Oppenheimer - 2023 Christopher Nolan & Cillian Murphy (birth of the Atom Bomb).

AWPC said:
They had a trailer for this earlier...honestly it looks awful I do not expect many people to go see it the marketing is making it look like an indie movie with little actual action in it.
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From my OP a year ago........

ianh said:
It's a Nolan film so I'll be watching it anyway but this one seems to be a heavy character study so I'm expecting a lot from the cast and, looking at who they've got so far, I'm very interested.
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Outside of the Trinity test there's likely to be no "action", it'll mostly be character study stuff i.e. who he was, why he changed his mind on Nukes post war and the anger that created in the US against him, the pressure the US military put on scientists to create something when they had little idea of the final outcome i.e. would just one bomb ignite all the oxygen in the sky and kill the world (this was a genuine concern that the military ignored to get their bomb etc).
 
Earlier in his career, Nolan, was developing a movie based on Howard Hughes with Jim Carrey. But when they found out that Martin Scorsese was developing a film based on Hughes too, he abandoned the project.

My expectations from Oppenheimer are something in the same vein as The Aviator, in terms of the type of film it will be.

I'm certainly not expecting a Tenet or Inception type film.

I am expecting the bass to be turned up to 11
 
I'm expecting some kind of time dilated "cleverness" the speed of a nuclear reaction slowed down alongside events in the film. Mirroring the film. That and a nuclear physics lesson......And bass and periods of inaudible dialogue lol.
Finally I'm expecting to leave the cinema confused, slightly annoyed/wondering why he's rated as being a top director.
 
Smeghead said:
You mean Oppenheimer doesn't strap 2 nukes to his fists to go on a punching spree?! Well that's this film ruined :mad:
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ERB already made this one ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1vXC-vKgKg ),

Got to be honest I don't know why I'd watch this movie sure a lot of style but there is only so much you can wring out of the material and only so much of it is interesting outside of a traditional style documentary if you were into the history of it.
 
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I believe only “reactions” are allowed at this stage (no reviews). So all I will say is that I concur wholeheartedly with the positive reactions so far. It’s a masterpiece. Every performance is stunning, especially Cillian Murphy and RDJ. It hits hard.

Edit: And the score. Wow.
 
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