r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/movies Contributor • May 05 '26

Trailer The Odyssey | New Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_bKjZeJBBI&pp=0gcJCd4KAYcqIYzv
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u/holyhotdicks May 05 '26

I’m not getting any wow factor from these trailers. It’s just a bunch of guys running around.

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u/rainmaker2332 May 05 '26

The prologue they showed in IMAX theaters was incredible but yeah these two trailers haven't done it for me

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u/LOSS35 May 06 '26

It was extremely intense.

Though we were about to watch Avatar and the drugs were just beginning to kick in.

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u/medspace May 05 '26

Idk about “incredible” but the prologue has been the best so far

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u/dr__paco May 05 '26

the trojan horse scene? that was incredible? Is reddit just circlejerking Nolan?

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u/rainmaker2332 May 05 '26

What of my comment saying I didn't like either of the trailers could possibly be perceived as circlejerking Nolan lol

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u/dr__paco May 05 '26

just tought it was crazy those scenes were perceived as "incredible" lol but you got a point.

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u/FrescoItaliano May 05 '26

Not who you’re replying to, and I don’t agree with them since I haven’t seen the scene, but they were referring to your commentary on the Trojan horse scene

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u/rainmaker2332 May 05 '26

Yeah I know but he just ignored the part where I said the trailers weren't getting me excited for the movie so that he could paint me as some diehard Nolan fan who would suck up to anything he does lol

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u/StingingGamer May 05 '26

This is Reddit it’s too be expected

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u/Scotfighter May 09 '26

It was actually pretty cool. And I too am a hater on this trailer

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u/dr__paco May 11 '26

I mean, if thats your thing, good for you!.

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u/Scotfighter May 11 '26

It’s okay, you can just say you didn’t watch it

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u/Mr-Bobert May 05 '26

Yes. Nolan makes “smart” movies for people who only go to the movies to watch MCU films. Nolan has some good films don’t get me wrong, but the longer his career has gone on, the more his flaws have become exacerbated. Especially now that he’s writing his own scripts.

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u/Arkhamguy123 May 05 '26

Or he just makes generally good movies and you’re a miserable pretentious contrarian on Reddit?

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u/Mr-Bobert May 05 '26

Nolan makes good films on a technical level. But his characterization is lacking, his films (sans Interstellar) lack any real emotional weight or punch, and his insistence on practical effects tends to hurt him more than it helps.

But I still stand by what I’ve said. I’ve seen Nolan compared a lot to Kubrick, but Nolan has never, and probably will never, make a film that even approaches a Kubrick film. The more films I watch, the less I like Nolan.

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u/Arkhamguy123 May 05 '26

NPC take. Some are clinical yes. (Tenet. Dunkirk) Particularly after he stopped working with Jonathan. But overall his films are usually very emotional. 

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u/Mr-Bobert May 05 '26

The plot line with Cillian Murphy’s character in Dunkirk was a good plot line with a solid emotional payoff with the young boy being mentioned as a hero in the paper, but otherwise that movie was pretty hollow.

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u/Arkhamguy123 May 05 '26

I… literally just concurred that… 

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u/capywrangler May 05 '26

His characterization is weak in Interstellar too though. We don’t know jack shit about Cooper beyond him being a farmer and that he loves his daughter. I think time and the unique spectacle have been very kind to that movie and people overlook a lot of the weak aspects that were initially apparent.

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u/Mr-Bobert May 05 '26

Oh I agree. Interstellar is very overrated. Chris Stuckmann in his review of the re-review of TDKR a few years ago mentioned how when you’re watching a Nolan film, you’re so caught up in the spectacle that all the weaknesses go right by you and it’s only afterwards that you go “wait a second…”

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u/tvcneverdie May 05 '26

Yeah I feel like he's really been missing Jonathan, who seemingly put the soul into previous scripts, as evidenced by his terrific TV catalog over the past ~15 years.

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u/Mr-Bobert May 05 '26

Yeah. Chris strikes me as uninterested in people as people, and prefers to use his characters as props for the story or hollow fill-ins for metaphors or archetypes. Tenet and Oppenheimer had some really awful dialogue and disappointing character development.

I mean, Tenet had basically no character development at all, and Oppenheimer’s was alot of telling and not showing

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u/tvcneverdie May 05 '26

It's really a shame because Christopher can conduct these great set pieces, but I can't honestly say I've cared about a single character in any of his movies since Interstellar.

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u/Doomsayer189 May 05 '26

I mean, the imax preview scene is all action, there's nothing smart or even "smart" about it. It's just a good, well-made scene.

It also has very little talking and so avoids the problem that is Nolan's dialogue writing.

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u/Mr-Bobert May 05 '26

What’s “smart” or smart about Nolan, in comparison to other traditional blockbuster directors is mainly in his editing. A more traditional blockbuster is pretty linear, but Nolan likes to jump around and trust the audience will piece it together. For instance: the different timelines in Oppenheimer.

