Movies
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There should be no third act teasers in any trailers. I get there is tested psychology with this - I personally forget all the potential spoilers - but there have been scenes in other films ruined by knowing what's coming up. It's like Hollywood etc think everyone is stupid so 'here's pretty much all the action scenes to entice you into watching the movie'. The psychology I think is that 'we' often do forget what we've previously been teased when sat down with popcorn ready to watch. But they will never go full sneaky because I guess some people only watch movies because of trailers lol.
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@Nick shoot i wouldnt be surprise if people skipped the movie altogether cuz most trailers are just synopses of the thing and people dont have the time lol
With this one in particular, it spoiled imagery. the giants, cyclops, settings, etc...i would have preferred if all these trials had surprised me in the same way the sirens and Circe did.
The hollywood machine is just crazy. They're so disconnected from reality. Its like now they only know what numbers tell them work. they have their formula.
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Yeah. Social media generation too. Take for example what Marvel do. They have super snappy footage and then the logo and then the trailer. It's literally a trailer for a trailer. I dont listen to the radio but Capital here in London/UK also have a preview of a track (like the hook) before playing the track. Not always but when they want to let the people know 'oooh there's a banger coming up'.
Reality is, it's Capital, there are no bangers.
Digital life has trained people to have no attention span.
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@AdamJ i dont think i'd be able to let that one go
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@WhiskeySandwich at first I thought he was going down the iMDB path of "What has he been in before?!" something my girlfriend loves to do, but that's usually at the start of the film.
I think 2 hours of attention was all he had in the tank!
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The Odyssey was terrific. Of course they took some liberties with a story that has very odd moments for modern audiences, and of course it wasn’t a perfectly authentic lens into antiquity, but I thought it felt like what Homer wrote about and was just superb all around.
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Saw it yesterday in IMAX with my son. 8/10 and I’m now deaf.
We both really liked it. I think the modern dialogue was distracting to me multiple times (subjective I know) The sound was incredible but the overall volume (IMAX maybe) was just too much. I thought Nolan did a great job thematically. And agree with many of you that mystical scenes were the most powerful. I don’t know if it’s possible anymore to make a movie of this scale with actors that “disappear” into characters, but I did enjoy most of the performances. I felt like I needed a quiet closet to decompress in after the show, probably Nolan’s intention.
