We review Christopher Nolan’s take on the original epic: Homer’s The Odyssey. Does it withstand all of the hype?
Homer’s The Odyssey is one of the great tales to be handed down within humanity. Oddly, or perhaps due to its epic scale, there haven’t been as many takes on the epic poem as you’d imagine. Many films carved bits and pieces of the story into a narrative, and NBC offered a 2-night miniseries with an all-star cast including Armand Assante, Isabella Rossellini, Vanessa Williams, Bernadette Peters, and more. Now, with Christopher Nolan’s take on Homer’s epic tale, it’s difficult to imagine anything following it.
Starring Matt Damon, Tom Holland, Anne Hathaway, and many more, The Odyssey sails into theaters with massive expectations. By selling tickets a year in advance, Universal Pictures threatened to capsize the film by stoking rabid fan expectations as hard as they could. And the gambit paid off: the film grossed over $260 million worldwide in its opening weekend. Most critics and audiences loved it, and an awards future seems bright.
On this week’s podcast, Jalal joins Joey and Clarence to review Nolan’s film. Does it hold up to the hype? How will the Academy react to the film? And what do we make of the casting controversies that, in some quarters, plagued the film upon its release?
We close our podcast, as always, with the Flash Forward to the media we’re most anticipating in the upcoming week.
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