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Imagine spending $120 million of your own money only to have Shia LaBeouf annoying the shit out of you every day.
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There’s a moment here where Shia LaBeouf says he thinks what he sees on a movie screen is real, and the way Coppola looks like at him like he’s an idiot had me cackling.
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AAdam Nayman 8 月 22, 2026
The story of a king who turns everything around him into Megalon, except he doesn’t quite know what Megalon is yet. When I first saw Megalopolis I didn’t really clock the significance of what the film’s production designer Bradley Rubin calls the “organic, magical material” coalescing at both the center and around the edges of the storyline; it’s basically imagination made tactile, a means of transcending the object (and objective) of money altogether, and one subtext of Mike Figgis’ making-of doc is that the only way Francis Ford Coppola’s project would have truly come and held together is if the crew had managed to actually invent the stuff and spackle the sets with great heaping gobs of it. The other…
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PPatrick Willems 8 月 22, 2026
This should’ve been four hours long. Feels like it barely scratches the surface of what they were doing beyond the stuff with LaBeouf and Plaza (all of which is riveting). Show us all the footage from the table reads and test footage with DeNiro and Gosling!
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Iivy wolk 8 月 22, 2026
wild. i was in atlanta shooting a tv pilot while megalopolis was in production there and was hearing much chitter chatter from the crew about the mess unfolding on FFC’s set… this kind of reminded me of the stuff in the kanye doc where he’s getting mad at people he has on retainer to create little worlds for him to play in and stay occupied with, like when he tried to make a yeezy city. megalopolis is yeezy city
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insights: 1.) Coppola should really rather have done something with a quarter of the budget instead of throwing the money out the window and complaining about it. 2.) Aubrey Plaza is so feisty and funny and loveable – “my type of girl” says 100yrs old Dustin Hoffman and she only rolls her eyes like she heard that a thousand times before. 3.) no surprise seeing Nathalie Emmanuel being the one diva whose agent calls Figgis behind the back to get her not filmed “while eating”. anyone ever heard of reputation and image? 4.) if you’ve ever wondered about Shia LaBeouf’s standing in the industry this is a nice document to learn more about this sweetly neurotic character. 5.) Adam Driver…
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MEGADOC might be the funniest documentary I’ve seen all year, mostly because the chaos behind the making of “Megalopolis” and the sincerity everyone brought to a vision that nobody seemed to really understand other than Francis Ford Coppola is as absurd as the final product. Coppola and Shia LaBeouf constantly clash, while Adam Driver and Nathalie Emmanuel are noticeably absent. Yet, for all the madness, everyone seems committed to realizing Coppola’s ambitious vision. What Mike Figgis and Coppola capture isn’t just the struggle of making a film, it’s the joy of filmmaking itself and that alone is meaningful, even if we don’t fully understand or enjoy the final product.
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WWill Sloan 8 月 22, 2026
God, this was entertaining. I wish I could have this kind of fun more often. Francis Ford Coppola hired Mike Figgis to direct a behind-the-scenes documentary about the making of Megalopolis and gave him Burden of Dreams-level freedom. Figgis’s only obstacle was the willingness of individual cast members to participate – so Adam Driver and Nathalie Emmanuel mostly just appear whenever Figgis can sneak a shot without them knowing, but a lot of time is spent with Aubrey Plaza, Jon Voight (surprisingly affable), Dustin Hoffman (yes… I can see why you were cancelled…), and the man who quickly becomes the principal antagonist, Shia LaBeouf. Coppola has been nurturing this project for somewhere between 30 and 40 years (interspersed throughout are…
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A fly-on-the-wall documentary about the making of an $120 million movie that nobody saw and even fewer people liked, Mike Figgis’ “Megadoc” — shot on the Fayetteville, Georgia set of Francis Ford Coppola’s “Megalopolis” — boasts all the fineries of a DVD bonus feature, and makes little effort to contextualize its footage for anyone who isn’t already on a first-name basis with immortal characters like Clodio Pulcher and Wow Platinum. (Both of whom were only immortal in the figurative sense, of course, as the former was hanged upside down like Benito Mussolini, while the latter was killed by a crossbow that Jon Voight disguised as his dick.) But don’t let that stop you from watching it. Yes, it’s true that…
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makes a legitimately compelling case for working with Shia LaBeouf being the hardest thing Francis Ford Coppola has ever done, including the making of Apocalypse Now
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Makes more sense than the movie it’s based on. Interesting to see the chaos Francis Ford Coppolla went through to make the movie, and Shia being annoying of course
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idc I will always show up for my grampa.
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Well this was a much more enjoyable watch than Megalopolis was for me. God, that movie was so fucking bizarre and did not work for me at all, but it’s fascinating seeing all the behind the scenes stuff about it. This production seems like it was so involved, in a way most other movies nowadays are not. I wish it had culminated in a better movie, but oh well.
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fascinating
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Hope Francis makes the best of being poor like the rest of us!
