8:50 and beyond compares the different aspect ratios and how there is headroom for immersion on a 3 story screen and for cropping to 16:9 on home streaming/blu-ray

I disagree.

What's sad, and beyond pathetic, is spearheading a campaign of negatively about a movie you haven't yet seen, posting multiple times a day, every single day, for months on end, in order to, I can only surmise, virtue signal, win some imaginary culture war, and try and ruin people's good time who are simply looking forward to seeing something in a movie theater.

Again, I post here every day as well, but at least it's in support of something I love and do for a living.

To spend as much time as you do, endlessly attempting to bring something down, day after day after day, is simply and objectively deranged behavior.

When y'all Give Send Go me the money to make a proper Odyssey, I'm giving you the Athena we deserve.

Eva Green ❤❤ pic.twitter.com/xXRxD6YyHj

— Yes Vibexy Cine (@YesVibexyCin) July 14, 2026

What are than chances Cliff Booth will like this movie? I put it at about .5%.

He wouldn't admit it even if he did. He's in too deep at this point.

You had as much to do with any movie you shill for as I do.

You're grasping, dude.

Cliff.Booth said:

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When y'all Give Send Go me the money to make a proper Odyssey, I'm giving you the Athena we deserve.

Eva Green ❤❤ pic.twitter.com/xXRxD6YyHj

— Yes Vibexy Cine (@YesVibexyCin) July 14, 2026

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Hey now.

This should have happened.

edit: She looks like peak Claudia Black in this pic. Wow.

Bruce Almighty said:

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What are than chances Cliff Booth will like this movie? I put it at about .5%.

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I honestly expect to like certain aspects of it. I've been comparing it to Napoleon and I think I'll have the same level of appreciation and frustration. When a genuinely great director makes a lackluster movie, on a massive budget, it's more disappointing. I am expecting to find certain parts cool but just wish he had done something different with it. That's where the last couple of trailers have left me.

She definitely looks like a classic Mediterranean Greek Turkish goddess.

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Bruce Almighty said:

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What are than chances Cliff Booth will like this movie? I put it at about .5%.

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I honestly expect to like certain aspects of it. I've been comparing it to Napoleon and I think I'll have the same level of appreciation and frustration. When a genuinely great director makes a lackluster movie, on a massive budget, it's more disappointing. I am expecting to find certain parts cool but just wish he had done something different with it. That's where the last couple of trailers have left me.

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Thats a good example, if it does end up being that level of film people gotta be honest. Napoleon was decent and some aspects were good, but definitely not amazing overall.
Difference is just going in with an open mind instead of being predisposed to think it will fail. Its silly to do the latter.

Cliff.Booth said:

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Film Threat's Chris Gore and Alan Ng out of the theater reaction for The Odyssey.

THE ODYSSEY OUT OF THE THEATER SOCIAL MEDIA REACTION | Film Threat React... https://t.co/QVYjk0DxtS via @YouTube

— Nerdrotic (@Nerdrotics) July 14, 2026

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Yikes. This is pretty much exactly what I expected from this movie though. Nolan lost his edge after Inception in my view, with the semi-exception of Interstellar, which was mostly good.

Memento, The Prestige, Batman Begins, Dark Knight, Inception, etc.….his movies, while always thoughtful, used to hit hard and have a great payoff. But lately they're either self-Indulgent or just feel like he's trying to force something that doesn't work. I'll keep watching the reviews, but probably won't see this in the theater.

Serious question for TCTTS and Veryfuller:

Do you at least laugh and roll your eyes at the juxtaposition in the two variety articles about Moana and The Odyssey. Or do you look at those two articles and agree with both?

AozorAg said:

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Cliff.Booth said:

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Film Threat's Chris Gore and Alan Ng out of the theater reaction for The Odyssey.

THE ODYSSEY OUT OF THE THEATER SOCIAL MEDIA REACTION | Film Threat React... https://t.co/QVYjk0DxtS via @YouTube

— Nerdrotic (@Nerdrotics) July 14, 2026

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Yikes. This is pretty much exactly what I expected from this movie though. Nolan lost his edge after Inception in my view, with the semi-exception of Interstellar, which was mostly good.

