You guys, I gave it my best shot.

I really did. I genuinely wanted to like this movie.

It gives me no pleasure at all to report.

I saw the return.

It was bad.

There it is. That's my review.

Episode over. No, no. I am going to talk a little bit about this movie

and why I did not think it worked, because if you've been following the show, you know that I have

been waiting for this movie for like half a year now. We started out this big series on Homer

and the Homeric epics because I knew that in December there was a movie

coming out called The Return with Ray Fines and Juliet Binoche to terrific actors, especially

Juliet Bynush, I love, but Fines is also always great.

And I was super excited about this because I thought we really haven't had good screen adaptations

of the Homeric epics in a while.

It feels like in this season of our culture where we are making all of these epics and adaptations

and superhero movies and using all this pre-existing IP, the Homeric poems are great candidates for that.

This seems like a really rich vein to tap while you're trying to find all of this other time-tested material,

which seems to be what Hollywood is doing, is they're trying to dredge up all this stuff that they know is going to work,

they know people love. We know that going to work. They know people love.

We know that these stories work.

They have endured. They have stood the test of time.

And what I wanted to do in the lead-up to that, to this movie coming out,

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