Perfectly fine movie. There’s nothing wrong with it (except it’s somewhat boring at times), but there’s nothing special about it either.
Monica Barbaro and Elle Fanning humanize the story and ground Chalamet’s turn as Dylan, an otherwise insufferable character. Shout out to both of them.
Competent movie… but my overall sentiment is “meh”.
Okay, okay Jesse, we get that you’re obsessed with Chopin — I am, too! who isn’t??? — but what an obvious, repetitive choice.
To use Poland’s most famous artist/composer as the soundtrack for a movie that takes place in Poland feels like the kind of decision a 14-year old would make. And I’m only being this harsh because Chopin was used in EVERY. SINGLE. SCENE/SEQUENCE. I mean, come on, can’t you see that’s a little too much and has a…
Was I the only one really bothered by the pacing in this??? The editing felt really jarring to me, there was way too much information in the first act of the film and way too many cuts in scenes and moments that didn’t really need that amount of cutting. There’s one dialogue scene in particular between Murphy and Blunt that made me feel dizzy — I don’t really know why Nolan wouldn’t just stay on Murphy’s then Blunt’s face for…
Messy, flat, confusing, outrageous, incoherent, digressive, weirdly edited, somewhat lifeless and boring at times. Yet — there’s something here.
Megalopolis plays exactly like what it actually is: a megalomaniacal, self-funded passion project that struggles to find its center and commits to only one thing — its auteur’s uncompromising vision.
It evokes some of the great titles and epics in the history of Cinema (the likes of Lang, Vertov, Eisenstein, Wyler come to mind) and does some formal experimentation like a…