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Francis Coppola bravely agreed to let another accomplished director to make a document on film about the making of his dream project, Megalopolis, something he’s been entertaining doing since the early 80s at least with scripts to show other entertainment industry people over the years. It’s a pretty monumental documentary but is a good promotion for the finished dream project itself. Mike Figgis is probably most well-known for Internal Affairs (1990) and Leaving Las Vegas (1995) but he knows how…
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The werner herzog joke was my favorite in the whole film
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“You know, the beauty of movies is that, at their purest, they’re not verbal.” There’s not a whole lot going on here, but it was interesting having a documentarian provide meta commentary about observing another director direct. I thought it was kind of sad when Dustin Hoffman was talking about a lesson he, Gene Hackman, and Robert Duvall all learned from Marlon Brando, and realizing Hoffman is the only one left. Especially after he’s already revealed his part was supposed…
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Coppola beautiful Shia beautiful Aubrey beautiful voight beautiful everyone beautiful cinema beautiful WORLD BEAUTIFUL! I WANNA LIVE!
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Mike Figgis’ “Megadoc” doesn’t really do anything monumental as a documentary itself. But really is an interesting “fly on the wall” documentary about a film that pretty much wasn’t going to work on any fundamental level but was brought together by well meaning artists trying their best. This was (thankfully) a lot more coherent than “Megalopolis” was.
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HHazel 8 月 19, 2026
Interesting enough in a fly on the wall sense when it comes to satisfying any curiosities about Megalopolis but offers no greater insights other than the shallow initial reaction of “wow man that’s crazy.”
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Ttheseafairy 8 月 19, 2026
I don’t want to be unfair to the movie, because the documentary itself is terrible. I watched hearts of darkness before i watched apocalypse now so thought id do the same with this. Except this time, i probably won’t be watching megalopolis. “jacques tati, for his last film, put all his money in and lost it and died broke. But who cares if you die broke if you made something you think is beautiful” You can only say this from…
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AAustin Kohler TV 8 月 19, 2026
I can’t imagine just winging a $100+ million movie. Francis says it over and over: it was just about having fun. It was never about the movie it was just about having fun. An 85-year-old man trying to capture the feeling he had in his 30s. Well, Francis, your movie was nonsensical garbage, and based on this documentary, it doesn’t look like you had very much fun. So, unfortunately, it was a failure on both fronts.
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CCam 8 月 19, 2026
I wish I could have seen that 2001/2003 version…
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Jjesseberger 8 月 18, 2026
Now I just want Gosling in Megaopolis.
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Very interesting behind the scenes of what looks like an absolutely batshit movie (haven’t seen) but I wouldn’t say the documentary itself is any type of revelation. You can’t take any scene that Aubrey is in seriously which is wonderful. Shia is obviously a problem on set but also hes the only one being like “what the fuck though?” and maybe thats the question that needed asking of the movie 🤣
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Count me as a top proponent of Megalopolis. As for this recent entry in the feature-length-making-of genre (Lost in La Mancha, Overnight, Full Tilt Boogie), Mike Figgis opens a fascinating window into the creation of Coppola’s self-financed epic. While Figgis’ seeming neutrality toward the subject matter is an appropriate journalistic approach, this leaves a documentary about the production of the biggest-budget independent film of all time, with a stunning amount of access, feeling, well, slight. Figgis also erroneously elides reference to the controversies that dogged Megalopolis’ release, questions which should have been open-and-shut. Minor shortcomings aside, fans of Megalopolis won’t want to miss this.
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Kkenzie 8 月 18, 2026
Those visual effects artists were definitely fleecing Coppola out of his $100 million lol but that’s what you get for hiring people that worked on a Marvel movie…very self-destructive. Main thing I noticed is that he inspires the people around him to be more dramatic which is a good trait to have as a director. Lots of talk about Shia being annoying but I feel like the weird forced father/son with oppositional defiant disorder dynamic they had was a mutually…
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Als het doel van Coppola is om lol te hebben, zoals ie zegt in deze documentaire, dan lijkt het er op de set van Megalopolis verdacht veel op dat ze dat ook hadden.
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Mike Figgis’ fascinating behind-the-scenes documentary of the making of Megalopolis is pretty fascinating as a look into the mad creative process, and the differing responses of cast and crew to a pretty mad vision. The Megalopolis that resulted was a pretty flawed and pretty engaging film, that works on a big screen that magnifies both its weird flaws and line readings and also sweeps them up in a vision that feels interesting I it’s unwieldy bigness. It’s no Apocalypse Now. And Megadoc is no Hearts of Darkness But I had a pretty stimulating viewing experience of this documentary on my computer.
