The Odyssey, Christopher Nolan's new epic
Hollywood Reporter projects the box office opening weekend of The Odyssey at $257 million globally.
Cynthia492We all know he has no taste, just look at the CyberTruck.
Lori 🇺🇦💩🐸👑163I saw the Odyssey on Friday. I don't understand what is woke about it. Is it because they cast a black actress to play Helen of Troy? Is that it?
EllisonX145As if Elon Musk ever read Homer...
tonawandablue.bsky.social110The Classical Greeks would have considered Elmo to be a barbarian.
jazzrat2000 AKA Bonsai anonymous105Someone should fix Leon's logo with one of his rockets blowing up. That's worth more than 257 million I would think
Cam48Guy who stood next to Trump wearing a “Trump was right about everything” hat is going to lecture us all on groveling
Diane Darcy116BREAKING: Pathetic Trillionaire Is Sad a Billionaire More Popular Than Him Cast a Black Woman In His Movie
Marko Kloos42"Any Shakespeare play or movie adaptation that doesn't have all its female characters played by men dressed as women desecrates the Bard just to meet the woke rules." (Also--I'd bet a fair amount that Elon has never read the Odyssey or the Iliad.)
Aaron Stewart-Ahn35Citizen keyboard vigilante takes another massive posting L
Paulette Feeney ❌️👑20Elon Musk's review of Hamilton must have been wild.
Ernest Luckman13This is all so weird because it’s not like the Odyssey is a big part of being a man or modern whiteness. There’s no seminal Hollywood version he’s wokifying. You have to be very deep in conservative culture for any of this to make sense.
Frode #Fella6Dear world, you understood the assignment. Thank you.
Leonard Sultana (An Englishman In San Diego)6How the hell did anyone ever think he was Tony Stark?
The Odyssey is pulling $260 million this weekend, well on its way to becoming the biggest movie of the year. It has a 95%/97% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Everyone loves it. Please enjoy this exchange.
Don Moynihan380It’s very funny that Elon Musk of all people is complaining about manipulating public opinion to boost the financial value of a dodgy product
Adam Lerner140It’s so wild that the richest man is the nastiest, pettiest, most divorced unhappiest guy I can think of. His kids hate him. He hasn’t created one single public good. He killed millions for fun and profit
Bam58Setting aside the obvious for a moment… Can we also note how sad it is that we have actual “movie influencers?”
Allison Maruska3697% *with* negative review bombing. I checked last night and like the thirty most recent audience reviews were 1/2 to 1 star with vague wording like “terrible, walked out”. All the same.
Kris Wernowsky32This will morph into: Imagine how much money they would have made if they had allowed influencer screenings. The thread of grievance will never be broken. It just goes on.
Wudang96 💖🌻21aw. did he opt to invite people who might actually be movie critics and didn't invite online trolls? imagine that. great example of how to manage the release.
Chris DeLeon Ⓥ make your own games468the other good news to read into this is how rapidly twitter is losing affect on or touch with normie opinions, which was musk's only reason for buying the site
Jesse Hawken54These same people hailed Citizen Vigilante as a resounding success earlier this month
Mariana Colín45As a “movie influencer,” this is not something that happens lol. For better and worse, YouTubers don’t get screeners for blockbusters because we are not considered real critics. Influencer marketing is something you do when you’re trying to build a grassroots audience for an underdog, 1/2
Levi37Hallo media die denken dat X de echte wereld is en dat daar de agenda wordt bepaald.
William Peter MacMason34The Odyssey has now made more $ than elon has lost since the spacex IPO.
Vera Moreijn29Alle fascistfluencers wisten zeker dat The Odyssey zou gaan floppen. Film heeft alleen in het opening weekend al ruim meer dan het productiebudget opgehaald, krijgt alom acclaim en beoordelingscijfers worden alleen maar gunstiger 🤭😉
You Call Yourself a Film Critic20"Nolan refused to screen the movie to influencers"
Jörg Tittel16Looking forward to future videogames taking a similar approach.
