One of my teachers in high school served as an escort/bodyguard/keeper for scientists in the Manhattan Project. They were so focused on their science that they were prone to walking out into the street without regard for oncoming traffic. Only once in my life do I remember being so lost in thought that I forgot my surroundings. But he said it was an every day occurrence for the "eggheads".
Due to how welll everyone acted in this movie I feel it’s easy to forget how well Matt Damon acted in this movie also Always a solid performance from him
I said it before and I say it now. If we dedicated as much effort to developing space travel as we do figuring out better ways of killing each other, we'd be in the Andromeda galaxy by now.
I can relate to the sound complaints. The theater that I was in was insanely loud; painfully loud. Many people in the theater were frequently covering their ears--not just during the Trinity test scene. We complained about it afterword and the theater manager told us if they keep the volume at a normal level, people would complain that they could not hear the dialogue.
I didn’t have this problem but you can ask them to adjust the volume. I was watching a movie once and the volume was so loud the sound was getting distorted. I went out asked them to turn it done. They did and it fixed the sound issue and made it much more enjoyable
I didn't have the problem so much in cinema (I go rarely), but with DVD and Bluray and even with TV. Someone wrote it is because the mix is for a special sound system. For everything else it's just bad. And I hear lots of people with the same problems. I don't know why they can't get that solved. And that's not a new problem but one for more than one decade, yet.
Great point about what makes a good movie (@4:50), and Apollo 13 is a perfect example of that. Every time I watch that movie I get nervous when they lose contact with the ship during reentry haha
We watched "Oppenheimer" about three weeks ago, and I would very much like to watch it again soon - there's a lot to get out of it, and the structure has a lot to do with that. One of the tragedies is how that enthusiastic, idealistic philosophy of how to view what matter and energy is, and which Oppenheimer describes so nicely, finishes in the bomb. One of the books about these people that I recommend is "Faust in Copenhagen" by Gino Segre. He gives us personality and philosophical portraits of the men and women vital to the moment we come to here. I have one rather silly criticism: it doesn't affect anything in the story or the theme, but I was disappointed anyway: Branagh's Niels Bohr is not the Bohr I've researched. Branagh's Bohr was much too pragmatic and forceful and kind of "out right" in character. The Bohr I've researched was a soft-spoken, though determined, individual, who valued inter-personal debate and education. He had so much going on in his head that he could sometimes lose the thread of what he was saying. I didn't get any of this from Branagh's characterization of Bohr. It doesn't matter at all, because Bohr in this movie is such a minor (though important) presence. It's just a niggle that bothered me.
You should watch a series called “Manhattan” which goes into the Los Alamos and Oak Ridge sites a lot more in-depth. I really liked seeing one of the characters from that show in the Oppenheimer movie playing the same character. Unfortunately, it was only a two season show, but one of my favorites. It dives into the competing teams for the design types and into more of the characters behind the scenes at Los Alamos and the entirety of the project.
I remember watching a mini-series called Oppenheimer back in the late 70s, or early 80s (I think), which was compelling viewing and seemed to cover the same events as you listed for the film. I haven't seen this yet, but I definitely will be doing.
Wow. This guy is one of the most articulate and concise people on UA-cam to talk about films and scientific theory and history in this manner. Really enjoyed the video!
This review just made me so excited to go watch the movie a second time. I would love to see more movie reviews from you, i really like the way you structure it and also seemlessly switch to different parts of the movie that you wanna touch on.
We had the 1927 Solvay group picture as a poster in our study room in the Physics Department at WVU. It was quite inspiring. I have Ray Monk's book "Oppenheimer" and Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin's "American Prometheus" -- upon which the movie is at least partially based. Have read those, I am looking forward to seeing the movie. From junior high school onward I read about Fermi, Born, Bohr, Planck, Millikan, and all those guys. They were my heroes as a kid instead of baseball players. The history and development of Physics in the early part of the last century always fascinated me. Thanks for a good review. I really like your daughter's idea. 🙂
It's fascinating for me to hear people complain about the sound mix. That ends up not being an issue here in India for Hollywood films in most cases for one simple reason - they have English subtitles available.
