r/TheOdysseyMovie

I live in the tri-state area of the US. There are two or three true IMAX theaters within a reasonable distance from me. Guess what? As of 5/19, there is NO AVAILABILITY.

King of Prussia Regal offers ONE showing each day on 7/16-17-18-19. There are no seats available and according to the person that answered the phone, no plans to add any additional showings.

So this begs the question: why bother spending the money to film the whole thing in IMAX? Why build new cameras for the project? Why do all of this and then force 98% of the people to watch it in a regular theater on a regular screen anyway?

If you’re wondering why I care so much, I’m a 9th grade English teacher who’s been teaching The Odyssey for years. I would have paid a premium to see this movie the way it’s meant to be seen. The extreme lack of tickets for a movie of this magnitude is truly puzzling and frustrating.

I've seen the prologue a few months ago and in my cinema people were blown away. Yes there is loud vocal minority slamming Nolan and the movie with their cultural war BS, but they are no threat. Nolan is one of our times greatest director and he will deliver. General audience who doesn't sit on x or reddit obsess finding all error of the film won't care about the changes. They can distinguish a fantasy adaption from real history. Something these basement dwellers can't.

I would bet Elon Musk has never read the Iliad or the Odyssey. But sure, opine away. I would love to see someone quiz him on it on stage or live TV.

Every day that this sub appears on my feed, it's a war between people who defend this movie and people who are saying it's gonna be a flop.

I understand it's a social media platform and people should voice their opinions but seriously, LET the movie RELEASE.

I myself have my reservations about this movie, especially concerning the dialogue but I'm still going to give it a chance!

And honestly I don't understand why we all have to be just negative or just positive about it. Why can't we talk about what we are EXCITED for and what we are NERVOUS for? Why can't we keep that balance?

That's it for my silly rant, have a good day, everyone :)

It’s a secret sequel to interstellar set in the distant future on the planet Anne Hathaway took the genetic code to restart mankind. The Odyssey is set on the new earth and they’ve been raised on the poetry passed down from the generations to preserve the legacy of Michael Caine through his daughter.

I’m calling it now, this version of The Odyssey is a sci fi sequel to Instellar and that’s why they have American accents and genetic diversity.

We’ve never had a problem imagining ourselves in the heroes of Greek myth. Alexander the Great saw himself as Achilles despite having no real ethnic connection to Mycenaean Greece. In the 1950s sword and sandal epics, Americans and Brits played everyone from Odysseus to Jesus, and nobody treated it like some sacred ethnic violation.

That’s because these stories became foundational to the entire Western tradition a long time ago. They do not belong exclusively to a tiny region of the Mediterranean. They belong to everyone shaped by that cultural inheritance. The Odyssey is universal precisely because people from completely different backgrounds can see themselves in it: the struggle against fate, failure, pride, temptation, nature, war, and the desperate pursuit of home.

That is why racially blind casting has existed in these epics for decades. Nobody spent years asking why a Scottish actor was allowed to play Leonidas or why English actors played Romans, Greeks, Egyptians, and Hebrews interchangeably in older films. The standard was always whether the actor could embody the role and whether the story resonated.

What some people refuse to accept is that the West itself has changed. Its demographics are broader than they were 50 or 100 years ago. Naturally, the people stepping into these mythic roles will reflect that reality too. Those stories still belong to them. They have just as much right to see themselves in Achilles or Odysseus as some random British actor does, or even someone living on the same land where the myths originated thousands of years ago.

Many on social media are comparing the two films, almost always favoring the second. I don't understand why. Or perhaps I do. "Troy" is an abomination against Homer and the rich Greek mythology, which it almost completely disregards. But it's not a valid historical film either. In that sense, it resembles the almost contemporary "King Arthur," starring Clive Owen, which replaces the legend with a pseudohistorical approach that greatly impoverishes the narrative and doesn't even serve as a recreation of a largely unknown true story. This approach is more false than the purely mythological one, because the mythological and legendary approach never pretends to be real history, while the pseudohistorical approach does so even knowing it isn't.

In other words, making Helen black is not an affront to Greek myths. Having Agamemnon killed by Briseis in Troy, rather than by his own wife upon returning home, is. Having the Laestrygonians wear medieval armor is not an affront to Greek myths, while having Hector kill Menelaus (who in "The Odyssey" returns safe and sound carrying Helen with him) is. It's not an affront to Greek myths for Agamemnon to wear armor like the one seen in the trailer for "The Odyssey." What is an affront is turning him into a pure villain without any redeeming qualities, as in "Troy" (in Homer's poem he's no saint, sure, but he's a more complex character).

The discourse has been exhausting and it keeps getting pushed to me even though I've blocked and muted certain channels and keywords. But I'm mostly annoyed because it just won't end. I'm very much not ready for when the movie comes out and it's finally confirmed that Elliot Page is not Achilles and for all these detractors to say that Nolan panicked and changed it last minute even though that's not how movies work at all. This post doesn't have much of a purpose except to be a brief rant, apologies for adding not much else ha