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The Odyssey
In this adaptation of Homer's timeless epic, Armand Assante stars as Odysseus, the warrior King of the mythical island of Ithaca, who must endure a decade long quest to reach home after the Trojan war, overcoming savage monsters, powerful forces of nature, and seductive nymphs, and he must outsmart them all, with all the guile and intellect he can muster.
| Release : | 1997 |
| Rating : | 7 |
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| Crew : | Director, Executive Producer, |
| Cast : | Armand Assante Greta Scacchi Isabella Rossellini Bernadette Peters Eric Roberts |
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The greatest movie ever made..!
A waste of 90 minutes of my life
It isn't all that great, actually. Really cheesy and very predicable of how certain scenes are gonna turn play out. However, I guess that's the charm of it all, because I would consider this one of my guilty pleasures.
A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.
The Odyssey made me see my kids again after my wife got full custody. I loved the smiles my kids had when they saw the cyclops eat the man alive, it put a warm feeling in my heart. Almost better than A Talking Cat!?©2013
the first virtue - to see it is the best way to determine a child to read "Odissey". not surprising for an Andrei Konchalovski film. but surprising for the great way for give a so faithful adaptation of one of the great books of European culture. and a realistic Ulyses, different by the recipes of Kirk Douglas but giving the traits, vulnerabilities and virtues in the most convincing manner, in a great performance of Armand Assante. a film who impress. scene by scene. because it is real admirable work examples. and amazing science to use the special effects as tool and not as axis defines it in the splendid manner.
I had recently bought a new feathered friend. Because I really liked the epic poem that Homer wrote, I decided to even name my new bird after a character he wrote about, Odysseus. In honor of my bird's birthday, we (Cookie, Odysseus, and I) snuggled into my bed and put the movie on. At first there was WAY too much violence. Cookie had nightmares for weeks. Then, during the scene with the cyclops. Odysseus threw up all over my new fuzzy pants. The movie dragged on for way too long and the pacing was awful. My feathered friends were way too tired by the end of it, it has caused a huge change in their attitudes the next day. Overall, I highly recommend that birds not watch it. Thanks for your time.
If you thought the Kird Douglas version was bad, don't even bother with this one, which makes the Kirk Douglas version look like a classic in comparison. That may be why they made the movie. Homer's books (I've read the Iliad and the Odyssey) are extremely poorly written to begin with. Homer was a hack, and today would be considered a ludicrously excessive sycophant and butt kisser. He did nothing but praise kings and people in power. The more powerful you were, the more he praised you. That is all he did. His characters have no different qualities about them other than some are stronger and more powerful. It took later writers and directors to give character to these names. Through the ages, Ulysses has come to mean a more intelligent form of the character of Odysseus. This name embodied wisdom mixed with strength. This film gives him absolutely no wisdom at all. He is merely a murderous fiend with no saving grace, and no reason for anyone to like. Indeed, it is an ordeal to sit through, knowing that he will be victorious, and you don't care a bit about what happens to him. The other characters are given some attention, but we know they will die, and we await some saving grace from the "hero" which never appears. This film takes all the worst from the book and all the worst from todays films. It is truly a bomb.
