I hadn't eaten all day and waited for dinner, which was store-bought chicken tortellini. It was awful. The chicken was this weird mush and the actual pasta was bland and flavourless. I was completely unsatisfied and couldn't finish it. Instead, I made a pizza from scratch. I didn't have actual toppings as I didn't plan on having pizza, but I just had cheese and chili peppers. It was actually pretty good!
My house had a new internet broadband installed today. Anyway, the trailer for Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey has been released. I didn't have high expectations for the film before the trailer, as it's an adaptation done by Hollywood and the casting was... interesting (Zendaya as Athena makes absolutely no sense and I can't get my head around why she was chosen), but now that the trailer has been released I can say that my fear of it being bad is skyrocketed. Why are there Viking longboats? It's set in ancient Greece! The armour is also strange. I'm not the type to notice small historical inaccuracies and get upset at them, but it's glaringly obvious within the trailer that little thought is put into the armour.
I'll also say that whilst filming in Sicily is good, I'm baffled as to why they're also going to film in Scotland. A very different landscape to what Homer would have been imagining when writing.
The tone feels off. It feels gritty and dark when it should feel like an adventure. I think this tone would be better suited to The Iliad.
Once again, the casting is baffling. Every big Hollywood production likes to cram in every big name actor, even if it doesn't fit the characters. Zendaya as Athena is what really makes me laugh. I'm not sure if the film will have every Olympian, but if it does then I'm scared what they'll do to Apollo and Artemis. They didn't have to get all these big names, a Nolan film will sell without it. Anyway, the movie will probably suck as an adaptation but may be decent for those who don't care about myth or history.