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Friday Fun Thread for July 24, 2026

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Just got back from The Odyssey. What did you guys think of it apart from culture-war implications?

I'm glad that there were no gratuitous sex scenes. I guess I'm one of those sexless zoomers. I actually think they went too far in this regard. They could have gotten some topless models as sirens or had Calypso be thirstier.

Lupita Nyong'o, E. Page, and Zendaya really are miscast. It's not a meme. Charlize Theron should have been Athena.

It was pretty cool how they tied in the establishment of the oral mythic history of the Trojan War and forshadowed the collapse of the bronze age (spoiler alert: the Greeks are the sea peoples).

I'd say it's better than Dunkirk and Batman Begins but worse than all of Nolan's other films (I've never seen Tenet or Insomnia).

Apart from the culture-war aspects, which are basically minimal, "The Odyssey" is excellent. The film is Nolan's most ambitious one to date, and it looks fantastic in IMAX. Everyone should try to see it in IMAX, as it was filmed, to get the full experience. I'd love to see again in IMAX 70MM, or even 70MM, but showings are sold out everywhere for months, and seeing the movie in those formats will be nearly impossible if theaters follow the current screenings schedule.

Tenet is very underrated. It’s basically Nolan’s take on a James Bond film. In terms of woke politics, everyone should just be glad that the film didn’t present anything even remotely close to real historically accurate Grecian sexual and social dynamics.

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