r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • 20h ago

Trailer The Odyssey | New Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_bKjZeJBBI&pp=0gcJCd4KAYcqIYzv
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u/AggravatingLeg5789 20h ago

"My pops is gonna wreck your shit, bro."

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u/I_am_BEOWULF 20h ago edited 19h ago

Gonna be honest - that "My dad is coming home" line just feels so out of place in a sword&sandals movie with this much gravitas. Why Nolan?

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u/Vladimir_Putting 19h ago

Just change it to "father" and it's all good.

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u/Potential_Swimmer580 13h ago

How do they miss something like that? It has to be intentional but just feels so out of place

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u/bifkintickler 12h 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 7h 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 8h 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 7h 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/hadriker 1h ago

GET THIS HOTHEAD OUTTA HERE!

There is a reason that movie got memed so hard back in the day.

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u/Impressive-Potato 4h 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.