Call me nuts, but I would absolutely kill to see a film about Edward Teller. Reading through his memoirs and Peter Goodchild's book, his abandonment by the scientific community after testifying against Oppenheimer, his obsession with the thermonuclear bomb, his feud with Los Alamos and the creation of Livermore, his despisal of both the Nazis and Soviets for their treatment of Hungary, his later life and Project Plowshare, it's just a rich story waiting to be told. Perhaps not as a rich as Oppenheimer's, but I genuinely think it would make for a great "was he good, was he bad, was he both" type film like Oppenheimer.
Very eloquently put sir clap. I myself know only the very basics of science, and was barely hanging on for the 1st 2 hours. But the final hour clarified everything and I’m glad I watched it in theatres, coz it was a phenomenal experience
Great review! On the music/sound mix aspect...I find it to be very immersive, my favorite scenes in his films are the ones where the score is juiced and it's like a wall of sound effect. However, I constantly encounter people who do not find that appealing and complain about it.
THANK YOU for mentioning the anachronism of using the term "black hole". That bugged me as one of the few gaffes I could detect in the film's terminology.
Great review, I would love to see more bio pics about monumental scientific breakthroughs and the scientists behind them, with a tendency towards more tragic events as I really appreciated the heavy tone Oppenheimer had. Some suggestions would be 1. Apollo 11, with a focus on the preparation for the mission rather than the mission itself, sort of like how Oppenheimer was more about the creation of the bomb and not about the use of it. 2. The confirmation of Black Holes. Talk about how Oppenheimer first suggested the concept; and how Einstein’s studies supported it, and the events that eventually lead to Bolton eventually confirming their existence (maybe throw in an ominous scene about how the sun could turn into a black hole and destroy the planet)
While I know that your channel is devoted to science, if you do more reviews of this film I would be interested in your thoughts on how it stacks up to Fat Man and Little Boy.
Thanks for the review, makes me even more interested in watching it. I agree with 2 of your comments, 1st great movies don’t need to to be spectacular effects films, great story can carry more impact than flashy lights. And 2nd sound mixing in a lot of movies makes it hard or even uncomfortable to listen to. I know you need loud bangs but loud music over dialogue can c@use people like me with hearing issues miss important info.
I have yet to see Oppenheimer, and I really want too. I will say I enjoyed Tenet, found it a good film. I truly enjoyed your review and it gives me something to look forward to seeing. I have heard good things about Barbie, hopefully they are true and you and your daughter enjoy it. There also the tv film Hawking (2004), first film about Stephen Hawking staring “Dr. Strange Turing” I recommend it. Also in 2004 was Primer, another film I recommend if you haven’t seen it.
Genius Cinematic Universe, it does sound intriguing.... feature some of the delegates of the 1927 Solvay Conference? or the rivalry between Isaac Newton and Leibnitz when developing Calculus?
Kenneth Bainbridge, director of the Trinity test, remarked to J. Robert Oppenheimer immediately after the test, "Now we are all sons of bitches." Afterward, he wote: "My personal nightmare was knowing that if the bomb didn't go off or hangfired, I, as head of the test, would have to go to the tower first and seek to find out what had gone wrong." To his relief, the explosion of the first atomic bomb went off without such drama, in what he later described as "a foul and awesome display". 'All in Our Time' - A Foul and Awesome Display". Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Educational Foundation for Nuclear Science. 31 (5). May 1975. ISSN 0096-3402. Retrieved February 10, 2010. Bainbridge is portrayed by Josh Peck and hovers over the Big Red Button during the test that, paradoxically, if pushed would have shut down the explosion trigger.
the season of Einstein in the Genius anthology series is probably the best biopic of him in my opinion. They based it off of Walter Isaacson's book as well.