Lucy Promise14we gotta start calling these guys weirdo freaks again
Tamara Keel14When reality is proving you’re an absolute pack of dorks and losers, just retreat to the imaginary world of X and bask in the Hitler particles and pretend that it’s just the LaMeStReAm MeDiA LiEs.
Batman fans who hounded Nolan about Batman actually knew a lot about Batman. The people yelling about the Odyssey think it's about Hercules entering an arm wrestling match to win a night with Helen, Queen of Rome.
dog botherer200really funny for MAGA chuds to be soiling themselves over “historical” accuracy when any attempt to faithfully adapt The Odyssey would result in some sort of demented Twin Peaks Season 3-esque art film that would go on for 10 hours
Hare 🍉18Also, Nolan was right to disregard the people who knew a lot about Batman.
MagnetCarta11CLASSICS PROFESSOR: Odysseus was the... uhh... Batman of the Epic Cycle.
Mobius Stripper5Matt Damon should have spoken in an incomprehensible growl every time he put on his helmet.
Doug Sloane3Are the iliad and the odyssey not just stories. Not that they're based on history at the time but weren't they just made up out of whole cloth ? Or were they loosely based on stuff ?
Herr Hübscher Junge3The Odyssey was one of the best theater going experiences I've ever had. Seeing people who had never read the poem react to The Dead, Circe, Scylla and Charybdis was special. The changes Nolan made worked for the story he wanted to tell. Fidelity to an original story would have perplexed the Greeks
Jessica Ritchey22Okay, but that is spiritually the plot of about 60 percent of peplum films, so you can see why I'm trying to get folks to watch Hercules Unchained (1959) and the like.
KidzBoptotenlieder15Aeneas doesn't even show up!
April8Their ideas of Greek culture are informed by this
Tim Byrne3These are the same people who think a 'literal' interpretation of the Bible means believing that the whore of Babylon represents the United Nations or some such.
TNG Oil Monster3I LOVED the last 8000 minutes of the Odyssey. But the first 20 minutes were like the Dark Knight Boat Scene, if it was taught to screenwriters as the required template for all scripts
The funny thing is, the chuds hate this version of the Odyssey because Nolan cast trans and non-white actors but if they actually were media literate, they'd hate this version of the Odyssey because it adopts their civilizational frame and then violently rejects *them* and their ideology.
"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux793Like, thematically, Nolan is using the Odyssey to almost speak *as* 'western civilization' and then what he says is, "you men (very much *men*), with your violent inhospitality, your greed and appetites are what has destroyed civilization by breaking the bonds between people."
Jen in Motion26Right? Me: ohhh, the Warfighter Mentality is destroying civilization and Odysseus has PTSD because his clever warfighting led to absolute barbarism.
Context Collapse 😶14I watched it yesterday and I know that Odysseus is depicted as understanding that rejection, but does he (or anyone else) ever realize or say, "WE are the Sea People"?
Aaron Daniel3I just saw it today. I've lost respect for anyone with any criticism of this movie whatsoever. Did you see it? No: then, go see it. Yes: you don't recognize or understand art. This movie is so timely- not in a "liberal" way- but, in a human way.
Marble Liberal11That ideology was rejected explicitly and repeatedly in the conclusion of the iliad
Jack5Nolan’s depiction of Ithaca is a “civilization in decay,” but not in the way fascists use this concept. It asks what happens to a society that abandons its higher principles in favor of chauvinism and spiteful self interest. Fascism IS the decay.
your dude21) the first thing I thought when I left the theater was that this was one of most political films I've ever seen 2) there is good reason for musk et al to fear this movie, they're just too stupid to recognize what it actually is
One interesting thing about this controversy is that there's nothing stopping all these whiners from making their own adaptation of The Odyssey. (thread)
Charlotte Clymer287Elon Musk could cut a check right now for a big budget adaptation produced exactly to his liking. He could hire the director and writer and crew he wants. He could cast whomever he wants. He could easily bankroll a film that's faithful to his aesthetics and woeful understanding of literature.
