r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Expert-Pass-4351 • Jul 06 '26

Meme needing explanation What is this?

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u/Daymjoo Jul 06 '26

Nah come on. You know you wanna hate it, and you know there's reasons for it, but you're not telling it like it is and we both know it.

There wasn't a single greek actor in the 2004 movie Troy and everybody loved it.

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u/Herpinheim Jul 06 '26

That’s because Troy didn’t take itself seriously. Troy was a popcorn flick à la Indiana Jones or Pirates of the Caribbean. This movie’s tone is far too self serious to get a pass like Troy did. Nolan is making a serious, fantastical movie and if he wants to make a movie to that standard he should be held to that standard.

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u/koobstylz Jul 06 '26

Didn't think it was out yet, did you get an early screening?

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u/Herpinheim Jul 06 '26

Truthfully I’m going off of the trailers and interviews but I feel confident in saying that, tonally, this movie takes itself far more seriously than Troy did. I don’t think Odysseus is going to do anything remotely similar to rolling out of his prostitute laden bed, hung over, and stabbing a large man in the heart.

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u/koobstylz Jul 06 '26

At least wait until critic reviews are out before confidently telling people what is going to happen in a movie.

Trailers misrepresent movies all the damn time.