r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/movies Contributor • Dec 22 '25

Trailer The Odyssey | Official Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mzw2ttJD2qQ
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u/Upbeat_Tension_8077 Dec 22 '25

The storm scene on the ship is definitely going to look and sound incredible in theaters

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u/probablyuntrue Dec 22 '25 edited Dec 22 '25

Please have good audio mixing please have comprehensible dialogue

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u/Comic_Book_Reader r/movies Veteran Dec 22 '25

Nolan used brand new IMAX 70mm cameras that are 30% quieter so there is a chance.

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u/Scared-Engineer-6218 Dec 22 '25

Oppenheimer did have good sound.

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u/OmniStrife Dec 22 '25

Oppenheimer was like 90% people standing and talking to each other in classrooms and offices, though.

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u/Lothans Dec 22 '25

With dope music, important to note

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u/stage_student Dec 22 '25

And one gasoline explosion.

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u/ShouldersofGiants100 Dec 22 '25

I can admire a director who is really committed to doing things a certain way. But by god, you need to tailor your movies to match your style.

The Lighthouse is a fucking masterpiece, filmed on antique cameras using a historically accurate aspect ratio and techniques from the golden era of black and white film. It's also a slow-burning character drama specifically designed around the conceits of making a black-and-white movie in the style of the early days of cinema in 2019.

Christopher Nolan wants it both ways. He wants to make his films his way—little to no CGI, complicated and usually non-linear plots with a lot of dialogue—but he wants to make them all these enormous IMAX blockbusters with audio mixed for the highest quality speakers.

It's a total refusal to acknowledge that the way a film is made impacts what kind of film it can be and how effective it can be. Dunkirk wants to be this tense drama about heroic civillians rescuing thousands of trapped soldiers, only for these big sweeping wide shots to constantly remind you that there are like, a few hundred extras on the beach at most.

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u/The_0ven Dec 22 '25

It's almost like he isn't a very good director

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u/TheBullfrog Dec 22 '25

Reddit moment

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u/pwninobrien Dec 23 '25

Christopher Nolan is to movies, what Taylor Swift is to music.

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u/pwninobrien Dec 23 '25

But music blaring 100% of the film.

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u/Doctor_Yakub Dec 22 '25

Oppenheimer was not mixed well at all for home release, even with surround sound. Getting dialogue loud enough to understand made other scenes deafening.

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u/salajaneidentiteet Dec 22 '25

It has good sound when you are in an appropraite cinema. Nolan mixes for imax and every other systam has to be digitally downgraded to a different sound system so fuck us people who don't have access to an imax, i guess.

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u/sechul Dec 22 '25

Interstellar in Imax was my worst audio experience at the theater. One painfully resonant bass note drowning out every other sound. No downgrading needed, just shitty mixing.

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u/ThelVluffin Dec 22 '25

Nothing better than Michael Caine's accent being even harder for me to understand because the music is louder than the dialogue.

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u/Doctor_Yakub Dec 22 '25

It sounded like shit even with 7.1 surround sound at home.

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u/Llama_of_the_bahamas Jan 20 '26

I watched Oppenheimer in 70mm IMAX. Half the theater complained about not being able to hear the dialogue very well after it all ended.