It started small. Robbie Fox walked out of opening night convinced he'd just sat through the loudest theater experience of his life, comparing the sound mix to Nolan's infamous Dark Knight gunshot scene. Eric Nathan, sitting next to him, needed a water break halfway through just to survive it.
I also think The Odyssey was the loudest movie I’ve ever heard in a theater tonight. Does Nolan make the theaters crank his shit to 11? Never forget how loud the gunshot analysis scene was in The Dark Knight.
That's a real reaction to a real movie moment, too. The Odyssey isn't just a Barstool talking point — it opened to roughly $124.5 million domestic and $264 million worldwide, the biggest debut of Nolan's career and the best-ever opening for star Matt Damon, according to Deadline and CNBC's box office reporting. It's the first movie shot entirely in IMAX, and premium formats alone pulled in over $50 million of that haul. In other words, the hype train had actual box office receipts backing it up before Barstool ever got involved.
From there it just kept snowballing. Jack Kennedy posted a review mid-Uber ride home, feitelberg compared his own review-reading habit to doom-scrolling SportsCenter after a big win, and Eric Nathan started openly mocking anyone claiming to hate the movie sight unseen, calling out what he sees as a manufactured culture war online. Kennedy piled on with the same theme, torching people repeating talking points about the movie — like conflating it with Dune or complaining about casting — without having actually seen it.
Pouring one out today for the culture warrior rubes who are so weak-willed they could be manipulated into hating a CHRISTOPHER NOLAN movie before ever seeing it
By the time Will Compton chimed in that he was hearing it might be one of the best movies of all time, and Robbie Fox teased a full "GLAZE SESSION" review show, it stopped being a normal group of people who liked a movie and started looking like a coordinated bit — which Eric Nathan leaned into himself, joking that the whole office was being paid off by Universal Pictures to promote it, complete with instructions to praise the acting and Nolan's direction. Brandon Walker jumped in with his own gag, suggesting the Odyssey talk was really just a distraction from other Barstool programming.
Fox and company didn't stop at one viewing, either — Fox posted about going back for round 2, and Compton admitted he was sneaking a milkshake into his own second screening to get in on the judging. That's the Barstool formula: see something once, decide it's great, then manufacture a reason to see it again on camera.
Forget Cyclops, Circe, and the Sirens. Odysseus greatest challenge? Escaping MetLife Stadium and getting home within 8 hours
That MetLife bit is the joke that ties the whole run together — a nod to the fact that everyone in this crew has now spent more time talking about their own Odyssey than Odysseus spent getting home from Troy. With Compton still promising a fresh take after his second viewing, don't expect the reviews, riffs, and reaction clips to slow down anytime soon.