holy

just give edward norton a character with amnesia or multiple personalities and he will give the performance of his life rest in peace andre braugher

no one told me there are levels to this

(watched in digital IMAX) i am not going to pretend as if i am superior to others, more literate, or have any idea about how the creation of a movie or the writing of a screenplay works and happens (contrary to most other people who voiced some vile takes when all we had was the trailer. more on this later). i am a regular cinema-goer, just another a member of the audience, with some school-taught knowledge of this story. but from what i've imagined this story to be, and what i've seen (1997 mini series) this is the epic i ever wanted and imagined Homer's Odyssey to be. every actor we see in the credits, that have more than 3 minutes of screen time, have given probably at least their top 2 performances throughout their own filmography. it's great to see Nolan bring back old faces and test out new people aswell: we finally get a serious major Tom Holland role. we get to see just a hint of Nolan in every aspect of the film as well: the dialogue is hell-bent on explaining everything, so even the less familiar audiences don't feel lost (like in Inception). the action sequences are realist, but safe, not unnecessarily fetishized, gruesome but clean, yet still emotionally heavy enough for us to feel the shock and loss of life. the movie is 3 hours long yet captivating all throughout, utilizing the aforementioned heavy dialogue, amazing IMAX visuals and classic Nolan low-cgi action sequences. this is where i see the most wiggle room for this rating, but i love nolan and his quirks, so max points from me, might be a propeller hat take, but i will own it forever. in most of Nolan's films, there are 2-3 climax scenes, where the most riveting things happen: in Interstellar we have No Time For Caution, In Oppenheimer we have the bomb and the meeting afterwards, and here we have my official favorite scene of all time in every movie ever: the siren's song sequence. i cant and wont even try to pour in to words the feeling i felt during this scene and every subsequent scenes where this specific music from Ludwig Göransson's score played; even during the credits. a lot of the early hatred for this movie stemmed from absolutely room temperature iq takes all based on the trailer, and i feel like this has to be mentioned. hate against Elliot Page, Lupita Nyong'o, all because they were cast in such a historical movie. any other reason? people seem afraid to answer this, but it's insane how much racism and transphobia goes against these two. but obviously there never will be a time when a movie gets 100% approval from everyone, it is what it is. i'm not trying to convince everyone that this movie is perfect, my opinion and my POV is that it is. of course this isnt the only source of hate or dislike for this movie (i have my opinions on the historical accuracy and the greek-representation takes, maybe in a future review), but i just wish some people werent so bigoted and prejudiced, especially when it's to the detriment of art. i could go on and on about how this was the best cinematic experience i've ever had but that's all obvious, since it's my second ever imax watch. i would say that nothing will top this for a while, but before the movie actually rolled, the dune: messiah trailer played. this is what i live for

4th rewatch, sadly idk the dates of my previous revisits to this movie. got my imax digital odyssey tickets on monday, july 20th; i genuinely cannot contain myself