I watched the Odessey today and 3 hours feels so long, especially with the LOUD sound in the cinema. How do they even made it that loud? It’s the first Nolan movie that disappointed me.
There are so many aspects of it being bad that I find it hard to logically critique the movie. Tempo is not good (bad script), emotion and content is not good, characters feels unmotivated, clueless and plain; set is not realistic, editing and engineering is not good, acting of some actors is really blant, etcetc. But overall the worst problem is, as Time-Bridge-3007 writes in their Reddit review The Odyssey is anti-art:
Perhaps what makes this so awful is the artistic narcissism behind believing that a work like The Odyssey can simply be absorbed into a filmmaker’s existing language and worldview. There is a difference between adapting a masterpiece and using a masterpiece as a vehicle to reinforce your own artistic identity. The danger with a work of this magnitude is that the filmmaker begins to believe the source material exists to serve them, rather than recognizing that they are serving something far greater than themselves. The Odyssey has survived for nearly three thousand years because it transcends individual authorship; it is not waiting for someone to impose their personality onto it, but for someone capable of listening to what it already contains. The greatest artists understand that some works require humility. They approach them not as conquerors, but as students. To take one of humanity’s greatest myths and filter it through a sensibility that cannot fully embrace its mystery, grandeur, and transcendence is to mistake personal style for artistic vision. The result is not a reinvention of Homer, but the reduction of something timeless into the limitations of one filmmaker’s perspective.
Too much ego. Too less artistic craftmanship. I want the old Nolan back.
Full reddit post:
The Odyssey is anti-art
by u/Time-Bridge-3007 in TrueFilm