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It's funny to see all the positive (including audience) reactions, after most of the internet discourse over the last few months was about how terrible the movie would be.
I'm lucky enough to have a (digital) IMAX theatre relatively nearby, so I'm planning to watch it there in a few weeks when the screenings are getting less crowded.
Honestly, 99% of that, from what I could infer without spoiling every detail of the movie, were incels upset some dark skin actress was cast as Helen of Troy
Garbage people are louder than ever
People also made a big thing out of the helmets being period-inaccurate. Which they absolutely are, but it was weird how people seemed to care so much for this movie in particular, whereas no-one seemed to give a shit about all the inaccuracies in the Gladiator movies for example.
They were very upset about Denzel being in Rome.
Also, I bet a lot of the people complaining about that loved 300 and will tell people how it's actually really deep and has an important message
The message of 300 was deep. We need more hot man on man action films.
If I paint abs on my flap does it count?
of course it counts! it's my only hope
Hasn't pretty much every period piece ever produced been criticized through the lens of historical accuracy?
Do you know that for a fact? Or did you just not pay attention?
Saw a lot of talk about the accents and the period incorrect uniforms. But yeah, internet gonna internet.
Even if that were the case, the Odyssey is a work of fiction; we don't even know if Homer actually existed, if he was a single person or multiple story tellers blended together by lack of details...
"Critics" pretending to know and be outraged about X not been exactly what they thought when they read the book cliff notes in their mom's sock smelling basement are just noise
It's so weird to be complaining about the accents. It's a movie that takes place in ancient Greece, FFS; we have no idea what their accents would sound like if they were somehow capable of speaking modern English, since their entire culture pre-dates audio recording technology (and modern English, for that matter) by multiple millenia.
Seriously, people are just weirdly conditioned to the classical world speaking with a British accent for some reason, I guess.
the people that complaint about accents probably would walk away if the movie was actually made in ancient greek with subtitles
even so, who cares? it's not a documentary
Yes, I agree with you. Those were simply additional bloviated discussions I saw.
Also no greek representation
That or the fact that a trans person played a supporting role
the horror!!!! someone I don't know does something different from what I would do!!! it's the end of the world I taell ya
To be fair, the trailers weren't very flattering. I wasn't expecting the movie to be that good either.
Yeah, that's fair. I didn't think the trailers were amazing either, although it did seem like they were purposefully not giving too much away, which I appreciate. But people got really hung up on the smallest details to prematurely declare it a bad movie.
Of all the times for a movie trailer to finally show restraint, not spoiling the plot of a movie based on a ~3000 year old epic poem sure is something.
Which seems kinda crazy because wasn't the internet absolutely glazing Christopher Nolan just a couple years ago?
I still like his Dark Knight trilogy, and Inception is still fairly original.
That was before he cast a black woman to play "the face that launched a thousand ships" and a trans man to play... well, anyone, really.
It's just all stupid culture war bullshit.
Ah. Then I'll continue to enjoy his movies.
Not really. He's not as overrated as he used to be. People have started seeing through his Grand visuals combined with a heavy score. He's being heavily criticised for not able to write female characters.
I've had Christopher Nolan in the "Hit or miss" category since Interstellar and Dunkirk. Interstellar was so shit