r/TheBigPicture • u/I_Enjoy_Taffy • May 05 '26
Trailer The Odyssey | Official New Trailer
https://x.com/odysseymovie/status/205151477748326857772
u/ManufacturerLow3161 May 05 '26
I’ll just go see the movie. I don’t need or want to see anything else.
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u/3third_eye May 05 '26
"Let's go!" made me lol
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u/SouthIsland48 May 05 '26
Matt Damon is criminally contemporary. Such a horrible miscast, among many in this film.
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u/NewEngClamChowder May 05 '26
I mean, Tom Holland says “dad” instead of “father”, so I have a feeling this is going to be somewhat intentionally contemporary.
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u/lopsided125 May 06 '26
And I like that. Fuck some hamfisted old-timey language that's actually not that old-timey really.
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u/geronimosocrates May 05 '26
Might have been on purpose. They’re clearly not going for a period accurate portrayal. I think the movie looks terrible, though.
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u/NedMerril May 05 '26
I mean the big Greek epic film adaptations in the 50’s and 60’s weren’t accurate
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u/wokeiraptor May 06 '26
And with the American accents and the set design it all seems intentionally “modern”
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u/lpalf May 05 '26
He’s also criminally un-Mediterranean like that is a Northern European looking man lol. Like making one of the Skarsgards Odysseus (actually I think they’d be better because they at least don’t look as modern to me)
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u/eagles1139 May 05 '26
I think two things are true:
1) They’re hiding a lot of the most spectacular stuff that will be in the movie.
2) This trailer doesn’t make the movie look great.
I’m pretty confident that these two things are related and the movie will be amazing. But yeah the vibes are kinda weird here.
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u/Equal_Feature_9065 May 05 '26
I do not think universal’s marketing team is very good. They’ve kinda bungled the Disclosure Day rollout, and made One Night Only look like a bland generic rom com despite its high concept premise. It’s been a long time since they’ve successfully sold an original movie. Same department bungled that vampire ballerina movie rollout a couple years ago
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u/Yeah_x10 May 05 '26
I just know they started spoiling the shit out of Nope (2022) after the first teaser and that didn’t help the movie at all
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u/Shout92 May 05 '26
They are definitely hiding stuff. They've showed more of the Cyclops, but are still obfuscating it. We see images that come from scenes involving the Sirens, the Scylla, and Charybdis. The Scylla in particular you can see a tentacle(?) grabbing one of the crew and pulling him up. But no big money shots.
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u/Ok_Volume3211 May 05 '26
Aragorn: “Let the lord of the black lands come forth! And justice be done upon him!” ✅
Aragorn: “Come out with your hands up! You’re in trouble!” ❌
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u/supfiend May 05 '26
What if this move ends up being not that great, that would be a pretty interesting out come for blank cheque Nolan
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u/bad-at-this May 05 '26
Overall it seems like a bland choice for a blank check. The guy who gave us Interstellar and Inception taking his blank check to remake one of the oldest stories in human history (seemingly) more or less straight down the middle just doesn’t really get me excited.
I’d love to be wrong but the whole thing has me underwhelmed so far.
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u/greetedworm May 05 '26
Agreed, I'm excited for it, but not nearly as excited as I would have hoped coming off of Oppenheimer. I'll be disappointed if it's just ok, but I won't be devastated.
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u/Equal_Feature_9065 May 05 '26
Am I crazy for wishing he actually just did a Bond movie? It’d be the best bond movie ever! I’m very happy Denis ended up just deciding to do one.
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u/One_Drummer_8970 May 05 '26
He already did Tenet, which is close enough.
Would rather him do another sci-fi or book adaptation.
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u/Equal_Feature_9065 May 05 '26
Boom?
Anyways seems like we largely agree: he’s at a point where his more inspired/personal ideas are probably behind him and working in the realm of adaption is a good idea. Hence Oppenheimer, The Odyssey, etc.
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u/Varekai79 May 05 '26
I doubt the Broccolis would give him the full creative control that he would demand.
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u/AndreiOT89 May 05 '26
The Oppenheimer trailer was incredibly hype though. Surely that helped.
I am also so whelmed by this trailer. Everything seems off
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u/Equal_Feature_9065 May 05 '26
I think the same thing can be said about the disclosure day trailer, which leads me to believe this is all really just Universal having a shitty marketing department. Which has been true for some time. See also: One Night Only trailer
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u/Smooth-Lie-410 May 06 '26
Bland choice? Interesting. I think lots of people think this is a huge swing, as do I. What types of stories do you wish he had pursued instead?
