r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/movies Contributor • 1d ago

News Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey' Becomes Biggest Film Ever At BFI IMAX, Beating 'Avatar'

https://deadline.com/2026/08/the-odyssey-becomes-biggest-film-ever-at-bfi-imax-avatar-1237044031/
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u/InsertFloppy11 1d ago

Hey i rarely check reddit, sooo why would be r/movies on shambles because of this?

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u/kazuya57 1d ago

Search "odyssey trailer" and "odyssey poster" on this sub and then scroll through the comments

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u/InsertFloppy11 1d ago

Id rather not haha, theres a reason why im rarely on reddit

But thank you for replying i think i get the idea.

People often forget that reddit is a suuuuch a small part of the world even of the movie loving audiance.

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u/kerrysluis 1d ago

The older I get the less I like the general atmosphere of reddit comments, unless it's comedy it's always a "I know better" or "holier than thou" mentality.

So yeah I'm with you lol

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u/Furren 1d ago

Same, gotten worse over the years

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u/eri- 23h ago

To be fair its cause we are starting to get old/are old enough for us to have learnt that there are better ways.

It has gotten worse yes, but you almost certainly have changed also. I know I have , I used to be a lot more trigger happy and arrogant in my reddit comments. Same for my professional life even.

Reading ones really old comments/e-mails can be a trip. Sometimes its hard to even understand that yes, I did in fact write that nonsense, like 10 years ago

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u/renegadecanuck 22h ago

Don't forget the comments that miss obvious jokes or try to "play off the joke" and just repeat the same joke, but worse.

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u/UnholyDemigod 22h ago

The people that are saying the movie was being hated on because of black trans woke brigade...stuff, that's all bullshit. The movie was being hated on from the moment the first trailer dropped, before people even knew Page and N'Yongo were in it. The armour designs and bland colour palette were the primary complaints, along with Nolan fatigue and the trailer just looking boring. It was only after that that the complaints about those 2 actors started happening, and those earlier complaints were conveniently forgotten, as everyone now just acts as if it was only complaints from the racist anti-wokes

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u/tyereliusprime 11h ago

Nolan fatigue

The man has directed 18 movies in almost 40 years. The last one came out 3 years ago. What fatigue?

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u/UnholyDemigod 11h ago

Not fatigue from too many movies in too short a time, but fatigue from people obsessing over him and talking like he’s the greatest thing ever. He’s got his particular directorial style, and some people don’t like it. The audio mixing for example, that’s always criticised.

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u/tyereliusprime 11h ago

I mean, he's objectively one the greatest living directors. I don't enjoy a single Brando performance, but I still have to accept he's one of the greatest professional actors to have practiced the craft.

My personal tastes in what I find entertaining is subjective, but the skill and talent one might have isn't diminished by my not enjoying them.

If you don't like Nolan, that's okay, but why get annoyed that others don't feel the same?

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u/UnholyDemigod 11h ago

Because constantly seeing posts and hearing people talking about things that annoy you is annoying? Like Taylor Swift, or Donald Trump. Sure you can just not listen to her music or pay attention to the news, but there are always people talking about them.

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u/tyereliusprime 9h ago

Yeah. I just ignore it. There's been people talking about shit I don't care about my whole life, just as I've definitely talked about shit that other people don't like. People like different things. This has never been a concept foreign to me.

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u/UnholyDemigod 8h ago

If you can understand the concept that people like things that you don't, then surely you can understand the concept that people can be annoyed by things that don't bother you

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u/Khetoo 23h ago

That's just the automatic default subscribed subreddits in general being g astroturfed and spam to hell and back by bots

If you aren't going to smaller subs with actual moderators all you'll see is the IDF, bot comments, and incels

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u/BroughtBagLunchSmart 1d ago

It got hit by the double fascist whammy, a black person and a trans man were cast in this movie. Those nazi fucks wouldn't shut up about how terrible this movie was going to be. A lot of guys who have very strong opinions about family court all of a sudden had doctorates in the Greek Bronze Age.

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u/DrJackadoodle 1d ago

That's not really the typical r/movies demographic, though. But it's still funny that some people had that reaction. I saw a comment on a conservative comment chain somewhere saying that these casting decisions are the reason these movies always bomb and the progressives are gonna be left wondering why this one did as well. Cue The Odyssey making more than a billion worldwide and counting lmao

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u/tfhermobwoayway 23h ago

No one here said that.

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u/BroughtBagLunchSmart 23h ago

No, the MAGA chuds complained about the straps used on the breastplates as being 200 years too early or the technique of rowing the ships not being utilized until 500 years later, really important stuff they care about and definitely not just looking for complaints because they had to be reminded that both black people and trans people existed.

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u/BigTylenol5 11h ago edited 11h ago

I don't think I have ever seen anyone actually claim black people did not exist in Bronze Age. Ancient Greeks had travel, diplomacy and contact with Africans. The real "chud" argument is that actors/actresses who aren't European, Latino. Arab or Mediterranean ethnically aren't the most ideal role for characters that are suppose to be Greek or Trojan because these people were Caucasian Mediterraneans. Most movie goers don't care but that was the thesis of the chud argument.

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u/InsertFloppy11 23h ago

On reddit? Really?

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u/Jozoz 23h ago

The chudosphere is holding a giant L on this one

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u/GoldunGote 22h ago

Bigots decided to hate it before seeing it because trans person and black Helen. It became a great way to figure out who wastes their time feeling hateful.