ODYSSEY WILL MAKE MONEY, BUT I'M BUMMED ITS GOING TO SUCK.

A trailer drops, the internet explodes, and suddenly a 3,000-year-old poem is at the center of a modern culture fight. Jerk hits play on a George the Giant Slayer video and react to the growing backlash around Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, especially the marketing hook “Defy The Gods” and what that tagline signals to long-time fans of Homer and Greek mythology. From there, he gets into the messy part: authenticity. We talk about why some viewers don’t just care about visuals, IMAX ...