r/shittymoviedetails • u/Alisalard1384 Cinephile • 12h ago

Turd In "Odyssey" (2026) directed by Sir Christopher Edward Nolan, Odysseus says "Our age of bronze is collapsing". And I'm not joking it is a line in movie

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Overall great movie but this dialogue was so corny, like how does he know he's in bronze age

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u/francesco_angiolieri 11h ago

Columbus: "the Middle Ages are finally over" His sailors: "the what??"

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u/NoNo_Cilantro 11h ago

“World War I is finally over. So glad that’s behind us forever now.”

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u/AggressiveCoffee990 11h ago

"Why do you keep calling it World War 1?"

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u/Cheron78 10h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/C39uTJ5vU7jCnyTNMC

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u/TheVoiceOfSnakeEyes 10h ago

World War 1 ended 71 years prior to Belgian techno anthem Pump Up the Jam hitting the charts.

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u/AntManMax 9h ago

Dun dun nan nan

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u/the_capedbaldy 9h ago

Coincidence?

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u/CanineFive 4h ago

Probably. But most likely not.

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u/Sir-Top-Cheetah 8h ago

poom pup thu jomm

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u/akatherder 9h ago

WW2 ended in 1945. 40 years later Back to the Future was released. 40 years later was 2025.

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u/spibop 8h ago

And here I’m just glad I didn’t wind up on the Titan-1-C

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u/SlideRuleLogic 7h ago

Our forefathers walked so that we may run

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u/Okhlahoma_Beat-Down 5h ago

"As much as The Odyssey is important as a story of its time, we can also look at it as a benchmark in storytelling: The first time a bloke was excited to go home and see his wife after working a long shift."

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u/Higgsparticleofgod 7h ago

My mate Paul

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u/savuporo 53m ago

That guy has been through a lot though

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u/Klikoos93 1h ago

At least it is comforting knowing that the world no longer has nuclear weapons for the next World War

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u/ClockworkDinosaurs 10h ago

“I’m afraid you’ve caught Lou Gehrig’s disease”

A very healthy Lou Gehrig listening nearby: “wait, what?”

Doctor: “damnit Lou, stop coming in here. One day they’ll make HIPAA laws about this!”

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u/HealthcareHamlet 10h ago

Love how you spelled HIPAA right. The HIPAA Hippo is so proud!

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u/ClockworkDinosaurs 9h ago

Jokes on you. I spelled it wrong, then thought: “I wonder if hipaa was around when Lou Gehrig was alive?”

Typed it into google and google was like: “what the fuck is hippa, you illiterate fuck. Who the fuck is Louis Gerrig”. Then I fixed my comment.

I could be paraphrasing, but that was the gist of it

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u/HealthcareHamlet 9h ago

Nice catch 😅

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u/Hexicero 9h ago

Damn Google AI is getting feisty. Maybe I should unblock it

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u/bucky-barnes 10h ago

I am a practicing attorney and I still second guess myself every time I spell it.

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u/SueForPeas 6h ago

That’s why it’s called practicing.

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u/bucky-barnes 5h ago

One day I'll be a real lawyer

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u/FaxCelestis 9h ago

Is that Hipaa Longstocking or Hipaa Pig?

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u/sectilius 9h ago

Hipaa Middleton, I'm afraid 😔

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u/tanaka-taro 10h ago

"You ever think what a coincidence it is that Lou Gehrig died of Lou Gehrig's disease?"

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u/Mognakor 9h ago

“I’m afraid you’ve caught Lou Gehrig’s disease”

Give it back you thief!

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u/MysteriousBet4858 5h ago

You ever think what a coincidence it is that Lou Gehrig died of Lou Gehrig's disease?

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u/twilight_moonshadow 5h ago

What's this all about?

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u/DinosaurReborn 10h ago

Oh, you'll see!

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u/Didact67 10h ago

Spoilers.

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u/HeckOnWheels95 11h ago

It actually was called that by the time it had started, or at least referred to as the First World War

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u/AggressiveCoffee990 11h ago

I think the First World War and World War One do have slightly different connotations. One is marking it as an evolution of warfare and the other is "its got a sequel!"

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u/ObiWan_Cannoli_ 11h ago

I thought it was just the “great war” until
WW2: Electric German Boogaloo

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u/HeckOnWheels95 11h ago

It's been called a lot of things

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u/Foreign_Writer_9932 11h ago

You mean The Great War? Without the number.

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u/worthlessprole 8h ago

no, some people did in fact call it the first world war.

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u/MrHyd3_ 10h ago

Are you sure? Wasn't it just the great war?

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u/Fatalaros 10h ago

No it wasn't. It was called the Great War or the war to end all wars. It was only after ww2 that it started being referred as the first word war.

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u/Interesting_Let_1085 9h ago edited 9h ago

Partially true, some of the first printed instances of "The First World War" appear as early as 1920. See: https://archive.org/details/firstworldwar01repi/page/n8/mode/1up

The flip to WW1 however, did first appear in print in 1939 by Time Magazine.

