GymWolf
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Would not be better to have a proper casting so you dont need a shield to begin with?
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The Odyssey (2026) Trailer
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Trunx81
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I thought Tenet was amazing. What was it that you didn't like about it?
Chuck Berry
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‘The Odyssey’: Everybody Using American Accents Is Definitely a Choice
"Let's go!" Fans thrown by American accents, modern speech in new trailer for ancient Greece epic: "It sounds like they're outside a Starbucks."
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dorkimoe
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it was insanely confusing, looked great but what on earth is happening (note: im an idiot)
Angry_Megalodon
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‘The Odyssey’: Everybody Using American Accents Is Definitely a Choice
"Let's go!" Fans thrown by American accents, modern speech in new trailer for ancient Greece epic: "It sounds like they're outside a Starbucks."
It's surreal seeing Nolan doing Paul W. Anderson stuff. Truly pathetic.
This vandalization of homer's work may become Hollywood's worst. Nauseating.
Tenet is a beautiful disaster. It's the kind of failed movie that only a very talented director can make. I love it, despite its many flaws.
And more importantly, it's a Nolan's original story, which makes up for its many mistakes. This Odyssey is just trash.
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I wonder if its a meta commentary, like Odysseus is embroiled in the Trojan War, full of nonsensical characters forced there by capricious 'gods' and their agenda. He finally wins by making what APPEARS to be something the 'woke' gods accept, but is a trap. Then he has to fight his way past temptations and culture traps to finally get back to an authentic acceptance with his 'tradwife' and its just the final scenes that feel like what a traditional telling of the epic before hollywood went insane might be like.
falconhoof
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There's a load of them. You basically have to tick enough boxes for in front of the camera and behind the camera roles
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spookyfish
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Tenet didn't work for me. However -- it DID show me that Pattinson could actually act, kind of like what 12 Monkeys did for Brad Pitt. So, there is good there.
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GymWolf
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Disgusting stuff, imagine being told how to direct your fucking movie to have a chance of winning an award...
There's a load of them. You basically have to tick enough boxes for in front of the camera and behind the camera rolls
Chuck Berry
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Certainly seems like it. No way you're gonna avoid the global backlash and hilarity that will ensue once it's official.
Ulysses 31
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intbal
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There is enough narrative room in the material for Nolan to make this work.
If the case is made that someone's spirit loses its connection to its earthly shell after death, then their voice could be delivered by sexless human sludge.
The Goddamn Mike
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I'm still half-convinced this film is some West World/Total Recall/Assassin's Creed/Vanilla Sky/Shyamalan-type thing and the presentation of the actual Odyssey story, within the picture, is fabricated - it looks "off" by design. Maybe Matt Damon lost his car keys and they put him in a simulation so he can work out, mentally, how to find them. The characters in the Odyssey are portrayed by the people he encountered the day he lost the keys. Anne Hathaway is The Car Keys. Or maybe Tom Holland is. This, of course, requires the reveal to be kept out of promotion and spy photos which I'm not sure is possible these days.
Goofy idea, but I have a standing bet with the wife in this regard (not specific to car keys). One of us is paying for Nozawa Bar. It will probably be me, seeing as we also have a standing bet from years ago in which I took the position George Martin will finish Winds of Winter. It was a bad call, Ripley.
Tenet is a film I rewatch periodically, hoping to finally appreciate it for what it is. This never quite works out. The technical concept is great, but the villain's motivation is nonsensical and Denzel's kid simply does not have the charisma/presence of his father. Pattinson is great in it, but he has the advantage of acting against the intentionally underwritten Protagonist. The reverse entropy stuff is fun, but doesn't survive serious scrutiny and, aside from a few bits here and there, no one in the movie is having any fun. It takes itself way too seriously (end-of-world plot or not). It's also too weird for the general audience and requires a strict belief in determinism for any of its narrative to make sense. That's a big ask and it seems most viewers responded, "Nah." Maybe it'll all click next time.
IDKFA
I am Become Bilbo Baggins
It must be Nolan going "I took EVERY NOTE from the studio about forced diversity, inclusion, and attempts to reach millennials and put them into this film to make a point that that stuff RUINS films".
It MUST BE, right?
Right?
Chuck Berry
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falconhoof
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This is meant to be a clip from it. What the actual fucking fuck.
These words do not have wings.
I'm moving to "wait for reviews" on this one, I think. I'm sure the IMAX FOMO will drive me to get advanced tickets, but if I wait a week or 2 after release I can cancel them from fandango if the reviews reveal this to be a nonsensical mess. They certainly seem to be assuming the bulk of any fanbase interested in the Odyssey part of this are gonna go and are weighing their marketing heavily towards trying to capture folks, young or not classically educated, to think this is some sort of hip global journey instead of a bedrock of classical western literature.
Dr Bass
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It's a lot better when you can understand what the characters are saying, yeah. I liked it a lot more on a second watch with subtitles on.
Chuck Berry
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The singing with trap music in the background IS a joke right?
....right?
....right?
