re: "The Odyssey" Discussion Thread: News, Reviews, Box Office, etc. $639 Mil WW Total

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But paying homage to a Greek story does matter.

Or it should.

1000% if it was some epic Egyptian or wakanda level tale we’d get a premiere in Africa.

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People are running out of things to make fun of now that black Helen and the tranny are virtually non factors in the movie.

"But what about the Greek movie market!!!"

Nobody gave two shits about the Scottish movie market and major historical inaccuracies when Braveheart came out, they just wanted a badass movie. That's all people are going to care about with this.

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Thanks for explaining. I never would have unraveled such a sophisticated mystery. All the pictures of black Helen of Troy and topless photos of Page had me bewildered.

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Well your comment made it seem like you were bewildered by people commenting on a topic they claimed to have no interest in

Pretty much everyone that has seen it. Every single critic for every single movie is “pre-approved”. It’s called critic screenings. It’s how they do a review before the movie comes out. Are you people actually retarded?

Lupita and Ellen are in the movie for like 5 minutes.

Guess you missed that they cancelled the preview shows for non critics huh

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Guess you missed that they cancelled the preview shows for non critics huh

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Were they canceled or never actually scheduled? Pretty sure this thread addressed that and also commented that influencer screenings are usually a sign of a desperation plea for sub-par movies.

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You obviously believe yourself to be morally and intellectually superior to those who don’t see things the same way you do. I would just caution you to be more humble about what you believe you understand.

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I can’t believe I’m about to do this but I’m bored.

I could understand the backlash, that I think for the most part is non existent, if Nolan cast Page in Damon’s role. Heck, maybe even Michael B Jordan. I may not be bothered by it but could at least understand the foundation of the argument by someone who is.

The outrage over the two casting choices for roles that are probably extremely minor (I think I page is like 8th billing at best) is overblown

I don’t think Nolan as gone “woke.”

I think he probably casted an actress he wanted to work with and casted Page because he worked with her before. He does that a lot.

I don’t think, probably the biggest director currently, feels like he has to pander to anyone.

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You obviously believe yourself to be morally and intellectually superior to those who don’t see things the same way you do.

I would just caution you to be more humble about what you believe you understand.

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If not constantly bitching and moaning in every thread on a mostly very conservative message board about everything Hollywood makes me superior in any way, l’ll take it.

Most of those posters just like to read their own thoughts repeated ad nauseam in a mass circle jerk. Some of them admittedly rarely watch any movies or tv shows, but love to preach to mostly the choir here, as if they’re changing anyone’s mind. Maybe they should go to some liberal forums and actually try to accomplish something and change someone to their way of thinking.

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Ehh…they all have to if they want to win an Oscar now, even THE Christopher Nolan.

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He has one.


I do think the criteria is silly. But that’s a different conversation.

I’ll concede he checked the boxes for Oscar eligibility, but is that enough to label it “woke?”

Do we have to label every movie “woke” that is in Oscar contention?

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I’ll concede he checked the boxes for Oscar eligibility, but is that enough to label it “woke?”

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It would be woke if he chose someone like Tiffany Haddish, for example. Lupita is a very good actress. If she earned that role, I got no problem with the choice.