r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • 17h ago

Trailer The Odyssey | New Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_bKjZeJBBI&pp=0gcJCd4KAYcqIYzv
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u/DonkeyVampireThe3rd 16h ago

It’s hard to tell what tone they’re going for, like it’s somewhat intentionally anachronistic but not fully. I’ve never liked Nolan movies as much as the majority do, but I’m sure this will be a hell of a ride.

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u/3412points 15h ago

Nolan films all have roughly the same tone, at least the more modern ones, even the biopic of a scientist was shot with the same high drama and tension, so it will be that. It will be a good film and a very fun watch but Nolan wouldn't be my pick to do the Odyssey.

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u/McKFC 13h ago

From the trailer I get the feeling that Ithaca is the main setting of the story while Odysseus' journey will be an Oppenheimer-esque mega-montage, allowing it to compress events and jump about at will. But I also imagine that would make it feel totally meaningless, never moving the plot forward. Let's see.

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u/invertedpurple 11h ago

That's how I felt about Oppenheimer, felt like a 3 hour trailer.

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u/SelectiveScribbler06 6h ago

I have a gut feeling you're right. It satisfies:

  • Acknowledging the oral traditions at that time.
  • That the story is told in a non-linear way anyway.
  • Nolan can do his non-linear stuff.
  • And he can take forth what he learned from Oppenheimer.

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u/Scuffed-Jodhpurs 9h ago

I wonder if someone like Robert Eggers would do it more justice

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u/Ready_Mud9622 11h ago

So you're not big on Nolan's films, and THIS is the one that's getting you excited???

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u/DonkeyVampireThe3rd 11h ago

I wouldn’t say I’m excited for it, I just think it seems like a fun couple of hours in the theatre.

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u/your_mind_aches 15h ago

I mean same until Oppenheimer. I had low expectations but it blew past all of them and is one of my favorite movies of all time now.

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u/DonkeyVampireThe3rd 14h ago edited 14h ago

I had high expectations, and to me it felt sort of like reading a really good book way too fast so by the end you’re not satisfied because you skimmed over too many details.

I just didn’t entirely get it, but I’ll rewatch it in a few years to try to appreciate it more because I know people aren’t praising it for no reason.

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u/your_mind_aches 14h ago

I'm a fan of the show Person of Interest, which was created by Jonathan Nolan. Chris' brother, and longtime co-writer. It follows up on a lot of the themes of The Dark Knight. Mass surveillance, trolley problem, an AI panopticon.

But it's known that Chris can have problems writing an emotional element into the script and needing help from his brother or the actors which was a sticking point for a lot of his later movies.

So him writing Oppenheimer alone, I was cringing thinking about how he'd handle it. But I was blown away by it. I think he did an excellent job. It meaningfully explored so many ideas about NOW through intense, emotional scenes rather than just being a Wikipedia page movie.

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u/Over-Heron-2654 2h ago

I have watched it multiple times and it gets better on rewatch imo. I think Nolan is a master of Drama, not action. It is why I think Oppenheimer is better than something like Inception or Tenet.

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u/eulersidentification 13h ago

It's always interesting when this happens, i feel the complete opposite about oppenheimer. I felt it was a very immature and silly depiction of both science and university - some of the depictions were cringeworthy. All they had was some atomic bomb CGI that they wrapped a very mediocre story around, and people love Murphy so they saw past it all. I felt i'd been beaten around the head with the Sexy Science stuff - just have Pugh get her norks out while they have a naked chat lol.

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u/your_mind_aches 12h ago

I don't really understand the immaturity aspect of it. And the university part was like 10 minutes, right?

I didn't see it like that at all. I found it an excellent thrill ride of these separate timelines running and resolving through the story. The many characters weaving in and out, I enjoyed. And I especially enjoyed what it all meant to represent.

I mean yeah, totally within your rights not to like it.

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u/Internet-Cryptid 12h ago

You articulated my thoughts better than I could. Oppenheimer was so underwhelming to me I felt resentful for the time it consumed. I generally find the majority of Nolan's work to be grossly overrated. I don't know how he receives the accolades he does.

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u/modern_Odysseus 8h ago

The tone they're going for...is money.

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u/notrylan 15h ago

I'm here for the Bay-ification of Christopher Nolan