OLD AND BUSTED: Remember Peoria!
The New Hotness? Screw those rubes in flyover country, we’re ramming wokeness right down their throats, even if they refuse to buy the product:
Snow White absolutely bombed so it wasn’t just a handful of online right wing people who hated it.
Rings Of Power has some of the worst streaming numbers and is one of the most expensive streaming shows ever made.
Star Wars was a bulletproof IP that now hasn’t put out a movie… https://t.co/lQuCzO6Jbm
— EducatëdHillbilly™ (@RobProvince) May 14, 2026
Yes, it’s Christopher Nolan, and the film will likely print money this summer, and yes, I want to read the reviews of the finished product before strongly casting doubts, but even he isn’t perfect:
Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey is going through what his 2017 film, Dunkirk, went through.
Prior to its July 2017 release, Dunkirk was criticized for lacking emotional depth, sparse dialogue, and potential historical inaccuracies.
Critics argued Nolan prioritized technical… pic.twitter.com/mWmTlDYN7R
— Art Hits Hard (@nightwriter22) May 13, 2026
But Dunkirk did lack emotional depth. It felt much more like Stanley Kubrick’s cold and detached Full Metal Jacket than a gripping war movie about one of England’s pivotal moments in WWII.
Regarding Oppenheimer, Will Jordan, aka the Critical Drinker, recently told GB News that Nolan is “a man of ideas and obviously very intelligent, very capable as a filmmaker, but there’s a certain sterility to what he produces. There’s a certain emotional element that’s just missing. I feel like when he does try to include it, it comes across as very clunky and very deliberate. For example, the love scenes in Oppenheimer did not feel like real human beings talking to each other. They felt like a couple of robots conversing, and I think that’s a bit of a shortcoming for him as a director. He basically needs to stay within his comfort zone in order to produce [his] best stuff. He’s a man of ideas — sci-fi, thrillers, that kind of thing. I think historical epics might not be to his taste.”
Still though, if Hollywood wants to lean heavily into reverse-race casting, Siraj Hashmi suggests the ultimate Project Hail Mary:
