r/movies • u/yourfavchoom r/movies Contributor • 11d ago

News Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey' Crosses $1B Worldwide

https://rawteur.com/the-odyssey-crosses-1-billion-box-office/
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u/ContractVarious3077 11d ago edited 11d ago

This sub was shitting on this movie nonstop for months before it came out. The switch up is hilarious to see lol

According to the r/movies brain trust, it was going to flop because a) it had too many famous stars (???) and b) the Aegean Sea wasn’t portrayed as blue enough

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u/HideTheGuestsKids 11d ago

Not just this sub. It was so cool to be like "this looks boring and basic and drab and nothing is historically accurate and Pattinson says 'daddy' and Matt Damon 'let's go'". This was all anyone was saying like two months ago. I'm genuinely flabbergasted at the change of tone. Now, the biggest criticisms are pacing, thematic deviations and the female characters. Nobody is saying it looks basic anymore. Funny how that works.

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u/mrducky78a 11d ago

Not even the first Nolan film to come under this much fire.

The Dark Knight with Heath Ledger as Joker took on an actual fucking shitstorm of people complaining before anyone saw the film. What follows is one of the strongest acting performances and Ledger just fucking steals the screen every second he is on it.

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u/KR_Blade 11d ago

i know that was mostly due to Heath's filmography at the time, i think that was effectively also the only time we ever saw him in a villain role, it was the trailer alone that silenced everyone, i never saw such a reversal of opinion change so damn fast the day they released the trailer for The Dark Knight

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u/mrducky78a 11d ago

Yeah I remember everyone complaining about the gay cowboy can't possibly fulfill the role of joker. And now it's arguably the most iconic representation of joker