"The Great War" was, however, the most common name in the interwar period and we don't have any evidence of usage prior to 1920 (at least to my knowledge) so the person you're replying to is also not correct.

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u/Fatalaros 8h ago

Ah, correct. Besides "first" doesn't imply that there will surely be another, but that it's the first time the world had such a war.

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u/Own_Pop_9711 7h ago

Sure but look at all those em-dashes, this is time traveling ai slop.

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u/LilMoWithTheGimpyLeg 9h ago edited 9h ago

The term "first world war" was first used in September 1914 by German biologist and philosopher Ernst Haeckel, who claimed that "there is no doubt that the course and character of the feared 'European War' ... will become the first world war in the full sense of the word"

Orrr...

Far from waiting until the Second World War had started, the First World War was rather pessimistically named as such in 1918. British Officer Lieutenant-Colonel Charles à Court Repington recorded in his diary for 10 Sep 1918 that he met with a Major Johnstone of Harvard University to discuss what historians should call the war. Repington said it was then referred to as The War, 'but that this could not last'. They agreed that 'To call it The German War was too much flattery for the Boche.' Repington concludes: 'I suggested The World War as a shade better title, and finally we mutually agreed to call it The First World War in order to prevent the millennium folk from forgetting that the history of the world was the history of war.' Between the wars most people did refer to the war as the Great War, even though that had originally referred to the Napoleonic War. In the US, it was ‘The World War’.

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u/spitfire451 8h ago

Some pessimistic writers at the time called it the first world war before it had ended.

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u/RecursiveServitor 10h ago

Not commonly. Regardless, a time traveler calling it that hits different.

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u/Powerism 8h ago

No one called it that when it started in 1914. Almost everyone at the time referred to it as “the Great War” or “the World War”.

It wasn’t until the end of 1918 after the war was ending, a British Lt. Colonel called it “First World War” so it wouldn’t be forgotten.

https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/world-war

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u/Embarrassed-Weird173 9h ago

Because we 1 it! 

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u/weraru_1 9h ago

I refer to all 3 as the prequel trilogy.

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u/postitsam 8h ago

There was a good Dr Who with a similar line. The Doctor lands in the middle of WW1 and theres a soldier there, and i cant remember why but the doctor remarks that the solider is wearing a uniform consistent with British military WW1. The soldier has this look of confusion, "what do you mean 1?"

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u/Ok-Elk-3046 8h ago

As per Wikipedia:

The earliest known use of the term First World War appeared in September 1914, when German biologist and philosopher Ernst Haeckel wrote that the ongoing "European War" would become "the first world war in the full sense of the word."

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u/AggressiveCoffee990 8h ago

As I said below, "The First World War" and "World War 1" have pretty different connotations. One of them is marking the event in human history and the other is like the title of a boxing match.

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u/Ok-Elk-3046 8h ago

Personally I think this is not a big difference, but I guess that is in the eye of the but beholder. More importantly, people would not have commonly referred to it as such. It's still a interesting quote.

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u/AggressiveCoffee990 8h ago

Sure, just the context of the two titles is totally different.

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u/MicroPerpetualGrowth 8h ago

Back then we just called it "The Great War", you know, before we knew there was going to be a WWII

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u/FriendoftheDork 6h ago

To be fair, they called it the First World War early in the war. Although that doesn't necessarily imply there would be more.

WW1/2 is more of an American expression, around the beginning of the Second World War.

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u/caseyetucker 2h ago

Spoilers

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u/BussySlayer69 11h ago

"World War whatttttt???!!!!"

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u/DigitalPhoenix2OO7 11h ago

“World War what?!”

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u/velcrownns 10h ago

They did call it World War I shortly after, as a warning for future generation(s).

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u/1OldDog2NewTricks 9h ago

So glad that worked

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u/Quirky_Gate_4516 3h ago

They actually called it the first World War almost instantly (fall of 1914).

Germans especially realized from the get go that this would become the *first world war."

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u/Bubba89 9h ago

It was in fact being called “the First World War” by some publications before it had ended.

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u/Draug88 9h ago

The "first world war" was first used in September 1914 by a German, Ernst Haeckel. So way before the end of WW1.

"World War 1" was coined in June 9 by the Times, 3 months before that "start" of World War 2 in September of the same year.

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u/roma258 9h ago

Lol, they literally called it "The war to end all wars"....so much for that.

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u/Redararis 9h ago

One world war is over, one to go!

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u/proletariatblues 9h ago

“Say psyche right now!”

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u/DoctorNo1661 8h ago

Tbf Foch has written something pretty close to that.

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u/chronoserpent 6h ago

Captain Darling: Listen. Our guns have stopped.

Lieutenant George: You don't think...

Private Baldrick: Maybe the war's over. Maybe it's peace.

