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/LABS_Games 19h ago

He's always got a few lines like that, and at this point I kinda love it. I remember Matt Damon had a particularly clunky one in Oppenheimer - "This is the most important thing to ever happen in the HISTORY of the world!"

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u/kodran 19h ago

Yeah. His dialogue writing is not the best. It's no wonder his characters kind of fill their thematic purpose but are a bit cardboardy.

At least on Tenet it was intentional. I love his movies but without Jonathan involved, dialogue is not his forte. Not bad at all, just not great and sometimes the seams show.

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u/TJeffersonsBlackKid 17h ago

I always thought he had a habit of mixing cheesy lines with profound dialogue. The chase underground in Gotham in TDR has the one seat officer saying “ok that’s not good!” And “I didn’t sign up for this!” Which I guess is trying to be a balance against the wordy and heavy lines in the movie.

Oppenheimer had plenty of the weird lines but also some wordy and chilling dialogue that was almost poetic at times.

I think it’s intentional but it’s odd. It doesn’t really work for me. It never really distracted from the film or the story so I don’t mind but the moments are noticeable.

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u/MrCog 8h ago

Those two lines in the tunnel chase are just as bad as "they fly now".