On the VieShow Cinemas website, I can’t see any IMAX showtimes for the movie “The Odyssey” after Tuesday. Does anyone know the reason why?
There may be no screenings after Tuesday. This is of course pure speculation.
Sold out? Or slow to update. This movie is very popular .
Not sure if this is the same one, but my GF told me that the sound system at one of the theaters showing “The Odyssey” wasn’t properly attached and came tumbling down and damaged something essential.
I check only at miramar imax in Dazhi (closest to home). The system is quite stupid and basically they add new days only at the last day available of the schedule
I seem to remember noticing that a lot of theaters here don’t let you book more than a handful of days in advance. Not sure if true but yeah.
My local Showtime cinema never divulges how long of a run/when a film’s run will end. It’s frustrating. Looking at times for The Odyssey, I see that island-wide it stops at tuesday, although likely it won’t be the end of the run. Or maybe it will with an intense 12 shows per day.
No idea if Vieshow operates the same way.
I think that new tickets get released at 6 pm on a Monday, so get them finger-clicking buttons ready.
Well I’ve been here over an hour trying to buy tickets but the website is overloaded. Absolute shit show, happens every time there is demand for a movie at IMAX. Very easy to fix if they were to bother paying a coder a small amount of money to upgrade the website infrastructure to handle it, but this is Taiwan, so they prefer to not spend the money and instead inconvenience thousands of customers every week for years.
It’s a bit like those promotions that need to be claimed at an exact time where companies hype up DDoSing their own infrastructure… 
For people that watched it. Worth the 3 hours?
No. But if you go download the app RunPee because no intermission.
Tbh the whole movie is in the last hour, so don’t miss that.
I watched it at the Miramar IMAX. The theater was about 75% full - which I haven’t seen in a cinema here in a very long time (more typical is we are 2 of 5 people in the entire theater).
I found the movie disappointing. Since the weekend, 5 very different people in my life (family, friends, former classmates) told me it’s a must-see, and I tried not to get my expectations up. And I think I did go in with a pretty open-mind. I just didn’t see what the hype was about. I didn’t read the original poem, so maybe I would have appreciated it more if I was more familiar with it – like how certain scenes were depicted might have touched me more.
I wasn’t thrilled about the constant flashbacks, and flashbacks within flashbacks. I’m not saying I would have preferred there were no flashbacks, just that it seemed a bit too much[1]. And maybe my expectations were heightened by the hype around this being Christopher Nolan’s next project after Oppenheimer (which I haven’t seen, but am aware was very highly regarded). It was also a little odd to recognize so many Hollywood celebrities in very supporting roles – not necessarily a bad thing, just seemed funny to me.
I thought the references to the Sea Peoples was very cool. And I wondered if this was actually in the original epic poem, which it was not. But I liked that concept very much.
I watched The Odyssey at the Miramar IMAX. It was my 3rd time to watch at that IMAX, and I think it will be my last. Sure, our seats were too far to the right, and a bit too close, so I had to tolerate an distorted view which was simply unignorable. This probably also hurt my perspective (figurately as well as literally). The scenes with Polyphemus the Cyclops, the giant Laestrygonians, and the visit to Hades should have wowed me more. So, I walked out thinking I don’t need to see ANYTHING on IMAX anymore.
On a more positive note: I watched Spiderman, Brand New Day today and I enjoyed that film much more. Maybe less thinking was required of me, although recognizing who the main antagonist was in that movie was a major surprise to me, which I really liked. That was fun, impressive, and touching. And it didn’t feel nearly as long as The Odyssey. Come to think of it, all the web-swinging and the scenese with The Hand would have been absolutely gorgeous in the right seats in an IMAX theater.
I have heard that writing coaches frequently warn that overusing the past stops forward momentum, dampens dramatic tension, and serves as an “info-dump” substitute for proper character development. And when asked how best to handle flashbacks in a narrative, Nobel Prize-winning novelist Sinclair Lewis famously said: “Don’t.” ↩︎
I haven’t seen it. But I was told the movie does a poor job of being the first time someone follows the Odessey story. And I was also told it does a poor job for those that did read the story.
It’s hard to tell if it’s worth seeing as I hear lots of mixed reviews.
I didn’t enjoy his last movie in the cinama because the audio mix was so bad and I had to cover my ears with my fingers. I wonder if its worth to take earplugs or just wait when is available to watch at home.
It’s like everything he does, not bad as such just a bit underwhelming. Also unnecessarily confusing at times.
I think it’s smart to take earplugs to the cinema. I’ve only found it useful in Taiwan, where they just crank it. I’ve mostly grown accustomed to it and generally no longer use them and I did find it challenging to open them up enough but not too much to get sound I liked. I think something like Loop adjustable earplugs would be best.
I thought it was fairly enjoyable but not amazing and obviously very long . The film was dominated by American actors which I honestly found a bit weird with the accents. Not sure about Matt Damon being the lead, found it a bit hard to buy into. Was kicking myself I hadn’t watched project hail Mary instead in the cinema, would have enjoyed that more. Odyssey story felt a bit hackneyed to me probably cos I’ve watched too much Game of thrones already. Also kept referring to Zeus law…kind of hard to get into that.
Nolan is a very talented director, but writing dialogue doesn’t seem to be his strong suit. I get that it’s a challenge to convey the significance of xenia to a modern audience, but come on.