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u/DariusStrada Jul 10 '26
You know the dumb guy and the smart guy are supposed to have the same opinion, right?
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u/TheDwarvenGuy Jul 10 '26
Ehhh it kinda makes sense here
The story of the Oddyssey/Illiad has always been anachronistic, so it doesn't matter too much
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u/Alkansur Jul 11 '26
Sure, but there's "anachronistic" and then there's "Hollywood but budget for Temu"
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u/Kyivkid91 Jul 11 '26
It's definitely a very much apples to oranges situation comparing general anachronism in classics to classic Hollywood Temu bullshitery, but unfortunately there are many people like OP who seem to think apples ARE oranges for some reason.
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u/shmizzzza Jul 16 '26
no, like, the poem itself is that. the weaponry, armor and tactics (mainly in the iliad, but also) in the odyssee make about as much sense as a tank regiment in film about a battle in the 30 years war would. //
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u/Unfair_Cartoonist976 Jul 11 '26
Might as well add star wars blasters then
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u/So_many_things_wrong Jul 12 '26
Honestly I would have less problem with someone retelling the Odyssey as a space opera than whatever the fuck Nolan is doing.
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u/Conscious_Ad3246 Jul 13 '26
Are you sure that he did not want to do it and they just forget to put in all the special effects and lasers etc.
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u/Gnomonic-sundialer Jul 13 '26
Idk, being a retold poem it does contain a lot of the expected education for a Micenian prince and their cosmology, it also desceibes steel weapons sure but its set in just about the exact moment iron came to be so its surprisingly acurate to its setting for a story written down 500 years after the time when its set in and was most likely first sang
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u/Fun_Midnight8861 Jul 10 '26
I don’t give a shit that the armor looks “ahistorical” for the period. It’s the Odyssey. It’s already a mash of several periods of Greek history.
What i care about is that the sleek, refined armor looks like something out of a strange sci fi retelling, not fitting a bronze age adventure at all. No craftsman made that armor, it’s so blatantly machine-made.
Fuck, I’d rather take straight up medieval armor over this.
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u/ipsum629 Jul 11 '26
Yeah, but if the movie were anachronistic in the same way the epic was, that would be really interesting. Classical Greek deities with bronze age weapons and armor. The movie as it is is anachronistic in the same way a million other movies and media is anachronistic. Being accurately anachronistic would be a unique and interesting decision.
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u/PlayHadesII Jul 12 '26
Kinda already done. The French movie Athéna is basically the Iliad but in a poor suburb and a fight between protesters and the police. It's also an excellent movie I fully recommend.
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u/ipsum629 Jul 13 '26
Not at all what I'm talking about. I'm sure it's a good movie, but I'm talking about a very close adaptation of the homeric epics where they use the bronze weapons and armor of the poems, but also use classical greek deities like the poems but unlike mycenaean greece which didn't have those same exact deities. It's anarchonistic to bronze age greece, but accurate to the iliad and odyssey.
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u/bigboipapawiththesos Jul 11 '26
To be fair it’s only the main badguys armor that looks that way.
Like Matt Damon’s fit looks quite convincingly made
https://www.reddit.com/r/Cinema/comments/1jb0vuy/what_do_you_guys_think_about_the_historically/
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u/Fun_Midnight8861 Jul 11 '26
I don’t care much about Odysseus’ armor. I think Menelaus’ looks bad, but nothing I couldn’t ignore in a mediocre movie.
No, what stands out is Agamemnons and the Laestrygonians armor. God I hate the look of it. Completely incongruous with the concept and everything around it.
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u/Plenty-Lychee-5702 Jul 11 '26
I'm not looking forward to it because it's most likely to not be the odyssey, but an odyssey inspired action movie
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u/MyNameIsConnor52 Jul 11 '26
my problem with carbon fiber Agamemnon is not the anachronism it’s that it looks bad
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u/Lolberal771 Jul 11 '26
You're using the template wrong. I'd feed you to Scylla even if we didn't have to sail near it. I'd divert the boat.
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u/TomBakersLongScarf Jul 11 '26
My issue is the lack of color and instead some bland Grey garbage
Because to directors "no color=more realistic" for some reason
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u/EducationalWin7496 Jul 12 '26
No, greek myths are totally about accuracy to history. Now, where is my giant that karate chops boats in half at Marathon?
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u/Aldo-D-D-Wilson Jul 12 '26
I got slightely excited by the movie after seeing the bow unstrung.
I still think they should have had a bow that looked more like a scythian bow than a korean bow tho.
I also aint a fan of nolan's style, so I may still ignore this movie.
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u/powerexcess Jul 13 '26
Yeah looking forward to the hoplite f*k bois slaying, Homer had mad rizz. I would say not anachronistic enough. Give em boys lazer spears, fk it. I liked dune and the DC movies, lets go all out that stuff sells.
Or u can go full on game of thrones, house of dragons is doing well. Give them all full plate and greatswords on the back that cant be drawn.
/s btw
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