Actor, director and 2 time BAFTA winner reviews the movie.>"I'm going to give marks out of five, one being the lowest. And I'm not contrary here.">"I know Christopher Nolan - might not be watching this live,but he will eventually get past this information. Two out of five. ">"Why did I get two out of five? I'll tell you why. I'm going to tell why. No spoilers, but here's just generally how I felt about it all. See that bit? *gestures: a small amount of space between his fingers* That bit. That couple of minutes. Where that thing happens. I like that. See that bit later on? That two or three minutes where they meet that person. I like that. See a bit later on? See that two or three minutes? When that thing happens. I like that. Um and and that 30 seconds. When they appeal. Oh yeah, that's good. I like kind of like that.">"See the whole thing? I was fucking really fucking [snorts] bored.">"Like I thought to myself I I actually got so fucking bored that I thought about leaving. And I never leave films. I swear to god I wasnae even thinking about leaving so that I could say to everybody "I just actually left haha! There you go. Break the internet with that!" I was just kind of sitting there like, [sighs] "I don't give a fuck.". >"I thought was "Is this not just "this thing happens. And then this thing happens. And then this thing happens. And then this thing happens. And then this thing happens. And then this thing happens?""
>"Now some of you dafties might go "Right, is that not like everything? Is that not like, stories? Is that not how it works?" No. It's like, I get the whole kinda "Right, somebody's gotta go from here to there" type of thing, but, it's kinda... I was actually comparing it to things like "Jason and the Argonauts" which is dead different right? That's more like "my god we're going to see a colour film", that was actually 60s or something. I said to myself "I kinda like Jason and the Argonauts, is this not the same? Or "Clash of the Titans." Clash of the Titans is a wee bit boring other than or the Pegasus bit and the Calibos bit and the the Medusa bit and the Kraken bit and some other weird bits. It can get a wee bit boring, but Jason and the Argonauts um with the fucking Talos, that's a good bit and everythin, but I was just like... People kinda talk like... This is going to sound daft, right? But people are talking about something. And I didnae care. And then they talked about other things. And I didnae care. *emphesis* I didnae fucking care. And I thought it was boring. To me. I like films. I like long films. I like like The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, Once Upon a Time in the West. (...) Just in case anybody's thinking "he's not got the attention span for a 2-hour and 50-minute film, whatever the fuck it is." It's not that. I had to try to tell myself "just get it out your mind that people have said, "Oh, this is amazing."".
>I was actually thinking "Like how much would people care about this story or criticize or fairly criticize this fucking story if it wasnae for the fact "it's this *ancient* story"? This ancient story with a few things in it that was that have went into the sort of mainstream, "the Cyclops", that kind of thing.>If this was just written... This is the first time this has been written. This is written just for this film. And none of these things have like "Give a fuck about this fucking horse.'">It really relies on you, or it seems to really rely on you knowing or caring about "Homer's Odyssey". I was just taking it for this, for you know, what it was, and I just wasnae that fucking interested. >And yeah, I thought I'm missing something. I must be missing something. Cuz I knew at the end I was I was like, "Oh, is it sort of like about PTSD and people returning for like Afgha- American soldiers, you know, "our American boys", our American soldiers returning from Afghanistan?" Is that about that? Is it about the Vietnam War? Is this about Vietnam? Is it about the Falklands?
Nolancucks btfo again
>>222370070I thought he was wearing a Kippah or whatever it's called from the thumbnail
that's Nolan. He makes movies that have two good scenes in them.
here we go
>>222370159>>222370270>>222370319these are all botted repiles
>>222370203SAME ahahahaha
Based for making redditors seethe but also not based, because he thinks Homer's Odyssey is a boring shit story instead of realizing Nolans adaptation is what makes it seem that way.
>>222370336cope
>>222370070based
>>222370070>2 time BAFTA winnerSCOTTISH BAFTAS
>>222370364>because he thinks Homer's Odyssey is a boring shit story instead of realizing Nolans adaptation is what makes it seem that way.Stefan Molyneux also said this though.
