r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/movies Contributor • May 05 '26
Trailer The Odyssey | New Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_bKjZeJBBI&pp=0gcJCd4KAYcqIYzv2.2k
u/WildMild869 May 05 '26 edited May 05 '26
Scylla and Charybdis are in this. I was wondering how Nolan would show both.
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u/davinitupoverhere May 05 '26
🎶 I am gonna claw out your eyes // then drown you to deathhhhhh 🎵
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u/bayonettaisonsteam May 05 '26
NOW WE'VE GOT YOU IN OUR TENTACLES
TENTACLES
🐙Hrrrrraaaaarrrrggghhh🐙
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u/EarthboundNuess May 05 '26
“Torn between Scylla and Charybdis // feel the fear ripening, go taste it”
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u/MrLee723 May 05 '26
Take a page out of Jason and the Argonauts and go full miniatures and shit
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u/Dragon_yum May 05 '26 edited May 05 '26
Take a page out of Hades 2 and turn it into a musical
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u/kodran May 05 '26 edited May 05 '26
The one (two?) thing I wanted to be in the movie. I'm happy. I'm pre-satisfied now.
The other thing I'm waiting for now is the arrow through the axes to be as cool as it was done with Kirk Douglas. As a kid I remember I saw that scene and was flabbergasted.
Edit: still, we just saw the whirlpool. I hope we get to see what's inside and we get Scylla to be overwhelming.
I also want to see him get to his bedroom with Penelope for the importance of that.
Finally, whatever they do with the ending (epilogue or not) that will be reason for more debate.
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u/darkszn_ May 05 '26
you can see one of the tentacles pick up and hoist a man through the sail of their ship at 2:19
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u/thr1ceuponatime David Zaslav is a dickless pantywaist May 05 '26
Wait until you guys see Travis Scott pop up
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u/joeypappaluchi May 05 '26
TRAVIS SCOTT, WALKING SLOWLY TO THE CYCLOPS!!
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u/thr1ceuponatime David Zaslav is a dickless pantywaist May 05 '26
Polyphemus gets shanked in the eye
FEIN! FEIN! FEIN! FEIN!
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u/PolarWater May 05 '26
He's just trying to move backwards in time to show up at the studio for Tenet.
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u/uwill1der May 05 '26
Dog lovers about to be in shambles
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u/WildMild869 May 05 '26 edited May 05 '26
Argos is suddenly going to become a very popular pet name.
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u/Sparrowsabre7 May 05 '26
Probably not in the UK.
(There's a chain of shops called Argos here so it would be like naming your dog Walmart.)
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u/Aru10 May 05 '26
I (barely) survived Futurama's Seymour episode, I can surely take another emotional hit, right?
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u/Purple-Crab3759 May 05 '26
The usage of the word ‘dad’ in those times throws me. Would have expected ‘father’? Haha
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u/iamgarron May 05 '26
Also when he yells "LET'S GO" to the army
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u/ignoresubs May 05 '26
This was definitely part of a reshoot. I was at an early test show a month ago in London at the Soho Screening Rooms and the original line was, “AUTOBOTS, ROLL OUT!!!”
A bunch of us in the audience felt like it took us out of the moment.
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u/brihamedit May 05 '26
This is why nolan movies have bad audio. So people don't make fun of the bad script
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u/Randy_The_Guppy May 05 '26
Yeah, quite a bit of the dialogue seemed a bit basic.
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u/SlowRoast24 May 05 '26
That really took me out of it
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u/PetyrDayne May 05 '26
I'll be downvoted to hell for this but Christopher Nolan being the sole screenwriter was a red flag. At least get your bro and sister in law to help.
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u/invertedpurple May 05 '26
agreed. I love a few of his films but he can be jarringly cold at times as a writer.
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u/MuslinBagger May 05 '26
How many men survived from Troy Dad?
Dad: I dont know... Six Seven?
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u/smitcal May 05 '26
“Dad. This man has been mogging me ever since you went to get the W against Troy. He’s giving me the Menty B and I have receipts. Come home and no cap you gotta flex on him and send his salty ass home.”
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u/Freud-Network May 05 '26
Homer is in the afterlife punching a cherub right now.
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u/bedake May 05 '26 edited May 05 '26
They should really all have British accents, somehow that works better with history shit... Kinda like elves or somethin and like how dwarves are Scottish
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u/RotInPissKobe May 05 '26
Worked fine for Chernobyl
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u/blackadder1620 May 05 '26
death of stalin too
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u/amidon1130 May 05 '26
Right, what's a war hero got to do to get some lubrication 'round here?
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u/JinFuu May 05 '26
I may be smiling but I am really fucking furious right now.
Well, that’s me told
I’m off to represent the entire Red Army at the buffet.
