of her performing in black leather surrounded by flames while headlines flash on screen starting with Teen Pregnancy Rates Skyrocket.
Watched kermode review. He tore the movie apart. Sounds really disjointed
An actual line from the movie "You’re anal as hell, Cesar. I, on the other hand, am oral as hell”.
This is literally just what happened during the fall is the Roman Republic. Sounds pretty ham fisted
