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Friday Fun Thread for July 17, 2026

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What are your predictions for the odyssey ? Will it bomb, will it flourish, will it be meh? What it has going on for it are Nolan, star studded cast, one of the greatest adventure tales ever told. On the other hand for every Dark Knight in his career, Nolan has produced a Dark Knight Rises and all of his movies are one hour longer than needed. The casting has definitely some strange and odd choices. And whether there is appetite for mythical destruction in the public after massive woke coded fantasy and other flops in the last few years remains to be seen.

Personally I will probably skip it, unless invited by some extremely hot chick. After so much culture warring - I just can't get excited for the big Hollywood productions anymore.

There is practically no competition in terms of summer blockbusters right now, and Nolan has a lot of name recognition. Same with The Odyssey, most people have at least heard of it. It could be the biggest trainwreck of a movie ever produced and people would still go see it just on that basis. Critics are going to glaze Nolan no matter what. If it turns out to be a complete stinker in terms of audience reviews, it's going to hurt Nolan's next movie, not this one. (Edit: currently it's sitting at a 89 critic score on metacritic, and a 5.1 user score...)

I'd be surprised if it cracks a billion though, because the movie doesn't seem like it will appeal to the Chinese / international market.

(Edit: currently it's sitting at a 89 critic score on metacritic, and a 5.1 user score...)

Kinda strange. On rotten tomatoes it is 96 and 97 correspondingly. Is there a history of audience score mismatch between metacritic and the tomatoes?

A billion will be huge success. What is the break even point of the movie - usually it is around 2.something the budget?

Critical Drinker hasn't released his review which is strange. There is chance the movie is so good he has nothing to rant about, but it is doubtful.

If you want to get a bit tinfoil hat, Rotten Tomatoes is a subsidiary of Comcast. So is Universal Pictures, which is the distributor of The Odyssey. If I were a conglomerate that owned both a movie distributor and a movie review aggregator, it sure would be tempting to crack down on "inauthentic review bombing" or whatever.

Apparently break even is $650-750 million, given the large budget and marketing costs.

After the movie leaked on 4chan, apparently they have been frantically DMCAing anything with even a single frame of the movie. That might be making things difficult for reviewers.

We're those real? They looked terrible, I'd have guessed they were footage shot but not used.

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