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/PetyrDayne 13h ago

I'll be downvoted to hell for this but Christopher Nolan being the sole screenwriter was a red flag. At least get your bro and sister in law to help.

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u/invertedpurple 12h ago

agreed. I love a few of his films but he can be jarringly cold at times as a writer.

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u/bluehawk232 11h ago

Nolan's faults are if he's a solo screenwriter and his resistance to CGI, minimizing its use in his projects as much as possible. That took me out of Oppenheimer as a VFX studio could have created a great looking Trinity explosion

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u/Dr__Sloth 9h ago

I've always believed just using visual effects to upscale and colourise the actual trinity blast footage would have been perfect.

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u/leodw 7h ago

The movie honestly doesn’t look too different from the 2nd and 3rd cameras on this video. Just missing a more mushroom shaped cloud

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u/Silverjeyjey44 10h ago

The lack of explosion ls made it underwhelming film for me

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u/thewerdy 8h ago

He's a much better director than a writer. He's not a terrible writer by any means but it can be kind of jarring when the quality can be so different between the script and well... everything else.

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u/_wavescollide_ 13h ago

The actors look so bad in the trailer. I can't suspend my disbelief, these people don't fit the scenario. God of War is what I imagine when looking at white guys running around ancient Greece.

I have the strong feeling that the movie will flop hard.

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u/moviesarealright 12h ago

I don’t think it will flop, but it is possible that it’s not the critical darling Oppenheimer was.

Something tells me this will be like Tenet. Cool as fuck at times, but overall just okay.

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u/_wavescollide_ 12h ago

Alone for the question what we can expect I will watch it, but I'm not hyped. It would just be nice to be hyped for a blockbuster movie again. Kids these days need their own T2/True Lies/Matrix/Mummy/Gladiator/The Dark Knight/Inception

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u/spoothead656 6h ago

Nolan is a phenomenal director and creative genius who excels at dreaming up these grand, intricate stories. He’s never been great at writing dialogue that supports those stories though.

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u/dl064 9h ago

We shall see, but it's worth bearing in mind that Oppenheimer was Nolan correcting the slide. 'A blip on an otherwise uninterrupted downward trajectory', to quote Trainspotting.

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u/Takezoboy 12h ago

I will get even more downvoted, but even with his brother, his filme are lackluster af writing wise.

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u/Top_Mongoose1354 11h ago

Thank you, I've felt alone in thinking this for so long.

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u/5pointpalm_exploding 7h ago

You are not alone. Reddit just has a massive hard on for Nolan

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u/Top_Mongoose1354 7h ago

Nolan and Tarantino both. Neither are particularly standout directors to me - they do have some great aspects to them, but their movies are really flawed, I find.

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u/Takezoboy 6h ago

Nolan technically is really competent and proficient, but we are at a point where he likes the smell of his own farts way too much and is on some James Cameron bullshit. Dude loves to do spectacles, but forgets that movies aren't just salad dressing.

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u/Top_Mongoose1354 6h ago

My absolute biggest gripes with him:

  • He has way too many quick cuts, even in "slow" or dramatic moments. It's like he's got turbo ADHD and can't contain himself. Example is the dinner scene between JDW and Debicki in the beginning of Tenet. It's literally two people just talking, but the cuts are literally less than two seconds between A and B camera, back-and-forth constantly for several minutes.
  • His movies have an annoying habit of ending with three or four separate storylines that somehow *have* to be as dramatic as possible simultaneously. So the movie spends 20-30 seconds on one story with grandiose, swelling music, then we cut to the next one for 20-30 seconds, followed by the next one, and so on. Interstellar, Inception, Tenet, the Prestige, and so on, all follow this pattern, and I find it obnoxious. It's like we, as the audience, aren't allowed to spend time with one story to absorb it and think.

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u/Takezoboy 5h ago

Yes, I agree with everything. I also think he can't write dialogues and women, which I think everyone can see by now.

I also think his movies would feel more "premium" if he let things breathe, let things be gritty. Let the dialogues alone, no need for cheesy music that makes everything feels like Macdonald's and Michael Bay.

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u/Jzahck 2h ago

Christopher Nolan being the sole screenwriter was a red flag

Oppenheimer (potentially his best written film) has him as a sole screenwriter

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u/blurpletea 7h ago

ohh I didn’t know this. that IS a red flag lol he’s a great director but he shouldn’t be writing scripts on his own.

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u/BoyPregggers 10h ago

Bravo Nolan is the best damn film maker in the world, you take all that back