r/ebert • u/Otherwise-Pop-1311 • Oct 10 '24

What would he say to Megalopolis?

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u/Ex_Hedgehog Oct 10 '24

He didn't care for Youth Without Youth, a film that's FFC's closest comparison to Megalopolis. It's a much more organized and stately piece of work, so if Ebert found it too obtuse, he'd only be doubly confounded by Megalopolis

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u/the_labracadabrador Oct 11 '24

He did praise The Phantom Menace because it was a large triumph in computer graphics/spectacle

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u/TheDarkKnightRinses Nov 17 '24

Yeah, but it was coherent and simplistic in its story. Also, Ebert was a bit of a sucker for kids' movies.. Remember him liking even The Scorpion King which was PG Rated.

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u/scarfilm Oct 10 '24

I was thinking about that. I hated it myself, a vitriol I don’t recall ever feeling about a movie in my adult life. Which is some kind of achievement? Maybe it’s a masterpiece and I missed it. Ebert might have unlocked it for me.

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u/mcksw83 Oct 10 '24

I haven't seen it, but I'm also interested in how he would talk about it with Gene. Gene really disliked Apocalypse Now when it premiered, and that made for a pretty interesting discussion between the two.