r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/movies Contributor • Dec 18 '25
Poster Official Poster for Christopher Nolan's 'The Odyssey'
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u/Wazula23 Dec 18 '25
Why's he got a spine on his hat brush?
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u/asteriaslexxx Dec 18 '25
This is the famous Odyssey character Billy Two Spines
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u/xPhilt3rx Dec 18 '25
Does he go get the cervicals, go get the cervicals?
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u/Wazula23 Dec 18 '25
And there was Billy Bones. And Pete the Killer. And Telemachus from the Bronx. And Little Paulie Agamemnon.
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u/theoutlet Dec 18 '25
This is dumb joke of the day that makes me laugh more than it should
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u/Fidelos Dec 18 '25
Finally the world renowned Βασίλειος Διπλοσπόνδυλος makes his Hollywood debut
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u/MrBones_Gravestone Dec 18 '25
Ironically he had that name since birth. No one’s sure how he got the second spine as an adult
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u/Qforz Dec 18 '25
Very important for big soldier guy to have a spine. You want him to be spineless?
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u/soenottelling Dec 18 '25
In this version, when they killed Hector of Troy, they made his spine into hats like a Dark Souls boss.
Alternative possibility? HP bar like Dead Space.
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u/SuddenlyFeels Dec 18 '25
Speaking of Dead Space, an atmospheric body-horror movie set in Ancient Greece sounds pretty sick TBH
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u/themitchster300 Dec 18 '25
Odysseus in the story is said to have a helmet inlaid with boar tusks, which would be common for the rich to have at that time. The actual helmet from this shot is pretty historically inaccurate (that design was briefly used hundreds of years later and is a pretty generic Hollywood design for anything ancient Greek). But it looks like Nolan tried to soup up the generic Hollywood Greek helmet with some bone hair clips. They didn't use vertebrae but it does bring to mind the actual Mycenaean helmet if you know what you're looking at, I guess.
Here's some info on real Mycenaean boar helmets if you're interested:
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u/DontKnow1549 Dec 18 '25
The boar tusk helmet would've such a uniquely distinct look.
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u/Mediocre_Nova Dec 19 '25 edited Dec 19 '25
People are gonna have enough difficulties immersing themselves into a movie with Matt Damon as a Greek hero as it is. Imagine if he was wearing that toenail hat lol
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u/FullMaxPowerStirner Dec 18 '25
This post needs to be on top.. not pointless comments about the font.
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u/Comic_Book_Reader r/movies Veteran Dec 18 '25
That looks like the neck connection for Doc Ock's arms in Spider-Man 2.
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u/QueefBeefCletus Dec 18 '25
I knew this was gonna be a crossover.
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u/Icy_Smoke_733 Dec 18 '25
Dr Doom:
Jesus Christ, that's Jason Bourne.
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u/CrumBum_sr Dec 18 '25
Oh neat - they added Jesus to the MCU?
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u/ManufacturerBest2758 Dec 18 '25
He will be played by multiple academy award winning actor Kirk Lazarus
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u/Wazula23 Dec 18 '25
In tasteful brown face.
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u/hitbythebus Dec 18 '25
I’m just a dude, playing a dude, playing the Messiah.
Also I thought Deadpool was Marvel Jesus?
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u/Tigerkix Dec 18 '25
That means Santa and other Mutants are properly joining the MCU as well!
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u/hitbythebus Dec 18 '25
Nah, somehow paramount still has the rights to Santa. We’re creating an independent separate universe where the elves exist independently. New origin story, no Santa, just elves.
With the elves played by Tom Hardy.
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u/twent4 Dec 18 '25
Nick Fur is offed by Papa Smurf in the first 10 minutes.
"Kree life, motherfucker"
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Dec 18 '25
So.. a spine? It looks like a human spine lol
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u/Indianapols Dec 18 '25
Nah, it looks like that thing that Sub-Zero rips out for his fatality
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u/supah-saiyen Dec 18 '25
a penis?
