Nolan, The Odyssey, and Trying to Grasp the Duality of Greatness

When James Gunn's Superman came out, I called it a hotdog of a movie. Which is to say that it was more than empty calories, but less than a fulfilling, nutritional, meaty masterpiece of a film that you can really sink your teeth into. It's a movie you watch once, have a generally good time doing so, and then more or less forget about. Maybe you catch it again a few years later when nothing else…