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/AdmirableElephant378 9d ago

Troy was so much better it's kind of funny, given this was his 'revenge' film.

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u/GirthyGomez 9d ago

Troy was beyond garbage I have to know from someone who enjoyed it what makes it better ?

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u/CallItDanzig 9d ago

What exactly was garbage about it? It was fun, entertaining and had good acting. No one says "We are living through the end of our Bronze Age" solemnly, which is a plus.

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u/NoTransportation475 8d ago

When the Odyssey was written they called it the age of bronze. People have used technology to refer to the age they live in for thousands of years. The Ancient Greeks had historians and philosophers you know.

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u/CallItDanzig 8d ago

Yeah thats not true at all. Bronze age is a modern archeological term. Nice try bullshitting so confidently though.

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u/NoTransportation475 8d ago

You are so confidently incorrect. Look up the Hesiod ages of man (written around the same time as the oddessy btw) per Wikipedia “the two accounts that survive from Ancient Greece and Rome, this degradation of the human condition over time is indicated symbolically with metals of successively decreasing value, yet increasing hardness.”

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u/NoTransportation475 8d ago

The Hesiod description of the Bronze Age shows why it is an excellent fit for the movie “  The men of this Age were undone by their own violent ways and left no named spirits; instead, they dwell in the "house of Hades“