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Today, I went to see the Odyssey with my little brother.

It was great! I particularly loved Anne Hathaway's performance. She really hit it out of the park. The rest of the cast was from good to great, as I really couldn't say anyone was bad, per se, though some aspect of the movie weren't quite to my taste. I thought Travis' part was a little superfluous or weird, for instance, though I really don't think it had anything to do with his performance, and moreso with the script; I thought Calipso was really weak, and every time they were on Calipso's island is just felt like nothing; and I thought Tom Holland was mediocre, as he does tend to be.

On the other hand, I felt that Circe was incredible, really awesome. She was creepy, very emotional... Just, an amazing performance by Samantha Morton. Really incredible, though I will reaffirm that the biggest thing was the very unnerving and creepy transformation (that she ultimately brought to life).

I rate it a strong 4. Definitely worth a watch! I watched it in IMAX, but I'm not sure how worth it that particular choice was. I do wonder how different an experience it would've been to watch on a regular screen, so to speak.

I wore shorts.

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[–] 2 points 4 days ago (2 children)

We went to watch project Hail Mary in a regular cinema and it was soooo beautiful and entrancing. We didnt go to the big one with IMAX because the other person had some bad experiences and well, its less intense in a regular cinema. but it was sooo intense, but in a good way instead. so were both happy with that.

I dont really have interest in watching the oddyssey. I liked the Epic the musical by jorge Rivierra ( https://www.imdb.com/title/tt36941799/ ) several times and thats that for ancient greeks for me for a decade. Im listening to the songs regularly and sometimes re-visiting the videos, some of them are masterpieces.

i watched Lindybeiges reaction to the Odyssey. I watched Trey the Explainers reaction. Both are more "qualified" to speak on the matter than me and also seem to not be the biggest fan of the overall design and such. And are questioning some decisions. They both gave the movie some kind of mid-score. though both also dont just give condensed scores and instead like to ramble. which i think is quite salient.

Its good that you enjoyed the movie though. Whatever a solid 4 is anyways.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 2 days ago (1 child)

    Epic the Musical is really cool :D Awesome that you know it too.

    Yeah, the number doesn't mean much. I guess I just mean that I found it really good, but not that good (it's not a 5). And, I don't think being "qualified" to speak on art, cinema, really means that much. Of course, there's a certain level of analysis that requires deep understanding, and I don't mean to discount that, but at the same time it's most important that you consider your own position. I think.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 day ago

    I found this weird catboy who apparently studied business on YouTube who does Essays. And his Bobby-Broccoli & Jon Bois styled video on how IMDB ratings and such work is great. You may have been forced to look at his thumbnail of a video about chess, where the title is something like one of these two players is going to die and the thumbnail is two people sitting at a chess board with big bold red text "draws do not count". Watch that, its great.

    Draws do not count: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMfGGcUzDRE

    You do not want another Episode of your favourite series (remastered): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wka48VweZBA

    Also I have a very comprehensive, simple and especially informative rating system: I Compare things to my expectations, score from 1 to 10 and my score actually means something. because many americans are like: there was a rat in my food 1/10. The food was terrible 8/10. The food was just alright 9/10, the food was great! 10/10. Boah the food was amazing 11/10 I've never had anything this good in my life! 12/10 What??? you've got this whole scale and you're crunching everything into this tiny space and then you eed to break your own scale just to say something.

    I posted this under an aproriate video about rating systems:

    this is what we actually want. this is what we need:

    1 Hated.

    2: Actively unpleasant.

    3: Poor, with major problems.

    5: Acceptable and unremarkable. Around average, to be expected.

    7: Clearly good.

    9: Exceptional.

    10: Basically perfect for its purpose or personal favourite.

    We do not need an understanding and comparison to everything ever like with systems that are supposedly perfectly symmetrical or something.

    Anyway 11/10 video.

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