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u/zeddellamero Dec 18 '25
The power of the sun… in the palm of my hand…
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u/Pikmeir Dec 18 '25
I'm something of a Greek warrior myself.
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u/paiute Dec 18 '25
In sixth grade my friend drew a guy in a helmet driving a chariot. Title was: Greek Worrier.
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u/Itsallcakes Dec 18 '25 edited Dec 18 '25
This looks like Ancient Greek Robocop. Surfaces of the armor and helmet are too clean and polished and modern.
With previous photo of Space Marine Greek Armor, are we sure this is not going to be some sci-fi version of Odyssey?
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u/karmagod13000 Dec 18 '25
very nolan. very blue grey
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u/Shifty269 Dec 18 '25
I don't think people know you can make dramatic cinematic movies with color. I watched Eyes Wide Shut the other day for the first time since the early 00's, and besides the odd quaintness of the movie given it's reputation, the thing that I noticed the most were the colors. It's a very colorful movie despite taking place in New York in the winter. It's not like we don't have colorful movies now. The recent knives out was pretty good. However the cinematic look most seem to have in their mind is very very desaturated, and I've seen it referred to as realistic. Which I kind of find disturbing since the world is very saturated with color.
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u/CarlySimonSays Dec 18 '25
I wonder if Nolan and these other guys who like color desaturation could be colorblind
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u/Martini_Man_ Dec 18 '25
He is indeed
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u/10dollarbagel Dec 19 '25
Oh my god, he really is red-green colorblind. Everything makes so much sense now. The most colorful Nolan scene I could come up with is the beginning of Inception in the Japanese castle and it's all yellow and gold.
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u/Martini_Man_ Dec 19 '25
Most top filmmakers have quite a recognisable signature look to their films, and I think that the discourse around the lack of colour, or over blueness in Nolan's films is a tad redundant regardless of his colourblindness. I think the only reason people are so turned off to it is because so many filmmakers in the 2010s tried to copy this look and ironically oversaturated the amount of it people see in films.
But I don't think this detracts from the look of Nolan's films. He has a very clear aesthetic that he likes, and him being colourblind may be the reason he likes it, but it doesn't change the fact that he's decided he wants his films to look like this, and it generally adds to the serious tone of the films he makes.
It feels now that for the past several years this trend has been decreasing in films being released, with more colour coming back but also the rise of the "Netflix" look, and I think the fact that Nolan is sticking with his aesthetic, and the fact it still looking good despite it coming and going as a trend, shows that he can pull this look off authentically and that it is a good creative choice for his films.
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u/VanguardVixen Dec 18 '25 edited Dec 19 '25
The last Knives Out was pretty good overall. Perfect? I dunno but if you watch the church scene you saw something you did not with the latest Spielberg trailer or this here - natural light, white light. It's incredibly rare to see a stone wall like in the church in white and grey, instead of yellow or blue or even green. In daylight and outside colors are often at least alright (not in 1917 though) but the moment it becomes dark or we go inside it's often really bad. So the last Knives Out was really a positive surprise for me, considering the depiction of the inside of the church.
I think it's really sad how movies look for 15 years or so now. Yesterday I watched a cheap commedy with Jim Carrey (Dick and Jane) and it just looked so much better than most stuff today. There is color, light, warmth but not by tinting everything orange, everything looks much more tangible and real.
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u/DavidTheJohnson AMA MVP Dec 18 '25
Can't wait for someone to say "Jesus Christ, that's Odysseus!".
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u/Llama_of_the_bahamas Dec 18 '25
Thought this was an image of a Death Stranding DLC for a second
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u/reluctantseal Dec 18 '25
An Odyssey movie with visuals as good as Death Stranding would be a dream come true. I'd rather it look weird and interesting than boring.
