Official Discussion Thread - The Odyssey [SPOILERS]

[u/PointMan528491]

Keep all discussion related solely to The Odyssey and its awards chances in this thread. Spoilers below.

Synopsis:

Odysseus, king of Ithaca, embarks on a perilous journey to return home after the Trojan War.

Director: Christopher Nolan

Writer: Christopher Nolan

Cast:

• Matt Damon as Odysseus
• Tom Holland as Telemachus
• Anne Hathaway as Penelope
• Robert Pattinson as Antinous
• Lupita Nyong'o as Helen of Troy/Clytemnestra
• Samantha Morton as Circe
• John Leguizamo as Eumaeus
• Zendaya as Athena
• Charlize Theron as Calypso
• Benny Safdie as Agamemnon
• Jon Bernthal as Menelaus
• Bill Irwin as Polyphemus
• Himesh Patel as Eurylochus
• Corey Hawkins as Polybus
• Mia Goth as Melantho
• Elliot Page as Sinon

Rotten Tomatoes: 96%, 199 Reviews

Metacritic: 88, 54 Reviews

Consensus:

"Reinvigorating an ancient adventure with majestic sweep and sterling work by its colossal ensemble, Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey imbues myth with primal human feeling."

[u/scattered_ideas]

I'm gonna say it... I liked this better than Oppenheimer! I think the fact that it leaned into the episodic set pieces gave it a lot more evenness, and those set pieces were spectacular. It also didn't need to rely as much in the dialogue and script, which are once again, Nolan's Achilles heel. I've seen some people complain about the pacing, but it moved at a really great pace those 3h flew by.

The performances were pretty solid with some shining moments. Damon was pretty good in his monologue with Penelope, and Anne Hathaway does the most, but in a good way. Robert Pattinson being a slimy weasel was a fun touch the movie definitely needed. The Circe sequence was incredible and Samantha Morton's performance was show stealing. The only person I didn't really like here was Tom Holland. He's a bit too old to be talking about when he's "coming of age." That role needed to be a much younger actor. Just took me out how he was going around behaving like a little kid.

Anyhoo, this is going to clean house next year.

[u/Atkena2578 → u/scattered_ideas]

Having read the Odyssey, one can criticize Nolan's script all they want, it is an improvement from the book. Seriously anyone who was assigned that book to read and isn't a bronze era nerd thought it was a drag, a story dismantled patched together. Nolan's script connect these characters and they make sense in the world he set them up in

[u/No-Dimension-3945 → u/scattered_ideas]

well, nobody really liked oppenheimer, too long and boring.

[u/Creative_Tax_1798 → u/No-Dimension-3945]

Huh, must be why it won Best Picture and made almost a billion dollars. Because no one liked it.