Megalopolis

Bloody Awesome Movie Podcast

This week, we review Megalopolis. We also discuss Big Swings in Concessions of a Cinephile, and more!

The Bloody Awesome Movie Podcast delivers a spoiler-free review of a film, usually a new release with some exceptions, every week. Then Matt Hudson (@wiwt_uk) from What I Watched Tonight and Jonathan Berk (@berkreviews) from Berkreviews.com will introduce a variety of movies or pop-culture-related topics in a series of segments. For some movies, a bonus episode that is full of spoilers will drop a few days later.

Review of Megalopolis

• Director, writer, and cast provided by Letterboxd.com
• IMDb.com Synopsis: Genius artist Cesar Catilina seeks to leap the City of New Rome into a utopian, idealistic future, while his opposition, Mayor Franklyn Cicero, remains committed to a regressive status quo, perpetuating greed, special interests, and partisan warfare. Torn between them is socialite Julia Cicero, the mayor’s daughter, whose love for Cesar has divided her loyalties, forcing her to discover what she truly believes humanity deserves.
• RATINGS:
  • 49% RT critic
  • 37% RT audience
  • 56 Metascore,
  • 5.2 IMDb user score
  • 2.5 Letterboxd,
• Where to watch? Theaters…some with live actors

Concessions of a Cinephile

In this segment, we switch to movie-motivated conversations of a large variety that could include headlines, trailers, top five lists, best of, competitions, etc….

Topic Big Swings

Ford Coppola took one of the biggest swings imaginable with Megalopolis, what were some other cinematic swings that hit and other that didn’t.

RESEARCH - Article 1 | Article 2 | Video 1 | Article 3

• Speed Racer - The Wachoskis
• Popeye - Robert Altman
• Dune - David Lynch
• The Ladykillers - Coen Brothers
• Exodus: Gods and Kings - Ridley Scott
• The Happening/Last Air Bender - M. Night Shyamalan
• Beowulf, Polar Express, A Christmas Carol - Robert Zemekis
• Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets - Luc Besson
• Tomorrowland - Brad Bird
• A Wrinkle in Time - Ava DuVarney
• Alita Battle Angel - Robert Rodriguez
• John Carter - Andrew Stanton
• Pan - Joe Wright
• Cleopatra - Joseph L. Mankiewicz
• Babylon - Damian Chazelle
• Beau is Afraid - Ari Aster
• Synecdoche, New York - Charlie Kaufman
• The Empire Strikes Back - George Lucas (dir. Irvin Kirschner)
• Mad God - Phil Tippett
• Cats - Tom Hooper
• Avatar - James Cameron
• The Lord of the Rings - Peter Jackson

Media Consumption

Movies, TV, Video Games, Music, Podcasts (not ours), etc that we use to pass the time

Matt’s consumption

• Sing Sing
• Mr. McMahon, Girls State
• Shogun

Jon’s consumption

• Shivers, The Brood, Dead Ringers, From Beyond, The Wild Robot, The Outrun
• Mr. McMahon, Twin Peaks the Return

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