The Oppenheimer movie is garbage, amirite?

Imagine if he watched memento

by Anonymous 4 months ago

Yeah that's probably why I liked it! Lol

by Larsondevante 4 months ago

My sense of humor is often dry, this is supposed to be comedic and I realize it doesn't come off that way

by EducationalHat3998 4 months ago

That's fair, as the movie is, I find it to be the most boring goddamn movie I've ever seen in my life

by EducationalHat3998 4 months ago

Spoken like a man who has never seen "The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard."

by Anonymous 4 months ago

It was confusing but I liked it, because they decided to focus on his personal life more, instead of just being one-dimensional and focusing on the Manhattan Project.

by Ok_Association4245 4 months ago

I would've been totally fine with focusing on all aspects of his life, but let's go from the beginning to the end, let's spend more than 25 seconds in each scene

by EducationalHat3998 4 months ago

The jumping around was a little annoying I agree, but other than that, I found it really interesting. The courtroom scenes were the best imo.

by Ok_Association4245 4 months ago

That's sort of the problem, I was very interested in everything going on, but they never actually dove into any of it

by EducationalHat3998 4 months ago

i didn't have any connection to the characters it didn't feel like a coherent movie but series of brief vignettes strung together

by trey27 4 months ago

That's kind of what I mean, when I say "preview"

by EducationalHat3998 4 months ago

Clossedheimer

by edgardo64 4 months ago

I hated this movie, along with Tenet, almost entirely due to the oppressive audio mixing that suffocates the dialog and, as others have said, feels like it's trying to force you how to feel. Nolan made some movies I really like, like The Prestige, but I have no idea why the audio mixing is like this in his later releases. Hot garbage.

by Resident-Seaweed 4 months ago

I'm familiar with the story, but I wouldn't say that I know it well. I definitely appreciate your recommendations for the books and I'll look into those.

by EducationalHat3998 4 months ago

I'll add that Command and Control doesn't cover anything regarding Oppenheimer per se; TMOTAB does (as well as an excellent tour through the history of physics), so I recommend reading that first. It's long, but intriguing. C&C is a quick read, and horrifying.

by Anonymous 4 months ago

The movie was okay, the sex scene was weird.

by PhilosopherSharp6533 4 months ago

I'm gonna put a disclaimer on this because I usually stick to horror, action, and comedy. I saw a ton of hype about Oppenheimer so I gave it a shot. I didn't time how long it took me to turn it off but I doubt I got 12 minutes into it before i quit watching. I'm glad people enjoyed it but it wasn't for me

by Anonymous 4 months ago

You don't know anyone's motivations? What do you mean?

by Anonymous 4 months ago

I mean what I said. Perhaps in simpler terms, I have no connection to any of the characters.

by EducationalHat3998 4 months ago

What like you're not related to them? You don't know who Oppenheimer was? What do you mean? I don't understand? It was a simple movie about a science project. You ever do a group project before?

by Anonymous 4 months ago

Agreed. In so many ways this movie was an absolute let down. A contrived mess.

by krisdarrel 4 months ago

I feel asleep halfway through

by Anonymous 4 months ago

Oh the Oppenheimer movie was great. I had so much things to say about it at the time. It might help if you have a stem background.... science is a very unthanked field. You do things to help people and bettering society to be forgotten by the selfish and arrogant and even get in trouble when you have the intellect that is higher than everyone else around you and aren't appreciated for it at all. People will use your intelligence to even profit themselves. The actual movie was about pettiness even on that high level. Thats one of the things i took away from the many themes of the movie.

by OwnAbility 4 months ago

I think the stuff set later in his life — the storyline with the government inquest into his political sympathies and his opposition to nuclear proliferation — was important to include. However, I do agree that splitting the movie in that way made it a bit scattered. We could've just had the 1940s plot and it would've been more focussed (and come in around 2 hours long instead of 3), but I totally understand the screenwriter's compulsion to expand the scope of the story. I don't think this is enough to reduce it to ‘garbage' level. I enjoyed the interspersion of all the strange, semi-psychedelic images to represent the hidden quantum world of his troubled dreams. Stylistic touches like that were enough to keep me on the hook even though I felt the political chess match of the later plot line was less interesting.

by Anonymous 4 months ago

I didnt like cillian murphy. He had no chemistry with his female leads. You'd think the main character had autism.

by Anonymous 4 months ago

I liked it because it does have powerful moments. That said I don't see how a genius would also be some type of ladies man as the movie portrays. Maybe that actor is but physicists are not exactly ladies men.

by Anonymous 4 months ago

Ok but Oppenheimer was in real life. He was a real dude who was pretty successful with women and cheated on his wife. Some people really like the tortured pretentious intellectual type.

by Anonymous 4 months ago

But you realize he actually was like that, right? It's a true story

by Anonymous 4 months ago

Physicists and geniuses aren't exclusively stereotypical nerds from movies and sitcoms. Oppenheimer was a ladies man - that's not a bit of fiction.

by Anonymous 4 months ago

I only went to see the bomb. It was barely a firecracker. The only part of the movie I was looking forward to was a total.........bomb. The Twin Peaks bomb was a billion times better, and that was on a TV show.

by Anonymous 4 months ago

I went into Oppenheimer expecting to at least passively enjoy it, but watching it was like being privy to a 16 year old boy's personal power fantasy, complete with pseudo-intellectual angst and the plot-irrelevant Florence Pugh boob shot. I just...could not take it seriously. The fact that it took ITSELF seriously made it even more ridiculous.

by Majestic-Airport 4 months ago

Well said

by EducationalHat3998 4 months ago

Yea probably the worst movie I've ever seen

by Alarming-Access 4 months ago

It's up there for me, along with ‘US'

by EducationalHat3998 4 months ago

You sound like one of those people that drives an electric vehicle and smells their own farts

by EducationalHat3998 4 months ago

I don't have a car because it is totaled, and my farts smell gnarly, thank you very much

by Ok-Kitchen6107 4 months ago

Is it totaled because you were trying to watch silent films on your portable DVD player?

by EducationalHat3998 4 months ago

Yeah, that's what I said, that movie gave me tonal whiplash. Talk about a movie that doesn't make sense. You're gonna tell me there's a clone for every person, living underground, that no one has ever found, that the government just abandoned for some reason, and they've just been feeding on raw meat? It's supposed to be some deep message, but again it has its nose so far up its own ass. It can't even tell a decent story.

by EducationalHat3998 4 months ago

I haven't seen it yet but I'm no stranger to the masses liking garbage. I hate a lot of mainstream Eminem hits

by ManyParamedic 4 months ago