The Odyssey posts $84M second weekend, Nolan box‑office record
Pleased to see versions of the Odyssey in the Times/Waterstones bestsellers. But puzzled that it comes in the NON Fiction category. Do they know something we don't?
Jill Houlbrook4If you don’t know Mary then what hope is there for the rest of us mortals? I wonder how many of the film’s ‘critics’ have read the stories?
Global Patriot1It's mythology, which is neither purely fiction nor non-fiction. It contains historical clues in that it depicts an ancient world and was written in an ancient times. It may be based on real historical places, events, people, and societal customs. But it also contains lots of made up elements too.
Martin1For some bizarre reason, poetry is classified as non-fiction.
George Morley1Classified as poetry so - deeply weirdly - British publishing classifies it (along with drama) as non-fiction. Baffled me throughout my 42 years in publishing. Still baffles me.
Hoping I can watch The Odyssey on a small seatback screen on the plane as Christopher Nolan intended.
Norm Charlatan95Is there nudity? I don’t want my fellow passengers thinking I’m some sort of pervert.
Mesquite BBQ Visine4watching The Odyssey intermittently, ambiently, on the seatback screen of someone in the row in front of me on my early commuter flight, while i tune out here and there for sudoku or to stare aimlessly out the window oh wow are we over lake michigan already is that chicago or wait maybe milwaukee
Ryan3Did that with Tenet w/ our 4 year old on the way back from Jamaica. Can’t remember a single scene. 11/10 experience
Nathan Kalmoe (he/him)3Makes Odysseus more relatable when you’re also on a journey. Delays, turbulence, unruly neighbors, squeezing a lot of people into a small space, …
Jon Becker3I was thinking a cruise ship would be more appropriate
I'mNotAHRHitter2If only Odysseus could buy a first class ticket back home
Andrew Tobolowsky14I'm having a firelit hall built to show it on a projector
Karen Geier12hope I can watch it on a Samsung Fridge
Derek Young5Hoping I can watch The Odyssey over Norm’s shoulder on his small seatback screen as Christopher Nolan intended. #WryMax
DrPansyP2I’m actually planning on watching it on someone else’s screen since I usually just watch the map
Watched ‘The Odyssey’ last night. Who else grew up watching ‘The Clash of the Titans’ and felt like Christopher Nolan was paying homage to that era of practical effects cinema? #theodyssey #movies
Kindra Crick 🧩5I’ve not re-watched ‘The Clash of the Titans’ since the era of CGI. So, it still lives in a space of the fantastical.
Zuul Brynner4100%. Jason & The Argonauts as well
catlady49ers.bsky.social3Just saw the movie today. The cinematography was amazing!
P. Thomas Johnson 🇬🇧🇨🇦 🤝 🇺🇦3Astonishing to me that this was a puppet, the Laestrygonians was done all in-camera with body doubles & forced perspective, and *that* scene with Circe was not CGI!
TurboZilla2Harryhausen's cyclops is always what I think of when I hear about them.
Hans P 🇬🇱🇩🇰🇪🇺2His thing has always been shooting everything on location. Like, he bought a jumbo jet and crashed it into a building, as he felt it was a waste of money to CGI. Though, he does blend CGI well. Just enough so no one will notice. This is why sound is a problem, as he doesn't sync studio dialogue.
Every Christopher Nolan movie is required to have one very forced line like this. In Oppenheimer, it was the title character’s mistress getting him, mid-coitus, to translate a sentence from Hindu scripture that just happens to be the line Oppenheimer famously quoted in real life years later.
Brice4“Love is the one thing that transcends space and time”
GoodForAnother2Who could forget when Christian Bale looked into the camera and said “this is when Batman Begins”
rgoers.bsky.social299% of people seeing the film have no understanding of any of the history, who gives a shit if Nolan slips in a Nolan.
