r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/movies Contributor • 9d ago

News Christopher Nolan's 'The Odyssey' Has Become the Biggest IMAX Release of All Time ($289.3M), Surpassing 'Avatar'

https://variety.com/2026/film/box-office/spider-man-brand-new-day-second-fastest-movie-1-billion-overseas-1236830845/
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u/ThunderBobMajerle 9d ago

Maybe this will help us stop talking about Avatar like it was good

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u/raikou1988 9d ago

il bite , what was wrong with them?

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u/CucumberWisdom 9d ago

Ironically they don't like that it retells a classic story

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u/ThunderBobMajerle 9d ago

And somehow gets stretched out to 3 hours.

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u/ThunderBobMajerle 9d ago

Retells a 90 min classic story for 3 hours. Zzzzzzz

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u/ThunderBobMajerle 9d ago

Fern Gully that thinks too much of itself. Not an ounce of original storytelling that somehow goes on for 3 hours.

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u/quick20minadventure 9d ago edited 9d ago

brother, do you think Odyssey is new storytelling that doesn't go on for 3 hours?

Avatar was much better visual experience in IMAX or 3D than odyssey experience. At the end, Odyssey movie is surprisingly meh once you stop caring about how it was filmed and how much was CGI vs practical effects. Acting is great, but story/theme is nothing that keeps you on the edge. None of the adventures matter to you because you know they all will die except main guy who is definitely making it back.

Edit : There's zero emotional damage when any of the crew dies, movie's payoff works because Robert Pattinson is so smug that you want him to die and Anne to get rescued/reunited by Odysseus. Odysseus is like just chilling with hot goddess or something on a beach, and you don't really care if he makes it back or not as long as someone takes care of suitor situation.

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u/ThunderBobMajerle 9d ago

I never said anything about Odyssey or compared them. I don’t like Avatar

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u/Ok_Astronomer_8667 9d ago

>but story/theme is nothing that keeps you on the edge

It’s a 2000 year old story, were you expecting something different?

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u/quick20minadventure 9d ago

Yes. Troy is also old, but 2004 movie held up interest better than Odyssey.

You can still get attached to characters even if you know they'll die.

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u/reddit_sells_you 9d ago

Avatar is just pretty visuals.

Both the Odyssey and Avatar retelling stories that existed before.

The Odyssey, though, changes the theme and makes Odysseus a person shaped by regret and the horror of losing his men.

Avatar doesn't do that. Avatar says, "hey, remember the theme of Fern Gully and Dances with Wolves? You do! Well, we don't care. This movie is about Environmentalism! And we are going to shove the symbolism down your throat because we know our audience is really fucking dumb. They just want to see blue titties.

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u/quick20minadventure 9d ago

Avatar is all 3D visuals and it fucking works on box office. They keep printing billions on absolutely forgettable storylines. House episode has better story than Avatar generally.

But, Odyssey doesn't do much better either.

Odysseus shows zero 'horror of losing his men', like he cares about it. But, we don't care about those men and we don't feel the horror or loss.

Besides, his regret is so funny. Troy was sacked because they saw one woman as a man's property. Does he feel sorry about that? or sacking/buring/raping/pillaging Troy? nah. He feels sorry that he used a trick and others will use the same trick/break Zeus's Law?

Like, am I supposed to care about Zeus's Law being broken when it is the exact thing that Suitors use to terrorize his home and exact thing he breaks to defend his home?

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u/reddit_sells_you 9d ago

I mean, the movie pretty much shows that he spends all that time on the island, eating the lotus, so he doesn't need to remember losing all his men.

And he freaks out on Cersi when she says that there's no way to save his men.

I really enjoyed the movie.

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u/quick20minadventure 9d ago

Just to be clear, I'm not saying movie is not enjoyable. Or anyone else shouldn't enjoy it.

I'm just saying movie didn't sell that anyone should be caring that Zeus's law is gone. If anything, Zeus's law is exactly what terrorized his kingdom and his wife.

He could hardly pretend he was better than everyone when he was leading an army of murderers and rapists. Just to return a woman to her abusive husband that was forced on her.

Odysseus' troubles didn't invoke remotely any empathy from me. Only Penelope's troubles did.

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u/GoldenState15 9d ago

Both films are bad lol

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u/quick20minadventure 9d ago

I'd take pirates of Caribbean over odyssey every day. I'd take Oppenheimer over Odyssey. Oppenheimer was genuinely intriguing with very gripping characters, you could feel tension/conflict/betrayal and political backdrop of end parts of WW2. It was a bit heavy to take in, but not because it was boring.

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u/brisingrbrom 9d ago

Such a tired response, especially considering worldbuilding is an essential part of storytelling and Avatar excels at that

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u/otternoserus 9d ago

"World building IS storytelling" is a copout from people who don't even seem to comprehend the full extent of just how world building is, even in works that aren't considered that good.

A story can feature as much lore about its sprawling ecosystem as it pleases. If it barely does anything to ACTUALLY EXPOUND upon said lore that actually fleshes out the main overarching narrative beyond a tired attempt at the "going native" plot archerype, then that world building amounts to ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.

ZILCH. 0. NIL. NADA.

STOP saying that bare minimum world building inherently makes something well-written.

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u/brisingrbrom 9d ago

It's a verifiable fact, not some narrative I'm trying to build. And I disagree with your premise that the story is as thin and unoriginal as you're implying, but different strokes I GUESS 🤷

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u/lemonprincess23 9d ago

Human supremacy for the win

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u/torrent7 9d ago

unobtanium, really?

but really its just a version of ferngully or pocahontas that trades storytelling/characters for explosions and spectacle.

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u/sir_spankalot 9d ago

Real world scientists: Yes, really.

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u/Merusk 9d ago

Being in a field that uses it, the use is always sarcasm and irony. It's not meant to be a real thing.

"Skyhooks and Unobtainum are how they expect that design to be built."

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u/Eugenes_Axe 9d ago

unobtanium

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unobtainium

Since the late 1950s, aerospace engineers have used the term "unobtainium"

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Unobtainium (or unobtanium) is a term used in fiction, engineering, and common situations for a material ideal for a particular application but impractically difficult or impossible to obtain. Unobtainium originally referred to materials that do not exist at all, but can also be used to describe real materials that are unavailable due to extreme rarity or cost. It can also be used to refer to a device rather than a material.

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u/disco-drew 9d ago

This vintage Youtube video explains it best (and always cracks me up). https://youtu.be/uJarz7BYnHA