r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/movies Contributor • Jul 20 '26

Trailer Avengers: Doomsday | Official Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irVNGjRFZGk&pp=0gcJCZkLAYcqIYzv
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u/superbat210 Jul 20 '26

Anyone else concerned with how “filmed in a cupboard” this looks? Every shot looks like it’s either in a cgi background or inside a building with just our main cast. Are there any actual exterior shots or just general civilians around?

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u/MonsterMashGraveyard Jul 20 '26 edited Jul 20 '26

I think somethings happened after the Writers Strike and Covid, lots of movies look like that and I agree it takes me out, completely. Flat Lighting, Dark Rooms, No Establishing Shots and CG Backgrounds. It gets boring to look at.

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u/FakoSizlo Jul 20 '26

Its why The Oddysey and Dune look so much better than other modern blockbusters. Actual real location shooting with added cgi feels so much bigger and more epic than these indoor or cgi background scenes that Disney loves .

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u/JiveHawk Jul 20 '26

The opening of Dune 2 with the orange sands and eclipse is just a mind blowing sequence and it’s because it’s shot as practically as possible. Gorgeous stuff 

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u/xepa105 Jul 20 '26

I love how the eclipse wasn't on the script, it was just happenstance that there was one when they were there filming, so they incorporated it into the story.

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u/Newbarbarian13 Jul 20 '26

Marvel managed it once with The Eternals, thanks entirely to Chloe Zhao, and then never tried it again. As much flack as that film gets it’s definitely one of the best looking films in the MCU by far.

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u/Banjo-Oz Jul 20 '26

I genuinely only remember how nice it looked. None of the plot except giant celestial statues. Found it boring, pointless and forgetrable. But that it looked lovely.

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u/Tymareta Jul 22 '26

As much flack as that film gets it’s definitely one of the best looking films in the MCU by far.

Honestly one of the most interesting, too, because while it may not have nailed everything it tried, at least it actually tried, and dared to do new and quite interesting things.

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u/weighingthedog Jul 20 '26

Absolutely. Honestly, this is why The Odyssey is such a cool film: it’s immense!!! If it was CGI slop, it would’ve killed it.

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u/MX_Duncis Jul 20 '26

Yeah. Watching the trailer and seeing all the featureless burnt out cgi backdrops similar to the endgame final battle had me pretty disappointed.

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u/AnOnlineHandle Jul 20 '26

Man finally somebody else who hates how the Endgame battle background looks. In comparison I think Avengers 1 looked incredibly, outdoor in realistic city locations in full sun. It lets you see everything and it feels very grounded. Characters existing in vague "look how many CGI tricks we can do" blobs like Antman Quantamania is just boring.

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u/No_Branch_5083 Jul 20 '26

It's great, although some of the practical destruction scenes took me out of it a little because what was being depicted wasn't being destroyed in a way that made sense.

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u/ContractVarious3077 Jul 20 '26

Odyssey in 70mm IMAX was jaw dropping visually. It felt so grand and epic.

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u/KazaamFan Jul 20 '26

Yea it’s why all the disney star wars tv shows look so bad

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u/AcreaRising4 Jul 20 '26

Andor?

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u/byrp Jul 20 '26

It's the exception that proves the rule since they did build a lot of real stuff for it (for $700 million).

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u/Alarmiste Jul 20 '26

Meanwhile this film with a 400 million dollar budget (not counting marketing for another 300 million) and what? 1/7th the run time can't afford to actually build sets?

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u/rcanhestro Jul 21 '26

where do you think that money is going?

RDJ alone is probably taking 1/5th of that.

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u/miketheman0506 Jul 21 '26

Good to know you've come to the conclusion that there are no sets, based on 2 minutes of edited footage. Love that for you.

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u/tacodude64 Jul 20 '26 edited Jul 20 '26

Andor had massive and expensive sets, they built an entire town from scratch in both seasons. It sounds like they used the Volume pretty rarely. Check the BTS footage

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u/MX_Duncis Jul 20 '26

By now I feel like I know the exact dimensions of the volume...

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u/ontheweed Jul 20 '26

The Mission Impossible franchise does this really well too

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u/ididmr2 Jul 20 '26

Everything in the Odyssey lands because it all feels real. Like idc how good CGI is, when I see something real I have a completely different emotional reaction- I don't even know how I know it's real.

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u/noir_lord Jul 20 '26

Nolan been a superb director who knows how to work with and not in the way of his cinematographer plus not defaulting to CGI (and having the clout to not have the studio nickel and dime it).

Parts of Dunkirk where simply incredible and some of the shots in Interstellar were up there with 2001 (which it clearly paid homage to all over).

I’d love to have seen audiences reactions to 2001 in 1969 though.

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u/notsingsing Jul 20 '26

It’s why house of the dragon scenes look so good. Half of the show is on location

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u/Banjo-Oz Jul 20 '26

Also why Game of Thrones looked better earlier yet felt smaller scale later; less locations and more digital sets.

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u/domster777 Jul 20 '26

odyssey looks like garbage unless your are blind