Dan and Lady Emily talk about Megalopolis for two hours
Added 2024-10-07 17:44:30 +0000 UTCWow Platinum, indeed
A YouTube version if you prefer b/c Patreon's audio player breaks or whatever, or because you want to stealth drop it in the group chat, IDK: https://youtu.be/sYitakMP70E
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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)
Covey M.
2025-06-16 17:59:44 +0000 UTCi also took it as a metaphor for the feeling of creating art in general, it made sense to me but also i was very high, so
sarah
2024-10-25 05:50:27 +0000 UTCOk 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 🙃
Paige Gannon
2024-10-20 00:59:17 +0000 UTCI 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.
Karsent
2024-10-15 15:26:05 +0000 UTCJulia's Caesar. . . the names are so subtle 😂
Echoes from Elsewhere
2024-10-11 21:59:51 +0000 UTCjust sat there like "okay i guess nazis AND al qaeda exist in this universe"
sarah
2024-10-11 02:33:26 +0000 UTCit 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
sarah
2024-10-11 02:29:16 +0000 UTCSorry 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.
Derek McEachern
2024-10-09 20:32:59 +0000 UTCaka "Why It's Rude to Suck at WoW (Platinum)"
Ross Vincent
2024-10-09 16:08:08 +0000 UTC[This Space Intentionally Blank] podcast, noting the YouTube version.
KevinR
2024-10-09 08:45:18 +0000 UTC"politics I hope he hasn't thought through" was my thought, especially after that pre-screening interview with Spike Lee and DeNiro
Max Miller
2024-10-08 21:33:57 +0000 UTCI just want there to *be* a Dan's podcast. Can we start a 2nd Patreon or something and make that happen?
orestes
2024-10-08 19:57:00 +0000 UTCMy 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
Erin Toohey
2024-10-08 14:42:52 +0000 UTCWhen Emily said the theater when she saw Serenity (2019) was full of teenage girls and moms I gasped out loud. 😂
funnyletter
2024-10-08 07:13:59 +0000 UTCWait is this the Fountainhead
Alan Koda
2024-10-08 06:26:51 +0000 UTCI 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.
Paige Gannon
2024-10-08 03:43:35 +0000 UTCThis movie did not seem big on events having consequences.
Will D.
2024-10-08 02:31:16 +0000 UTCI have not seen this movie but from the trailer and everything I know about the plot, it seems like it was created by AI.
Minty
2024-10-08 02:22:37 +0000 UTCSomething 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.
Stephen
2024-10-08 01:52:24 +0000 UTCYou all may scoff, but some of us have been waiting decades for a SimCity movie
Stephen
2024-10-08 01:40:28 +0000 UTCThis movie but they needle drop ‘This is America’ at the part where they stop with the ’New Rome’ bit. Nothing else changes.
emergre
2024-10-08 01:32:24 +0000 UTCA 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
MaxMin
2024-10-08 01:20:12 +0000 UTCI love all your recent stuff, but I was just thinking recently that I miss your movie vlogs. Those were fun!
T. Delligatti
2024-10-08 00:01:22 +0000 UTCBased on the commentary you won’t be able to follow the movie itself 😂
Kyron
2024-10-07 22:24:59 +0000 UTCOh my God, I was wrong It was America all along
Ted Koutz
2024-10-07 22:19:53 +0000 UTC"Unedited Audio About Badly Edited Video"
DiscoDame
2024-10-07 21:34:37 +0000 UTC"2 Hours on 90 Minutes or More"
DiscoDame
2024-10-07 21:31:28 +0000 UTC"Interrupting Each Other, with Dan and Lady Emily"
DiscoDame
2024-10-07 21:29:50 +0000 UTC"Foldable Waves"
DiscoDame
2024-10-07 21:28:13 +0000 UTC"Audio on Video"
DiscoDame
2024-10-07 21:26:58 +0000 UTCI want to brainstorm names for Dan's new podcast.
DiscoDame
2024-10-07 21:25:33 +0000 UTCHaven'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.
Hannah Lyons
2024-10-07 21:11:30 +0000 UTCI'm not sure where, but part way through this I started imaging the described scenes as if they had been directed by Wes Anderson.
James Rule
2024-10-07 20:58:39 +0000 UTCwell now I need to see this for the never-before-seen 9/11 footage
Eric Wolfsberg
2024-10-07 20:40:52 +0000 UTCThe more I hear about this movie, the more I am reminded of Jupiter Ascending
Kathy Clysm
2024-10-07 20:39:10 +0000 UTCWill I be able to follow this if I haven't seen the movie?
Kiefer Ortiz
2024-10-07 19:38:52 +0000 UTCTo butcher a well-trod Ebert quote, Francis Ford Coppola has learned that classic art sometimes references Shakespeare, but he has not yet learned why.
Julia Krystosek
2024-10-07 18:39:49 +0000 UTCUnfortunately, 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
Philip Coulam-Jones
2024-10-07 18:34:01 +0000 UTCI'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.
Cameron Sours
2024-10-07 18:14:46 +0000 UTCI 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)
Dave Ruff
2024-10-07 17:58:49 +0000 UTCIt was so worth it to subscribe! Stoked to hear your thoughts.
Mo Scheibling
2024-10-07 17:47:28 +0000 UTCThis made my day
Olay Ceesay
2024-10-07 17:46:40 +0000 UTC
