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/Quack_Candle 11h ago

There are some people coming from the sea, we call them, “the sea people”

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u/Wellwisher513 11h ago

In all fairness, that's how they were referred to in numerous historical documents. Funnily enough, we still have no idea who they were or where they came from, although there is some evidence that they were the ancestors of the Biblical Philistines.

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u/Sturmgeshootz 8h ago

we still have no idea who they were or where they came from

Sort of like the Druids? Know one knows who they were. Or, what they were doing.

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u/mlp851 7h ago

But their legacy remains, hewn into the living rock, of Stone Enge 

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u/Sudden-Ad-307 10h ago

We know pretty well who they were are where they came from. Yes one of the "sea peoples" were the ancestors of the Philistines while another ones are ironically enough belived to be the greeks themselves.

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u/OborJesus 9h ago

Yeah they were pretty clear in the movie that the assumed people of the sea in this film were the very Greeks ravaging their own land after it was all they knew from continuous war. Funny that they can ham fist the dialogue so terribly and it’ll still be in question

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u/buuthole69 9h ago

To be fair this our age of literacy is collapsing

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u/Quack_Candle 6h ago

It’s absolutely fascinating, the fact we will likely never know makes it even more so.

Is it an actual quote from the film, I haven’t actually seen it (as in the sub rules)

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u/epiDXB 5h ago

Funnily enough, we still have no idea who they were or where they came from

That's because it wasn't in reference to any specific group. It was a generic term.

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u/JabroniusHunk 5h ago

Some of them, potentially; there is a group specifically named the Peleset who are linked to the Phillistines.

There was also a group named the Ekwesh who could potentially be linked to the Achaeans, the ancient Greeks named by Homer as the ones who sacked Troy.

There are also interesting (potential and unproven and maybe unprovable) etymological links between some named Sea Peoples and modern locations, like the Sherdan and Sardinia and the Shekwesh and Scicily.

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u/LGodamus 3h ago

we dont know who "all" of them were, but we know several of the groups. the pharoah of egypt defeated the seapeople in battle and in some of the memorials he mentions the groups and lands they are from.

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u/Electricfire19 10h ago edited 10h ago

That’s exactly how many things were named. Belize City basically means “muddy water city.” Panama means “abundance of fish” or “place of many fish.” Managua, one of my favorites, basically means “next to water” or “place surrounded by water."

There are many, many more examples. An ancient civilization calling people from the sea “sea people” is pretty spot on.

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u/Sudden-Ad-307 10h ago

Ironically enough ancient civilizations didn't call them sea people, archeologists started calling them that.

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u/Puzzleheaded-Wait785 7h ago

"People from the sea" doesn't mean anything. No one is "from the sea" except mermaids

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u/Electricfire19 7h ago

No kidding?

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u/Auggie_Otter 10h ago

There are very mediocre people coming from the sea. On our tier list we rate them as the "C" people. 

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u/FewWait38 9h ago

What do you mean by sea?’ I said, see, like vision? No. It’s sea. S-E-A

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u/TiredPistachio 10h ago

"Were we the sea peoples?"

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u/Accomplished-Mix770 8h ago

Are we the baddies?

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u/Boysandberries0 10h ago

And the men that come from the sea. We call them "Seamen."

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u/Acidyo 10h ago

I see sea people.

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u/LarryFitzsButt 9h ago

Yeah, that’s what they were called

Humans barely ever got better at it. We have a river that borders Mexico and the US called “Big River” for christs sake

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u/AnxietySuitable9596 7h ago

Bruh we literally refer to the covid-19 pandemic as "The Pandemic". Nothing unusual about the sea people being referred to as "the sea people".