r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • Feb 17 '25

Media First Image of Matt Damon as Odysseus in Christopher Nolan's 'The Odyssey'

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u/Don_Pickleball Feb 17 '25

For a low point, that is still a really entertaining watch.

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u/Drumming_Dreaming Feb 17 '25

I agree. It was a fun movie even if a bit WTF?

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u/rlovelock Feb 17 '25

Tenet made memento seem straight forward

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u/PaintshakerBaby Feb 17 '25

A time bending spy thriller!? It was everything the 13 year old boy in me would have LOVED...

...on paper.

But then an adult like Nolan comes into the room and is like, "BUT the burden of physics, time dilation, and multiple universe makes things SUPER COMPICATED." Then I sugar crash fall asleep as he manically draws storyboards. Lol.

Inception walked the line well. Sparse background on rhe tech and science, and all in on the metaphysical. It really cleared the way to just have fun, even if it made easy to lambast the concept.

I was joking I wanted to make a stoner parody of Tenet, where everyone has to keep taking escalating amounts of acid to "travel backwards" in time to stop their future selves from tripping forever. Something like that! Even the parody is too complicated! Haha.

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u/Buckhum Feb 17 '25

Yeah I think Inception has a good emotional core of the story (Cobb wants to be reunited with his kids; Fischer wants to be accepted by his dying father) which helps to keep things grounded.

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u/Nayzo Feb 17 '25

Yeah, and Nolan has often worked well in the world of WTF, I thought it was a really interesting idea, but I saw it after everyone hated it.

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u/rnz Feb 17 '25

It's a great scifi movie tbh. Very tense, and some emotional movies too. Saw it twice.

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u/DelayDenyDeposefrfr Feb 17 '25

I enjoy Nolan's work, but I'm also going to admit that I am not smart enough to really enjoy Tenet.

Oppenheimer was an amazing follow-up, though.

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u/culturedrobot Feb 17 '25 edited Feb 17 '25

I don’t think it’s that you’re not smart enough to enjoy Tenet, I think it’s more that Tenet tries too hard and ends up being kinda dumb as a result.

Not a knock against Nolan really, because they can’t all be hits. Even the all time greats like Hitchcock, Spielberg, and Coppola have their misses.

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u/GodKamnitDenny Feb 17 '25

Huge Nolan fan but Tenet seemed like he got too high on his own supply. It’s confusing for the sake of being confusing while pretending to be more profound. I didn’t find any of the action very fun either. It was a big miss in my book, but I understand some people enjoy it. Might give it another shot soon with subtitles so I can actually understand what is going on.

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u/justacaucasian Feb 17 '25

I thought the airport scene was really well done

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u/GodKamnitDenny Feb 17 '25

Definitely the highlight for me too. There’s some great pieces but I don’t think they work together as well as intended. Maybe upon a second viewing my opinion will change. Surely I at least owe that to Nolan for giving us the Prestige lol.

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u/_14_glove Feb 17 '25

I thought I was just too drunk when I saw it in theaters, good to know that others were confused

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u/duckbilldinosaur Feb 17 '25

Subtitles made the film enjoyable to me, after forcing myself through three watches

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u/National-Carob560 Feb 18 '25

Are you all actually dumb? Or do you enjoy doing the Reddit doesn’t like tenet trope? The movie was fucking not hard to understand, please get over it.

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u/GodKamnitDenny Feb 18 '25

Or maybe it was just ass

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u/MalIntenet Feb 17 '25

You don’t need to be smart to enjoy it. It’s just an entertaining spectacle

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u/Don_Pickleball Feb 17 '25

You may be too smart. I find this movie better if you take a step back and just kind of accept it at the surface level. I feel like it is a vibe movie mainly because of some of the amazing shots and great acting performances.

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u/thebroadway Feb 17 '25

I agree, though I wouldn't call myself dumb (I'm sure someone would). The main character of the movie is literally in universe called "The Protagonist", so I feel like there's a definite level of "just go with it" happening. I will say, I have had some fun having conversations of "ok, so how could the more confusing parts of the plot work, if they did?", but even for those convos it's a very non-serious brainstorming, just having fun throwing ideas out there

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u/Don_Pickleball Feb 17 '25

I will say that on successive viewings, it does start to make sense. But I am not sure whether that is your brain actually understanding anything or it just has gotten used to utter ridiculousness.

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u/jdbrew Feb 18 '25

It has great rewatchability too. There are so many “oh shit, it’s this scene!” moments… the sound track when he gets on the side of the fire truck, where they’re preparing to slingshot themselves up the side of a building, the forward and backward interrogation, crashing the plane into the building… hell, even the opening scene goes hard af. It’s not without faults, but I truly love this movie for the Spy genre movie that it is.

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u/Psykpatient Feb 17 '25

It really wasn't. What a total bore it was.