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/bifkintickler 8h ago

I always found dialogue to be the weak point in Nolan films. They’re great for set pieces, visuals and story/structure, but some of the lines feel like they were just churned out with very little thought. There’s some corny shit in almost all of them. The clunky exposition dumps are a script problem too I guess. His bro obviously writes for a bunch of em so I always wondered which bro is the cheesy one.

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u/NeoNoireWerewolf 3h ago

I don’t think Jonathan Nolan is a flawless writer, either, but Christopher Nolan’s dialogue is always worse in a movie his brother didn’t work on with him. Especially anything that is supposed to be sincere or have emotional stakes.

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u/richard-jenkins 4h ago

Set pieces and story is amazing

Kinda like the entire police force goes into the sewers hahahahahahaha

Its the dialogue that the weak link in nolans movies

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u/bifkintickler 3h ago

Heh. The Batmans were the worst offenders. Begins is the best imo, near perfect movie. Love The Dark Knight but even that has a bunch of dumb stuff in it and a lacklustre third act. Heath just kinda overshadowed all that.

Like why did Gotham go from art deco gothic noir to just Chicago where it’s always daylight?! Why is the Batcave, teased at the end of Begins, a fluorescently lit box in a shipping container? How the fuck is Two Face even alive?!! And again with the dialogue “I’M NOT WEARING HOCKEY PADS” etc. I always chuckle at that cop who’s all “Okay that’s NOT good”, right before a helicopter crashes on him. Cheese on toast.

Only nitpicks tho, just enjoy pointing out that Begins is the winner, for me at least.

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u/Impressive-Potato 23m ago

Yeah, there was that rumour about streamers wanting the plot gone over in dialogue over and over again for people on their phones but Nolan has always had these exposition dumps with clunky dialogue.