JJ in DC53Isn't The Odyssey one of the most adapted works in history?
Dood7848And yet they are totally cool with white Jesus.
Churlayla 86.473318 and I were talking about the feigned outrage, and I said: "2 options: don't see it or make your own movie." He replied: "Ya... I don't get it. It's a movie, and every movie takes the directors vision of things."
J. Nguyen25When I was involved in Orange County Republican youth activism I avidly read James Burnham, Frank Meyer, Whittaker Chambers. This radical branch of American conservatism, filled with ex-Trotskyists, have been complaining about “the left’s hold on culture” since late 1940s. They’re still complaining.
Tired Revenant🌲🌎🇺🇦21Because none of them actually have friends. This is as close as they can get.
It’s so funny that conservatives hated The Odyssey because a Black woman and trans man were cast in it cause it’s kinda made for them. Focus on traditional masculinity, civilization falling because of men’s moral failings, excellent foreigners, women as vengeful, liars, witches and wives.
Jessie Gender203Technically amazing movie, but boy does Nolan’s fear of anarchism show the most here. Not only that, while I love seeing Elliot cast as a cis man warrior, it feels a tad… let’s say bioessentially stereotypical that he plays the innocent young boy who dies pure and must be avenged.
Lowell Renold27After having seen it twice, I realize it’s basically about Matt Damon leaving his wife Anne Hathaway to go on a business trip where he ends up having an affair with Charlize Thereon.
NONE 🇻🇪25It reminds me of how conservatives completely ignored Egger's The Northman even though it’s the Viking fantasy they all long for and is an excellent, wonderful movie. Conclusion: Conservatives don’t like good movies, they prefer trash like Citizen Vigilante 🤮
P Barnz19Getting mad that a mythical character, an egg hatched result of the union between princess and swan, isn't played by a white person, seems a cry for help.
jcrm8I hate when they do this with directors I don't like, because I also don't wanna get into why I don't like Nolan, but I have to or I look like some conservative asshole. I fundamentally disagree with his philosophy of filmmaking! But I also want you to go like what you like!
Malakine 🇵🇸🏴4That movie was filmed in Western Sahara, in territories stolen by Morocco from the saharawi population. It's a legitimation of colonialism and forced displacement of colonized populations.
Persephone Moonstone🍉30Its why I laugh everytime someone is like make stuff more for them! They hate everything! You cant make art for fash because they’ll ways come around to calling it degenerate.
Jake Cole17The funniest aspect of the right wing crack up about this movie is thematically it is about a limiting, superstitious, hierarchical yet still morally obligated form of conservatism being displaced by, effectively, neocon violent solipsism. It’s lamenting a flawed conservatism displaced by pure id
Rine11Digging into themes and concepts takes too long for the outrage cycle. Screaming about casting is something they can do immediately without having to see the movie or have any media literacy.
‘The Odyssey’ debuts with $264.1M at the global box office 💰 • The biggest opening ever for a Christopher Nolan film • Production budget was $250M
gdnetwork.bsky.social18Now all the people who thought it was gonna flop now look like a bunch of clowns now
MKSongbird11but every grifting moron on youtube that posted videos for months leading up to it's release whining incessantly about casting said the movie was in trouble and could be a flop.
zesty, CEO of bricks3be sure to do a wellness check your local incel clown
Marcus B. McAllister3Anybody checked in on Elon? I hope he’s having a meltdown of the highest order.
Paragone💭2B-but movie fail cause I say so…🥲
Not JimboSlice 🍋#️⃣🍰1Gonna see it tonight at 6p!! LFG
Electrichead (The Agony)21Hollywood is going to take the wrong lesson from this and we're going to get a decade of awful sword and sandal movies.
