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15 hours ago, gsoda3 said:

That black Iron Man mask bothered me.

Maybe it’s part of the expanded Nolan Universe and we are looking at Bruce Wayne being incepted or Teneted or Interstellared into ancient Mycenae and he’s also Agamemnon. Or Bruce Wayne was Agamemnon all along. 

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19 hours ago, WBT said:

I only remember having to read a few short excerpts in class.  I remember hiding under sheep being a key plot point...no aggy.  I think I'm going to try to read the Iliad and Odyssey both before this opens

I’ve read them both, a few times. I enjoyed them very much though, I enjoyed the Odyssey more.

Posted
6 hours ago, Gene Parmesan said:

I was going to read it this weekend but now what’s the point. 


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The part where he fucked his mom and flew too close to the sun is quite riveting and you can see where George R. R. Martin got some of his inspiration from. Hell, his mom wasn’t even stuck in a clothes dryer because they wouldn’t be invented for another 2,700 years.

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Posted
33 minutes ago, PittsburghTiger said:

I’ve read them both, a few times. I enjoyed them very much though, I enjoyed the Odyssey more.

The Odyssey is just much more fun- sex, monsters, shipwrecks, swashbuckling, and a big final shootout. The Iliad is brooding, deep, and a bunch of dudes being their worse selves because they have been stuck on a shitty beach they never wanted to go to anyway.

I love the Odyssey, it is a foundational story and basically all incredible journey/hero trying to go home stories are just covers. I want to know how Nolan treats Odysseus. The Greeks treat him as the most Greek of all heroes, admiring his cleverness and resourceful pragmatism. The Romans felt like he was a tricky, deceitful asshole who bucked their stodgy, do a simple job well attitude. Dante and Shakespeare agreed and the former put him in Hell for being a real dick. 

There isn’t a “real” Odysseus, every Western generation creates its own, and I expect Nolan will give us a brooding post-modern guy with lots of inner torment (the Greeks didn’t seem to think he should be bothered by being a selfish prick, and the Gods appeared to come around to the view that he was just smart enough you had to tip your hat).

But he shouldn’t be in a fucking Viking longship. 

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On 12/22/2025 at 2:00 PM, Helobious said:

Nolan has more misses (Tenet, Dunkirk, Dark Knight rises) than hits (Interstellar, Oppenheimer) since 2010 when inception came out. The math (and that trailer) says this movie is going to fucking suck.

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Posted (edited)
2 hours ago, 956 Worldwide said:


The penteconters slap. 

That looks freaking stupid.

Also, the people being pedantic about the historical accuracy of a story with a cyclops, giants, and multi-headed sea creatures might as well tell us that the Sword In the Stone would look different than the Disney cartoon or Robin Hood wasn't actually a fox.

"This definitely changes the game for dudes no one wants to speak to at parties."

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On 12/22/2025 at 9:50 AM, 956 Worldwide said:

I will go see this. There is a LOT of history nerd chatter about the arms and armor choices, and I’m willing to over look that. The Odyssey even in Homer’s time was hazy history combined with legend so I don’t mind the “Ancient Med” visual cues for modern audiences.
 

I did get inordinately annoyed to see what looked like a clinker-built North European longship in the trailer. I looked it up and it is in fact a recreation of a Viking longship! Bugs the shit out of me, like if Jackson dropped a replica Chinese junk or Phoenician trireme into LOTR. 
 

As long has he doesn’t use Fop goddammit.  I’m a Dapper Dan Man!

 

 

 

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