u/CaligarisPantry

Kind of like late stage INXS but maybe a little more rock-y?

Okay, best friends adjacent. Distant cousins maybe. Autistic loners who bond over proper grammar and sit at the kid’s table at family reunions. Not now obviously, because we’d sit with the adults due to our age, but you get where I’m going. Long live Nico!

Meh. I appreciate the scope and ambition. The story, obviously epic, was enthralling and well adapted. The monsters good, the scene with Cerce terrifying. The acting however was lack luster, the script clunky and edging on cliche. Odysseus’ promise to “return and bring everything” to a wounded but generally likable John Leguizamo had the air of a 90’s action hero. Matt Damon, although easy to root for, lacked the cache of a Greek hero. Overall, it felt like a movie adaptation of the archetypal hero’s journey by a man in an ascot, which Nolan is. Not his best, not his worst. B-

I know it was a vacation, but the days felt longer, not shorter. And the house seemed to be in some kind of vortex. We went for a walk one day, and on the way back, we walked right by it and neither of us swear we saw it until we had to turn around and walk back to it. We had plucked flowers from a lavender bush which seemed like 10 paces ago, then turned and it was a 100 yards away. I know I sound disjointed, but the entire thing was very surreal. We stayed in Sea Ranch, CA which is a stunningly beautiful place right on the ocean, but it’s not really a town, and everything is marked with this strange symbolism which we looked up and seems harmless enough, but gives the whole place this strange cult vibe. Couldn’t recommend it both highly and not highly enough.

Just making sure there’s not gonna be an apocalypse.