Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey blends filmmaking tradition and innovation in one epic movie. The fact that it's the first feature film to be made entirely using IMAX film cameras feels like both a technological milestone and a retro curiosity given that for over a decade most movies have been filmed digitally.
Matt Damon said that he felt nostalgic making the movie because of a sense that it will the last of its kind. That seemed to be a reference to a cultural shift in Hollywood as studios turn to YouTube filmmakers with viral potential (see the Skibidi toilet controversy). But The Odyssey also feels nostalgic in how it harks back to the era of Hollywood's most iconic epics. A failure to live up to people's memories of those movies could define its reception.
