Literally everyone complaining about The Odyssey should relax.
Yes, Elliott Page was an astroishly bad casting choice, not just because they are trans but because they/them’s acting was horrendous.
But they also got shot with arrows and died in the first 5 minutes.
85% of the movie was objectively awesome. Matt Damon was awesome. The battle scenes were awesome. It was visually stunning. Most of the acting was good.
There’s no such thing as a perfect movie. But sometimes you can just enjoy the good parts and ignore the things you don’t like.
This is a quality deep dive.
I do believe we must fight the culture war, but this has taken us to an overhyped level.
The message of the story is conservative. Nolan tried to make it less so, through his own artistic lens.
It’s a movie many will enjoy and other will think is too “pretentious”.
Having said that, I don’t believe this is the cultural contentions that people think it is.
The irony is that if the dudes who piss and moan about feminism on here actually did that, they would improve their lives ten fold. But instead they just rage bait themselves into chud comas.
Sometimes I forget that some people on here have such a surface level understanding of storytelling. I can’t imagine how said person even is able to watch films. Unless they stick solely to Disney shit.
The end of The Odyssey is literally about coming home to massacre all the strangers who have taken advantage of your hospitality and taking back what is rightfully yours, and the entire journey is also constantly just strange things showing up that often want to kill him and his men, typically by lulling them into false senses of security.
Even as warped and subverted Nolan’s version is from the original, his movie doesn’t at all communicate the need to be hospitable and kind to strangers. That doesn’t actually come through in his telling at all. I don’t even know how he thinks it does. The whole line is quite confusing given what he says and what’s actually shown on screen.
Movie theaters take 50% of the box office.
Then there's the estimated $125-$150 million marketing budget.
That means the movie has to make $750-$800 million before it breaks even.
You'd think an X account called "Cinema Tweets" would have basic knowledge of how the movie business works.
No, you don’t get to do this. You don’t get to cry about something being worked for six months day and day out and then just because you now like it claim it isn’t.
I liked the Odyssey. A couple of things broke the illusion for me, though. One was the ultra-modern language set against the fairly accurate costuming and setting. The other was Zendaya wearing almost the exact same costume as she does in Dune. So much potential for Athena’s dress. Pick any of Z’s premier outfits over this.
It’s insane that right wing retards can’t understand the difference between feeling bad that someone dies vs. being for state sanctioned execution. They can’t separate their own fee fees from moral principles. It’s embarrassing.
It's funny how "the death penalty shouldn't exist" people are always some of the most evil and vile people you come across.
Willing to bet if this person was a judge and they were given a case for a migrant rapist cannibal mass murderer named mksmanague, they'd let them off with a slap on the wrist, but give me life in prison if they could for making this post.
Wow I'm glad that he's here to spell it out for us because that's not the message that the movie conveys at all
He had no plan for this movie whatever, he just phoned it in knowing they'd award him anyway for casting a freak show
People are suggesting Ryan Gosling as Obama not because they actually want to see Ryan Gosling as Obama, you knucklehead, but because the people who think a black Helen of Troy is no big deal would absolutely lose their minds over it
It actually was the more interesting choice. Whether the Gods are actually there or not, their “presence” haunts the characters. It is us to the viewer how they choose to interpret them. Much like faith itself.
When adjusted for inflation:
$363M - 'The Dark Knight Rises'
$301M - 'The Dark Knight'
$264M - 'The Odyssey'
People need to learn economics. He hurt himself with the diversity cast.
Beyond that, IMAX prices also skew these numbers.
Ok, I finally watched the Odyssey. Honest opinion- It’s old cinema junkies trying to keep hold of original techniques without using modern CGI. They cast fringe actors/actresses for a few seconds of screen time obviously for academic award standards. The costumes were terrible. They look like a kindergarten’s project. This whole movie is way overrated. It’s mediocre at best. Nowhere near the level of Troy. imax only works in theaters so it’s going to look like garbage on the Tv when the majority of people watch it. It’s 2026 stop trying to cling onto filming techniques that are relics. Embrace CGI, it’s not your enemy. 3 hours of inflated hype for a mediocre at best movie.