I’m seeing The Odyssey tonight, late, at my local IMAX — not the 70mm, but IMAX all the same. And I haven’t felt this locked in for a movie in years.

It’s been a long time since I’ve been this excited to watch a movie.

The last time I felt this way was The Batman. That’s five years of waiting for a movie to make me feel like a kid again, and Nolan’s Greek epic is the one that’s done it.

The Reviews Aren’t Helping My Nerves

Here’s the thing about hype — it’s supposed to calm down once the reviews drop. Mine didn’t. Critics have called it a grand, gutsy vision that thrills for the bulk of its nearly three-hour runtime, and outlets are already floating it as the first reactions for Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey’ are mostly raves. Some are calling it one of his best-reviewed films ever. That’s not nothing coming from a guy with The Dark Knight and Oppenheimer on his résumé.

So no, I’m not tempering anything.

My expectations are not tempered. They are very high, especially — they’re at an all-time high, and that makes me a little nervous.

Nervous is the right word. When a movie is tracking for a genuinely massive opening weekend and getting hailed as possibly the best-reviewed film of Nolan’s career, you start bracing for the drop. But nervous-excited beats indifferent every single time. I’ll take the anxiety.

Shutting Up The Discourse

The part that actually makes me happiest isn’t even about the movie itself — it’s who this is silencing. For months you’ve had a loud, exhausting corner of the internet convinced this thing was going to be a disaster before a single frame screened. Now that it’s landing with critics and audiences both,

it shuts up that tiny faction of the internet who are just so loud and obnoxious.

That’s the win before I’ve even seen it. A three-hour, IMAX-shot, Matt Damon-led adaptation of Homer sounds like exactly the kind of swing-for-the-fences blockbuster that shouldn’t work in 2026 — and it’s working anyway.

My full review is up tomorrow. Go in with your expectations high. Homer earned it, and so did Nolan.