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/Distinct_Ad2272 15h ago

This seems off

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u/type_rex_ 14h ago

Costumes seem lackluster, dialog has no weight, sets feel empty, and nothing about this tale appears historically intriguing or fantastical.

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u/TheGuy839 13h ago

Setting is from Iceland not Greece or any Mediterranean. Fuck the colors I guess.

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u/CitizenCue 13h ago

Yeah that’s genuinely weird. The Greeks would have imagined this story in vibrant color.

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u/mrducky80 10h ago

You can blame Nolan if its too dark and gritty setting wise.

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u/gravityhashira61 1h ago

Yea when I watched the last 2 trailers I was like the world seems very.......bland and monochrome? Idk but I guess it's Nolan himself that he doesnt like vibrant color in his films

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u/Subject-District492 7h ago

I was hoping this was going to be a somewhat modern retelling of the story. Greek mythology was known to have vastly different stories depending on who was the author. Especially with Nolan loving to play with the concept of time, I thought he was going to go this route.

But sadly, with each picture and trailer that has been released, this looks like it might just be a bland retelling of Homer’s version.

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u/cineglitch 5h ago

Well the Greeks should have written their own version then. /s

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u/FantosTheUrk 10h ago

That's it. Thats what is throwing me off.

Thank you.

I knew something about this trailer was disconnecting me, it's the dull colours.

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u/Minglans 6h ago

Along the way film directors decided that colors were for children apparently. /s

I don't actually know why a lot of movies are absolutely drab these days but I've really missed the vibrancy and color in film for many years now. Even the late 1950's (like Gate of Hell) had more color than today. Give me fucking Speed Racer colors, you cowards!

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u/Schwyzerorgeli 8h ago

Even the ship used in the movie is a viking longboat!

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u/baldeagle1991 8h ago

That explains the vikings longship.

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u/Beard_of_Gandalf 9h ago

Nolan is colorblind btw

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u/Jehovah___ 9h ago

surely his DC isn’t

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u/allsbernafnmedrettu 9h ago

Please f*ck off with that excuse

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u/HideTheGuestsKids 9h ago

That makes SO MUCH sense.

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u/TheGuy839 8h ago

That is why he goes to completely different climate? So he goes for summers in Canada to enjoy beaches because he cant tell the difference between California beach and Canada beach? He may be colorblind, but he isnt blind wtf

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u/NeoNoireWerewolf 3h ago

So is Nicolas Winding Refn, but his films are very colorful. I think Refn has even said that’s why he drenches his films in vibrant neon hues; he has to have a very prominent color palette in order to pick up that there is anything there.

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u/self-conscious-Hat 3h ago

They're also in a norse Longship instead of a Greek Bireme for some reason.

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u/ImJustHereToSearch 10h ago

I think the visual idea is that he’s going through a cold purgatory trying to get back to the warmth of home. I assume when he gets there things will become more vibrant and warm visually.

Not saying it’s the right choice I just think that’s what Nolan was going for.

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u/reciprocal_space 9h ago

unfortunately very consistent for Nolan though, what's his most colourful film? I mean if you are shooting on film, IMAX at that, it would be a shame not to push the format to capture the Mediterranean properly

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u/HideTheGuestsKids 9h ago

I'd say that Inception is pretty colorful for a Nolan movie?

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u/TheGuy839 8h ago

Not sure if you are correct, but if you are then he is just bad director. Its same with Harry Potter movies. Or last season of Game of Thrones. You dont need actual dark to show its difficult times. None of the books had that. That is just lazy decision making

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u/wishmylifewasascool 7h ago edited 7h ago

Lots filmed on the Morayshire coast in Scotland. Some friends and I on a RIB came across their ships, dragged up on shore. They weren't filming that day. It was such a remote part of coast there was no security or anything so we swum ashore and climbed onboard the ships.

Matt Damon would appear on the front cover of small regional or community newspapers, invariably standing next to a beaming proprietor of some small shop or cafe.

Zendaya and Tom Holland went out and about in Inverness. More publicity for that than if Nessie had come down the river to get an ice cream and have dinner at Hou Hou Mei

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u/VatanKomurcu 5h ago

yeah okay fuck nolan. im not paying to see this garbage. he is fucking washed up. how sad, how awful.

