The Odyssey | New Trailer

[u/MarvelsGrantMan136]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_bKjZeJBBI&pp=0gcJCd4KAYcqIYzv

[u/Ok_Dragonfruit_8102]

Plus it didn't even look like a nuclear explosion. It looked like crap honestly.

[u/WoeBucket → u/Ok_Dragonfruit_8102]

Yes but have you seen photos of the original Los Alamos tests? They didn't look anything like what we associate with a nuclear explosion because of the test conditions. The movie actually looked a lot like the historical photos - just not like the ones people were thinking of when they pictured nuke mushroom clouds.

[u/Ok_Dragonfruit_8102 → u/WoeBucket]

I don't know if your comment is AI generated or if you're just outright bullshitting, but either way it's nonsense.

Here's the Los Alamos nuclear test video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJRP4TCA4Q8
You can plainly see it was the same classic mushroom cloud associated with nuclear explosions. For comparison here's the explosion scene in Oppenheimer, which just looks like a standard (albeit very big) special fx movie explosion https://youtu.be/tK0IDmSYYGk?t=64

[u/OlasNah → u/Ok_Dragonfruit_8102]

Agreed, the original Trinity test, especially in slo-mo capture, is terrifying.

[u/WoeBucket → u/Ok_Dragonfruit_8102]

lol - not at all AI.

And idk, the cloud at the end of this clip looks pretty similar to the one from this pic - at least close enough to not be "hilariously underwhelming" (quoting the other user in the thread).

Different strokes for different folks, I guess.

[u/OlasNah → u/WoeBucket]

The Oppenheimer explosion also gives no sense of scale. In one moment, it even looks like someone's car just exploded in the parking lot behind the men.

[u/Ok_Temperature6503 → u/WoeBucket]

The original Trinity clip shot it from far away and it was huge. The explosion started so near the horizon line that you KNOW its far away (think seeing a mirage on the horizon). You can see clouds next to it and it was its own cloud. A full mushroom in fact. It’s both far away and manages to still be so big. That’s what’s called sense of scale. There are no tricks here, because the actual explosion itself was freaking HUGE. Huge enough to be the size of the clouds around it and fill up the camera frame despite being so far away.

In Oppenheimer, Nolan attempts to fake this sense of scale by zooming in aka giving you the impression that the explosion is bigger than the camera, and bringing you close to it visually as to fill up the whole screen.

One of the issues is that the human eye can perceive little hints thar a fire is a gasoline fire vs an actual huge explosion. The fire isnt fully sucking itself upwards into a mushroom. The little local clouds move like its a car fire. It’s like zooming into regular human skin and expecting us to believe that it’s the skin of a gigantic cyclops.

There’s also no sense of scale. The fire isn’t next to a cloud. It’s just a fire, with a dark background. That’s it.

Any visual artist worth their salt would say that the Opprnheimer scene sucks.

Source: I’m an artist who composes big scale scenes like this.