Which movies or shows are you watching?

[BeBMan]

Looks like Nolan's Odyssey will be an Odysseus/Batman crossover

[BeBMan]

Watched "Sharp Objects" (is one season only) and "True Detective - Night Country" (which is season 4) recently. Both are more in the slow, kinda heavy and grim category. Liked the former, the latter a tad less, although it's not bad. Hint to tv makers (I'm sure you're reading every word of mine): Slow-burn can sometimes turn into boring, which is very dangerous! Cts.

[Bereta_Eder]

Looks like Nolan's Odyssey will be an Odysseus/Batman crossover

how much abuse can a tale take

[BeBMan]

Also, A Knight of the Seven kingdoms is actually cool GoT.

It's a bit like the Madalorian in GoT, just that the titular knight does not always have to wear a helmet, and his youngling sidekick Egg has no superpowers (well, except "kinda", in the not-supernatural sense).

[Ming]

That was a fun romp. We watched it all in a single night and really enjoyed it.

[Elok]

how much abuse can a tale take

IIRC the original Odyssey doesn't bear that much resemblance to most of its existing retellings. It starts with a bunch of people meandering about wondering where Odysseus got to, then Odysseus washes up ashore on Scheria (sp?), he faffs about talking with his hosts for a few chapters, then he starts the flashback, and all the exciting/fun stuff people remember from the Odyssey occurs in maybe two or three flashback chapters. Then the Phaeacians (again, sp?) take him home and he spends ten chapters just sort of moping around Ithaca seeing what's up and watching his dog die before deciding he's done with this and killing all the dudes trying to sleep with his wife THE END. The book has, at least by modern standards, a serious pacing problem.

[EPW]

The new testament is much more exciting, so exciting that it gets retold 4 times in a row (with only some small and often contradictory differences).

[Bereta_Eder]

it is widely lamented and made fun of that hollywood doesn't make films for grown ups so there will be no pacing problem there seeing as it is directed towards idaho farmers with basic education and attention deficit syndrome.

But you probably know more than me. I will read it from begining to end in the kazantzakis adaptation to his sort of greek which is breathtaking and is probably the only one who can touch the original without sallying it (is this a wortd in english? sallir in french I think. to dirty it up)

[Elok]

Sullying, or possibly soiling. The original Odyssey is, by volume, mostly people talking to each other, with a brief compressed interval in the middle of wild fantastic adventures, and a slaughtering of a bunch of unarmed men at the end. It would need substantial rearrangement to make a tonally consistent movie, unless you snipped all the fun parts out and left it as a dramatic character study or something. As for dumbing down, Christopher Nolan tends to have more of the opposite problem, as in Inception or (reputedly, haven't seen it) Tenet. Or, speaking of pacing problems, his third Batman movie, which is notable for allowing precious little screen time for the actual Batman.

[BeBMan]

FWIW there's a new trailer for Nolan's Odyssey

Looks like Hollywood's love for huge plate armor strikes again (ca. 1:40, who the ehck are those guys supposed to be?) and Odysseus' ship looks more like a Viking vessel (2:07). Shocked that the budget did not even allow for a mockup ram at the bow

Those things aside I'm still looking fwd to it.

[BeBMan]

I plan to see the Green Goblin aka Baby Yoda (plus the helmet guy, plus Sigourney Weaver) Some lighter stuff to shut down my brain feels about rioght for me currently. Hopefully it's on the better end of SW (should not be too hard to top the late Skywalker trilogy)

[ricketyclik]

This was a refreshing take on the Odyssey / Swords'n'Sandals

[ricketyclik]

Watched "Sharp Objects" (is one season only) and "True Detective - Night Country" (which is season 4) recently. Both are more in the slow, kinda heavy and grim category. Liked the former, the latter a tad less, although it's not bad. Hint to tv makers (I'm sure you're reading every word of mine): Slow-burn can sometimes turn into boring, which is very dangerous! Cts.

I'm halfway through Sharp Objects. It's definitely slow burn alright. The fragmented flashbacks are overdone. So far the story has me intrigued but the telling of it, while good overall, gets in its own way with its devices.

[BeBMan]

Hell, tried to watch Odyssey. Online bocking attempts show cinemas are packed well into next week right now.

So I'll wait

[BeBMan]

Other than Oddy, also liked Project Hail Mary. Didn't know what to make of it in the beginning, but then it was nice

Streaming-wise, I watched The Agency, and found it pretty good, if not excellent. Reviews aren't totally top, I assume since it's a remake of a Frenchie series, which I didn't know.

Oh, and looks like SNW is back. I just hope it improves again as last season was overall less fun than 1 and 2 before (IIRC they blamed a writer strike )

[N35t0r]

I watched Project Hail Mary on the plane. It was really nice, even if they sped things up a lot compared to the book (for obvious reasons).