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JJuanGL001 8 月 18, 2026
Cinema is the only art that kills what is trying to preserve. Hay un momento del documental en el que Coppola dice que el cine es el único arte que mata aquello que intenta preservar. Aunque lo dice para quejarse de la lentitud de los rodajes de grandes superproducciones actuales, creo que es una idea que encapsula la tragedia de su Megalópolis (2024): al sustraer la dimensión proyectiva de la película con la que soñó durante toda su vida, volvió…
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Megalopolis: A Filmmaker’s Megalocalypse
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RRome Allan 8 月 18, 2026
This is genuinely the funniest thing I’ve ever seen in my life. Someone could tell me this was scripted or if I knew nothing about Hollywood and someone turned it on is assume it was a mocumentary like popstar. This is truly something
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best part is the few seconds of Virginia Madsen doing test footage decades before
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In 20 years there will be a Ryan Murphy Feud season about Francis Ford Coppola Vs. Shia Laboeuf.
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EElliott 8 月 17, 2026
Every time I see this poster I think it’s Nic Cage.
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The doc is a fascinating look at how a singular creative vision with no collaboration can lead to a complete disaster. Coppola seems more interested in Figgis’ documentary itself than the actual filming of Megalopolis. Imagine not prepping a 120 million dollar movie that you are financing with your own money. The script seemingly had no changes in the 30 years since he wrote the thing. Figgis intercuts the background footage and rehearsals with footage from 2003 and 2001 with…
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Hope. Flawed humanity. The belief in the power of story. The important vitality of playing to have fun.
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Aubrey Plaza – wine in hand – as she recalls telling Coppola about his script saying “THIS IS A NIGHTMARE” is the exact can of paint I expected to see as Da Vinci finger paints a Mona Lisa after not touching a paint brush for 20 years.
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After watching the train wreck that is Megalopolis, it made sense to give Megadoc a look-see. Not really that entertaining or illuminating to be honest but three thoughts: 1) Shia LeBeouf is a contentious asshole, but I still love him no matter what. Even Stevens forever! 2) Had the same thought watching this as I did watching Megalopolis. Driver is the only actor that fully got the assignment. 3) Most of those actors seen in old footage doing read-throughs and…
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There’s a lot here. Many takeaways from a bad movie. First rule of producing, never put your own money into a show….
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Tempted to rewatch Megalopolis but don’t think my opinion would change at all.
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not a great documentary but I’m a sucker for drama so I was hooked, someone get coppola in the retirement home stat
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shia lebouf es el goat
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If u wanted to watch this to understand more about what megalopolis was trying to get at, you’re outta luck. They don’t really explain, more about the making of the film. seems like the idea was in coppola’s head for so long and spending so much money, so many people just respected his vision instead of asking questions or pointing out anything that didn’t make sense (except shia lebeouf, who was actually kind of the highlight of the film)
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EErik 8 月 17, 2026
I once told Sam Wasson that his book Hollywood has the same structure/layout as Directing the Film by Eric Sherman and he looked at me like I shot him in the head
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They keep calling it a show
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“Megadoc” is a behind-the-scenes, feature-length documentary about the making of Francis Ford Coppola’s “Megalopolis”, directed by Mike Figgis. “Megalopolis” was not a good movie, but it was bad in a unique way, which made it interesting to watch (and to meme later on). I was hoping “Megadoc” might have explained more about why “Megalopolis” ended up the way it did, but at least we have a partial idea. Coppola spent $120 million dollars of his own money (selling some wineries…
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Okay all jokes aside, and there are so fucking many hold on let me move all the jokes aside, this was pretty interesting to see behind the scenes and inside the scenes stuff for an incoherent movie like this from a director who is such a wild contradiction of himself. Aubrey Plaza is so funny and willing to tell Francis and Mike that Megalopolis was a nightmare from the start. While Adam Driver does one quick interview near the end…
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sure ive never made a movie before so maybe I don’t know now it works. By there is a many scenes of Francis complaining about how there is too many people on the crew and the crew isn’t making the movie how he wants it to be made. Isn’t that your job to manage? If you didn’t want that big of a crew don’t hire so many people and manage them better?
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does anybody like francis ford coppola?
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AAndrew Diaz 8 月 16, 2026
It doesn’t matter. The movie got made.
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I wish i could rewatch Megalopolis. Alas The dichotomy between two FFC muses like Aubrey Plaza and Shia LaBeouf was very interesting to me. Acting! Art! What a ride
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There’s a lot of really inventive filmmaking going on here. I just wish it translated to a good movie. Also, Shia’s a dick.
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Absolutely captivating. Crazy to see what a large scale mess this was and just how Frankie really thought he was cooking. Very entertaining to see him and Shia constantly come to blows!
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A devastating exposé for Megalopolis defenders. Still there is much to admire about Coppola. I find his relationship to money inspiring. For what it’s worth, I feel similarly about Megalopolis to how I feel about Bob Dylan’s Patreon.
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Good doc. I really swear megalopolis is a classic this made me wanna watch it again.
