I get that, but got my tickets for later. I assume it'll be a fairly dry movie with some intense spots, and that's ok. I doubt it'll beat the original Clash of the Titans, but I have some sentimental stuff for the old Greek stuff, and yeah I get it'll be mostly just ok.
Was reminded again of the cartoon, which got me to thinking of other adaptions into different milieus, and made me think of a novel I had read years ago - a loose adaption of The Odyssey into a science fiction setting - the late David Drake's 1984 novel Cross the Stars based in his "Hammer's Slammers" setting, about the misadventures of a mercenary armored regiment centuries in the future - Captain Don "Mad Dog" Slade retires from the Slammers, deciding that it's time to return to his home of Tethys, 20 years after he left to become a merc and get away from the father who really had it in for him and the twin brother who was the favored one. The voyage home is dangerous, as he takes command of a tramp freighter crewed by cut-throats and outlaws, making stops at planets where they encounter various dangers, both human and alien, and when he gets back, he must protect the family business that's been held his widowed sister-in-law Marilee from a scheming old rival, leader of a competing oligarchical business clan, and his goons.
Yes and no. Ellen Page isn't playing Achilles, but she has supplanted his role, described as "The greatest warrior and history" (which is normaly Achilles), and Odysseus is supposed to speak to Achilles in Hades, instead he speaks to Ellen.
Because he loses access if he defies the consensus. Also going to war with "insert director here" (Gunn, Snyder, Nolan, faggot) bros is all risk zero reward.
His lowest rating is "Abysmal Dogshit" and he's given a few of those pretty recently, he also gives out a "Forget it in T Minus 1 Day" which is his second lowest and he gives out a lot of those.
He's a hack. But now he's fully inside the hollywood machine. And will be endlessly protected and promoted no matter how bad his movies are. Strings of bombs and flops won't stop him anymore. Bad scripts? Awful casting? AI slop CGI? Throw tn on an IMAX screen and charge the nigger cattle $50 for slop. Lots of big name directors and actors have entire careers of bombs including some of the biggest names.
Same with "subversion", which I've also seen used for this film in some of the reviews.
Hilariously, some rando Nolan shill on twitter was arguing with me yesterday about how the film was even "selling out IMAX tickets in Greece" as proof the Greeks actually loved the film and everyone was just lying about the film insulting the Greeks. He had no idea there's only one screen in Greece.
One of the main suitors is played by a Latino actor descended from a conquistador who whines constantly about how Latinos are being held down by Europeans.
It's worse than that, the artwork isn't even real. It's one of the most infamously forged Minoan artworks.The book by Emily Wilson the movie is based on (IIRC) uses art made in Minoan Crete for the cover illustration. Odd as Minoan Crete predates Ancient Greece by centuries.
What the actual fuck. This actually pisses me off. The whole point of meeting the ghost of Achilles—the greatest fucking warrior who ever lived—is to demonstrate that it doesn't matter how great your valiant death was because in the end you're still fucking dead. It's an internal questioning of the Homeric idea of the hero from the Iliad—making the reader question what the point of all that was if even Achilles would rather be alive and a slave than a king and dead.
I never hear anyone bring it up (Nerdrotic, et al types seem unaware) when people are asking what happened to Nolan, why he's going woke suddenly in this when he was usually fairly unpolitical in his other films, etc.
She's also in the first scene, the Sinon role, so at least two major scenes of importance.
I meant the original character is only in one scene that I can recall from Homer and Vergil. Never appears in any of the greater Homeric Cycle works I've read or come across (the Greek and Latin tragedies, elegies like Catullus 64, etc.).