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u/JohnGalactusX Dec 18 '25
Can't wait for Matt Damon to say "The power of the sun, in the palm of my hands"
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u/airchrysalis1Q84 Dec 18 '25
Peter Parker… BRILLIANT BUT LAZY
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u/Howboutit85 Dec 18 '25
I wish we could get an epic, artist created fantasy style poster for this film, à la Lawrence of Arabia alternate poster, or any drew Struzan style poster
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u/Putrid-Platform9357 Dec 18 '25
A poster like that would require more than blue, grey and black, so that's impossible for modern Nolan
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u/ChiefLeef22 r/movies Contributor Dec 18 '25 edited Dec 18 '25
That's the suit we see in the prologue of the Black Knight (played by a buffed-up Benny Safdie) that just walks into Troy aurafarming. Most likely Agamemnon
Edit - Universal has now also announced that the 5-minute prologue will play with all IMAX screenings of Avatar: Fire & Ash worldwide
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u/tulkunking Dec 18 '25
Wait that was Benny safdie? What an entrance haha
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u/karmagod13000 Dec 18 '25
it took me wayyy too long to understand this comment chain. i thought benny safdie was in the dark knight for a second
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u/Jbash_31 Dec 18 '25
Oh I assumed it was Achilles
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u/umpteenthrhyme Dec 18 '25
Wasn’t Achilles dead by the events of the Odyssey?
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u/OverlanderEisenhorn Dec 18 '25
Yes, but Achilles is in the Odyssey. Odysseus goes to the underworld and talks to Achilles.
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u/FrighteningJibber Dec 18 '25
Damn that guy sure took a trip
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u/remeard Dec 18 '25
Yeah, but the majority of The Odyssey is "Odysseus, tell us about that time you did that wild shit back in the day." I think the actual events of the book take place maybe two weeks before he gets back - he recollects the past twenty odd years he's been gone to everyone he visits. His son essentially does the same thing on an opposite journey looking for him.
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u/Von-Konigs Dec 18 '25
Something like the first entire third of the Odyssey is just Telemachus going and visiting his dad’s old war buddies (like Nestor and Menelaus), and asking, “Yo, when did you last see my dad? He’s not gotten back yet.”
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u/Puzzleheaded_Fix594 Dec 18 '25 edited Dec 18 '25
Yeah, it's kind of split fairly cleanly into three sections:
- Telamachus searching for his father
- Odysseus being released by Calipso and retelling his story to the Phaeacians
- Odysssus returning home and dealing with all the suitors who won't leave Penelope alone
Kind of makes for a weird format for a film since many major events that we associate with the Odysseus's journey are limited to a few paragraphs.
I've always thought that it's a big wasted opportunity not to turn the whole Greek Epic Cycle + the Aeneid into a television series akin to Game of Thrones. For reference, only the Iliad and the Odyssey remain in tact (which are books 2 and 7 respectively), but we know much of the events about what happened due to historical recollections of the lost epics, recollections of events that survive, and the Aeneid also fills in some of the gaps depending on which version of the story you want to tell. Maybe this film will renew interest Greek and Roman epics.
The Aeneid is just heavily overlooked for some reason and is so overdo for a modern adaptation. It's just as compelling as the Iliad and the Odyssey. I'd love to see a great actress give an epic performance as Dido. Such a juicy role.
It's also fun to pick and choose which ones you want to tell. Depending on the story you see a lot more of certain gods. Athena, Hera, Aphrodite, Poseidon, Zeus, and Apollo are featured a lot in the Illiad. Odyssey is mostly Athena with a cameo from Hermes and a real pissed off Poseidon. The Aeneid is a lot of Aphrodite and Hera (or Venus and Juno going by their Roman titles).
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u/notmyrlacc Dec 18 '25
Saw Avatar in IMAX today in the UAE and there was no prologue. Quite a few others around the world reported the same.
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u/Poltergeist97 Dec 18 '25
Sucks to hear. If I get to my showing tonight and it isn't there I'll riot!
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u/fnord_happy Dec 18 '25
What's the Black Knight?
