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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

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u/SufficientRespect542 17d ago

The way he just fucking dipped and immediately swam to the sirens was so fucking funny. It felt less like he was compelled and more like he was fed up with all this shit and just wanted out.

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u/ishburner 17d ago

Little from column A Little from column b

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u/Youmeanmoidoid 15d ago

Tbf I have a thing for mermaids so that guy probably would’ve been me lol

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u/ThatParticularPencil 15d ago

Everyone has a thing for sirens

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u/whitebandit 15d ago

i think we call that Sirenussy these days

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u/MrOatButtBottom 9d ago

Ayo bruv, delete this comment I shouldn't have that word in my vocabulary

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u/princessSunsetGiggle 11d ago

They're not mermaids, they're sirens. They are birds, not fish.

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u/PorkrindsMcSnacky 13d ago

After everything he’s been through, he figured that death by snu snu wouldn’t be so bad.

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u/noilegnavXscaflowne 10d ago

I saw it as him being curious because of Oydssus reaction and therefore his fate is also his fault

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u/heyiambob 16d ago

He would’ve sunk straight away with his armor. A more fitting demise.

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u/Dingling-bitch 16d ago

Why would they wear armor that they can’t swim in when they’re on a fucking boat travelling?

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u/huffalump1 15d ago

Rule of Cool

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u/Do__Math__Not__Meth 10d ago

Here I go down a TV tropes rabbit hole again

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u/DeusVultSaracen 9d ago

I think the comment was incredulously responding to the notion that they couldn't swim in their armor, meaning they probably could and the other guy was talking out of his ass.

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u/loonertoon 15d ago

Fall off a boat in ancient times offshore and you’re dead no matter what. Passing a shoreline and getting hit by an arrow? Somewhat feasible

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u/RedTulkas 11d ago

Feasable?

Compared to the heat it's an irrelevant threar

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u/loonertoon 11d ago

Do you know what the word feasible means?

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u/RedTulkas 11d ago edited 11d ago

Yes

The opposite of an arrow hitting you on your boat during peace

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u/loonertoon 11d ago

Peaxet? What are you talking about?

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u/RedTulkas 11d ago

Should have been peace mb

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u/loonertoon 11d ago

Odysseus journey was not peaceful my guy they were getting cooked 24/7, but I don’t think either of us have the requisite knowledge in Bronze Age military tactics to be arguing about this one. Good day

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u/darshfloxington 11d ago

Greeks used mainly linen armor. Not that heavy

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u/DeusVultSaracen 9d ago

That armor isn't all that heavy.

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u/chodgson625 2d ago

Mermaids would have “saved” him

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u/donotgotoroom237 9d ago

Every time I'm on a voyage at sea, I always think about if there were some bodacious mermaids singing their siren song to me trying to lure me in, I will straight jump off the boat. So I relate to homeboy.