I dunno about Greek actors and language, but I do think American takes you out of it. It should've been British, I think we do view stuff like that more realistically with a British accent, it gives more of a historical gravitas.
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The Odyssey (2026) Trailer
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Chuck Berry
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I just wanna see the damn cyclops. Don't care about anything else. Nolan attempting practical creature effects is the only interesting thing I think it has going for it.
kruis
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The music in the trailer was obviously done by Hans Zimmer but it sounded very much like his Interstellar soundtrack.
Days like these...
Have a Blessed Day
The cut to Holland really took me out of the trailer. I gues there will be time travel in this because Holland looks like some late 80's early 90's twink especially with that Henley shirt, was teleported back to that era.
In every Nolan film the music at some points start to build up in a crescendo, usually from like the mid point.
SlimySnake
Flashless at the Golden Globes
Agamemnon looks amazing.
The rest? eh. Really dont like the basic ass costumes.
Troy looked so much better. Nolan is doing his Dunkirk thing and I'm not quite sure if i like it. The movie looks too sterile. Lack of CG will only hurt it like the underwhelming nuke test scene in Oppenheimer. Except Oppenheimer was a biography where as this movie is a long brutal journey with a lot of fantastical elements. Elements that he seems to be adopting instead of discarding like they did in Troy.
The shot on the beach where they raise the Trojan Horse looks amazing. Cyclops entrance also looks cool but the rest looks very mid tier. Hoytema gets a lot of praise but i really dont like how clean his movies look. I dont want to see a tv show. I want to see something that looks $200 million dollars. Dune had that look and it was shot on IMAX too.
The rest? eh. Really dont like the basic ass costumes.
Troy looked so much better. Nolan is doing his Dunkirk thing and I'm not quite sure if i like it. The movie looks too sterile. Lack of CG will only hurt it like the underwhelming nuke test scene in Oppenheimer. Except Oppenheimer was a biography where as this movie is a long brutal journey with a lot of fantastical elements. Elements that he seems to be adopting instead of discarding like they did in Troy.
The shot on the beach where they raise the Trojan Horse looks amazing. Cyclops entrance also looks cool but the rest looks very mid tier. Hoytema gets a lot of praise but i really dont like how clean his movies look. I dont want to see a tv show. I want to see something that looks $200 million dollars. Dune had that look and it was shot on IMAX too.
DKehoe
Member
Isn't it Goransson?
falconhoof
Member
Colour is totally possible in movies. Don't let them tell you otherwise.
SlimySnake
Flashless at the Golden Globes
100% Goransson.
pel1300
Member
Nolan and Zimmer don't work together anymore. They parted ways when Zimmer turned down Tenet in order to work on Dune.
kruis
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I stand corrected. It is indeed Ludwig Göransson.
Hans Zimmer knew what he was doing. Tenet was trash. Oppenheimer was a bore.
pel1300
Member
Seems like people are upset about stylistic choices and historical inaccuracies the most.
But it doesn't bother me that much tbh. Braveheart, Gladiator, Apocalypto - three of the best historical epics were all criticized for being historically inaccurate. Especially Apocalypto.
But it doesn't bother me that much tbh. Braveheart, Gladiator, Apocalypto - three of the best historical epics were all criticized for being historically inaccurate. Especially Apocalypto.
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3liteDragon
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Kenneth Haight
Gold Member
I think this looks great. Nolan rarely misses so I'm in for a trip to the cinema for sure.
apocaliptic
Member
I don't like the new batman costume. To plasticy.
The trailer is terrible
The trailer is terrible
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Revolutionary
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The bitrate of this official upload is horrific wtf
Audiophile
Member
Copy/Paste from old thread:
Shot on latest IMAX cameras.
Christopher Nolan
Universal Pictures
Hundreds of millions of dollars sloshing around.
Trailer uploaded at 1080p.
Clearly a poorly prepared deliverable.
2.40:1 Aspect Ratio
Even the IMAX YouTube channel only has it in 2.40:1, 1080p and horribly compressed.
Literally defeats the entire purpose of IMAX, they should be advertising it as close as possible to the experience on their own channel. Mind-boggling lack of fucks given...
Pagusas
Elden Member
Not worried about it being "accurate" or not, worried about it being too Grimm/dark when my expectations were it was going to be a grand journey film. Misplaced expectations on my part, but still disappointing so far.
ZehDon
Member
I appreciate they're leaning into a darker nightmare fantasy vibe, but I don't think the trailer does enough to actually establish it. It's simply not stylised enough for it to register. Instead, comes off as unintentional.
Keen to see it come together, but after Tenet, it's clear Nolan can miss when left to his own devices.
Keen to see it come together, but after Tenet, it's clear Nolan can miss when left to his own devices.
HRK69
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GudOlRub
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Nolan movie trailers have been pretty meh but the movies make up for it.
Even Tenet was still entertaining somehow despite it clearly being inferior to his other works so I'm not really afraid of this movie's entertainment value.
I was never really into this period in history so I don't have a horse in this race, I really can't care about the armors but the viking longboat did throw me off a little bit.
The music sounds dope.
Even Tenet was still entertaining somehow despite it clearly being inferior to his other works so I'm not really afraid of this movie's entertainment value.
I was never really into this period in history so I don't have a horse in this race, I really can't care about the armors but the viking longboat did throw me off a little bit.
The music sounds dope.
