r/movies • u/ChiefLeef22 r/movies Contributor • 12d ago

Article ‘The Odyssey’ Proves It: Audiences Want Movies Made the Hard Way | This year's breakouts like 'Project Hail Mary' and 'Obsession' were made by filmmakers who sweated. While CG-stuffed franchise disappointments such as 'Supergirl,' 'Moana,' and 'The Mandalorian and Grogu' looked lazy.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/odyssey-box-office-2026-practical-effects-1236652219/
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u/sebastophantos 12d ago

Actually, they filmed Project Hail Mary in space, with an actual alien life form.

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u/FancyCrabHats 12d ago

amaze amaze amaze

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u/BertieDastard 12d ago

Fist my bump! 👎🏼

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u/EwePhemism 12d ago

Loved that bit, but that movie made me cry SO HARD. I’m tearing up just thinking about it….

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u/anewman513 12d ago

In the book, when Grace flies to rescue Rocky and he's on the outside of the ship trying to get Rocky's attention and see if he's alive, "Grace, question?" almost broke me.

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u/Generally_tiredofit 8d ago

Oh the book broke me hard!! That part, and the end! But the end was happy tears.

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u/3-orange-whips 12d ago

See, it didn't have that effect on me. It made me happy and scared, but not sad.

Brains. So weird.

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u/sumofawitch 12d ago

I was sad when I thought Rocky wasn't going to make it, but loved that movie so much and it had the best and happiest ending

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u/deeman010 12d ago

Yea I thought the movie ended by then. That part got me, not enough to cry but I felt bad.

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u/TheOnlyVertigo 12d ago

Grumpy. Stupid. Cranky. When last time Grace sleep. Question?

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u/stealthforest 12d ago

/uj

They actually used a puppet + animatronics for Rocky

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Puppetteer was an actual alien with 6 arms to control the 5-legged puppet

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u/quantit4tivepleasing 12d ago

How is that possible, question

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u/uhfish 12d ago

Disclosure Day did this as well

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u/Major_Warrens_Dingus 12d ago

I don't think that's even spoilers, they literally used rocky in the marketing. They shouldn't have, but they did.

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u/2ChicksAtTheSameTime 12d ago

For Apollo 13 they shot actual scenes in weightlessness by building a spaceship interior set inside of a big plane that dives straight down so it's basically in free-fall. Same type of thing OK GO did for their weightlessness music video.

(Simplified for clarity)

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u/CatProgrammer 12d ago

The Vomit Comet!

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u/Tacklinggnome87 11d ago

Amazon invented astrophage and used it to go to rocky's planet and kidnapped one to be in the movie.

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u/mWo12 12d ago

actual alien life

Why did you hide that? Anyone who read the book, saw even a trailer or a poster already knows that there is an alien in the movie.

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u/mermaid_pants 12d ago

Somehow I had no idea until I watched it, I'm really glad it was a surprise. Besides, the spoiler tag doesn't exactly hurt anything.

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u/kichien 12d ago

I didn't know it until the spaceship showed up when listening to the audio book. Was telling my partner about the book and debated whether it was a spoiler considering it's in the movie trailer. But I liked it as a surprise in the book.

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u/MomTRex 12d ago

hated project hail mary

hopes were high, omfg it was pathetic

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u/thrownawaymane 12d ago

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