The movie is for real. I?ve seen the trailer covered this week on
various film nerd channels I watch.

This is the official trailer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5dJmj9gwD8

Matt Dillon as Frank Sr. One of the Farrelly brothers directs.

?The Odyssey? will be the high water mark of Woke, and then Hollywood
will have to rediscover how to make money.

So the next Stallone biopic will be ?I Play Rambo?. Then the next will
be ?I Play Judge Dredd?.

Lynn


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On Fri, 17 Jul 2026 15:37:19 -0500, Lynn McGuire
<lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:

The movie is for real. I?ve seen the trailer covered this week on
various film nerd channels I watch.

This is the official trailer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5dJmj9gwD8

Matt Dillon as Frank Sr. One of the Farrelly brothers directs.

?The Odyssey? will be the high water mark of Woke, and then

Hollywood

will have to rediscover how to make money.

So the next Stallone biopic will be ?I Play Rambo?. Then the next

will

be ?I Play Judge Dredd?.

Just in case this is relevant. I haven't streamed /The Odyssey/ yet.
And, at nearly 3 hours, it may be a while before I do.

There is also the minor detail that, seeing a list of the director's
other films -- well, let's just say that /Batman Begins/ /alone/ is a
strong argument against watching it. Particularly at nearly 3 hours.

But there are a couple things that (if correct, this is all IIRC)
might or might not be relevant to whatever "woke" is a reference to:

1. Graves, in /The Greek Myths/ records some of the Ancients stating
that Helen came from Egypt.
2. Herodotus asserts that Colchis was founded by Egypt and so
populated by Egyptians.
3. Gibbon asserts that this means they were Black. Which would mean
that a Black Helen of Troy might not have been an entirely unknown
possibility in the past.

The complaints about language are ... weird. What are they supposed to
speak? Homeric Greek? If so, are subtitles to be allowed?

Or is this a reference to the old movie tradition for "sand and
sandals" movies to have the bad guys use a British accent (and/or have
brown eyes) and the good guys an American accent (and/or have blue
eyes)?

Or is the problem that they are speaking in prose and not in poetry?
IOW, is this about how to translate poetry?

(The stories themselves are, of course, poetry in dactylic hexameter.)
--
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"

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On 7/18/2026 9:10 AM, Paul S Person wrote:

On Fri, 17 Jul 2026 15:37:19 -0500, Lynn McGuire
<lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:

The movie is for real. I?ve seen the trailer covered this week on
various film nerd channels I watch.

This is the official trailer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5dJmj9gwD8

Matt Dillon as Frank Sr. One of the Farrelly brothers directs.

?The Odyssey? will be the high water mark of Woke, and then Hollywood
will have to rediscover how to make money.

So the next Stallone biopic will be ?I Play Rambo?. Then the next will
be ?I Play Judge Dredd?.

Just in case this is relevant. I haven't streamed /The Odyssey/ yet.
And, at nearly 3 hours, it may be a while before I do.

Possibly because it isn't streaming yet, having just opened in theatres
this weekend?

--
I've done good in this world. Now I'm tired and just want to be a cranky
dirty old man.

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On Sat, 18 Jul 2026 14:22:01 -0700, Dimensional Traveler
<dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:

On 7/18/2026 9:10 AM, Paul S Person wrote:

On Fri, 17 Jul 2026 15:37:19 -0500, Lynn McGuire
<lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:

The movie is for real. I?ve seen the trailer covered this week on
various film nerd channels I watch.

This is the official trailer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5dJmj9gwD8

Matt Dillon as Frank Sr. One of the Farrelly brothers directs.

?The Odyssey? will be the high water mark of Woke, and then

Hollywood

will have to rediscover how to make money.

So the next Stallone biopic will be ?I Play Rambo?. Then the

next will

be ?I Play Judge Dredd?.

Just in case this is relevant. I haven't streamed /The Odyssey/ yet.
And, at nearly 3 hours, it may be a while before I do.

Possibly because it isn't streaming yet, having just opened in theatres
this weekend?

That is one factor, yes.

But it takes a while to become available to me at (for rentals, which
Major Films invariably go to first) for the price to drop to something
I am willing to pay.

I don't expect /The Odyssey/ to be available any time soon. Sheer
/pride/ would dictate keeping it at a premium price a long long time,
to prove its worth.

This varies, of course. Some films on my list have been there for a
long, long time. Some Major Films (well, Marvel films, anyway) become
available considerably faster.

Indeed, I suspect I can tell how popular a film /really/ is by how
quickly it becomes available: the sooner it is available, the less
popular it is. So a really bad Marvel movie will tend to be available
quite quickly. "Bad" in the sense of "not liked by others"; I actually
thought the one about the three women trading places was pretty good
(for a Marvel film).
--
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"

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On Fri, 17 Jul 2026 15:37:19 -0500, Lynn McGuire
<lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:

The movie is for real. I?ve seen the trailer covered this week on
various film nerd channels I watch.

This is the official trailer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5dJmj9gwD8

Matt Dillon as Frank Sr. One of the Farrelly brothers directs.

?The Odyssey? will be the high water mark of Woke, and then

Hollywood

will have to rediscover how to make money.

So the next Stallone biopic will be ?I Play Rambo?. Then the next

will

be ?I Play Judge Dredd?.

Have you seen /Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, The/? It may be at
least related to what you have in mind.
--
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"

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