Maybe this is sarcasm that went over my head?? But a "brave" warrior in this movie was played by a 5 foot one inch tranny. Ellen Page, pretending to be a boy, Elliot Page.
Look for the elf in the tan suit
Posted on 07/16/2026 2:46:01 PM PDT by EnderWiggin1970
It isn’t exactly news that Homer’s “Odyssey” is a very, very good poem. But seeing Christopher Nolan’s screen adaptation drove this home again for me. The hotly anticipated mega-spectacle is, in the end, pretty good. But it isn’t Homer. Mr. Nolan’s shortcomings have made me love Homer more by comparison and sent me running back, agog, to his deathless masterpiece.
Mr. Nolan’s “Odyssey” succeeds as well as any adaptation can. It tells the story of Odysseus’ 10-year journey home from the Trojan War with verve and affection for the source material. It isn’t the hostile woke takeover that some high-profile culture warriors, most notably Elon Musk, determined in advance it would be.
But Mr. Nolan does make many changes to fit the story onto a modern screen. Every change loses something meaningful. This is no discredit to Mr. Nolan but instead a measure of how much there is in the poem, how tightly its apparently meandering plot is wound.
Mr. Nolan’s decision to excise the island of Phaeacia will be controversial among those who know the poem. In Homer, this is the dreamlike never-never-land where Odysseus finds a blessed moment of rest and a friendly escort back to Ithaca. He is met on the shore by princess Nausicaa, a young girl of quiet resolve on the cusp of marriageable age. She leads him to the palace of her father, King Alcinous, and her mother, Queen Arete, consummate hosts who dine with gods and prepare Odysseus for his journey home at last.
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All good literature makes us better men and women by reading it. In excising scenes like this, Hollywood undermines what made great literature great in the first place.
Sorry, but this will not get me to watch the movie.
Of course not.
It’s nearly three hours long with what they did put in.
DOH!
Film Threat said it was a boring slog. And Ellen Paige was a laughable disaster.
Three hours is not long enough! Who wants to miss Elleniott Page as the hunky Achilles? Brad Pitt can’t hold a candle to herim. And Lupita Nyongo? Absolutely beautiful. She should have been cast as Snow White instead of Rachel Zegler.
I hope this insulting POS bombs worse than Snow White.
Ellen Paige used to be Elliot
Wokepedia states that Elliot, Ellen (whatever) is a Canadian actor, producer, and activist.
> Three hours is not long enough! <
Right you are. To my knowledge, there’s not a single LGBTQIA+ little person in the movie. And no characters who give boring monologues about Climate Change.
But it’s not too late! Film those scenes, then splice them in.
It’s not very difficult, actually.
“Sorry, but this will not get me to watch the movie”
Freeper stanne will be deeply disappointed. I have never seen such a thick pair of Hollywood / Christopher Nolan kneepads as he / she presented on other Odyssey threads. Down right embarrassing.
“Wokepedia states that Elliot, Ellen (whatever) is a Canadian actor, producer, and activist.”
Figures. When you’re a failure in everything else, “activist” is a perfect fit. Gotta feel important...or is that “impotent”?
Someone's going to have to take one for the team and give the rest of us a full review of the movie.
I think it’s wrong to encourage woke in general, woke casting, woke business etc. I will never participate in the entrepreneurial efforts of those who attempt to force their morality on me, those who revise history for their own ends or who discriminate on race or color.
The very idea of watching a movie where skin color suits a political agenda is abhorrent. A business that advertises as woman owned, black owned, hispanic owned is an automatic “no”. A business that doesn’t serve service members, people in Trump shirts etc ceases to exist for me.
If we don’t stand up for history, reality, equal justice and success by merit not agenda, we will never have the America so many have fought and died for.
The first “blind” casting I saw featured a black woman as Cunégonde in Candide. What a travesty. Ragtime, Carousel, To Kill A Mocking bird, Showboat, Wicked, Aida and many others have featured superlative actors who happened to be black. They fit the character, they weren’t picked for quota or political correctness.
Maybe this is sarcasm that went over my head?? But a "brave" warrior in this movie was played by a 5 foot one inch tranny. Ellen Page, pretending to be a boy, Elliot Page.
Look for the elf in the tan suit
Ditto.
> But a “brave” warrior in this movie was played by a 5 foot one inch tranny. <
Tranny, yes. But that’s not near small enough to be classified as a “little person”.
Mr. Nolan, do better!
(And yes, that’s sarcasm. 😀)
From what I’ve read all it’s missing out s about two gallons of testosterone and one pretty woman. I’ll let someone else have my popcorn on this one.
I have yet to see the review but the freeper has an opinion. Ans if i know the kind of reviews he has written...they are thoughtful and Interesting. Great content for this slowly failing site.
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