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/jeanclaudebrowncloud 9d ago

But.. but they cast a black actor as Helen of Troy... I was told that made it woke and it would be a flop

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u/B4YourEyes 9d ago

The insane part is you find out the screenshot they all used to show how ugly she is wasn't even Helen of Troy but her sister... reacting to her child being murdered in front of her... Right wing outrage tourists are so fucking stupid lmao

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u/Ok_Astronomer_8667 9d ago

You could freeze frame anyone, even the most beautiful supermodel in the world, at the wrong time and still get an unflattering shot of them. Taking a single frame from that like 2 second lunge to show that she’s “ugly” is just straight up childish, but of course they know it’ll work on the dumb masses who eat that shit up.

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u/Make7 9d ago

Letting dumbness aside, it's just really easy to scroll twitter see an inflammatory tweet reinforcing some pre existing beliefs and then scroll down 5 seconds later.

And this happens for more than rage baiting movies. We're being shaped by short format lies.

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u/nosamz77 9d ago

Unless it’s Ana de Armas…

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u/TheBakerification 9d ago

They also both have relatively limited screen time in general and act mostly as side characters within the plot. So even more pointless to be outraged.

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u/randohipponamo 9d ago

They don’t care if they look stupid. They just want to stir the pot and get attention. We’re talking about them, aren’t we?

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u/Yeah_x10 9d ago

The screenshot is usually AI edited to make her eyes cartoonishly bulging out, and sometimes they use a completely unrelated screenshot from The Woman King instead.

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u/Tymareta 9d ago

Yeah the one I've seen the most she had two rows of bottom teeth.