Oppenheimer (2023)

[Immortality]

I believe the film ‘Oppenheimer’ may bring Hollywood out of the quagmire we all know it is now currently stuck in and may start making great films again, or at least I hope.

What are your thoughts about this movie so far? Will you see it in IMAX as the director intended?
( I will be watching it at this massive IMAX theater we have hear in CT that is inside a sort of place for kids to look at sea creatures, I dunno, I haven’t been there since I was a kid. We saw some space documentary and it BLEW MY MIND...the sound was booming, the screen and visuals were curved around me like I was actually in space...it was a lot of fun. )So, I can only guess that seeing a Christopher Nolan film there might be pretty good, or no. Guess I have to go to find out.

One thing that comes across in the trailer that I don’t like is that Oppenheimer has this guilty look on his face. I know a little about Oppenheimer and I know this one fact, he did not feel guilty at all for his creation or even it being dropped on Japan, which to me is just a war crime and the people involved in that should be punished.

Your thoughts, opinions, etc.?

Thanks

 

[Harpo]

I am more interested in the Barbenheimer phenomenon

Barbenheimer - Wikipedia

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[BAYLOR]

I believe the film ‘Oppenheimer’ may bring Hollywood out of the quagmire we all know it is now currently stuck in and may start making great films again, or at least I hope.

What are your thoughts about this movie so far? Will you see it in IMAX as the director intended?
( I will be watching it at this massive IMAX theater we have hear in CT that is inside a sort of place for kids to look at sea creatures, I dunno, I haven’t been there since I was a kid. We saw some space documentary and it BLEW MY MIND...the sound was booming, the screen and visuals were curved around me like I was actually in space...it was a lot of fun. )So, I can only guess that seeing a Christopher Nolan film there might be pretty good, or no. Guess I have to go to find out.

One thing that comes across in the trailer that I don’t like is that Oppenheimer has this guilty look on his face. I know a little about Oppenheimer and I know this one fact, he did not feel guilty at all for his creation or even it being dropped on Japan, which to me is just a war crime and the people involved in that should be punished.

Your thoughts, opinions, etc.?

Thanks

It looks quite good .

 

[frrsoffiati]

Is Oppenheimer an apology to the real science?

 

[BAYLOR]

It's more a case of regrest balanced off with necessity. Losing the A Bomb race could have cost us the war.

 

[Dave]

I've seen this now (very late.) The hype last year was enormous. It didn't live up to the hype. Was Barbie better? It may have been.

I've avoided this until now because the 3-hour length is too long for me. That wasn't actually the problem as there was enough material to fill the 3 hours. In fact, I could have watched more about his early life and "womanising". No, as I've mentioned before, I prefer stories told in a more "linear" manner, unless there are very good story-telling reasons to do otherwise (such as surprising the audience by keeping them in the dark.) This moved quickly back-and-forth between his early life as a postgraduate, the creation of the bomb, and the late accusations of being a Russian spy or sympathiser, but I saw no good reason for doing that. There is a lot of people sitting in meeting in rooms, and a lot of mansplaining of science.

 

[Swank]

I haven't seen either film, yet. But the mansplaining puts Oppenheimer to the top of the list.

 

[Robert Zwilling]

Don't need it, just a washed up, out of place piece of history. It uses characterizations that didn't exist and left out characters that did exist. I was reading about Damon Knights's review tactics, he apparently looked for the idiot that made the whole story appear to work. He said he thought Blish was the one who told him about Idiot plots. Damon Knight was the founder of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA). Not that I could ever join it, you need a minimum number of sales. I searched for idiots in the Oppenheimer movie and was presented with the following from google's AI overview, or maybe it was an underview:
It's laughably stupid
It's nonlinear
It's dude-centric
It's packed with dumb tricks
It's goofy
It's simplistic
It's camouflaged dumb
Apparently some one wasn't very impressed with the movie.

 

[Swank]

Don't need it, just a washed up, out of place piece of history. It uses characterizations that didn't exist and left out characters that did exist. I was reading about Damon Knights's review tactics, he apparently looked for the idiot that made the whole story appear to work. He said he thought Blish was the one who told him about Idiot plots. Damon Knight was the founder of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA). Not that I could ever join it, you need a minimum number of sales. I searched for idiots in the Oppenheimer movie and was presented with the following from google's AI overview, or maybe it was an underview:
It's laughably stupid
It's nonlinear
It's dude-centric
It's packed with dumb tricks
It's goofy
It's simplistic
It's camouflaged dumb
Apparently some one wasn't very impressed with the movie.

Huh?

 

[Robert Zwilling]

Its political socio economic driven, so no comment.

 

[Swank]

Its political socio economic driven, so no comment.

It appeared to be stream of consciousness.

 

[CupofJoe]

Okay, the title was Oppenheimer so I should have known what it was about.
But for some reason, I thought there would be more about the Manhattan Project.
For me, it was a long film about a not particularly nice man.

 

[Judderman]

It seems if something is big budget it has to be long. A good film on an important topic, but probably overinflated as it was so important to USA. Definitely good acting and production.
A sequel on the Japanese viewpoint would be something.