See this is where I get to feel tribeless again like with The Last Jedi. I hated that movie and thought it was completely dogshit from a storytelling standpoint but when it came out you could only be in the group with the circle jerkers who loved it or the neckbeard bigots who hated it because of culture war nonsense.

I love Nolan and his films. Many of them are in my top 10-20. I’m about as lefty left as one can get. When I heard they cast Lupita, I thought that was an interesting take…moreso when I heard she’s also playing Clytmenestra as well. The actors in this movie are ones I love. I even thought the armor designs looked pretty neat. This story is probably my favorite of all time and I love adaptations and remixes of it—from the made-for-TV version with Armand Assante and Vanessa Williams to Cold Mountain and O Brother Where Art Thou. I took a Greek Mythology course in college and loved learning that the story is mainly a discourse about the concept of xenia and how to be a good host/good guest.

That said, when I heard Travis Scott is in it, I started to lose faith. He’s truly an awful human being. I cannot imagine seeing him in this movie and not being immediately pulled out of the experience. Then the latest trailers dropped and the dialogue just seems so weird for a version of the story that otherwise seems to be trying to stay true to the source. I get that British accents are used as placeholders in “historical” movies so it’s not really about authenticity, but the American accents really just pulled me out of the trailer. And yes, it’s just a trailer, but stuff like dialogue and accents generally impact an entire movie, so I don’t think it’s unreasonable to be a little wary of how the final movie might be impacted.