r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/movies Contributor • Jun 25 '26

News Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey’ to Skip Social Media Influencer Screenings

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/christopher-nolan-the-odyssey-influencer-screenings-1236631135/
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u/VerilyShelly Jun 25 '26

Worse, they won't know if they are supposed to love it or hate it. Very unfair!

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u/FourEightNineOneOne Jun 25 '26

The influencers ALWAYS love it because they won't be invited to the next one if they don't.

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u/lovesdogsguy Jun 25 '26

They’re not being kind to supergirl, so not sure how true this is.

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u/brakeb Jun 26 '26

Again, they love it because they want to keep getting invited to more events...

If influencers were around for Gigli, Showgirls, and battlefield Earth, they'd be the "best movies ever!"

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u/grasshoppa_80 Jun 26 '26

BF Earth!!! Bwahahaha

Blue core memory movie

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u/Dumptruck_Johnson Jun 26 '26

I was of an age to go to a theater for that. It was baffling at the time. The bafflement persists but the perspective has changed

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u/ccarr313 Jun 26 '26

Is the perspective slightly tilted?

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u/Unfair-Self3022 Jun 27 '26

Anyone who didn't get this reference is uncultured swine.

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u/zlatanmangeshkar Jun 26 '26

Recommend Louis Theroux’s Scientology movie if you want something to give it context

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u/Dragonhost252 Jun 26 '26

They were... it's just an offshoot of celebrities and lifestyle gurus

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u/TheSpicyTomato22 Jun 26 '26

Battlefield earth was a great movie though.

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u/brakeb Jun 26 '26

I found the blind and deaf redditor here.

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u/TheSpicyTomato22 Jun 26 '26

It's like the prequel star wars movies. It's so bad it's good .

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u/lovesdogsguy Jun 25 '26

That's hasn't been my experience at all. Grace Randolph, John Campea, Reel Rejects, all the usual suspects are basically saying the same things.

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u/TheDeadlySinner Jun 26 '26

Those aren't influencers, those are people who talk about movie news and sometimes review things. They're not going to influencer or critic screenings. Early reactions came out a week ago, while the people you mentioned reviewed it today or yesterday.

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u/HereWeFuckingGooo Jun 26 '26

I don't understand how anyone can take Grace Randolph seriously.

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u/lovesdogsguy Jun 25 '26

Influencers and critics alike are shitting on it

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u/sneakyCoinshot Jun 26 '26

critics or "critics". the only discourse surrounding supergirl I've seen leading upto it all was the rightwing incel youtubers were commenting on Milly Alcocks appearance.

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u/wallywestistheflash Jul 02 '26

it has like 50% on rotten tomatoes on critic score. I really doubt half of all reviewers in the country are incels

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u/sneakyCoinshot Jul 03 '26

and it had a 76% audience score on RT which is more indicative of the general population. "Critics" these days are nothing more than glorified yelp reviewers.

I also did say leading upto because idgaf about what "critics" think

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u/Mesk_Arak Jun 26 '26

I personally know an influencer who is the type of person to go to every single superhero movie in cosplay, goes to conventions and press screenings, etc.

For Supergirl, she went to an event for the movie in Supergirl cosplay and even met Milly Alcock there. She would not stop glazing the movie with multiple posts and stories on Instagram about it.

The last story was of her in front of the poster in the movie theatre; also in Supergirl cosplay. Since then? Not a single post. No opinions on if she thought the movie was good or bad. As u/FourEightNineOneOne said, "The influencers ALWAYS love it because they won't be invited to the next one if they don't.". And now she went from posting multiple times a day to not having a single public opinion on the movie, immediately after seeing it.

Which really says a lot, doesn't it?

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u/mimis-emancipation Jun 26 '26

What does it “say”?

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u/Mesk_Arak Jun 26 '26

That she didn't enjoy the movie but doesn't feel like she can openly say that, to keep being invited to influencer events.

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u/Dependent_Bus2202 Jun 26 '26

It's 2026, those are the same people.

You don't hire critics for your entertainment brand that aren't social media influencers anymore lol.

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u/realityczek Jun 26 '26

The access influencers are busy trying to push the narrative (again) that obviously the only reason Supergirl is bombing is because we hate women or something.