Beautiful movie! As an Italian I would have expected greater attention to Fermi, without whom they would not have created the atomic bomb. Among other things, the actor doesn't resemble us in the slightest, neither physically nor in the way he presents himself. But I understand that to give the right space to each scientist on the project would have required a film of at least 30 hours. In any case, I repeat, this movie is a masterpiece.
A Genius CU ... ha ... there was a movie about Marie Curie in 2019 called Radioactive .... unfortuntely not much focus on science in that one, but hey another point in a hopfully emerging trend.
Good review as usual. You might change your opinion about the Barbie movie once you have seen it. Good shout out to Beckey Smethurst short Oppenheimer post its well worth a few minutes of peoples time.
The only thing I agree with is that the Trinity test was the climax of the film... which occurs maybe halfway through. The women in the film were pretty much afterthoughts, and had the film been about Oppenheimer's angst about the deadliness of the bomband his struggle to get Los Alamos up and running I felt it would have been a lot stronger. All the Red Scare stuff seemed really superfluous but it's like 75 minutes of screentime. Otherwise I thought this was a "fine" movie but not important or groundbreaking in any way.
I thought the sound design was very good, outside of being overly loud. I chalked that up to seeing it in a nearly empty theater (weekday matinee a week after release) so not many bodies to absorb sound. As for difficulty discerning speech? Yeah, but at nearly 70 y/o that's common problem for me. Vox has a good explainer on why so many of us need subtitles, and it's not likely to get any better. (Sound design for everything from THX rooms to smart phones is very challenging.)
One of the things they did very well was the whole "We Might Set the Atmosphere on Fire!" subplot/narrative, which was a very real concern and something the scientists at Los Alamos actually seriously considered as a real possibility. We know now with hindsight that they were wrong but of course they didn't know for certain at the time and yet they proceeded. I thought that part of the film was handled very well.
Great review! Although I disagree Josh Hartnett would be a leading man these days. He did a great job in this film and I hope this revitalizes his career.
Didn't like the movie, there was the makings of a beautiful and amazing film, ruined by the crack monkey editing and buried in th emud sound mix. Thus, a noisy screensaver. Watch the old BBC series from 1980 for a better telling, watch the PBS specials from the late 80s early 90s. Read the books by Rhodes and American Prometheus. My grumping aside, I DO hope this movie is insaely successfull. I hope Nolan tackles another historical / scientific / philosophical subject, convincing the risk managers that it's ok to back such projects by other directors, too. The audience IS there for it. ... my nightmare would be the risk managers taking the wrong lesson, and assuming it was the style that was the draw ... don't need more noisy screensavers LOL
When will we get Oppenheimer2? Where it turns out the bomb have a little child-bomb coming back for revenge? I think the film ends with some brave feminists trow a pride flag over the bomb?
anyone who got bored like this This movie is way too overrated please do not watch it in the cinema it is just a documentary or just a novel that talks about science. I cant even remember the character's names and I am gonna be really honest here they shoulda add more stuff like show us the some backstory about soviet and the nazis and show us more military insights not just making a bomb for 2 hours straight and 1 hour of court case which really really killed my interested at that point. Sound effects was stupidly loud and the stupid tiktokers sidesteps stomping on the floor is just so unnecessary. This ain't no masterpiece i know some people say that it is just you dont understand about nuclear theory or some science crap but even if u do it is just bad. They shoulda made it more fictional to grab customer's attention I get that this is based on a true story and all that but not everyone look boring documentaries. They shoulda really have made Strauss putting a hit on Oppen and Oppen who knows a hitman or something. My very very honest advice, don't watch this if you don't wanna waste 3 hours watching documentaries or just repeated stuff if you wanted to try watch it on tv instead after some time. If you do decide to watch dont go for imax it is so loud if you get so bored you wouldn't even be able to sleep. For people who like it well we are just different I guess I personally can't just watch conversations with not much introduction to characters and just a jumbled up mess of dialogues.
