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[maja-paja]

[goldensunset]

>‘this thing is too generic and tropey’

>look inside

>forefather of that genre

[firestorm09890]

[frankbelloriley]

[neornithes]

Cannot stress enough: regardless if you like or don’t like or won’t see the movie version, read the Odyssey! Listen to the audiobook! It’s engaging and entertaining, a lot of it is familiar from other myths and stories, and it’s moving and funny. Athena is trying to lay low among mortals but repeatedly leaves conversations by turning into an eagle and flying away. It’s great

[rafterdarkr]

why are all these modern aus for the Odyssey set in a high school. where's the retelling where Odysseus is just a guy lost in an airport who keeps missing his connecting flights home due to a comical series of delays and disgruntled airline employees

[here-to-screamm]

Okay so I genuinely like the Odyssey. Like it was just a high quality movie

That being said…

There was certainly a few things that I had qualms with, some serious concerns and some smaller things I was personally just not crazy about

But the main thing

This movie wasn’t about Odysseus

It was a very good movie about a man having a very long journey home, but that man wasn’t Odysseus

At no point in the whole three hour run time did I think “wow he’s clever”. The movie said he was clever but it never proved it. Every choice he made seemed built on spite, sorrow, or even just pure stupidity

So yes very high quality movie that was beautifully shot, but no it was not about Odysseus

[finnn-thehumann]

YES !! YES !! THIS 👍👍👍👍👍👍

[hashtagloveloses]

hearing that the trojan horse appears in nolan's odyssey as a representation of his part in the fall of bronze age civilization, and his greatest source of guilt that partially causes how hard it is for him to get home, and then seeing the movie studio make the horse into a popcorn bucket is like if they made a Little Boy popcorn bucket for fucking oppenheimer

[ceevee5]

[wereokarentwemoony]

In light of the Odyssey movie coming out this is my formal PSA that Helen of Troy is actually Helen of Sparta, Troy is the city she was stolen and brought to. The entire Trojan war is the Greeks trying to get her back from Troy, because she is from Sparta. I feel like we all collectively forget this.

[grgie]

i can understand changing elements of a story for an adaption (and im a big advocate for this! no adaptation can or should ever strive to be completely faithful to its source material) however. cutting the nobody part from the odyssey is a huge indicator that you have fundamentally misunderstood odysseus as a character i fear

[quakerjoe]

[unconventiononthelawofthesea]

atheist quarterback throws a hail darwin

[akindlyowl]

agnostic quarterback throws a hail maybe

[apollothegod22]

me: three hour movies are often unnecessary and boring. example: most of them

also me: give me five hour project hail mary cut or I'll-

[cryingspaceblob]

“Whenever I think about my impending death, I think about Rocky instead”

WHENEVER I THINK ABOUT MY IMPENDING DEATH, I THINK ABOUT ROCKY INSTEAD

[anarchistmemedistro]

[socialistfremenist]

[lessthcn3]

Dr. Ryland mf Grace at Erid, realizing he doesn’t have to pay taxes, or his student loans anymore

[i-merani]