JackHanma
Member
One thing I loved about both those shows was that they didn't restrict themselves to just Greek mythology. I remember when Hercules fought Gilgamesh (played by Tony Todd) and Xena travelled to India and China. I had a huge man crush on Ares (dude was handsome as fuck) and man Callisto... She was Crazy hot.
Growing up in the 90s and early 2000s was something special man.
SlimySnake
Flashless at the Golden Globes
jesus christ this looks like a completely different movie. wtf is youtube doing.Visually gonna be his best film yet, 2026 can't come soon enough man.
falconhoof
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HRK69
Gold Member
By coincidence, I created a re-cut trailer set to music from The Dark Knight RisesI actually (really) enjoyed the trailer. Looks moody which is something i miss from Nolan latest movies (Tenet and Oppie).
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Unknown Soldier
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RJMacready73
Simps for Amouranth
Yeah but they all looked the part, they all nailed the aesthetic especially Apocalypto it looked like the film crew took a fecking time machine back in time to film it
Poppinfresh
Banned
Is the sound mix going to be absolute crap, like it is with every other Christopher Nolan movie?
His movies always make me seriously question if I need hearing aids or not.
His movies always make me seriously question if I need hearing aids or not.
ElFenomeno
Gold Member
Leave it to Nolan to make a teaser about the Odyssey look dull as hell.
Angry_Megalodon
Member
This is the worst offender to me. The Odyssey is a greek mythology fantasy with vivid colors, this is not The Northman. The overall tone of the movie doesn't feel right.
Angry_Megalodon
Member
He's Hans Zimmer's best "son" for sure. The similarities between Tenet's and Inception's soundtracks are not subtle at all.
Even if the movie sucks, the soundtrack will be worth listening.
Giallo Corsa
Gold Member
Seriously, what the hell is this?
Those armors. Those "Viking" longships. Batman aesthetics creeping in. And worst of all, the casting. It looks catastrophically wrong, on the same level as the utterly misguided The Last of Us show...
Matt Damon as Odysseus? Really? He looks like the most aggressively American guy imaginable, a decent actor, sure, but completely out of place here. Then you've got Tom Holland, eternal wide-eyed twinkle boy, and Zendaya on top of it. At this point it feels less like mythological casting and more like brand placement.
I've said it before and I'll say it again: Nolan is the favorite director of people who don't really watch films, his work is consistently treated as far smarter and deeper than it actually is, largely by his fanbase when In reality, his movies prioritize spectacle over substance every single time. They're polished, expensive blockbusters, not art-house cinema, no matter how desperately some fans want to frame them that way.
His films aren't particularly deep. They're not especially profound. They're competently made, visually impressive, and technically slick, but that's where it usually ends. They look good. That's the point. And that's fine. What's exhausting is the insistence that they're something more than that.
I mean :
ἐγώ εἰμι ὁ Βάτμαν.
Those armors. Those "Viking" longships. Batman aesthetics creeping in. And worst of all, the casting. It looks catastrophically wrong, on the same level as the utterly misguided The Last of Us show...
Matt Damon as Odysseus? Really? He looks like the most aggressively American guy imaginable, a decent actor, sure, but completely out of place here. Then you've got Tom Holland, eternal wide-eyed twinkle boy, and Zendaya on top of it. At this point it feels less like mythological casting and more like brand placement.
I've said it before and I'll say it again: Nolan is the favorite director of people who don't really watch films, his work is consistently treated as far smarter and deeper than it actually is, largely by his fanbase when In reality, his movies prioritize spectacle over substance every single time. They're polished, expensive blockbusters, not art-house cinema, no matter how desperately some fans want to frame them that way.
His films aren't particularly deep. They're not especially profound. They're competently made, visually impressive, and technically slick, but that's where it usually ends. They look good. That's the point. And that's fine. What's exhausting is the insistence that they're something more than that.
I mean :
ἐγώ εἰμι ὁ Βάτμαν.
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ShadowNate
Member
The music in the trailer is very good.
The rest of it is eh.
At least they took care to show bits that seem consistent with the original story. I have no idea what kind of a supercut the final movie will have be to cover even the events that should be covered.
Last year there was another Odyssey movie, The Return with Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche. Outside the cast, I think it had quite a low budget. I had some strong moments, especially towards its start, but for some reason also a really funny (which shouldn't be funny) chase sequence that was all over the place. Anyway, that one covers only the final parts of the story.
The rest of it is eh.
At least they took care to show bits that seem consistent with the original story. I have no idea what kind of a supercut the final movie will have be to cover even the events that should be covered.
Last year there was another Odyssey movie, The Return with Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche. Outside the cast, I think it had quite a low budget. I had some strong moments, especially towards its start, but for some reason also a really funny (which shouldn't be funny) chase sequence that was all over the place. Anyway, that one covers only the final parts of the story.
kruis
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This just looks awful ... Absolute mockery of ancient Greece ... What is Nolan thinking?
Giallo Corsa
Gold Member
This just looks awful ... Absolute mockery of ancient Greece ... What is Nolan thinking?
Who needs capitals and column capitals when you can just apply brutalism architecture, am I right ?
This movie is gonna be a fucking travesty
SJRB
Gold Member
I actually (really) enjoyed the trailer. Looks moody which is something i miss from Nolan latest movies (Tenet and Oppie).
"It's not who you are underneath, but what you do that defines you, Odysseus"
BlvckFox
Gold Member
I was trying to figure that out. I don't care about the armor or period accuracy but something was out of place.
It's Tom Holland. Movie looks good tho.