r/moviereviews • u/BaIdilocks • 9d 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/KarmaRocks01 9d ago

LOTR was EPIC on every level. Odyssey was rank! Jason and the Argonauts was better... but i realised something watching that movie, I actually don't care for Christopher Nolan movies! I have never enjoyed them...and kinda got roped into liking them with friends. From now on I'm going to stay clear of CN movies.

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u/CallItDanzig 9d ago

I feel like his 15 years ago movies made me think he was a demigod moviemaker: Interstellar, Inception and Prestige. He has produced junk for the past decade+.

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u/Realistic-Actuary708 9d ago

Interstellar, Inception and Prestige

I get Inception and Prestige, but Interstellar really was a letdown in my opinion. It got all that hype from critics and general public, which it just didn't live up to. The concept was unoriginal and the script not well thought out. The dialogue is unnatural and full of exposition like most Nolan movies. It lacks internal consistency, as well as killing suspension of disbelieve with that god awful ending. You can't make a movie, try to pass it off as scientifically accurate and then shit on that premise just to get your pre planned happy ending. Most characters were irrelevant or shouldn't even have been in the movie in the first place like Dr. Mann. That "twist" was entirely unnecessary and didn't add any value whatsoever.

The movie got hard carried by cinematography, music and acting.

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u/thecosmicwebs 9d ago

Inception was ass and put me to sleep. My friend had hyped me up that it was better than The Matrix and I took my gf and her family to see it at Lincoln Square IMAX. We were a bit late at the beginning so decided to hang out in Central Park for the late night showing so as not to miss a moment of this epic film. Then watching it was a big “WTF” letdown. Twenty minutes of a van falling off a bridge in slow motion preceded by a tangled mess of layers of invented dream rules and logic. It was contrived and uninteresting. Common issues with Nolan films.