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Why "The Odyssey" Is So Blurry

216K views · Aug 6, 2026 · Science & Technology

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  • @rsbeats_ · 1 month ago

    2.5 feet = 0.000762 kilometers is the most insane unit conversion ive seen XD

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  • @tngy69 · 1 month ago

    i think bro is ragebaiting with the kilometer conversion

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  • @originalmrp2.0 · 1 month ago

    I'm not surprised. He came for our understanding of time with Interstellar, our hearing with TENET, so why not our sight with The Odyssey?

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  • @adrianvasian · 1 month ago

    <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MToqnNO580c&amp;t=230">3:50</a> so funny that i instantly was able to read that at 0.76 meters because metric is awesome and feet are stupid :))

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  • @E_Ten · 1 month ago

    I noticed it the most when Anne was speaking to Tom after he returned to Ithica. Anne was rocking back and forth, a challenge for any focus puller. She was rarely in focus for that shot.

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  • @maxmakesfilms69 · 1 month ago

    Personally I love the organic nature of medium and large format photography - even with its trade offs and imperfections it makes images feel more alive to me, and especially seeing it on a big screen with all its texture and resolution, even soft focus feels nice to look at to me

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  • @BChatsMoviesandMedia · 1 month ago (edited)

    The movie is blurry because it was shot handheld with an IMAX camera with a wide open lens making it a bitch for the focus puller to anticipate the actor&apos;s and the camera operator&apos;s movements.

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  • @cinemascope53 · 1 month ago

    God, that Anne Hathaway&apos;s scene with Tom Holland where she&apos;s constantly leaning in for 2 minutes was tough.

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  • @richieclean · 1 month ago

    Sensible analysis like this definitely needed on the subject.<br><br>With a lot of the discourse I&apos;ve seen, you&apos;d think that every other film made to date had razor sharp focus, and that nobody has ever used a shallow field of focus before.

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  • @Goldsteinphoto · 1 month ago

    Nolan wants the highest resolution and oddly that results in low DoF and a blurry looking result in parts. Surely he knew how Wiliam Wyler made Ben Hur with high DoF in 1959. &nbsp;But he chose not to go that route.

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  • @baxterwilson368 · 1 month ago

    I haven’t seen the movie but noticed a shot of Anne Hathaway in the trailer where her face was out of focus. I was like, “Seriously?” It was just a dialogue scene.

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  • @DrWasim · 1 month ago

    I watched the movie in Turkey and was cursing the turkish cinema for not focusing the image on the screen. I´m a fool.

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