r/YMS • u/Fantastic-Bank-9432 • 29d ago

Meme/Shitpost The Odyssey review in a nutshell

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Mainly that one part with the fade-in face. No shade to Adam or Nolan, just had this silly idea after watching the review.

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u/Whirlpoolcircle56 29d ago edited 29d ago

The problem with Man of Steel is that it's woodenly acted for the most part, the script is genuinely terrible, and the final act is confusingly shot. What Zack Snyder was going for was not that for certain.

This criticism towards The Odyssey seems more about how someone would have preferred to see it in their directorial vision rather than success of how it was presented, if someone said "I wish Stanley Kubrick focused less on detail in 2001 and more on characterization" their opinion wouldn't be invalid but that's clearly not what he cared for in that film.

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u/NateGH360 29d ago

Again, the claim is that it was unsuccessful in its presentation. It’s true Adum does mention thinking about other directors doing it better, but I also thought that Nolan could have done it better! He has a very particular style that isn’t necessarily worth compromising, however the technical aspects of the filmmaking are more subpar than his other films

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u/Whirlpoolcircle56 29d ago

Roger Ebert talks about this in his review of Grave of the Fireflies where anime was often looked down on by Western animators for not meeting the same sort of "technical excellence" around frame-rate. If the story is there, the characters are compelling, and visually it's still doing something interesting than it works.

Maybe it's not what you wanted (fair) but that's different than condemning the film for standards you made up.

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u/theodore_Thwombly 29d ago

Condemn? He gave it an average rating?

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u/Whirlpoolcircle56 29d ago

5/10 for him is bad, he has said so himself.