Nolan's The Odyssey - Potentially could be epic or an epic flop.

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Sinner's Sandwich said:
After I read that pooner Page was involved I gave up on the movie. I'm going to pirate it because I won't give money to a movie that has trannies in it.
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It would be hilarious if Page was cast as Telemachus's catamite.

TungstenCarbide said:
Urgh. I had hoped she would be Calypso. Traditions locate her island near the coast of Algeria, so it wouldn't be that far-fetched to have an actress of color playing that role.
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North Africa at that time was not full of Sub-Saharan negroids.
 
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Whatever happened to the concept of "epic"?
 
Dolan must use a 20-million-dollar 32k resolution ultra IMAX camera with alien gamut, and his films still look like absolute garbage.

It takes some talent, I'll give him that.
 
Rome's rightful successor said:
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Nolan is really hoping for the big 1b, especially since Oppenheimer did not reach it. The only reason to watch the film is to see it on 15/70 bc this this is the first, and probably only, time a movie will be filmed purely in this format with 1.43:1. - Which is a shame because Nolan is the only one who has really, really used the format. (There have been digital films shown on 70mm, Joker 2 and Dune P2. Both were a crop job, and apparently the new Pascal Fantastic Four film uses 1.43:1 shots for 5 minutes on digital showings for galactus at the something like 10 theatres capable of showing it on dual laser). The only non Nolan film on 70mm since 2016 (batman v superman) was Sinners.

I really dislike liking a format for it to be mostly slop.
 
Rome's rightful successor said:
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I've got the book, I'm good too.

Nolan has made some great films but he's also made some stinkers and the more recent history is not going in the right direction. Everything that's been put out (to generate positivity for this film) screams modern audience revisionism the casting being the red flag of all red flags. Even more so than with most adaptations given it's age, there's a core reason why the Odyssey (and the Iliad) are classics - they are good stories; really good stories that have literally stood the test of time.

It's a shame Nolan doesn't show even half the integrity he has the reputation for applying to the technical movie making process towards the story adaptation process. He may be a better storyteller than your typical Hollywood writer but he's delusional if he thinks he's better than Homer.

Re pre ordering a year in advance for super 27 dimension IMAX with twelve individually tailed loudspeakers for each reclining armchair; I cannot fathom the mentality. If the film is a turd it will still be a turd on the biggest screen ever and seeing every detail of the condensation forming on the turd and hearing every leg of every fly landing on the turd won't change that.
 
Sinner's Sandwich said:
Imagine pre-ordering to watch a mutated, hideous Ellen Pooner pretending to be a greek man.
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Tbf, I was thinking about doing so but the tickets dropped when I was trying to get to sleep where I was (which tbf, I would have likely bought). But as noted above, I'm an autist for 70mm of all forms, not for Nolan. (hell I am the type of person who went to go see a 70mm showing of Terminator 2). Nothing beats celluloid.
 
Franco Piavoli did the whole gritty and realistic aesthetic better with his version of the Odyssey, and that was at a much smaller budget. Nolan managed to make what should look like a unique looking movie and made it look like every other movie out there, a lot like those faux drab and grey medieval movies Hollywood loves to make.
 
VisaMallgoth said:
Franco Piavoli did the whole gritty and realistic aesthetic better with his version of the Odyssey, and that was at a much smaller budget. Nolan managed to make what should look like a unique looking movie and made it look like every other movie out there, a lot like those faux drab and grey medieval movies Hollywood loves to make.
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I hate to say it because I've been a defender of Nolan's movies (even Tenet, but not so much The Dark Knight Rises), but this movie has from its inception looked like serious ass.

The cast is uninspiring, there's no story hook that feels like it's being told uniquely (if it's non-linear, it may feel like a rehash of Oppenheimer, and I'm not even going to use that as a defense as frankly, it could have just been two movies), it doesn't look visually exciting.

I hate not being excited for a new Nolan movie, but here we are.
 
Exactly what I feared, way too gray and dull looking for a movie based on a Greek epic. I like the spine on Agamemnon's helmet, it looks badass, but then the rest of the armor is your typical Hollywood Greek nonsense. If they did more unique stuff like spines on helmets or painted armor or something it would look great. It's a shame that Nolan had an opportunity to go balls to the wall crazy to set the movie apart from other Odyssey adaptations, other movies out right now that also use that dull color scheme, and even his own movies and he didn't do it. If he can do some interesting shots with all the mythological elements it might be redeemed a bit.
 
I read somewhere that Nolan was in the running to direct Troy and this feels like a copy of that movie down to the lack of supernatural elements. Troy had a dope fight and an all-white cast though, so it's automatically superior. Hopefully this bombs and Nolan ends up having to direct Marvel movies or something because he deserves it for his retarded IMAX autism and mediocre filmography.
 
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