Clifford Batteau 18>Nolan's highest rated movie ever >Biggest opening for him surpassing all of his Batmans >Already made over its massive production budget back >Pretty much set to pass Project Hail Mary as the biggest non-sequel/biopic of the year But Black Woman being in was guaranteeing it disaster, right Elon?
Pazuzus farthers brothers nephews cousins former roommate17I’m gonna wait and watch it as god intended
☀️Shelby Love☀️4Well, well, well. The "go woke, go broke" people are awfully silent right now 🙂
🎶SCHOOL IS IN SESSION🎶4"People" are shocked this did well like certain other "people" will be shocked another movie will do insanely well in December. Stay tuned.
Wicket3So much of these online reactionaries’ saying “go woke, go broke” until their expectations were proven wrong after hearing this, including Muskrat himself.
AustinH.3I knew The Odyssey would shatter box office predictions. Worthy! "gO wOkE gO bRoKe" my ASS Go see it on the biggest screen you can find. It's an unbelievable movie.
Charlie Robert Ousley2Elon Musk, Nerdrotic, Critical Drinker and other woke scolds right now:
Peter G2Just out Without giving away too much. It's a post Inception Christopher Nolan film with all the good things and bad things that come along with that The set pieces were really great. He needs an editor and still can't write dialogue. One of the few films, where the middle is the best bit.
Steryn 🇭🇷2I haven't seen the movie yet, and I do think there is absolutely valid criticism being said about it, but this is a very nice reminder that dead internet manufactured culture war propaganda slop doesn't fucking matter or reflect reality in the slightest. Take a breather.
Oppenheimer and The Odyssey are movies about men feeling guilt and shame over their life's crowning achievement bringing untold suffering into the world clearly this is an expression of Christopher Nolan's guilt for popularizing superhero movies with The Dark Knight
Emmasrandomthoughts 🇺🇦🇵🇸🌹29Someone argued that Oppenheimer is an allegory in which Oppenheimer is Nolan and the bomb is The Dark Knight and the end of the world is the end of cinema.
Simon15Nolan watching Bvs dawn of justice:
Andrea Matranga4I think like Tobey Spiderman was the beginning of the modern superhero pox
ryanjapan743.bsky.social1Good sir, I think you found the only reasonable take that could make one not want to see the Odyssey.
Martial Law Abiding Citizen1“Superhero movies can be good”
Declan Andrews1this is also every other movie he’s made except possibly dunkirk
Just saw The Odyssey. It was super disappointing. Most of the actors were white dudes and it ended up being a normie, hetero love story. I was told it was Woke Propaganda, but turns out it’s just an ancient classic of western civilization.
Max Berger144All joking aside, it rocked and was incredibly fun to see in theaters. I am curious about whether the theme Nolan landed on is entirely anachronistic, or if there is a textual basis for his interpretation (which I enjoyed). It’s certainly very different than what I remembered from college.
Steward Universal2I wonder if that was the marketing angle. The paid people on social media to say it was woke just to get you to the theater.
Grace Robertson 🏳️⚧️2directed by a union leader!
Gary Wanderer1Yeah. A bunch Yankee accents. Couldn’t even make their voices sound halfway Greek. Was Nia Vardolos not available?
Eric V1Barely even that. Beautifully filmed but disappointing script, terrible casting (aside from Lupita who was totally fine), and lame reliance on flashbacks.
JeffDaddy1bad dialogue writing. bad acting by many principle... from flat to outright bad. Sound was excessively loud (ear damage loud). Music was brilliant.
also, to state that Nolan is departing his usual films about moral futility by making the Odyssey means the reviewer has either never read Homer, or never understood the internal conflict at the heart of it.
Not Insubstantial Gravytas161Armand White (who I think is the author) absolutely knows movies and the classics, he's just involved in a decades long art project/grift of being the most incorrect reviewer for fun and profit
Hank Layfield3Right? If moral futility is Nolan's recurring theme, he couldn't have picked a better story than this one.