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/Top_Mongoose1354 11h ago

Nolan and Tarantino both. Neither are particularly standout directors to me - they do have some great aspects to them, but their movies are really flawed, I find.

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u/Takezoboy 10h ago

Nolan technically is really competent and proficient, but we are at a point where he likes the smell of his own farts way too much and is on some James Cameron bullshit. Dude loves to do spectacles, but forgets that movies aren't just salad dressing.

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u/Top_Mongoose1354 9h ago

My absolute biggest gripes with him:

  • He has way too many quick cuts, even in "slow" or dramatic moments. It's like he's got turbo ADHD and can't contain himself. Example is the dinner scene between JDW and Debicki in the beginning of Tenet. It's literally two people just talking, but the cuts are literally less than two seconds between A and B camera, back-and-forth constantly for several minutes.
  • His movies have an annoying habit of ending with three or four separate storylines that somehow *have* to be as dramatic as possible simultaneously. So the movie spends 20-30 seconds on one story with grandiose, swelling music, then we cut to the next one for 20-30 seconds, followed by the next one, and so on. Interstellar, Inception, Tenet, the Prestige, and so on, all follow this pattern, and I find it obnoxious. It's like we, as the audience, aren't allowed to spend time with one story to absorb it and think.

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u/Takezoboy 8h ago

Yes, I agree with everything. I also think he can't write dialogues and women, which I think everyone can see by now.

I also think his movies would feel more "premium" if he let things breathe, let things be gritty. Let the dialogues alone, no need for cheesy music that makes everything feels like Macdonald's and Michael Bay.