Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey opens to strong reviews
Christopher Nolan has done some of us a great service by making a movie that has become a heat sink for all the illiterate chud rage grifters who usually spend all day talking about videogame bustlines
Ian Boudreau209It's nice to get a little break, you know?
Ian Boudreau188People chiming in to let me know they don't understand what this post is about. Not necessary. Please just carry on with your day
MITCHELL T58I know them by their classic title, "losers".
ghostoffrankdrebin.bsky.social52The irony of the sheer amount of them who use Greek classical avatars getting their collective panties wedged up their misogynistic asses is just…
JT Jag (Support Unions)45damn, it's making the worst people that mad? gotta watch it I guess
🌊 DudeTheyreOnToMe 24:7🌊25Only sorry that when the cyclops watches the preview he misses the great 3D effects
caylen105the bigger picture on this, and i hope my industry continues to pay attention, is that rage culture is largely bad or ineffective signal to serve, and often counter-serving it is extremely ROI effective for most creative media
it's charloh! (it/its)33imagine getting on Al Gore's internet just to say you're so racist you don't think Lupita Nyong'o is one of the most beautiful humans alive. unhinged and maidenless.
Amber30There's something low-key delicious about fedorabeard chudlords trying to de-woke a 2,500 year old story that had crossdressing, gay love and an emphasis on intelligence over masculinity.
Mike Fragassi18It seems like mass offline culture never really got impacted by GamerGate in a way that made enough of an impression to acknowledge them as pathetic weirdo losers only fit for shunning. That just encouraged them to go bigger. Maybe this will help do that
#BruceSterling13*Do the "illiterate chud rage grifters" actually live in the "heat sinks"
Wonggifs IV: The Voyage Wong8It's because of this that this might be the first Chris Nolan movie I watch since what, Dark Knight Rises?
persephone4*munches popcorn in non-asshole classics fan*
it's a shame christopher nolan lacks the Troll's Thirst bc it would be so easy for him to float some really funny rumors about casting calls for a Ten Commandments remake right now
it's gita time75him saying "i spent ten years dealing with batman" made me feel like he has the poster's spirit within him
huck mason19“we were watching I Think You Should Leave — just brilliant. And Patti Harrison’s characters reminded me so much of Zipporah, who really is quite a mischievous rascal in the text.”
EROCY9sorbo would succumb to a live tweeted aneurism just thinking of things to get mad at
Only Fans9Lil Nas X: “Where’s your Moses now?!”
firstname lastname3I hate that I could picture Matt Damon as Moses
A P Clarke3The world sadly has already made the joke of Batman playing Moses.
I just don’t know if a Nolan movie can compare to the only real version.
Jessica Ellis76I would like to remind everyone once again that his name was not Doctor Odyssey. It was Max Bankman. And yet once per episode, someone would refer to him as Doctor Odyssey.
Ben Collins62The threesome scene into the anti-suicide PSA remains one of the funniest things that has ever happened on network television.
Erin Biba25This was one of the best worst shows I’ve ever seen.
proflover.bsky.social12I thought at first it was a fake tv show, but then I watched it and it was magnificent.
Kim Douglas7Still grieving the loss of Dr. Fuckboat here too.
siannan4That show had me screaming with delight every week. I wanted more themed cruises. JOCO CRUISE ON THE ODYSSEY.
Aaron Lim 林家丰8I caught a few episodes of it after it was brought up on Last Week Tonight, and it really was a gloriously cheesy show.
[sad beep] acerbic otter2this was such a dumb show and I honestly admit I kind of enjoyed it. Sometimes you just want dumb and cheesy to shut your brain up from screaming at you
The Cyclops being tricked by the Nobody gag in The Odyssey was one of the earliest memories I have of laughing at a pun so it's weird to suggest Christopher "Temporal Pincer Maneuver" Nolan thought it wouldn't translate.
LittleKuriboh75(I think the temporal pincer maneuver rules too, but the fact that Nolan thinks audiences would accept that and NOT "my name is Nobody" is kinda...)
Lotus Prince25It's almost literally unbelievable. Like, when we read The Odyssey in freshman year of high school, we didn't do it in the original Greek. "Wouldn't translate?" The pun is in freaking English.
GINNY (🎂 AUGUST 9TH) | COMMS OPEN20I am 1000% willing to bet it’s because he doesn’t want a cringe joke in his poorly-lit dark movie. He’s deathly afraid of someone smiling while watching his movie.
