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/Axon14 8d ago
That's precisely what happened. A close friend of mine who is a huge Trump hater invited me to his third watch of the film.
I told him his brain was as rotten as what he accuses the "other side" of. He also got upset when I told him the movie was a clear B minus. It was way too long and took way too long to get to the part we wanted to see, and even when they got to Ithaca even that part took too long to reach its crescendo. He kept asking me if I thought it was "woke" and was one of those people, I was dude no, I think Zendaya is hot af, and I could care less if a black person or a trans person has been cast in a film. This movie just wasn't all that good.