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PaperclipPerfector  5d ago (text post)   2682 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for July 17, 2026

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The movie does posit that the Sea Peoples are returning Greeks for that reason.

But that isn't even the main problem. The movie outright states that the thing that caused the collapse of the entire civilization was the breaking of xenia/Zeus's law because of the Trojan horse gambit and the attendant sack (no mention is made of the much more unambiguous violation of hospitality that kicked off the war).

The movie makes an outcome whose cause so uncertain we debate the causes today into a pretty straightforward monocausal event.

Funnily enough, reviewers whose tastes often align with mine (we all agree Rings of Power is terrible) saw the movie and really liked it, so it must come across way better on the big screen when you watch the entire movie, because the trailers were dogshit.

It's much better than I thought from the trailers. Trailers were awful and bland and I suspect that's part of why the antiwoke stuff was able to dominate. The PR just didn't give you much.

TBF they didn't have to. The story is the story and Nolan is at the peak of his powers in terms of box office draw.

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