‘Megalopolis’ trailer pulled offline, critics quotes were fake

[nutella_forever]

Lionsgate is pulling the latest trailer for ‘MEGALOPOLIS’ offline, as the quotes featured were revealed to be fabricated.

"We screwed up. We are sorry."

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- Film Updates (@FilmUpdates) August 21, 2024
Lionsgate is recalling the trailer for Francis Ford Coppola‘s “Megalopolis,” because it featured a

Comments

[delfintaka]

This movie has bad press after bad press. This is the most laughable one, however. My guess is someone waited until last minute to pull the quotes, and then had to get them by any means possible.

[merci_beaucoup]

But what’s crazy is, as someone on Twitter pointed out, all they had to do was go to rotten tomatoes and sort by lowest review. That would've given them a huge selection. But instead they just… made it up?

[slinkydinks]

Never underestimate people's laziness and incompetence.

[holyfrijoles_2]

I saw someone say they might have been using ChatGPT to find bad reviews and it gave them these and no one checked their veracity. Unfortunately this seems very plausible.

[therearewords]

Fucking ChatGPT istg

[thatgum_youlike]

they were going for big names in film criticism imo, which is funny because (with the exception of andrew sarris maybe) the names they chose gave mostly positive reviews to coppola's films. like… pauline kael loooooved the godfather lol