The anti-DEI crowd claimed the casting of Elliot Page and Lupita Nyong’o would sink the film.
A personal caveat: While the mental gymnastics of the right-wing are as ridiculous, as they infuriating; it also needs to be said that Christopher Nolan is anything but a leftist. This article here does a good job to delve into Nolan’s political bend.
I think left-wing people should also be upset with this movie as well. Just not for the reasons the right are.
Specifically because Christopher Nolan had gotten permission from Italy to use environmentally protected locations for filming, and then proceeded to dump plastic skeletons into them. But good luck finding any non-Italian new outlets talking about this.
https://www.balarm.it/news/l-odissea-di-nolan-tra-scheletri-spazzatura-e-relitti-arpa-al-lavoro-in-sicilia-che-succede-158223
I have also heard a lot of leftwing critiques that seem compelling.
I love Ulysses and James Joyce I can’t take a modern movie butchering this old story with shallow boring masculine hero narratives that crowd out reflection on any other aspect of the human condition.
That’s pretty shit. Hollywood is terrible for extorting tax breaks out of countries they want to fill in and then not even even doing that much for the economy and tourism, and Nolan should pay for clean up of this out of all the profits they’re making.