Odysseus Voyage to the Underworld with Arnold Vosloo

[HistoryLover1550]

When Roman Emperor Hadrian asked the Delphic oracle who Homer was, she replied that the legendary poet was the grandson of Odysseus!

[HistoryLover1550]

The Harpies remind me of the ones from the 'Clash of the Titans' and 'Jason and the Argonauts' remakes.

[KiaraRain]

Arnold :PPPP

[Hellborndelux]

0:42 whats the dude from Bulletstorm doing here?

[Z3R00NE]

@Hellborndelux maby he flew in an blackhole with his spaceship and landed in this cheap tv remake...

[gs032009]

One minute is enough to draw an inevitable conclusion: this is complete rubbish! Dreadful tv trash that has little to do with epic poetry, history, or the Odyssey. I don not understand why these tv stations, producers, Hollywood bosses, etc, keep misusing and distorting classics, great literature, great heritage in the name of a few cinema tickets, a bit of audience on tv. Check the books. Once you've read those you will know Î am right.

[sweetkittens]

@gs032009

I watch Odysseus voyage for Arnold Voloss and as guilty pleasure movie

geeze lighten up it just a movie don't need ti nitpick everthing in the movie

[melissaleon28]

he is handsome..even though im not into white men....but his german so i'll would take him lol

[minidevilette]

@melissaleon28 He was actually born in South Africa. 

[sweetkittens]

@t meela your english is fine and this movie was actually good and the creatures were awesome

[LiangHuBBB]

Worth to watch?

[sweetkittens]

LiangHuBBB odyesseus voyage to the underworld is worth a watch

[gs032009]

@sweetkittens One minute is enough to draw an inevitable conclusion: this is complete rubbish! Dreadful tv trash that has little to do with epic poetry, history, or the Odyssey. I don not understand why these tv stations, producers, Hollywood bosses, etc, keep misusing and distorting classics, great literature, great heritage in the name of a few cinema tickets, a bit of audience on tv. Check the books. Once you've read those you will know Î am right.

[HistoryLover1550]

@gs032009 Hollywood and the cinema needs to stop messing up the great epic mythic stories. Im not saying poetic and dramatic license is bad, yet when you use it too much it makes the film disappointing to mythology lovers and makes it look bad.

[luis1969275]

@HistoryLover1550

Totally agree with you, Hollywood only makes movies for money... the point is the american public do not understand the difference between the true archetype behind the epic, nor they do not understand the deep significance of greek epic in human life. This is why Hollywood will only make lazy or superficial movies just to sell, see the same with "Troy" and compare it to the real Illiad... I see nothing in common between them.

[HistoryLover1550]

@luis1969275 Ikr! When I first saw the film "Troy" I thought the epic it was based off of would be the same. When I checked out "The Iliad" from the library I was shocked to see it was nothing like the film! I found the poem more interesting than the movie too. I understand that the film couldn't tell the ENTIRE story of the Trojan war, being a Hollywood film. If it were a tv series, maybe it could've been more accurate and all te characters introduced. Hollywood needs a wake up call!

[luis1969275]

The only movie that was done relating to the Odyssey was the one done in 1997 with Armand Assante how curious this one was not made by the americans.. Do not get me wrong, I'm american, but I only see the cinema industry in this country doing "lazzy movies" just to sell, leaving the real thing behind everytime.. Please Hollywood stop MANIPULATING the truth behind epics. All I can say is... educate yourself do not let Hollywood miss-educate you with their untruthful movies.

[HistoryLover1550]

@luis1969275 I LOVED the 1997 "Odyssey" movie. American made films always mess up good stories where foreign films hardly ever do. Though Im an American, I like to be true to the myths and histories of other countries. America really does dishonor and screw up the truth of epic mythic stories. If I were writing the scripts, i would rarely deviate from the true myth, I promis you that. Hollywood directors need to get a fucking clue!

[Doukatas26]

@HistoryLover1550 i am a Greek grown and living in America. sadly i see sometimes Hollywood Directors trying to put a myth into a movie and ends up disaster. I was curious to see the new Immortals movie and i regret the time i spend in the theater watching that crap. Yes 1997 Odyssey was a good movie i must say. Troy was not bad compere to other "myth" things taken and become movies. But that Immortal thing... omg.... omg omg....way far from the Myths way far from everything

[HistoryLover1550]

@Doukatas26 "Immortals" was disappointing. I plan to write the true story about it with help of a Greek friend of mine. I believe in doing myths justice, not saying poetic license is bad, yet deviating too far from a myth is not good. Had it been more true to the story of Theseus, it would've probably have gotten more better reviews.

[luis1969275]

Everytime I see they are trying to bring a so-called history movie out all I see is like in 300... bunch of guys with big mouths crying out loud "WAR" ... LOL! ... make yourself a question .... Is this what they call "History" ? I could never imagine how could history be told with such superficial scenes of man running in slow-cam mode opening their mouths to make effects... make the picture in your heads... is this the history they sell.. sincerely completely pathetic for me.

[HistoryLover1550]

@luis1969275 Ikr! Totally ridiculous! Hollywood totally fucks up most mythic/historical stories! If I were writing or directing for Hollywood, I could do TOTALLY better than what these lame films have done. Im a writer and I know how to tell stories well.

[luis1969275]

@HistoryLover1550 .. Hollywood's problem in creating truthful films is deeper than what we think. It goes to the "offer-demand" theory. The so little emphasys or interest in real literature in our school system these days makes a lot of contribution to the ignorance behind all of this. So when kids and adults look at these films their minds are clouded with so much ignorance because they have never read the true story or research them, that they believe what they are seeing was true.

[luis1969275]

@HistoryLover1550 That is why I say Hollywood is manipulating. Because many artists, producers, etc might know literature but they do so little as well to stop the manipulation of true literature. Too many monetary interests behind. "A lie said a thousand times becomes a truth"... for them ignorance = money. Is all what they care about. This is why I never go to cinemas nor I care about seeing their movies. I consider them a total brain wash.

[luis1969275]

Many times what I hear from people looking at historical movies is "WOW look at that effect, whoa how cool they did this or that..." Most could say a very well 88% of people who see their historical/mythological movies they care less for the real story but put more interest on the "actor" than on the role or the message behind. Almost never we see someone who really looks at a movie and actually compares it with the real story these days, then the so-called "critics" does not even do that.

[HistoryLover1550]

@luis1969275 Exactly! No wonder these bullshit movies based off great myths and literature get such bad reviews. If Hollywood doesn't get a clue more great stories will get fucked up. Next thing you know we'll have a lame film on the epic of Gilgamesh, Sinuhe, etc. Sometimes i feel like I want to sue and knock some sense into Hollywood's THICK head!

[HistoryLover1550]

@luis1969275 I couldn't agree more, if only Hollywood would stick with the truth of a story and not FUCK it up then more people would be interested in seeing the movies based off them. I understand with mythic stories that you've the freedom to re-tell them, yet it should be kept at a minimum in my opinion.

[touchemebooty]

I watched this on cable just now and it's beyond awesome!

[gs032009]

@touchemebooty Awesome? As in an event that causes awe, fear, reluctance, stops you, haunts you or awesome as in the puzzling wrong meaning of good??!!

One minute is enough to draw an inevitable conclusion: this is complete rubbish! Dreadful tv trash that has little to do with epic poetry, history, or the Odyssey.

[Rachel1972]

Thanks for posting this. Arnold Vosloo is awesome!!

[meela1000]

yeah...He is amazing:))but I not watched it what is this movie about??

I Can't speak very good in english so apologize for errors;)