You canโt even comprehend how long 20 years is, like my dad died 17 years ago and it feels like I never knew him, imagine he just came back in 3 years lmfao
Emily Wilson after watching the Odyssey:
โThe film presents an Odysseus who feels very bad about things that he's done in war, and is struggling to process them in a very modern, psychiatrised way โ and needs drugs to do so! He seems to feel bad about being a warrior, and we never actually see him get to do much warrioring ... Nolan makes the protagonist a likeable, all-American hero; Homer's Odysseus wants glory, and he wants to get spoils from the sack of a city! I kept looking in vain for a sense that this was a film about glory. This is a film that has an interest in shame, but I don't think it has any interest in glory.โ
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
In โApocalypto,โ Mel Gibson transports you into the mind of a Mayan 500 years ago. In โThe Northman,โ Robert Eggers transports you into the mind of a Viking a thousand years ago. In โThe Odyssey,โ Christopher Nolan transports you into the mind of a liberal woman in 2017.
a lot of Tarantino's films are really engaging and have like an undeniable kinetic energy, that's usually been the best thing about them. but this fucking movie is just ridiculous. one of my all-time favorites. probably the only thing in his catalog that I'll revisit forever
Haven't seen Backrooms but uhhh this is not a good quality in a movie lol. Same shit as Longlegs and Obsession. Nothing technically wrong with any single shot but taken as a whole it is monotonous and unimaginative. We already lost lighting, let's not give up on composition.