Megalopolis - The scoop and digest

Francis Ford Coppola writes, directs and co-produces a project that has been in development for over 40 years.

Adam Driver - Cesar Catilina

Giancarlo Esposito - Mayor Franklyn Cicero

Nathalie Emmanuel - Julia Cicero

Aubrey Plaza - Wow Platinum

Shia LaBeouf - Clodio Pulcher

Jon Voight - Hamilton Crassus III

Laurence Fishburne - Fundi Romaine

Talia Shire - Constance Catilina

Jason Schwartzman - Jason Zanderz

Summary

In an alternate 21st century, genius architect Cesar Catilina wins a Nobel Prize for inventing the Megalon, and hopes to use miracle building material to construct Megalopolis.

However, Mayor Franklyn Cicero is vehemently opposed to Cesar's ambitious plans and launches a smear campaign based on the death of his wife and subsequent disappearance of her body.

Amidst all this is Cesar's mistress and TV presenter Wow Platinum and Cicero's daughter Julia, who develops feelings for him. 

Excess and greed

Apocalypse Now, The Godfather and Part II (not Part III) are masterpieces.

But sci-fi epic was the polar opposite and one of the WORST things I've ever seen.

Comparable to Ayn Rand's literary work The Fountainhead, films Metropolis and Caligula, everything about incoherent, overstuffed mess is absolutely BIZARRE, particularly atrocious dialogue, mediocre effects and acting so wooden, you could make a table (or whatever) from running time.

As Cesar is able to manipulate time, it's ironic how much of a waste this was of mine.

Few will connect the dots, but shit stain even has the balls to rip off a minor scene identical in principle to Casino, with Cesar and Julia instead of Sam and Ginger, against Dinah Washington's What a Difference a Day Makes no less.

While we're on the subject, I'd rather have my head crushed inside a fucking vice then suffer the trauma of 'Megaflopolis' again.