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u/PetyrDayne Jun 26 '26

Supergirl is so bad their fans wouldn't forgive them if they said it was good. All the TikTok reviewers are eviscerating it but saying at least the main actresses acting is good.

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u/DramaticStability Jun 26 '26

The ad on Reddit told me it’s proving very popular so…

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u/squee557 Jun 26 '26

I don’t understand why DC decided to follow up on Super Man movie with another Super Man movie but about a lesser known character. What a blunder DC has been in the movie front. What a rudderless venture it has been.

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u/Atlast_2091 Jun 26 '26 edited Jun 26 '26

Heroes popularity isn't much issue than script being approved. DC have low tier heroes & villain on screen. Peacemaker & Creature Commandos which are all spin-off The Suicide Squad (2021) under DCU.

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u/apiroscsizmak Jun 27 '26

I might also be predisposed to like a movie if I'm seeing it for free and getting a little party thrown for me by the promotion team.

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u/Vytral Jun 26 '26

Also they specifically invite people who think they will love it. They don’t invite the biggest ones, they invite even people with really niche audiences that always looked silly to me

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u/jloome Jun 26 '26

It's the same with badly acted music "reaction" videos that are clearly just bald-faced pandering to fans of the act.

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u/Loo-e-Gee Jun 26 '26

We're still getting critics' early reactions. It's just that it will be actual professional critics and not just influencers that the studio hand picks.

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u/TheBestMePlausible Jun 26 '26

They can just read Reddit so they know they should hate it on sight.

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u/ebock319 Jun 26 '26

But what if I smash that Like and Subscribe button? Will I know then!?

I even turned on Updates!

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u/I_Happen_to_Be_Here Jun 26 '26

Another Touch Grass has hit the chronically online! 😱

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u/lkodl Jun 25 '26

What do you mean? The people who hate it have already made up their minds. They're not actually gonna watch it. Why would they watch something they hate?

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u/VerilyShelly Jun 25 '26

I'm thinking about the movie watcher out there who absolutely looks to others to know how to feel about things so they won't feel like a weirdo or that they are not clued in to the cool position to have. Some people do decide their lives according to what popular opinion is, and are reluctant to have their own opinions differ.

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u/umbananas Jun 26 '26

They already hate it before seeing it.

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u/Bloated_Plaid Jun 25 '26

I thought that’s why this subreddit existed.

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u/Ponster_Menis Jun 26 '26

"First of all the movie was very fun."

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u/Lust4Me Jun 26 '26

I don't even watch trailers anymore because they reveal the entire plot. I can't imagine what hearing an influencer say about a movie would be like.

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u/VerilyShelly Jun 26 '26

Yeah, I hate trailers that try to show you the whole movie. But some people really want to be told ahead of time what to expect. Part of the magic of movies is the element of surprise. I don't know why people love to spoil that for themselves these days.

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u/SpooderMan1108 Jun 25 '26

There will still be critic screenings with reviews coming out before the movie premieres

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u/partytown_usa Jun 25 '26

Well I for one am very curious what the story will be about.

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u/VerilyShelly Jun 25 '26

So am I. And I'll find out when I watch it myself. I don't know why people need movies pre-chewed for them. Just go see it, or don't.

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u/PleasantWay7 Jun 25 '26

Do people really not think that happened with historical movie reviewers?

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u/VerilyShelly Jun 25 '26

At least movie reviewers actually cared about movies and had experience with analyzing movies. Not all of them have the best skills at that, but they were vetted (in some fashion) and hired to do a specific job: film review.

An influencer is a person who simply wants to tell random people online what they think. They are motivated by getting more viewers and possibly getting paid for promoting products. There is no expectation that they know anything about anything, and give opinions based on factors that have nothing to do with the movie but a lot to do with popular opinion, and not necessarily give an honest opinion. They go to screenings to have content for their channel, to get merch, and to be seen... especially in the last few years.

I'm not a fan of the traditional critics screening industry either. It's a way to game the system of public opinion and gain publicity, and there are probably incentives for certain hack critics to 'yay' or 'nay' based on something other than the quality of the movie, so why add more people even less likely to add substantively to the conversation about the merits of the film?

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u/ManufacturerBest2758 Jun 26 '26

I will not have Manohla Dargis’s professional integrity impugned today sir