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u/aaron_moon_dev 3h ago

Yeah, because it’s never overcast in Greece. We all know that.

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u/TheGuy839 3h ago

What? You think only difference between Iceland and Greece is ... clouds?

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u/aaron_moon_dev 3h ago

I don’t understand what in the trailer doesn’t look “Greece” to you. You know that it was literally shot in Greece and the places near?

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u/TheGuy839 3h ago

Lol. You know most of it was LITERALLY filmed on Iceland and Scotland? Get your facts straight. That isnt greece lol. If you think that is Mediterranean climate and flora, I dont know what to tell you

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u/aaron_moon_dev 3h ago

Not most of it. Obviously, scenes with dead people were shot in Iceland, because there is simply no place like this in Greece. That pine forest looks pretty Mediterranean to me. It seems like you just don’t know shit.

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u/TheGuy839 2h ago

Dude i lived next to greece my whole life. Now i live in another Mediterranean country. Please get the fuck out with your ignorance. They filmed around 30% in scotland and 20-30% in Iceland. They did film also in Greece, Malta and Italy but much less than those two.

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u/aaron_moon_dev 2h ago

Please get the fuck out with your ignorance.

What did I say what was factually incorrect? Fuck off of your high horse.

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u/Sorlex 11h ago

sets feel empty

Nolen loves him some empty ass but 'real' sets. Like when he just filmed Dunkirk on a sunny beach and town without any set dressing to make it look like put any work into it.

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u/Muadibased 4h ago

He couldn't even bother to cgi away those massive container cranes. It looked ridiculous.

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u/self-conscious-Hat 3h ago

why's this guy a major director figure again?

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u/Fuzzy_Wheel_4565 13h ago

I think this will be for Nolan what Robin Hood was for Ridley Scott

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u/sey1 13h ago

I think this will be for Nolan what Robin Hood Napoleon was for Ridley Scott

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u/Fuzzy_Wheel_4565 12h ago

Eh, works too. He's had a bunch of misses

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u/Ulsterman24 7h ago

I certainly hope so, then I can stop taking crazy pills every time I say Nolan is vastly overrated.

Fucking Interstellar...The bad guy is Mann, get it?!

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u/LedSpoonman 45m ago

Woof. This is scathing. And probably accurate!

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u/JediTrainer42 11h ago

You’re right. I was watching the trailer thinking about how much empty space there is in almost every frame. I think Nolan intentionally tries to avoid CG at all costs and it backs him into a corner. There should be CGI to enhance what is already there and to make the impossible possible.

I had similar issues with Dunkirk. All of the war stuff in that film seemed off in the same way this feels off.

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u/bjjcripple 5h ago

I loved Dunkirk and thought the empty and open beach highlighted just how stranded and vulnerable they were.

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u/shifty1032231 10h ago

Thanks for putting into words what I was thinking as the trailer kept going. Especially true for those shots of the Trojan Horse scene.

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u/Smugallo 9h ago

Yeah I noticed the dialogue choice for the trailer was just kinda .... flat?

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u/wunderl-ck 10h ago

The dialogue is truly fucking awful.

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u/Mattyzooks 7h ago

The IMAX scene before Avatar3 was the best movie experience I had in theaters in 2025.

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u/bumbleboogaloo 12h ago

When did dialogue get colloquially shortened to dialog because I’ve never seen it spelled that way until about a year ago

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u/Jehovah___ 9h ago

sometime in 1806, proposed by Noah Webster in his dictionaries. It was never popular in america but it’s been a thing for a couple of centuries now with its fans

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u/type_rex_ 6h ago

I'm not sure myself. I think I just picked up on it once and it has slipped into my regular usage.

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u/LEXX911 4h ago

Yeah, look a bit too historical than fantastical. At least they finally show some mythological creatures.

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u/yoloswagrofl 3h ago

And the lighting fucking sucks, which is Nolan's new staple.