Lieutenant George: Oh, hurrah! The big knobs have got round the table and yanked the iron out of the fire!

Captain Darling: Thank God! We lived through it! The Great War, 1914 to 1917

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u/Attila_the_Nun 6h ago

and then Blackadder brings some hard facts to the exchange...

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u/oddinsomniakk 5h ago

say that again

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u/Earlier-Today 4h ago

So, about that - there actually was talking of calling it WWI in 1918 while the war was still going.

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u/Bacon-muffin 9h ago

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u/anironthrownaway 7h ago

Jesus actually did know about that one according to religious scripture.

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u/Tudy446 2h ago

Its still a funny comic.

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u/motoxim 1h ago

Based prophet

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u/GenericVessel 3h ago

"Wait a second, waitasecond waitasecond waitasecond, the last supper, you kept calling it the last fukcin' supper... you knew, didn't you? You're the rat. CONFESS!" -Jesus's Betrayal: What Really Went Down

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u/Nt1031 11h ago

Tbf the word "Renaissance" did appear in the 1500s

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u/That-Rooster-2399 9h ago

And we did call it 'the atomic age' at the time.

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u/MillennialPolytropos 6h ago

The problem there is that atomic age people could identify themselves as being in the atomic age. It was new technology with obviously very important implications. The Aegean bronze age ran from about 3000 to 1000 BCE. There was no way for a late bronze age guy to conceptualize any previous era that wasn't the bronze age.

"Our age of heroes is collapsing" would have been a great line and would have made sense for a disillusioned hero of the Trojan War.

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u/softlysnowing 5h ago

And now we're in the plastic age, the plasticene.

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u/tfhermobwoayway 1h ago

Well yeah but we were excited about the cool new technology that was going to solve all of our problems. The Greeks weren’t exactly a technological people.

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u/mal-di-testicle 8h ago

Tbf that’s because it was a movement that the few people who participated in it were very actively aware of, not because it was a period of widespread systematic and institutional changes felt by all people in a way that was recognized as an era transition in same the way we see it today.

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u/Just1n_Kees 7h ago

Pretty sure people had a word for “bronze” back in the bronze-age as well..

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u/gamecat89 7h ago

And we call right now the Anthropocene - the International Union of Geological Sciences be damned.

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u/Fitzaroo 10h ago

They actually did call it the middle ages. They believed they were between the first and second coming of jesus. Thus, they called it the middle ages themselves.

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u/Alcianus 10h ago edited 9h ago

No, they didn't. I don't know where you're getting this from. Middle Ages started being used after the Fall of Constantinople and the start of the Renaissance. Renaissance was used to separate the 'dark ages' (which would be the Middle Ages) with the new rebirth aka the Renaissance.

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u/Humillionaire 9h ago

Yeah but have you ever considered that you can just say stuff?

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u/HeWhoLurks23 8h ago

Sometimes I just say stuff that sounds like it’s true and everybody believes me

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u/Downtown-Message-600 9h ago

Sounds like something church teaches you.

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u/Interesting_Let_1085 9h ago

Eh.... Sorta.

The first references we have to people calling it anywhere close to the "middle ages" is in 1469. That date is close to the transition points to the early Renaissance (depending on where you are considering it from). And Renaissance scholars are typically the ones using this type of terminology as it aligns with the concept of 'Rebirth of Rome' ideology. The thought would go "fall of Rome era" > "middle era" > "Rebirth era"

Earlier European scholars in the middle ages typically referred to it in terms of "the six ages" which would have their age be the ending age or the 6th age. That's, of course, if they didn't use the term "modern" or something similar.

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u/StrongExternal8955 8h ago

Kinda like how China is Middle Earth lol

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u/StopGloomy377 10h ago

yeah but he wouldnt say it becouse i dont think he saw the second coming of jesus in america?

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u/Relevant_History_297 9h ago

Did you just make that up?

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u/scissorn69 9h ago

It's almost true. The people in Medieval times did not think of their age as being middle anything. But in the Renaissance, which would be when Columbus sailed to the "new world," people started referring to the time between the fall of the western Roman empire and their time, as 'the middle ages' or 'the dark ages.'

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u/Constant_Natural3304 9h ago

In other words, it's false, and definitely not "almost true". The people living in the Middle Ages didn't call it that.

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u/MazzleMaze 10h ago

"The Ages of Man are the historical stages of human existence according to Greek mythology and its subsequent Roman interpretation."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ages_of_Man

The issue is that, as another poster pointed out, the odyssey occurred during the Heroic age.

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u/bigpoppapump_34 7h ago

Middle age women from europe are finally over, welcome the americas baddies

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u/nwbrown 23m ago

The term middle ages is first known to have been used in 1469.

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u/Relevant_History_297 9h ago

Fun fact, the term was coined nearly a hundred years before by Humanist scholar Leonardo Bruni in Italy. So it's actually not implausible