BJH1960 said
If anyone sees it, I’d be interested in hearing what they think.
I vaguely remember Kirk Douglas in a film version of it that I saw as a kid but that was so long ago.
Yeah I remember that old version. Seems like it was a personal project for Douglas. I’m sure it’ll be reissued.
Wow, is Nolan’s version getting the hard sell or what? Suddenly the Odyssey is everywhere. There was even an article in the local paper describing all the characters and who is playing them. I plan on seeing it although I have to confess up to this point I have never really enjoyed any of his movies. There are just some directors whose work I find myself unsympathetic to. it’s not that they’re bad but just that I don’t get it.
Another one is Alfred Hitchcock. As absurd as it sounds I just don’t enjoy his movies. The only exception is Notorious and that’s only because I’m madly in love with Ingrid Bergman and I’m a huge Claude Rains fan. The ending is so sad when they leave Rains to his fate. That’s some acting achievement making me sympathetic to a Nazi! But he loved Ingrid and that I understand completely.
One thing that puts me off immediately is that the new one is full of big name stars. Let’s see if I can believe Tom Holland as Telemachus and not think of Spiderman in skirts. There’s the inevitable backlash from certain quarters. How come Helen is being played by a woman of color? (Lupita Nyong’o, Yowza!) I hate to inform these nabobs but an ancient Greek didn’t look anything like Matt Damon either.
The test though will be the Circe episode. That will make or break the film for me.
Stephen said:
There are just some directors whose work I find myself unsympathetic to. it’s not that they’re bad but just that I don’t get it.
Another one is Alfred Hitchcock. As absurd as it sounds I just don’t enjoy his movies. The only exception is Notorious and that’s only because I’m madly in love with Ingrid Bergman and I’m a huge Claude Rains fan.
Not absurd at all. People like all sorts of different things.
I love the screwball comedies of the 30s and 40s (My Man Godfrey, The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek, etc.) and black humor (In Bruges, The Death of Stalin, etc.) – others don’t.
I like Hitchcock – Rear Window is probably my favorite.
I don’t know I’ve ever met a man who wasn’t in love with her.
Claude Rains is great. The Invisible Man! He had such a wonderful voice and delivery.
Notorious was a fantastic movie. It’s one of those movies that both made a deep impression, sticking with me after I first saw it, and also had gotten so much better when I re-watched it many years later.
I’m trying to think of others that fall into that category. Philadelphia Story comes to mind, as does Rocky I’m surprised to say.
I love Philadelphia Story! To me a nearly perfect film. True I also happen to be hopelessly in love with Ruth Hussey*. (The one great advantage of my various and sundry movie romances is that I never have to concern myself with some pesky and annoying restraining order. I worship, as it were, from afar.) The Broadway version of the PS featured Joseph Cotten in the Cary Grant role and Van Heflin in the Jimmy Stewart role. Interesting casting choices.
*If you haven’t seen it already also check out Ruth Hussey (with Ray Milland and the luminous Gail Russell) in ** you do not have permission to see this link **, based on the Shirley Jackson novel, which is the greatest haunted house novel ever written. Don’t argue with me. In this I am inspired and inerrant.)
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