Oppenheimer is .. good. In other words, the movie sucks. imax was wasted on mediocre cinematography. Editing is choppy. Whats the use of depicting wifes alcoholism is it doesnt have implications to rest of the story. The effects of nuclear explosion are are glanced over but the movie wastes 90 minutes on pondering whether Oppenheimer gets his security clearance re-newed or not.
The final scene where we see the full context of the earlier conversation with Einstein is very powerful.
Perfect ending to the movie. Tied everything together.
powerfull delivery done right
One of my teachers in high school served as an escort/bodyguard/keeper for scientists in the Manhattan Project. They were so focused on their science that they were prone to walking out into the street without regard for oncoming traffic. Only once in my life do I remember being so lost in thought that I forgot my surroundings. But he said it was an every day occurrence for the "eggheads".
Due to how welll everyone acted in this movie I feel it’s easy to forget how well Matt Damon acted in this movie also
Always a solid performance from him
I said it before and I say it now. If we dedicated as much effort to developing space travel as we do figuring out better ways of killing each other, we'd be in the Andromeda galaxy by now.
I can relate to the sound complaints. The theater that I was in was insanely loud; painfully loud. Many people in the theater were frequently covering their ears--not just during the Trinity test scene. We complained about it afterword and the theater manager told us if they keep the volume at a normal level, people would complain that they could not hear the dialogue.
I didn’t have this problem but you can ask them to adjust the volume. I was watching a movie once and the volume was so loud the sound was getting distorted. I went out asked them to turn it done. They did and it fixed the sound issue and made it much more enjoyable
I didn't have the problem so much in cinema (I go rarely), but with DVD and Bluray and even with TV. Someone wrote it is because the mix is for a special sound system. For everything else it's just bad. And I hear lots of people with the same problems. I don't know why they can't get that solved. And that's not a new problem but one for more than one decade, yet.
Great point about what makes a good movie (@4:50), and Apollo 13 is a perfect example of that. Every time I watch that movie I get nervous when they lose contact with the ship during reentry haha
Thanks for the shout out for Becky! Her "Short History of Black Holes' is amazing!
Her channel is great. I was very happy a couple of month ago when she did a piece on the Brightest of All Time burst, which I was a co-author on.
@@MichaelSiegel14 that's brilliant, I must have missed that episode so will go back and find it 😁
We watched "Oppenheimer" about three weeks ago, and I would very much like to watch it again soon - there's a lot to get out of it, and the structure has a lot to do with that.
One of the tragedies is how that enthusiastic, idealistic philosophy of how to view what matter and energy is, and which Oppenheimer describes so nicely, finishes in the bomb.
One of the books about these people that I recommend is "Faust in Copenhagen" by Gino Segre. He gives us personality and philosophical portraits of the men and women vital to the moment we come to here.
I have one rather silly criticism: it doesn't affect anything in the story or the theme, but I was disappointed anyway: Branagh's Niels Bohr is not the Bohr I've researched. Branagh's Bohr was much too pragmatic and forceful and kind of "out right" in character. The Bohr I've researched was a soft-spoken, though determined, individual, who valued inter-personal debate and education. He had so much going on in his head that he could sometimes lose the thread of what he was saying. I didn't get any of this from Branagh's characterization of Bohr. It doesn't matter at all, because Bohr in this movie is such a minor (though important) presence. It's just a niggle that bothered me.
Hans Bethe was super accurate though!
You should watch a series called “Manhattan” which goes into the Los Alamos and Oak Ridge sites a lot more in-depth. I really liked seeing one of the characters from that show in the Oppenheimer movie playing the same character. Unfortunately, it was only a two season show, but one of my favorites. It dives into the competing teams for the design types and into more of the characters behind the scenes at Los Alamos and the entirety of the project.
only 2 seasons and wildly fictional. Still fun to watch tho!
