E Y E W E A R, THE BLOG - FREEDOM MEANS BEING UNAFRAID TO WRITE WHAT YOU THINK

Probably the most dull thing to do is to discuss a movie that critics have already consigned to the dustheap of critical disapproval, where all the ladders start. Here goes nothing... The whole Francis Ford Coppola story of Megalopolis has been done to dust by now - we know he spent his own oodles of vineyard cash, to make a movie that all on set felt was lunatics running the asylum level batshit bad, and that the 40-year-gestating rough beast slithered out like a viscous grotesque from The Substance , to near-total disappointment, that worst of all responses, as if a Gladiator's codpiece slipped to reveal a tiny rubber duck. This man, we were reminded, was a Genius with the same capital G as for Godfather (1 and 2), and he also made The Conversation , and Apocalypse Now ; then loads of mediocre films, except some were zany and brilliant, like his Dracula . It is hard to think of any other filmmakers from America, other than say Spielberg, Scorsese, Kubrick, Ford, Welles, Wilder

I am going to save the hand wringing and doom-mongering for another day - the dire predictions, the gloomy sense of the end of the West as a credible, semi-reasonable force for good, and so on, and nor am I going to predict the demise of American democracy; nor will I belabour the obvious pulchritude of a mass of 74 or so million voters who seem hellbent on electing an alleged (if not more so) monster of depravity, hypocrisy, and so forth... those editorials will come, alas, and they almost write themselves, as if with AI... Simply put, the polls, the way the mood and the momentum is going, the way the media is swinging, how the key battleground states are shaping up, how the billionaires are swinging, and shaping, things... it all seems it will go Trump's way, as it did in 2016, when this blog predicted he would win. Then he was apparently far behind in the polls, so imagine where he really is now, when even the polls make him close, or tied, or the leader. We cannot blame VP Harr