Oliver Stone on ‘Megalopolis': “One Stunning Scene After Another"

Plenty of A-list filmmakers have weighed in on Francis Ford Coppola’s “Megalopolis.” The likes of Spike Lee, Steven Soderbergh, Guillermo del Toro and Spike Jonze all heaped immense praise on the epic. We can add another filmmaker to the list.

Oliver Stone is now speaking about how impressed he was by “Megalopolis.” The filmmaker mentioned some his favorite recent watches on Facebook, and started off by listing Coppola’s epic:

Francis Coppola’s “Megalopolis” (2024). Scoff if you’re of that nature, but I deeply admire his commitment to his vision. On a visual scale, it’s one stunning scene after another – beyond his ‘Apocalypse,’ or his exotic “One from the Heart,” and the main character (Adam Driver) has the heart of ‘Tucker.’ As a narrative, many have knocked the film, and I cannot say I followed it completely, but enough to want to see it again, because I believe Francis was sincere in his exploration of a future, which is beyond what our society still doesn’t understand — that we can have a humanitarian society.

My favorite reaction of all might be Soderbergh’s who was genuinely wowed by the film, and described it as “the craziest thing ever shot on American soil. Certainly, one of the most sustained acts of pure imagination I’ve ever seen.”

Are many of the filmmakers mentioned, raving about “Megalopolis,” just being polite to a master like Coppola? For the most part, I really don’t think that to be the case. There’s certainly lot of respect for the fact the film was finished, and got a big release, but some seem to be genuinely impressed that Coppola attempted to make such an idiosyncratic and indescribable film.