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Discussion (6 Comments)Read Original on HackerNews

squidsoup•about 2 hours ago
> "The Odyssey features his usual combination of grandiosity and superficiality".

A pretty succinct summation of Nolan as a filmmaker.

class3shock•about 1 hour ago
I'm not a scholar of Greek history but as layman, I thought it was good and good enough to recommend. Visually it is quite beautiful and despite what the review states it does have an ethical thread at its core it follows. There are some choices I just don't understand; the armor, mostly the Trojans and Agamemnon's, looks like something that would be on a low budget scifi tv show and jamming a bunch of well known celebrities in bit parts is just distracting. If you can get behind a pretty, modern day take, on the story I would give it a shot.
bragh•about 2 hours ago
Fair enough about the other points. But this is a ridiculous "hot take":

> There are no sex scenes, and all the food looks horrible.

Yes and if there were sex scenes, then the film would get criticized for having sex scene(s), not being able to tell the story of a Greek epic without turning it into erotica or something.

GlobalFrog•14 minutes ago
And there are no sex scene in the original tale. Sex is slightly evocated by two mentions of Ulysses sharing the bed or Circe and Calypso, but without any depiction of sex.
squidsoup•28 minutes ago
Greek mythology is full of sex, and the Odyssey is no exception.
runarberg•about 1 hour ago
I read this as a stylistic choice by the reviewer, she was clearly having a great time writing this awesome review, and decided to put this at the end of her conclusion to add flavor to to it, something she points out is missing in the movie.

This review was an amazing read, by an amazing writer, and in my opinion these 11 words were the best part.