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Post by NJtoTX on Jul 21, 2023 0:19:01 GMT
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Post by twothousandonemark on Jul 21, 2023 5:52:17 GMT
A9.5 I want to to round up yet that wouldn't be scientifically accurate. MAJOR SPOILERS+- Exceptional production & outstanding performances all around, esp. Cillian Murphy & Robert Downey Jr. Arguably the film of the decade to date & likely placeholder for a while. Nolan's Magnum Opus, hands down... he'll be up for Best Director most certainly. - It was a biopic for certain, 3hrs, & yet it was so well paced with swift editing & layered scoring for audio push. Not once did I think of the clock, I was merely guilty of checking which historic boxes Nolan would deliver before film's end. - I loved how frank the screenplay & dialogue were, as it should be for this subject matter. The underlying sense of survival of existence with the technology was palpable. -- Admittedly, its tension/release climax of sorts Trinity detonation occurred I'd say with about 45(?) minutes to go. I love the drama, I simply was exhaled a bit much to keep full steam for all the deliberations at hand. Still, they were heightened drama on the highest scale. - I do feel like Nolan dialed back from potentially ultra emotional atomic/nuclear devastation veering only though imagined hallucination via Oppenheimer himself. I was gripped for how/what Nolan might've had in store for historic gravitas - though admittedly that imagined, less is more, did still land with a punch. I knew then with that sequence, this film was Oppenheimer's story & not the depiction of the bomb in action, let alone the military's side of WWII other than the military briefing we witnessed (the radio headlines of Hiroshima was all we got from the front lines). Japan, the Japanese ppl, were never shown... which may have future critics suggesting too safe for such a grave reality.
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Post by pennypacker on Jul 21, 2023 21:51:01 GMT
7.5 (7 for the poll).
I don’t think this should have a monopoly on PLFs for the next few weeks though.
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Post by jackbrock on Jul 23, 2023 18:36:54 GMT
I liked it - well paced. Great acting.
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Post by Eλευθερί on Jul 24, 2023 6:22:23 GMT
I haven't seen it, but if it is a biopic, I am amazed at the marketing and publicity. It really deserves IMAX treatment? Sounds more like a comic book superhero or sci-fi epic.
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Post by Vits on Sept 1, 2023 20:02:38 GMT
Every scene in OPPENHEIMER (the real story of a physicist and the development of the atomic bomb) has the ingredients that a dramatic story needs, including a lot of good performances, but only some scenes manage to be compelling. And that’s because of the editing style, which is faster than any other Christopher Nolan movie (how ironic, since it’s the one with the least amount of action/suspense sequences). It feels like a 3-hour trailer! How can I, as a viewer, get invested in a conflict or a particular dynamic between characters if the movie itself isn’t invested? Whenever an element like this is introduced, the movie is ready to jump to the next one. And even when things slow down to focus on a specific situation for a couple of minutes, there are still several unnecessary cuts. The main example is the scene where the title character meets his future wife, Kitty. It’s brief, but it was enough to give me a headache! By the way, I don’t like how she’s characterized. Her personality isn’t properly established at the beginning, to the point where her switch to a drunk who complains about the stress of motherhood feels like it happens out of nowhere, and she spends most of her screen time sad or angry. It seems to be deep, but it isn’t.
5/10
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Post by twothousandonemark on Jan 25, 2024 4:15:53 GMT
Re-watch misses out on what-does-Nolan-have-up-his-sleeve surprises, & yet the film finally feels more about Oppenheimer the man proper & less about the largesse of the Manhattan Project & what we weren't shown.
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