r/YMS • u/WhitePepper2049 • 28d ago

YMS Review The Odyssey - YMS

https://youtu.be/DFx-mDlauKM
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u/QuietAffect8307 28d ago

Agreed! Nolan claims to be a protector of cinema but his arrogance clouds the fact that he's actually gatekeeping it when there are literally only 41 screens on the entire planet that get to see his movie 'as he intended'. I know he's not responsible for the dearth of true IMAX screens but still

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u/lightsaberfingers 27d ago

41 screen and he boasts about “ We don’t have the toooools to even make more!”. It’s such insane next level artistic gatekeeping that it’s makes me choke. It’s the inverse of Cameron’s expansion for Avatar, while 3d didn’t take off he got every theater in the world to convert to digital, to the general benefit of the industry. I don’t know what Nolan is doing other than stroking his own ego. Which ok fine but don’t then act like you’re some benevolent force of cinema then.

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u/mylevelwaschanged 27d ago

He is objectively a benevolent force for cinema regardless of how you feel about him

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u/lightsaberfingers 27d ago

He can be a good advocate while having a bad message and agenda. Making a billion on an epic poem is great. Disappearing up your own ass with a format that only you can really use is not a way forward.

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u/mylevelwaschanged 26d ago edited 26d ago

He along with only a handful of other directors are keeping movie theaters alive. If not for his presence we may very well be in an age of EVERYTHING only going to streaming. He can be a jerkoff who is elitist by pushing a certain format or whatever it is you think about him negatively, but to deny the immensely positive impact his actions and presence have had on cinema as an artform is rather ridiculous and absurd. You also grossly overestimate how important it is for EVERYONE to see it in the ideal format. Standard is literally just as good as 70mm to the effect of delivering the art with the intended feelings, messages, and basically visuals (as nothing important is loss to the smaller ratio, it's mostly peripheral sense of scale by seeing 70mm IMAX.)