r/movies • u/ChiefLeef22 r/movies Contributor • 4h ago

Article ‘The Odyssey’ Proves It: Audiences Want Movies Made the Hard Way | This year's breakouts like 'Project Hail Mary' and 'Obsession' were made by filmmakers who sweated. While CG-stuffed franchise disappointments such as 'Supergirl,' 'Moana,' and 'The Mandalorian and Grogu' looked lazy.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/odyssey-box-office-2026-practical-effects-1236652219/
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u/krunamey 4h ago

Feels like it could work if they gave it pacing similar to something like The Green Knight

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u/TheWatersOfMars 3h ago

It's actually a surprisingly similar vibe. Gilgamesh's journey to find immortality after the death of his best friend is melancholy and heartwrenching. I'm sure there's a great modern Hollywood script in there somewhere.

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u/Nachooolo 2h ago

The problem here is that the journey is the last third of the story, and it wouldn't be as impactful (emotional, even) without the two first thirds.

Gilgamesh meeting and befriending Enkidu, and their adventures together are as important to the story as the journey.

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u/TheWatersOfMars 2h ago

It's not unlike The Odyssey, though, in that Odysseus's famous adventures are really just the middle third of the poem. But Gilgamesh is much, much shorter and has far fewer iconic moments to draw on.

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u/matdragon 3h ago

and yet Fate/stay night managed to characterize him to hell and back, is some of it true or not or historically accurate? of course not, it's an epic as old as time, it's up to creators to try to interpret and tell the story to the current generation.

Did Ishtar actually have beef with gilgamesh? Hell if i know, hell i wouldn't have even known who ishtar was without the fate series

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u/SpiritFingersKitty 4h ago

Exactly what I was thinking

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u/quanqazaq 4h ago

Green knight was terrible story wise

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u/krunamey 4h ago

Personally I thought it was very good

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u/SpiritFingersKitty 4h ago

My wife and I were disappointed when we left the theater because it was misadvertised. But, I think as a work it is quite good.

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u/inosinateVR 4h ago

How did you feel it was misadvertized? Just curious, I didn’t really know anything about it when I saw it so I don’t know what the marketing was like

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u/Curiositygun 3h ago

I agree it was a good story but had weird tonal issue especially with ghost of the lady and her head being in the pond. Humor/irony was in spots it shouldnt have been because those kind of undermined the idea it was pushing.