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- 2 de Abr, 2026
So after giving it a chance and seeing it today, nothing about it really changed my initial speculation that it will do pretty well the first couple of weeks and then tail off fast. I wouldn't get too wound up about critic scores because those became little more than a meme by the end of the 2010s.
A big part of it is the Nolan-standard length bloat--at nearly 3 hours plus 20 minutes or so of trailers, a movie like this has to be well-paced to get repeat viewings, and I don't see that happening for that reason alone. It can be a slog to sit through at times.
Most significantly, there's really nothing particularly inspirational or heroic about Odysseus in this. It's typical Current Year-deconstruction of the Hero's Journey and subversion of those tropes that we've seen non-stop since the late 2000s. It's just the typical post-Obama cultural pretenses grafted on to another traditional western canon work.
Nyongo would have worked well as Circe, the same way Vanessa Williams worked as Calypso in the 1997 mini-series and Zendaya worked as Athena (which is really just a manifestation of Odyssues' post-traumatic stress from watching a priestess get beheaded). But that's not her purpose, her purpose was to subvert and demoralize with her flat-chested, bulb-headed, eggplant-skinned visage for a character that was explicitly described as being light-skinned and fair-haired.
Even if you were to cast a mystery meat or even explicitly black actress for the role, and you shouldn't, the problem is that the current Hollywood pool contains a bunch of aggressively ugly Carnival Cruise-tier negresses, like the Uruk-hai who was in "One Battle After Another." For fuck's sake, Halle Berry is pushing 60 and she still looks better than >98% of what Hollywood thinks passes for "desirable" black women these days.
A big part of it is the Nolan-standard length bloat--at nearly 3 hours plus 20 minutes or so of trailers, a movie like this has to be well-paced to get repeat viewings, and I don't see that happening for that reason alone. It can be a slog to sit through at times.
Most significantly, there's really nothing particularly inspirational or heroic about Odysseus in this. It's typical Current Year-deconstruction of the Hero's Journey and subversion of those tropes that we've seen non-stop since the late 2000s. It's just the typical post-Obama cultural pretenses grafted on to another traditional western canon work.
The diversity casting was clearly set up to garner media coverage and drive critic defenses in case the movie bombed. Nyongo and Page don't show up for more than maybe 5 minutes of screen time each. Page was clearly a pity casting; it doesn't matter what kind of armor you put on her or how much you glaze her character in the movie, she's still a 5'2" elf with a femmy frog voice. Nyongo's casting in particular was a clear "LOL white people are shit" message.
Nyongo would have worked well as Circe, the same way Vanessa Williams worked as Calypso in the 1997 mini-series and Zendaya worked as Athena (which is really just a manifestation of Odyssues' post-traumatic stress from watching a priestess get beheaded). But that's not her purpose, her purpose was to subvert and demoralize with her flat-chested, bulb-headed, eggplant-skinned visage for a character that was explicitly described as being light-skinned and fair-haired.
Even if you were to cast a mystery meat or even explicitly black actress for the role, and you shouldn't, the problem is that the current Hollywood pool contains a bunch of aggressively ugly Carnival Cruise-tier negresses, like the Uruk-hai who was in "One Battle After Another." For fuck's sake, Halle Berry is pushing 60 and she still looks better than >98% of what Hollywood thinks passes for "desirable" black women these days.
