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Posted on 05/06/2026 7:04:29 PM PDT by Rummyfan
Sir Christopher Nolan is many things. The Spielberg/Lucas/Cameron manqué of our time. A double Oscar-winner for Oppenheimer, a picture that is nowhere near his best work. The most acclaimed director of film bros, who somehow ignore his standing as a white, British privately educated filmmaker. But what nobody has ever seriously asked before is “Is Sir Christopher camp?”
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I would have cast Michael Fassbender, but hey-ho. Damon rocks a beard of varying lengths and grayness, and wears an expression of becoming seriousness. At various points in the trailer, he makes it clear that he wants to go home. This is becoming a trait of Mr. Damon. He has also made this clear in Saving Private Ryan, The Martian, Interstellar (another Nolan jaunt) and Elysium. Looked at dispassionately, Mr. Damon is the actor who seems keenest to go anywhere, least of all Hollywood.
Well, he’s been lucky with The Odyssey. And the fact that he has slimmed down to near-skeletal proportions suggests that he has committed to the bit. As, indeed, has his co-star Robert Pattinson, playing the villainous suitor Antinous. I am a great admirer of Pattinson, who was the saving grace of Nolan’s solitary misfire Tenet, but I would suggest that no actor alive could deliver the line, “You’re pining for a daddy you didn’t even know, like some sniveling bastard”.
Spider-Man vs Batman (Pattinson vs Tom Holland): how could audiences possibly resist? But whatever happens, there is the suspicion that Sir Christopher has let loose after his earlier exercises in Sturm und Drang and offered audiences a film that they will want to see in some quantity. It’s budgeted at $250 million – some reports suggest that it ended up costing even more – which will make it by far the most expensive film of his career....
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The face that couldn’t launch a 100 canoes.
How could he cast that woman as Helen of Troy. A few years back they cast a black woman as Cleopatra. It seems none of these people truly know the history of the subjects they try and film.
I see no actors I like so hard pass.
Pattinson?
The glittery vampire guy?
Nah.
“Is Sir Christopher camp?” How much does the camp cost and what are the dates?
There have been previous films on Ulysses that were better, even the low budget films of the 50’s and 60’s. I would say Armand Assante’s miniseries was very well done and probably better than what Nolan has done.
Kirk Douglas did a version at some point and it was pretty good.
All they need to do is stick to the already written script and cast accordingly.
Everyone would be happy.
Why is still so hard?
I had to look up the word “manqué.”
I do not think it means what the author thinks it means.
Am I the only one who has no friggin idea what that question means (...Christopher Nolan is Camp?).
No, I’ve seen a bunch of Nolan films, and I have read illiad/Odyssey since HS and through my USMC years.
Looking at the trailers....
Nolan has something here.
I just don’t know how good yet, but it’s going to be big.
Hopefully it’s good enough to rewatch for years a!
Cleopatra was Macedonian Greek. The last of the Ptolemies.
CC
I refuse to pay to see this disgrace of White Erasure. Torrents only.
Didn’t “camp” die a long time ago? I think it’s dead and buried with Adam “Batman” West or Paul Lynd or Susan Sontag. Do young people really know what it is?
I think it was Netflix that had a miniseries of “Destiny of the Republic,” the story of James Garfield. Beautifully shot. Well casted. . Ruined by use of contemporary dialogue
Critical Drinker has stated that Nolan preferred to use the translation of The Odyssey done by super woke lefty Emily Wilson.
That was enough to make me wonder how this will come out. And some of the casting is… quite suspect.
I had high hopes for it, too.
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