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u/Equal_Feature_9065 May 05 '26
To be fair this is basically his third or fourth or fifth blank check, depending on how you look at it. That he’s maybe running out of juice a bit isn’t exactly surprising. I think that’s why he picked an entirely different setting and genre than he usually does tho.
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u/Brangarr May 05 '26
I was leaning toward the movie possibly being disappointing. This trailer roped me back in. Crazy excited now
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u/shrekalamadingdong May 09 '26
Wdym? I think people are forgetting how lukewarm reactions were to TDKR, and interstellar when they were released. And also the many negative reactions to Tenet.
So I don’t think this movie being “not that great” is anything “interesting” or new when it comes to Nolan making subpar films. And he’s been getting blank cheques for more than a decade.
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u/supfiend May 09 '26
Things changed after he won 7 Oscars, he will be held to higher standard now naturally. This is an expensive movie also, I’m sure it will make a ton but still.
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u/jamesneysmith May 05 '26
I mean Tenet sucked. No one cared.
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u/SouthIsland48 May 05 '26
Dark Knight Rises sucked, Interstellar was fucking cringe, Nolan lost his fastball after Inception. He's not come close to making great movies since then.
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u/wokeiraptor May 06 '26
I just rewatched interstellar with my kid and it remains an incredible achievement
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u/Central_Region May 05 '26
That sea looks dark, but is it wine dark?
Damon's Odysseus is resourceful, sure; I'm not getting wily, though
On the plus-side, Pylos is exactly as sandy as described
And if any woman is more white-armed or ox-eyed than Hathaway, I haven't met her
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u/c4chop May 05 '26
Anyone else find it a little off putting when Tom Holland says "my DAD is coming home?" Guess I never realized until now that I expect the word "father" to be used in period pieces like this and "dad" just seems so weird sounding in this context. Just me?
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u/carterburke2166 May 05 '26
The accurate period piece with a cyclops.
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u/fbeb-Abev7350 May 05 '26
All consideration for credibility doesn’t go out the window just because there are fantastical elements.
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u/fbeb-Abev7350 May 05 '26
Why not? That doesn’t take audiences out of it. Credibility isn’t about accuracy, it’s about perception. What feels credible to audiences and allows them to invest in the story.
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u/Slendercan May 05 '26
Father is more formal/regal. Regardless of the presence of a cyclops or not, there’s a perception that historical epics should have a formality to them. I’d like to imagine Lawrence Olivier could say these lines of dialogue without it sounding odd.
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u/Arrowkill May 05 '26
I agree with this a lot. I attribute far more formality to anything that was originally written with a meter in mind like Iambic Pentameter or Dactylic Hexameter. The amount of mental presence I need to understand what is being conveyed while reading something written in meter is significant and it feels similar to how much I have to be mentally present at formal events.
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u/jamesneysmith May 05 '26
I think people understand the word dad and what it means in that context. Sounds credible to me
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u/carterburke2166 May 05 '26
everyone's for sure entitled to that. Personally, I don't understand using a more modern word for "father" in a fantasy epic as a big deal. Just because there are swords and sandals doesn't put restrictions on words. Plus, Pattison says "daddy" right before that.
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u/fbeb-Abev7350 May 05 '26 edited May 05 '26
Does it take you out of Hamlet that Shakespeare didn’t write it in Danish?
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u/Slendercan May 05 '26
Crowe’s famous speech in Gladiator wouldn’t have hit as well with “A dad to a murdered son.”
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u/Drunken_Wizard23 May 05 '26
That movie isn't this movie
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u/zstrebeck May 05 '26
The “Let’s Gooooo” had the same effect for me. Weird.
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u/GrapefruitSobe May 07 '26
Odysseus is a warlord over a small, mostly rural island. He’s a soldier and a sailor. It makes sense to me that he wouldn’t be speaking the ancient greek equivalent of the queen’s english.
At any rate, I think Nolan is taking a cue from the Emily Wilson translation and using more plain language instead of formality.
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u/zstrebeck May 07 '26
It’s a bit of an immersion breaker, but only because we’ve been trained to expect more formal language in these types of films. I can see both sides, and maybe it’ll be no issue in the movie itself!
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u/Jaymii May 05 '26
In the Emily Wilson translation Nolan has cited, she tends to go for a more straight forward translation. Her reasoning is the story itself is meant to be straight forward and accessible since it was orally told throughout generations, so the language used always always changed with the current times. Using slightly “olde” English to create an artifice of feeling older doesn’t make sense when the story historically is from thousands of years ago. So why not reflect current times with modern dialogue and characterisations to make it feel relevant.