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I watched an hour of Megalopolis yesterday and I had so many questions about it. Why did it make no sense? Why did it look so shitty? Why did all the actors seem like they were performing in a local theater production? Megadoc answered all of these questions with the simple answer of Francis Ford Coppola has (had) a lot of money and that’s how he wanted this movie to be. No desire to watch any more of Megalopolis after this…
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One of the funniest movies I’ve seen in a long while. Watching all the actors bend over backwards and spout the most pretentious, saccharine, ass-kissing bollocks about Coppola and his process so as to stay in his good graces and then smash cutting to the utter shit they’re making is just fantastic. An exploration into ego, star-power and how reverence for a body of work as opposed to the work itself is very dangerous. Shia walking around terrorising Coppola by…
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probably one of the most entertaining trainwrecks I’ve seen. Anytime Labeouf is on screen you know some shit is gonna go down and I wish Aubrey Plaza had more screentime because she is so fucking funny. I’ve never seen a director as delusional as Coppola in this film. He is way out of his league in this budget and has no idea how a film of this scope is made yet he keeps arguing with anyone who has any experience…
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Ssantiago ferreira 8 月 15, 2026
truly inspiring, felt a bit meandering at points, trying to find a single narrative to follow when there are so many, and when, despite that, all were left a little hollow. the jazz, the interviews, the stress — it all radiates fun regardless.
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Production value is absolute shit but I guess it was just the one guy making it – as a Megalopolis super fan, I was always going to get something out of this, so fascinating to see how the craziest disaster of a film gets made from even the briefest glances. Big takeaway for me is a deconstruction and indictment of the “auteur theory” of a male director with absolute authority being the sole creator of a film. Watching a documentary…
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Francis got that “fuck you” money to literally do whatever he wanted and it’s kind of fascinating, regardless of how Megalopolis actually turned out, if this shit wasn’t made cinema people would still be theorizing about it like Jodo’s Dune and I’m just glad this is one of these “greatest movie never made” that did get made.
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Most shocking part to me was being reminded Ryan Gosling was indeed a grown ass man in 2003 while I completely forgot he was in The Notebook
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Ppolglazer 8 月 14, 2026
“Ahhhh so THAT’S why the movie was an absolute disaster” -me every three and a half minutes
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«You know why I’m doing this movie?» «Cus you LOVE me» Shia
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Good doc, I wish we got to see more of the old auditions and cast readings though.
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NNed Flanders 8 月 14, 2026
Honestly such a cool insight into the mind of Francis and how he made Megalopolis. It was exactly how I expected the movie to be made ahaha
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Shia LaBeouf is Socrates and you can’t change my mind
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Above all else, I’m struck by how much FFC sounds like Andrew Cuomo. Which I suppose makes sense demographically. But they have the exact same voice
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“Give me what I want”!
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Eu ainda nao tive coragem de ver megalopolis, talvez um dia com pelo menos 5g de ice do meu lado
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Wwill_calkins 8 月 13, 2026
Can someone I know please watch this so I can talk about it with them? I’m being serious.
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RRobyn Kanner 8 月 12, 2026
one of the most inspiring things i’ve ever seen man i’m fucking pumped to make stuff
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Maybe the real Megalopolis was the Megadoc that was made along the way? One of those fly on the wall behind the scenes making of documentaries that somehow simultaneously makes me want to instantly start making my own film right away while also making me want to never attempt to make a film!
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Fascinating to watch on the heels of Hearts of Darkness. This feels like Hearts as seen through a funhouse mirror. Also that was not proper pushup form, Shia.
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Not the greatest documentary but also not the worst either, it was entertaining and educational. I learned a lot that good, clear communication and preparation are essential before you go out and film a massive budget movie. There seemed to be a lot of miscommunication that occurred between the director, the casts, and the crew during the process. The lack of preparation was also a factor. There was a lot of improvised practices and stuff going wrong while filming vs…
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VVencent Dorff 8 月 11, 2026
Goddamn do I find Francis Ford Coppola to be such an annoying fucker. He’s obviously an iconic filmmaker and made some of the greatest movies of all time. Absolute legend. I have only seen 4 of his movies including Megalopolis. I know people have their own process to get what they need and I think it would be all well and good if the movie he made was able to back it up. But unfortunately…Megalopolis does not back it up. There…
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Coppola has leaned into the chaos of filmmaking over the course of his very long career and considering the results probably has no regrets. Brando must have been a nightmare to work with but Coppola chose to do it twice. In hindsight though… Shia LaBeouf? Need to watch the actual film now😄
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FFervaz198 8 月 11, 2026
El documental sobre la película de culto definitiva. Aunque sí que me parece que el mito de lo que es la película le pasa por encima (centrándose quizá demasiado en datos de la producción y no tanto en los momentos) y no termina de llegar a nada claro ni de dar una visión más completa, es muy entretenido ver trabajar a Coppola y cómo parece que absolutamente nadie entiende su visión. Sin ver la película, cualquiera diría que Shia LaBeouf…
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The hubris of Francis Ford brought us many gifts. Megadoc is among the best. The insight into what caused this Trainwreck of a film kept me glued to the screen. A behind the scenes tour de force of conflict, miscommunication, and mystery. Shia Labeouf is exonerated. He’s seemingly the only person to stand up to mountain of legend and fight for what he thought.
