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Perfect timing.
thank you for that helpful and detailed insight
I like the father daughter Event at the end of the movie. Where the raging alcoholic comes in and Talks about the imminent end of the World.
Did you see it yet?Quote:
Originally Posted by subtle plague
Does it take place in St. Louis?Quote:
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Guys guys. This is the movie forum.
You must first go see the movie, or at least wait for someone with a brain, like Summit, who read the book.
Doesn't quite live up to what the trailers are teasing, but a really good, thought provoking movie. Its interesting that a viewer (a least this viewer) comes away from a three hour movie without really knowing why Oppenheimer is opposed to nuclear weapons. Is it because he lost control of the project? Is it because others went beyond his research? Is it because we could all die from an exchange of nuclear weapons? Its never quite spelled out and Murphy does a very good job of playing a protagonist who you'd like to root for, but are never really sure of his intentions. Very complicated figure. 4.5/5 because I had to go to the bathroom about 2.5 hours in. See it in IMAX. (Also this is an Oppenheimer movie and not a Manhattan Project movie, although the two are intimately intertwined.)
India is not pleased.
Check that: Hindustan/Hundustanis are not pleased.
“sometimes someone confesses a sin in order to take credit for it”Quote:
Originally Posted by Stu Gotz
" ...... or to protect someone else"
https://unherd.com/2023/07/we-wouldn...nheimer-today/Quote:
Originally Posted by PB
Oppenheimer seemed to want the responsibility of having created the bomb: he said that the physicists involved in the project had “known sin”. Von Neumann responded, pithily, that “Sometimes someone confesses a sin in order to take credit for it.” When AI researchers now talk of the threat of AI, how it could destroy humanity, there is a hint of that – what we are doing is so amazing and powerful that it could destroy the world, aren’t you impressed?
Definitely a strong smell of that. One of the many aspects of lust for power, I suppose.
Yes. That is the core theme of the movie. Power and the people who harness it's many forms.Quote:
Originally Posted by PB
Is a Barbie Oppenheimer double feature really a thing? I’ve heard many going for this , quite telling.
Yes, it is.Quote:
Originally Posted by Aldo
Me and two co-workers just came out of OPPENHARBIE (we saw Oppenheimer first followed by Barbie).
I feel this is the perfect order to see them in, as Nolan’s film is pretty heavy and sobering and Gerwig’s film is hilarious. Yet both films share a similar through-line.
Both films are excellent.
Jeebus ...... I'm not sure I can sit through Oppy, let both at one sitting. How many times did you get up to walk and stretch?
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Originally Posted by PB
I made it through Oppenheimer in one sitting. And the seats in our IMAX are hella uncomfortable. We were also smack dab in the middle of a packed row, so getting up during the film didn’t seem to be an option unless I wanted to be rude. Also, the film is pretty damn riveting.
We had a 45-minute break between the two, so we went for a walk and then some drinks before Barbie (I did have to get up and pee during Barbie, though, and sadly missed the big feminist rallying speech :frown:).
If you can see it in 70mm IMAX, that will be the way to go…
Limited screenings, however:
https://www.imax.com/news/oppenheimer-in-imax-70mm
If you’re a tech nerd…IMAX had to develop a device to accommodate Oppenheimer as their projectors can only hold 150-minutes worth of film:
https://variety.com/2023/digital/new...re-1235676550/
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PalmPilot?!?!?!? Wow
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Originally Posted by dookeyXXX
I loved Oppenheimer. Incredible cast whom I felt nailed their roles. I may be a biased science nerd, but it was still great.
Oppenheimer is absolutely fantastic.
I wasn't Bored for one second. In a 3 hour biopic about a physicist nontheless.
I am currently regretting not having done the Mamma Mia / The Dark Knight double-feature…
https://www.looper.com/1351124/iconi...ased-same-day/
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So ..... how many movies can any one watch in a 24 hour period without losing it and punching out your grandma?
Stoner Seth Rogan muses that Oppenheimer might be ideal if viewed on edibles (graph 12)…
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Outstanding movie... Nolan knocks it out of the park. Directing, editing, sound editing, score, casting, acting, writing...
I'm very familiar with the history of this, so there are historical inaccuracies, some annoying, more were dramatic license to good effect.
SPOILERS:
There was a lot of heart felt but naïve ideas from the scientists who grappled with the horror they created versus a world of realpolitik and a time when the Soviets really had the wool pulled over people's eyes. The movie tackled a lot of the issues astutely and briefly while skipping others. That's fine. It was 3 hours and there wasn't much fat to trim and replace.
The genie was never going back in the bottle. Nobody was going to have internationally administered nuclear stockpiles with Stalin's Soviet Union. There was no reasonable alternative to employing the bomb as was. It was the cruelest mercy ever wrought and purchased a peace preventing general war between the major power that continues to this day.
Oppenheimer was put through the wringer, but he was not a saint, made some dumb political and personal decisions, and had naive ideas. Teller was a bigger ass and mad scientist in addition to not playing well with others as illustrated. Strauss was not a nice guy but there was some creative license work done making him the true Machiavellian narcissistic borderline villain that we all felt good about getting what he dished out back in his face. Nolans choice of animation of the Trinity test was a bit odd artistically and underwhelming. I did not like Truman's portrayal. Einstein did not figure in much at all, but was imaginarily inserted as a father figure relatable to the general public, reasonable dramatic license I think. etc etc
We are surprised that in the early days people were radiated because they didn't have proper safety procedures?
Fallout wasn't well understood as a danger until crossroads baker in 1946 and even then not really broadly until castle bravo in 1954.