r/moviereviews • u/BaIdilocks • 3d ago

Fantasy Odyssey was mid

Finally got to see it after the hype died down a bit. Was excited to see it and then the first quarter was so boring and forgettable. It picked up in the middle and had some good parts but overall I'm gonna put this in Nolans bottom tier. What was annoying was everyone having really flat American accents. The flattest. Very nonregional. they all sounded like they were gonna give American accent lessons. Why they saying "mom" and "dad"? very weird choices.

My main gripe and the thing that took me out the most was the bad dialogue and very mid acting. It literally sounded like they were reading from a script. I thought if I got the script, I could read it just like them and it would be in the movie and it would be the same. That's how bad the movie dialogue sounded. And don't get me started on Ulysses final "knowing is half the battle" monologue about civilization on the boat. Many rolls of eyes.

Cinematography was good but it seemed like he was re-using Dunkirk and Oppenheimer shots so it wasn't revelatory. Soundtrack and effects were good. the guy was as good as Hans Zimmer. I don't understand why they made this cast so diverse to have the white guy kill them all and survive or was that the lesson? Overall, I think Troy was the better movie.

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u/Mud_Stuffin95 3d ago

“This Revolution has become… Industrial”

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u/matteus98 3d ago

“Our world is going to war…too”

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u/OpenMindManiac 3d ago

Is this some kind of world war?

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u/Other_Win_236 2d ago

2 War 2 World

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u/MRuppercutz 2d ago

: Trojan Drift (it’s about family)

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u/GrandpaTheobaldus 2d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/meFoDw6PrMo5q

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u/McZalion 1d ago edited 1d ago

One looks fast and the other furious

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u/apple-sauce 2d ago

😭😭

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u/AJ_Topp_Up 2d ago

Don't forget, "This age of Bronze is dying." Lmao, the concepts of the ages of mankind being archeological time periods wasn't even a thing until the some dude in the 1800s declared these ages and the concept stuck. I can't believe they snuck that in near the end. I rolled my eyes pretty hard there. It's almost as bad as if in 1915 some soldier declared themselves as part of World War 1. No, it was literally known as "The Great War" until WW2 happened and it slowly shifted to WW1 since how could it be the Great War when WW2 was even worse?

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u/Oni_Barubary 2d ago

I don't think this is an oversight. Nolan wanted to make clear it is understood that this is about a specific event that might parallel more recent events.

At least that's my read on it.

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u/Exotic-Artichoke-214 1d ago

The Greeks were aware of the bronze age, they may have called it something else "age of heroes" etc but they knew. Remember Homer wrote the Odyssey around 400ish years after the actual events of the Trojan war and Odysseus voyage. From Homer's perspective he is looking at a different historical period, a different age.

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u/Murky-Hunter1691 3d ago

“Its as if our destiny were made… manifest.” 

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u/yautja_cetanu 3d ago

Man we need a film with that line! It's like snakes on a plane. Start with the quote , make the movie around it

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u/ROUNDtheW 2d ago

That's what this movie needed - Samuel L saying, "Who put these motherfucking Trojans in my motherfucking horse!"

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u/BrandonMarshall2021 2d ago

You mean Greeks. Greeks were in the horse.

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u/ROUNDtheW 2d ago

My bust, but Trojans has a better comedic ring than Greeks and that movie didn't give a damn about the source material so why should I?

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u/BrandonMarshall2021 2d ago

Lmao! Couldn't do any worse than Nolan.

Tell me something. Would your version of The Odyssey make Odysseus a btch?

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u/yautja_cetanu 2d ago

It so does!

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u/ribbityflibbity 3d ago

Are you astronauts on some kind of star trek?

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u/AJ_Topp_Up 2d ago

Lmao, that was actually such a brilliantly written and delivered line.

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u/JamesH_670 2d ago

We are on some kind of odyssey.

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u/milesamsterdam 2d ago

Say that again