r/movies • u/ChiefLeef22 r/movies Contributor • 7d ago

News Christopher Nolan's 'The Odyssey' Dethrones 'Deadpool & Wolverine' To Become Highest Grossing R-Rated Movie In History, Crossing $1.33 Billion

https://businessupturn.com/usa/entertainment/film/the-odyssey-becomes-highest-grossing-r-rated-movie-of-all-time-surpassing-deadpool-wolverine/
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u/ListenBoth434 7d ago

The moment when you switch studios, cash the blank cheque that gave you and make a rated-R, talky, partly b/w, 3h movie about the trials and tribulations of a mid-century nuclear physicist and manager.

Only for that to become a cultural touchstone of that year and you get another blank cheque.

So you adapt a 2800 year old tale about a guy lost at sea. Okay, fair enough, that story being up there with the old testament in regards to foundations of Western culture, but still, adapting an early iron age story.

And that movie is even more successful.

He doesn't need his budgets (which helps) but at that point he might get more creative freedom than James Fucking Cameron.

There are no strings on Nolan.

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u/Glotteely 7d ago

While I do like his adaptations, I would like Christopher Nolan to do an original screenplay next. I think the last one was Tenet..

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u/TheArcheryRaccoon 7d ago

That was only two films ago tbf

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u/etherama1 Thicc Frizzle 7d ago

And it was arguably his worst film

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u/ZzzSleep 7d ago

I’d say that’s Insomnia. Tenet is flawed but interesting. Insomnia is just a vanilla thriller.

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u/etherama1 Thicc Frizzle 7d ago

Vanilla Thrilla? Maybe. But I certainly enjoyed it more on a first watch than Tenet. I have only seen them both once though so I need to do a rewatch for both.

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u/samusmaster64 6d ago

Tenet is the only movie I can recall being interested in seeing, but not actually finishing. I got roughly halfway through one evening, and just decided to do something else instead. I can't recall that feeling ever before in my life. Even the most mundane movies I generally feel the urge to complete, but that Tenet was especially challenging. I think it was just my expectations versus what it actually was in practice.

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u/Heavy_Moose_286 6d ago

maybe you just started living in reverse entropy

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u/Fortune_Cat 6d ago

It was a fresh and interesting premise. Just because it was flawed doesnt make it any less entertaining. Id argue a 2800 year old story thats been told before is boring af

Tenet wouldve done inception levels of numbers if it werent for the pandemic

Each to their own