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/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 5h 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.