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Matt Damon is Odysseus in THE ODYSSEY, written, produced, and directed by Christopher Nolan.<\/p>\n
Melinda Sue Gordon<\/p>\n
The Odyssey is currently tearing up the box office off the back of amazing critic and audience reviews, but the movie has now set yet another record.<\/p>\n
IMDB has just announced that The Odyssey has set a record within its Top 250 list<\/a> of movies, or rather, helped its director Christopher Nolan set one.<\/p>\n The Odyssey has debuted at #59 on the Top 250 list, which is not a record in and of itself (#3 is The Dark Knight), but what it does mean is that Christopher Nolan now has 9 films in the IMDB top 250, more than any other director. Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese and Stanley Kubrick have 7 each, Akira Kurosawa and Quentin Tarantino have 6 each.<\/p>\n What are the 9 movies and where are they ranked?<\/p>\n #3 \u2013 The Dark Knight, 9.1\/10#14 \u2013 Inception, 8.8\/10#17 \u2013 Interstellar, 8.7\/10#42 \u2013 The Prestige, 8.5\/10#58 \u2013 Memento, 8.4\/10#59 \u2013 The Odyssey, 8.5\/10#77 \u2013 The Dark Knight Rises, 8.4\/10#135 \u2013 Oppenheimer, 8.2\/10#136 \u2013 Batman Begins, 8.2\/10<\/p>\n So, not only does he have 9 films on the list, but 7 of them are in the top 100 as well. Films that didn\u2019t make the list are the likes of Tenet, Dunkirk and Following.<\/p>\n Hollywood, CA – March 10: Christopher Nolan with the Oscar for Best Picture for “Oppenheimer” and Best Director in the deadline room at the 96th Annual Academy Awards at the Dolby Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center in Hollywood, CA, Sunday, March 10, 2024. (Dania Maxwell \/ Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)<\/p>\n Los Angeles Times via Getty Images<\/p>\n To be fair, most would admit that IMDB skews toward more modern films much of the time. Additionally, 70% of raters are men (that\u2019s just context, not judgment). I just don\u2019t know if you can claim that The Dark Knight is better than, say, The Godfather Part II, 12 Angry Men and Schindler\u2019s List, per se.<\/p>\n Looking at the details of The Odyssey\u2019s ratings, it has a full 34% 10\/10 reviews, balancing 8.7% of 1-star slammers. It has 60% 9-10 ratings overall, resulting in the high score. The Odyssey has already set Rotten Tomatoes critic and audience score records for Nolan\u2019s work<\/a>, though now dropping a percentage point, it is tied with The Dark Knight at a 94% among critics. It still has a 97% audience score.<\/p>\n No one knows what Christopher Nolan\u2019s next project will be, the director having effectively a blank check to do whatever he feels like at this point, especially with The Odyssey sailing toward a billion dollars at the box office. He\u2019s expressed interest in making a horror film (you can see how that might go in certain Odyssey sequences), and he\u2019s previously spoken about doing a James Bond movie. The next one, however, is going to fellow auteur Denis Villeneuve.<\/p>\n Whatever happens next, we may be looking at 10 features in the list, at least based on his last two. We\u2019ll be waiting 2-4 years for that, however, most likely.<\/p>\n Follow me on Twitter<\/a>, YouTube<\/a>,<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n Pick up my sci-fi novels the Herokiller series<\/a> and The Earthborn Trilogy<\/a>.<\/p>\n