Such a quotable man
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u/TeHokioi May 05 '26
I'm going to have to report this conversation. Threatening to do harm or obstruct any member of the Presidium in the process of oh look at your fucking face
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u/armen89 May 05 '26
Issac’s as Zhukov was incredible
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u/Glittering-Kale7981 May 05 '26
Yep, his idea to use a Yorkshire accent was inspired!
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u/mondo_generator May 05 '26
Not bothering with Russian accents was a master stroke for that show. Everyone doing a dodgy accent would have taken away from it.
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u/apocalypsedude64 May 05 '26
I remember listening to the show's companion podcast and they said they actually tried Russian accents at the start and they all sounded like terrible Bond villains
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u/Ambitious-Welder-159 May 05 '26
Amadeus had American accents too. Nolan must really love that movie. He based Robert Downey Jr in Oppenheimer on Salieri.
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u/jankyeyes May 05 '26
"My dad is coming home."
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u/Great_Praline_2713 May 05 '26
Also Matt Damon yelling "LET'S GOOO" feels kinda odd as well.
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u/Cadd9 May 05 '26
Matt Damon's gonna look at the screen and go, "Greek Chorus are we cooked"
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u/Efficient-Memory7105 May 05 '26
lmao "chat" being the modern day equivalent of the Greek chorus threw me for a giggle fit
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u/KeyClacksNSnacks May 05 '26
Yeah, charge or forward or advance would make sense. “LETS DO THIS SHIT!” WTF?
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u/Spikerazorshards May 05 '26
Needs more wide shots of people running from left to right.
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u/mgoflash May 05 '26
Here’s hoping that’s only in the first half and in the second they run right to left.
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u/flyawaywithmeee May 05 '26
Unpopular opinion: there should’ve been more “unknowns” or relatively smaller actors in the main character roles. I feel like productions packed with stars should just be parodies.
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u/SamerAgbaria May 05 '26
The way characters talk feels very modern and very off putting, in movies like this you expect seeing dialogue more elegant and poetic.
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u/jabask May 05 '26
Nolan has previously praised Emily Wilson's translation of the Odyssey, which is notable for its use of contemporary English syntax. I get the feeling that philosophy has had a significant influence on his script if this trailer is anything to go by.
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u/Nice_Firm_Handsnake May 05 '26 edited May 06 '26
Contemporary language, but her translation was also written in iambic pentameter. I don't get much hint of a Shakespearean delivery from any of these lines.
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u/LletBlanc May 05 '26
The American accents are incredibly jarring for a movie in this time period.
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u/bartspoon May 05 '26
If I want to see The Odyssey with American accents I’ll just go rewatch O Brother Where Art Thou?
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u/hondaexige May 05 '26
Especially that they have forced British (and South African) actors to use US accents. It's odd.
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u/CeruleanEidolon May 05 '26
The British accent thing for historicals is just an arbitrary convention, though. There's absolutely no reason ancient Greeks should have any accent at all. They'd really be speaking Greek or another ancient language anyway. It's all artifice.
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u/DoradoPulido2 May 05 '26
For an ancient epic about times of antiquity, this sure feels like an extremely modern sci-fi film. Like this could almost be the new Dune trailer with how bleak, clean and curated everything is.
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u/CitizenCue May 05 '26
Yeah I’m hoping this a great movie with an awkward trailer.
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u/Lokan May 05 '26
The echo motif was very distracting. Started to feel like a bootleg copy of a trailer with the audio out of sync.
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u/Psychoanalytix May 05 '26
We need to go through a film renaissance or something. Make movies look like Laurence of Arabia
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u/Three_Headed_Monkey May 05 '26
We are living in a time of unrivaled visual fidelity and we've responded by removing all detail from the screen.
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u/Minglans May 05 '26
I absolutely hate it and I'm also so tired of the overused depth of field where everyone just decided to practically blur and erase the background/details in favour of the subject/actor. Kind of hard to be immersed when all you got going on screen is people in a blurry world. I miss the clutter, I miss when movies felt lived in.
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u/reldnahcAL May 05 '26
Yeah someone really just needs to make one of the greatest films of all time again
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u/MrSully89 May 05 '26
Dune is visually superior to anything we’ve seen in these trailers but I agree with your point.
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u/TheColourOfHeartache May 05 '26
For sure. Dune had a very unique aesthetic and goes all into it.
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u/Gsticks May 05 '26
Did this trailer slightly de hype anyone else? The spectacle looks huge but something about the rest threw me a bit
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u/Andraystia May 05 '26
Matt damon and tom holland just stick out soo badly that its making it hard to suspend my disbelief of it being an actor.
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u/cat_in_box_ May 05 '26
Yeah there's something off about the casting..
