{"id":37047,"date":"2026-07-21T12:57:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T12:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/squireslair.com\/?p=37047"},"modified":"2026-07-21T12:57:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T12:57:00","slug":"another-manufactured-controversy-the-odyssey-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/squireslair.com\/?p=37047","title":{"rendered":"Another Manufactured Controversy &#8211; The Odyssey Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three years after Oppenheimer broke all sorts of box office records, the main one being it was a successful movie despite being about a terrifying real event that\u2019s mostly set in a grey room, Christopher Nolan is back with his interpretation of The Odyssey.  You\u2019d think from the months and months of backlash related to the cast it was going to sink like a stone but it turns out no, that\u2019s just boiler plate culture way commentary from normal people who are normal.  This review is taken from our podcast The Weekly Planet gets into why we think this Matt Damon\/wooden horse\/cyclops adventure is one of Nolan\u2019s best films.  Thanks for watching!<\/p>\n<p>Check out Patreon.com\/MrSundayMovies &amp; bigsandwich.co for early videos, bonus podcasts, movie commentaries and video game let&#8217;s plays<\/p>\n<p>James&#8217; Twitter \u25ba http:\/\/twitter.com\/mrsundaymovies<br \/>\nMaso&#8217;s Twitter \u25ba http:\/\/twitter.com\/wikipediabrown<\/p>\n<p>Edited by \u25ba https:\/\/twitter.com\/fidelreyes_<\/p>\n<p>SUBSCRIBE HERE \u25ba\u25ba http:\/\/bit.ly\/1IQB3kh<\/p>\n<p>TWP iTunes \u25ba https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/au\/podcast\/the-weekly-planet\/id718158767<\/p>\n<p>TWP Direct Download \u25ba https:\/\/play.acast.com\/s\/theweeklyplanet<\/p>\n<p>TWP YouTube Channel \u25ba https:\/\/goo.gl\/1ZQFGH<\/p>\n<p>Patreon \u25ba https:\/\/patreon.com\/mrsundaymovies<\/p>\n<p>Amazon Affiliate Link \u25ba https:\/\/amzn.to\/2nc12P4<\/p>\n<p>T-Shirts\/Merch \u25ba https:\/\/www.teepublic.com\/stores\/mr-sunday-movies<\/p>\n<p>#TheOdyssey #ChristopherNolan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three years after Oppenheimer broke all sorts of box office records, the main one being&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":37048,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[28,2,22],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/squireslair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37047"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/squireslair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/squireslair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/squireslair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/squireslair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/squireslair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/37048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/squireslair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/squireslair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/squireslair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}