Premise:
The story of American scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer and his role in the development of the atomic bomb.
Directors:
Christopher Nolan
Writers:
Christopher Nolan, Kai Bird, Martin Sherwin
Cast:
Cillian Murphy ... J. Robert Oppenheimer
Emily Blunt ... Kitty Oppenheimer
Robert Downey Jr. ... Lewis Strauss
Alden Ehrenreich ... Senate Aide
Scott Grimes ... Counsel
Jason Clarke ... Roger Robb
Kurt Koehler ... Thomas Morgan
Tony Goldwyn ... Gordon Gray
John Gowans ... Ward Evans
Macon Blair ... Lloyd Garrison
James D'Arcy ... Patrick Blackett
Kenneth Branagh ... Niels Bohr
| RELEASE DATE | RUNTIME | ROTTENTOMATOES | IMDB | METACRITIC |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 21st, 2023 | 3hr | TBD | TBD | TBD |
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Will check back on Friday once I’ve seen it.haha, appreciate it!
I loved it! Nolan masterfully intertwined timelines, an absolute riveting telling of history. The acting, score, and cinematography were all on point. I miss the days that this caliber of filmmaking wasn’t so few and far between.
I thought it was an absolutely amazing movie. The portrait it paints of Oppenheimer is a complicated man. The flim goes to great lengths to make the viewer understand Oppenheimer while not letting him off the hook. There’s much similarities between the themes used in the Batman movies and in Oppenheimer. They’ll use him when they need him but discard him once they don’t. This is a common theme present in Nolans work. Humans are fickle and two faced in Nolan movies. Nolan seems to have to cynical view of people.
Ok, hear me out. I really like Cillian and RDJ in this movie, and the performances all the way were incredible.
But I got a massive disappointment when the explosion happened. People touted left and right how it was done only with practical effects, no CG! And in the end it looked like a warehouse exploded, it was so tiny. Was the real atomic bomb that underwhelming?
Other than that, the 3 hours flew by. I was engaged the whole time, it was an amazing piece of cinema.
I thought it was the other way around.
The silence when the explosion happened engulfing the screen with fire, letting it sink for you that how destructive it is, followed by the boom to shake you with its impact was so well done.
For me, this movie is a tragedy; the real explosion was the juxtaposition of the project team celebrating while what boils down to the death of 70k Japanese. Phenomenal - without being judgmental.
The actual trinity test in the film — felt like it was intended not to awe nor overwhelm us but to give us space to allow us to reflect on our relationship with fire, weapons and war (vs a spectacular explosion ala Death Star).
So for those of us who are literalists…I can see how it might not rank up there, lacking the raw impact of say Terminator.
I was also underwhelmed by the execution of the Trinity test specifically. I know they relied on solely practical effects, so it’s not realistic that they would match the awe of the actual test footage.
It didn’t leave with the same existential dread like other relevant media has in the past.
But the dread is that the world has the atomic bomb at it’s fingertips now
Thanks for this post. This is one of the things that I missed the most about reddit, getting to the main post after seeing a movie. Unfortunately it seems that the number of comments is not the same (expected) and still quite low so I’ll do my part and contribute my opinion.
I’ll go a bit against the grain here and say that for me this film is not a 10/10 at all, like people are making it to be. It’s good and it has definitely it’s moments, but I found the timeline and so many arcs confusing and unnecessary. Sometimes everything is dished out at once, when it doesn’t require so, and it makes it hard to keep up.
I’ll concede that I usually watch movies at home where I can have English subtitles on which usually help with some of the more baffled dialogue (and Nolan suffers this the most) but I don’t think it was because of that, that I felt this way.
Once again it feels like Nolan is getting in his own way with all the time jumps and multiple timelines, and while for some movies that “feature” is THE movie, like in TENET or Inception, here it is not needed at all like in both of these movies, and it is not executed well (like it is done amazingly in inception where a 5 layered story is perfectly displayed and understood).
In the end Oppie’s character also comes out as suprisingly bland, and while I appreciate that they didn’t make him neither a saviour or a villain, they also somehow managed to make him rather boring.
In the end I would rate this movie around 8/10 or 7.5/10 because technically and artistically it has its moments but I feel like if this wasn’t a Nolan film it wouldn’t have this much hype behind it.
Phenomenal movie. Really great job with the psychological side of the movie. A lot to take in even though it’s 3 hours long.
Emily Blunt killed it in this movie
Great character driven movie. The performances were great and the movie flew by. Will definitely watch it again.
About to see it at 5. I will report back!
@canthidium I am a huge Chris Nolan fanboy. His first “based-on-true-events” movie ‘Dunkirk’ was still good to it’s cinematography but not my favourite when it comes to storytelling. That’s why I had no fanboy expectations on ‘Oppenheimer’.
I am pretty excited after having watched it yesterday in our local cinema. Taking a bio pic into a 3h polit thriller, high pace at least through the great editing, perfect story telling in my opinion. 10/10
I unfortunately missed the first 15 minutes because I was in line getting snacks… DON’T DO THIS
It took me a second to make sense of the nonlinear timeline and who Strauss was and what his motivations were
It didn’t feel like 3 hours and I’m hard pressed to find any flaws in it.
Ugh, it’s getting hard to not read the responses to this thread in my inbox, lol. I have been trying the last 2 days to go see it but it’s completely sold out or just crappy up front seats. I think I’m going to have to wait and go early during the week.
Just saw it today and loved it. Did you see it yet?
Just saw it, and I feel like in some ways I’m still recovering from the experience. This might be his best film. The cheering. Man, the cheering is what will stay with me. As will that last line of dialogue.
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Interesting movie :)
