A real epic is… *checks notes*… violent and terribly shot scenes depicting a man soloing through a group of men.
There is an entire “epics” category I’m sure you can find online if you just search the words “gay” and “porn” in your browser.
First trailer for 'Avatar: Seven Havens'
Follows the next Avatar after Korra in a post-apocalyptic world
All 26 episodes are releasing on Paramount+ October 29
Travis Scott has reportedly been writing screenplays and is interested in potentially remaking the 1979 film “The Warriors” through his new Paramount deal 🎬
(via Variety)
New perspective on Nolan’s Odyssey: it making a lot of money is actually shameful and it’s only popular bc everyone but a few ppl like me are stupid and ignorant.
The fact that The Odyssey is doing well as the box office is nothing for Nolan to be proud about. It is a mere reflection of the stupidity and ignorance of modern audiences.
The first lines to the film are literally “a face, a fleet, a war, a man, a thought, a trick”.
That’s never removed from Nolan’s Odysseus, he literally draws on how he used his mind to deceive. If yall need it spelled out just watch youtube clips & save us seats next time lol.
The whole point of Odysseus is that he wins with his mind, not his sword. If the movie reduces most of his trials to just running away, it’s missing the actual character. The biggest missed opportunity is turning Odysseus into someone who reacts instead of someone who plans. The myth works because he’s smarter than the monsters, not because he outruns them.
I think the rage bait complaint says it all. When a story has to manufacture cheap outrage instead of trusting the actual mythology to carry weight, that’s the writers not trusting their own source material.
I love how white folk complain about the Odyssey cast speaking in modern English, but won’t bat a fucking eye when other films meant to be set in antiquity feature a Victorian Era British accent.
.@Vulture ranks the most powerful directors in Hollywood:
1. Christopher Nolan
2. Ryan Coogler
3. Denis Villeneuve
4. Greta Gerwig
5. Quentin Tarantino
6. James Cameron
7. Steven Spielberg
8. Martin Scorsese
9. Jordan Peele
10. Paul Thomas Anderson
11. Phil Lord & Christopher Miller
12. Rian Johnson
13. David Fincher
14. Alejandro Iñárritu
15. Bong Joon Ho
16. Guillermo del Toro
17. Zach Cregger
18. Emerald Fennell
19. James Gunn
20. James Mangold
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39 years ago today, Palestinian artist Naji Al-Ali was assassinated by Mossad in London.
Naji was born in 1938 in the Palestinian village of Al-Shajara, between Tiberias and Nazareth and one of the more than 531 towns and villages destroyed by jews during the Nakba.
At the age of 10, he was expelled from his homeland to Lebanon in 1948.
Naji used to say that little Handala—his most famous cartoon— was a symbol of the Palestinian people and, more personally, of his stolen childhood and aborted youth.
“They tell little children to turn their backs, but I don’t turn. The boy is the age I was when I left Palestine, and he will not grow up until I return.”
“Handala was born ten years old, and he will always remain ten years old. At that age, I left my homeland. When he returns, Handala will still be ten, and only then will he begin to grow older. The laws of nature do not apply to him. He is an exception because the loss of one’s homeland is an exception. Things will become normal again when the homeland returns.” - Naji Al-Ali
Rest in power hero.
Putting Odyssey, The Prestige and Interstellar below fucking Inception is one thing, but to put the first two in the same category as Dunkirk (great film btw) and then Interstellar below that is a crime against film AND humanity.
“I’d personally be embarrassed if I wrote it” and it’s a nigga on twitter talmbout a film w/ that’s already grossed over $300M in less than a week…
Yeah Leon, just stfu.
anyway, i felt The Odyssey is an artistically sauceless film with off-putting pacing and bad creative decisions that strip the original text of its nuance and reduce it to a simplistic retelling of a layered classic. I'd personally be embarrassed if I wrote such a version of it
For Nolan to draw on Xenia (sacred caring of strangers) at a heightened moment of xenophobia is such a simple yet genius theme to lean in on.
For him to go further and shit on Western civilisation’s “greatest military tactic” as the end of civilisation rather than the beginning?
Errbody complaining about Black n brown ppl in the Odyssey, when Hector from the Iliad is literally described as dark skinned with wool hair yet somehow this what he looked like in Troy with absolutely no argument from these white walkers.