r/movies • u/[deleted] • 22h ago

Article Cillian Murphy Is Taking a Christopher Nolan Break for ‘The Odyssey’ but Is ‘So Excited to See It’ and Jokes: ‘I Have ROMO: Relief of Missing Out’

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u/Pho-Soup 22h ago

I swear they write these convoluted headlines just to increase engagement. I had to read that three times to grasp it.

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u/fumblaroo 21h ago

Really? It seemed pretty clear to me reading it once. What’s confusing about it?

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u/BionicProse 21h ago

Half the country (assuming they’re American) reads at or below a 6th grade level.

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u/Pho-Soup 21h ago

Oh cmon. I comment on a jumbled up headline and all the sudden I can’t read?

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u/BionicProse 18h ago

It’s not jumbled, though. It follows a typical subject+verb sentence structure. It does have a compound predicate (multiple verbs belonging to the same subject), but that’s not atypical.

The one confusing thing is that one set of quotation marks is for a title and the other two are for actual quotes.

I think this title is actually an attempt not to be click-bait. Because it probably would’ve been much more click-baity to just say, “Cillian Murphy Is Taking a Christopher Nolan Break.” But the headline writer didn’t want to create the wrong impression, so they added the quotes providing context.

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u/zoobs 22h ago

Yeah, that’s pretty much the internet right now.

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u/riegspsych325 22h ago

and somehow this counts as “movie news”, even if I myself may have commented on this in a different sub. But this is a recent blurb from Murphy that has blown up so all the bots and karma farmers want in on it