Lupita Nyong'o says she 'co-directed' a scene in Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey
No real spoilers here, but both OPPENHEIMER and THE ODYSSEY are Nolan's unsubtle commentary on the immense chaos, death, and bloodshed arrogant men have caused by pursuing what they assumed was a righteous cause. And the tragedy is that no one learns the lessons and repeats the mistakes. Hmmmm....
Wajahat Ali365The Odyssey is also about treating people, especially guests, travelers, & foreigners, the way you would like to be treated - with respect, dignity, & grace. And the consequences of what happens when that universal "law" is broken by people who simply want power & money. Totally not topical.
Jill-Duh14Don't worry, the tech bros will take the wrong message away from them lol 🤣 they get everything ass backwards
Aibo - Zonny10💊🫀 Healthcare insurance was already unaffordable. We still paid it. Then it jumped because of Trump’s Big Ugly Bill🇺🇸. And here’s the part people need to remember: most of the bill’s pain doesn’t even hit until AFTER 2026 midterms. 👇
buddshenkin.bsky.social9That's certainly in there! Nolan also sneaks in a 10 second line by Odysseus with Penelope where he says Helen was Agamemnon's pretext for waging war on Troy to destroy their monopoly of the sea lanes. I think I missed that in Homer. Still, great movie!
Jeni McCoy6The Trojan horse sequence is some of the most profound storytelling I have ever seen.
ArrestTrumpNow4Thank you! I just wrote down my thoughts last night, after seeing it on thursday.
too many people are Terminally Online (derogatory) and forget that what most folks got out of the Odyssey news cycle is “Chris Nolan made a sick-ass epic with a bunch of actors I love and it’s getting incredible reviews”
Kwertzy Industries15I have a guy who's currently crashing out over the fact that there are black people in it also admitting he's going to see it. Like yeah you're sure showing Nolan there by giving him money and rewarding him for all his choices. Sick burn bro.
Mike Wiser14It is genuinely funny to me that this surprises people. "Numerous popular attractive actors make big spectacle movie with award-winning director; audiences turn out in large numbers to watch" feels like "Dog wags tail" style reporting on entertainment.
laughingTommy9So people don't care that there's a black woman and a trans man appearing in the movie for like 5 minutes, or that it wasn't made with Greek actors? How was reddit to know, when Italian Russell Crow stunned in historic drama Gladiator and Greek Gerard Butler was stunning in the 300 documentary?
Star Marshall of NC 🇺🇸 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈6This was literally my brother! 😂
Birthbae Boy3As a terminally online person, I gotta say it's the right-wing sadsack outrage that is helping to push me over the finish line on watching it in theaters.
Hamiltwan2I'd guess there are about as many people who end up going to see The Odyssey because they got confused and thought it was Dun3 as there are people who would have seen it but decide not to because they think it is Woke.
Just saw The Odyssey and thought it was really good!
Parker Molloy309Also, after seeing it, it's absolutely wild that everyone on the right has spent the past several weeks screaming about the casting decisions. Just truly losing their minds over nothing.
Katelyn Burns35I just got home from seeing it and completely agree!
hammancheez14Would u say it takes the viewer on a journey
Debaurah Alice11My son saw it this week after his car was totaled and he was trying to get back home and 399 things happened to interfere with buying a different car. He is on his way home in a different car now named Athena. His name is Zeph. He felt Odyseus' pain.
🎅 Santa Luthor 🎅8Gives me all the ammo I need for my online arguments against the ‘too woke’ crowd.
UnpopularLesbian7How was Elliot Page? Cos he has always been one hell of an incredible actor in any role.
Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey’ grossed ~$51.2M on its domestic opening day 💰 • Biggest opening day for a live-action film this year • One of the biggest ever for a Rated-R film
wave truther36but the dweebs said go woke go broke
Landon14Honestly had no idea it was rated R, should really be PG 13 Indiana Jones has more gore.
