The elaborate popcorn bucket is now a staple of the moviegoing experience. Every big movie has them, even if some of them are decidedly unimaginative. Remember the Melania popcorn bucket? How many landfills are those ones filling up already? Well, the latest big blockbuster with a fancy popcorn bucket is none other than Christopher Nolan’s highly anticipated mythological epic, The Odyssey. And appropriately enough, the popcorn bucket for said film is the legendary Trojan Horse. But instead of an army hiding inside, it’s yummy buttery popcorn kernels. You can check out what The Odyssey popcorn bucket looks like in the post below:
We have to admit, this popcorn bucket is reminding us of two things. First, that one horse statue Bobby Brady broke with his basketball on The Brady Bunch (and in The Brady Bunch Movie). And second, the way its belly opens up is giving us “Han Solo slices the tauntaun open to stuff Luke inside” from The Empire Strikes Back. We can’t be the only ones who think this, right? It doesn’t, we hasten to add, remind us of the Trojan Horse.
This isn’t the only popcorn bucket for The Odyssey, however. There’s also one of an IMAX camera, which feels like the most Nolan-esque, film nerd thing ever. Although it’s somewhat less off-putting, we’d say. So there are options.
We’re fairly certain this is the first Christopher Nolan movie with a popcorn bucket attached to promote it. Nolan’s Batman movies came before this current popcorn bucket craze, or they would have surely had some. You just know there would have been fifty Heath Ledger Joker heads out there to collect. We surely can’t imagine what an Oppenheimer popcorn bucket would have looked like, or Dunkirk, at least ones that were not in terrible taste.
Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, starring Matt Damon, Tom Holland, Robert Pattinson, Zendaya, Lupita Nyong’o, Anne Hathaway, Jon Bernthal, and a metric ton of other names, arrives in theaters on July 17.