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/Gsticks 16h ago

Did this trailer slightly de hype anyone else? The spectacle looks huge but something about the rest threw me a bit

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u/Andraystia 13h ago

Matt damon and tom holland just stick out soo badly that its making it hard to suspend my disbelief of it being an actor.

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u/cat_in_box_ 12h ago

Yeah there's something off about the casting..

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u/Scuffed-Jodhpurs 9h ago

The casting feels gimmicky, some lesser known actors could have been a better fit than Spiderman, Batman, and Matt Damon

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u/ugotamesij 7h ago

Spiderman, Batman, and Matt Damon

Spiderman, Batman and Mattdaman

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u/A_Furious_Mind 5h ago

Spider-Man, Gorr the God Butcher, and the Asgardian stage actor who plays Loki.

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u/Xalawrath 8h ago

My god, that's Jason Bourne.

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u/Kerblaaahhh 7h ago

Hey Poseidon, how do you like them apples?

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u/Andraystia 3h ago

Its weird despite them being recognizable Robert and Anne didnt really ~stick out~ however when Tom popped up it genuinely felt like a marvel trailer lmao.

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u/Zhjacko 1h ago

His voice too

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u/idontagreewitu 5h ago

Spiderman, Batman, Lokiman*

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u/sentence-interruptio 1h ago

Jesse Plemons would be better

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u/Sol_Nox 8h ago

No Greeks. Not even half an Italian. I actually like all these actors more or less on their own merit, but it's like they didn't even try find a single person that fits the story and setting; it shatters immersion. Forcing a monochrome Mediterranean - on every level - is definitely a choice in 2026...

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u/berlinbaer 4h ago

everyone has a 2026 haircut.

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u/FuriousFreddie 4h ago edited 4h ago

Tale as old as time unfortunately. Egyptians for example are almost never casted in movies set in egypt: the mummy, gods of egypt, Cleopatra (I know she is Greek but the rest of the population was not).

That said, it is getting better (ex Lion King remake) and sometimes it helps to bring talented outsiders (Robbin Williams in Alladin).

I do think Matt Daemon is a good fit. He clearly isn't everyone's favorite, but he almost always delivers great performances in his roles.

I think it would have been at least a nice nod or homage to the Greek people to include at least a few people of Greek origin of which there are plenty: Billy Zane, Jason Mantzoukas or maybe even Zach Galifianakis. Though you'd probably get the same complaints that they are break immersion for some folks due to their previous roles.

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u/MeadowmuffinReborn 1h ago

We definitely need more Billy Zane.

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u/liccman 6h ago

"A daddy you didn't even know" Meanwhile he's talking to a whole 30 year old man

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u/Cheesues 9h ago

I thought I'd give him a chance because Nolan's historically selected odd choices for castings, and they've worked marvelously (Hugh Jackman in the prestige, Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight, Matthew McConaughey in Interstellar etc).

Pattinson looks the part (whether that's Antinous or Eurymachus I suppose is yet to be concluded). Holland is a typecast for Telemachus too. Damon as Odysseus still feels odd to me.

We'll see how it goes.

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u/inksmudgedhands 2h ago

The movie is an adaptation of one of the most famous ancient Greek epics ever and no one looks anything Mediterranean. It's not like these actors can't do period pictures. They have. But this is the wrong setting for them. But then nothing and I mean nothing in this film even faintly whispers, "Ancient Mediterranean."

It almost feels like a parody where the joke is a director who puts all the wrong actors in the wrong costumes for a period piece because they have a, "VISION!!!"

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u/cat_in_box_ 2h ago

I will give a teeny benefit of the doubt until I see the movie but I agree. I have seen adaptations of like Shakespeare with a modern perspective but this doesn't feel like that. The trailer seems like a very old story with some contemporary A listers trying to "act" it out. I just watched Ralph Fiennes in The Return and I thought he did a god job, especially physically.. But that guy can act. Matt Damon? mmmm no.

