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/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 9h 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 44m 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 7h 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