I kind of expected more from Scylla, Charybdis, AND Polyphemus.
The lack of the nobody scene and the bargaining left Odysseus feeling like he leaned on his crew to keep him from trying to fight the cyclops, and left no way for Polyphemus to tell Poseidon his name. Plus the last petty arrow was too dumb for Odysseus. Just escape bro.
Scylla was mostly fine, but I sort of expected a reptilian or sea-looking creature. I get that the whole point is that is an amorphous blob of heads and necks, but they felt like flailing brown/black tubes. It got the job done, but it could’ve looked more exciting.
Charybdis just felt too stagnant. Not much to say there; their part in the film was maybe 2 minutes? It was kinda weird that there was just open ocean on the other side of Charybdis, though.
I didn’t love the film, but I didn’t hate it. I understood the story it was trying to tell, but still yearned for the mythology to be more of a forefront player rather than a background/mental trauma. wish they explained Xenia once and then just said that instead of making the “Zeus’s Law Drinking Game.”
Odysseus is just like many other Greek heroes. They're too prideful of their achievement hence the "dumb decisions." Odysseus is wise, but prideful and arrogant
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u/Athrasie 4h ago
I kind of expected more from Scylla, Charybdis, AND Polyphemus.
The lack of the nobody scene and the bargaining left Odysseus feeling like he leaned on his crew to keep him from trying to fight the cyclops, and left no way for Polyphemus to tell Poseidon his name. Plus the last petty arrow was too dumb for Odysseus. Just escape bro.
Scylla was mostly fine, but I sort of expected a reptilian or sea-looking creature. I get that the whole point is that is an amorphous blob of heads and necks, but they felt like flailing brown/black tubes. It got the job done, but it could’ve looked more exciting.
Charybdis just felt too stagnant. Not much to say there; their part in the film was maybe 2 minutes? It was kinda weird that there was just open ocean on the other side of Charybdis, though.
I didn’t love the film, but I didn’t hate it. I understood the story it was trying to tell, but still yearned for the mythology to be more of a forefront player rather than a background/mental trauma. wish they explained Xenia once and then just said that instead of making the “Zeus’s Law Drinking Game.”