Documentary/Biopic Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer

[DarkKnight88]

See, sometimes *not* getting the job works out better.

I’ve never even heard of this lol

 

[Arachnerd]

I didn't even know there had been another Oppenheimer TV series other than the one from the 80s.

 

[Detective Conan]

Was that Manhattan show good? I always wanted to watch it because my girl Rachel Brosnahan was in it but I never got around to it.

I’ve never seen it myself, but looking it up the show was critically acclaimed.

 

[Gothamsknight]

 

[Iceman]

Cool. Enough time for it to have made most of its money.

 

[The Caped Knight]

My God what a film, surprisingly a really star studded cast with some surprises appearances. Right now this has Oscar potential for multiple nominations imo.

 

[Iceman]

What's more awesome is that this is the track from the December 2022 exclusive IMAX trailer.

I love when tracks from a film are used in the actual trailers for it.

A shame we don’t get that more often.

 

[Mjolnir Reborn]

I finally got to catch a film in the theater this summer and Oppenheimer delivered on my hopes. One of Nolan's best and that felt extra good for me as I haven't loved his last outings.

Very well acted and it managed to stay interesting through the entire runtime. It's structured in a way that feels like what I expect from Nolan and it plays mostly to the aspects of filmmaking that I think he does best.

As I've seen the sound mix being talked about again I don't remember having any particular issues with dialogue, but I do think some of the choices of throwing in sounds here and there got a bit too distracting from more interesting parts of the scenes and didn't achieve things that the actors couldn't deliver anyway. I really enjoyed those parts when it came to the test scene though. There it fit perfectly for me and helped create a really interesting scene.

I'm not fully sure where I'd rank Oppenheimer in Nolan's filmography yet, but I'm fairly certain it's at least in the top 3.

 

[DKDetective]

Was that Manhattan show good? I always wanted to watch it because my girl Rachel Brosnahan was in it but I never got around to it.

Anyway, Oppenheimer was fantastic. I’m sure it will get a ton of nominations and I hope it wins some. Lots of standout performances but major props to Cillian, RDJ, Blunt, Pugh and Hartnett. Also, I seriously owe Benny Safdie an apology after I called him a horrible actor for his role in Obi-Wan. He was great in this. Hell, everybody was. I’m hoping Cillian wins Best Actor.

See, sometimes *not* getting the job works out better.

I’ve never even heard of this lol

I didn't even know there had been another Oppenheimer TV series other than the one from the 80s.

That show was highly, highly fictionalized, so while it got good reviews, it is nothing to compare to this film.

 

[Detective Conan]

Oppenheimer’s grandson liked the film but he didn’t like one aspect. Spoiler tagged since the tweet contains a spoiler for the film.

 

[DKDetective]

Oppenheimer grandson liked the film but he didn’t like one aspect. Spoiler tagged since the tweet contains a spoiler for a film.

Spoiler

The grandson is wrong on that one. The story was told to others by Oppenheimer himself and it features in American Prometheus. He got caught and was almost expelled. One of the authors of the book was a tenured history professor at Princeton and would not include that anecdote without trustworthy sources.

Now, Nolan's version is probably a little exaggerated as was Oppenheimer's later tellings of the story. There is no record of it anything a serious as cyanide, more likely just some minor chemicals Oppenheimer intended to make Blackett sick. Nolan's exaggeration is okay since the colour sequences are clearly meant to be subjective from Oppie's perspective and the exaggeration is consistent with Oppenheimer's telling of the tale.

 

[Boom]

I will give @flickchick85 her due.

Spoiler

That Oldman cameo was rough.

 

[Kane52630]

Seeing it, I don't have a problem with it considering it really happened.

 

[BeserkerHilf]

I will give @flickchick85 her due.

Spoiler

That Oldman cameo was rough.

Thought so, too. I think it’s because I have no reference for Truman’s voice and when I think of him my mind jumps straight to a mental image of Eisenhower.

 

[DKDetective]

Seeing it, I don't have a problem with it considering it really happened.

Thought so, too. I think it’s because I have no reference for Truman’s voice and when I think of him my mind jumps straight to a mental image of Eisenhower.

The dialogue in the scene is very accurate to various accounts of the meeting, but Truman was definitely not as folksy as portrayed in the movie.

Spoiler

Oldman for the most part gave some of his more restrained performances for Nolan, I feel like that scene has got to have been a conscious choice.

I'm guessing the intention of the scene was to portray Truman as the unsophisticated, country bumpkin that Oppie perceived him. There are surreal elements to other scenes in the film.

 

[Gothamsknight]

Just got out of a second viewing. Even better a second time. Nolan needs all of the awards! I really hope it's his time.

 

[OtherwiseKnownAs]

 

[flickchick85]

Nolan needs all of the awards! I really hope it's his time.

I really think it might actually be this time.

 

[Kane52630]

Especially since the strike is moving a lot of Oscar hopefuls away.

 

[Ninjablade]

It's been 3 days now and I can't get RDJ's performance out of my head. It cannot be understated how amazing he is in this film.

 

[DKDetective]

It's been 3 days now and I can't get RDJ's performance out of my head. It cannot be understated how amazing he is in this film.

While I very much agree and I think part of that is how people are so used to him just mugging as Tony Stark, we can't forget all of the heavy lifting Cillian does in the film. His performance isn't quite as showy as RDJ's but Murphy is definitely the MVP to me.

 

[Man in the Suit]

I'm still waiting for interviews with editor Jennifer Lame. I love her work on this and Tenet.

She also edited the 5 minute trailer:



I've gone back to watch that trailer many times.

 

[OtherwiseKnownAs]

 

[Gothamsknight]

I really think it might actually be this time.

He really deserves it. This movie is pretty much perfect to me and I felt the last hour even less than this time. Everything fits together so neatly and the performances are spectacular all around. My brother and sister in law loved it too!

 

[flickchick85]