[Movie] The Odyssey: The stuff of legend
I am no classical scholar, but I am well aware of some of the Greek myths. The Trojan Horse is one of the best known and there have been some classic movies around those myths. I grew up watching those with the Ray Harryhausen animated monsters. Now we have a fresh take on this from Christopher Nolan who gave us some great Batman movies and Oppenheimer.
Nolan likes to film as much as possible for real rather than relying on CGI effects, but I suspect there are a fair few of those in the nearly three hours of this epic. There is a lot to fit in and he left plenty out. He also changed various things, but that is standard practice as a director will want to make the story flow in a certain way. Apparently the original story had a lot more sex, but we get enough violence. I am tempted to actually read it some time and there are lots of translations out there.
The story jumps around a bit in time, but then it is spanning about twenty years. You can sort of see where you are by how long and grey Matt Damon's beard is. I think he carries the lead role well. It does feel quite episodic as the crew visit various islands with strange inhabitants including a huge cyclops, armoured giants and a witch.
We have a couple of Marvel stars with Tom Holland (Spider Man) and Jon Bernthal (The Punisher). Robert Pattinson plays a bad guy trying to seduce Odysseus's queen Penelope. I think the cast is pretty good. Some period movies of this type can go for English accents, but this goes for American all the way, even with the British actors.
I know there has been some criticism of the casting. It is a mix of cultures, but then it is lacking Greek actors and it is not like they would do it all in ancient Greek with subtitles. It is a myth and so you can take liberties. I would trust Nolan to pick the right actors.
Apparently people flew to London to see this in the big IMAX cinema. There will not be many places you can see it at full quality, but it looked good on the biggest screen of our local cinema. It really did not feel like nearly three hours. I expect it will win some awards.
One of the trailers we saw before the main feature was for Digger featuring a heavily made-up Tom Cruise. That looks totally bonkers with some elements of Dr Strangelove.
Rating: 89/100
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Glad you enjoyed the film 🎥 @steevc.
We look forward to seeing it in an IMAX theatre. There is one in Reading, Massachusetts that we could visit on Friday before we return to the UK.
If we wait until we fly into Manchester Sunday night, we could see The Odyssey at the Vue IMAX there or go to Cineworld IMAX in Leeds.
I read an interview in which Christopher Nolan confessed that he was half-way through the project before he felt as though he could pull off the IMAX filming. Apparently, those cameras are a whole other ball game!
Interesting to see your post coming to us via the scrobble.life frontend. I’ve not tried it, although I heard @acidyo pitching it. He sounded excited that it came together.
I didn't even look at booking for the London IMAX as it was just easy to go to the local independent cinema. Of course some people will end up seeing the movie on their phones.
The scrobble site could become a hub for reviewing various things. I have logged a lot of music listening there. Some fun games too.
We’ll go have peek 👀 at it now. Could be a good water-cooler moment for our #cuppajoe hangout before #cwh.
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Are you able to get a booking there? I looked at my local lazer imax theater and it's sold out for a few weeks.
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I agree with you on the assessment of Digger. I saw the trailer for it the other day and all I could say was WTF!
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LOL! I'll see what opinions are like on that. I'm not against some surreal comedy so it could be good.
I couldn't really even follow what the plot was supposed to be!
Wow! Your review has made me want to watch this movie—which I knew nothing about—and I was blown away by the trailer. It has a fantastic cast, and the intensity of the scenes has really made me eager to see it. @steevc 😉
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I hope you enjoy it.
Three hours is a long time for a movie, hubs isn't too interested so I probably won't be watching it. We haven't even watched Oppenheimer.
I've seen clips of it on telly, and it looks epic. If I was to watch it, I'd definitely go to a big screen
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I've seen some long films where they had an interval, but not for this one. Sometimes a story needs that space. We saw Oppenheimer at the cinema too.
It seems like I'm the only one who can't watch the movie yet now... I was planning to watch on previous weekend but i can't.... Hope to watch it this weekend
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I liked your spoiler-free review because I don't want to ruin the experience. I've heard it's very good, so I hope to see it soon; I've been wanting to for a while.
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I always try to avoid spoilers, but then a lot of people will know elements of this story. It's even been done on The Simpsons.
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I have the attention span of a gnat so not really into anything this long, 90 mins is about my limit. Probably hollywood rewriting history again as well? Give me a Scandi Noir any day of the week
Well it's a myth rather than history so anything goes. We all have our own tastes. This one held my attention throughout even if it slowed down at times.
bit like guardians of the galaxy then
Odyssey buzz is taking the entire cinematic world by storm and this is a must see. Actually I intend to make a list of Nolan's movies and have some few days watching most of them.
Have fun with those. There may be some I haven't seen.
So much noise around it... Is a good one?
I thought so. It's not like a Marvel action movie and there are less monsters than some might expect, but that is okay with me.
This is really a stuff of ledgends.. the casting couldnt have been better
The sea effects were perfect.
I think the ciclops was no CGI... 🤣
A lot of stars in the movie for sure. It gives a strange feeling, like why spidermand is here? hehe
Also wanted to see it at IMAX, but it's very difficult to find...
In some films you will have a lot of scenes where nothing is 'real'. That can be distracting, but this one at least felt real.
Yeah. In the age of bad CGI the real effect shine.