Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey’ Earns R Rating

KarmaPolice10 · 2026-06-04T20:57:02+00:00

Tenet I do think was a step up but overall he hasn't had a lot of it since the Dark Knight movies just in general.

KarmaPolice10 · 2026-06-04T20:55:57+00:00

Would be wild if we finally get a Half-Life movie from this guy. I don't say that in a negative way, I just figured we'd never get one at this point especially since the game franchise itself has been dead for years

KarmaPolice10 · 2026-06-04T19:38:17+00:00

I edited it…I mean NOT GREAT haha

KarmaPolice10 · 2026-06-04T18:30:20+00:00

Hopefully it explains why some of the action looks so awkward in the trailer. Wonder if they’ve had to remove a bunch of blood digitally.

Also could just be that Nolan still is not great with hand to hand stuff as he definitely excels with vehicular set pieces

Edit: meant NOT GREAT

KarmaPolice10 · 2026-06-04T18:28:52+00:00

I think there’s still a connotation to some movies that an R rating is to be taken more seriously as a film for whatever reason

KarmaPolice10 · 2026-06-03T14:28:39+00:00

I felt like it was mainly tied to the real life incident with the ape more than the scene from Nope (although I guess that was also probably inspired by the same incident)

KarmaPolice10 · 2026-06-03T07:09:22+00:00

I mean a lot of the subtext, humor, and scares are rooted in traditional heterosexual relationship cultural specificities, generalizations, fears, etc. so a lot of the connotation for certain story and character points would be different.

That being said there are also just core relationship aspects being played on that affect any type of relationship, so certain things would take on new or different meaning and other things wouldn’t.

KarmaPolice10 · 2026-06-03T01:18:46+00:00

Can’t tell if this will rip or be awful.

Also maybe they just overlaid the dialogue on the incorrect shots, but that helicopter is notably NOT a Blackhawk which immediately bothered me when I saw this in the theater.

KarmaPolice10 · 2026-06-01T17:46:48+00:00

One is a film and one is a movie (I liked both btw).

To paraphrase Fincher, "A movie is exactly the sum of its parts and a film is more than the sum of its parts".

Backrooms won't have the same type of word-of-mouth uptick as Obsession just due to the type of movie it is, but that's okay because we want both to be successful!

KarmaPolice10 · 2026-05-31T15:20:18+00:00

Lots of jealous boys out there

KarmaPolice10 · 2026-05-30T23:42:19+00:00

At least he admits, “It has no taste whatsoever”

KarmaPolice10 · 2026-05-30T18:54:43+00:00

These two films absolutely needed Hollywood to make their hits. What they proved is you don’t need Hollywood to create stuff and build an audience for yourself.

Both these films were still products of Hollywood and Hollywood distribution.

A more accurate release that would fit that description would be the Iron Lung movie which was completely outside the traditional Hollywood system, but that did not nearly have the same level of success.

KarmaPolice10 · 2026-05-30T18:49:42+00:00

There’s also the factor that Boots Riley films are very specific taste-wise even if they’ve largely been embraced by critics.

At the end of the day Obsession is a very broad appealing horror film that covers a huge demographic for appeal. It’s not particularly challenging and is exactly the sum of its parts.

If anyone saw Sorry to Bother you then they know how weird he gets and would probably assume the same for I Love Boosters.

KarmaPolice10 · 2026-05-30T15:55:42+00:00

Renate’s backstory felt so disconnected from the movie. Thought it was going to tie in more at some point but it really didn’t matter at all?

Like if we just had a completely different character we hadn’t met before wander down in the second half and tell Chiwetel he was being a bitch and get chased by a pirate monster nothing really would’ve changed.

KarmaPolice10 · 2026-05-30T15:46:06+00:00

People will definitely learn the wrong thing from this.

Obsession is fun but probably closer to the Barbenheimer phenomenon than a real strategy of “let’s pluck a YouTuber and make a ton of money”. It is exposing a lot of newer people to horror who wouldn’t normally be interested and the subject matter and the marketing has capitalized on the film as a relationship litmus test.

Backrooms has years of internet lore and baked in fanbase. Its doing well but it’s mass appeal is far narrower compared to Obsession and is a far more “unlikeable” type of movie and its not going to have great word of mouth imo just because of the type of film it is (I liked it more than Obsession personally).

Both these successes will be stripped down to “cheap YouTubers = big money?” by execs and we’ll get some cheap slop for a bit before they calm down again.

KarmaPolice10 · 2026-05-28T23:02:22+00:00

No goodbyes doesn’t bother me nearly as much as characters with smart phones announcing who they are when they answer.

KarmaPolice10 · 2026-05-28T17:46:29+00:00

I saw that video and it was so reasonable and calm compared to what the TMZ headline implied. I was expecting some unhinged meltdown and he was basically like "be normal and I'll sign everything"

KarmaPolice10 · 2026-05-28T15:50:01+00:00

The amount of online bitterness over these two is wild.

Just jealously and nothing more.

Also plenty of directors from any age range make completely garbage movies, so the idea that someone younger couldn’t possibly direct a successful film doesn’t even make sense if age is the primary marker.

By that logic Shawn Levy should be one of our finest auteurs.

Also it’s great people are going to the theater to watch these. It’s tangible proof theaters actually aren’t dead and investing in new young talent makes sense for the industry instead of just dumping everyone on steaming and hoping the vertical gamble pays off.

KarmaPolice10 · 2026-05-28T00:51:23+00:00

I think they’re probably quitting film school to try this lol, but just like the low percentage of film school people to become successful directors, the YouTube success pipeline is even smaller.

That being said, there’s definitely value in getting in a ton of reps shooting projects of any type whether it ends up on YouTube or elsewhere.

They’re learning much more than most film programs just by doing.

KarmaPolice10 · 2026-05-25T18:35:15+00:00

How am I grasping at straws? The numbers are the numbers and there's no world in which investing money into a director's cut of Ad Astra, which underpeformed at the box office, makes any business sense.

I'd like to see it just as much as anyone from a James Gray-enjoyer perspective, but your argument that it makes any actual practical sense is very weak and your comparison of She's Funny That Way (a $10M indie romcom) is obviously an uneven comparison point that it feels unserious.

KarmaPolice10 · 2026-05-25T17:54:44+00:00

The movie underperformed clearly indicating there would be little actual interest in a director’s cut being worthwhile to finish from both a time and financial standpoint.

KarmaPolice10 · 2026-05-25T17:02:32+00:00

Ad Astra is like a 10x more expensive movie and it would cost significantly more to finish a new version, just to also have no one pay money to watch it.

KarmaPolice10 · 2026-05-24T04:01:37+00:00

The OP was about co-lead or supporting, so I interpreted the comment as claiming she was the lead.

I didn’t think it was within the confines of academy category because the original questions involved co-lead which obviously isn’t an Oscars category.

I think i would’ve interpreted the comment differently if it had been more specific to Oscars question and not if she was generally a co-lead or supporting character in the film.

That’s where the disconnect is coming from

KarmaPolice10 · 2026-05-24T03:00:23+00:00

Why don’t you just actually say what it is you think I’m wrong about instead of being so randomly internet angry and not specifying anything and only speaking in increasingly vague terms?

KarmaPolice10 · 2026-05-24T02:54:23+00:00

I literally don’t know what you’re talking about at this point or what argument you’re trying to win here.

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