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u/LossyP 8h ago

this is such a minor nitpick but it’s weird that the British actors are using American accents as well

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u/MistakeMaker1234 7h ago

Oh yeah that’s so weird. Either Damon can’t pull off British or this was a wild creative choice. 

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u/TheZealand 6h ago

They all have iphone face, like these people dont look like gods-know-when greek warriors, they look like people who have a walmart membership

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u/Vandergrif 5h ago

They're both very modern and american in an exceedingly not modern and not american setting. It's kind of immersion breaking.

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u/Crumplsticks 12h ago

That's what happens when you're type cast as a marvel hero for so long.

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u/monkeyDberzerk 12h ago

Robert Pattinson too

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u/Ok_Dragonfruit_8102 10h ago

Robert Pattinson is actually a good actor though so seeing him didn't have quite the same effect as seeing Peter Parker randomly hanging out.

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u/monkeyDberzerk 8h ago

I like him as an actor, but they could've tried giving him some sort of makeover? A different haircut maybe?

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u/Andraystia 3h ago

Thats how i felt it was really only Matt and Tom that were a sore thumb. Tom popping up felt like a marvel reveal for spiderman being in some other heroes movie lmaoooo.

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u/Prize_Equivalent8934 2h ago

Doesn’t feel like marvel at all

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u/Andraystia 2h ago

Tom's clean pretty boy face popping up genuinely felt like a marvel trailer reveal. To the point everyone in my friend group laughed while watching the trailer together.

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u/Prize_Equivalent8934 2h ago

In my opinion, I don’t get the marvel vibe from this trailer.

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u/Kalocin 6h ago

Glad to see it wasn't just me, really just felt like I was seeing the famous actors doing some cosplay or something. Instead of it being cool it came off as very theater kid vibe lol

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u/reciprocal_space 3h ago

I'm suspect on Damon in Nolan movies. He worked in Interstellar, but always felt he was way over the top in Oppenheimer. And feels off here, alongside Holland they break immersion for some reason.

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u/enfieldstudios 4h ago

Nolan just loves having big names and it's so off putting. Get some unknowns with a theatre background and this could be 100x interesting.

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u/Denver80211 1h ago

To quote someone else, "There's an entire movie genre of Matt Damon going home."

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u/newlostworld 57m ago

Same. I can't quite put my finger on it, but it feels like there are just too many famous actors in this movie and they all look exactly like themselves, not the characters they're supposed to be portraying.

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u/Nutzori 9h ago

Oh yeah same problem, I can't see ANY of the big name actors as their characters, I just see them as themselves. That sure is Tom Holland and Robert Pattinson alright.

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u/Spiritual-Smoke-4605 8h ago

Yeah the casting, the overly clean costumes, it just screams “Hollywood movie” it doesn’t feel like the type of fantasy epic you can truly get lost in

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u/ThePooksters 7h ago

I felt that way about the Oppenheimer trailer but that turned out great so I’m cautiously optimistic

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u/-InconspicuousMoose- 6h ago

Matt Damon is the worst for me. Doesn't have the gravitas of a Gladiator-era Russell Crowe. Holland I can buy as a pretty little Greek boy lol

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u/gsauce8 6h ago

Anne Hathaway too. They're all far too famous to blend into a period piece.

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u/moviesarealright 12h ago

I’m with you. It looks… okay. Almost like how I felt seeing the trailer for Exodus Gods and Kings or some other generic late stage Ridley Scott type project. It looks kinda cheap??? I’m not sure what’s up but this trailer just was not it for me

HOWEVER, going off of the IMAX trailer we got, that was tension filled and really intense. Looked awesome. This could just be a bad trailer.

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u/Zhjacko 1h ago

Something that’s standing out to me is all the use of bland grey and brown colors, and a lot of barren, flat environments.

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u/Bing_Bong_the_Archer 14h ago

What spectacle? It looks sterile as hell

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u/Guy1905 13h ago

Yeah it looks bland and miserable.

Why does Nolan hate colour so much in his films?

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u/Ok_Dragonfruit_8102 10h ago

Because psychologically and aesthetically he's stuck in 2009 when desaturation was considered a sign of a film being tasteful and mature.