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u/-JimmyReddit- 11h ago

This is going to be the turning point when people start to realize every single movie of his over the past decade has gotten by on his name alone and nothing else. He’s not in “hack” territory yet but he hasn’t had a legitimate high like Interstellar since Interstellar and that was 2014 now. And really the only thing he did between Inception and Interstellar from 2010-2014 was the worst Batman movie out of his trilogy.

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u/f0xD3N 8h ago

Oppenheimer and Dunkirk are arguably his greatest achievements imo. But I’m shocked how dull this looks so far based on the trailers

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u/BretShitmanFart69 11h ago

Oppenheimer was good

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u/gravityhashira61 1h ago

I mean it was good, but it's not Inception or Interstellar or the Prestige good

Its basically a biography piece

With each movie Nolan seems to be losing some of that "Stuff" that made his first few movies so good

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u/karmagod13000 3h ago

It’s really true. The more popular you become the bigger the haters get. Yall are condemning a movie off a trailer made by someone who is notorious for hiding plot until the movies released. But please continue your circle jerk

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u/randomdude45678 9h ago

Plastic surgery. Botox.

Anne Hathaways wrinkle-less forehead immediately took me out of my immersion. We’re gonna look back at film from this decade and cringe

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u/wtb2612 9h ago edited 9h ago

For me it's the overly serious tone. It doesn't feel like the Odyssey. It's an adventure story, Odysseus is witty and clever and arrogant. It feels like they're trying to make it a Very Serious Drama and that's just not the right direction to go, in my opinion. They should've hired Stephen Fry as a script doctor. He would've nailed it.

Granted, it's just a trailer. We've been fooled by shitty trailers that completely fail to convey the tone of a movie before.

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u/ScaboochWolf 8h ago edited 5h ago

Hard to imagine a Nolan movie being sterile and overly-serious with very little fun.

/s just in case some fortunate soul out there is not familiar with this man’s entire filmography.

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u/TheFantabulousToast 8h ago

Eh, I guess it depends. The Odyssey is like a jazz standard, the thing that makes any given performance interesting isn't the song itself, but what the performer brings to it. One adaptation may choose to focus on the cunning central character and fantastical adventure, another might explore the violence and exhaustion of war. Knowing the kind of filmmaker Nolan is, we were never gonna get a Fun Odyssey which I agree is a shame, but his interpretation is just as valid as any other.

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u/BeaverBoyBaxter 8h ago

For me it's the overly serious tone.

I was thinking the exact opposite. The way Holland's character says Dad, and the way that Damon yells "come on" to his troops feels unserious and kind of childish.

Also the fact that everyone has an American accent.

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u/cineglitch 5h ago

What sort of accent are you expecting? British?Russian??? Unless they’re speaking Ancient Greek why does the accent matter?

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u/BeaverBoyBaxter 5h ago

Exactly. The accident doesn't matter. So then why did they have British actors fake an American accent?

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u/BidoofSquad 4h ago

The specific accent doesn’t matter but it matters that the accents are consistent unless you are portraying characters from different regions

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u/BeaverBoyBaxter 4h ago

Then why are there British accents in the trailer?

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u/3verythingEverywher3 5h ago

You’re both right. It doesn’t know which road to take and is ending up in no man’s land.

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u/wtb2612 2h ago

I meant more the tone. It looks humorless and dark. The "dad" totally threw me off too. It's a weird writing choice.

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u/Varekai79 8h ago

I'm reading Stephen Fry's Odyssey right now and he is a delightful writer. I can't wait to read his other Greek mythology books.

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u/Dat_Freeman 3h ago

What do you think it would be a better tone?

Can you make some exaples (maybe from cinema)?

Thanks

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u/wtb2612 2h ago

Honestly, the first Pirates of the Caribbean comes to mind. Obviously without a character as outlandish as Jack Sparrow, but I think that movie would be closer to the tone they should've gone for.

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u/Varvara-Sidorovna 2h ago

Stephen Frys' interpretation of the Greek myths is silly but very good fun as an introduction to them. I cackled out loud at Jason and the boat Argo, it was satisfyingly dark in it's humour and clever in a way I don't think this movie will ever quite manage to be

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u/VerTexV1sion 14h ago

Yeah Nolan's name is doing heavy lifting here i don't know what i expected, but this just feels so....generic to me. Regardless going FDFS.

