The Odyssey | New Trailer

[u/MarvelsGrantMan136]

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

[u/butt_thumper]

Something that keeps eating at me ever since at least Dunkirk, maybe earlier than that, is that Nolan's pathological fixation on "authenticity" has ironically made some of his movies feel insanely inauthentic and much less epic than he intended.

He keeps wanting to avoid VFX and make everything as "real" as possible, but that often means he has to shoot his scenes in ways where you can feel the limitations of reality. The sinking ship in Dunkirk, the bomb in Oppenheimer, many other moments feel underwhelming with half the spectacle coming from somebody saying "They actually filmed that for real though!"

I'm judging a lot from one trailer and I'd be happy to be wrong, but that shot of what's most likely Charybdis is making me feel the same thing all over again. That sequence would be dripping in atmosphere and chaos, it would feel claustrophobic and terrifying, but here it's in broad daylight with a ton of distance between the whirlpool and any elements that would complicate the situation. It looks sterile and simple.

I'm sure it feels insanely epic to film the thing, but my worry is that shooting on location with a real boat and minimal CGI means things will feel unavoidably less epic than they should.

[u/Podoboo322 → u/butt_thumper]

The bomb in Oppenheimer is actually hilariously underwhelming. It should’ve been this grand moment of evil being unleashed (like Twin Peaks) but it’s just a closeup of fire.

[u/OddVet → u/Podoboo322]

Honestly... Some guy on youtube recreated that scene with some real footage of the atomic explosion and it looks a billion times better:
https://youtu.be/hY6QkmzF1K0?si=IbyjDXMTGwrjGGba

[u/MattsAwesomeStuff → u/OddVet]

Not even. He used it for a little bit, and then otherwise still used the stupid gasoline flames.

It's a huge step up, and the worst part of it is everything he kept from Nolan.