Darin Michael Grant

Film buff/cinephile (fantasy + western + silent era) 🎬, musician (opera + choral + musical) 🎭🎶.

Ephesians 6:11-17 🗡🛡. Christ is King ✝️.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Before this year ends, Grok Imagine will make a full-length movie of The Odyssey that is historically accurate and true to the art of Homer

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@martianwyrdlord I’m down

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

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.

[John Carter @martianwyrdlord]

I want Elon Musk to give Mel Gibson $100 million to film an Odyssey adaptation with painstakingly historically accurate ships, armour, weapons, and casting, with all dialogue taken straight from the original poem and delivered in Homeric Greek.

[Peachy Keenan @KeenanPeachy]

Just watched Dunkirk for the first time, loved it.

I couldn't help noticing Nolan used zero diversity casting.

1940s English people looked like they would have looked.

2017 was a long time ago I guess.

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

In “Apocalypto,” Mel Gibson transports you into the mind of a Mayan 500 years ago. In “The Northman,” Robert Eggers transports you into the mind of a Viking a thousand years ago. In “The Odyssey,” Christopher Nolan transports you into the mind of a liberal woman in 2017.

[Learn Latin @latinedisce]

The gaslighting is real

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

🇪🇸 🇪🇸 Congratulations Spain!! 🇪🇸 🇪🇸

[Darin Michael Grant @DarinMGrant]

Gosh, I hate these people so much. They get one (possible, still not guaranteed) modest win and they sing about how stupid and awful and wrong we always have been and will be. 🤦🏻‍♂️

Everyone in this "Hollyweird world" is so up their own ass. 🙄🤡

[Uubzu v4 @uubzu]

“Once again proving”

[Luke Reagan @lukecaverns]

Mel Gibson’s Odyssey would’ve been the greatest ancient epic of all time.

Greek cast of unknown actors speaking Ancient Greek, seeking out the most beautiful women in Greece for the roles of Helen & Penelope, with historically accurate armor & ships

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

For Apocalypto, Mel Gibson cast primarily Indigenous people from Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula, many of whom had little or no previous acting experience. To add to the film’s authenticity, the entire movie was performed in the Yucatec Maya language.

[Darin Michael Grant @DarinMGrant]

Oh, give it a rest already! 🙄🤦🏻‍♂️

Just don't even release it at this point! 6 years between one sequel...what a joke 🤡👎🏻

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

‘THE BATMAN: PART 2’ has been delayed to February 18, 2028.

[Letterboxd @letterboxd]

Sam Neill (1947–2026)

[Jordan @JordanInHell]

Not to be critical but like what is even the point of all these live action things, it's literally just the exact same movie

[Darin Michael Grant @DarinMGrant]

@david_parker @TheAliceSmith Zendaya also looks absolutely nothing like Chani.

Regardless, her unwavering faith and loyalty to Paul were central to who she was. Changing that changes far more than just one character. 💔

[Darin Michael Grant @DarinMGrant]

@david_parker @TheAliceSmith As a massive fan of the first book (a masterpiece of science-fiction) and even the next 2 or 3 after that (it gets increasingly ridiculous after 3), what Denis and Zendaya have done with the character of Chani is nothing less than a complete betrayal of her character. 😤🙄👎🏻

[Darin Michael Grant @DarinMGrant]

@theelderdrake So well said, sir! 👏🏻🔥

You've gained a follower and a fellow patriot! 🫡

[Darin Michael Grant @DarinMGrant]

@DiscussingFilm "One of the lowest scores ever?" 🤔

Umm, it's *the* lowest score for a live-action remake other than Pinocchio at 27%. Unless you want to count 102 Dalmatians and Alice Through the Looking Glass, but you really shouldn't, as those are sequels, not remakes. 🤷🏻‍♂️

[Darin Michael Grant @DarinMGrant]

Oh, DO shut up, Rainn 🙄🤦🏻‍♂️

[Yonan @yonann]

Rainn Wilson says “fuck you” to Ricky Gervais for telling actors to shut up about politics

"One of the things that pisses me off to no end is Ricky Gervais saying, ‘Just take your actor award. No one wants to hear what you have to say.’ It’s like, Fuck you. Bullshit"

"Everyone gets to say what they want to say about anything. Gaza, climate change, politics. You get to say it if you’re a truck driver or a school teacher. We have free speech"

"Why would you try to shame and silence someone from speaking their truth?"

[Darin Michael Grant @DarinMGrant]

@Luiz_Fernando_J This disaster is *not* grossing anywhere close to $145M worldwide. Even $130M isn't happening, I don't think.

$125M, absolute tops.