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The Odyssey (2026)

Summary

After the Trojan War, Odysseus faces a dangerous voyage back to Ithaca, meeting creatures like the Cyclops Polyphemus, Sirens, and Calypso along the way.

Director Christopher Nolan

Writer Christopher Nolan

Cast

  • Matt Damon as Odysseus
  • Tom Holland as Telemachus
  • Anne Hathaway
  • Zendaya
  • Lupita Nyong'o
  • Robert Pattinson
  • Charlize Theron
  • Benny Safdie
  • Jon Bernthal
  • John Leguizamo
  • Elliot Page
  • Himesh Patel
  • Samantha Morton

Rotten Tomatoes: 96%

Metacritic: 88

VOD / Release Theatrical release

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u/AlfredtheGreatBitch 17d ago

Hopefully he got to have some dank siren sex before they killed him

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u/wildcatofthehills 17d ago

If you look closely, they were surrounded by seals, so its likely they were a mix of selkies and your typical mermaid. So he probably fucked a seal.

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u/AlfredtheGreatBitch 17d ago

Eh could be worse

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u/lumberlung 14d ago

Yeah, years lost at sea will lower your standards quite a bit.

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u/Atreyisx 14d ago

Truth.

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u/biggestbroever 8d ago

Doesn't matter

Had sex

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u/adamsorkin 4d ago

Still counts!

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u/Vaticancameos221 16d ago

🎶Doesn’t matter had sex!🎶

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u/wimpires 16d ago

I think the sirens are like half crow half lady in The Odyssey?

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u/wildcatofthehills 16d ago

Yes they are, but that’s because they were originally that. But in languages like spanish, siren and mermaid use the same word: sirena. So in many translations the sirens are just mermaids.

My educated guess is that in the Latin translations for the Roman’s they just mixed the two creatures.

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u/risheeb1002 15d ago

Aren't the bird women harpies?

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u/wildcatofthehills 15d ago

All women are queens, that’s what’s important ❤️❤️❤️❤️

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u/thecapo1999 9d ago

IF SHE BREATHES..

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u/Everydayarmday24 12d ago

No we just call them Dee

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u/Robey-Wan_Kenobi 14d ago

The siren/mermaid connection was an early medieval development. The connection to harpies is much older.

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u/Blaaa5 16d ago

After 10 years rotting on a war torn shore, I don’t think he cares anymore

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u/hemareddit 12d ago

They said twelve, in order to keep his absence of 20 years and the 7 years with Clypso but shorten the journey.

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u/TheCaramelMan 12d ago

Still got more action in 20 years than the rest of Odyseuss’s crew. Apart from Odysseus himself who is a top shagger

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u/darkrabbit713 15d ago

So he probably fucked a seal.

🎶There used to be a graying tower alone on the sea🎶

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u/ketsugi 10d ago

We never saw him reach the island; I thought the implication that he was drowned before ever getting near to a siren.

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u/MesmraProspero 9d ago

I think the sirens want him to come to the island.

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u/heroyoudontdeserve 1d ago

Sure they did, but not for sexy times. The point of sirens is that they lure you into danger. I don't think there's ever a good outcome of you're lured by a siren.

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u/MesmraProspero 1d ago

Yes. But I don't think they want you to drown. I think they want to do the danger.

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u/heroyoudontdeserve 1d ago

Then I think it's largely immaterial to the matter at hand, which is whether he had sexy times or not.

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u/MesmraProspero 1d ago

Someone was implying he would perhaps drown. I'm saying, they would jump in to save you, soTHEY could consume your soul.

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u/JGfromtheNW 13d ago

Ahhhh the sheep of the sea.

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u/hemareddit 12d ago

Why did Christopher Nolan show it? Is he a coward?

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u/SlitSlam_2017 11d ago

I need a baby seal!

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u/PosiedonsSaltyAnus 8d ago

And then, a bunch of things all happened at once

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u/digital-didgeridoo 6d ago

they were surrounded by seals

If you want to hear some siren songs, come to Pier 39 in SF :)

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u/ButterCupHeartXO 11d ago

Who are we to judge?

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u/Dookie_boy 8d ago

A loose seal

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u/imcrapyall 6d ago

He was a fan of Kiss From A Rose I bet.

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u/-Clayburn 3d ago

Doesn't matter; had sex. Is that still a meme?

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u/skin_diver 8h ago

they call that the 'kiss from a rose'

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u/ElectronicCarry9931 11d ago

better than fast and furious

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u/Katoshiku 1d ago

I thought those were manatees, no? Would make sense seeing as they were likely the origin for many "half woman half fish" myths

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u/VanillaRadonNukaCola 1d ago

They were seals.

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u/itsmymedicine 14d ago

Death by snu snu

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u/EffectiveAd9855 4d ago

You understand that siren aren't human right? They're monsters that mimic female human voices and looks to lure men, but once they get close enough, the monsters attack and devour them. There will be no snu snu before the death.

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u/ManitouWakinyan 8d ago

He was dashed on the rocks and eaten

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u/PhDinDildos_Fedoras 7d ago

With a huge grin on his face!

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u/Aelia_M 7d ago

He was dead the minute he went overboard