My god. I won’t give away any spoilers here, but this was peak. I was shaking during it. My Apple Watch was screaming at me that my heart rate was too high lol. Just superb

Anyone else immediately thought of this? I am now convinced in my own headcanon that this is the only reason why Nolan decided to leave the horse so close to the shoreline.

Edit: Movie is Planet of the Apes.

easily the most experimental score from a Nolan movie since maybe Dunkirk??

For me, a Christopher Nolan adaptation of George Orwell’s 1984 would be my dream project from him. It remains my favourite book of all time, and I am fascinated by how Nolan would bring Oceania to life. Besides horror and helicopter cops, where would you like Christopher Nolan to go next?

They are sooo mad theres a black girl and a trans person in this movie.

Loved it. Brilliant soundacape.

Plus have to say

I've spent the last week trying to find somewhere in Europe to see The Odyssey in its native 1.43:1, and I've ended up stuck on a question nobody seems able to answer.

Quick recap of the format tiers:

- IMAX 70mm (15-perf film) — native 1.43:1, the full frame

- IMAX with Laser GT (dual projector) — digital, also 1.43:1

- IMAX with Laser, single projector (CoLa/XT) — 1.90:1, cropped

- IMAX Digital (xenon, ~2K) — 1.90:1, cropped

The film was shot open-matte for 1.43:1, so anything below the top two tiers isn't just softer. It's missing picture from the top and bottom of the frame. Scenes composed for the full height get trimmed.

Here's what I don't get. A 1.90:1 screen could pillarbox the tall frame instead: use the projector's full chip height, address only the center portion of the width, black bars on the left and right. Smaller image, but the entire composition. The geometry works fine (see the diagram).

As far as I can tell, the blocker isn't technical. IMAX simply doesn't distribute the tall master to those venues. Single-laser and xenon houses receive a 1.90:1 DCP that's a genuine reframe, not the 1.43 file with bars added. They physically couldn't show the full frame even if the projectionist wanted to.

I understand the business logic. A filled screen looks more impressive than a pillarboxed one, especially in a converted multiplex auditorium, and keeping 1.43:1 scarce is exactly what makes people travel for it.

But it stings when you're the one doing the travelling. There are three cinemas in the entire EU showing this on 70mm: Prague, Brussels, Montpellier. I'm in Austria, so the nearest complete version of the movie is a four-hour drive. Meanwhile there's an IMAX twenty minutes from me that could put the whole frame on screen with bars and simply isn't allowed to.

Just give people the choice. One clearly labelled off-peak screening a week. Some of us would take the bars happily.

So: is there an actual technical blocker I'm missing — brightness, masking, projector alignment, licensing — or is this purely a distribution decision?

Cause Odyssey is one of the best cinematic experiences I have ever had in my life. Saw in regular IMAX and the cinamagrophy/sound was spectacular. This is my 6th Nolan movie in theaters but I skipped on Oppenheimer and Tenet.

The fastest 3 hour movie I ever saw in my life. Everyone was good, even Travis Scott lol.

And Ludwig absolutely killed it once again.

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What an amazing movie. Absolute Cinema. Love how the movie shows Troy.

Edit- Matt Damon

I drove in from Munich specifically for this, since Flora is one of only three places in the entire EU showing The Odyssey in true 70mm IMAX, and I have zero regrets.

First off, massive shoutout to the folks at IMAX Flora. They actually took me up to the booth and let me stand next to the IMAX projector. That thing is an absolute beast. The passion these people have for film is unreal - they didn't have to do that, and it made the whole experience unforgettable. If any of you are film nerds, these are your people.

The movie itself? Hands down a spectacle. I need to rewatch it before I make any final calls, but sitting there in that format, it felt like something close to the pinnacle of what cinema can do.

And the ending - that final minute, the dialogue, it is just something else. I won't spoil anything, but it stuck with me the whole drive home. Go see it in 70mm if you possibly can.

one thing I see a lot of people saying / interpreting is that Athena took on the guise of Zendaya (temple priestess that got beheaded) to essentially haunt Matt Damon. But before I read anything and during that reveal I instantly thought that Zendaya was Athena incarnate.

During the movie it is mentioned a couple times that Zeus law is in place partially because anyone could be a god in disguise. I think the final reveal is meant to say that Athena was the priestess in disguise living in the temple in troy and that it wasn't Athena taking on the guise of the random priestess.

Tom Hollands performance in the odyssey might be one of my favorite performances from him and the 3rd best performance in the movie (though ranking performances is hard cuz literally all the characters are so wonderfully acted). Normally Tom plays fairly meak pushover characters and he seems to always get typecast as that but I feel this film finally broke the mold for him. He felt so rock solid and strong when playing this character. It felt nothing like his peter parker (beyond same voice). Near the end of the movie when he screams at the suters gave me chills. It legit sounded like a king disparaging and disgracing a criminal. Id love to see him play more characters like this. A

It so smacks of wokeness that they had to include a cat from India in the film!!! Why not, you know, only include cats from that part of the world??? So unrealistic and woke! Blah blah blah woke! An outrage, I tell you! An outrage!!! Anger! Anger! Anger! Mad mad mad!

Another reason not to believe in all the conspiracies of right wing trolls who say that Rotten Tomatoes is manipulating its Popcornometer score.

If you don’t let review bombers rate it, you’ll get the true score.