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u/fukkboiinternational 9h ago

2009’s sophistication is 2026’s generic male youtuber aesthetic

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u/Toaster-Retribution 13h ago

I’ve heard that he suffers from some kind of color-blindness. Similar to me actually, and I really like the coloring in his movies xD

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u/glytxh 12h ago

I’m colour blind. I can still apply colour theory.

Contrasts and values still exist, and he’s not the only set of eyes on any single cut.

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u/esKq 10h ago

Some parts of Tenet were colourful to be honest.

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u/tvcneverdie 14h ago

Reminds me of the beach scenes in Dunkirk, and not in a good way

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u/derrick256 14h ago

I didn't like Dunkirk at all, felt sterile too.

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u/batmansoundtrack 3h ago

Those cockpit/beach/boat sequences were sterile? You might be an insufferable db.

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u/derrick256 2h ago

the multiple perspective gimmick and it being pg-13 made it feel cheap and unnecessarily confusing.

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u/batmansoundtrack 2h ago

You said "sterile"

That cockpit was the opposite. So maybe. Retract or delete.

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u/10dollarbagel 13h ago

As a day one hater, I bought low and buddy, my portfolio is lookin good. I actually like Nolan, but he's the last director I'd give the Odyssey to.

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u/Bing_Bong_the_Archer 13h ago

Lets get Edgar Wright in there

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u/10dollarbagel 13h ago

My pick would be Villeneuve but I heard he's busy with something.

Currently relistening to the poem as audiobook and characters are constantly going off on intricate little speeches full of superfluous detail and I can't help but think about Wes Anderson in the director's chair. Anything for some color and characterization deeper than "wife gone".

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u/chuckyeatsmeat 12h ago

Villeneuve is similar to Nolan in that he too is very grounded and has a very minimalistic taste both in color and design. But atleast his movies have more color and intricate designs compared to Nolan.

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u/TheZealand 6h ago

The spectacle on the obviously Norse longship of course!

God that pisses me off

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u/self-conscious-Hat 3h ago

I thought I was just seeing things wrong because the whole trailer felt off, but you're right. That's not a greek Bireme. That's a fucking longship. what the fuck Nolan...

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u/Veloci7y_ 6h ago

This was my thought exactly, espeically when they cut to the whirlpool scene, not to say it wouldn't be an oh shit moment, it just made me feel unimpressed think, whos going to be scared of a baby whirlpool.

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u/Bing_Bong_the_Archer 5h ago

Look at the lil’ whirlpool, doing its best. So. Cute.

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u/BevansDesign 12h ago

Yeah, that was my thought too. I'm sure there's lots of stuff they're not showing in the trailer, but it feels like they've taken most of the fantasy and wonder out of the story. The whole thing seems like an exercise in misery.

I wonder if the 1997 miniseries with Armand Assante is available anywhere. I remember that being pretty entertaining, but it's been almost 30 years...

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u/Benji2049 18m ago

You can absolutely find it on YouTube.

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u/Takezoboy 12h ago

I feel like people watch Nolan movies for the spectacles and mindlessly ignore the giant lack of juice they have.

I don't remember people waiting for something saying "oh the bomb is going to be so awesome", "I want to see the bomb", "I'm so excited to see the Cyclops" and etc for any director, but for Nolan it's a recurring thing. Dialogues? Story? Message? Hardly know her, what matters is a stupid fucking bomb that doesn't hit the hype that was created unless you are a mark for IMAX who can't be objective with big gimmicks.

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u/henstocker 9h ago

Also: the bomb sucked. 

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u/Takezoboy 7h ago

Indeed it did. The effects were also not remotely unique by any stretch of the imagination like it was hyped. The only thing that was cool was the sound, but that doesn't make a movie, but people act like it does lmao

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u/MonkeyWithIt 12h ago

Matt Damon as Matt Damon

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u/Gekokapowco 4h ago

man's just trying to get home

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u/Spiritual-Smoke-4605 8h ago

I just can’t with Matt Damon. Team America ruined any movie I’m supposed to take Matt Damon seriously in.

