Nolan's Odyssey will never top O Brother, Where Art Thou? as the best Homer adaptation

Polygon writer Brian VanHooker argues that no matter how good Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey turns out to be when it opens in July, it will never dethrone his favorite adaptation of Homer's epic — the Coen Brothers' 2000 comedy O Brother, Where Art Thou?

VanHooker is upfront about being a massive Nolan fan: he saw Oppenheimer in theaters at least four times, has watched Interstellar roughly ten times exclusively on the big screen, and has seen The Dark Knight dozens of times across every screen size. He still plans to be there opening weekend for The Odyssey. But the Coens' Depression-era Southern retelling — with George Clooney as Odysseus and John Goodman as the cyclops — holds a place no Nolan film can touch.