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[–] 32 points 1 month ago (3 children)

It's funny to see all the positive (including audience) reactions, after most of the internet discourse over the last few months was about how terrible the movie would be.

I'm lucky enough to have a (digital) IMAX theatre relatively nearby, so I'm planning to watch it there in a few weeks when the screenings are getting less crowded.

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  • [–] 29 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    after most of the internet discourse over the last few months was about how terrible the movie would be.

    Honestly, 99% of that, from what I could infer without spoiling every detail of the movie, were incels upset some dark skin actress was cast as Helen of Troy

    Garbage people are louder than ever

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  • [–] 15 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    People also made a big thing out of the helmets being period-inaccurate. Which they absolutely are, but it was weird how people seemed to care so much for this movie in particular, whereas no-one seemed to give a shit about all the inaccuracies in the Gladiator movies for example.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Also, I bet a lot of the people complaining about that loved 300 and will tell people how it's actually really deep and has an important message

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Saw a lot of talk about the accents and the period incorrect uniforms. But yeah, internet gonna internet.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

    Even if that were the case, the Odyssey is a work of fiction; we don't even know if Homer actually existed, if he was a single person or multiple story tellers blended together by lack of details...

    "Critics" pretending to know and be outraged about X not been exactly what they thought when they read the book cliff notes in their mom's sock smelling basement are just noise

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago* (1 child)

    It's so weird to be complaining about the accents. It's a movie that takes place in ancient Greece, FFS; we have no idea what their accents would sound like if they were somehow capable of speaking modern English, since their entire culture pre-dates audio recording technology (and modern English, for that matter) by multiple millenia.

    Seriously, people are just weirdly conditioned to the classical world speaking with a British accent for some reason, I guess.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    To be fair, the trailers weren't very flattering. I wasn't expecting the movie to be that good either.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Yeah, that's fair. I didn't think the trailers were amazing either, although it did seem like they were purposefully not giving too much away, which I appreciate. But people got really hung up on the smallest details to prematurely declare it a bad movie.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Which seems kinda crazy because wasn't the internet absolutely glazing Christopher Nolan just a couple years ago?

    I still like his Dark Knight trilogy, and Inception is still fairly original.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    That was before he cast a black woman to play "the face that launched a thousand ships" and a trans man to play... well, anyone, really.

    It's just all stupid culture war bullshit.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Not really. He's not as overrated as he used to be. People have started seeing through his Grand visuals combined with a heavy score. He's being heavily criticised for not able to write female characters.

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