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Nolan's The Odyssey - Potentially could be epic or an epic flop.
Gunn fans became insufferable after Gunn had made his knock-off of Ayers' Suicide Squad movie and damn near everyone thought it was the best thing put to screen.
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.
Are IMAX cinemas that common outside of the United States? The UK has 18. 3 of which are in London serving the 7million + people of that conurbation. Greece, I looked it up, has one. Which will make it rather easy for Greek people angry about this movie to focus on it should they choose. There's a bunch in Germany and France (of course) but it seems only America has them in any real numbers. And even there I'm not sure how many there really are relative to the number of cinema goers. I've never been to an IMAX.
Given what people have told me about the negative impact on regular cinema format of targeting IMAX first and then cutting it down for them, it doesn't really seem like this will be good for the film's success.
Also, whilst someone can and should tell me different if I'm wrong, looking at IMAX pictures:
it honestly looks more impressive than it looks enjoyable. Can I even take in that much screen without missing stuff? Also, are they always flush to the floor like that? Traditional cinema screens are higher up meaning that it's less of an issue when someone stands up to walk out.
Maybe I'm wrong and IMAX is great - happy to be told otherwise. But I think I'd feel like Alex in that scene from A Clockwork Orange.
It's not a deconstruction. It's a simulation. At three hours long and filled with incomprehensible nonsense, Nolan is conveying to you exactly how Ulysses himself felt. The real odyssey, is the film you watch along the way.
There are only like 31 true 70mm IMAX screens (Nolan's weird obsession, less than half of which are in the US) around the world. The rest are varying sizes of screens bigger than normal theaters with slightly better compressed digital quality, about 1800 in 90 countries. Two of the London IMAX screens are 70mm, Waterloo and South Kensington. Normies really don't care/know the difference so the brand is basically an advertising ploy to upcharge, outside of diehard cinephiles who will seek out the 70mm screens the same way vinyl record autists do. But yes, the front rows are always the last to book with the screens being so big and exacerbating the normal theater neck syndrome you get. I've only ever been to one once and have never wanted to go back.
Everybody hates the Snyderverse, but nobody ever discusses the Gunn-verse because there is nothing there to discuss. It's empty, shallow, and inconsequential.
I have yet to see a single Western adaption of Russian literature that's actually on-point. For some reason Russia's flavor of nihilistic humor which is prevalent in most of their literary classics is inordinately difficult for non-Russians to put on the screen.
(By nihilism I mean the actual historical movement and not the average college student's understanding of what nihilism is.)
So I expect a Nolan adaption of War and the World (which is the actual title and not War and Peace) to miss the point even harder than usual.
IMAX screens selling out while regular screens aren't in this economy sounds suspicious to me (are there even Odyssey popcorn buckets to begin with?). Gives me Captain Marvel vibes in how the ticket sales didn't match up with actual butts in seats. Anyone who's actually seeing it in IMAX needs to report back the audience numbers to quash that notion.
IMAX screens selling out while regular screens aren't in this economy sounds suspicious to me (are there even Odyssey popcorn buckets to begin with?). Gives me Captain Marvel vibes in how the ticket sales didn't match up with actual butts in seats. Anyone who's actually seeing it in IMAX needs to report back the audience numbers to quash that notion.
Anyone actually seeing it in IMAX is going to require a week in traction to recover from 3+ hours sat with their neck craned back enough to see the cruise liner sized screen.
I still don't understand what was. They put the movies' names together, and now you have to watch both of them or something? (I did not watch either one)
The Odyssey is one of my favorite stories ever. For like a year all I knew was "Nolan's The Odyssey" and just assumed it would be fine. Then I saw Matt Damon was Odysseus and was like "Nah, not for me." I don't even hate Damon. He doesn't fit what I imagine for Odysseus at all.
Then I learn of all the other stupid stuff, and the trailer looks like shit. Makes me sad
I still don't understand what was. They put the movies' names together, and now you have to watch both of them or something? (I did not watch either one)
Nah. It was a funny joke online that spilled into real life. They were both showing the same week. Thanks to some crossover memes it increased sales for both but neither plot was what I'd call a fun popcorn flick.
I still don't understand what was. They put the movies' names together, and now you have to watch both of them or something? (I did not watch either one)
It was just very effective marketing - you had the Barbie movie which was light, fun and appealed to kids and females and then the "serious" movie Oppenheimer which was for adults and men wanting to something meatier. There's nothing really out at the moment that Odyssey can latch onto (though I guess Deadline is trying to pair it with the Spiderman movie since Zendaya and Holland star in both).
