What is actually people's problem with Nolan's Odyssey?
I don't get the hate around Nolan's Odyssey.
Peoole say it doesn't look epic. What are you talking about? It looks massive, it looks adventury, it looks beautiful.
People complain about the casting, about how the actors are too famous. Are you kidding? Nolan is doing exactly what he's done in Oppenheimer and no one complained. Hell, Dune has a lot of famous faces and everyone's on board.
Nolan is casting very famous people because he wants to do an ensemble cast blockbuster, a sword and sandal epic like they used to make. This is nothing new.
I don't see the problem with Lupita Nyong'o playing Helen of Troy. Why do we care about this? Helen of Troy is a fictional character and her skin color or hair color does not mean jackshit in the story. What's the problem here? That she doesn't look hellenic enough? Do people realise how racist that sounds?
I've seen discourse pointing that Nolan's hiring black actors for oscar bait. This is so braindead I'm not even gonna bother with a counter argument.
It sounds to me like most people already had an idea of how The Odyssey should be and they're shooting it down for not meeting their vision.