r/movies • u/ChiefLeef22 r/movies Contributor • 4h 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/BulLock_954 4h ago

Nolan read your comment and will now be making the Epic of Gilgamesh next in a cave, with a box of scraps

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u/LiterallyJoeStalin 4h ago

with a box of scraps

Don’t be rude, identify him by his name, Matt Damon. 

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u/Synicull 4h ago

I volunteer to be a box of scraps if I too get to look that good and have that much money at his age

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u/literated 3h ago

Hell, I'd settle for looking that good and having that much money at my current age.

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u/Skyrick 2h ago

The Odyssey is what happens when we don't send anyone to rescue Matt Damon

Interstellar is what happens when we send someone, but it takes close to a decade for them to get to him.

The Martian is what happens when we send someone, but it still takes over a year.

Saving Private Ryan is what happens when it takes weeks for us to rescue him.

The Borne Identity is what happens when a random person rescues him before we can get to him.

Rescuing Matt Damon is basically a genre of movies at this point.

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u/Ratorasniki 3h ago

The studio is currently backing several dump trucks of cash up to his home trying to get him to do the iliad as a prequel.

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u/BulLock_954 3h ago

Oh god. Just thinking of the budget they would allow for that is crazy lol

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u/Ratorasniki 3h ago

I can practically hear the elevator pitch.

"People love this. Let's give them more of it. Helen is the face that launched a thousand ships, and we'll build them for you".

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u/gulfrend 3h ago

Give me Michael Bay's Gilgamesh or give me nothing

"This year, Gilgamesh gets... EPIC"

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u/spartaman64 4h ago

will he make gilgamesh a jobber also