Thinking about a lack of interest

I like to think about things that interest me, but also (sometimes) about why certain things don't interest me.  

The prompt for this:  the movie The Odyssey.

I have some immediate reasons for not being that excited.   I think Nolan tends to be overpraised for his movies.  I've enjoyed some, and found others (Interstellar!) pretty woeful and spent much time wondering how other people could overlook the faults which were obvious to me.  

Then there's Matt Damon, one of those odd actors who seems to me to be competent and a nice enough person, but I don't actually find him particularly appealing on screen.  (I prefer him to Matthew McConaughey, though, whose lack of appeal to me is more intense.)    And there's the right wing campaign against it - I think it is obvious from some tweets that some are claiming to have seen it when they haven't, and while their concern about certain casting choices might not bother me much, I sort of don't want to watch it thinking about how it should be viewed in light of Right wing culture warring.  

But I think there is a deeper reason, and it may just be to do with a life long lack of deep interest in Greek mythology.    Greek philosophy - well, of course that's important and significant - but Greek mythology?  Sure, you have to know a bit so as to have some useful metaphors, but some see psychological depth to some stories, and the problem is, I usually don't.   I tend to think more about the basic oddity of many of the stories.    

In a way, I've always found it a bit hard understanding why Western high brow education was so enamoured of Greek mythology.  Sure, the artwork and temples around it were amazing, but why their mythology, or mythologically based stories, like The Odyssey, have such sway seems harder to understand.   I've watched a few Youtube commentaries about the original poem and its very peculiar aspects to the modern reader, and they have reinforced, if anything, that my lack of interest is justified. 

Maybe it's like my disdain for Greek food - they do a couple of things well, and I even cook a very nice mousakka at home, but there's no real depth to it as a cuisine, if you ask me.   Similarly, it feels like some see a depth to Greek stories that I don't see as being really there.  (Presumably, someone like CS Lewis would be dismayed and think it's down to my lack of relevant education.)

Maybe I'm just a bogan and don't know it!

Anyway, I might see the movie, in the expectation of being underwhelmed, and then not be.  We'll see...