Bluesky is my safe space, so here it goes: The Oppenheimer script was bad and the movie was saved by its visuals. The women are so poorly drawn (Nolan is infamous for this) and the dialogue is thumping and heavy-handed. His films have a reputation of being intellectual but they feel shallow to me!
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And night.
Actually I can't, but someone has to make the joke
I haven’t enjoyed a movie of his since Jonathan’s ceased involvement in his movies.
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Loved Interstellar too... except for the whole premise it's based on. Why didn't the beings from the future just tell us how to cure the disease that was killing all the plants? Needed to be a more plausible reason for us to leave Earth
Really?!
Stay here!
Very flawed: Batman Begins, Inception, Dark Knight Rises, Interstellar, Oppenheimer.
Decent: Memento, Insomnia, The Dark Knight.
Excellent: The Prestige, Tenet (for the Primer-like puzzle)
I thought interstellar a was okay but the ending was like "how do we end this thing?"
More important: What's the point of all the drama based on hard sci relativity in act 2 if act 3 is that a black hole is no match for the power of love
The Dark Knight is mostly great due to its performances and not the plot that hinges on more than a few ham-fisted moral arguments (the boat scene, Fox’s surveillance tech).
And the Prestige has Bowie.
Inception was superb.
I'll watch movies sometimes just because a certain actor is in it without knowing anything more about it because you can trust that actor to bring it, Tom Hanks for example. McConaughey is an example of the opposite.
This makes me want to rewatch Oppenheimer.
I know it's a better movie than Interstellar, which I used to think was meh, but I'm also a sentimental sucker.
The Prestige always felt anemic to me.
Batman begins is far superior imo.
Women poorly drawn?
His wife was a rock, stoic in the face of massive adversity from powerful enemies, esp corrupt officials
The film deserves to be seen again for a more critical analysis of intent and its execution
Films are made flesh and blood by directors and actors living the scenes and their meaning
The film was phenomenal, filled with moments made vibrant by actors breathing
life into each role, every interaction
Some of the strongest moments had no dialog
And so much more…
Now Oppenheimer was the one I was really looking forward to, yet came away disappointed.
But, I'm only a moose, so...
However...
It been said that half of Nolan's films are allegories of filmmaking. Inception is the clearest example of this, but Oppenheimer definitely qualifies as well. So you get a movie about the nuclear bomb that cares more about a great man's reputation than the bomb itself.
Any mystery or suspense is done away w/
I did think the ending was superb and impactful
I do wonder how/why the book was such a massive hit
(Separately, Oppenheimer: profound)
The book is loved and a mega best seller. Apparently the script mirrored the book but then they decided to change it. An unfortunate decision IMHO
And Nolan as an "intellectual"? His style is closer to Michael Bay than David Lynch.
Lynch, otoh, made pieces that challenged the viewer to find their meaning, and in turn question their assumptions.
Just an excuse to get Florence Pugh naked.
You're not allowed within 200yards of a school. Are you.
He is a box office draw.
Hard to get through.
Exceptions: Breaking Bad- I freakin' loved that show! I saw that more as a Shakespearean tragedy.
Heists that dole out justice or return stolen goods to the rightful owner.
Fancy words and overly dramatic but wooden acting on the top of complete nonsense.
Some people think they don't fully get it because it's too complicated. But it's because there's nothing to get.
https://www.nsa.gov/Helpful-Links/NSA-FOIA/Declassification-Transparency-Initiatives/Historical-Releases/Venona/
I thought it was kindof ponderous and melodramatic.
1/2
Christopher Nolan’s bio-pic is so intent on being a morality tale that it misses its protagonist’s complexity".
2/2
https://youtu.be/BvA5xFuDb0o?si=Tu6Z4VfXAUEv7Fsc
You would need to wind the clock back 80 years to see how under represented women were. Which is a fault of the era.
I wouldn’t bend over backwards to see it again.
1) Not that philosophically deep (maybe inception is the exception here).
2) Lacks any emotional connection (women are essentially there to idly support male endeavors).
3) Reliant on special effects and modern CGI.
Also hilarious that he obviously both reveres quantum physics (interstellar, Tenet, Oppenheimer) and doesn't understand it at ALL.
I do excuse it in Interstellar though because I liked the magic. "Love is the missing ingredient of FTL/gravity-control" is sappy but worked on me.