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Summary: Seventh Grade class loved it!
Review: I used the DVD of The Odyssey in conjuction with the class study of ancient Greece. I liked the fact that the DVD made it easy to edit out parts, and the scenes are accessible to easily fit class time available. The representation of daily life in ancient Greece were accurate enough to give light to the subject, and since the movie was filmed in Greece the students and I were treated to authentic view of the country. I will certainly use this again! (My computer DVD player hooked up to the lcd projector gave a wonderful, huge, clear picture. Great stuff!)
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Summary: Could not be worse
Review: This film has nothing to do with Homer's epic, save that the names of the characters are kept as well as the bare outline of the story. Book 9 (The cylcops episode) perhaps he greatest book of the poem is reduced to [junk](oh by the way Odysseus does not kill Hector- Achillles does).And Achilles would never lead his men into a cave and steal food in the first place, Anyway the poem among many other things explores the nature of KLEOS--(reknown) and Odysseus's kleos does not fit any of he conventional definitions. 1 He is a Bowman (not pictured in the film)--which means he gets to fight behind the lines of the hoplites 2 He is self-serving--almost hubristic as he himself reveals in Books 9-12 the longest sustained 1st person narration in epic (Virgil ties to copy it) 3 He constantly gets his shipmates into trouble (not a great commander). He is a liar and the opposite of the traditional Greek Hero (This is why Ajax turns his back on him in the underworld) He is however a great storyteller--and that itself is a kind of KLEOS. The language of Book 9 is so replete with puns and formulae whose natures become ironically charged coming from Odysseus mouth, that it is one of the most subtle exploations of tradition ever composed. One (and this includes Sophocles) does not know what do make of him--do we admire him or hate him? He is finally sui generis which is why he has been depicted in so many ways throuhout history. This is the CORE of the poem--a center which the film ignores. For a good rendition of the Odyssey watch O Brother Where art Thou? Or read Joyce's ULYSSES.
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Summary: Worth it, even if only for the one scene...
Review: There is a striking scene in this film where Odysseus, washed up upon an anonymous shore, stumbles upon a tent and tastes the local bread, cheese and wine -- and from the tastes of these three things he realizes that he is home on Ithaca after all those many years. After five years that scene is still burned into my memory.
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Summary: I agree
Review: I totally agree with andrew...and by the way, people who dont know any of us and dont really know whats going on...please dont waste your time with this movie...you're better off watching old reruns of whos the boss...even though im deprived of cable and wouldnt know...most of you probably know who this is
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Summary: ummmmmm
Review: Okay, I may or may not have some original things to point out about this movie. First off the only reason I gave it one star (besides the fact you can't give it zero) is because it was wikid funny because of how stupid it was, and because Mr. Noteboom did the Telemachos voice (cranky, whiny, english school boy voice). Alright, Poseidon, the "god of the wine-dark sea" creative use of quotes from Homers smash hit epic, but still very stupid. A rolling face on a wave that doesn't crash for three minutes.......NO BAAAAAAD. Lets see theres Scylla, I am helping to make a better Scylla then the one in the movie.....well it wasn't that bad......but still ours is better. Then there was the whole thing with Charybdis being AFTER Scylla, instead of beside it, I mean, it....kinda ruins a bit of the effect. I would also like to quote Mr. Noteboom and say that when you are begging for Odysseus' men to be sucked up by Charbdis...sumthing is drastically wrong! I have to admit Aeleous is awesome, but he is dipicted way wrong, hes still awesome though. Oh and what about Penelope testing Odysseus, that is so great, and they didn't even put it in there. Finally, how do I put this lightly......I can't they need to learn to pronounce names the same EVERY Time, it bugs me when all of a sudden Telemachos is being pronounced Telemacus and then telemauchos........just aint doin it for me. Also theres this big burly greek warrior just getting back from the Trojan war, and hes using phrases like "rosy fingertipped dawn" and all of these poetic terms.....lets just say he must feel very secure in his manlyhood. Anyway horrible movie, don't watch it expecting to be seeing what goes on in the book in a good way. If you want a good laugh and to be able to complain that they totally DID NOT do justice to the book, watch it.....maybe you'll be able to get a few laughs. See ya'll lata!
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Summary: Uggh
Review: Yes, yes the movie was bad, really bad, so bad that if Homer was still alive to see it, he would be doing something similar to the TV that Mr. N does when he watches Boston Public. But how bad it was is beside the point. Who really cares if some of the people in our class are writing Mr. N's ideas on here. If I were him, I would be flattered to know that people beleived strongly enough in my ideas to take the time to write about it on amazon.com. To everyone who wrote a review on this horrific movie, and didnt criticize other people's reviews, good for you. I hope in the future we can all express our disgust with this movie without having our competency as an honors student questioned by someone who won't even tell us who they are. But until then, Lizzie Mcguire is on (hehehe) so I must be going. I'll see you all periods 1/2. - Andrew
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Summary: Cmon "honors" people!
Review: the movie was pretty bad, but i would think that honors kids would be original enough to write their own reviews. alice's was good, those were her words, but kayla, jana...we were all there when noteboom said what you wrote and you're taking credit for it? please!
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Summary: Ouch! This movie was so bad, it was funny
Review: Everything about this movie was baaadddd....From the everchanging accents, the fake special effects(the cyclops looked so fake that it took away from the movie), the movie was so flawed that it became more entertaining to look for the flawed parts than actually watch the movie. Yeah, this movie sucked.
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Summary: WOW
Review: Watching this movie after having read the book is pretty much hell. The fact that they changed the whole plot from the book makes it seem like a joke. Then the "special effects" just made it even worse. Even if you haven't read the book and you don't know the real story, the movie was still horribly directed and filmed. There are no transitions, and the actors don't seem to realize they are all in one movie together. They all have their own accents and the only thing they have in common with the characters they are playing from the book is their names. The only reason anyone should ever watch this movie is out of complete boredom and a need to make fun of something.
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Summary: OMG! worst movie ever!
Review: haha . . . wow this is one of those movies that is so completly bad that its funny. ok 1st of all Odysseus accent changes in almost every scene. 2nd penelope pronounces telemachos different than Odysseus. 3rd telemachos sounds like a whiney english boy. 4th posiedon "the god of the wine dark sea" is a face in a wave. 5th anitkleia is just freaky. 6th Odysseus beard changes color. 7th the cow scene wasnt even in there. 8th THEY NEVER LET PENELOPE HAVE HER REVENGE! 9th telemachos cant do any thing but then amazingly he can throw 2 spears at once. 10th Aoilos sounds like a cartoon. 11th the characters are all supposed to be bueatiful but they are all ugly . . . and i can go on. NOTEBOOMS 1/2 ROX! haha SPACE NEEDLE!
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