Oppenheimer (Christopher Nolan, July 21, 2023) Movie • Page 40

What are the issues out of curiosity?

Side note: I was only able to see the standard version and my screen kept like glitching every 20 minutes. It didn’t affect the movie so I didn’t complain but it just sucked because it kept taking me out of the movie when it happened, since I was completely entranced otherwise

 

The complexity (and I don't know if it's possible?) of having to do CGI at the IMAX 70mm "resolution" of ~16k

 

Sorry I meant what are the intermittent issues the 70mm projectors have been having

 

was gonna say this is one of the best That Guy movies in recent memory

 

In agreement with those saying this is Nolan's best film. This film has a strong message and it takes you on a ride to see how the thought behind that message is actually formed.

The only thing I could have asked for was some more credit towards Tatlock. She wasn't someone who was mindlessly in love with Oppenheimer after playing hard to get. While I understand that her screen time will be limited because the story isn't about her, her screen time could have been utilized in a slightly more admirable way.

All of the other portrayals were great and I couldn't ask for anymore out of them. Overall, this film also has Nolan's best ensemble and they all show up and deliver.

The little hints and nods in this are also good attention on Nolan's part. Tatlock's death, Oppey naming Trinity in honor of her, Oppey seeing chain reactions throughout - staring with raindrops at the beginning of the film, trying to poison his teacher and then regretting it (foreshadowing his creation of the bomb and later regret), the stomps that Oppey hears (and quaking backgrounds the audience can see behind him) each time his anxiety raises (which we later see is the stomping of the crowd that he envisions as Hiroshima victims). There are more but those are the ones I remember.

And that ending. One of the best endings I have seen in quite a while, which has led to conversations after each viewing.

 

Anyway, I have't seen this film in IMAX but I was able to get tickets for both Saturday and Sunday with two different groups of friends. Hopefully my neck is not sore on Monday.

 

I loved this. So many actors get to shine and have their moments. At first, it seemed funny that Josh Peck was seemingly cast as a background physicist, and then his big scene came up and I thought he was pretty effective building that tension and showing that anxiousness before the test. Speaking of the Trinity Test, I thought the sequence was breathtaking, both from a visual and auditory perspective. I laughed both times they showed Jack Quaid playing the bongos.

Interstellar still is and likely will always be my favorite of Nolan's, but this is top tier work from him for sure.

 

Caught it last night. I think it was a great film with some major flaws. The first hour threw so many people on the screen, all in incredibly short scenes, I found it really tough to get my bearings on who was important.

I know I shouldn't expect fully formed female characters from Nolan, but Emily Blunt's character was so bizarre to me. It was cool in the interrogation where she got to turn the tables on the prosecutor, but I don't think they did a good job of explaining why she would even care about his legacy, let alone care more than he seemingly did.

I thought the final hour, post Trinity test was the most compelling. Dealing with the political and moral fallout of the bomb was something I was hoping to see in the film, and I loved how they used Einstein to lay out the toll scientific progress would take on the people who seek it.

The score was amazing. The recurring motif of the marching / stomping was an incredible detail.

I definitely need to see it again, now that I'm not spending the first third trying to keep everyone straight. I'm probably in the minority, but Dunkirk is far and away my favorite film of his, and this serves as a good companion to it.

 

this is the way.

 

In theory, a best supporting actor ballot could just be dudes from this movie.

RDJ
Josh Harnett
David Krumholtz
Matt Damon
Benny Safdie
Jason Clarke
Kenneth Brannagh
Alden Ehrenrich
Dane DeHaane
Rami Malek
Gary Oldman
Casey Affleck
Macon Blair
Jack Quaid
Josh Peck
Matthew Modine

etc etc etc

 

For one showing there was a hair on the projector. Covered a chunk of the screen.

There’s plenty of anecdotes out there of the projectors breaking down and the theaters having to switch to a digital projection.

 

The takeover of chains and demise of independent theaters is a tragedy

 

Ahh gotcha. Thanks!

 

i loved this movie but i'm gonna need y'all to relax if you're posting about matthew modine oscars chances lol

 

At no point during the movie did I think, "oh hey there's Matthew Modine"

 

I did but I didn’t think give him an Oscar.

 

His wife chickened out and did not get the procedure.

 

You should tell Jared Gilman and not me

 

I was just clarifying for the people here. Don’t want to give the wrong info about a movie that nobody cares about.

 

All I know is nobody's talking bout my man Alex Wolff.

 

He is a shoe-in for Best Actor imo

 

It’s crazy that this is making about the same money as mission impossible and came out a week later and is basically a 3 hour talk drama lol