There's a movie. There's.
A movie. I heard it's coming soon.
One of us is lucky enough to have seen.
Hey, get a load of this guy. Are you are you guys excited for
Christopher Nolan's odyssey? I am.
When's that come out? July 17th.
Oh, thanks for asking. I'd chance to see it last night.
What day was yesterday? What?
What was last night for you, Zach?
Monday, July 13th What's your? Bitch.
Yeah, I I didn't get into the the cool influencer screening a
week earlier, but I did I did get into this one. 70mm.
Yeah, iMac 70mm the the screen, the Lincoln Center screen.
I showed up an hour early. It's.
Gonna be my first iMac 70 mil. Oh, really?
Awesome. Damn nice, is it a good for 70mm
for Amanda? Oh yeah, I mean, especially
considering. Not 70mm. 70mm IMAX.
Sorry. Yeah, yeah.
Especially considering that this
is the first movie shot entirely with IMAX cameras, then yeah,
it, it is. I mean that that frame is full
for the full almost 3 hours of that movie.
I'm really excited that I got a better seat.
I've just been refreshing that theaters page, wait for someone
to give up their ticket. And they did.
They fucking did. Yeah, yeah.
She murdered them. It's like get rid of your back
row center, get rid of it. Yeah, so Christopher Nolans
follow up to Oppenheimer a couple years in the making, the
adaptation of the epic tale from Homer of Odysseus the the battle
of Troy and his many year journey home to Ithaca.
I don't know how much you guys want to know.
How much you guys don't want to know.
I don't really. Want to know?
Anything. What would get you?
I don't really want to know anything, but what would you
want to hear before your screening to get people excited?
You know, I think at least for me speak personally, The Odyssey
was a book that I was assigned in high school.
I I read through it. I never really, I felt like I
had, I was engaged with the material because it is very
dense and very old English and not exactly not a breeze to get
through, at least for me. I think what's cool is that he's
been able to distill that story into a really palatable and
exciting film that doesn't feel like it's truncating it.
It just feels like it's honing in on the things that are most
integral to the things he's trying to explore.
It's, you know, not necessarily like in telling you the full
breadth of the story from start to finish, but it it does have
all the moments that you want to see.
And they are just stunningly realized in a way that
Christopher Nolan has become the guy to do.
Like there are few people who are operating on his level when
it comes to making massive scale IMAX action set pieces and it's
just cool to see him do that in a sword and sandal setting.
I'm, I don't know about you guys, I've never really been big
on the whole like sword and sandal type of movie, The, you
know, the, the gladiator era or old Charlton Heston type of
movies. I I.
This one really worked for me despite all that like it, it's
maybe the best, at least in in my experience.
I felt like visibly that was the thing.
I was like, it doesn't feel like it's a movie of that era of just
by the visuals. Like again, not in the ways
other people are complaining about it, just like I was like
this is a modern. Man.
Well. Nolan treats it like he treats
any of his films and there's certainly kind of like a modern
feel to the films. And also the the way that the
characters speak, like the the dialogue has been changed in a
way that feels very modern and feels very stripped down of some
of the flowery details. I know why that potentially
might be. It's based.
It's the version of the Odyssey that he's adapting is a
different translation than most people would have read.
It's the Emily Wilson translation, which did away with
a bunch of things that she felt were not actually present when
you read the original text that felt like, added, someone was
like, we're going to make this feel more grand and ornate.
Where is, like, originally it probably would have read very
similar to like an East of Eden type thing where it is like,
it's just a, you know, a very approachable, readable.
So she's changed that. She also changed like yeah.
These are stories in the oral tradition, right?
And these feel like characters were speaking the way that
people would speak, which for me, it really makes it a lot
easier to feel like you can get into the story and penetrate the
ideas that it's about. There's some things in here that
feel very classic Christopher Nolan in terms of the themes and
the ideas that he's focused on. I think ultimately, while this
like exceeded my expectations as an adaptation of Odyssey, maybe
like didn't quite meet all my expectations in in terms of a
new movie from Christopher Nolan, just because Nolan has
this history of making films that do things that, at least
for me, feel like I didn't know movies could do them.
I this is, you know, expanding my mind in a way or, or just
achieving things that I didn't think were cinematically
possible. And this didn't feel like that
in in the same way to me. It just felt extremely well
done. And perhaps with like repeat
viewings, I'll just appreciate how impeccable it is as a
production and it'll boost its way up my list.
But like I, I loved it, but I also didn't love it the same way
that I did like Oppenheimer coming out of Oppenheimer.
Sure. I was about, yeah, that's
couldn't be my final question, I felt.
Compared to that, fair fair. How do you compare it to Tenet?
You. Don't understand, you know.
I know he looks tenet, that's why I want to know, that's why.
Yeah, you know, Tenet, it's just like there's some things, so
many things in Tenet that I feel like I've never seen in a movie
before. So that's the really the thing
that separates. Fair, fair.
This is definitely a much more coherent story from A to B OK,
OK, give this movie that. And the acting is also
impeccable, you know like he is spoiled with how rich this cast
is and he has people who if they aren't Oscar nominated yet,
likely will be at some point showing up to do like 2 scene
performances. Fair.
Travis Scott was that good. Man, he's got, he's got a much
more prominent role that I think you're expecting.
What did he say in the the The Harmony Crib movie?
Remember, he just had like a Pokémon ad that he just kept
saying, you know what I'm about? I know exactly what you're
talking about, I forgot. About that bullshit, no.
I forgot the phrase that that's all I keep imagining is it's
going to come out of the the the horse and just say the ad Lib
bro. Who was your stand out though?
I thought that there's a really incredible scene with Samantha
Morton, who was an actress that I've loved for a long time, but
I think Nolan uses her and it really incredible I.
Have already seen her popping up as people saying they're quite
good. Yeah.
Another person who really impressed me, I thought Elliott
Page's scenes were very, very good.
Fuck yeah. That's what we needed.
That's the energy Supergirl fucking needed.
It's some of the most like emotionally impactful stuff in
the in the film. It worked for me really well.
So I'll I'll throw that out there.
Really enjoyed all that. I really enjoyed the movie.
I am excited to talk to you in more detail about it for sure.
For sure, because I don't want to spoil your experiences of it,
but I think you'll both really like it.