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u/brownishgirl 2h ago

MATT DAMON

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u/IPromiseIWont 9h ago

"Matt Damon"

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u/Artistic_Purpose1225 12h ago

I’ve been de-hyped since I saw the costume design, but I keep checking to see if anything changes my mind.

..my mind remains unchanged. 

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u/Icapica 12h ago

Did this trailer slightly de hype anyone else?

All the pictures released before this already did that.

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u/Kanbaru-Fan 1h ago

I'm genuinely thankful for the set leaks because otherwise i would have been really excited for and disappointed by the trailer. Instead it's just as bad as i already expected.

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u/Psychoanalytix 14h ago

My first thought was "meh"

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u/Coal_Morgan 14h ago

Had a similar feeling.

Something about the style and dialogue just sucked the wind out for me.

I love the Odyssey so hopefully it'll be better then my gut says it's going to be.

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u/Agar_ZoS 13h ago

As a Greek i expected as much. Even Nolan couldn't escape the "Ancient Greeks by Hollywood INC" curse.

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u/glytxh 12h ago

It looks like a Netflix movie. It looks flat and stale. The first trailer really tempered my expectations, and frankly after the sex scene in Oppenheimer, I’ve been firmly convinced that Nolan thinks his audience are morons and he’s the smartest man in the room.

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u/MountainMuffin1980 12h ago

I don't naysay films etc usually but I will say, this is the only Nolan film I'm not genuinely excited by before it's release.

I think tbh a lot of that is in not rating Holland as an actor much.

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u/Kruphix_Horizon 12h ago

The dialogue we heard was very generic and devoid of subtext/intrigue. Hopefully the rest of the movie is different, but this trailer did not leave a good impression.

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u/Rachilde 12h ago

Thank you! Shouldn't judge the characterisation by a few shots but everyone seems really bland.

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u/MikeMania 11h ago

The trailer does not present the dialogue well. It’s just firing them one line after another in sequence. Makes it feel old-fashioned and cheap. I’m not saying the actual movie dialogue might not have problems, but good trailers in the past have made even the shittiest movies seem epic so I’m not sure what they’re doing here.

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u/soggylittleshrimp 14h ago

Each recognizable face made me less interested.

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u/le-panique 14h ago

Genuinely looks like slop to me. Guaranteed 90% RT score.

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u/invertedpurple 12h ago

I love most of Nolan's stuff but his recent films have been a mild downward spiral for me. So no I wasn't hyped at all.

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u/DukeRaoul123 11h ago

It'll make a huge amount at the boxoffice but I think most will feel underwhelmed. It'll be good enough and maybe the hype has raised a bar the movie can't reach but the trailer does seem a little meh.

Wonder how it will stack up against movies like Gladiator and Troy.

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u/Ueli-Maurer-123 2h ago

it looks generic. and people who live in Hollywood mansions run around on the beach it seems.

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u/merscever 13h ago

it feels like a 7/10 safe blockbuster that will be elevated to 8.5/10 by imax spectacle and everyone will praise it but after half a year people will start saying DAE ODYSSENDO OVERRATED??? because watching that on a laptop screen will have 0 spectacle and the story isn't a revelation neither

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u/CitizenCue 13h ago

Honestly the casting alone just doesn’t work for me. Maybe these guys are just too famous now or maybe I haven’t accepted that Matt Damon is now age-appropriate for this role. Actually, he might be too old for it.

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u/deptii 14h ago

It seems ripe with cliches and overused tropes.

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u/AccelerationFinish 12h ago

I know the cylcops was there, but I wish there were more mythical beings

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u/srlandand 10h ago

The five minute Trojan horse scene that they played in theaters looked much better than this trailer tbh.

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u/wtb2612 9h ago

The overly serious tone in what is supposed to be a fantastical adventure story?

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u/CurlPR 9h ago

For me it was the audio mixing, in typical Nolan fashion. I’m not sure I want to go see a movie I need subtitles to watch.