Great point on the continued need for original material on the big screen. 👍
I remember watching a mini-series called Oppenheimer back in the late 70s, or early 80s (I think), which was compelling viewing and seemed to cover the same events as you listed for the film.
I haven't seen this yet, but I definitely will be doing.
Wow. This guy is one of the most articulate and concise people on UA-cam to talk about films and scientific theory and history in this manner. Really enjoyed the video!
This review just made me so excited to go watch the movie a second time. I would love to see more movie reviews from you, i really like the way you structure it and also seemlessly switch to different parts of the movie that you wanna touch on.
We had the 1927 Solvay group picture as a poster in our study room in the Physics Department at WVU. It was quite inspiring.
I have Ray Monk's book "Oppenheimer" and Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin's "American Prometheus" -- upon which the movie is
at least partially based. Have read those, I am looking forward to seeing the movie.
From junior high school onward I read about Fermi, Born, Bohr, Planck, Millikan, and all those guys. They were my heroes as a kid
instead of baseball players.
The history and development of Physics in the early part of the last century always fascinated me.
Thanks for a good review. I really like your daughter's idea. 🙂
It's fascinating for me to hear people complain about the sound mix. That ends up not being an issue here in India for Hollywood films in most cases for one simple reason - they have English subtitles available.
More movies could benefit from subtitles, TBH
Call me nuts, but I would absolutely kill to see a film about Edward Teller. Reading through his memoirs and Peter Goodchild's book, his abandonment by the scientific community after testifying against Oppenheimer, his obsession with the thermonuclear bomb, his feud with Los Alamos and the creation of Livermore, his despisal of both the Nazis and Soviets for their treatment of Hungary, his later life and Project Plowshare, it's just a rich story waiting to be told. Perhaps not as a rich as Oppenheimer's, but I genuinely think it would make for a great "was he good, was he bad, was he both" type film like Oppenheimer.
Was looking forward to your review - great thoughts great video!
Thanks, Dr. Mike. Now, I can't wait to see it!
Very interesting to have your pov about the movie, great video
Very eloquently put sir clap.
I myself know only the very basics of science, and was barely hanging on for the 1st 2 hours. But the final hour clarified everything and I’m glad I watched it in theatres, coz it was a phenomenal experience
Brilliant idea from your daughter 👏👏👏
Great review, love your channel, thank you!
Great review! On the music/sound mix aspect...I find it to be very immersive, my favorite scenes in his films are the ones where the score is juiced and it's like a wall of sound effect. However, I constantly encounter people who do not find that appealing and complain about it.
Thank you for your review!!
THANK YOU for mentioning the anachronism of using the term "black hole". That bugged me as one of the few gaffes I could detect in the film's terminology.
Great review, I would love to see more bio pics about monumental scientific breakthroughs and the scientists behind them, with a tendency towards more tragic events as I really appreciated the heavy tone Oppenheimer had. Some suggestions would be
1. Apollo 11, with a focus on the preparation for the mission rather than the mission itself, sort of like how Oppenheimer was more about the creation of the bomb and not about the use of it.
2. The confirmation of Black Holes. Talk about how Oppenheimer first suggested the concept; and how Einstein’s studies supported it, and the events that eventually lead to Bolton eventually confirming their existence (maybe throw in an ominous scene about how the sun could turn into a black hole and destroy the planet)
While I know that your channel is devoted to science, if you do more reviews of this film I would be interested in your thoughts on how it stacks up to Fat Man and Little Boy.
Very informative review.
Going to see it tomorrow, just bought a ticket. I hope I won't be disappointed.
Thanks for the review, makes me even more interested in watching it. I agree with 2 of your comments, 1st great movies don’t need to to be spectacular effects films, great story can carry more impact than flashy lights. And 2nd sound mixing in a lot of movies makes it hard or even uncomfortable to listen to. I know you need loud bangs but loud music over dialogue can c@use people like me with hearing issues miss important info.