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TTiffany 8 月 10, 2026
love that aubrey plaza just went along w the whole thing for the shits n giggles
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I’m logging this too.
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The only film that is less rewarding than “Megalopolis”.
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While Megalopolis is what it is, this documentary is a fascinating look into the actual making of this film and the philosophies that helped create it. While Figgis either didn’t capture or didn’t include all of the controversies that happened on set, it was really interesting to see Coppola battle with his vision, his actors, and the team who helped produce the film. It is a quite sad watch though. Coppola does appreciate some spontaneity while filming, but he also…
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Rrupshadebnath 8 月 10, 2026
lol obsessed with this. The comparison between the movie and this vlog style documentary also kept cracking me up. Must watch for anyone contemplating a passion project and need tips on how to royally mess things up 🙂
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I’ve come around that we should be grateful that FFC devoted millions and millions and decades and decades to making Mega, simply because he wanted to. It’s so fascinating and heartbreaking that he had so much belief in this and what it might tell the world. It’s wild that his chaos-based process seems no different than how it’s documented in Hearts of Darkness. Which was 40 years ago!! Might be an insane takeaway but something about that is kind of endearing to me. What will we be without these greats in the next decade or so? Nobody knows.
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Desde el primer minuto se entiende perfectamente porque Megalopolis es el desastre que es. Coppola tiene intenciones amorosas pero lamentablemente la dirección de una película no puede ser una democracia ni un brainstorming constante. Una vez más el cine demuestra, no solo ser un arte superador, sino también el poco lugar que hay en él para la #GenteDeTeatro.
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A very unpolished look at an artist who’s medium has passed him by
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“Who cares if you die broke if you made something you think is beautiful?” I’m starting to think that this movie is really about HATS! The scene when Shia throws down his hat and shouts “Pick up my hat!” was inspired by an acting exercise they did during rehearsal. Not as much cape action in the doc as there is in a film though (a minor disappointment). Aubrey is the real star here. She’s clearly just fun, and a good…
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Realmente terminas empatizando con Coppola. El tipo luchó durante cuarenta años para cumplir con su sueño, e independientemente del resultado final termina siendo muy satisfactorio que lo haya podido llevar a cabo. Invirtió 120 millones de su propio bolsillo y los pudo usar como quiso. Verlo dirigir todo es como ver a un niño con dinero ilimitado en una juguetería, sabes que se van a tomar malas decisiones y que está bien tener gente que te frene cuando estás haciendo…
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Creativity is inherently collaborative, unless you disagree.
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Heartwarming: two insufferable dicks plan to kill each other and saves us all future headaches (Francis Ford Coppola and Shia LaBeouf)
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Didn’t expect this to recontextualize my own thoughts and feelings for Megalopolis, couldn’t stop saying “I need to rewatch the movie”.
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An exploration of what happens when the hyperfocus on craft makes you forget the forest for the trees, which tends to be what happens with Genius Male Artists and the endless benefit of the doubt offered to them. The inescapable reverence to Coppola neuters this, corners the narrative and exploration into audience interpretation, which is folly when we are actually given so little with expectations of a feast. In the end, interestingly, it falls into some of the same limiting traps of its subject. I come out of this vindicated in many of my conclusions of Megalopolis, particularly Plaza’s dizzying participation in it.
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Glad we got to see Jon Voight’s boner again
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I still don’t know what the fu** Megalopolis was about, but it was interesting seeing LeBoef and Coppola bitching to each other
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Midway through the documentary, director Mike Figgis confesses, ambivalently, that any problems on set or negative interactions make for good doc material, so of course the most prominent actor in the film is Shia LaBeouf.
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A tragicomedy of a behind-the-scenes that seemed exhaustive for all involved. Shia is batshit insane, Aubrey Plaza reads everyone for filth, Adam Driver seems like a dick, and above all, Francis Ford Coppola just gets lost in the cinematic sauce every day on set. I hope I never become deluded enough to unironically wear a painter’s beret or use a cane in life for prop’s sake. Coppola is a living legend, but man, did this leave a bit of a…
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not a very good movie but there’s enough interesting material (Shia the beef being a crazy person) that I didn’t hate watching it
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“Everything human beings have ever done throughout history, that was worth anything, came during play.” I would kill to see that old screen test with Robert De Niro and Ryan Gosling. Contextualizes Megalopolis as the end point in a 20 year long creative experiment. Unfortunately, in the blind pursuit of experimentation and fun, genuinely no one on the cast or crew seems to know what to actually do. Would have loved an interview / insight into post-production, as I bet…
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I’ve seen crackheads screaming at eachother across Monroe Ave. having a more coherent conversation than whatever Francis and Shia Lebeuf are squabbling about.
