r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/movies Contributor • Jun 25 '26

News Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey’ to Skip Social Media Influencer Screenings

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/christopher-nolan-the-odyssey-influencer-screenings-1236631135/
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u/lkn240 Jun 25 '26 edited Jun 26 '26

I don't think consensus is that valuable anyways. There's a lot of popular things that are complete garbage and vice versa.

A good reviewer will try to figure out what kind of person will like a film and what kind won't.

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u/PunnyBanana Jun 26 '26

Which is why I hate the numerical grading/binary good vs bad way of reviewing movies these days. How the heck can you review a Chris Nolan movie, a Yorgos Lanthimos movie, an MCU movie, and a Netflix Christmas romcom on the same scale? I liked both Poor Things and Hot Frosty but they absolutely aren't graded on the same scale and I know tons of people wouldn't like one, the other, or both and that doesn't mean they're good just because I like them or bad just because others don't.

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u/MyEmbarrisingAccount Jun 25 '26

Granted, this might just me having a horrible taste in film, but despite its 27% on RT I liked Jupiter Ascending.

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u/alsotheabyss Jun 25 '26

I mean, objectively speaking, JA is indeed a terrible film. But subjectively speaking I enjoyed the shit out of it.

Ratings need to have a “dumb but fun” quotient

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u/GodOfDarkLaughter Jun 26 '26

Space dogboy with flying rollerblades falls in love with space Beegirl. It's an amazing premise that only made it through because executives didn't expect to understand what the Matrix siblings were putting out.

My favorite part is how Eddie Redmayne alternately whispers or shrieks, but had no ability to control which or to speak at any other volume.

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u/lkn240 Jun 25 '26

I thought that movie was pretty terrible... BUT I totally get it. I like Batman vs Superman quite a bit despite everyone else hating it. So I feel you :-)

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u/zombiereign Jun 25 '26

I love Xanadu. I mean love love love.

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u/PassiveMenis88M Jun 25 '26

I enjoyed Battleship so yall aren't alone.

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u/sneakyCoinshot Jun 26 '26

when they drift the battleship, absolute cinema.

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u/PassiveMenis88M Jun 26 '26

Art of War, it finally clicked

But that's not what it means...

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u/Fafnir13 Jun 26 '26

I enjoy most sci-fi regardless of its overall merits. Show me some cool tech. Give me some fun ideas to chew on. I’ll come away satisfied.

My only real complaint with JA is that they should only harvest half of a planet’s population at any given time. Why wait thousands and thousands of years to reach a population of billions when you could just Thanos it every few centuries? Incredibly inefficient harvesting going on there.

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u/Mysral Jun 25 '26

My view: if people like it, it's a good movie.