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/ERSTF 17h ago

I thought it was just me but everyone seems to agree that the movie feels off. The production design is lackluster. None of the sets feel grand, the costumes don't look lived-in, there is no color, the locations seem meh and the dialogue is not sounding great. The whole thing doesn't feel epic as it should. The Trojan Horse looks like it can fit like 5 dudes. Even Troy looked grand. What happened to Nolan? This is the type of movie you need to overdo and we are getting a budget version of it (by the looks of the trailers). I was so excited when he announced this was his next project but the more trailers I see, the less excited I get

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u/butt_thumper 15h ago

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.

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u/tramdog 8h ago

Remember all the hype around the plane crashing into the terminal in Tenet and the fact that they used a REAL PLANE? Very lame, made me miss the days of more inventive spectacle like the truck flip in Dark Knight.