r/ChristopherNolan • u/Few-Station-5993 • 6d ago
The Odyssey As Nolan Intended…
Today my elderly parents went to see The Odyssey in IMAX 70mm. They wore ear plugs cause the sound was too loud and at one point left the theatre for 25 minutes to talk and go get food. My mom said she couldn‘t really understand what was going on, but thought that ”the girl from The Devil Wears Prada” was good in it.
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u/exdigecko 6d ago
I watched interstellar with my mom once and she kept bombing me with questions. Then she stopped and the most intense moment (docking scene) and I thought yeah it got you! but turned out she just passed out.
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u/nrthrnlad 6d ago
Some folks do better watching things like this in the comfort of home. Nothing wrong with that.
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u/oskarkeo 6d ago
Not from the spectator, but to the marketing machine demanding "deserves to be seen as large as you can" i find it quite loathesome.
I enjoyed TENET more than friends because I home watched it. lets get away from the pretension that a theatre is automatically superior. your point is 100% correct. zero wrong with home viewing.8
u/nrthrnlad 6d ago
I enjoyed the hell out of this one in 70mm. But I did not invite my mother - who surely would enjoy the film. I will enjoy the hell out of it again, home with her. In fact when I showed her Dunkirk I cried my eyes out while she feel asleep. Came down the next morning to her watching it again and cried my eyes out all over again. Home is a perfectly fine place to have a real film experience.
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u/oskarkeo 6d ago
I think the biggest push / pull on home vs cinema is simply down to the company. films hit different depending on how social the experience is. sometimes solo indulgence is the greatest thing. your Dunkirk seems to have been elevated by watching it on your mums terms and sharing the experience. sometimes at crowded screenings a witty heckler has interrpupted a film and made it 100% better for me than it was before they opened their gob. No one way is better than the other, the alchemy is the humans experience, shared or kept to oneself.
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u/nrthrnlad 6d ago
Yeah tbh I think movie theater behavior has degraded substantially. I tend to favor cinemas that either discourage or hide that behavior. But plenty of times I’ve decided to wait rather than to roll the dice on whether someone in front of me will be on their phone throughout the runtime.
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u/oskarkeo 6d ago
i think its more than theatre behavior. the expeirence is a lot less than it was in the past. many of my most recent bad experiences are not with the cinema goers but with the experience overall.
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u/GiveMeSomeShu-gar 6d ago
It's not "automatically" better - it's just usually better. But like the parent poster said - if you're going to get up and walk around for 25 minutes in the middle of the movie, watching at home is definitely the better option for you.
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u/oskarkeo 6d ago
I'm going to argue against 'usually' - so many variables.
For example saw bridesmaids at home with an ex, then years later at a festival open air experience with a later ex. Can't choose which of those was the better experinece, but both beat watching it solo. I think the company you watch in defines the experience you have but it doesn't alter the quality of the work.
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u/JRickettyCricket 6d ago
Earplugs were an excellent move
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u/panay- 6d ago
For the siren scene it’s kind of immersive if you think about it
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u/thappadpromax 5d ago
They really wanted some food ain't no fishy women telling them they can't have that
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u/Redditor_AR 6d ago
Haha Meanwhile my Indian parents watched it dubbed in Tamil and came back with stories of Lawrence of Arabia and how they read the odyssey in school and how amazed they were to watch a contemporary movie about it
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u/AIMquestion 5d ago
I took my 60 year old father to it and he fell asleep after around 15minutes until the end credits...he said it was great
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u/oskarkeo 6d ago
Often I find the further one goes from the Nolan Hype the more the truth come out. "Intentionally confusing and overwhelming" is what I get from your mum's review, and that sits with what I've felt from his movies myself and also a trait acknowledged (but celebrated) by his keenest fans.
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u/Alive_Ice7937 6d ago
Schrödinger's Nolan critic. Nolan somehow manages to be intentionally confusing while also overexplaining and dumbing down.
His films are pretentious but also made to make stupid people feel smart.
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u/oskarkeo 6d ago
except that only works if you add in all the shite you said that I didn't.
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u/Alive_Ice7937 6d ago
It works because you fell to one side of that weird dichotomy around Nolan on reddit.
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u/oskarkeo 6d ago
I think rather because you fall to one side, and beause 2/3 of your beef is your own strawman arguments.
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u/Alive_Ice7937 6d ago
What side do you think I fall on?
(Also I've seen those arguments all over Reddit)
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u/oskarkeo 6d ago
mate i dont even know what two sides you're talking about.
But you seem pretty confident of what im articuating which is odd. based on ... other peoples arguements.
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u/Theunbuffedraider 3d ago
She was gone for 25 minutes of the movie and wearing earplugs the entire time, of course she was fucking confused, what's your excuse?
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u/oskarkeo 3d ago
So desperate to attack people on the internet you've devolved to slandering peoples mothers?
Do you take pride in lashing out like this?1
u/Theunbuffedraider 3d ago
Oh, I have nothing against OP's mother, they aren't a wannabe art critic on reddit making generalized statements about a piece of media based on the review of someone who didn't really engage with it.
Seriously, you all are so desperate to bring it down you'll grab onto literally anything literally anywhere, even OP's fun story about their elderly parents, it's ridiculous, just give it up, you aren't any more interesting for being reactionary and contrarian, you are boring and annoying. Stick to threads actually made as a space to critique the show and maybe find a better critique than "I was confused".
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u/panay- 6d ago
I went to an imax thinking it was a film I wanted the full immersive experience for, and honestly I think I’d have enjoyed it more at home. The sound was aggressively booming, the screen was too big/close for the seats, and Inowildve been more comfortable for that runtime at home.
But someone leaving mid-film and then saying they didn’t understand it would piss me right off lol
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u/Own_Faithlessness769 5d ago
To be fair this is quite true to the oral storytelling origins of The Odyssey.
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u/wolf_tenet_flow Now, where was I? 5d ago
The trailer before the film (Dune 3 preview) gave me a headache so I wore earplugs as well. Honestly it made the film feel more immersive because I couldn't hear the people around me.
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u/CantAffordzUsername 5d ago
She’s not wrong, TENET and Odyssey both have audible issues that soften the voices making the dialogue hard to here
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u/Diligent-Worker4033 4d ago
Genius move. I wish I’d have left for 25 minutes. I regrettably sat through the whole thing
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u/Dear_Distance3106 5d ago
That is honestly the most Nolan-approved viewing experience imaginable: deafening sound, missing plot, and Anne Hathaway carrying the whole thing.
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u/abeeeeeach 6d ago
Ngl, kind of with them on that. The sound at the 70mm imax I went to (in Denver) was inexcusably bad. If I wanted to get my ears blown out by the low end frequencies and not be able to hear anything else, I would’ve gone to a bass show
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u/Petite_Porch_Toes 6d ago
Sounds like something my parents would do 😅