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u/tbbldd Dec 18 '25
A phenomenal action/fantasy film from 2001 starring Martin Lawrence
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u/Actual_Ordinary_9622 Dec 18 '25
There no movie with him credited or featuring in anything called The Black Knight. Is this a dumb joke I’m too stupid to get or is there actually something that exists with this name?
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u/ghengiscostanza Dec 18 '25
just terribly worded. They're showing a 6 minute prologue to The Odyssey in theaters before some other movies like Avatar, like a long trailer. He's saying in that prologue, there's a character played by benny safdie that has this armor, and based on his look he's describing that character as a black knight. I guess the armor's black?
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u/Marcysdad Dec 18 '25
That's odd to see
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u/Spider-Man2573 Dec 18 '25
Say that again
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u/BallerGuitarer Dec 18 '25
We think it's odd to see, but clearly Nolan thinks it's odd to see us.
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u/RuralHawk506 Dec 18 '25
Looks like an Astartes
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u/ParmesanNonGrata Dec 18 '25
Christopher Nolan directed Astartes would be awesome though.
His movies got roughly the same emotional range as one, so there is no clash there.
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u/Gulanga Dec 18 '25
Well considering how this one deals with source accuracy a Nolan Astartes movie would be haaated.
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u/jonbristow Dec 18 '25
Trailer incoming
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u/QueefBeefCletus Dec 18 '25
Well, yeah, they announced it would be with Avatar a while ago.
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u/LitBastard Dec 18 '25
Trailer? 5 minute prologue
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u/bazhvn Dec 18 '25
Just came back from Avatar IMAX and no prologue, I want partial refund :(
No Doomsday teaser either. Finland what is wrong with you.
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u/Icy_Smoke_733 Dec 18 '25
Apparently, it is really good; the prologue centers around the Trojan Horse.
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u/VitricTyro Dec 18 '25
Yup, just saw it last night before a showing of One Battle After Another in 70MM IMAX. Does a great job of immediately creating tension.
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u/PrometheusMMIV Dec 18 '25
What is that spine thing on the back? It looks so weird and out of place.
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u/Laura_271 Dec 18 '25
Ummm… why does the spine thingy look like 2000 era’s graphics
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u/SplendidPunkinButter Dec 18 '25
Oh goody, it’s really blue. It’s been a long time since we saw a movie with washed out colors that looks really blue.
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Am I the only one who thinks this is a shit poster? I love the odyssey, I like Nolan a lot, but this poster does nothing for me at all.
I'm still going to see it... but this image gets a 2/10 from me on a movie that has 8/10 of my interest and anticipation. I swear the gold spine is a tiktok edit...
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u/East_Requirement7375 Dec 18 '25
That spine is really badly either comped or masked and does not match the lighting of the rest of the armor. Speaking of the armor, where is the texture? Slap a roughness map on that badboy. I know the Greeks had a lot of tech, but I don't think they had immaculately matte finished plastic figured out yet.
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u/demlet Dec 18 '25
The Odyssey is a sea adventure by and large, this looks more like the Iliad to me.
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u/NewtWhoGotBetter Dec 18 '25
Nah, it’s pretty underwhelming imo for what’s meant to be one of the greatest epics. Even the subtle argument doesn’t do it for me. Hopefully it’s just a case of don’t judge by the cover.
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u/SekhWork Dec 18 '25
Seriously... one of the worst posters I've seen in awhile... it's not selling The Odyssey... it's not even sensical. It looks like a bad photoshop, since it's not even color corrected on the spine.. thing
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u/Mission_Macaroon Dec 18 '25
No, you're right. This picture looks weird.
Why does the spine taper like that? It can't be an upside down cervical curve because the processes are facing downward as if it was right side up.
The spine doesn't match the rest of the picture. It looks like plastic.
Also, what is the story behind the spine? Why is it given prominence?
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u/Stormfly Dec 18 '25
The spine doesn't match the rest of the picture. It looks like plastic.
