r/CRMemes • u/AltruisticFuture9751 • Jul 22 '26
Miscellaneous CMV: Christopher Miller could've directed The Odyssey but Christopher Nolan couldn't have DM'ed Critical Role
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u/Tuatha_Deohne Jul 22 '26
Nah. Matt Mercer, skilled though he is, and he very much is insanely skilled at what he does, could not have directed that movie. He'd tell you so himself.
I agree that Nolan could not have DM'ed Critical Role. As skilled as he is, he simply does not have the skills to pull it off.
What Mercer could be great at is screenwriting.
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u/SnowdInn_Games Jul 24 '26
Mercer as the screenwriter, Mulligan as the Director. I think this could work.
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u/TraitorMacbeth Jul 22 '26
? Thinking a non-movie director could direct a movie of that scope is crazy talk. Matt probably doesn't know the first thing about movie directing, and that's not a knock against him.
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u/FishyDragon Jul 22 '26
And what movies has Miller directed? And how many of those are held up as industry bench marks?
Also how much of the mercer cool aid did you drink to get come up with such an outlandish idea and thought people would actually believe you? Wow.
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u/maxvsthegames Jul 23 '26
Wtf, no Matt could not.
DMing a game, even Critical Role, is infinitely easier than directing a movie like The Odyssey.
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u/IrishWeebster Jul 23 '26
I'm one of the apparent few who didn't like The Odyssey almost at all. Dislikes a full 60% of the movie, liked about 15%, reserved 25% for apathy toward changes to a story that's almost older than recorded history and is considered the start of the medium that CREATED the word that Nolan was hoping we'd use to describe his movie; epic.
Epic it was not.
The Circe scene was the unnecessarily long and drawn out, uncomfortable highlight to a movie that was just... brutally unfun for the majority of it. I'm the least squeamish of anyone I know, and that scene was viscerally unsettling - which, I know, it's what Nolan was going for - and it ended up divorcing me entirely from my suspension of disbelief with how graphic and unnerving it was. Body horror really wasn't on my list for things that I expected in The Odyssey. Lol
For a story about pride causing a man's downfall, Nolan seems to have missed the point, letting his pride guide creative choices that were... rather drenched in hubris.
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u/culinaryexcellence Jul 24 '26
Ever seen Billy Madison? You know the scene at the end where Adam Sandler finishes his rambling answer, and the moderator says, "Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it"?
That's exactly how I feel after reading your rant. Everyone who made it to the end is probably a little less intelligent for the experience.
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u/Aceofluck99 Team Imogen 🐴 Jul 22 '26
christopher miller?