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An incredible document on the difficulties of creating art. Plays like a deranged comedy as the red flags become more apparent and the production grows increasingly labored. Far more thrilling and profound than the actual film. Big strike for how this doesn’t examine Coppola’s behavior towards the women extras, as Figgis is a bit too reverential towards him. Figgis also doesn’t have proper access to capture much of Driver behind the scenes, which effectively forces the film to focus on the supporting actors (mostly LaBeouf and his tension with Coppola).
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Max asked if the behind the scenes view into this film would make it better on rewatch and I said: No
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J’ai regardé un documentaire sur un film que je n’ai pas vu… Je suis con !
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Jjonathan 8 月 6, 2026
I liked megalopolis (whether or not it’s a successful film I still haven’t decided) and I think that this documentary is such a fascinating insight into what goes into making something like Megalopolis. And the answer is a lot of the mundane elements of filmmaking, but also the freedom confidence and problems you only have when you’re just starting to make films, or when you’ve been making films your whole life and have 120 million dollars of your own money.…
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KKevinator_567 8 月 6, 2026
The only time I felt Shia LaBeouf was somewhat sane
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If you look at it the right way, this is an episode of the office where Michael is making a movie and Dwight is being annoyingly pretentious.
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Would be better if director didn’t think he was Werner Herzog
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I GET IT NOW…….
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A fascinating companion piece to Hearts of Darkness. Films and art are collaborative, messy, often chaotic — and the two side by side show how sometimes it comes together to form a masterpiece, and sometimes it all falls apart. But the drive and passion you get full access to see from a true visionary, regardless of the end result, is inspiring to behold.
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Seems to confirm the feelings I had that Aubry Plaza and Jon Voight were having a grand old time in a different movie than Adam Driver and Nathalie Emmanuel, a product of getting on board early with Coppola’s games. I do feel it has a little problem of scope and not living up to its subject in ambition, but it was quite enjoyable to see the process at work.
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I have no idea what it is like behind the scenes of the making of a movie. But this was a cluster-f. This does make me want to see what they actually produced as a film.
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A man, no plan, Megalopolis Nog steeds onduidelijk wat Aubrey Plaza nu echt dacht van de productie en FFC. What’s up with Shia LaBeouf’s eyebrows?
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Extremely fascinating. I wish we got to see more of Adam Drivers point of view I think that aspect was missing. But wow. What an Insane production from one of the most polarizing films I’ve ever seen. As always Shia LaBeouf is electrifying on and off screen, that guy is something else. This is something I’d like to watch before I make my first feature. And every feature after that.
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Imagine being one of the greatest directors to have ever lived and you’re actively being terrorized every day by a rat-tailed Shia Labeouf on set at 85 years old.
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Una garcha
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Shia labeaouf se memorizó el celebrities de francis ford coppola.
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es increible la careta que llevaban todos para que la película saliera adelante mientras por dentro parecería que muchos la estaban pasando mal. coppola es un genio y quizas se lo nota viejo y lo gruñon, pero las intenciones siempre son hacer cine para divertirse e inspirar a las nuevas generaciones.
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“Vámonos a Brooklyn.”
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JJohn_Deredita 8 月 2, 2026
Haven’t seen the movie yet because well you literally can’t rent it, but great documentary.
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That vfx crew knew what was up after t-minus 45 crisp seconds
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Definitely a fun time but I was expecting this to go much deeper. It was fun to watch Jon Voight doing the kind of stupid warm up exercises I have to do every day. Fills me with hope that one day I can also be estranged from my much more famous daughter 🙂
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Ttwinklelilfart 8 月 2, 2026
Shit on Coppola all you want if I had to handle a production that size I would fold IMMEDIATELY and everything would go to the shitter
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The best parts are Shia LaBeouf asking what is going on with the plot, because those problems remain in the finished movie. A lot of great footage of shooting the film. It doesn’t give much insight into the script or whatever Coppola wanted to convey. It does explain why the visual effects look terrible.
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Coppola es un genio y Mike Figgis un hijo de puta
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My biggest complaint is that it should be longer, I want all of the footage!
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Ii_j_reilly 8 月 2, 2026
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“You’re full of shit. I’m not going to talk to you. You are wrong. I’ve been doing this for 50 years.” I actually would like to beat up Shia LaBeouf with hammers.
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I’m a sucker for anything behind the scenes, but this documentary lacked perspective. Megalopolis is a mess of a movie, it will be remembered for its novelty and that’s about it.
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Assistiria horas de Shia e Coppola batendo boca.
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If I ever have to watch Francis Ford and shia leboof interact again I will kill myself.
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Mike Figgis shut up please. Stop talking and I don’t want to see your face.
