You are fucking joking, right?
Famine. Genocide. Rape. State sanctioned rape. Protests in the street of Israel because there was a ruling making rape of prisoners illegal.
Do you know what the pancake party was held for?
Of course not. You are a sick person.
Just saw The Odyssey. Despite what you may have heard, literally all of the criticisms by conservatives were entirely correct. The movie is just as woke as you fear, if not more so. The DEI casting is atrocious. Completely takes you out of the story right from the beginning. But even worse than that is Nolan’s decision to turn Odysseus into an anachronistic whiney, solemn shell of a man plagued by “trauma” and guilt. It’s impossible to overlook these flaws because the film itself is not terribly entertaining or well constructed. For the most part it is disjointed, dull, self-serious, disenchanted, somehow feeling both verbose and overly rushed at the same time. The dialogue is some of the worst I’ve ever heard in a “critically acclaimed” film. “On the nose” and “clunky” are descriptions that can’t even begin to describe this script. At no point in the story does Nolan ever transport the audience to the ancient world. You never feel like you’re 3,000 years in the past. You feel like you’re watching modern Americans put on a pageant, because you are. Nobody would be calling this thing a masterpiece if it was made by a director not named Christopher Nolan.
Instead of The Odyssey you can watch:
- The Lord of the Rings
- The Last Samurai
- 300
- Gladiator
- Vikings
- Troy
- Kingdom of Heaven
- Braveheart
Anything else?
The Odyssey is the epic film of the decade.
No, the century. No, in the history of film.
It is greater than Ben Hur, Spartacus, and Lawrence of Arabia rolled into one.
Casting? Brilliant. Dialogue? Amazing. Costumes? Breathtaking. Set pieces? Perfect. Acting? Beyond compare.
Every film from now on will be benchmarked against The Odyssey.
Nothing will ever surpass it. We have witnessed peak cinema. Nolan won. All of the other directors can go home now.
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The Odyssey was a 7/10 at best.
American accents.
No blood whatsoever, even in battle scenes.
First 45 minutes were dragging on with no real sense of direction or immersion.
Acting was mid, even cringe at times.
Just not an overly compelling movie IMO outside of a few moments that evoked emotion.
Could have been way better, even with just the addition of foreign accents considering it was in ANCIENT Greece.
Oh, and Helen of Troy was BLACK. wtf.