Documentary/Biopic Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer

[DarkKnight88]

Universal bet well!

 

[Gothamsknight]

Absolutely insane

 

[antsman41]

GOAT since 2008.

 

[Arachnerd]

If Universal is smart, they will not let him go after this.

 

[samsnee]

Was the budget really that low? I’ve seen numbers from $85M to $200M

Just goes to show you don’t need a $300M budget. Yes CGI can be expensive but use it creatively not just to make it look like someone is sitting in a room you could have built practically.

 

[Kane52630]

Also you don't need giant world-ending CGI battles every time to covey intensity or emotion in the 3rd act.

 

[OtherwiseKnownAs]

This thing is absolutely gonna have legs.

 

[Kane52630]

Oppenheimer (70mm IMAX)

When it's your turn for public speaking so you imagine everyone naked but it backfires so hard.

MY FULL REVIEW
4.5/5

 

[BatLobster]

The score, and final images of this movie (and how it mirrors the opening images) are haunting me.

Also...

Spoiler

Weirdly, the ending brings to mind for me....Terminator 3 of all things. For as much of a mixed bag that movie was, I remember that ending hitting me as pretty b*llsy and haunting when I saw it. Of course, the idea of nuclear holocaust hits a LOT different here after being immersed in so much history about how we got here. It's a hard one to shake. I also don't think it's quite as simple as Nolan saying "we're all gonna die!". I think there are a lot of layers to it that will be unpacked for a while. Nolan places us right back into Oppenheimer's head for the ending, which I think is the point of the whole movie. But it certainly leaves you with an uneasy feeling in your gut.

 

[Kane52630]

The score, and final images of this movie (and how it mirrors the opening images) are haunting me.

Also...

Spoiler

Weirdly, the ending brings to mind for me....Terminator 3 of all things. For as much of a mixed bag that movie was, I remember that ending hitting me as pretty b*llsy and haunting when I saw it. Of course, the idea of nuclear holocaust hits a LOT different here after being immersed in so much history about how we got here. It's a hard one to shake. I also don't think it's quite as simple as Nolan saying "we're all gonna die!". I think there are a lot of layers to it that will be unpacked for a while. Nolan places us right back into Oppenheimer's head for the ending, which I think is the point of the whole movie. But it certainly leaves you with an uneasy feeling in your gut.

Spoiler

It's the chain reaction line for me that really puts everything in perspective. Scientifically it didn't blow up the world but it did politically.

 

[Daywalker89]

This thing is absolutely gonna have legs.

yep without a doubt man, this film needs multiple viewings for different reasons. Will be interesting to see if this has better legs than barbie.

My personal enjoyment will most likely be heightened when i can gauge what exactly was happening in certain scenes where i got abit lost and the scenes i missed due to toilet breaks and annoyances (Cineworld decided to have the air con in my screening and felt like a damn fridge)

Also with other film/series based off realife disasters like this film, this will spurge a big research increase into the atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki from the general public , with that side effect imo will make this film even more bank.

 

[BatLobster]

Spoiler

It's the chain reaction line for me that really puts everything in perspective. Scientifically it didn't blow up the world but it did politically.

Yup, that is definitely one strong reading of it that comes to mind.

 

[Gothamsknight]

I'm not gonna bother with IMAX for the time being honestly. On my third viewing I'll try but when things calm down haha.

 

[Kane52630]

Updated my rankings...

1. Memento (2000)
2. The Dark Knight (2008)
3. Batman Begins (2005)
4. Oppenheimer (2023)
5. Inception (2010)
6. The Prestige (2006)
7. Dunkirk (2017)
8. Interstellar (2014)
9. Tenet (2020)
10. The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
11. Insomnia (2002)
12. Following (1998)

 

[-Arya-]

I wonder what the final box office numbers will look like. Could it pass Dunkirk ($527 million)?

 

[Drizzle]

This thing is absolutely gonna have legs.

I can easily see an IMAX rerelease for this later this year if the strike forces a release date shuffle to 2024 for studios.

 

[Kane52630]

I can easily see an IMAX rerelease for this later this year if the strike forces a release date shuffle to 2024 for studios.

They're definitely doing it for the awards season alone.

 

[Iceman]

This and MI need an IMAX rerelease down the line if there’s room.

 

[KaijuDude1992]

As much as I was looking forward to this movie ever since it announced I never thought it would do these kinds of numbers, but that just goes to show you how starved people are for a proper Nolan EVENT film.

Tenet never got that chance due to unfortunate circumstances dealing with the pandemic and yet it still somehow made over $300M WW based off the goodwill of Nolan's name alone in OS markets.

Say what you will about the quality of that movie, but most modern-day directors could not have pulled something like that off which is nothing short of an amazing achievement IMO.

I also think this movie's going to have killer legs, especially among its target demographic just like Barbie and possibly become Nolan's highest grossing original film since Inception.

 

[samsnee]

This thing is absolutely gonna have legs.

Same thing in NYC. Gonna settle for 70MM next week

 

[-Arya-]

This movie lingers in your mind, that’s for sure. Hopefully I’ll get some more clarity of the events during the last hour with my 2nd viewing. Right now it’s mostly a blur.

 

[The Big G]

Nolan really said

Spoiler

"Bombs Out...**** Out"

 

[Man in the Suit]

Yep.

 

[Blade Hoarder]

This thing is absolutely gonna have legs.

A lot of people who think this movie’s success is a fluke powered by memes are gonna have a rude awakening in the second weekend.

 

[The Chris]

Yep.

I can’t even argue that at all. As much as I’ve loved the work Wally Pfister, Lee Smith and Hans Zimmer did with Nolan (and always will), It really feels like Nolan has reached a moment where he’s just letting loose and being even more experimental and dominate with how he approaches his films and Hoyte, Jennifer Lame, and Ludwig Gorransson have been more than up for the challenge.

There are scenes here that feel less like a biopic and more like an abstract horror film.