20 Movies That Weren't Worth The Wait

Francis Ford Coppola's epic sci-fi drama Megalopolis began development in the late 1970s, and it was almost another 50 years before he was finally able to release it.

Various prior attempts to get Megalopolis made left it floundering in development hell, and it was only after Coppola himself had amassed a sizable fortune from his winemaking business that he was able to simply bankroll the $120 million project himself.

While it's tough not to respect Coppola for putting so much of his own dough on the line, one struggles to reconcile that the man who made this film previously produced some of cinema's finest-ever works - namely The Godfather duology, The Conversation, and Apocalypse Now.

Somehow at once both deeply ridiculous and intensely boring, Megalopolis is packed with off-key performances, unintentionally hilarious dialogue, and ropey VFX. 

There will surely be a questionably intentioned movement to "re-evaluate" the film years from now, but Megalopolis is a movie that most people were right about the first time.

Good on Coppola for getting it out of his system, but can the end result really be considered worth a near-half-century's worth of toil?