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CClive 7 月 28, 2026
crazy story with this one 😭 shia seems like such a terrible costar; interesting to see how francis ford coppola really seems to have kept his approach to filmmaking the same (at least since dracula which is the only bts documentary of his that i’ve seen) but the times have changed so much and the material was much harder to communicate (and arguably much worse) that it led to a bewildering final product
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Iincr3diblyg00fy 7 月 28, 2026
that dude crazy
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Mike Figgis: Going into the shoot, what are the kind of safety nets that would normally be there that are missing? Michael Bederman, producer: Well, anybody who can say “no.” A fascinating look behind the scenes of a fascinating mess. The two main takeaways for me were the reveal that in 2003, Ryan Gosling was cast in the role that eventually went to Shia LaBeouf, and that Francis Ford Coppola was somehow totally blindsided by how much of a pain in the ass LaBeouf turned out to be.
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Incredible look inside the artist mind fascinating doc
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Loved watching each actor very diplomatically explain how they didn’t understand the script
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Pure chaos.
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DDávid Klág 7 月 26, 2026
megmutatják, hogyan forgatták a kedvenc jelenetem (amikor dustin hoffmannra teljesen random ráesik egy épület). a legmegdöbbentőbb, hogy valaki castingolja shiát, aztán meglepődik, hogy egy echte gyökér. pár évvel ezelőtt végzetes aubrey plaza túladagolást kaptam, de ez most visszahozott belőle, itt ő tűnik a legjobb arcnak, és talán az egyetlennek, aki érti és élvezi a feladatot.
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Always intrigued by how Copolla works. His contradictions, his inventiveness, his sense of play. Yet it’s always at the risk of his cast and crew. This does make me want to watch the film…..sort of.
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hey fellas, next time just leave your opinions to yourself and let the real talent speak. don’t need btec jj abrams telling me a damn thing.
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This was a look inside the production of Megalopolis. For me, it conpletes the experience of seeing the actual film. It was clear to me that some things had gone on. This documentary helps to clarify and contextualize sone of them. Watching Coppola work was revelatory. Watching you ger actors work under him was insightful. Listening to older actors talk about him was illuminating. Much of that gets lost, though. Both as a performer and as a subject, Shia LaBeouf…
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I have no clue why I decided to watch this, I can’t remember why I put this in my watchlist, I haven’t even watched the movie this is about.
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Fascinating documentary that details the sides of making a movie we don’t usually see (eg each department is noted with it’s dollar budget), and additionally interesting in that the movie being made is such an odd concoction, lorded over by a film genius who may now just be indulging himself to the cost of millions. Adding to the unusual insight we also see clear bitterness and/or frustration between director and cast & crew, it’s not just Lebouf but that is the…
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as someone who works with children, i feel the way francis coppola feels about shia laboeuf every damn day i think shia laboeuf was on furlough from rehab and took a little school bus to and from set also, “oh look at the buffalo”
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Só sabia pensar que o Francis é extremamente estiloso todo dia. Eu quero o guarda roupa dele pra mim. Mal sabiam eles o quanto esse filme iria flopar…
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A behind-the-scenes documentary about the making of Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis (2024) Certainly better than the film it’s documenting the process of. FFC trying not to lose his shit with LaBeouf is funny.
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Grave intéressant, j’aurai adoré dire que ça m’a motivé a revoir le film mais en vrai non. Adam Driver ma star absolue change pas ma vie jtm
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My actor friend was screaming at the screen the whole time so at least that was entertaining and not a weird exercise in almost everyone (including the documentarian) justifying the insanity of an absolute batshit director with no control over his film. One star for how miserable him and Shia Labouf were together
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Me cagué de risa de principio a fin.
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Watching this not long after Hearts of Darkness goes to show how fine a line it can be between a masterpiece and a shit show of a movie. It probably doesn’t help when the script is terrible though.
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For a documentary on Megalopolis, you’d expect it to at least be longer than the movie itself. You’d also hope it would have the access to really go all-in on the making-of in its entirety. You’d be disappointed. What Megadoc is not, and which will no doubt make it not worth the time for most of you (as it was for me), is a documentary about FFC’s vision for the movie. We start with the script long written, he gives…
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Good doc. Guys a lunatic as always. Some good “Shia, yikes” content in here. Actors are weirdos.
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RRuben 7 月 22, 2026
Ironically the vision of this project becomes clearer in this, than in the final product.
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How the hell did this movie ever get produced. So so so many parts where this movie seems like it’d be an amazing film and yet even with some of the best practical shots and actors (minus Shia and a few other down grades) it still came out the way it did. Even the documentary feels uncomfortable to watch at times
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Jjames 7 月 21, 2026
Still in fucking awe of the fact that on HALLOWEEN Coppola made Aubrey Plaza, Shia LaBeouf, Grace VanderWaal, and noted Republican Jon Voight play Zip Zap Zop in basically a high school gym. Also at one point Aubrey and Dustin Hoffman arm wrestle. Movies are so silly and stupid and shouldn’t exist why do I wanna do this as a job
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IIan Madsen 7 月 21, 2026
“Moviemaking is not work, it’s play. Toil gives you nothing, play gives you everything.”