Memento, The Prestige, Batman Begins, Dark Knight, Inception, etc.….his movies, while always thoughtful, used to hit hard and have a great payoff. But lately they're either self-Indulgent or just feel like he's trying to force something that doesn't work. I'll keep watching the reviews, but probably won't see this in the theater.

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Meh... those two are fairly negative about most things. Not really a fan of their taste in movies.

Lathspell said:

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Serious question for TCTTS and Veryfuller:

Do you at least laugh and roll your eyes at the juxtaposition in the two variety articles about Moana and The Odyssey. Or do you look at those two articles and agree with both?

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The juxtaposition of those Variety articles is ridiculous, hypocritical, laughable, etc.

I can't stand that kind of **** either.

Again, it's HOW MUCH y'all complain about that kind of ****, and bring to so many of these threads, that gets on our nerves. It's just relentless, and is often WAY out of proportion to how much it impacts any given movie, before you've waited to see the movie for yourselves. Not to mention, in the process, y'all are often just as preachy/lecturing/virtue signaling in these threads as y'all endlessly complain about the movies themselves being.

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AozorAg said:

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Cliff.Booth said:

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Film Threat's Chris Gore and Alan Ng out of the theater reaction for The Odyssey.

THE ODYSSEY OUT OF THE THEATER SOCIAL MEDIA REACTION | Film Threat React... https://t.co/QVYjk0DxtS via @YouTube

— Nerdrotic (@Nerdrotics) July 14, 2026

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Yikes. This is pretty much exactly what I expected from this movie though. Nolan lost his edge after Inception in my view, with the semi-exception of Interstellar, which was mostly good.

Memento, The Prestige, Batman Begins, Dark Knight, Inception, etc.….his movies, while always thoughtful, used to hit hard and have a great payoff. But lately they're either self-Indulgent or just feel like he's trying to force something that doesn't work. I'll keep watching the reviews, but probably won't see this in the theater.

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Meh... those two are fairly negative about most things. Not really a fan of their taste in movies.

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On this we can agree as well!

I don't care about variety opinion articles?

They are just trying to get people to click their content to have traffic and make money. I don't really care about articles like that at all. And they did their job, because that's been reposted or linked to all over the internet now.

So much of what's on the internet is just trying to rage bait us all and I just can't do it anymore. Apathy is my feeling with those types of things.

TCTTS said:

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Lathspell said:

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Serious question for TCTTS and Veryfuller:

Do you at least laugh and roll your eyes at the juxtaposition in the two variety articles about Moana and The Odyssey. Or do you look at those two articles and agree with both?

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The juxtaposition of those Variety articles is ridiculous, hypocritical, laughable, etc.

I can't stand that kind of **** either.

Again, it's HOW MUCH y'all complain about that kind of ****, and bring to so many of these threads, that gets on our nerves. It's just relentless, and is often WAY out of proportion to how much it impacts any given movie, before you've waited to see the movie for yourselves. Not to mention, in the process, y'all are often just as preachy/lecturing/virtue signaling in these threads as y'all endlessly complain about the movies themselves being.

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I call it out when they do it. No more, no less. Very simple.

Yes, you've called out this ONE MOVIE... except you've done so about 400 TIMES in this thread.

That's objectively *more* than your "very simple" scenario.

Endlessly complaining about the same ******* thing over and over and over again, without having seen the movie for yourself, is the problem. Especially when it inevitably turned out, as many of us predicted, that the "woke" aspects make up less than 5% of the final product.

Only 40 cinemas on EARTH could show what NOLAN actually filmed. pic.twitter.com/WzZ2Gd2tb3

— The Cinéprism (@TheCineprism) July 14, 2026

Beyond all of the online nonsense and disingenuous discourse, THE ODYSSEY is a terrific “dad movie.” No matter what format you choose, the best way to watch is standing with your arms crossed several feet away from the screen.

— Scott Mendelson (@ScottMendelson) July 14, 2026

M.C. Swag said:

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Only 40 cinemas on EARTH could show what NOLAN actually filmed. pic.twitter.com/WzZ2Gd2tb3

— The Cinéprism (@TheCineprism) July 14, 2026

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Fantastic for people within a reasonable radius of those 40 cinemas, but really ****ty for the rest of us.

