The Odyssey

Whoever told me Fe!n was confirmed in the movies sound track was an asshole. It’s one of the longest lasting human stories and there was no doubt it would be good in movie format. Here’s my thoughts on what made it a good movie and not an all time great. Spoilers ahead. The good: -Legitimately one of, if not the best, character arcs across the movies. Every single person all the way down to the dog had actions throught the movies that had long lasting consequences in how it influenced theirs story. The little details and callbacks to previous points in the movie were subtle and cherries on top instead of in your face and obvious The mid: -For a movie so hyped to be shot in imax 70mm I think I would have been disappointed to drive the 3 hour round trip to see it in 70mm. The film visuals were good, but don’t think they benefited much with the extra screen space. Overhyped marketing imo (spoken with a grain of salt from a digital format peasant) The bad (major spoilers) -I’m so frustrated in how they told the story of Odysseus. Seeing him alive and deserted with no memory meant that the meat and potatoes. The odyssey he went on, felt unconsiquential because we saw his end point. I believe this was a choice because it is such a know story but man what a bummer. Having the majority of the movie be told through the lense of the past snapped me out of the moment when they would cut back to the present. I was there to enjoy the story of Odysseus not some amnesia ridden man’s version of it. That being said the ending and the tying of the story was spectacular (see section the good)