@asfand Haha, yeah, I was pretty disappointed by basically all of the fantasy stuff – he's just not interested in that part of it. But the rest is pretty fun.
@asfand It's worse, lol. He's mostly interested in getting to the ending – everything leading up to that is choppy and the fastest paced stuff of his career – not great.
This is a half-formed idea, but THE ODYSSEY did get me thinking about the limitations of film as a medium. I wonder if an adaptation of something as massive and culturally ingrained (however consciously) as this could ever be entirely successful.
This is a Steinbeck quote that came to mind every day I read Greek Mythology. From The Oresteia, to The Iliad, to The Odyssey.
I did not know Nolan had the same thought
BREAKING: The US has gone MAD!
Trump is very afraid and has given the green light to commit WARCRIMES.
US attacks targeted 3 bridges in Iran, including:
• Bandar Khamir, an important overpass connecting Bandar Abbas to Lar. There were cars on the bridge during the attack, leaving at least 1 dead and several injured.
• Gariveh Bridge, at least 1 dead and several others injured.
• A railway station, west of Bandar Abbas, the point where the railway connects to the passenger and freight lines of Shahid Rajaei port and the Bandar Abbas railway was also bombed — 2 injuries so far.
• Heavy precision-guided missiles from fighter jets struck a telecommunications tower in Bandar Abbas, resulting in damage to several nearby residential buildings, killing and injuring civilians.
• US missiles struck a civilian airport in Iranshahr, in southeastern Iran.
I am very stupid and there are probably numerous obvious technical reasons this can’t be done that have already been explained a bunch of times, but why not just project the correct aspect ratio smaller and have letterboxes on the sides?
Christopher Nolan's #TheOdyssey is full of both awe and enervation—often entertaining, rarely a hard ask for 172 minutes, and simply not radical enough as yet another adaptation of Homer's text.
Read our review: https://t.co/69WKbVuGKw
And what if I switched all the pullquote adjectives flooding my feed for THE ODYSSEY with all the pullquote adjectives for ALL OF A SUDDEN? What if THE ODYSSEY is Nolan’s most deeply humanistic film yet? What if ALL OF A SUDDEN is one of the most satisfying epics of the year?
THE ODYSSEY: Nolan’s incessant penchant for circling back upon central events is both near-fatal curse and small blessing; many key obstacles are robbed of visceral power while emotional reckonings only sometimes land with real force. Lugubrious, but in the end not ineffective.
Kraven the Hunter was on last night.
The funniest thing the Sony sans Spider-Man universe did was having an actor play the Chameleon who's considerably shorter than the characters around him.
He's like "I can now transform into a little version of you".
Christopher Nolan says the online backlash to ‘THE ODYSSEY’ comes with the territory.
“These conversations that happen before people see the film – they’re always irrelevant. Because no one having them knows what the film actually is yet.”
(Source: https://t.co/J378r5GWMy)