TCTTS said:

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Yes, you've called out this ONE MOVIE... except you've done so about 400 TIMES in this thread.

That's objectively *more* than your "very simple" scenario.

Endlessly complaining about the same ******* thing over and over and over again, without having seen the movie for yourself, is the problem. Especially when it inevitably turned out, as many of us predicted, that the "woke" aspects make up less than 5% of the final product.

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There's a worthwhile discussion to be had about the logic behind the intentional diverse casting for such small roles (and why one of those actresses has had such a prominent role in pre-release media interviews), but at this point I think that's better reserved for a different thread since it's really tied to overall hollywood trends. Now its time to focus on the technical, acting, and story elements of the film.

TCTTS said:

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Yes, you've called out this ONE MOVIE... except you've done so about 400 TIMES in this thread.

That's objectively *more* than your "very simple" scenario.

Endlessly complaining about the same ******* thing over and over and over again, without having seen the movie for yourself, is the problem. Especially when it inevitably turned out, as many of us predicted, that the "woke" aspects make up less than 5% of the final product.

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Nope.

I'm generally responding to someone else when I post. This is why you get called out for playing forum police. Why does it bother you so much if someone says one little thing about a movie? It's their opinion. There's nothing egregious about simply stating an opinion.

And you ALSO haven't seen the film. You don't know to what extent it is woke. Neither do I. But there are at least two casting choices that are. Calling it out for what it is bothers you so much that you have to go on a crusade against anyone who calls it out. Just don't respond and there is no back and forth. It dies right there.

For example: I asked a simple question about the Variety thing. That's it. I was genuinely curious as to yall's take on that to gauge if you actually had the capacity to see the total hypocrisy. You could have just answered me. But instead of doing that, you proceeded to engage me in more debate. You just get off on it. I don't know why you act like you hate people calling out woke stuff. Without that, you wouldn't get to go back and forth with your favorite posters.

You may not notice this, but I don't actually interject that much. But even if I did, it would be about the movie. Why do you get to dictate the subjects within the movie that can be discussed? I didn't cast a black woman as Helen of Troy and I didn't cast a woman to play a man. I simply called out both castings as stupid. That's me discussing the movie, just not in a way that you like.

Cliff.Booth said:

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Bruce Almighty said:

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What are than chances Cliff Booth will like this movie? I put it at about .5%.

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I honestly expect to like certain aspects of it. I've been comparing it to Napoleon and I think I'll have the same level of appreciation and frustration. When a genuinely great director makes a lackluster movie, on a massive budget, it's more disappointing. I am expecting to find certain parts cool but just wish he had done something different with it. That's where the last couple of trailers have left me.

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I didn't realize the running time was going to be nearly 3 hours. That being the case, Napoleon may be a good comparison for me as well. As in laying on the couch with a glass of wine fast forwarding to the fight scenes.

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She definitely looks like a classic Mediterranean Greek Turkish goddess.

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Monica Bellucci in her prime would be perfecto. Not that she looks bad now for her age.

M.C. Swag said:

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Only 40 cinemas on EARTH could show what NOLAN actually filmed. pic.twitter.com/WzZ2Gd2tb3

— The Cinéprism (@TheCineprism) July 14, 2026

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This isn't technically accurate.

Yes, Nolan shot the movie on 70mm IMAX film, but whether it's projected on film or digitally doesn't correspond to how much of the image you're seeing, in the way that video purports.

While all 40 70mm IMAX projectors show the movie in the full, 1.43:1 IMAX aspect ratio… so do numerous digital IMAX projectors all over the world.

In total, there are actually 90 THEATERS globally (40 70mm projectors, 50 dual laser projectors) that ALL show the movie in full, 1.43:1 IMAX aspect ratio.

Yes, it's still a low number, and yes, there should be a ton more, but the current number is higher than that video lets on.

Lathspell said:

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TCTTS said:

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Yes, you've called out this ONE MOVIE... except you've done so about 400 TIMES in this thread.

That's objectively *more* than your "very simple" scenario.

Endlessly complaining about the same ******* thing over and over and over again, without having seen the movie for yourself, is the problem. Especially when it inevitably turned out, as many of us predicted, that the "woke" aspects make up less than 5% of the final product.

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Nope.

