#leitmotif

I'm only bringing this up because that leitmotif is associated with the prophecy, and the final note is lower than normal.

9.3/10

Very good!

It wasn't a 1:1 adaptation of the Odyssey but I was actually okay with this take on things. Especially considering I went in grumpy about the bronze age Aegean soldiers where essentially roman kit.

The sound design is phenomenal! I cannot stress this enough. The movie is worth seeing just for the score and the sound design. It’s all great. There this particular leitmotif that signals that one of the gods is near that sounds like a mix of static and the cracking laser noise that large bodies of frozen water make and its awesome.

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This is the sound. It plays multiple times during the film and it’s always right as the gods are showing their presence.

Also, I recognized a few pieces of jewelry as replicas of actual bronze age finds. Two of note being Penelope's necklace and her earrings so that was neat.

Highly recommend.

And the HORSE omg what a fucking amazing rendition of the horse, the whole scene is fucking great. Troy having to pull it out of the waves, that whole scene was so fucking good. Theres this part where they drop a torch over the wall of troy and it lights up the greeks waiting AND ITS SO FUCKING COOL. Also the scene with circe and her changing the men is ughhhh very well done and awful. and the cyclops *chefs kiss*

Tom Holland was probably the weakest overall and he was still top notch. I was wary about Matt Damon as Odysseus but he was great! And Hamish Patel was definitely a stand out for me. Robert Pattinson really plays a great sniveling weasel. 10/10 would hate him as a coward again.

Personally I LOVED the choice for Helen even if the poem mentioned her as fair I believe. She was there for all of a few minutes screen time and it was great. Same goes for Elliot Page he did great with his small role. Menelaus was did a very good job too. And ugh the death scene for Agamemnon. Holy fuck that was so good. The colors in that scene it was beautiful and I can’t help but think the way they shot it reminded me of one of the paintings of Judith killing Holofernes

Gah I could talk about the framing of the scenes for forever right now. I’ll stop. No one more, the set locations were ABSOLUTLY GORGEOUS AND STRIKING AND I WANT TO GO TO ALL OF THEM

Anywhoozlebee, I highly recommend and especially in imax. I have no Idea how the editors panned the footage for the regular showing, hopefully they did a good enough job, but there are quite a few scenes where there's something visually interesting going on everywhere on screen.

I'm going again this coming Thursday. I need to see it one more time in imax before that version is fucking gone forever (which is bullshit btw)

If the sound team loses any awards this next award season they were robbed. and thats coming from someone who thought Backrooms sound team was a shoe-in for winning.