The Odysuck
POSTED BY: 6ixStringJack
UPDATED: Monday, September 7, 2026 07:28
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Homer's Odyssey
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The Odyssey (2026)
Theatrical Performance
Domestic Box Office $395,525,000
International Box Office $515,872,000
Worldwide Box Office $911,397,000
Production Budget: $250,000,000
(worldwide box office is 3.6 times production budget)
https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Odyssey-The-(2026)
FOR COMPARISON WITH ANOTHER $250,000,000 PRODUCTION BUDGET MOVIE:
Toy Story 5 (2026)
Theatrical Performance
Domestic Box Office $461,696,126
International Box Office $575,207,586
Worldwide Box Office $1,036,903,712
Production Budget: $250,000,000
(worldwide box office is 4.1 times production budget)
https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Toy-Story-5-(2026)
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Spider-Man only cost $225 Million and made $927 Million in 3 days.
Nobody gives a shit about The Odyssey.
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Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
its all but over, but Don't know anyone who's admitted seeing the Odyssey remake but there are a few NolanFanatics out there somewhere
You too, huh? I don't know a single person who's seen it or shown any interest.
I'm pretty sure the only people in America who did live on the coasts.
Shit Golem has seen it, but he pirated it.
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Quote:Why would anyone pay to see an R-rated version of Homer's Odyssey, which the Simpsons accurately described in the 5-minute-long cartoon? Especially when it's free on TV. And yet they do pay. Hollywood has been marketing worthless visions to morons for over 100 years, and yet the morons never understand that all movie theaters are cheating them out of their money.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Spider-Man only cost $225 Million and made $927 Million in 3 days.
Nobody gives a shit about The Odyssey.
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Those who dance always seem crazy to those who can't hear the music.
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Why would anyone pay to see an R-rated version of Homer's Odyssey, which the Simpsons accurately described in the 5-minute-long cartoon? Especially when it's free on TV. And yet they do pay. Hollywood has been marketing worthless visions to morons for over 100 years, and yet the morons never understand that all movie theaters are cheating them out of their money.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Spider-Man only cost $225 Million and made $927 Million in 3 days.
Nobody gives a shit about The Odyssey.
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Those who dance always seem crazy to those who can't hear the music.
So now you're going to pout and go back to "nothing matters because I lost again".
Fuck off, Shit Golem.
Loser.
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The message behind Christopher Nolan’s most important change to “The Odyssey”
Are we the Sea Peoples?
Matthew Yglesias | Aug 06, 2026
https://www.slowboring.com/p/the-message-behind-christopher-nolans
When I finally went to see Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” (it’s harder to get to the movies in rural Maine), I was surprised that relatively little of the gargantuan discourse around the film focused on what I thought was the largest departure from Homer’s text: Nolan inserts multiple references to a historical phenomenon known as the Sea Peoples and a historical episode known as the Bronze Age Collapse.
Some of this falls under the general heading of historical inaccuracy — a person living in the Bronze Age would not refer to himself as living in the Bronze Age, because the idea of a Bronze Age is a modern characterization of the past. It’s based on knowledge that in the future, people would learn how to work with iron on a large scale and bronze weapons would become obsolete. The Sea Peoples, similarly, is a phrase coined in the 19th century by a French Egyptologist putting forward a hypothesis about something he thought happened in the ancient Eastern Mediterranean. It’s not a phrase that we have any evidence was in use at the time.
But anachronisms aside, these references are a bold adaptive choice by Nolan.
We know that the Mycenaean Greek civilization depicted in Homer’s epic would eventually collapse, that there would be a Greek Dark Age with no written material, and that later the rise of Classical Greek civilization would bring about a return to writing with a new script. One strain of thought holds that this collapse was linked to the near-simultaneous collapse of several other civilizations in the region and that this may have had something to do with the Sea Peoples.
But none of this is in the text of “The Odyssey.”
This is all information that I (and many others) learned about from Eric Cline’s well-regarded 2014 book “1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed.” And Cline himself wrote a 2013 book on the Trojan War as part of the Oxford University Press Very Short Introductions series that suggests some of the linkages Nolan makes in the movie.
Nolan is incorporating it to reinterpret, recontextualize, and to a substantial extent subvert the source text, suggesting that the Greek attack on Troy sowed the seeds of Mycenaean Greece’s downfall.
Given the incredible commercial success of the film, you clearly can enjoy it without knowing much about these historical debates. I think the point Nolan is trying to make about the present is clear enough: The contemporary West risks collapse not because of external adversaries but because we are abandoning our own values.
But I enjoy a good ancient history debate, so let’s get into it anyway.
More at https://www.slowboring.com/p/the-message-behind-christopher-nolans
Download Eric Cline’s books about ancient Greece and Troy for free from here: https://z-lib.gl/s/Eric%20Cline
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You are the one who abandoned our values, you evil little self-serving turd.
You are the problem. You were always the problem.
And now the media can't cover for you anymore and everyone knows that you are the problem.
You are a cancer on this planet and you will be removed.
The Boomers are about to die off and the world you useless fucking hippies envisioned while high off your asses 24/7 before you went Corpo and spent the next 50 years poisoning every institution from the inside out is about to die along with you.
You suck. Generations will be paying for you and what you've done for the rest of their lives and never pay it off.
Fuck you, white, college "educated", Liberal Boomer.
Good riddance. You will not be missed, and it's going to take a long time for us to clean up the fucking mess you left for us to clean up.
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
You are the one who abandoned our values, you evil little self-serving turd.
You are the problem. You were always the problem.
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You are the one who abandoned our values, you evil little self-serving turd.
You are the problem. You were always the problem.
And now the media can't cover for you anymore and everyone knows that you are the problem.
You are a cancer on this planet and you will be removed.
The Boomers are about to die off and the world you useless fucking hippies envisioned while high off your asses 24/7 before you went Corpo and spent the next 50 years poisoning every institution from the inside out is about to die along with you.
You suck. Generations will be paying for you and what you've done for the rest of their lives and never pay it off.
Fuck you, white, college "educated", Liberal Boomer.
Good riddance. You will not be missed, and it's going to take a long time for us to clean up the fucking mess you left for us to clean up.
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