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A thread on the best comments I have come across on YouTube. Some are funny, some are heart-warming, and some are heart-breaking. Go down 👇🏽 to see them all.

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@bigmonkeong Avengers vfx is so bad

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@Kamalfalilat I loved it this time. Last season was dull. The first one was good too.

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I was listening to the audiobook of The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu and asked ChatGPT for a visual canvas of the characters so I’d have a quick reference whenever I get stuck on the names.

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@NolanAnalyst "daddy" and "mommy"

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I will never get tired of Alan Ritchson as Jack Reacher, and I am glad that there are 31 books in the series!

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Она ТРИ СЕЗОНА пыталась вернуть трон по-хорошему, больше десяти лет терпела издевательства и унижения, потеряла трех своих детей. Вы не продадите мне эту хуйню про «жестокую» Рейниру, она напротив была слишком лояльна ко всей этой падали, которая ее предала. Они заслужили ее гнев

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Why do I feel the Claude 4.8 models are better than the v5 ones?

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House of the Dragon Season 2 was such a tad disappointing - I genuinely thought the series had lost its way.

Season 3 though? What a comeback. 💪🏽🔥

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@serphyyx Probably to distinguish them from cyclops and cylia which are both monsters.

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If you go to The Odyssey's trailer on Youtube it's full of negative comments. And yet the movie has already earned 1 billion dollars.

This is probably the weirdest thing I have seen in 2026.

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@NolanAnalyst Yes, I too loved the sound mixing. But I guess not all movie theaters are created equal. You need at least a Dolby Atmos for this movie.

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What if "bronze" was a metaphor instead of actual "bronze"? Like a metaphor for civilizational harmony and cultural progress? At least that's how I felt. Because the dialogue is not "bronze age is collapsing", it is "our age of bronze" - like our age of glory / harmony / peace....

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@aresthethird2 Looks straight out from a Xbox / PS game

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https://t.co/x0a0L0J0t5

[Yoonseok Yang @yoonseok_yang]

A lot of people have been asking what actually happened during my 1:1 with @JeffDean.

I didn’t expect my original post below to blow up like this, so here’s the full story of what happened:

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A nice short video on Jeff and Sanjay

https://t.co/o3WFYe9lDN

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I went to see The Odyssey again, and many of the complaints I had after my first viewing remain.

The action sequences still feel strangely discontinous, heavily edited in a Jason Bourne–style manner, and somewhat unglamorous. I generally prefer action scenes that are fluid (most recent example - The Furious). My suspicion is that some of the stiffness may come from shooting with bulky IMAX cameras, which are not necessarily the easiest equipment to use for fluid, dynamic action. Whatever the reason, the choreography rarely has the visual elegance I expected, especially in that final battle.

Some of the costume designs do not work for me, and the sacking of Troy should have been far more brutal -closer to how it is described in the ancient stories. Christopher Nolan’s version focuses primarily on buildings burning, but we rarely see the human horror unfolding within the city. We do not see terrified Trojans trying to escape, the royal household being slaughtered, or soldiers systematically ransacking Troy. The city burns, but the civilisation inside it never truly appears to be destroyed.

And Tom Holland’s saying mom and dad still annoy the hell out of me.

Despite those issues, I came away from my second viewing appreciating just how faithful the film is to the spirit and story of its source material. More importantly, it achieves something I did not expect: it makes Odysseus a sympathizable character.

When I first read The Odyssey, I saw Odysseus as cunning, but not necessarily in an admirable way. His intelligence often seemed inseparable from manipulation and arrogance. I felt very little empathy for him. At times, I genuinely wondered why he was considered a hero at all.

The film retains his slyness and strategic brilliance, but gives those qualities greater emotional weight. It presents him not only as a warrior and trickster, but as a father and husband desperately trying to find his way home. Unlike the Odysseus of the epic, who appears to be comfortable with his time with Circe and Calypso, this version remains emotionally anchored to Ithaca. Every delay feels like another punishment.

This Odysseus is also seeking redemption. He gradually comes to understand the true magnitude of what his cleverness has caused - a complete destruction of Zeus's Law. The Trojan Horse may have won the war, but victory has not brought him peace. His greatest trick becomes the burden he must carry throughout his life.

I think that is why the film has become such an unexpected success. Beneath the mythology, monsters and spectacle, it is fundamentally a homecoming story. It is about a father and husband forced to leave his family for a war he never wanted to fight. It is about the cost of that war, the years it steals from him, and the person it turns him into.

And when he finally returns home, he discovers that the world he left behind no longer exists. His family has suffered, his kingdom has decayed, and there is still one final battle to fight.

Odysseus does not simply have to find his way home. He has to earn his place there again - and fight to restore the world he once knew.

Unlike Interstellar, Inception, or Oppenheimer, The Odyssey is not a perfect film. But, like all of Nolan’s work, it leaves you in awe and succeeds completely in transporting you to another world.

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Feeling proud 💪

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Brilliant video by Briefly drawing comparison between Wizard of Oz tryst with Technicolor and The Odyssey's with IMAX.

https://t.co/ZW5ziDz8Sq

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@shadowkibaat @nuel_irl yeah, it's almost like what was the point of the last movie?