Dan and Lady Emily talk about Megalopolis for two hours

If anyone would like to see this movie and is having trouble getting a hold of it (because copala has refused a Blu-ray release in the US) You might want to know that there is actually a Blu-ray release in Australia from madman entertainment Oftentimes their blu-rays are labeled as region b, but are actually region free secretly, (they used to do this with the cartoon Network shows they would release)

Ok one thing I feel like you guys missed or didn’t address - there’s a running theme/motif of “architecture is music frozen in time” that I do think explains what they are trying to do with the loss of the time freezing powers scene. You see it in a nice subtle way at the parade where orchestral riffs are over static shots of buildings, and later in an unsubtle way where they literally say that line. And I think the time stopping stuff is then a metaphor for his architectural creative output. Is it an interesting point? Nah. But I’d say it’s slightly more coherent than you guys made it sound 🙃

I am so glad at the amount of sighs I am hearing, because that's exactly how I felt. Every time I tried to understand or explain or even just try to grasp, I don't think I have ever sighed this much in a movie theater before.

Julia's Caesar. . . the names are so subtle 😂

it was not until listening to this podcast that i realized the 9/11 footage was supposed to be the asteroid. i had completely forgotten about the asteroid. i just thought the events of 9/11 were happening in the movie

Sorry to put this poison in your brain, but the way to remember the female lead's name is easy because it's julia and cesar. Julia cesar. Like Julius Cesar, but you know, dumb.

aka "Why It's Rude to Suck at WoW (Platinum)"

My personal favourite moments not mentioned- 1. A cut during Wow and Cesar’s sex scene that implies that she has been talking about her career ambition uninterrupted throughout foreplay and sex 2. Cut in footage of hitler and the civil rights movement in the middle of a monologue

When Emily said the theater when she saw Serenity (2019) was full of teenage girls and moms I gasped out loud. 😂

Wait is this the Fountainhead

I am hyped for this. I came out of this movie and the main takeaway I had was that it was like listening to my grandpa ramble in a vaguely optimistic way about the future for two hours - no substantial ideas and some politics I really hope he hasn’t thought through. And Aubrey Plaza was great.

This movie did not seem big on events having consequences.

I have not seen this movie but from the trailer and everything I know about the plot, it seems like it was created by AI.

Something which has been bugging me since I first heard about this movie. My immediate thought was “Is this intended to be a modern take on Fritz Lang’s Metropolis?” Because I think something like that could potentially be great. But I hadn’t heard anyone else make the comparison during the buildup to this movie’s release and I don’t know why. Now that it’s out it seems like it isn’t really like that at all, which is a shame.

You all may scoff, but some of us have been waiting decades for a SimCity movie

This movie but they needle drop ‘This is America’ at the part where they stop with the ’New Rome’ bit. Nothing else changes.

A theater near me had the version with the real life person in it and they didn't have a spotlight, just raised the lights of the theater halfway. so my friend didn't even notice the guy asking a question it was so underdone

I love all your recent stuff, but I was just thinking recently that I miss your movie vlogs. Those were fun!

Oh my God, I was wrong It was America all along

I want to brainstorm names for Dan's new podcast.

Haven't finished this yet so I don't know if you mention this, but the fact that Caesar hooks up with Julia (the name of the real guys daughter) is... a choice. I'd not think anything of it normally but this film is so blunt with it's name references that I'm side eyeing it.

I'm not sure where, but part way through this I started imaging the described scenes as if they had been directed by Wes Anderson.

well now I need to see this for the never-before-seen 9/11 footage

The more I hear about this movie, the more I am reminded of Jupiter Ascending

Will I be able to follow this if I haven't seen the movie?

To butcher a well-trod Ebert quote, Francis Ford Coppola has learned that classic art sometimes references Shakespeare, but he has not yet learned why.

Unfortunately, your warning came in too late to stop me from seeing this last night and having what can only be described as the cinematic equivalent of a bad mescaline trip

I'm so happy that this movie will make more people think about the fall of the Roman Empire, a very important thing that not enough people are thinking about.

I can't wait for this movie... to be dissected by the bevy of the writers I support on Patreon (this is already the 2nd posted today)

It was so worth it to subscribe! Stoked to hear your thoughts.

This made my day