New poster for Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey’

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fedikitty@piefed.social · 17 pts · 73d (1 reply)

I'm sorry, this looks like the poster to another kind of movie.

Airfried@piefed.social · 6 pts · 73d

Wait until you see the Trojan sofa in a flashback scene.

CyanideShotInjection@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 73d (5 replies)

Is it just me that is in no way excited for this movie ?

_ed@sopuli.xyz · 10 pts · 73d (1 reply)

I am about as excited for it as I am with all his other movies > just glad to have movies that aren't disney/marvel movies, or remakes, or sequels.

CyanideShotInjection@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 73d

Yeah I get you. I enjoyed the Batman trilogy, but otherwise I think he is one of the most overrated director out there.

popcar2@piefed.ca · 4 pts · 73d

Nope, everybody is skeptical about it. If it didn't have Christopher Nolan's name on it I'd think it would be dead on arrival. Everything we've seen has just been kinda bad.

adam_y@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 73d (1 reply)
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CyanideShotInjection@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 73d

I just saw a post saying that there are already hour long waiting lines to buy movie theatre tickets, hence the questionning.

_ed@sopuli.xyz · 8 pts · 73d

That is a terribly fake looking poster, like a superbad photoshop job created by an intern.

IWW4@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 73d

Y’all have fun with this.

Visstix@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 73d (1 reply)

What part of the story even is this?

DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social · 2 pts · 73d

My first thought was Myrmidons, who were part of the Iliad as troops under Achilles, so I suppose it's possible if that's a Trojan soldier and this is a scene from the Fall of Troy?

Otherwise no clue.

Edit: oh there's the

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laestrygonians

Looks like the most likely inspiration. This is right before Circe and him deciding to spend a year plowing her instead of returning to his wife and family.