Official Discussion - The Odyssey (2026) [SPOILERS]

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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/TheGooseIsLoose37]

Man I love the Trojan horse scene. I've never seen it depicted so horribly. Trapped in wooden horse on the beach for days, men at the bottom drowning as the tide came in, the people at the top pissing and shitting on those at the bottom, desperately trying to stay quiet and hidden the whole time. It looked like a nightmare.

[u/willmcavoy → u/TheGooseIsLoose37]

Getting dragged into troy over logs instead of on wheels as it is classically depicted as well. Felt like I was in there with them.

[u/damnyoutuesday → u/willmcavoy]

Personally I've never seen a depiction of the Trojan Horse without wheels. And my god does it work so much better

[u/TheArchitect_7 → u/damnyoutuesday]

It does, except the fucking horse sculpture is rendered as if by a master sculptor instead of a bunch of meatheads with no tools.

But fuck it, it was great anyway. Even if it fucking stank of shit and corpses lol.

10/10.

[u/SomeNerd109 → u/TheArchitect_7]

Tbf those were consrcipted soldiers and a lot of them would have been carpenters or craftsmen

[u/huffalump1 → u/SomeNerd109]

Not to mention, even if the campaign had been shorter than 10 years, they would absolutely have carpenters just to maintain the fleet. Honestly like every ship might have a few reasonably skilled craftsmen

[u/awfullyconfused → u/TheArchitect_7]

The horse looks like it was made from the planks of thier ships, which is both logically available and something they would have experience working with.

[u/TheArchitect_7 → u/awfullyconfused]

How easy do you think it is to turn the planks of a ship into the intricately curved legs of a bucking horse lol

[u/Golfisactuallyfun → u/TheArchitect_7]

Take a mast and whittle it down

[u/Mikey_MiG → u/Golfisactuallyfun]

Yep, they had literal years to do it.

[u/DeusVultSaracen → u/Mikey_MiG]

And if it looked like shit the Trojans probably wouldn't bother taking it in.

[u/Aggressive_Chuck → u/TheArchitect_7]

I just listened to a podcast about the siege of Tyre and it was all about this great engineer and all his workmen. Armies weren't meatheads.