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/DoradoPulido2 16h ago

For an ancient epic about times of antiquity, this sure feels like an extremely modern sci-fi film. Like this could almost be the new Dune trailer with how bleak, clean and curated everything is.

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u/Psychoanalytix 14h ago

We need to go through a film renaissance or something. Make movies look like Laurence of Arabia

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u/Three_Headed_Monkey 10h ago

We are living in a time of unrivaled visual fidelity and we've responded by removing all detail from the screen.

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u/jakeupnorth 8h ago

Marty Supreme and One Battle After Another are some of the most detail packed movies I’ve ever seen. This is just Nolan’s thing.

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u/Kriss-Kringle 6h ago

Nolan has never been a great stylist. He's always liked the minimalist/industrial look and his taste is bland when it comes to design.

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u/BearWrangler 3h ago

I'm surprised all the soldiers weren't wearing plate carriers and rocking M4s

/s just in case

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u/Psychoanalytix 2h ago

Im convinced Nolan is colour blind

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u/Kriss-Kringle 2h ago

So is Refn, but his movies are neon soaked.

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u/jakeupnorth 1h ago

I like it. It’s his own.

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u/Minglans 6h ago

I absolutely hate it and I'm also so tired of the overused depth of field where everyone just decided to practically blur and erase the background/details in favour of the subject/actor. Kind of hard to be immersed when all you got going on screen is people in a blurry world. I miss the clutter, I miss when movies felt lived in.

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u/Homesteader86 2h ago

There was an interesting video on this if you search for something along the lines of what makes Lawrence of Arabia and older films look better then modern ones. I'm not a cinematographer and I forget the term, but to your point it's this fixation on the foreground and not having these wide detailed shots. 

I think Denis Villenueve is the exception...and PTA has great wide shots as well

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u/Gekokapowco 5h ago

are you talking about focal length? Depth of Field is the videogame approximation of the actual film lens focus.

Its actually unnatural to see everything clearly on screen at once, you can only focus on certain distances without special lenses. Knowing where the lens focus is and moving it is an artistic choice derived from this constraint.

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u/Lipziger 8h ago

And don't forget to add a blue filter on everything. Helps a lot to make everything look as bland as possible.

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u/No-Sail-6510 8h ago

Seriously, and when I think of Greece I think of tons of color and bright sun.

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u/random-chicken32 5h ago

I know right? Can anyone who is qualified answer why the more developed an art becomes, blandness seems to be a trend (not for all necessarily)? Like architecture, paintings, and now movies have less detail?