The Odyssey (2026)

they extended the odyssey 70mm imax run today, amc's system crashed out over the overload and tons of seats have sold out already for the 70mm imax screenings. FOMO is high with this movie, its entered that barbie sphere of people who follow trends have to say they saw it in 70mm imax. Its wild and a pretty neat phenomenon, nolan may be up there with James Cameron now on a "never bet against the guy". be fascinating to see what he does next, I think he said he's gonna take a 3 year break though before starting his next project.

spronk said:

they extended the odyssey 70mm imax run today

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Well clearly they're going to bankrupt themselves buying all those tickets.

Bald Brah said:

Why would we care what you shitlibs spend your money on? I can state for a fact it will never see a dime of mine.

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Calm down, nerd. You tried to turn your headlights into "angry eyes". You're a far bigger faggot than you think you are.

Porkchop said:

I really liked that this felt like an old school movie instead of some marvel cgi shit like most recent films. The sets, the sounds, the quick cuts were all top tier. My friend called it "pretentious", but I liked that Nolan put them in those actual locations.

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It's wild to think Netflix gave the Russotards $320 million to make the absolutely embarrassing Electric State. Nothing practical. Just pure trash for $70 million more than the Odyessy production.

Nolan chose actors who -mostly- put asses in seats, along with his own name. So no, I'm not entirely surprised the movie made money or headlines. But none of that makes the criticisms wrong: the script was adapted based on the writings of a cunt who hates the source material, characters were added or altered to fulfill Hollywood obligations, the dialogue is NOT the poetry of the original but a street-slang, simpleton re-shaping that can't even be called "parody" without further insulting the original text.

This has zero to do with being a Conservative, or a Trump supporter; it's just a fact. And yes, we keep bitching about it because if only one side is engaging by causing the other to remain silent, then that side wins outright. So fuck'em... I'm going to keep voicing the truth about what an insult this kind of bullshit really is. Our heritage, and our culture, did NOT come from the likes of Somalia, or anywhere in backwards-ass Africa, it came from the great minds of our European ancestors. And they need to keep hearing that we haven't forgotten.

it would be interesting to see a good historic movie or multi season HBO show about the "dark ages" after the fall of the full Western Roman Empire (500-1000AD) when mathematics, infrastructure, philosophy, and other sciences regressed in the West while Islamic caliphates experienced their own flourishing golden age in Baghdad and Egypt. Both empires collapsed completely due to the invasion by the Mongol hordes around 1200 AD. I think a lot of shit was going down in China and the Mughal (Indian) empires too at the time.

It would make for crazy good TV but also piss off pretty much everyone as it shows the West falling due to religious strangeholds, Islam flourishing with more tolerant practices, and then both becoming lazy and succumbing to the more vibrant Mongols. I always wonder who the modern day Mongols are who will take down the self destructive Western empires.

It would be hilarious if Nolan took on Genghis Khan next and cast Ryan Gosling as Genghis Khan, Emma Stone as his wife, Tom Holland as Kublai, etc.

Looked today to see if a 70mm IMAX ticket was available. The theatre near me only plays Thur-Sun but they are sold out for at least all of August.

Rabbit_Games said:

But none of that makes the criticisms wrong: the script was adapted based on the writings of a cunt who hates the source material, characters were added or altered to fulfill Hollywood obligations, the dialogue is NOT the poetry of the original but a street-slang, simpleton re-shaping that can't even be called "parody" without further insulting the original text.

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1. Struggling to find anything that points to Nolan using Emily Wilson's translation as his one source. I'm pretty sure he used many. Can we point to what exactly is Wilson influenced in this adaptation?
2. Characters added? Are you talking about the larger Greek cycle being used? What's the bonus characters we need or don't need?
3. Agreed the modern dialog is cringe sometimes. 100%.