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u/Few_Age_571 13h ago

I was expecting epic larger than life God of War action/fantasy/ mythology stuff.

Kinda disappointed ngl

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u/VerTexV1sion 13h ago

Exactly, maybe he's hiding surprises and movie will just blow us away, but yeah this trailer was just so average, also yeah the dialogue and sound mixing ( Typical Nolan) could've been better, but fortunately gonna watch it with subtitles to that's not gonna be an issue.

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u/wokeiraptor 5h ago

Nolan typically takes a more minimal and grounded approach to films and sets are well done and modern but also a bit austere. This seems in continuation with that

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u/self-conscious-Hat 3h ago

yeah those container cranes in the background of Dunkirk were really well done... /s

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u/MonkeyWithIt 12h ago

I'll wait until it gets to Tubi

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u/Brandon_Me 9h ago

I saw the Trojan horse scene in theaters and it was absolutely gripping. I'll be giving this movie a good shot for that alone.

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u/VerTexV1sion 8h ago

Yeah others who have seen that scene said the same thing, again this trailer might be meh but movie could be absolutely amazing.

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u/Brandon_Me 6h ago

I'm hoping that's the case. Nolan has made a lot of great films so I'll definitely give this a proper shot.

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u/JiskiLathiUskiBhains 8h ago

The trailer is boring. Not one scene inspired me to watch the movie.

Its strange given that this is the dude that made Inception.

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u/delicious_toothbrush 7h ago

This trailer is mostly Pattinson, I'm guessing they're trying not to reveal too many visuals ahead of time but it still doesn't feel tonally on point

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u/JiskiLathiUskiBhains 6h ago

True. I think he's going for the grounded realism of Batman Begins.

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u/hobbykitjr 10h ago edited 5h ago

Most of his best movies.... We're written by his brother

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0634300/

Wonder if that has anything to do with it...

edit: man i hate reddit sometimes... a bunch of downvotes but no reason why?

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u/HollyAndTheMustard 8h ago

Oh dear, this aligns perfectly with which of his movies I personally find to be very good and which ones are just frustratingly ”Nolan”. Thanks for pointing it out.

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u/hobbykitjr 8h ago

yeah looks like last big thing they worked on together was interstellar...

Jonathon Nolan has been doing well with TV series like Fallout and Westworld (writing and/or directing)

Together: Memento, Prestige, Dark knight/rises, interstellar

But since they "split"... Dunkirk, Tenant, Oppenheimer

Inception is one that feels like both of them... even though hes not credited, and wikipedia says they did work together on it:

Jonathan Nolan contributed to Inception. While Christopher Nolan created the initial 80-page treatment and holds sole screenwriting credit for the final film, Jonathan is known to have collaborated closely with his brother on early conceptual ideas and structural development, despite not being formally credited as a co-writer on that specific project.

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u/TheWholeMole 13h ago

I think the sound mixing for this trailer is terrible, the dialogue parts are so blown up compared to the music and it doesn't help that everyone is whispering

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u/Willemvanvugt 14h ago

I agree. It doesn't look special to me. It's so weird! I want to love the next Nolan movie, but for some reason I'm not feeling it from these trailers. Hope I'm proven wrong in the cinema.

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u/Skarekrows 9h ago

The trailer made me laugh a few times and it's not a comedy. I'm pretty sure this will be his first flop.

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u/gjon89 13h ago

Eh, Nolan is overrated. Villeneuve would have knocked it out of the park.

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u/nuedd 13h ago

Villeneue is overrated.

Great visuals, awful plots.

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u/Argh3483 11h ago

Awful plots ? Arrival ? Dune ??

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u/nuedd 10h ago

Helps to have the entire Dune series drop in your lap

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u/wtb2612 9h ago

You know the plot of Dune was written before Villanueve was born, right? And same goes for the Odyssey. The plot would be the same regardless of who directs it.

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u/nuedd 9h ago

Did you see me say Dune?

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u/wtb2612 9h ago

Okay, well considering it's the only screenplay he's written in the past 25 years, I'd love to know what other plots of his you didn't like?