>It really relies on you, or it seems to really rely on you knowing or caring about "Homer's Odyssey".amazing analysis, thank you
>>222370070i thought he was wearing a yarmulke
Surely 4chan of all places is not getting trolled by this 50 year old bald provocateur
>>222370070So it wasn't his 'hing?
he very clearly has ADHD. it's why he's gone from being productive to playing computer games for a living.i won't trust him if he says>a book/film/series is boringwhen he ACTUALLY means>i wasn't doing something with my hands the whole time, and nobody was paying ME any attention.
>>222371237I've read his autobiography and he's also clearly a sociopath.
>>222370892he means unless you feel compelled to praise it because it's the basis of Western literature or whatever, you wont give a shit.The plot isn't that compelling. The things that were cool about it have been extracted and presented to is in the form of Harryhausen movies and what-not over the years, but try actually reading the Odyssey. It's a bit dry.
important reminder that ben DOMINATED this review. https://youtu.be/NE20GvDohSc
>>222371541who?
>>222371365same. tbqh in this day and age of cancelling, i'm surprised more people don't just go to autobiographies. every big rock star mentions they fucked a 14-year-old, or worse.i suppose for Limmy, it's that date where he wanted to cut her, or whatever it was. imagine that was a tweet. i can believe he had suicidal ideation, but i think this is just what narcissism (or even BPD) looks like in men. dude was never at any real risk of throwing himself in the Clyde.
>>222371365elaborate
>>222371689Well, for example, when his mother died he was just like "Right, I'm off to college." He didn't really feel anything.
>>222371689There's the bit where he takes his future wife home for the first time and, while she's waiting for him to fuck her, he logs onto his computer and checks in on some forum beef he was engaged in first.
>>222371720maybe she was a bitch
>>222371164i don't see how an opinion so mild could be a provocationlike him asking if it's about the falklands as an extension of asking about vietnam is a bit but the vietnam question istelf is genuine imo, "vietnam" is too boomer coded, if he was actually trying to start something he'd say syria or yemen or whatever
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>>222371885He's right though. They're trying to awkwardly super-impose this narrative about "boys coming back from the front" and PTSD on a story about people who didn't really think like that.
>>222370070This is by FAR my biggest issue with modern writers, which makes sense considering it's the most basic mistake amateur writers make. Where everything just sort of happens, like a list of events.Things are supposed to happen BECAUSE of something else.
>>222372103this makes sense for say, a WW2 film, but i don't get it when you have all these classic Hollywood flicks about soldiers being sent off to fight in the Crusades or some Americans joining the Civil War or whatever...like any point in history, we've had this. men go off to fight, they come home. they probably saw some shit and plenty drank/had PTSD.but if it's post-WW1/WW2 stuff, they might as well have Odysseus and his men singing Vera Lynn songs. after all, they say 'mom' and shit, right? (not just shifting language, using language that would be odd today.)
Kill jester
>>222372503basic cause-and-effect means you can't create scenes as vignettes to be watched on a phone: audiences would have to understand how they connect.probably why we get a lot more 'power of love' screw-the-rules solutions (in science-fiction/fantasy/horror, but grounded dramas are figuring out tricks too).
nolan is a worthless hack and when he finally croaks the fim world will be better offMemento - the one time his gimmick actually worked and he's been beating it to death ever sinceBatman Begins - the beginning of nolan convicing himself that grimdark angst is the same as depthThe Dark Knight - Heath Ledger carried this film so hard everyone forgot nolan's dialogue was terribleInterstellar - 3 hrs of science babble to tell you love is nice while your ears bleed from organ musicDunkirk - 3 timelines zero characters and a soundtrack that gives you a headacheTenet - a 200 million dollar movie no one understands, nobody heard, and no one lovedOppenheimer - 3 hrs of men in rooms talking chopped into 2 timelines for no reasonOddyssey - a $900 monument to fact audiences will pay anything to be confused in IMAX
>>222372503>>222372651>modern writersLynch did this all the time and you fucks praised him for it
>>222370070His yarmulke disappears when I enlrage the photo.
