Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey pulled in $124.5 million domestically in its opening weekend, and $257.8 million worldwide, making it the third-largest domestic debut of 2026 behind only Toy Story 5 and The Super Mario Galaxy Movie.
It boils down to ignorant normies looking to hop to the next Nolan film and watch it on IMAX because they've been conditioned to think his movies are grand events that needs to be seen in a theater.
They could care less about Homer, and they're too lazy to read the original story. They're just following the next supposed Nolan blockbuster filmed on IMAX that they've already crowned as a 'masterpiece.'
That's the audience that Nolan wants: people who will just consume anything without asking any questions.
I’m not going to the theater to see the Odyssey. Partly because of the casting and partly because his last three movies weren’t that great to me. Oppenheimer was ok, but Dunkirk and Tenet were stinkers. I saw those three in the theater and have never felt the need to watch them again. You can’t understand what anyone is saying in the theater with his latest movies anyway. Nolan had a good run for me with Batman Begins, The Prestige, Inception, and Interstellar. The Prestige is his best movie. I watch it at least once a year.
As coach Michel Therrien once said, "I am very disappoint in a lots of guy. Dere's a lot of guys doan care. Dey say dey care, heh, but I know dey doan care."
Too many people just want Hollywood slop. They don't care that if we keep giving these buttwipes money, they'll keep doing this crap.
Really appreciate the straight reporting of facts in this piece, Jon.
I grew up in the 70's and actually never read either the Illiad or the Odyssey in school, though we did have a children's version of one or both in the house. Did get lots of classics in JHS and HS, though.
It boils down to ignorant normies looking to hop to the next Nolan film and watch it on IMAX because they've been conditioned to think his movies are grand events that needs to be seen in a theater.
They could care less about Homer, and they're too lazy to read the original story. They're just following the next supposed Nolan blockbuster filmed on IMAX that they've already crowned as a 'masterpiece.'
That's the audience that Nolan wants: people who will just consume anything without asking any questions.
I’m not going to the theater to see the Odyssey. Partly because of the casting and partly because his last three movies weren’t that great to me. Oppenheimer was ok, but Dunkirk and Tenet were stinkers. I saw those three in the theater and have never felt the need to watch them again. You can’t understand what anyone is saying in the theater with his latest movies anyway. Nolan had a good run for me with Batman Begins, The Prestige, Inception, and Interstellar. The Prestige is his best movie. I watch it at least once a year.
As coach Michel Therrien once said, "I am very disappoint in a lots of guy. Dere's a lot of guys doan care. Dey say dey care, heh, but I know dey doan care."
Too many people just want Hollywood slop. They don't care that if we keep giving these buttwipes money, they'll keep doing this crap.
Coach T's final word on the subject, "Pfft!"
None of the vandals will ever remember this movie after their struggle session is over.
Original remains.
Really appreciate the straight reporting of facts in this piece, Jon.
I grew up in the 70's and actually never read either the Illiad or the Odyssey in school, though we did have a children's version of one or both in the house. Did get lots of classics in JHS and HS, though.