Date: July 22nd, 2026 2:36 PM Author: Bateful poppy jew
i saw in imax because my wife wanted to. i didn't hate it as much as i expected, but it was overall boring except for a few scenes (cyclops, visiting the dead, killing the suitors). obviously would have been better mel gibson style if they would have hired greek actors and made them speak homerian greek with subtitles, but i think the same about any movie like this. plenty of terrible casting choices, but i didn't find ellen paige any more distracting than odysseus' having a boston face and accent the whole time. my major problem was (1) it was overly self-serious and (2) they turned odysseus into an idiot with modern USA lib values. i rate it 5/10.
Date: July 22nd, 2026 3:12 PM Author: Bateful poppy jew
his whole character arc in the movie is that he feels bad he thought up that trojan horse, which led to the looting of troy, bc war is bad. it's basically a repackaged 9/11 movie from 10 years ago.
Date: July 22nd, 2026 3:31 PM Author: Bateful poppy jew
i gave it 5/10 because there were parts that were well done and i liked that for the majority of the film they used practical effects which looked great. how they handled odysseus was terrible though, they took out anything that would rub a modern soyface the wrong way. they removed everything showing he was having sex with other women, enslaving people, being cruel or devious, or anything that modern audiences would find unpalatable. basically, he was an entirely new character.
Date: July 22nd, 2026 4:58 PM Author: Bateful poppy jew
athena appears before him regularly in the movie, but there is no banter or anything that shows she actually likes him or his personality. late in the movie, we find out that the depiction of athena we are seeing is actually a girl he saw killed while troy was being looted.
Date: July 22nd, 2026 5:10 PM Author: Big abode preventive strike
I thought that stuff was the best part. The Trojan costumes, Agamemnon, the Lestrygonians, the beach scenes with calypso, the underworld, the Ceres pig transformations, I thought all that looked cool as shit and very striking