Looked awful in basically all respects, and everyone I trust on film thought it was an embarrassment. A shame, and such an opportunity.

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FranzFerdiNaN a day ago | parent [-]

And yet most reviewers praise it. So either they are all wrong, or you move in very snobbish circles. Because 'an embarrassment' is extremely strong language that should be reserved for very bad movies and im quite sure this isn't.

I didnt care for Tenet at all, which i thought wasted a good concept, but i would never call the movie an embarrassment because it was clearly very well made. I just didn't like it.

But he dared take on The Odyssey, so suddenly everyone is a classical scholar who read it in the original language and has enough knowledge of ancient greek and pre-greek societies to adequately judge it. Because clearly showing disdain for a reinterpretation of a good work makes you a sophisticated person.

	▲	philipallstar a day ago \| parent \| next [-]
		> So either they are all wrong That is definitely possible, as there's been a lot of silly lockstep ideological reviewing of things in the last 5 years. However, Jeremy Jahns, who reviews movies based on them being movies (and them not being not sufficiently post-structural, post-colonial critiques of the patriarchy) likes it based on movie reasons, so that was encouraging.
	▲	SubmarineClub a day ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		> So either they are all wrong You say this like it might be shocking. I would expect nothing more than major movie critics bandwagoning a movie like this.