I have yet to see Oppenheimer, and I really want too. I will say I enjoyed Tenet, found it a good film. I truly enjoyed your review and it gives me something to look forward to seeing. I have heard good things about Barbie, hopefully they are true and you and your daughter enjoy it.
There also the tv film Hawking (2004), first film about Stephen Hawking staring “Dr. Strange Turing” I recommend it. Also in 2004 was Primer, another film I recommend if you haven’t seen it.
What about Hidden Figures? That movie is so underrated, 3 amazing science women.
Good suggestion! Will put it on the list.
It's more of a political propaganda project than a science movie...
Genius Cinematic Universe, it does sound intriguing.... feature some of the delegates of the 1927 Solvay Conference? or the rivalry between Isaac Newton and Leibnitz when developing Calculus?
There's a biopic of Marie Currie I saw on Amazon a few years ago called "Radioactive"
This is a fantastic review!
Kenneth Bainbridge, director of the Trinity test, remarked to J. Robert Oppenheimer immediately after the test, "Now we are all sons of bitches." Afterward, he wote: "My personal nightmare was knowing that if the bomb didn't go off or hangfired, I, as head of the test, would have to go to the tower first and seek to find out what had gone wrong." To his relief, the explosion of the first atomic bomb went off without such drama, in what he later described as "a foul and awesome display". 'All in Our Time' - A Foul and Awesome Display". Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Educational Foundation for Nuclear Science. 31 (5). May 1975. ISSN 0096-3402. Retrieved February 10, 2010. Bainbridge is portrayed by Josh Peck and hovers over the Big Red Button during the test that, paradoxically, if pushed would have shut down the explosion trigger.
Great video, and another 👍 for the shout out to @DrBecky 's channel!
Thanks Michael. Nolan is excellent. Oh and what is the name of the little guy over your left shoulder?
It's just a random stuffy we picked up but my kids call it Donut. There's a similar one that looks like Totoro.
the season of Einstein in the Genius anthology series is probably the best biopic of him in my opinion. They based it off of Walter Isaacson's book as well.
Beautiful movie! As an Italian I would have expected greater attention to Fermi, without whom they would not have created the atomic bomb. Among other things, the actor doesn't resemble us in the slightest, neither physically nor in the way he presents himself. But I understand that to give the right space to each scientist on the project would have required a film of at least 30 hours. In any case, I repeat, this movie is a masterpiece.
You've got to do a Barbie review!
A Genius CU ... ha ... there was a movie about Marie Curie in 2019 called Radioactive .... unfortuntely not much focus on science in that one, but hey another point in a hopfully emerging trend.
Good review as usual. You might change your opinion about the Barbie movie once you have seen it. Good shout out to Beckey Smethurst short Oppenheimer post its well worth a few minutes of peoples time.
The only thing I agree with is that the Trinity test was the climax of the film... which occurs maybe halfway through. The women in the film were pretty much afterthoughts, and had the film been about Oppenheimer's angst about the deadliness of the bomband his struggle to get Los Alamos up and running I felt it would have been a lot stronger. All the Red Scare stuff seemed really superfluous but it's like 75 minutes of screentime. Otherwise I thought this was a "fine" movie but not important or groundbreaking in any way.
I thought the sound design was very good, outside of being overly loud. I chalked that up to seeing it in a nearly empty theater (weekday matinee a week after release) so not many bodies to absorb sound. As for difficulty discerning speech? Yeah, but at nearly 70 y/o that's common problem for me. Vox has a good explainer on why so many of us need subtitles, and it's not likely to get any better. (Sound design for everything from THX rooms to smart phones is very challenging.)
One of the things they did very well was the whole "We Might Set the Atmosphere on Fire!" subplot/narrative, which was a very real concern and something the scientists at Los Alamos actually seriously considered as a real possibility.