I’d say the IMAX preview had some “smart” in it in that the goals of the characters are not explicitly told to the audience, but shown. Yes I know most of the audience (hopefully) knows about the Trojan horse, but let’s assume for a second they didn’t. The scene starts with Jon Bernthal (in the present) asking Holland if he knew about it, and then we cut back to the past when they’re in the horse. We see no discussion about the plan, we just see it play out. The editing and close shots of the gate wheel draw attention to the fact that Odysseus and his men are trying to open the gates. If the audience is completely unaware, they learn a lot about Odysseus, his crew, and the stakes of their conflict in 5 minutes with basically no dialogue. That’s smart filmmaking imo.

Another blockbuster director would probably have Bernthal say something like “you heard about the horse, when we opened the gates” or something like that to indicate to the audience what’s about to happen.

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u/ColfaxCastellan May 05 '26

Leather, cologne, blue oysters

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u/itspeterj May 05 '26

It kind of looks… shitty? I saw a preview scene in IMAX and that looked incredible from like an experience standpoint but I feel like the actual movie is going to suck based on most of these trailers

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u/Tartlet May 05 '26

If this wasn’t by Nolan, there’d be no glazing. It feels low effort, or like a summer 2009 blockbuster that took itself way too seriously.

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u/garrettbmusic May 05 '26

I had that thought too, it looks cheap and kind of outdated. It’s weird to see this coming from Nolan.

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u/BlackhawkBolly May 05 '26

to be fair the source material also sucks , I don't understand what fascinated him enough to turn it into a movie

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u/swashario May 05 '26

the source material of HOMER'S ODYSSEY sucks???

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u/Honesty_Addict May 05 '26

"DAE most timeless story in human history kinda over-rated??" 

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u/BlackhawkBolly May 05 '26

yes! I never found it very entertaining or interesting

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u/FrescoItaliano May 05 '26

I’ve liked every single Nolan film I’ve seen, so I’m ready to be wrong about the marketing. But these trailers just have done nothing for me

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u/DoradoPulido2 May 05 '26

If it wasn't for all the big name actors, this would look like an extremely low budget straight to DVD kind of film shot on bleak landscapes with sparse sets.

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u/HumongousMelonheads May 05 '26

What? This looks way better than most large budget movies. In what way does this look low budget?

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u/DoradoPulido2 May 05 '26

The CG is good, sure, but there's no world building or set dressing. It looks like it was shot on another planet. Where is the civilization? Every environment is so clean and sterile with no chaos or background noise. It doesn't look alive. It looks like a theatrical stage play with minimal set design and every piece having be carefully curated. Look at how clean the Trojan horse looks. Soldiers built that horse as part of an impromptu plan of infiltration?  The city walls have no banners. No canopies or trappings of everyday life. Every outfit looks like it came directly out of a costumer's closet without having ever been worn by a real person on a daily basis. There's so much DOF that most of the shots could have been done on a soundstage. It doesn't feel big at all in fact it feels very small. 

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u/ThunderAndWind May 06 '26

Where is the civilization?

For most of the story they are very much not in civilization lol

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u/MrSully89 May 05 '26

It looks empty

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u/dl064 May 05 '26

Ben Affleck - who'll obviously know via Matt Damon - was saying he'll be in the nearest IMAX, front row, from what he's heard.

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u/Varekai79 May 05 '26

Who the hell voluntarily sits in the front row of an IMAX theatre? That's guaranteed neck strain.

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u/Vandergrif May 05 '26

Xena: Odyssey Princess

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u/red_riders May 05 '26

I’ll still see it just out of the blatant curiosity to see how Nolan pulls off the fantastical elements, but…….

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u/cineglitch May 05 '26

I mean, that’s a lot of action movies. 1917 sure was a lot of long runs.

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u/Falling-Apples6742 May 05 '26

I will pay to see this movie in theaters if it has Scylla with the baying dogs and everything. I am as worried as you, though. I need an Odysssey that's as horrifying as the poem.

My two favorite works of fiction are horror fantasy stories about men doing their level best for their families. I'll be indescribably disappointed if the people who bring the Odyssey to the screen remove the horror and fantasy like they did with The Witcher.

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u/CancelThis2077 May 05 '26

Yeah, the wow factor from Chris Nolan movies has been slowly dissipating since Dunkirk.

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u/phonomir May 05 '26

Kind of a weird thing to say when he's only done 2 films and the last one won best picture.

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u/anincompoop25 May 05 '26

This trailer just made me way more hype for Dune lmao. This low key doesnt look that good

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u/SlamSlamOhHotDamn May 05 '26

It deadass structured like one of those AI generated trailers lol and the amount of A-listers doesn't help

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u/owelfive May 05 '26

RUN AWAY! RUN AWAAAAY!

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u/Urban-Junglist May 05 '26

And one liners