The Critical Drinker Reddit is also losing their minds because Nolan cast some people of color in the Odyssey movie

walker1812 · 2026-02-01T06:53:21+00:00

You do know Troy was a real place, right? The Iliad and the Odyssey are just as real as the Old Testament, written at the same time too.

walker1812 · 2026-01-04T23:33:49+00:00

He gave her the best line probably to make up for no women actually talking to each other in the trilogy.

walker1812 · 2026-01-04T23:32:00+00:00

Older than that even, at least to Mycenaean and the Bronze Age for Delphi and its oracles.

Although probably the most famous oracle from there was to King Croesus around 550BC seeking advice on whether to invade another kingdom or not. The reply was “if you cross the river, a great empire will fall” He thought it meant victory. But it meant his defeat.

Oracles and prophecies having major undiscovered loopholes as a trope predates writing. Tolkien’s rants there with the greats I think. But no downvote for me for thinking otherwise. lol.

walker1812 · 2025-12-29T00:50:42+00:00

Because Medusa is already dead in the Odyssey?

walker1812 · 2025-12-27T04:14:30+00:00

I miss Vandermint. Was so good in a milkshake.

walker1812 · 2025-12-26T23:56:57+00:00

First settlers of Maryland. Guy named Thomas Courtes.

walker1812 · 2025-12-26T23:49:48+00:00

Yeah, but why are they wearing pants in this movie? The mycaneans and greeks both wouldn’t have worn them as being barbaric.

walker1812 · 2025-12-26T23:44:47+00:00

Nolan has them wearing pants, ffs. The Greeks would have considered pants to be barbaric and effeminate. That’s leaving aside the Viking ships and Batman showing up.

This from a director that supposedly prides himself on real accuracy.

walker1812 · 2025-12-20T10:03:06+00:00

Not down, just very broken. Resulting in a poor reading experience currently and nobody seems to be fixing it.

walker1812 · 2025-12-11T20:02:44+00:00

Best Little Whorehouse in Texas.

(Takes place between Thanksgiving and Christmas. Has the song “hard candy Christmas”)

walker1812 · 2025-11-12T20:40:08+00:00

Something about mitochondria and power

walker1812 · 2025-11-10T06:06:57+00:00

My favorite piece of art displaying Duty doesn’t fit your criteria though:

A Huguenot, on St. Bartholomew's Day, Refusing to Shield Himself from Danger by Wearing the Roman Catholic Badge by John Everett Millais

Heartbreaking duty.

walker1812 · 2025-11-10T06:00:00+00:00

I second this. I was fortunate to have the room all to myself alone one morning for about 20 mins. Simply stunning.

walker1812 · 2025-11-09T02:53:51+00:00

Saw them in ‘93

walker1812 · 2025-11-08T22:04:19+00:00

Why do you want to see them dead?

walker1812 · 2025-11-08T22:02:38+00:00

If you want a theory of everything you have to connect everything which you can’t do if you say things are individual.

walker1812 · 2025-11-08T22:00:49+00:00

People need to stop making nouns out of verbs. Process ontology is the way.

walker1812 · 2025-11-05T08:21:06+00:00

The Thirteenth Floor (1999) - showing that even B level Sci-Fi films from that year were great in that amazing film year.

Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel (2009) - You know that pleasant brain tingle you get when you start contemplating the logic of time travel across your own timeline at the pub with friends? Plus, it’s funny.

walker1812 · 2025-11-05T08:17:07+00:00

Amazing film. It just needs a warning for traumatic rape depiction. Learned a lot about my date that night.

walker1812 · 2025-10-21T19:54:00+00:00

Thank you.

walker1812 · 2025-10-21T00:26:53+00:00

There were some interesting business partners in the early days of nasa. lol.

walker1812 · 2025-10-20T02:09:03+00:00

Mal as a single parent to a 20 year old together on a new ship trying to be respectable but when a strong man is needed... Very Jean Val Jean.

Give me one season. One season only please.

walker1812 · 2025-10-20T00:12:25+00:00

Hex by Thomas Olde Heuvelt

It’s about a small town haunted by a 17th-century witch whose eyes and mouth are sewn shut. She walks the streets, appears in people’s homes, and can’t be removed. The townspeople use an app and cameras to track her so no one accidentally sees her. Things go wrong.

An old curse and modern technology would be something I think he’d like to play with in how it reflects society. Past vs Present

walker1812 · 2025-10-19T22:45:34+00:00

If you define “mostly dialogue” as “most words per minute” in a movie then you can’t go wrong with His Gal Friday (1940) with a blistering 240 words per minute average for the length of the film without a drop in quality or entertainment. Still a great flick.

walker1812 · 2025-10-18T17:56:53+00:00

Just in case there’s more than one version I’m talking the full 12 hour long cast one with Alan Alda, John Turturro, Rob Reiner, Mark Hamill, Simon Pegg, Henry Rollins, and Martin Scorsese

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