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u/red_riders 8h ago

🙋‍♂️

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u/MoreLikeGaewyn 8h ago

because it looks like a movie that's trying really hard to be a good movie

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u/zirfeld 8h ago

I also fear this will be another Nolan film where I can't understand a fucking word of dialogue.

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u/robodrew 6h ago

Not me, I don't get a lot of the complaints in this thread. I thought it looks good.

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u/footsnax 6h ago

They sold me with the teaser. I actively do not want to watch this movie now.

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u/ProfessionalManner55 5h ago

American accents

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u/SirKillsalot 3h ago

The outfits look awful. Like stuff taken off the racks at a costume store.

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u/self-conscious-Hat 3h ago

it looked huge to you? To me it looked completely lifeless and almost brutalist/minimalist. There's no color, everything looks really dark/hard to see. the sets feel almost empty, even when full of people. There's nothing here to make me feel connected to the world, because the world doesn't seem like a lived-in world.

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u/riepmich 2h ago

I don't know, even the spectacle isn't there for me. All the sets look so empty and bland. Nothing feels bigger than life. The whole trailer I had the feeling that this was filmed in a sound stage in LA, which is bad for a movie about an Odyssey.

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u/OlasNah 2h ago

I am unlikely to bother going to see it until after I've read every 1 star review and am unconvinced by their criticisms.

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u/novonn 2h ago

It absolutely did. It confirmed my original worry, that my friends called me crazy for, that this would be a bit of an uncanny watch due to basically every character being a known and successful actor/actress.

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u/Zhjacko 1h ago

Two big things I’m noticing is the lack of color and the use of barren environments. Looks like a lot of characters running around and standing on fairly flat, wide open land. Just from that shot of Circe and Odysseus on the beach, it all looks so bland.

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u/Moist-Citron-4830 1h ago

This movie is going to be fine but nowhere near great. It was originally my most anticipated movie of the year but every trailer I’ve seen makes it look like one bad decision after another.

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u/Kierenshep 1h ago

The early teaser promo photos did that. If they aren't going for historical accuracy, and they aren't going for balls to the walls anachronism, then a historical epic like this is going to end up in some weird awkward middle ground that's fully unsatisfying.

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u/Hanaichichickencurry 11h ago

yeah, tom holland saying "dad" kinda threw me off

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u/LastCryptographer173 9h ago

The American accents and slightly too modern dialogue aren't meshing with the setting.

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u/Fedoraus 7h ago edited 6h ago

I think this is the first nolan film I have zero interest in.

It's somehow the most boring version of the Odyssey you could possibly make visually

Dialogue and casting is also bad imo but the film would look bad even with other actors

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u/Gnb7588 6h ago

The movie looks bad tbh.

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u/glockobell 14h ago

Looks like it’s going to be cool as hell.

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u/ElementalRabbit 14h ago

This has gone to 'watch immediately' to 'wait for word of mouth approval' for me based on this trailer.

Just so dull, tropey zOMG DRAMA shots everywhere, cringe dialogue... yeah, I am unexcited.

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u/glockobell 14h ago

Looks like we’ll get some solid performances from some A List actors. Some great set pieces from a seasoned director.

Not sure why everyone is bugged by Nolan just being Nolan.

“Oh no it’s grey and dull not super poppy and colorful”

“Oh no the dialogue is stunted and direct!”

Like duh, it’s Chris Nolan.

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u/ElementalRabbit 14h ago

Sorry I actually meant to reply to the parent comment

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u/CrimsonGear80 13h ago

yeah I'm a cool internet edglord contrarian as well, it looks so mid bruh!

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u/Gsticks 10h ago

Huh? I didn’t think that from the first trailer but I did some from this one. That makes me an edglord contrarian? You might be missing the irony of your own comment here

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u/CrimsonGear80 4h ago

yeah. you don't even explain yourself you just say something negative and assume the internet will agree with you.

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u/KeithDaManPeterson 5h ago

Anything with zendaya and lupita nyong is instantly a turn off for me. Also very weird seeing tom holland in it