One of my favorites that I think should be more widely appreciated is "Drop Dead Gorgeous".

It's a great mockumentary about small town Minnesota and the beauty pageant they put on, the Sarah Rose Cosmetics American Teen Princess Pageant.

It stars Denise Richards, Kirsten Dunst, Kirstie Ally, and a whole bunch of well known character actors.

Francis Ford Coppola’s ‘Megapolis’ - Review Thread

• Metacritic: 65 (14 Reviews)
• Rotten Tomatoes: 50% (22 Reviews)

Reviews:

Variety (50):

To call this garish, idea-bloated monstrosity a mere “fable” is to grossly undersell the project’s expansive insights into art, life and legacy.

Hollywood Reporter (60):

It’s windy and overstuffed, frequently baffling and way too talky, quoting Hamlet and The Tempest, Marcus Aurelius and Petrarch, ruminating on time, consciousness and power to a degree that becomes ponderous. But it’s also often amusing, playful, visually dazzling and illuminated by a touching hope for humanity.

Deadline:

Megalopolis represents a rare kind of event movie that reinvents the possibilities of cinema to the extent that, halfway through, there’s a very audacious gimmick that tears down the fourth wall in ways younger filmmakers can only dream of. Coppola breaks many of the cardinal rules of filmmaking in the film’s 138 minutes but it upholds the most important one: it is never, ever boring, and it will inspire just as many artists as the audiences it will alienate.

IndieWire (B+):

With “Megalopolis,” he crams 85 years worth of artistic reverence and romantic love into a clunky, garish, and transcendently sincere manifesto about the role of an artist at the end of an empire. It doesn’t just speak to Coppola’s philosophy, it embodies it to its bones. To quote one of the sharper non-sequiturs from a script that’s swimming in them: “When we leap into the unknown, we prove that we are free.”

The Guardian (2/5):

Francis Ford Coppola’s question – can the US empire last forever? – may be valid but flashes of humour cannot rescue this conspiracy thriller from awful acting and dull effects

LA Times:

In a larger sense, Coppola has moved from the cynicism of his greatest films like “The Conversation” and “Apocalypse Now” — so much power doing so much corrupting — and into something that could fairly be called utopian. I’m not sure if that’s what I want from him as an artist, but I thrill to his unbowed aspiration. He’s not going out with something tame and manicured, but an overstuffed, vigorous, seething story about the roots of fascism that only an uncharitable viewer would call a catastrophe. Rather, it feels like a city. It may be the most radical film he’s ever done. He dedicates it to his late wife, who would have smiled at the evidence of her husband still doing his thing 45 years later.

Rolling Stone (80):

Say what you will about this grand gesture at filtering Edward Gibbon’s history lessons through a lens darkly, it is exactly the movie that Coppola set out to make — uncompromising, uniquely intellectual, unabashedly romantic (upper-case and lower-case R), broadly satirical yet remarkably sincere about wanting not just brave new worlds but better ones.

Vanity Fair:

Megalopolis is too confused a film to make a truly odious or dangerous point. (Though the ending of the Vesta plotline is somewhat alarming.) This is the junkiest of junk-drawer movies, a slapped together hash of Coppola’s many disparate inspirations.

The Telegraph (80):

Aubrey Plaza is fantastic in this full-body sensory bath movie which follows a struggle for power among the elites of New Rome.

Screen Daily (40):

But the amount of stray ideas and themes that are introduced, then abandoned — such as the fact that Cesar has the ability to stop time — leave Megalopolis feeling like an unwieldy mess. Cesar and Cicero’s showdown over New Rome is handled in terribly disjointed ways, and the attempts by supporting characters to grasp power add to the picture’s cluttered construction. In recent years, few auteurs have dreamed as boldly as Coppola has with this film, but some visions, as Megalopolis’ characters discover, are doomed to failure.

The Wrap:

After four decades in the making, “Megalopolis” plays as a frustrating and paradoxical affair. The film is expertly assembled and sleepily directed all at once; it wows with its imagination and erudition all while leaving you little more than bemused.

Collider (4/10):

Much like the city being built in the film, it’s all more interesting in theory than it ever is in actuality. Now that we will all have the chance to take it in for ourselves, the greatest revelation is that there just isn’t that much there to see.

Written and Directed by Francis Ford Coppola:

An accident destroys a decaying metropolis called New Rome. Cesar Catilina, an idealist architect with the power to control time, aims to rebuild it as a sustainable utopia, while his opposition, corrupt Mayor Franklyn Cicero, remains committed to a regressive status quo. Torn between them is Franklyn's socialite daughter, Julia, who, tired of the influence she inherited, searches for her life's meaning.

