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/eltrotter 4h ago

I hate, hate this framing. Maybe Hollywood Reporter are just being flippant in their language here, but I do not want movies to be made "the hard way".

The real lesson here might be: All filmmaking should be difficult if you want to persuade audiences to leave their homes and trek to a theater.

No, sorry. Wrong emphasis. Because it frames effort, care and craft as being "hard" and low-effort, disposable guff as the default. As usual, it's really just a case of intentionality. When you're using practical effects, on-location shoots, cameras the size of wardrobes, the margin for error is small. You can't fuck things up, you have to have great actors, great blocking, you have to have a plan and a vision. Filmmaking doesn't necessarily have to be difficult to be intentional, but difficulty does force intentionality which is probably what's tripping up the article's author.

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u/turiannerevarine 3h ago

the legend of zelda majora's mask was made in 18 months, an incredibly fast development period even for the time. it produced one of the best zelda games ever made

does this mean all video games should now be made in only 18 months? no, it means that the developers behind majora's mask knew what to do in 18 months.

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u/eltrotter 3h ago

Precisely. A good idea and a strong vision is the lesson here. You could attach weighted bags of sand to the feet of the entire production crew if you wanted the process to be difficult, but that would be missing the point!

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u/CurrentCostanza 1h ago

This is a weird extension of hustle culture where you don't respect someone's work unless they work on weekends.

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u/hoax1337 2h ago

Yeah, the article is really something.

"Lots of people are going to the movies to see a film of one of the world's most famous directors who constantly rants about that his films should only be enjoyed in a movie theatre".

Gasp No way! It must be the CGI!

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u/smeeeeeef 1h ago

They should also not take subsidies from colonizers to film in occupied land.