I'm generally responding to someone else when I post. This is why you get called out for playing forum police. Why does it bother you so much if someone says one little thing about a movie? It's their opinion. There's nothing egregious about simply stating an opinion.

Because it's never "one with little thing." Ever. Yes, it's their opinion, but when their opinions are political/culture war in nature, they ALWAYS DOMINATE these threads. The "woke" casting of two characters who are in the movie for 5% of the runtime has, objectively, DOMINATED this thread. That is indisputable.

And you ALSO haven't seen the film. You don't know to what extent it is woke. Neither do I. But there are at least two casting choices that are.

Wrong. We now know for a fact that Lupita Nyong'o and Elliot Page are in the movie for less than 10 minutes each. There are zero other reports of anything else being "woke" in this movie.

Calling it out for what it is bothers you so much that you have to go on a crusade against anyone who calls it out. Just don't respond and there is no back and forth. It dies right there.

Wrong again. There have been multiple times when I went a day or two without commenting in this thread, only to come back to 50+ or 100+ new replies, with the vast majority of that discourse being about the "woke" nature of the movie.

For example: I asked a simple question about the Variety thing. That's it. I was genuinely curious as to yall's take on that to gauge if you actually had the capacity to see the total hypocrisy. You could have just answered me. But instead of doing that, you proceeded to engage me in more debate. You just get off on it. I don't know why you act like you hate people calling out woke stuff. Without that, you wouldn't get to go back and forth with your favorite posters.

You may not notice this, but I don't actually interject that much.

The is laughably inaccurate.

But even if I did, it would be about the movie.

I *will* give you this - you at least do particulate in other discussions on this board. Don't get me wrong, you complain about "woke" as much and as passionately anyone else here, but you at least engage in "normal" movie/TV discussion as well, unlike others.

Why do you get to dictate the subjects within the movie that can be discussed?

I'm not dictating anything, nor am I deciding the subjects being discussed. I have zero power in that regard. I'm simply complaining about the sheer VOLUME of thread-derailing, culture war bull**** on this board.

I didn't cast a black woman as Helen of Troy and I didn't cast a woman to play a man. I simply called out both castings as stupid. That's me discussing the movie, just not in a way that you like.

Totally fine. That's absolutely your prerogative. Again, it's HOW MUCH that discussion has dominated this thread (and many, many others) that's absurd, especially now that we have confirmation they're both minuscule roles.

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EXCLUSIVE: A year after selling out 70MM Imax showtimes, Universal’s second Christopher Nolan movie after his multi-Oscar-winning ‘Oppenheimer,’ ‘The Odyssey,’ finally arrives.

Currently, we’re hearing an opening frame of $85 million-$100 million domestic, with another $110M… pic.twitter.com/NSKEsy77X6

— Deadline (@DEADLINE) July 15, 2026

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M.C. Swag said:

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Only 40 cinemas on EARTH could show what NOLAN actually filmed. pic.twitter.com/WzZ2Gd2tb3

— The Cinéprism (@TheCineprism) July 14, 2026

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Fantastic for people within a reasonable radius of those 40 cinemas, but really ****ty for the rest of us.

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Dallas has one. I looked at tickets. $25 a piece. Sorry, but I'm not interested in spending $100 to take my family to a movie. The $50 it costs me at my local theater is more than I prefer to spend.

TCTTS said:

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In total, there are actually 90 THEATERS globally (40 70mm projectors, 50 laser dual-projectors) that ALL show the movie in full, 1.43:1 IMAX aspect ratio.

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And none of them in freaking Houston.

That's insane.

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I don't care about variety opinion articles?

They are just trying to get people to click their content to have traffic and make money. I don't really care about articles like that at all. And they did their job, because that's been reposted or linked to all over the internet now.

So much of what's on the internet is just trying to rage bait us all and I just can't do it anymore. Apathy is my feeling with those types of things.

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100% Variety intentionally wrote those articles to drive up clicks from people complaining. It would not surprise me at all if we find out the first person to point out the hypocrisy worked for Variety.

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MW03 said:

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She definitely looks like a classic Mediterranean Greek Turkish goddess.

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Monica Bellucci in her prime would be perfecto. Not that she looks bad now for her age.

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Talmbout. Hottest woman that ever lived in her prime. My all-time #1.