Mike Billips7Why’s it rated R? There’s pretty much no nudity, no sex, not a lot of cussing and the battle scenes aren’t particularly graphic. I mean, you don’t even see Polyphemus’s nether one-eye.
Maximus🇨🇦7This is all of us reading this and mocking the grifters and elon
Ivan Sirko6Some white supremacist is having a very bad day.
Michael Meir Saltzman5Go woke, box office records go broke
shauna1032people now lining up to ask elon musk to loudly boycott their projects too
Kashana665I think it would be amazing if you all could start yelling about how my next project has black people in it so I could also gross $51.2 million on my opening day
Hungee Squirrel🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️51The "go woke, go broke" crowd is really quiet right now.
Cheryl Lynn Eaton48Now is the time for the elevated Dad Movie! With new and improved meritocracy casting! We are going to make so much money, y'all!
The-Autistic-Artist 🥥 🍀 🏳️🌈 Doomsday and Coyote vs. Acme Era18This is exactly how I picture everyone who cried "Go Woke Go Broke!", including and especially Elon Musk, is taking the news:
Tini Tarabiscoté*e / Christina Dongowski11Ich denke, die Leute sehen ganz gerne ordentliches Spektakel mit gutaussehenden Leuten, Matt Damon ist auch recht beliebt, Nolan hat ne ordentliche Fan Base. Und kein vernünftiger Mensch ist halt mehr auf twiXxer.
KalyShark6Grifters in shambles. They are going to suddenly be very quiet or entirely change their narratives.
Kristin Mai5I just wanna see men getting turned into pigs.
Beth Dahlman4Go woke go broke(n box office records)
Rob P.3People keep asking what's the deal here, and like, a talented and popular filmmaker takes on a foundational story in Western lit, that we literally all know to some extent whether we've read the poem or not, and casts some of the most talented and popular actors working today. What's not to get?
Christopher Nolan is less than two years older than me, we were both born in London. Makes me wonder what I might have achieved in my career if I had been phenomenally more talented and disciplined. Oh well, back to playing video games I guess.
John Rogers25Look, I suppose I could bend my entire will and existence into a crystalline focus on cinematic art and be remembered for a century, but it would definitely take time away from figuring out how to do one-roll attack and damage in the #ttrpg Savage Worlds, and one must have priorities.
Doug11Whatever; Nolan never did a Star War 🤷🏻♂️
Chris Moore6Nolan will never know true happiness.
Problematic Otter4OK but has Christopher Nolan ever platinumed sixteen video games in a year, no
Stupid Face Rob4Yeah but Rogue One and its legacy…❤️
Wes Davis2Can’t decide if you feeling this way is reassuring for me, a person who increasingly thinks about things like this as I age, or not.
The insistence on historical accuracy that Republicans are imposing on Christopher Nolan's Odyssey was nowhere to be found when Mel Gibson had this guy playing Jesus Christ.
moominpapa.bsky.social5Yeah, I mean, was golf even around two thousand years ago?
myrdraal2001.bsky.social2So you're saying that we Hellenic people should also be erased from our own stories, religion and culture because one racist cultist did so 22 years ago? Why should cultural appropriation continue? Did you think that Gods of Egypt was right to cast Caucasians as Egyptian people and Gods?
Thomas Beck1By definition, all Republican white guy preferences are the default, no matter how inconsistent or delusional.
Martin Schneider1A favorite passage from Halberstam's The Breaks of the Game. The player in question is Maurice Lucas.
taylordauthor.bsky.social1I didn’t know Jesus played golf
Antifa H.R. Manager on Blueskee1This guy did it WAY better...cooler soundtrack too.
What do audiences think of Christopher Nolan's Odyssey? We asked 10 Trump voters who haven't seen it.
DataDon'tLie9... in this Ohio diner...
Birdie, Beginning7...who didn't know it was about some old book...
⭐︎☮︎●Thom●☮︎⭐︎2Errr.... hmmm. it was all greek to me. uhm hmm.
