The Odyssey from Christopher Nolan

[SpeedBash]

Official Trailer

[page3]

Looking forward to this, but that trailer makes it look uninspiring and dull.

[rossub]

A chunk of it filmed in Scotland. Matt Damon spotted in various restaurants and such like.

[frisbee]

There was a couple of minutes from Odyssey before Avatar, it looked really good.

[StevieBee]

I look forward to watching in this in the format most of Nolan's films get watched... in 10 second snips in portrait mode on a phone!... just the way he wants it

Joking aside, does look like being a decent epic of the type nobody else seems to be making these days.

[C5_Steve]

I was lucky enough to see the trailer in front of Avatar at the weekend on the big screen, looks incredible. That bit where we glimpse the Cyclops entering the cave... knowing Nolan he's probably resurrected a real one

[wolfracesonic]

I don’t think Odysseus liked his Mrs much, or at least wasn’t in any rush to back to her, 10 years to get from Troy(Hisarlik, Turkey) to Ithaca, he’s havin’ a laugh isn’t he? I just punched Hisarlik-Ithaca by foot into Google maps…including a ferry ride or two, 98 hours! Now I’m sure dealing with Cyclops and a few other issues slowed him down but still.

[DodgyGeezer]

https://screenrant.com/the-odyssey-trailer/?utm_so...

[hondajack85]

Not another one. He's quite prolific. Still amazed people say his Dunkirk was one of the greatest war films ever.
I think people just like to fit into the herd.

[C5_Steve]

hondajack85 said:

Not another one. He's quite prolific. Still amazed people say his Dunkirk was one of the greatest war films ever.
I think people just like to fit into the herd.

[hondajack85]

C5_Steve said:

hondajack85 said:

Not another one. He's quite prolific. Still amazed people say his Dunkirk was one of the greatest war films ever.
I think people just like to fit into the herd.

The original 1958 was great. Added advantage of cast and extras that had experienced WW2.
Not Nolan and his travelling band of luvvies lol.

[Lucas Ayde]

hondajack85 said:

Not another one. He's quite prolific. Still amazed people say his Dunkirk was one of the greatest war films ever.
I think people just like to fit into the herd.

Dunkirk was just ... weird. Came across as very surreal. Some nice cinematography though and you certainly couldn't accuse it of being a formulaic war movie.

[Wills2]

That reminds me I'll have to see if Jason and the Argonauts is on this Christmas.

[JagLover]

page3 said:

Looking forward to this, but that trailer makes it look uninspiring and dull.

This

Why are people in the bronze age wearing matt black armour?. The clue is in the name in terms of what they should be wearing.

Give it some Mediterranean colours and bronze for the armour.

[C5_Steve]

JagLover said:

page3 said:

Looking forward to this, but that trailer makes it look uninspiring and dull.

This

Why are people in the bronze age wearing matt black armour?. The clue is in the name in terms of what they should be wearing.

Give it some Mediterranean colours and bronze for the armour.

It's not a documentary

[JagLover]

C5_Steve said:

JagLover said:

page3 said:

Looking forward to this, but that trailer makes it look uninspiring and dull.

This

Why are people in the bronze age wearing matt black armour?. The clue is in the name in terms of what they should be wearing.

Give it some Mediterranean colours and bronze for the armour.

It's not a documentary

It isn't, but the complaint from the trailer is it looks drab and dull and ancient Greece in the bronze age should look anything but. So abandoning historical authenticity gives you a worse product.

This is before you consider the fact that historical accuracy and getting the "feel" right, is usually a mark of overall quality of a production.

[JagLover]

Leads me to thinking on when was the last great historical action/epic movie set before the twentieth century. So excluding romantic period dramas.

I am thinking Master & Commander.

[dundarach]

I've loved all Nolan's stuff and the longer runtime in general. However, I only stuck around for Oppenheimer for the bomb and even then it was a bit of an anticlimax.

Can't help feeling that this is a movie that no one really wants, will be too long and I for one certainly won't be paying to watch it.

That moaned, I'm sure it'll make a bucket load of cash, but I predict the end of the beginning of the Nolan train on this one.

[Gargamel]

Tough crowd in here.

Nolan makes distinctive 'proper' films. They are not made by committee and they deliver something authentic. That is increasingly rare in cinema right now.

Looking forward to it, even if it is a re telling of an old story.

[JagLover]

Gargamel said:

Tough crowd in here.

Nolan makes distinctive 'proper' films. They are not made by committee and they deliver something authentic. That is increasingly rare in cinema right now.

Looking forward to it, even if it is a re telling of an old story.

Nolan doesn't really warrant blind faith anymore. He made some great movies and then he has made some flawed ones and some downright poor ones.

Tenet was virtually unwatchable and Dunkirk and Oppenheimer were both flawed in their own ways.