Movies
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@Nick dude i agree with the take on Odyssey. I didn't give it enough credit in my initial post. I was thoroughly entertained and fully support an artists ability to make a story their own. If you dont like someones art - you dont like it. I DID like it in this case. It's totally subjective. I try to go into every artistic expression with zero expectations, of course the hype almost kept me from seeing it, but i stood by my principle and went, and i'm glad i did. Artists (directors) dont have to make movies for ME. This is what i hate about marketing and 'target audiences' and generating expectations for things and i, as a member of the audience, have no authority to determine if something is 'good' or not, and judgements are irrelevant. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and may never precisely coincide with the intent of the creator.
Another note: they gave far too much away in the trailer. everybody knows the story, so its not plot spoiling, but i hated that i bulleted moments from the trailer as i watched the movie. They spoiled the look of things. Trailers really need to be more vague and sneaky than they have been lately.
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There should be no third act teasers in any trailers. I get there is tested psychology with this - I personally forget all the potential spoilers - but there have been scenes in other films ruined by knowing what's coming up. It's like Hollywood etc think everyone is stupid so 'here's pretty much all the action scenes to entice you into watching the movie'. The psychology I think is that 'we' often do forget what we've previously been teased when sat down with popcorn ready to watch. But they will never go full sneaky because I guess some people only watch movies because of trailers lol.
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@Nick shoot i wouldnt be surprise if people skipped the movie altogether cuz most trailers are just synopses of the thing and people dont have the time lol
With this one in particular, it spoiled imagery. the giants, cyclops, settings, etc...i would have preferred if all these trials had surprised me in the same way the sirens and Circe did.
The hollywood machine is just crazy. They're so disconnected from reality. Its like now they only know what numbers tell them work. they have their formula.
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Yeah. Social media generation too. Take for example what Marvel do. They have super snappy footage and then the logo and then the trailer. It's literally a trailer for a trailer. I dont listen to the radio but Capital here in London/UK also have a preview of a track (like the hook) before playing the track. Not always but when they want to let the people know 'oooh there's a banger coming up'.
Reality is, it's Capital, there are no bangers.
Digital life has trained people to have no attention span.
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@AdamJ i dont think i'd be able to let that one go
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@WhiskeySandwich at first I thought he was going down the iMDB path of "What has he been in before?!" something my girlfriend loves to do, but that's usually at the start of the film.
I think 2 hours of attention was all he had in the tank!
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The Odyssey was terrific. Of course they took some liberties with a story that has very odd moments for modern audiences, and of course it wasn’t a perfectly authentic lens into antiquity, but I thought it felt like what Homer wrote about and was just superb all around.