We know now with hindsight that they were wrong but of course they didn't know for certain at the time and yet they proceeded.
I thought that part of the film was handled very well.
Great review! Although I disagree Josh Hartnett would be a leading man these days. He did a great job in this film and I hope this revitalizes his career.
I think he could have a great couple of decades as a character actor.
I support that!@@MichaelSiegel14
They had to make it small enough to use. . .I suppose that’s the whole point. . .maximum explosion out of the minimum amount of material
Holy hell, every negative comment sounds like the most absurd nitpick.
Barbie: the first Barbie dolls were manufactured in Japan
Oppenheimer: ...
After what Ben did to Barbie doll, I'm happy Oppenheimer was above his head (no dig intended(it was))
Surly the Rush song, ‘The Manhattan Project’? is part of the soundtrack.
The *G* in *hagiography* is like the *G* in *GET*
Dammit. Well, at least I learned something today. :)
@@MichaelSiegel14 Its not every day where one such as myself can correct a doctor of the stars :)
This will float your boat....the World is less bloody with Atomic weapons.
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ha barbie. well done sir
Apollo 13 is ALSO based on history.... following the LORD OF THE RINGS classic hahahaha
The celebration of the development of a technology/weapon that could destroy all human life on earth ........ bizarre ........ really bizarre!
Didn't like the movie, there was the makings of a beautiful and amazing film, ruined by the crack monkey editing and buried in th emud sound mix. Thus, a noisy screensaver. Watch the old BBC series from 1980 for a better telling, watch the PBS specials from the late 80s early 90s. Read the books by Rhodes and American Prometheus. My grumping aside, I DO hope this movie is insaely successfull. I hope Nolan tackles another historical / scientific / philosophical subject, convincing the risk managers that it's ok to back such projects by other directors, too. The audience IS there for it. ... my nightmare would be the risk managers taking the wrong lesson, and assuming it was the style that was the draw ... don't need more noisy screensavers LOL
When will we get Oppenheimer2?
Where it turns out the bomb have a little child-bomb coming back for revenge?
I think the film ends with some brave feminists trow a pride flag over the bomb?
i think it would be named Teller-Ulam and feminists and wokes wouldnt like what combination of american and polish mathematician gives in result
@@oljackie35who hurt you, boy?
anyone who got bored like this
This movie is way too overrated please do not watch it in the cinema it is just a documentary or just a novel that talks about science. I cant even remember the character's names and I am gonna be really honest here they shoulda add more stuff like show us the some backstory about soviet and the nazis and show us more military insights not just making a bomb for 2 hours straight and 1 hour of court case which really really killed my interested at that point. Sound effects was stupidly loud and the stupid tiktokers sidesteps stomping on the floor is just so unnecessary. This ain't no masterpiece i know some people say that it is just you dont understand about nuclear theory or some science crap but even if u do it is just bad. They shoulda made it more fictional to grab customer's attention I get that this is based on a true story and all that but not everyone look boring documentaries. They shoulda really have made Strauss putting a hit on Oppen and Oppen who knows a hitman or something. My very very honest advice, don't watch this if you don't wanna waste 3 hours watching documentaries or just repeated stuff if you wanted to try watch it on tv instead after some time. If you do decide to watch dont go for imax it is so loud if you get so bored you wouldn't even be able to sleep. For people who like it well we are just different I guess I personally can't just watch conversations with not much introduction to characters and just a jumbled up mess of dialogues.
They should have named the movie 'the security clearance'
Oppenheimer is .. good. In other words, the movie sucks. imax was wasted on mediocre cinematography. Editing is choppy. Whats the use of depicting wifes alcoholism is it doesnt have implications to rest of the story. The effects of nuclear explosion are are glanced over but the movie wastes 90 minutes on pondering whether Oppenheimer gets his security clearance re-newed or not.