Re:Francis Coppola selling his antique watch after $100M los...
by 4ggr0 on Friday October 24, 2025 @04:15PM
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it's clearly a pretty special watch
› which tells time using the fingers and thumb retracting and extending. Production versions of the watch have sold privately for around $1 million, according to THR.
It's neither "old" nor "outdated" nor "ancient," and it's not "made in imitation of antiquity" so I don't understand why they call this watch "antique." It's a cutting edge thing, as far as modern horology goes.
Re:Francis Coppola selling his antique watch after $100M los...
by cool_man_bob on Saturday October 25, 2025 @11:36PM
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The other day. I saw a news article on Facebook roughly along the lines of:
“Celebrity A angry at people mourning the death of celebrity B”
Pretty odd sounding right? Upon looking at the comments though, people pointed out that Celebrity A was not angry at people “mourning” Celebrity B but “mocking”.
A bit of an odd typo,
or perhaps a blatant lie to capture attention, among the most valuable currencies. There are no potential consequences only potential benefits to lying.
Re:Francis Coppola selling his antique watch after $100M los...
by handfuloflight on Friday October 24, 2025 @04:05PM
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I mean, it is a very odd movie. It wasn't marketed at all and the production and overall atmosphere feel more like a movie with less than 1/20th of the stated budget. Like an obscure cable TV thing.
Would have been better investing $5M each in 20 new promising directors.
Re:Francis Coppola selling his antique watch after $100M los...
by boogieknite on Friday October 24, 2025 @04:40PM
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quite odd. atmosphere is the right word. the financial failure almost guarantees Megalopolis is unique. id say its ripe for reevaluation in 10 years but good chance nobody really checks in out by 2034. Criterion might be able to give it a cult following?
i liked it a lot but was the only person in my tiny audience who seemed to genuinely enjoy it. other audience members couldnt help but talk about their confusion with each other afterward
it seemed like Coppola genuinely believed he could fix the world with the movie and spending any amount was worth it. instead we have an odd, artistic, and self-indulgent movie
There's nothing "antique" about an F.P. Journe watch from 2021.
› which tells time using the fingers and thumb retracting and extending. Production versions of the watch have sold privately for around $1 million, according to THR.
Not arguing with that: https://www.fpjourne.com/en/collection/classique-collection/...
It's neither "old" nor "outdated" nor "ancient," and it's not "made in imitation of antiquity" so I don't understand why they call this watch "antique." It's a cutting edge thing, as far as modern horology goes.
“Celebrity A angry at people mourning the death of celebrity B”
Pretty odd sounding right? Upon looking at the comments though, people pointed out that Celebrity A was not angry at people “mourning” Celebrity B but “mocking”.
A bit of an odd typo, or perhaps a blatant lie to capture attention, among the most valuable currencies. There are no potential consequences only potential benefits to lying.
Epic science fiction drama?! People nowadays have attention span of 30 seconds, even a trailer is too long.
Would have been better investing $5M each in 20 new promising directors.
i liked it a lot but was the only person in my tiny audience who seemed to genuinely enjoy it. other audience members couldnt help but talk about their confusion with each other afterward
it seemed like Coppola genuinely believed he could fix the world with the movie and spending any amount was worth it. instead we have an odd, artistic, and self-indulgent movie
He's 86, what ship?
People might have controversial opinions over the result, but that doesn't change what really matters here: he waived his fortune to make his point.