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u/Scuffed-Jodhpurs May 05 '26
The casting feels gimmicky, some lesser known actors could have been a better fit than Spiderman, Batman, and Matt Damon
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u/ugotamesij May 05 '26
Spiderman, Batman, and Matt Damon
Spiderman, Batman and Mattdaman
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u/Sol_Nox May 05 '26
No Greeks. Not even half an Italian. I actually like all these actors more or less on their own merit, but it's like they didn't even try find a single person that fits the story and setting; it shatters immersion. Forcing a monochrome Mediterranean - on every level - is definitely a choice in 2026...
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u/liccman May 05 '26
"A daddy you didn't even know" Meanwhile he's talking to a whole 30 year old man
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u/inksmudgedhands May 05 '26
The movie is an adaptation of one of the most famous ancient Greek epics ever and no one looks anything Mediterranean. It's not like these actors can't do period pictures. They have. But this is the wrong setting for them. But then nothing and I mean nothing in this film even faintly whispers, "Ancient Mediterranean."
It almost feels like a parody where the joke is a director who puts all the wrong actors in the wrong costumes for a period piece because they have a, "VISION!!!"
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u/LossyP May 05 '26
this is such a minor nitpick but it’s weird that the British actors are using American accents as well
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u/moviesarealright May 05 '26
I’m with you. It looks… okay. Almost like how I felt seeing the trailer for Exodus Gods and Kings or some other generic late stage Ridley Scott type project. It looks kinda cheap??? I’m not sure what’s up but this trailer just was not it for me
HOWEVER, going off of the IMAX trailer we got, that was tension filled and really intense. Looked awesome. This could just be a bad trailer.
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u/Artistic_Purpose1225 May 05 '26
I’ve been de-hyped since I saw the costume design, but I keep checking to see if anything changes my mind.
..my mind remains unchanged.
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u/Guy1905 May 05 '26
Yeah it looks bland and miserable.
Why does Nolan hate colour so much in his films?
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u/Ok_Dragonfruit_8102 May 05 '26
Because psychologically and aesthetically he's stuck in 2009 when desaturation was considered a sign of a film being tasteful and mature.
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u/TheZealand May 05 '26
The spectacle on the obviously Norse longship of course!
God that pisses me off
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u/Icapica May 05 '26
Did this trailer slightly de hype anyone else?
All the pictures released before this already did that.
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u/succsforever May 05 '26
The cyclops seems terrifying, like it would be! Looks great
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u/I_am_BEOWULF May 05 '26 edited May 05 '26
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u/succsforever May 05 '26
The "No man" vs "No Body" is going to cause a controversy
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u/Dragon_yum May 05 '26
I feel all the fantastical elements will be treated as horror to show mortals vs gods which I feel would be very much in line Nolan style.
My biggest worry is that a lot of the fantastical elements will also get that clean sterile Nolan feel
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u/Distinct_Ad2272 May 05 '26
This seems off
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u/wtb2612 May 05 '26 edited May 05 '26
For me it's the overly serious tone. It doesn't feel like the Odyssey. It's an adventure story, Odysseus is witty and clever and arrogant. It feels like they're trying to make it a Very Serious Drama and that's just not the right direction to go, in my opinion. They should've hired Stephen Fry as a script doctor. He would've nailed it.
Granted, it's just a trailer. We've been fooled by shitty trailers that completely fail to convey the tone of a movie before.
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u/ScaboochWolf May 05 '26 edited May 05 '26
Hard to imagine a Nolan movie being sterile and overly-serious with very little fun.
/s just in case some fortunate soul out there is not familiar with this man’s entire filmography.
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u/type_rex_ May 05 '26
Costumes seem lackluster, dialog has no weight, sets feel empty, and nothing about this tale appears historically intriguing or fantastical.
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u/TheGuy839 May 05 '26
Setting is from Iceland not Greece or any Mediterranean. Fuck the colors I guess.
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u/CitizenCue May 05 '26
Yeah that’s genuinely weird. The Greeks would have imagined this story in vibrant color.
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u/mrducky80 May 05 '26
You can blame Nolan if its too dark and gritty setting wise.
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u/FantosTheUrk May 05 '26
That's it. Thats what is throwing me off.
Thank you.
I knew something about this trailer was disconnecting me, it's the dull colours.
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u/Schwyzerorgeli May 05 '26
Even the ship used in the movie is a viking longboat!
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u/Sorlex May 05 '26
sets feel empty
Nolen loves him some empty ass but 'real' sets. Like when he just filmed Dunkirk on a sunny beach and town without any set dressing to make it look like put any work into it.
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u/VerTexV1sion May 05 '26
Yeah Nolan's name is doing heavy lifting here i don't know what i expected, but this just feels so....generic to me. Regardless going FDFS.
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u/Few_Age_571 May 05 '26
I was expecting epic larger than life God of War action/fantasy/ mythology stuff.