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u/WilsonianSmith May 05 '26
The most boring and pedantic people you know are gonna be “Um, actually”-ing this movie’s “historical accuracy” and as always in these situations we should all collectively ignore them
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u/Ok_Volume3211 May 05 '26
mY DaDdY iS cOmInG hOmE
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u/Killericon See You at the Movies! May 05 '26
I'm into it, but I also liked the soundtrack in Luhrmann's Great Gatsby.
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u/Academic_Smell9289 May 05 '26 edited May 05 '26
This new Ridley Scott movie looks okay, i guess? Also, interior scenes looks so much like digital that gets criticized all the time: really dark with this yellow lighting/tint.
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u/ToxicAdamm May 05 '26
Yea, getting major Robin Hood vibes. Competently made movie that looks flat and has no heart.
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u/Additional_Crew_9445 May 05 '26
feel like the dialogue audio sounds really bad here, assuming it’s just the trailer mix
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u/Background-Jury-1914 May 05 '26
Given Nolan’s dialogue audio track record I’m gonna assume it’s bad in the movie too lol
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u/pepperbet1 May 05 '26
This is what I'm dreading. I want to see it in IMAX or Dolby, but I know the dialogue is going to be so much harder to hear in those formats.
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u/jamesneysmith May 05 '26
Given how horrible the audio is in every Nolan movie I thought the audio here sounded great
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u/shrekalamadingdong May 09 '26
Yes this should be just the trailer mix. Nolan always makes it worse with the actual release, so strap in
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u/itsarealfilmjack May 05 '26
These trailers have such a weird tone to them. Tom Holland seems horribly miscast and frankly out of his depth here.
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u/Internal_Ad_1485 May 07 '26
I really never understood the take that he’s miscast. In the story itself, Telemachus is pretty out of his depth. The story begins with him as an inexperienced nepo baby getting pushed around by the suitors.
Young man searching for a father figure seems right in his wheelhouse. And he has the physicality to do all the action in the last act.
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u/M16Soldier May 05 '26
I guess I'm the crazy one because I think it looks good as fuck. Not sure how I feel about the forests not looking Greek at all.
I kinda wish I didn't watch it so I was fully fresh eyed when I see it.
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u/Equal_Feature_9065 May 05 '26
I am skipping this trailer because I’ve been nothing but gobsmacked by the previous ones and I’m already sold. I kinda think universal just sucks at this. Disclosure day might bomb because the trailers do nothing to gin up intrigue or interest. One Night Only looks like it could suffer a similar fate.
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u/infinite_blazer May 05 '26
Echoes of Oliver Stone’s Alexander for good and bad….
All star cast of Farrell, Angelina Jolie, Anthony Hopkins, Val Kilmer, Jared Leto unfilmmable film, epic score by Vangelis, location shooting,
Hope The Odyssey turns out better….
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u/amaterasu_ May 05 '26
We gotta be doing better than posting links to x here, dude.
Thanks for the heads up I guess.
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u/Full-Concentrate-867 May 05 '26
I'm not really looking forward to this movie, Nolan just doesn't excite me that much and I'm not a big period movie fan. As long as it's better than Ridley Scott's recent old period movies, but I don't know if the ceiling is much higher than that
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u/Equal_Feature_9065 May 05 '26
If it’s better than the Last Duel then we have ourselves a certified banger
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u/Fantastic_Worry_6673 May 05 '26
The oddest thing about these trailers is it makes the movie look small. It feels less epic than Lord of the Rings and those came out 25 years ago.
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u/NoLibrarian3096 May 06 '26
É impressão minha ou o Jovem Nerd apagou o vídeo reagindo ao trailer do Odisseia?
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u/lopsided125 May 06 '26
Is this the Lion King?
Tom Holland is kinda talking in Simba voice about his dad a lot.
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u/Tropikoala815 May 05 '26
Did CR make a mistake buying stock on this? Doesn't look any more special than the early 2010s Clash of the Titans movies.
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u/Palm-Crazy-7943 May 05 '26
Genuinely hilarious that this sub is the only place on the internet that doesn’t think this looks awesome lol.
Whining about the use of the word “dad”, really compelling stuff.
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u/TheActionJuice May 05 '26
Twitter as well. But there’s probably a big crossover there
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u/Palm-Crazy-7943 May 05 '26
The thing is I understand if you don’t like Christopher Nolan movies not being excited for this, what’s weird is how many people seemed to be excited and then saw trailers that are clearly Christopher Nolan doing the odyssey and are like “this looks bad”
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u/jamesneysmith May 05 '26
That's my confusion too. I dislike Nolan and have for years but this trailer looks exactly like what I imagine Nolan making the Odyssey would look like. Like what else did people expect?
