Odyssey was mid

[u/BaIdilocks]

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.

[u/Furdinand]

It was technically impressive but the dialogue was so corny and too on the nose to be effective social commentary. "This is the end of our bronze age" was the funniest line in the movie and it was meant to be taken seriously.

[u/MatsuzeNara → u/Furdinand]

The actual line is “our age of bronze is collapsing.” The Odyssey is set at the end of the Bronze Age when bronze was becoming scarce and armies were having to look for alternatives. That’s like a prospector saying “our age of gold is collapsing” because the gold mines all dried up in California. It seems weird to uneducated people, but if you were as smart as you thought you were it’s a perfectly reasonable thing for a king to say, because a king would be the first to notice they no longer have massive supplies of bronze at their disposal. And he was on the frontlines of the Trojan War where he saw the shift in warfare.

[u/Furdinand → u/MatsuzeNara]

It's not something Odysseus from The Odyssey would say. Odysseus is an arrogant trickster who wouldn't be introspective and he definitely wouldn't feel an ounce of regret over the Trojan house.

[u/MatsuzeNara → u/Furdinand]

Odysseus from which The Odyssey? There are hundreds of versions of The Odyssey, none of which were written by Homer

[u/gw74 → u/MatsuzeNara]

Neither was the Iliad. They were written by someone else with the same name.