Grouchy Marx (aka Rupert)1It's just a remake of Stanley Kubrick's Odyssey that he made 25 years ago in 2001.
David Hamilton1Well.. what did they say?
can't believe people are posting all these spoilers for the odyssey
O. ⟭⟬ᴱ ᴬᴿᴱ ᴮ⟬⟭ᶜᴷ ⊙⊝⊜14So in the end, Penelope opens her own ad agency in NY and leaves Odysseus for the high life. Sorry. I know you did not want this spoiled but I cld not help it.
Island of Reil6There were people who saw Titanic in the theater back in the day who genuinely did not know how it would end
Nicholas Slayton4Man, so many people are going to think you're sincere here
Martin2I didn't even know that Matt Damon made it back from Mars until today.
Jackie Mittman2I laughed out loud at this and my teenage son asked me why so I told him and he was like well *I* haven't read it!
Coach Finstock116An excellent addition to the genre
Dr ShinyGoth70Just eat some lotus before you go and it'll be fine.
Tyler King35When I was little I was watching 1492 with my mom, stepfather, and stepbrother and they turned it off just before the credits started so there were a couple minutes of actual picture left and I was like hey I want to see the end and they were like YOU KNOW HOW IT ENDS and never shut the fuck up.
Matthew L Reznicek11You should go to hades for that
Rain6Side note: Went with about 50 h.s. students to see Hamilton. The man behind us GASPED when Hamilton died & exclaimed, "They killed the lead?" You should have seen 50 teens turn their heads incredulously at the same time! 🤣🤣🤣
Odyssey box office takings are not cooperating with my theory that boycotts by a bunch of broke ass losers who don't watch films anyway will be devastating for the release
Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist134this is almost as bad as when those dudes who don't watch football boycotted the NFL
I found a bit, Tim3Boycotts don’t work if the company being boycotted isn’t part of the consumers habit. No?
raytida.bsky.social1Broke-ass losers AND el*n m*sk
jtadetroit.bsky.social1Descendants of the boycotting losers of Ancient Greece
Weird that Christopher Nolan made a good and popular movie who could have seen that coming.
Z00keeper118A bunch of semi-literate racists ensconced in their Twitter bubbles really thought this movie was gonna flop.
Frank Black1Yeah who ever could have imagined that Nolan adapting a story about a massively popular hero who persists despite being constantly shit on would do gangbusters at the box office.
Christopher Nolan, for all his flaws, makes real movies that even people who sop up all the content slop inherently realize is an example of how things used to be before everything was half-assed and done in a green screen soundstage.
Jake Cole32I’ve had such a strange run with Nolan. Saw TDK like six times when it was in theaters but now I mostly dislike his Batman movies, I absolutely love The Prestige, came back hard after Oppenheimer and have been on-board ever since.
Myles Lobdell11Same reason Dune 2 was huge. Studios didn't suddenly discover a massive hidden segment of Frank Herbert fans across the world they hadn't tapped into before. It felt like a real movie.
allflicker3He’s our modern Hitchcock. He makes big scale adult thrillers on a hyper precise methodical level that audiences engage with on those terms.
Duck1part of me thinks he can be a little too stringent with his "no cg ever" thing but in the context of what the blockbuster landscape is like right now it's such a massive salve. even if you dont like how every scene looks none of them end up feeling cobbled together
Trying to remember what I thought of Christopher Nolan’s last few movies, but the last one I saw was Oppenheimer, and the day before had been my birthday, which was celebrated outside on a 95° day with high humidity So I spent the whole movie shaking and trying not to throw up from heat exhaustion
Phil Plait23I felt that way watching Interstellar and the weather was fine
𝚌𝚑𝚘𝚛𝚐𝚞𝚜5This is the way that it was meant to be watched
Andy Econo44D radiation poisoning version, patent pending.
Daniel Wiklander4I liked Dunkirk. Watching Inception for the first time right now. It’s boring…
SpaceAge Polymer1My favorite review of Oppenheimer ever
