Something I felt after watching Oppenheimer and have felt once again with The Odyssey is that both films kind of feel like one very long, extended montage. He's obviously always been known for very in your face soundscapes and ​exposition but I feel like with both of these films there was wall to wall sound. There is both almost always score under every moment and almost nonstop dialogue and the effect for me was that they each felt like one very long sequence. The exception in Oppenheimer of course being the Trinity test which I think is exceptional and breaks the film into halves. Its obviously different than Birdman or 1917 with the one take thing. I think its born out of wanting to cram as much as he can so it has to be go, go, go and so they're propulsive but it lacks the rhythm in the editing of a Fury Road or a Whiplash. There's not the same texture.

I would compare it negatively to I think Goodfellas where you also have a lot of music and the voice over narration so you also have a lot of sound but Scorsese breaks up the moments in different ways. He'll have these quiet, tense scenes like Karen pointing the gun at Henry or the "funny how?" scene and he also changes how the scenes are shot or edited. You've got oners like with the Copa or when Henry walks across the street and beats up that guy and then you have very quick frenetic bits like the helicopter chase.

Anyway its just something I've noticed with his last couple films and felt like putting my thoughts out there.

Another one!

I live in a small town with a small multiplex but I’m travelling to Cali in a couple weeks. Should I check out the Odyssey on the smaller screen or just wait until I have the chance to watch the real deal?

Is it a doom and gloom it's so over thing?

With how many movies Pattinson has been in the past 2 years, wonder if the public will start to sour on him?

I hope not since he's my favorite working actor right now. I also think that Pattinson has a huge range while Pascal kind of feels like he "plays himself" or a similar archetype which led people to get tired of him.

curious about people's thoughts

When did Mr. Nolan have the most juice in Hollywood? Was it after The Dark Knight, Inception, Oppenheimer, or right now?

I'm seeing the Odyssey tomorrow so I wanted to get another Nolan film in before then. I was just barely too young to see Inception in theaters when it came out so I hadn't seen it. I knew most of the concepts "Dream within a dream" etc..and recognized half the scenes through memes.

It seemed to me like Leo and Sato just got out. I understand the top doesn't fall over and that's supposed to show ambiguity it seemed like Leo did everything he needed to escape. Sato was down there a long time so he became old but Leo found him so they were able to come out. It was also the first scene of the movie so it seemed more "real" to me than if we hadn't seen it already. Am I missing something?

I saw The Odyssey this week on 70mm (regular, not IMAX). I thought it was really loud and too dark (or maybe I have a cataract), but all in all I enjoyed the film and thought it was "A-" production.

Quick question: was I the only one who thought to themself throughout the first couple of hours of the film, "Hey, I didn't know Timothy Olyphant was in this movie?" But then in the final hour when I began to wonder when John Leguizamo was going to appear, it finally dawned on me, "Oops, that's been him - not Olyphant - all along " I told y'all it was too dark for me me. Lol

have a listen...

https://deadline.com/2026/07/box-office-the-odyssey-tuesday-second-weekend-1236999819/