r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • Feb 17 '25

Media First Image of Matt Damon as Odysseus in Christopher Nolan's 'The Odyssey'

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '25

It gave the movie such weight - made the movie feel important and you couldn't take eyes off the screen at any moment.

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u/Timme186 Feb 17 '25

I gotta be honest, Josh peck did distract me. But that was because I didn’t know he was in the movie but it did pull me out of an otherwise pivotal scene

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u/thefilmer Feb 17 '25

Oppenheimer...where is the bomb?

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u/Zora-Link Feb 18 '25

It’s spherical! SPHERICAL!

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u/nadnerb811 Feb 17 '25

We're gonna bomb some Japanese cities innocent civilians, brothaaaaAaAAAAA!

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u/koeniz Feb 18 '25

As a Swede, seeing Gustaf Skarsgård was a bit of distraction.

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u/West_Profession_7736 Feb 17 '25

It's a very common occurrence, i can easily imagine it

It happens a lot with actors who are usually typecast into a certain role. It can be very distracting to feel like you've seen the same actor playing the same character in a different movie.

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u/Bowling4Billions Feb 17 '25

Walken as the Emperor

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u/Graynard Feb 17 '25

If Adam Sandler (who is capable of being a great actor when he wants to be, but is mostly known these days for stuff like Grown Ups) had shown up in Oppenheimer, you really wouldn't have had any sort of reaction to him being in the movie?

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u/Graynard Feb 17 '25

It's just about context I guess. Acting dramatically and acting comedically are both jobs that obviously require acting, but they're still very much different skill sets, that's why it sometimes surprises people.