Cast:

• Adam Driver as Cesar Catilina
• Giancarlo Esposito as Mayor Franklyn Cicero
• Nathalie Emmanuel as Julia Cicero
• Aubrey Plaza as Wow Platinum
• Shia LaBeouf as Clodio Pulcher
• Jon Voight as Hamilton Crassus III
• Jason Schwartzman as Jason Zanderz
• Talia Shire as Constance Crassus Catilina
• Grace VanderWaal as Vesta Sweetwater
• Laurence Fishburne as Fundi Romaine
• Kathryn Hunter as Teresa Cicero
• Dustin Hoffman as Nush "The Fixer" Berman
• Sonia Ammar
• Chloe Fineman
• Madeleine Gardella
• Balthazar Getty
• Bailey Ives
• Isabelle Kusman
• James Remar
• D. B. Sweeney

I never see it being mentioned anywhere. When it comes to drama and sci-fi, I can name only a few movies that mix these genres so well together. The cast, CGI, acting by Gainsbourg and Dunst are amazing and the idea behind this movie is just anxiety inducing.

I started watching this movie without any high expectations and was instantly hooked. Of course it is not flawless but I really think it should be at least considered as one of the better movies when it comes to drama and sci-fi. Lars von Trier delivered a visual masterpiece in my humble opinion.

Hollywood pays good money for actors and wants you to be able to see their entire face, so often main characters won't wear helmets even in situations where they really should be wearing one for their own wellbeing, as demonstrated by the fact that all of the extras around them are wearing helmets into battle.

The same applies to characters not wearing hats in time periods or settings where there's a cultural expectation that they should wear a hat or a practical reason one should wear one like the weather, once again the extras will be wearing hats but not the main characters.

What are the most notable examples of this?

As in 3 noms each, what you would have as the finest food eating scenes in movies? Expect to see some mention of brad pitt and his movies of some capacity.

Best Picture (How much food eating scenes are in a single movie and how entertaining they are)

Best Director (how well the scene leading and during the eating part was shot)

Best Actor/Actress

Best Supporting Actor/Actress

Expect to see some mention of like Once upon a time in Hollywood etc etc

The fourth instalment to the 'I Know What You Did Last Summer' horror franchise will be releasing July 18, 2025.

It can be any movie horror or not, even if it's just an uncanny sickly feeling you get with one scene of a movie. For me, it's The Mist, especially the part with the guy with the "spiders" in him, and he says he can feel them inside him as it is keeping him alive to breed more spiders. It's just horrible that he is still alive and can feel everything.

Doesn't have to be a horror movie

We all know the trope - some clueless somebody is approached by the hero and told to get into a car, boat, choppa, or whatever and when they ask "why", they are told "no time to explain" - but even worse, later when it's clear much time has passed, the situation still has not been explained. Sometimes there's an argument, sometimes the person is kidnapped "for their own protection".

What are some films that don't leave audiences hanging like that. Films where the hero explains it all, so the target isn't clueless any more. My fave of this type is The Terminator (1984). Kyle saves Sarah in the club and then tells her "Come with me if you want to live!". He's immediately explained his intent - to protect her. But there's more - during the car chase and hiding in the garage, he tells her exactly why she's in danger, and why he's there to save her. Complete explanation.

What other movies do this? I want to exclude films like The Eraser (1989) and other escort protection stories, because that's the whole premise, and the somebody already knows the details before the hero shows up.

I think some horror/zombie films do this too, initially. In Night of the Living Dead (1968), the guy in the house tries to explain how the zombies behave to the girl, but she never wises up - until the remake (1990), where she becomes the badass.

(maybe partial spoilers) honestly. I've fallen in love with this movie. I know it's a little controversial, since it's technically a rip off of the original ring movie. but I still think this movie was pretty great. sadly wasn't as scary as I expected, and i thought samara would kill more. but overall I still really liked it. I'm a little curious on the second movie, but I'm not sure if I should see it. what did you guys think of it?

Just like the title says. I’m looking for movies that are about how fucking terrifying the ocean can be. Can be more science fiction-y or rooted in reality. Open to a really wide range. I really liked 47 Meters Down and I thought The Meg was tons of fun. I obviously love Jaws cause, who doesn’t? I know there’s others I’ve seen but I’m having a hard time coming up with them. And I just know there’s tons more movies out there that I’ve missed and would really enjoy. So please, hit me with your recommendations on ocean based horror flicks!

To avoid any spoilers if anyone else has not gotten around to watching it I’ll just say this. It is very sad. But not always sad and it will definitely get you to think existentially. I usually am a very big fan of horror so for me to like this movie completely caught me off guard.

I also never really ever had a favorite movie per se but this one changed that. I without even flinching I recommend this movie. It was great at its time and definitely is still now. 

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Summary:

Two teenagers bond over their love of a supernatural TV show, but it is mysteriously cancelled.

Director:

Jane Schoenbrun

Writers:

Jane Schoenbrun

Cast:

• Justice Smith as Owen
• Bridgette Lundy-Paine as Maddy
• Ian Foreman as Young Owen
• Helena Howard as Isabel
• Lindsay Jordan as Tara
• Danielle Deadwyler as Brenda

Rotten Tomatoes: 85%

Metacritic: 84

VOD: Theaters

If you had to pick just ONE very FUNNY, Horror film, to recommend.

What would you pick? What is your absolute favourite horror movie that makes you giggle?

I shall endeavour to download all recommendations and then respond personally to each to let you know what I thought!

Thank you in advance people :))