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[Angry_Megalodon]

Are people finally going to stop huffing Nolan's farts and saying they smell like roses?

I like/love most Nolan's stuff and he's one of the greats in modern cinema, but like many others (Ridley Scott, James Cameron) with this buffonery he's falling out of grace. I'm not watching this, either on theatres or at home. This vandalization feels completely out of character. I would never expect this from Nolan or Villeneuve.

Talking about Villeneuve, I truly fear for Dune 3, but that's another story.

 

[EviLore]

good grief, Bernthal looks like a russian gangster from the 90's. WTF is he wearing?

 

[diffusionx]

It's also important to remember that the only way to really "make your mark" with a 'new' translation of such a classic, already oft translated, is to spice it up significantly.

Now I don't automatically reject such things, but if you are gonna dick around with it and try to modernize it, go all the way, not half ass it

R&J really is quite good. The dialogue is a close match for the original and it's updated mainly in setting and tone. I appreciate that movie more as time goes on and wish more people (including Luhrmann who became a gaudy slop merchant afterwards) learned from it.

You can tell when someone appreciates th source material, Nolan seems to loathe it.

 

[Bojji]

So that's where the modern casual language comes from. Emily Wilson's garbage. "Playtime is over." JFC.

Drinker said about this in his video. WTF are doing Nolan, you are supposed to be the intelligent one?

Not seeing this shot in the latest trailer, so may not be authentic, but it's blowing up on twitter. Would probably confirm Lupita as Helen

I didn't know Andrew Tate was in this movie.

 

[Unknown Soldier]

Greece isn't a big movie market so this will fall on deaf ears in Hollywood but at least we know the Greeks are mad. Small solace is as good as it gets these days

 

[Bojji]

Greece isn't a big movie market so this will fall on deaf ears in Hollywood but at least we know the Greeks are mad. Small solace is as good as it gets these days

Isn't this what they call...

Too bad Greeks don't have strong lobby in Hollywood, they can butcher source material hover they like.

 

[jason10mm]

Greece isn't a big movie market so this will fall on deaf ears in Hollywood but at least we know the Greeks are mad. Small solace is as good as it gets these days

It is kinda funny to rally around Helen as that cheating slut led to a massive war that ended so many of Greece's finest. Though if they go with Pausanius and make her fated to exile in Rhodes and become "Helen of the Tree", yikes!

 

[John Bilbo]

If Nolan wanted to go all creative with this then he should have done some time looping, sci-fi, twist up.

That could have been interesting.

 

[SJRB]

So that's where the modern casual language comes from. Emily Wilson's garbage. "Playtime is over." JFC.

The biggest indictment against Nolan being an actual intellectual. I swear to god the guy is the embodiment of what dumb people think a smart person is. He's larping as a great thinker but it's all just so superficial.

 

[Unknown Soldier]

It is kinda funny to rally around Helen as that cheating slut led to a massive war that ended so many of Greece's finest. Though if they go with Pausanius and make her fated to exile in Rhodes and become "Helen of the Tree", yikes!

Helen was the most beautiful woman in the Greek world or whatever according to Homer, she could be picky and fickle and it turns out she was and all of Greece's men and demigods were willing to fight for her so yeah lol

 

[thefool]

Not seeing this shot in the latest trailer, so may not be authentic, but it's blowing up on twitter. Would probably confirm Lupita as Helen

It is real, it's a shot from the first teaser. Some greek media reported (last year) that she plays Clytemnestra, which is why this shot was a big surprise (the rumor now is she perhaps plays both roles)

 

[falconhoof]

It is real, it's a shot from the first teaser. Some greek media reported (last year) that she plays Clytemnestra, which is why this shot was a big surprise (the rumor now is she perhaps plays both roles)

I did wonder if they were going to depict Castor and Pollux, and what they'd look like.

 

[Unknown Soldier]

 

[DrFigs]

Are people finally going to stop huffing Nolan's farts and saying they smell like roses?

Most overrated director of my lifetime

 

[TintoConCasera]

As a Greek I am disappointed.

Don't watch this movie, Jack. I will watch it for you.

I will protect you.

 

[Grildon Tundy]

Michael Bay would make a killer Odyssey movie.

 

[Musashipan]

Not watching this garbage
I hope it fails hard

 

[Itchy.Tasty.]

Greece isn't a big movie market so this will fall on deaf ears in Hollywood but at least we know the Greeks are mad. Small solace is as good as it gets these days

The face that launched a thousands roasts.

 

[JackHanma]

Back in the day, I thought Troy was a mediocre or slightly above average movie. Compared to the stuff filmed today, it feels like a masterpiece. Hollywood has fallen off a cliff.




This. This is Oscar Bait, the Movie.

Troy was awesome. I watch it once every year or two. The casting was brilliant.

 

[Jaybe]

Greece isn't a big movie market so this will fall on deaf ears in Hollywood but at least we know the Greeks are mad. Small solace is as good as it gets these days

Helen of Detroit

 

[Unknown Soldier]

Troy was awesome. I watch it once every year or two. The casting was brilliant.

Diane Kruger played Helen in that movie. Interestingly enough, she is a German model. So Germanic features were their criteria for the most beautiful Greek woman of her era when they were casting for that movie back in the early 2000's

 

[TintoConCasera]

Diane Kruger played Helen in that movie. Interestingly enough, she is a German model. So Germanic features were their criteria for the most beautiful Greek woman of her era when they were casting for that movie back in the early 2000's

That sure is a stretch lol

 

[rkofan87]

So that's where the modern casual language comes from. Emily Wilson's garbage. "Playtime is over." JFC.

\
i knew it wasn't really about the Oscar rules

 

[rkofan87]

Are people finally going to stop huffing Nolan's farts and saying they smell like roses?

I think I did a while ago the third Batman film he did sucked it was boring as hell

 

[Branded]

Isn't this what they call...

Too bad Greeks don't have strong lobby in Hollywood, they can butcher source material hover they like.

Is there a group which does have a strong presence in Hollywood btw?

 

[StueyDuck]

Has this film had any recorded trouble on set or development or anything

Because if all the rumors are true, theres no way that literally everyone on set was retarded enough to think its ok.

Like I love/like most of Nolans movies, while you may differ in opinions hes never made these sorts of decisions before.

I guess the woke money was there during production and now the markets have shifted. No one wants to see the actress formally known as Ellen page on screen anymore

 

[JackHanma]

Diane Kruger played Helen in that movie. Interestingly enough, she is a German model. So Germanic features were their criteria for the most beautiful Greek woman of her era when they were casting for that movie back in the early 2000's

There are blonde and blue eyed Greeks, I have some in my family. There are no Subsaharans with Germanic features. This maybe the dumbest thing I have ever read. She also happens to fit the description of Helen from the actual source material.

 

[SJRB]

Yeah man I'd start a war for that.

 

[spookyfish]

This is kinda it, isn't it? Everything in this movie looks and feels off to such a degree that it's jarring. Sloppy, weird and out of place writing, bad costume design, sloppy set and prop design, bizarre casting.

It feels random and aimless, soulless even. Nolan has made some good movies and some bad movies but they always had a certain flair about them. They all have something intriguing. This movie however has nothing.

Maybe Nolan's soul is not into it for some reason.

It's seriously LOOKS (to me) as if a high schooler is putting together a movie based on the Cliffs Notes of The Odyssey without actually reading the book.

Also: "Let's GOOOOOO."