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Su principal problema es que Megalópolis es una película poco memorable. Pero como reflexión sobre el cine, Figgis arma un artefacto casi perfecto. Los intríngulis de la profesión, los mecanismos de un rodaje, la figura de Coppola… además se notan las limitaciones que tuvo que enfrentar (sobre todo, porque los actores principales no colaboraron en el asunto). Menos mal que Plaza y Shia LaBeouf lo dieron todo (en el rodaje y en el making off). Llegas a entender por qué…
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HHenry Martínez 7 月 20, 2026
Divertida de ver, sin personalidad. no me gustan los insertos de mike figgis, parece que le da miedo dejar hablar a las imágenes por sí solas, pero creo que también entiende que esto no es un documental, es un making off glorificado. Con respecto a Megalópolis en si, mi opinión no ha cambiado. Es un atrevimiento radical que ha tenido la mala fortuna de ver la luz demasiado tarde. Si Francis la hubiese hecho en los 80, hoy en día…
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coppola’s ultimate indulgence a really good documentary. it makes you wish everything worked out in the end. but what actually happened is coppola burned up all his money on a project everyone hated, then his wife died burn every last dollar you have to have fun while you can
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would’ve been perfect if they ended it off on the letterboxd ratings curve for megalopolis after the cannes premiere
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Fun to see the BTS of a movie of this scale. Mike Figgis has the worst music taste of any director. Coppola is such an interesting guy, I honestly can’t believe this movie was even made.
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Shia Labeouf: I’m scared I’m going to get fired Also Shia Labeouf: *yelling at Coppala for the whole movie
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Future generations will watch this doc to try to get any kind of glimpse of Megalopolis since there seems to be no view in sight for the film’s release at home. But even for as great of a documentary it is, they’ll never be able to understand the madness of the film the way those lucky few of us that saw it are able to.
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Bien. Directo y diver. Tragicómico porque muestra el ridículo de todo el proceso. Quiero decir, que no solo fue sensación mía lo de que la película es un puto caos. Coppola meme, Driver enigma, Hoffman turbio, Plaza la mejor, Voight en su salsa, Esposito talentoso, Emmanuel dónde anda, Shia un destrozo a la salud física y mental de todos los involucrados. Ojalá los antiguos actores y un presupuesto más sencillo y ajustado, aunque aún así como nadie sabe de qué va la peli hubiera sido bien floja.
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This is my Living in Oblivion.. ♡ *Here is my review for the film from two years ago: I will always love a film that I felt was made with so much love.. Of course this is for his wife; there is fear of not being able to stop time, there is hope in creating a better world for the future generations, there is bread and circus, there is Rome..! How can you not get it? Francis being reborn.. ♡
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Un documental que muestra parte de como fue filmada Megalopolis. La verdad esperaba más. más que el rodaje, a mi me interesaba saber de donde vinieron las ideas o la inspiración de Coppola para hacer su película. Hay un poco de eso, pero se enfoca mucho más en el rodaje y lo que vemos la mayoría del tiempo, es algo que ya me esperaba y es ver que casi nadie entiende lo que quiere Coppola. La mayoría solo sigue sus…
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A great documentary about passionate film making observing a master who gives zero fucks
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AAleks 6 月 24, 2026
oooh never logged a documentary, how do i even review this? I dont think i can put a star rating for it lol. super insightful look at megalopolis. could of had more cast interviews i thought !! I found it really fucking telling, how a side villan got 90% screentime of this doc and the MAIN CHARACTER. Seriously, adam driver got max 5 minuites, and the rest of this is coppola being a grumpy old man and shai lebouf being somehow level minded.
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Shia is a mess, but as least he’s not as stubborn as Francis. Let him fly Mr.Coppola. He can’t live in a cage. RIP FX team
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Watching this is like watching the BTS of The Hobbit, where you understand that Peter Jackson never had a chance of making a great movie. In Megadoc, it’s the entirety of the crew that was doomed from the start. It’s fascinating yet depressing to see Coppola attempting to bring his vision to life. The director that everyone reveres is long gone – all ego, no talent. He manages to assemble an incredible team of creatives, from the DP to the…
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Jjess 4 月 1, 2026
i watched this ages ago and can confirm it didnt make me appreciate the film any more
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i liked this more than the actual movie
- Synopsis
- Presenting a behind-the-scenes account of a visionary at work. From Oscar-nominated Mike Figgis, Megadoc gives audiences an unfiltered and intimate look at the making of Francis Ford Coppola’s epic sci-fi drama Megalopolis.
- Director
- Mike Figgis
- Studio
- Red Mullet
- Country
- USA
- Language
- English
- Year
- 2025
- Runtime
- 107 mins
- Italy28 Aug 2025
- USA29 Aug 2025
- Australia16 Oct 2025
- Poland08 Nov 2025
- Hong Kong05 Apr 2026
- South Korea02 May 2026
- Russia07 Jun 2026
- USA19 Sep 2025
- Canada20 Sep 2025
- Australia09 Apr 2026
- USA21 Nov 2025
- USA16 Dec 2025
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