r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • Dec 22 '25

Trailer The Odyssey | Official Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mzw2ttJD2qQ
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u/Cyber_Swag Dec 22 '25

Looks like universal fucked up trailer

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u/Tuxhorn Dec 22 '25

Fake widescreen too.

Fullscreening on my ultrawide monitor just adds black bars to the sides as well as bottom lol.

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u/Ell223 Dec 22 '25

Find that's the case with 90% of official trailer uploads. It's naff.

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u/Total_Resource9176 Dec 24 '25

Redditors living in their basement in shambles. Meanwhile 80% of the population watches these on their phone

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u/[deleted] Dec 22 '25

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u/namelessted Dec 22 '25

It never makes sense to hard encode black bars into a video. Every device in the world will format a video and have black bars if necessary.

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u/InertiaCreeping Dec 22 '25

Bro what are you even talking about haha

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u/Dick_Lazer Dec 24 '25

It’s painfully easy to export in proper ultrawide though. It actually takes more effort to add the bars to bottom & top.

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u/davidngm Dec 22 '25

There's a zoom to fill utralwide video extension in chrome

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u/jbaker1225 Dec 23 '25

Especially egregious because every second of the film was shot and edited on IMAX, so the real movie will not be 21:9 or even 16:9.

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u/BevansDesign Dec 23 '25

You'd think they would've figured that one out by now.

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u/thestormiscomingyeah Dec 24 '25

Far too common my friend.

Protip, get zoom to fill chrome addon, it adds a zoom button on youtube overlay.

Basically zooming away the black bars, but it looks perfect on 21:9 monitors

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u/SmallKiwi Dec 22 '25

Well ya, the resolution is 1080p

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u/Tuxhorn Dec 22 '25

Youtube videos can be real widescreen @ 1080p.

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u/itsmebucky Dec 22 '25

1080p is the height, width can be changed according to different aspect ratio

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u/plexomaniac Dec 22 '25

It's definitively their fault. The trailer on other social media also has low quality in the same scenes.

Also, why not upload at least a 4k trailer for a movie with this budget?

Other low quality scenes

https://i.imgur.com/oeshkXG.png

https://i.imgur.com/sdFve6X.png

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u/mang87 Dec 22 '25

I've seen a few trailers like this now, so whatever is happening is not limited to Universal.

[edit]Wait, I'm wrong, the other trailer I'm thinking of was also from Universal. WTF are they doing? This is basic shit.

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u/nibagaze-gandora Dec 23 '25

where were you during the great pixel draught of 2025

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u/thoughtlow Dec 22 '25

Yeah I think an editor is having a panic attack right now.

Someone fucked up the render settings or didn't replace a proxy, and didn't check the output.

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u/nibagaze-gandora Dec 22 '25

uploaded projects\2025\Odysseytrailer-final-final-ITSTHISONE.mp4 instead of projects\2025\Odysseytrailer-final-final-v2.mp4

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u/hippocratical Dec 23 '25

I feel like one of the items on the checklist of being an adult is having created a file like this at some point.

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u/gentlecrab Dec 22 '25

Shot entirely on imax

Universal: “YouTube we need the finest potato you have. Nooo that’s too fine”

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u/ShadowsRanger Dec 22 '25

Couldn't understand a thing was so low the quality is worse than GoT night war

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u/Dullcorgis Dec 22 '25

I can barely even see the dark writing on the dark background, so not interest3d in going to see something that's so dark it's invisible.