The Odyssey (2026)

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Dr.Retarded said:
I mean is there anything in particular you would recommend based upon my initial post? I'm all for checking out something worth it, but we both know how we settle on the Frankenstein monstrosity that came out, what was it last year?

And just to save you some time:
Die kill repeat
Kill Bill
Matrix
Gotm

All decent female heroines.
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Blade Runner 2049
Fargo season 5
The Hunt

For sure

Note about the hunt: it starts off like a jab at the right but then turns on the left. It's hilariously balanced
 
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Dr.Retarded said:
Wasn't the short story Red Nails? It's been a while since I read or listened to Howard's works of Conan, but I want to say that was the storry.
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A lot of his stuff is free on youtube. Pretty awesome!
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Dr.Retarded said:
I had typed out my response to @OU Ariakas earlier, and I was sitting there thinking about it more over my coffee.

You start going into horror movies specifically, which Terminator was, and one of the first ones that popped in my head was Kirsty Cotton, specifically in the second film.

If you look at Hellraiser, it's that same sort of character arc that Ripley had dealing with an unknown threat almost beat for beat, just totally different settings.

She's trapped inside a house where she knows something evil is up there consuming things in the attic/ship. Confronts the threat, on the house/ship blows up.

Kristi is then waylaid and called a lunatic because of cenobites/aliens, and then she ends up having to descend into hell/nest. Your firefight moment is the cenobite showdown for hellraiser where you get the audience pumped up, but then ends horribly, but she still comes out on top.
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The horror genre could singlehandedly show how to create "strong" female characters who the audience embrace, while also even being considered a trope. There's no excuse especially because of the latter point, nor is there some kind of misogynistic culture overtaking audiences as the media loves to frame it.

This is pattern recognition of shit, plain and simple, and more people are catching on to become positively fatigued of anything that sets off their alarms. Producers of movies, shows, and games decided to give their original audiences the finger to chase after a nonexistent one so that they can boast to one another of how much more "woke" they are in a virtue-signaling competition that can only end in complete catastrophic comedy.
 
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Bald Brah said:
A lot of his stuff is free on youtube. Pretty awesome!View attachment 633919
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Yeah there's a surprising amount of Howard and Lovecraft on there that I listen to at night.

Audible came out though with a few anthologies of all of the Conan stories in what's supposed to be in chronological order, all narrated by Todd McLaren. Those are the ones that I had listened to originally, and they're fantastic. There's even a very good Solomon Kane anthology, but a different narrator.

They're totally worth the credits if you have an audible account.
 
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Do you think Achilles will appear to Odysseus with Patroclus' rotting dick in his ass, just as woke libtard Plato interpreted it?
 
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Do you think Achilles will appear to Odysseus with Patroclus' rotting dick in his ass, just as woke libtard Plato interpreted it?
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I would assume that's the only reason to cast Ellen Page? If you already know what a rotting dick attached to your obliterated pussy is like, you probably can handle one in your ass as well?
 
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i am genuinely curious how audiences are gonna respond, i have a feeling the movie is gonna open huge (next weekend) but how will word of mouth be.

free screenings this tuesday too in USA
 
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spronk said:


i am genuinely curious how audiences are gonna respond, i have a feeling the movie is gonna open huge (next weekend) but how will word of mouth be.

free screenings this tuesday too in USA
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Word of mouth will kill it for half the audience, and boost it for the other half.
 
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OU Ariakas said:
It has been grating on me that Ripley and Connor are the only two women that ever get mentioned in this debate so I was trying to think of some others that would be good. Rosamund Pike in Hostiles and Gone Girl is that type of female character, albeit diametrically opposite roles, in both of these movies. I would argue that she can elevate average writing to something better, but just doesn't really do that many "guy" movies. Carrie Anne Moss as Trinity is also that way in the Matrix Trilogy, badass but not invincible. Claire Danes in Homeland was a neurotic mess, but it was well written and acted to show her being competent and, at times, almost prescient but also very human. Hell, you could argue that the 3 lead women in Friends were "strong female characters" because they did not cower in fear whenever something went sideways. None of the examples above would you ever think of any of them as acting masculine, but none of the are weak wallflowers and it really seems to make these modern examples stand out as deliberately trying to make women act like a man because the writers/actresses do not understand the difference between strength and aggression/bravado.
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come on, how are you fuckers not going to have Selene right up there.
Kate Beckensale in Underworld.
 
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Yeah, I have no idea where the box office ends up.

It's worth reminding people that Dunkirk - an event in living memory for some, involving countries (France / England) bigger than Greece, compared to The Odyssey, 'merely' did $190M dom / $550M WW. Then again, The Odyssey has far bigger star power than Dunkirk's "Tom Hardy in a minor role".

Plus the X factor being how much of the Barbenheimer viral audience comes back. I'll say $250M-$300M dom / $650M-$750M WW - which at least domestically would put it in 3rd or 4th for the summer after Toy Story and Spider-Man, but fighting with Obsession (a movie made for a single digit fraction of The Odyssey's budget) for third place, and questioning if it ends up profitable overall.
 
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I can't see the Odyssey being a big hit overseas. China and Asia in general aren't favorable to woke aka unexpected Africans.

I guess it's going to hang it's hat on how much black fatigue is affecting general audience in America.

I know I've always been a huge Greek mythology fan. I've read all the stories from a very young age. Loved all the old stop motion movies.

But I won't be seeing this.
 
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