It’s good, not great. It’s 45 minutes too long, ends with an irrelevant subplot that retreads the themes we’ve already covered, and has a bunch of needless cuts. The beginning of the film treats famous physicists like Marvel superhero reveals and is unintentionally very funny. The 30 minutes before and after they detonate the Trinity atom bomb are some of the most harrowing scenes I’ve seen in a long time, and capture how horrible the creation of this monster was. It’s not a flattering portrait of Oppenheimer, and is resolutely anti-nuke by the end of the film. The fact that we don’t even see a Japanese person once is uh certainly a choice but overall the politics aren’t completely fucked, and the movie itself is well made (mostly).
I liked it but the politics are lib and the Robert Downey jr. plot is boring and pointless. Would have been way more interesting if it had focused on where the uranium came from and what happened to the people who got nuked. Even the brief “nuclear horror” scene is nothing compared with a truly disturbing film like Threads.
I think the fundamental problem is that the movie is about Oppenheimer, not the bomb. The only scenes he isn’t in are basically the RDJ ones, he’s in every other one. I don’t know if he ever visited Hiroshima or Nagasaki, but he definitely didn’t right after the bombs were dropped. They definitely needed to show more of the evils he was complicit in, rather than just making him a tortured genius.
I enjoy all of Nolan movies but had to turn this one off about 40min in. I may give it another chance someday. The dialogue was unbearable. I think Nolans other movies being clearly supernatural nonsense fiction give them a pass in this regard. I felt embarrassed by the movie.
Is the movie any good?
It’s good, not great. It’s 45 minutes too long, ends with an irrelevant subplot that retreads the themes we’ve already covered, and has a bunch of needless cuts. The beginning of the film treats famous physicists like Marvel superhero reveals and is unintentionally very funny. The 30 minutes before and after they detonate the Trinity atom bomb are some of the most harrowing scenes I’ve seen in a long time, and capture how horrible the creation of this monster was. It’s not a flattering portrait of Oppenheimer, and is resolutely anti-nuke by the end of the film. The fact that we don’t even see a Japanese person once is uh certainly a choice but overall the politics aren’t completely fucked, and the movie itself is well made (mostly).
Ugh it sounds like it’s plagued with the same issues most other modern blockbusters are.
I liked it but the politics are lib and the Robert Downey jr. plot is boring and pointless. Would have been way more interesting if it had focused on where the uranium came from and what happened to the people who got nuked. Even the brief “nuclear horror” scene is nothing compared with a truly disturbing film like Threads.
I think the fundamental problem is that the movie is about Oppenheimer, not the bomb. The only scenes he isn’t in are basically the RDJ ones, he’s in every other one. I don’t know if he ever visited Hiroshima or Nagasaki, but he definitely didn’t right after the bombs were dropped. They definitely needed to show more of the evils he was complicit in, rather than just making him a tortured genius.
I enjoy all of Nolan movies but had to turn this one off about 40min in. I may give it another chance someday. The dialogue was unbearable. I think Nolans other movies being clearly supernatural nonsense fiction give them a pass in this regard. I felt embarrassed by the movie.
Watched it with the hextube, it was decent, 7-8/10 or so