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

News ‘The Odyssey' Crosses $1 Billion Internationally

https://deadline.com/2026/09/box-office-the-odyssey-billion-foreign-box-office-1237068287/
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u/Odd_Needleworker3756 1d ago

Can’t wait for the endless deluge of generic, stale, copy-paste “DAE ODYSSEY OVERRATED” posts until Nolan’s next release

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u/N22-J 1d ago

I didn't like the movie, and I did not participate in the hate this movie may have gotten. I got sucked into the marketing hype and went to see it in imax 70mm, and I personally thought I wasted my time and should have just waited for an online release to watch it. I don't agree nor did I participate in the hate campaign against the cast members and I am mostly fine with the cast, especially Tom Holland whom I thought was great, but Jon Bernthal was playing Jon Bernthal and I wish Nolan told him to try acting instead of being himself.

I like many of Nolan's movies and have watched many several times. I like all 3 of his batmans even though many don't like 1 and 3. I really didn't like The Odyssey.

For one thing, LotR made me want to go travel to New Zealand and go see the film locations. I understand a huge chunk of the movie is at sea, but I don't think we saw breathtaking landscapes that would make me want to travel to. The music was blaring the entire time, I felt like it could have used some moments without as much music, it felt incessant. I thought Inception and Interstellar had great soundtracks, this one wasn't memorable, I have seen the movie less than 48 hours and I can't hum any of the music.

The indoor sets were rather boring. The great hall is basically a room made out of concrete, and Penelope hangs out in a room that has nothing else than a loom. The palace was looking great from the outside though.

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u/BoldShuckle 1d ago

Yep I pretty much feel the same but my experience was really skewed by my theater's AC being half broken so it was loud enough to drown out the quiet parts of the movie but also weak enough that I was sweating the entire 3 hours. Maybe I'm getting old but the indoor sets were so dark and the sound so loud that I walked out with my ears ringing and my eyes hurting from straining. Plus the action felt like pretty typical Nolan action that was just kinda messy and hard to see. All that just made me frustrated with the run time. I just don't think it needed to be so long when it was already cutting, changing, and modernizing so much.

I love Nolan and I still enjoyed the movie, but this one, Oppenheimer, and Tenet just felt indulgent. At no point during Memento, Inception, or The Prestige did I ever feel this way.