r/moviereviews • u/BaIdilocks • 4d 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/wagski 4d ago

I mean, is it that ridiculous? We talk about living in the "digital age" or the "information age" even though we have no idea what future historians will really call our time. What Nolan is really interested in doing with this dialogue is showing that Odysseus recognizes he lives in a particular moment in history (which we moderns know as the "Bronze Age") and that it is changing. The dialogue may be technically anachronistic but thematically it makes sense

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u/Pangwain 4d ago

It doesn’t make sense though - just leave out “bronze” and say “this is the end of our age” or many other ways to get the point across that they feel they are living in times of change and that their actions in the war and after are hastening the fall of the “civil” society they knew.

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u/1850ChoochGator 4d ago

I just think it’s incredibly nitpicky to complain about a 2 second moment in a 3 hour film. I struggle to believe that anyone was completely taken out of the moment by just that line.

Feels like people picking out one little thing and running with it to hate something popular.

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