Desperado D. Mayor4Christopher Nolan is a lousy writer. Like, regardless of how you feel about him as a director, his writing is often amateurish and lacking in imagination, with his screenplays typically devolving very quickly into characters speaking as if they're analyzing the film they are currently in.
Tracey3"My name is nobody. Nobody. NooooOOOOooobody!" Cue up the Epic The Musical!
Lee2"Nobody has stabbed me." Is a top 5 moment.
I see the anti-Christopher Nolan whining has become so knee-jerk reflexive, we're supposed to think Dunkirk and Oppenheimer are somehow terrible movies? If you don't like his stuff, that's fine, it's not for everyone. But saying he doesn't know what he's doing just makes you sound like an idiot.
Andy Diggle32"His exposition is under-dramatised and lacks the Aristolelian unities!" Alright, calm down Wednesday Addams
M. Walsh - Author17Saw someone insist Nolan "would use AI if he thought he could get away with it." Really? The guy who insists on shooting on actual film? Who used practical explosives & forced perspective for the Trinity test instead of CGI? I'm not even a ride-or-die Nolan fan, but come on!
Colby Whittaker (Hagiologist)14Once you identify that human tendency to conflate "This isn't for me" with "This is irredeemably bad" almost everything else makes sense I don't know that I'll ever watch any of those movies and I don't think I'd enjoy them but I'd certainly never call them terrible
Meretrix V6My personal enjoyment of his movies peaked with The Dark Knight and Inception. Dunkirk and Oppenheimer were fantastically well done movies that I don't feel any particular need to watch again. I'll absolutely be seated for The Odyssey because he knows what he's doing. He's never a waste of money.
Brandon Mudd6To me, it's like when Scorsese said he didn't like comic book movies & the neckbeards starting screaming that he's a hack. Fucking stop it.
Ben Applegate🔜SDCC6Who could possibly call Dunkirk a bad movie oh never mind I don't care
My general metric for Matt Damon movies is that they’re best if he’s a) in Europe, b) having an identity crisis, and c) killing people. (Talented Mr. Ripley, Bourne Identity.) So The Odyssey should be pretty good?
Colin Dickey35Ocean’s Eleven is also great and while he’s not killing people he’s still committing crimes while pretending to be someone else and there’s sorta an ersatz “Europe” involved (Paris, the Bellagio), so it’s close enough.
Helena Fitzgerald7this is a great theory for many reasons, one of which is that it (correctly) includes Eurotrip
Matt Sargent3Great Wall of China 1) He's Scottish, but at the Great Wall of China 2) Having an identity crisis 3) Killing alien demon armies
Jeremy Tice3Is Mars the Europe of space?
MeganC2That’s not a bad metric honestly
The Jack of Kingfield2Good will hunting fits that mold! And the departed
It's not too late for some artist to make a danceable, feel-good summertime anthem with lyrics about "The Odyssey", with an accompanying music video where the artist and hordes of attractive young people watch "The Odyssey" in a theater, having a great time, intercut with scenes from "The Odyssey"
Greg Beer11To the tune of MIB: Here come the two si-rens! Odysseus’s tempt-ers!
Rob Northrup. This Gun in My Hand podcast🕵9A man with his back to camera chops wood outside his remote log cabin. As he wipes sweat off his brow, a chopper approaches rapidly and lands nearby. A Universal Studios exec leaps out and runs up to him. The man says, "I don't work for you anymore." Exec says, "We have one last job for you."
Elly is 3 birds in a gardening hat5I'm no cultural anthropologist, but I'm pretty sure we can trace the current state of the world directly back to the broad decline of feel-good summertime action movie anthems whose lyrics include the movie title at every opportunity. We used to be a society.
Joel Jessup4Have there been any The Odyssey food tie ins with Wendy's or Big Kahuna Burger?
blakeyrat 2000 🐀3I haven't seen it but I assume it ends with a dance party like the Shrek movies
The Odyssey, written by this guy:
Christopher Nolan is a genius because he figured out that if you put enough French horn in your plot-driven SFF movie, people will think they're watching a Royal Shakespeare production of Richard III
G. Willow Wilson114This is not snark, I am a Nolan apologist, I watch all his films, I love his dorky commitment to complex storytelling mechanics, and as a purveyor of pop, I admire the fact that he's created an aesthetic which allows serious people to watch genre movies without feeling they've sullied themselves
katsian andor8the french horn brings a touch of class other brass instruments lack
James Hodden4Don't forget using a lens filter to slightly desatuarate the colour so that you know it's serious.
