I liked it, but I found it visually disappointing. No gods except Athena, Sirens boring, Hades boring, Circe boring (except the transformation scene, that was sick).

My brother just said I should go see it, and said almost everything was practical, even the cyclops

And yet, $250 million budget for practical effects. Could have saved money on CGI, which is a bonkers thing to say.

Unless the movie is Star Wars or Avengers: Endgame or Avatar, nobody should be spending a quarter of a billion dollars on a movie. Dune 2's budget was $190 million, for a sci-fi epic, with a proven audience. This is just a fantasy story.

Making the budget on debut is incredible lucky, but it might still be considered a "flop" because of the extra $200M or whatever of marketing budget.

with a proven audience

Christopher Nolan is his own brand that has a proven audience. In a sense, Universal paid handsomely to poach him from Warner Brothers, and giving him big budgets is part of that deal.

And he has yet to disappoint or not make money so it's working fine. It already made over $260 million globally and the weekend isn't even over yet. It will absolutely still be the biggest movie to see for the next several weeks so it did it's job. Sometimes I feel like there isn't one thing on Lemmy that people can't find something to complain about! I can't wait to see it still, but there were no good seats at any theater near me when i finally decided to go. Next weekend it is!

Matt did not read the script.

Lemmy is just full of contrarians because it's not-reddit. I've learned to just accept it at this point.

I don't know what that means. He said in an interview that he didn't. He just said "yes."

Fuck the chuds who thought it'd flop because of Elliot Page and a black Helen of Troy.

It'll do fine, it still won't make it a good movie (nothing to do with that) it'll be a typical Hollywood pander film, big visuals, little substance. Oppenheimer was praised for being a mediocre piece of crap.

right wingers have always got thier panties in a wad over ELLIOT page because he transitioned.

I still don't really know what you're trying to say. Did you mean to type "special effects" instead of "practical" at the beginning of your comment?

Yeah it's like how Australia was originally a penal colony for Britain...

Many people are here because they were banned from Reddit. For better and for worse.

Those of us who voluntarily came here back during the API bullshit are old hat at this point.

Critical Drinker got this one completely wrong.

Practical effects are more expensive than computer generated, both are special effects.

A fully accurate movie about ancient Greece would have a lot MORE queer stuff

The whole internet is full of contrarians. I don't know why so many movie-goers are so determined not to enjoy anything

Anytime I look up a forum thread of a movie I'm watching/wanting to watch (spoiler-free), at least half of the comments are "this movie was trash and you should feel bad for liking it."

And the other half feel the need to justify why they liked it to the half that hated it for reasons they literally can't put into words (if they do it's always the most contrived/overused excuse in critiquing).

Still annoyed by the armour not invented until hundreds of years later, though.

it was more because he's supposed to be a super soldier and he weighs 96 lbs.

even the cyclops

Didn't they say it would make lots of money because it is a Christopher Nolan movie.

Bad actor even before transition and very small even when they where female so kind of odd to be a soldier and when people thought he was Achilles.

Doesn't Disney spend that on most of their movies.

But he read it after accepting the job. Right?

It was a pretty short clip. He and some other big name actors apparently made fun of Robert Pattison because he wanted to read through the script before giving an answer. He said he and the others just said "yes" the moment they got the call.

I'm sure he read it eventually--at least his lines, but I have no idea of the timeline.

I highly doubt that. I haven't seen it yet but Nolan uses vfx in all his films. As he should, people who think "CGI always sucks" never know how much CGI is used that they don't see.

Nolan to chuds:

This benchmark comes with a caveat because ticket sales weren’t adjusted for inflation.

You know, you're the journalist writing the article. You could have just done that math for us instead of writing the parenthetical caveat

“If you don’t see ‘The Odyssey’ in Imax, you aren’t seeing it in the way that Chris Nolan intended,” says the company’s CEO

Translation "please don't pirate this movie. I know everyone prefers to just watch it at home in their underwear to having to deal with those kids in the back talking and the risk of getting long covid. But, please, think of our million dollar salaries."

No one said it would flop. Pretty much every one of the people criticising it for the clear issues said explicitly that it will be a huge hit and make tonnes of money.

That’s just the usual lie they peddle to get people like your brother to spread. It’s got CGI all over the place.

People, including the directors etc, claimed that vecna in stranger things was “100% practical, no cgi”. They claimed that there was no cgi in top gun maverick. The truth? Yeah they filmed practical things, but then replaced literally the entire things with cgi.

Nolan was essentially making it so the gods were just figments of people’s imagination.

It doesn't matter, he already made his money from the faux outrage he and other right wing grifters successfully generated. Whether his predictions are accurate is irrelevant because he doesn't have a reputation as a real film critic to uphold and the social media debate cycle is so fast nowadays that he can immediately pivot to a new "controversy" and start milking that.

I've seen plenty predicting it was going to be a massive flop. Not professional reviewers, just "anti-woke keyboard warriors"

In Troy (2004) Achilles effortless defeats a much larger and heavy warrior through seer skill. I've never anybody claiming that his size makes that scene bad or unrealistic.

I will hold my judgment until I see the movie.

Most likely written by AI. LLMs love to write "caveat"

Who?

https://thefederalist.com/tag/odyssey/

Second article expects a disaster, the top one saw the box results and walked back

BY: [AUGUSTE MEYRAT]

Who cares what random nobodies thought. None of the actual big voices in the industry who know what they’re talking about said it would flop. Everyone with half a brain knows a Nolan film in 2026 is going to be a financial smash hit.

What was the budget + marketing for this movie?

He's a journalist, not mathematician! :)

Don't worry, I won't pirate it.

Totally not because he's a total joke of a soldier

Achilles was an immortal demi-god. Do you even Greek mythology?

Immortal? Spoiler alert: he was killed with arrows to the chest.

And not a demi-god.

I explicitly said they were keyboard warriors, not reviewers, and the original post I answered said "nobody", not "nobody that I know of".