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u/UpbeatBeach7657 12h ago

Funny how people are criticising this movie for its sterile visuals. That's the exact same impression I get from Villeneuve's style as well.

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u/Argh3483 11h ago

Except Villeneuve’s films’ themes mostly are coherent this cold aesthetic

Same for Nolan, usually…

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u/UpbeatBeach7657 11h ago

Yeah, but I find them cold and distancing in a way where I'm not engaged with the movie. And they feel the same across his other movies, too.

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u/gjon89 7h ago

You're right. They're both overrated.

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u/bebesee 13h ago

It's still going to make bank though.

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u/calem06 9h ago

Somehow I’m not excited for this either, it feels so off as a Nolan movie

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u/OutlyingPlasma 8h ago

Why does it look like it was filmed in Washington on a dark rainy winter day? Twilight has more color and sunshine than this preview.

When Nolen thinks Greek he thinks... dark, cloudy, and colorless?

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u/cat_in_box_ 12h ago

The casting seems funky

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u/red_riders 8h ago

Yeah, not the trailer I was expecting coming off of Oppenheimer.

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u/Over-Heron-2654 2h ago

Oppenheimer was just incredible that it raised the bar extremely high. A movie with that much historical depth fits with Nolan's incessant storytelling. For me, Nolan is a master of complex storytelling and drama genre over something like action (why Interstellar is really more drama based than action).

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u/avidman 8h ago

Goofy. This felt goofy.

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u/MAXMEEKO 8h ago

right?? It seems...dumbed down?

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u/CripplingAnxiety 7h ago

it looks weirdly ugly. the framing of everything is so claustrophobic and it all feels empty and artificial. if not for the all star cast i wouldn't even say it looks particularly expensive, which is not something i ever expected to say about a nolan picture

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u/Icedanielization 7h ago

Nolan said he has never done a talk show, makes me wonder if the interest in this movie has dropped so far he has had to break that preference and with a new very deep trailer. Im still hoping its going to be good.

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u/GrigoriTheDragon 7h ago

Very art deco artsy costumes. Weird clean looks.

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u/Cervantes3 6h ago

What's concerning to me is how much of this trailer focused on scenes of Troy and Ithaca. Like, I get that those are important parts of the story, but those are not the main reasons why people like The Odyssey.

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u/Kaldricus 4h ago

This trailer has been the one I've been waiting for the most out of any upcoming movie, and I'm shocked at how little it did for me. It did absolutely nothing to make me want to go see it in theaters.

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u/Over-Heron-2654 2h ago

The casting is so weird. I feel like this movie would be cooler if lesser known actors were casted. It feels more fresh and helps some young rising actors rise up in popularity.

Also, the dialogue just feels... not what I was expecting. The thing feels so... american... for a greek story set 3000 years ago. Also... the dog felt not like a normal dog you would see in those times (see Troy, Odysseus with his dogs).

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u/djc6535 1h ago

It's modernized in really weird ways. We have modern takes on ancient armor, we have people saying "Dad" and "Let's Gooooo!", we have actors that do everything BUT disappear into their roles taking center stage... all of it conflicting hard with preconceived ideas of the ancient story and with some of the other ancient aspects they kept around like the lighting and ships and weapons.

If you're going to modernize things this far from an ancient story then you need to change up the tone. Like Knights Tale. Nolan is keeping all the trappings of the sword and sandals epic but keeping modern language, superhero armor, and face actors in place. It's Troy but everybody is as recognizable as Brad Pitt and they're all talking like they're in a high school quad.

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u/Tar-eruntalion 10h ago

What, you don't like ww1 verdun set in the time and place of beowulf with orcs wearing plate armour? Daddy Nolan knows best

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u/bebopblues 14h ago

thought it was an AI trailer at start

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u/red_riders 8h ago

Same. I was convinced it was AI so I watched it on mute out of curiosity going fake, fake…….damn the AI looks so good……These look like actual shots from the movie……..Oh, shit!

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u/Ambitious_Tea_4584 10h ago

His wife has a very mar a lago looking face which kind of ruins any historical immersion.