Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey (spoilers, don't read if you haven't seen the movie))

[emptiness dancing]

Anybody want to talk about this movie?

I was expecting to watch an epic like troy. Just "mentions" of gods or deities

Then the cyclops appear. I love it. 
Before this, I remember the cyclops as just being cartoonish.

I means just look at this.

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But Christopher Nolan's version is a semi "cosmic horror' cyclops.

It didn't talk to and give a damn about humans, it just eats them.
it looks so real and unnerving . 

[Sincerity]

I really liked the movie. I liked how it was adapted and how the story was told. It also looked beautiful.

Yeah the cyclop was cool haha.

One of my favourite things was the twist with Athena.

[Leo Gura]

9 hours ago, emptiness dancing said:

I means just look at this.

That is peak cyclops. Nolan ain't beating that.

The horn is chef's kiss.

Edited 13 hours ago by Leo Gura

[thenondualtankie]

But that cyclops was really dumb to keep the humans trapped in there 😹

[emptiness dancing]

14 hours ago, Sincerity said:

One of my favourite things was the twist with Athena.

Am I right to think that Athena took the form of a beheaded Priestress to force Odysseus to contemplate on what he has done?

 

 

12 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

The horn is chef's kiss.

LOL!!! I guess beauty is in the eye of the beholder?
 

 

7 hours ago, thenondualtankie said:

But that cyclops was really dumb to keep the humans trapped in there 😹

In hindsight, you're right! I don't the whole narrative why the cyclops was the way it is. 
I just remembered his demeanor in the cave was  disturbing. 

[Cubbage]

@Leo Gura fr. I've not seen the odyssey yet but I already know Nolan will squander thr fantastical/mythical elements of the story, like the cyclops. Such a shame.

[Apparition of Jack]

Man, as someone of Greek background this movie is gonna be so ass. Not because the movie itself will be bad (I’m not gonna see it so idk how it’ll be artistically) but because it’s gonna convince a whole bunch of people that Odysseus and Penelope were a bunch of rich WASPs from New England and not the swarthy Mediterranean people they historically were.
 

Greeks (and Turks, and Lebanese etc) have historically been treated poorly in the West and the lack of inclusion in a movie based off our own myths is gonna do a lot to erase us from the public consciousness. It’s like, the white guys love our history but then pretend we don’t exist, which one is it?

Edited 6 hours ago by Apparition of Jack

[NewKidOnTheBlock]

2 hours ago, Apparition of Jack said:

Man, as someone of Greek background this movie is gonna be so ass. Not because the movie itself will be bad (I’m not gonna see it so idk how it’ll be artistically) but because it’s gonna convince a whole bunch of people that Odysseus and Penelope were a bunch of rich WASPs from New England and not the swarthy Mediterranean people they historically were.
 

Greeks (and Turks, and Lebanese etc) have historically been treated poorly in the West and the lack of inclusion in a movie based off our own myths is gonna do a lot to erase us from the public consciousness. It’s like, the white guys love our history but then pretend we don’t exist, which one is it?

Anything historical comming out of Hollywood these days is guaranteed to be laced with strange historical revisionisms, and guaranteed to be cringe pretty much. They can't even remotely make myths/fiction salvageable