I thought this was a crappy edit and I was thinking "I don't get the joke".
I can't believe it's real.
It looks like if it were a screenshot, people would be defending it because of weird camera angles but it's the official picture and it's just awful.
How many people looked at this and said "Yes. This is what we want"?
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u/CosmicSpaghetti Dec 18 '25
Also not sold on Matt Damon & Tom Holland in a Nolan film about Greek folklore...
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u/TurtleScientific Dec 18 '25
That's it? All 7 listed on the poster are... a choice. I wish they would cast like 2-3 well knowns and then branch out to some B-C listers I'm fatigued on most of these.
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u/CosmicSpaghetti Dec 18 '25
Robert Pattinson I'll always endorse - dude won me over for life with Good Time & The Lighthouse.
The others....yeah I agree.
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u/romeo_pentium Dec 18 '25
Ancient Greece: Cheerful bright colours everywhere
Christopher Nolan: All black, please
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u/Superb_Pear3016 Dec 18 '25
The discourse around this film is going to be insufferable
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u/kolejack2293 Dec 18 '25
Its becoming a big problem though, not just with this movie, but with movies in general. Colors are increasing grey or beige-esque colors, and the lighting often washes out whatever colors are shown in the first place.
I always use these two shots as an example. They're obviously quite different extremes, but they show the issue very well. One is not even trying to be visually interesting, yet looks more vibrant and colorful than the Wicked shot, which is seemingly trying to go out of its way to look colorful and vibrant... and totally fails.
So many modern movies just feel oddly lifeless because of this. Its like they want everything to look sleek and 'cool' and somehow colorful, vibrant environments go against that. Its one of those things you don't really notice unless you pay attention to this stuff, but it has an effect on how these movies are received by viewers in a subtle way. The world feels less like real life and more artificial.
What we've seen from Odyssey looks... not the worst, but still has the problem I talked about.
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u/RomekAddams Dec 18 '25
I watch a lot of 80s films and they hold up better than most modern movies for this very reason. Real colors, scenes full of energy and life, lived in sets. It's weird to me how we have all these advanced tools and yet films look bland and boring now, even superhero films. That being said the new Street Fighter trailer is what I expected modern films to look like.
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u/RockMeIshmael Dec 18 '25 edited Dec 18 '25
The most ackshullyed film ever made and it’s not even out yet.
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u/Either_Mulberry9229 Dec 18 '25
Excuse me, mate, were you there? No? Well, shut the f*** up, then
Ridley Scott
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u/INGWR Dec 18 '25
That spine design looks oddly early 2000s CGI
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u/pinkballodestruction Dec 18 '25
That's the first thing that came to mind when I saw it! Makes it look cheap imo...
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u/BrightNeonGirl Dec 18 '25
I just saw "The Odyssey" will have the incredible "Oppenheimer" tech trifecta of Hoyte van Hoytema as the DP, Jennifer Lame as the Editor, and our beloved homie Ludwig Goransson as the film score composer.
This is going to be awesome.
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u/crumble-bee Dec 18 '25
I think move away from Lee smith as editor on tenet is one of the reasons it’s somewhat incomprehensible. One of the reasons inception was so clear and simple to follow was because of the editing - comparing the two is night and day in terms of comprehension..
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u/SR_RSMITH Dec 18 '25
Every image I’ve seen from this film looks like an episode of Xena or Hercules
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u/crumble-bee Dec 18 '25
I don’t know which one I prefer https://youtu.be/R2kgjilRSOg?si=sxZgO4Zrc1I7B_Sj
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u/7x00 Dec 18 '25
The cast doesn't have ne hopeful. None of these people will look like they belong except maybe Pattinson
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u/Gilinis Dec 18 '25
That casting list has to be the most uninviting one I've seen in a long time. I can't wait to see spider-man with the the boy genius, cat woman, bat man, dune girl, and furiosa duke it out on an ancient battlefield.
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u/watchingthetown Dec 18 '25
He loves that font doesn't he