Iman:
Posted on 07/07/2026 2:38:56 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
The Odyssey, Christopher Nolan’s three-hour version of Homer’s epic poem, world premiered in London on Monday night, and critics who saw the film there and at early screenings in the US have been sharing their takes on one of the year’s most hotly anticipated films.
“Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey is a colossal origin-myth story of postwar disillusion and a loss of innocence witnessed by the dead,” wrote the Guardian’s Peter Bradshaw, ahead of the reviews embargo lifting next Wednesday and next Friday’s worldwide release.
IndieWire editor-at-large Anne Thompson called the film the best picture contender to beat, and added that Matt Damon “could win best actor”. “My high expectations were met,” she added, calling the film “stunningly mounted”.
Multiple pundits described the film as “flawless” and “breathtaking”, with others singling out Robert Pattinson’s villainous Antinous for particular praise.
Erik Davis called the film “an absolute triumph and a crowning cinematic achievement from one of the great film-makers of our time. It feels like everything Nolan has been working toward with Imax has culminated here.” The film was shot entirely using large-format Imax film cameras, although it will also be screened in non-Imax cinemas.
“The production design is incredible,” continued Davis, “the action is breathtaking, and the scale is unlike anything he’s done before. What really surprised me is how much he embraces horror. Some of the film’s biggest moments are genuinely unsettling, adding a whole new dimension to his film-making while never losing sight of the humanity at the story’s core.”
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
Nice
“ I’ve seen your belittling posts before, so flame on.”
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Any examples?
This entire thread belittles Chris Nolan and before the movie has even been seen
Again. Read the story. I reviewed it last week. Doesn’t take long
True. But in deference to the story (putting the movie and the casting choices aside), Sinon would have had to be the Homeric equivalent of a Steely-Eyed Missle Man. Either the Trojans buy the lie or they don't. And if they discover the lie, one would not want to be Sinon.
Plenty of spy movies pay homage to what the undercover types do. And what some of them did (and do) in real life surpasses anything Hollywood could put on film.
Sinon may not have been much of a warrior, but he wouldn't have been a coward, or a fool.
None of you get it that this film is showing how years of war and loss transformed the once beautiful Helen. The pics at SmokeyJoe’s post 15 are before and after. Neither the Guardian nor the film-maker seem to realize this work is horridly racist.
Iman:
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According to the article...these are the people who loved it.
I have, and that doesn’t describe it. Not in any way.
The Odyssey is the simple story of a husband trying to return to his wife, and of her chastity and patience. And a rip-snorting tale it is.
If this is ok, why can’t White people exist in Wakanda. Couldn’t they be the ones who invent everything for the realism at least?
Waste of my time. Read it
An official version
He was absolutely perfect in the role of a mad criminal genius. If you haven't seen it, you should.
My recollection of Lex Luthor was that he was no pansy effeminate man. He actually would get into a slugging match with Superman (with Superman Weakened, of course, or Lex with Super human strength.) and he would fight.
And of course he was also a mad scientist genius.
I do not believe it disadvantages us to hammer on "woke" in movies. Whether it is true or not is irrelevant to the fact that it hurts the people in Hollywood who need to be hurt for what they've already done.
They deserve no benefit of the doubt, and all their actions should be viewed in the most critical light until revealed to be otherwise.
I find it offensive that they are even going along with this girl trying to play a man.
One of the things that can make the abnormal accepted, is to treat it as if it is normal.
I suppose so, but in comic book universes, that sort of thing is not particularly remarkable. :)
Well, Sinon isn’t even IN The Odyssey. Sinon is in The Aenid. Once you get over that hump......
Elliot/Ellen Page did not play Achilles. That was supposedly a head fake to draw attention. But I never did find out who actually does play Achilles.
I still liked the Sam Waterson one better! I found Nolan’s Oppenheimer too pretentious. The long periods of Oppenheimer angst wad tedious!
Things I liked about it. Honest portrayal of General Groves as a capable administrator. Excellent portrayal of Lewis Strauss. Gave a convincing case Oppenheimer was indeed a communist.
More importantly, Helen, short of a major rewrite (which certainly happened) has little action in The Iliad. She’s talked about, but seldom talks.
If the professional “critics” love it, it probably stinks on ice.
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