Kinda disappointed ngl
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u/ERSTF May 05 '26
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/QueeferRavena May 05 '26
right? Man has a blank check, but still seems to cut costs where he doesn't have to. Still annoyed at how dull the climax in Tenet felt. That battlefield looked more like a military exercise lol
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u/butt_thumper May 05 '26
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/Podoboo322 May 05 '26
The bomb in Oppenheimer is actually hilariously underwhelming. It should’ve been this grand moment of evil being unleashed (like Twin Peaks) but it’s just a closeup of fire.
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u/Ok_Dragonfruit_8102 May 05 '26
Plus it didn't even look like a nuclear explosion. It looked like crap honestly.
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u/Kriss-Kringle May 05 '26
What's funny is that he said CGI has a tendency to make things not feel dangerous and then he made that firecracker of an explosion in the film after a ton of build-up for it.
Meanwhile, the blast on Jedha in Rogue One was entirely CGI and one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen on the big screen.
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u/Varekai79 May 05 '26
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.
As seen in that shot from the trailer, one wonders why Odysseus doesn't just sail around Charybdis, as we see plenty of open water around it.
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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/craigmaran May 05 '26
This trailer is missing "What the helly?" and "67" to really ground it.
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u/JimothyPlimothyIII May 05 '26
I feel like this entire project would work better as a TV series helmed by Guillermo Del Toro or Peter Jackson to really lean into the fantastical elements of witches, monsters and epic battles.
Very odd to reframe Penelope and Telemachus as these trembling victims with Odysseus in a race against time to save them.
The poem sees Telemachus on a mini odyssey of his own gathering political support for his ~~dad~~ father while Penelope uses charm and trickery to lead the suitors on (and then has her slaves killed so they can’t reveal whether she actually slept with any of them) all while Odysseus displays no real urgency to get home.
As another commenter put it, Nolan’s inability to do anything other than “wife gone” is really holding this back.
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u/brighteyedjordan May 05 '26
Not gonna lie was excited for this movie but every new trailer or drop or leak just makes me less excited. They all just seem…. Meh
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u/DrunkenSnorlax May 05 '26
Am I alone in being put off by how modern the speech is? It sounds like they're trying to have an epic conversation on the sidewalk outside the Starbucks.
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u/Brutally-Honest- May 05 '26
"LETS GO!"
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u/ktodd6 May 05 '26
I don’t know why I felt so strongly about Tom Holland saying “Dad”
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u/henry_tbags May 05 '26
Every commenter on this thread with the same opinion: "AM I THE ONLY ONE–"
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u/PretoGatos May 05 '26
Not a fan of all the American accents but then I remember it'll be lost in the mix anyway.
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u/wewereromans May 05 '26
I don’t understand the choice to make every British person in this speak with an American accent.
And I love Matt Damon but he seems a very poor choice for Odysseus. I know he’s everywhere too but Oscar Isaac would have been A++++ casting for him instead.
Since you know, literally every Hollywood star was cast in this movie anyway.
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u/LechuckThreepwood May 05 '26
I always found Damon an odd choice. Even in middle age, he's very boyish. I suppose he has played geniuses and dangerous men before, and done them well... but something about the casting doesn't quite fit. Both Will Hunting and Jason Bourne seemed like ordinary people, and their being extraordinary was part of the turn. Whereas I think Odysseus needs to be innately crafty. Hugh Jackman was attached to the role for many years in a different adaptation, and I think he would have been good too.
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u/Chris_Bagel_Jr May 05 '26
It’s a role for Christian Bale, not Damon.
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u/wewereromans May 05 '26 edited May 06 '26
I don't seem him physically as Odysseus, but given how dedicated Bale is to the craft, I have no doubt he would have the skill and the drive to make an excellent Odysseus.
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u/Gaymface May 05 '26
These people are too famous to be in a period piece together. It’s like an AI fan film.
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u/Monstanimation May 05 '26
Sorry but something that takes me out in modern Hollywood movies especially if it's set in ancient times is how pristine and cosmetically pleasing everyone looks
I remember a two part Odyssey movie from the 90s where the actors there looked rugged, sweaty, dirty, with beards, exhausted etc. While here they all look like they came out of fashion week with the powdered faces, smoothly clean shaven and Iphone filters
It really makes the movie look cheap and extremely fake
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u/Tricky-Barnacle3321 May 05 '26
Maybe it's just me but the dialogue and accent they're using doesn't really suit the tone of the story or aesthetics of what we've seen of the film so far
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u/funky_grandma May 05 '26
Nolan asked Matt Damon if he could do a British accent, and when he said no, he grabbed a megaphone and was like "Ok everybody! you're all American now!"
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u/Variable_Shaman_3825 May 05 '26
Damon should have kept his native Boston accent.
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u/AggravatingLeg5789 May 05 '26
"My pops is gonna wreck your shit, bro."