Product: The Odyssey [VHS] (1997)
Rating: 1.0
A Disgrace To Readers Everywhere
.......... You actually enjoyed a movie, so steeped in inaccuracy and cheap special effects? Of course the movie will never be as good as the book, however, this goes entirely beyond that. The producers of this movie should be glad that Homer is long dead because I can assure you he, and any other Ancient Greek for that matter, would wreak absolute hell on them. As a lover of Greek Mythology, I was grossly appalled and frankly, I was offended that the makers of this movie believed I was dumb enough to take this movie as what The Odyssey was truly about. We the audience deserve a higher standard of entertainment and if not that at least the consideration to leave the foundation of Western literature to stand alone. If this rating gives anyone even the slightest clue of how I feel, then my point has been well conveyed. If you've never seen this movie, I have several things for you to consider before doing so. First, don't read the book, or prepare to be as outraged as I was at the misinformed atrocities so readily displayed as fact in the movie. Second, you must be able to appreciate hand-me-down special effects and budget cuts because that's all you're going to see in this film. Last, if you haven't read the book don't take this movie as fact and a correct representation because looking at the movie objectively, it does not follow the book accurately. Choose wisely before renting this movie and think hard about whether or not you want to subject your innocent children to watching Hollywood destroy the story on which it was built. Thank you, read the Honors Kids' reviews for further detail on the book compared to the movie.P.S. It has been considered immature to mock another for their name, Mr. C., and you are certainly no one to talk. You disgrace Pennsylvania in your lack of tolerance for other people's differences. Maybe you should get out more often and find out just how many people have last names different than your own. Oh and by the way you have just been taught the simple lesson of manners from the point of view of a fifteen year-old girl. Does this say anything?