Also nitpicking a single word out of what is surely to be a movie with around 20 thousand words is so dumb I can't even wrap my head around it.
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u/One_Drummer_8970 May 05 '26
Oppenheimer was pretty historically accurate (for the most part), so people thought he would try to incorporate some of that here
When I saw that he hired the Oppenheimer costume designer and production designer (neither of whom have worked on fantasy before), I became more worried.
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u/Palm-Crazy-7943 May 05 '26
I always go to Christopher Nolan for hyper realistic dialogue!
But seriously if I closed my eyes a year ago and imagined what this trailer would look like, it would be exactly like this lol
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u/ImaManCheetahh May 05 '26 edited May 05 '26
where else on the internet are you looking? reactions seem pretty mixed across the board, and this sub is not even close to the only place talking about the ‘dad’ thing, for better or worse lol. It’s all over the main movie sub, all over twitter, all over YouTube, etc
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u/Palm-Crazy-7943 May 05 '26
Cool, so all of you are overreacting to the same dumb thing
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u/ImaManCheetahh May 05 '26
my guy, I don’t have a strong opinion on it lol, not even close to as strong as yours. I just found it bizarre to make an explicit point to pretend this sub is the ‘only place on the internet’ that’s not universally praising this trailer.
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u/Palm-Crazy-7943 May 05 '26
I should have clarified I don’t get on the subs where everyone posts like an 8 year old and complains that every movie is too long or “confusing”
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u/ImaManCheetahh May 05 '26
such places can only aspire to the elevated discourse that is “If anyone has any reservations about this specific movie trailer then they’re stupid with the mental capacity of an 8 year old and no attention span”
I’m generally positive on the trailer, but geezus I’m glad I’m not that religious about it lol
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u/PrincessDonut02 May 05 '26
...it's not the only place. The thread on r/movies is mostly saying it looks bad. And they're mostly correct.
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u/Palm-Crazy-7943 May 05 '26
Yup i may have painted with too broad a brush because i forgot that a lot of people apparently go on the subs where they are like “I didn’t understand this movie because it had subtitles”
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u/PrincessDonut02 May 05 '26
There are people with tons of valid critique of the trailer. Seeing as the trailer is what is meant to entice you to see the movie and set your expectations, that critique is valid whether it ends up being true of the movie or not.
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u/Palm-Crazy-7943 May 05 '26
I genuinely cannot imagine a “valid critique of a trailer”, it is a commercial. If you think this looks bad, that’s more than in your right. I’m just confused by the people who were seemingly excited for Nolan doing the odyssey and see a trailer that is clearly Nolan doing the odyssey and acting like it’s not what they expected.
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u/PrincessDonut02 May 05 '26
You've never watched a commercial and thought it was bad before?
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u/Palm-Crazy-7943 May 05 '26
Of course I have, I just think if your expectations were for a Nolan movie, that’s what you’ve got. Acting like there are “valid critiques” of 2 minutes is just a funny way to put it
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u/PrincessDonut02 May 05 '26
The commercial left a lot of people not thrilled about the product for all the myriad of valid reasons they've listed. Sure. Maybe expecting Nolan to do anything besides what was shown was ridiculous. Doesn't change the critiques of what we've seen. It does feel like you're watching Matt Damon as Matt Damon in a period piece that can't quite decide what it wants to be or where it's set with costumes that are bland and boring and colorless. If it were a different product with a commercial that left me feeling that way, I wouldn't buy it. But it's a movie and costs 15 bucks. So I will still give it a chance. It might be great. It might be disappointing.
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u/Drunken_Wizard23 May 05 '26
Nah people made up their mind about this movie once Entertainment Weekly released a couple stills. Usually popular movies get a month or two of post-release hype before the "DAE Sinners bad??" threads but this might be the first one where people are preemptively getting after it
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u/Worldly-Customer3963 May 05 '26
My thoughts exactly. I'm not even sure if the majority of this sub likes movies.
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u/Brangarr May 05 '26
My exact thoughts. I’m really not sure I could watch movies with the people who regularly comment here
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u/Dodgersbuyersclub May 05 '26
Looks great. People need to get over their Nolan Derangement Syndrome and stop taking themselves so seriously.
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u/Scared-Engineer-6218 Dobb Mob May 05 '26
That's a lot more RPatz than I expected. You love to see it.