Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey premieres in New York
The idea that Christopher Nolan is a bad director is extremely stupid, sorry. He’s the kind of very good but broadly appealing director that used to be much more common, the kind of director who makes reliably good, interesting movies for adults
Amber Sparks41If anything I think he’s a kind of David Lean - he means to go big and smart, even in the misfires
Amber Sparks35(And even if you’re not a fan, The Odyssey is the perfect movie for him to direct! It’s not a subtle story, and has so many themes he does well - epic scenes, repetition, frustration, gods, people who think they’re better than the gods, a guy who just wants his wife back, like come on)
graywyvern12having read some extremely thick books about oppenheimer & the manhattan project, i was more impressed by his ability to turn them into a comprehensible story than the abstract time-business in his weirder films
Geezer Soze11The kind of director who considers being entertaining as job #1, even if he does make you think along the way.
The Shitpostman (Il Shitpostino)8Objectively correct take...we need way more upper-middlebrow movies. (And kudos to you for not using the free speech guy meme!)
Adrian 'buy HAIR SHIRT' Sobol6Nolan's very good at what he does but his movies can feel like he's using a sledgehammer to do needlework.
A thing that "THE ODYSSEY" makes amusingly clear is that Tom Holland is probably a much better but also sufficiently less annoying version of Timothee Chalamet and has just been busy being Spider-Man so nobody thought to check. *(P.S. This is probly also the case for Elliot Page, same movie)
Drew(bacca)23And unlike Timothee, Holland loves ballet.
andimalloutofbubblegum9Timothee has been dead to me since being with a Kartrashian.
Josh Goring6And that's why he's with Zendaya IRL. And also Spider-Man.
Brendan Payne4There’s a decade-long age gap between Elliot and Tom (and while Elliot Page might look a decade younger than he is, so does Tom Holland) so I’ll be the judge of that. But, yes, I’ve always felt Tom could play any Timothee Chalamet role tbh.
kataphrut94.bsky.social3People keep shitting on Chalamete just because he looks like an effete theatre kid, but he talks like your cousin’s weed dealer. Who cares. Can he act? Can he do his job? Then there you go.
Nicholas Moore Lives In a Failed State1I’ve been feeling this for years actually.
You can trade on what rotten tomatoes score you think The Odyssey will have. Capitalism at its finest - utterly pointless, creating nothing of value but wealth based on bet on a measure that has no value either. Burn it all to the fricken ground.
Andrew Buckwell2I am fairly sure prediction markets are not pointless. They are literally designed to enable politically powerful people to trade their insider knowledge for money, which they take from the masses. Betting on movie scores is the (pointless) sideshow.
Daniel Cohen2And a market that is easily subverted as it is a subjective argument. What a time to be alive … and addicted to gambling.
Anthony Morris2As a RT-accredited critic, it’s time for me to cash in big!
Not that it matters, but this week I gained respect for Christopher Nolan and feel exactly the same way I've always felt about George Lucas
Zach Pennington 🔱⚾️6George hates making movies, and dealing with people. It's kind of on brand for him to like Ai.
therealWokeKong2George Lucas acting like anyone still respects him after he wrote and directed The Phantom Menace
David Ambaras1George Lucas convinced that AI would also have come up with Jar Jar Binks
fatassery.bsky.social1Yup George Lucas has always had a particular disdain for actors and writers as they get in the way of his vision. The success of his films made it so he never had to deal with another writer but he could never shake free from actors. AI has finally freed him from the scourge of forced collaboration.
Christopher Nolan's 'The Odyssey' is projected to open with ~$200M at the global box office ⚔️💰 Would be the largest non-Batman opening of his career (via Deadline)
Lynnbo3Interesting cause YouTube and Reddit told me it’s a lame gay movie with black people.. God I need to get off the internet, this movie looks crazy cool.
Sebastian Fawkes2Right-Wingers Who are trying to Boycott the Film seeing This:
SteveIsDamaged 1I'm going to start referring to everything I do as "the largest non-batman" version of it in my career.
winona 🍉🏳️⚧️4if it ends up being true, total chud humiliation and i couldn't be more satisfied with that
Zeo2This is one of the best examples of MAGA living in a bubble that they created. They have spent the last two months claiming that The Odyssey is going to bomb because there is a Black woman in the movie. They are not smart people. They are nothing more than hateful racists.
Sebastian Fawkes2Right-Wingers Who are trying to Boycott the Film seeing This:
jane amber!2i kind of want this to outgross every non-spider man CBM this year, because it would be very funny
This may not sit well with “film buffs” but I think if Christopher Nolan really wanted to make a groundbreaking version of THE ODYSSEY he should’ve filmed it at the Citadel Outlet Mall off the 5 in Commerce
Grumpy D Kelson4This is only because the ancient Greece-motif Fry's no longer exists to be the place to set the film in.
Fortmax Headroom2you're joking but that would have gotten me in the theater
Cat Dad Mike1Could have saved money on casting by doing it at Caesars Palace Vegas and using those animatronic statues
