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At the ripe old age of 85, Francis Ford Coppola is coming for the haters. The latest trailer for the director\u2019s self-funded science-fiction epic Megalopolis<\/a><\/em> starts with an extraordinary denunciation of the critics who have wronged his movies in the past. As an exercise in hubris and decades-long grudge-holding, it commands respect.<\/p>\n

\u201cTrue genius is often misunderstood,\u201d intones Laurence Fishburne \u2014 one of the stars of the movie, doing his best trailer guy voice<\/a> \u2014 before a montage of quotes showing famous critics being mean about some of Coppola\u2019s best-loved movies. \u201cDiminished by its artsiness,\u201d Pauline Kael said of The Godfather<\/em>. Vincent Canby decried Apocalypse Now<\/em> as \u201cHollow at the core.\u201d Bram Stoker\u2019s Dracula<\/em> is \u201ca triumph of style over substance,\u201d according to Roger Ebert. (Ebert actually quite liked it<\/a>.) These idiots just weren\u2019t forward-looking enough to get what Coppola was doing, clearly. \u201cOne filmmaker has always been ahead of his time,\u201d Fishburne purrs, before describing Megalopolis<\/em> as \u201can event nothing can prepare you for.\u201d<\/p>\n

The implication \u2014 apart from that Coppola is a genius, and critics suck \u2014 is that Megalopolis<\/em> belongs in this lofty canon, and you should ignore the reviews and go see it before it is inevitably reevaluated as a visionary classic. It\u2019s true that the movie, which stars Adam Driver as an architect hoping to restore a crumbling, decadent city after a terrible disaster, reportedly baffled studios<\/a> and got somewhat mixed reviews<\/a> after screening at the Cannes film festival. But plenty from the critical community have rallied around it, praising Coppola for exactly the devil-may-care audacity that the trailer rather grumpily defends, including such astute and passionate voices as The New Yorker\u2019s Justin Chang<\/a> and Vulture\u2019s Bilge Ebiri<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Maybe it\u2019s not just sour grapes, though. The trailer\u2019s framing of Coppola as \u201cmisunderstood\u201d gets ahead of the inevitable narrative about the movie\u2019s wildly indulgent production (it cost $120 million of Coppola\u2019s own money) versus its modest box office hopes. It also leans into the director\u2019s firebrand reputation and his admittedly patchy filmography, which includes a run of four straight masterpieces in the 1970s \u2014 The Godfather<\/em>, The Conversation<\/em>, The Godfather Part II<\/em> and Apocalypse Now<\/em> \u2014 as well as his fair share of swings-and-misses and costly boondoggles like One from the Heart<\/em> and The Cotton Club<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Which of these categories will Megalopolis<\/em> fall into? There\u2019s only one way to find out, says this trailer \u2014 and it\u2019s not by reading reviews.<\/p>\n

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At the ripe old age of 85, Francis Ford Coppola is coming for the haters. The latest trailer for the director\u2019s self-funded science-fiction epic Megalopolis starts with an extraordinary denunciation of the critics who have wronged his movies in the past. As an exercise in hubris and decades-long grudge-holding, it commands respect. \u201cTrue genius is often misunderstood,\u201d intones Laurence Fishburne \u2014 one of the stars of the movie, doing his best trailer guy voice \u2014 before a montage of quotes showing famous critics being mean about some of Coppola\u2019s best-loved movies. \u201cDiminished by its artsiness,\u201d Pauline Kael said of The Godfather. Vincent Canby decried Apocalypse Now as \u201cHollow at the core.\u201d Bram Stoker\u2019s Dracula is \u201ca triumph of style over substance,\u201d according to Roger Ebert.…<\/p>\n

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