Mandy Humphreys1I'm still not sold on this remake of O' Brother Where Art Thou. Now that I know the banjos have been replaced with French horns, I'm even more reluctant.
Onil1I'm pretty sure he went all in with an accordion for The Odyssey. It's a bold choice.
Zorg the Conqueror1I'm going more for the Pier Paolo Pasolini's "Medea" vibe. *honk* MORE HORN! *honk* *honk*
Just got out of Odyssey. Absolutely incredible, phenomenal film MONUMENTAL. Nolan paces this movie in such a way that it mirrors Odysseus’ story, and when it all comes together in that very specific scene — the moment that I was most curious how he would take on — not a dry eye in the theater.
Dali Dimovski, Your Friend!11Sat in my car in the parking lot for 15 minutes just contemplating. I actively wept during THAT SCENE. Incredible, incredible.
sorceress2.bsky.social2👏👏 I'm so glad it was good.
makanaboy.bsky.social2Literally leaving work early tomorrow to catch it.
Ross2Something to do with an arrow? That’s what I want to see
Sandra ✒ SL Gore1I see it tomorrow agternoon.
The Captain1Huh. I’ll have to watch it now. Thanks.
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Liam McGuire12One of the most beautifully drawn books ever
Ryan Genesis Evangelion7One of the all time greats! Still treasure this #1, it had a connected 5 page massive opening scene I’ve never seen done in comics before. Just a brilliant, genderbent scifi take on a classic.
siân into mystery7here please experience the joy of opening up the full comic fold out
joão7Uma das melhores bandas desenhadas que já li. Não sei se será a melhor adaptação de "A Odisseia", mas será certamente a mais trippy e mais feminista.
i’m a sucker for christopher nolan despite his well documented flaws & i’m a sucker for the odyssey despite being basically stockholmed into it by academia & i still expected to be underwhelmed by the odyssey & nope, it absolutely whipped. incredible adaptation & thematic follow up to oppenheimer. 🤷🏼♀️
emily sunshine47goranssön’s score is phenomenal and feels new for him. robert pattinson is delightfully despicable. john leguizamo is amazing. the whole circe sequence is wonderful. anne hathaway is perfect. poor zendaya has spent like six years just wandering various deserts and is still as good as she always is.
Tom Wambsgans’ Second Wife, PhD3Did you get the popcorn horse? Please tell me you got to popcorn horse.
Lady Ru’etha & Timbit1Thank you for the review! 💜
Brittany Marshall1Oh thank god, I’m leaving to see it right now
Christopher Nolan recently told the BBC that he had put away his Oscars in his office. When his son asked why, Nolan said he found them daunting to look at as he worked on the script for THE ODYSSEY. His son’s reply: “But you didn’t win any for writing.”
Nic2This is basically what my kids do all the time to me and I haven't won any Oscars
Captain Subaru Baja blast: the falafel lobbyist2i dunno this proves he’s got a sense of humor about himself rhe Dark knight still holds up I dunno, mang- I am just excited to see the weird ass variety of castmembers in the odyssey
One more time today: my review of The Odyssey, which will make a zillion dollars and win all kinds of shit www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/a...
rotodisc1But will I need to bring ear plugs?
Detox Poncho🖕🏼🐸🖕🏼1I thought for sure you were going to slam this flick so I was pleasantly surprised by your review!
Jon Sulman1The "wait, and wait, and wait for Odysseus to finally reveal himself to everyone" is definitely true to the book. Like half the book is Odysseus bumming around Ithaca building suspense.
"The grand summation could be 'people are complicated.' Yes, that’s as basic as it gets. But it feels revolutionary when it’s encoded in a rare modern blockbuster that doesn’t feed us lotus flowers." www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-...
Jonathan Eby7"tell me about a complicated man"
Michael Avolio3I'll be curious to see how Nolan plays with those story-within-a-story bits you mention. I've wondered if the nonlinear structure of The Odyssey was one of the things that made Nolan want to adapt it, since he loves telling stories that way.
jdm2Oh, this got me hype
your friend dusti1I have my ticket for 9:10 am Saturday!
rowan kaiser10getting kind of excited tbh
🎞✂️🎞2La jeune critique fr devrait prendre des notes. Dans ce que j’ai lu dernièrement la superficialité d’analyse de « défauts et qualités », la pauvreté du style et de la syntaxe, le manque de personnalité, le tout matiné de mots alambiqués mal maîtrisés qui ressortent comme des verrues, m’attristent.