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Went to see it yesterday with the wife.... Probably the first time I've gone to a movie in years.

Not a particular fan of Christopher Nolan, but it was a interesting look at history, the lengths the government will go-to regardless of the consequences, if you are a history buff, there is a bit of conspiracy theory laced into the movie about the atomic bomb and WWII.

Overall I thought it was pretty decent and a interesting look about the consequences of technological advancement.
 
It was good but not exceptional. The soundtrack never let up and the repetitive montages just padded the run time. Some of the sequences needed less swirling sparks and noise and more space to breathe.

Nolan has a problem writing and directing women. Women were the weakest parts of his Batman movies.

The performances from Robert Downey Jr., Josh Hartnett, and Cillian Murphy were all top notch, but Florence Pugh and Emily Blunt were melodramatic mood swing cliches every time they were on screen.

The sole exception was Kitty’s hearing scene… where her dialogue was lifted straight off the transcript.
 
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JRV said:
but Florence Pugh and Emily Blunt were melodramatic mood swing cliches every time they were on screen.
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Maybe that's because, at least for emily blunt, she's a garbage human who can go back to her own country ASAP.
 
JRV said:
It was good but not exceptional. The soundtrack never let up and the repetitive montages just padded the run time. Some of the sequences needed less swirling sparks and noise and more space to breathe.

Nolan has a problem writing and directing women. Women were the weakest parts of his Batman movies.

The performances from Robert Downey Jr., Josh Hartnett, and Cillian Murphy were all top notch, but Florence Pugh and Emily Blunt were melodramatic mood swing cliches every time they were on screen.

The sole exception was Kitty’s hearing scene… where her dialogue was lifted straight off the transcript.
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I agree with this, the hearing scene is the one time that she really came alive during the movie, other than that, she was just there.
 
I saw it last night and really enjoyed the movie. I have a hard rule against watching movies over two hours but made an exception in this case. I'm something of a physics and history/philosophy of science nerd and the movie checked a lot of boxes. My modern physics professor at NCSU worked at Los Alamos and had a lot of great stories (https://ahf.nuclearmuseum.org/ahf/profile/l-worth-seagondollar/). There were a lot of older guys in the theater and, being 3 hours long, we all ended up at the urinals as soon as it ended. Seems like they enjoyed the trip down memory lane.

[edit: I don't know why the Amazon link doesn't work.]
For folks interested in how we survived what came next, I highly recommend "Command and Control" by Eric Schlosser.
 
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From conversations with other people, I think they missed the point of the movie.

The movie was about Oppenheimer himself, not about the atomic bomb. Seems too many people thought it would be about the bomb.

If you watch the movie with this in mind, you'll get a lot more out of it.
 
Just finished watching this and was...underwhelmed. Fat Man and Little Boy was better and there was another movie about the same thing that I thought was better but the title escapes me. I fell asleep at the beginning. Note to self, dont start a movie tired. The acting was good and there was a cast of thousands but thats about it for me. Was really looking forward to being blown away. Not so much.
 
I’d be curious to watch it, but not enough so to take outva loan for theater tickets.

Back in HS, I did some independent research into “the bomb” and nuclear power in general. One thing I do recall is that Oppenheimer apparently got the idea (for critical mass?) while watching a traffic light change. It’s been 30+ years since I did that research, so I don’t fully remember.
 
MrBitey said:
I saw it last night and really enjoyed the movie. I have a hard rule against watching movies over two hours but made an exception in this case. I'm something of a physics and history/philosophy of science nerd and the movie checked a lot of boxes. My modern physics professor at NCSU worked at Los Alamos and had a lot of great stories (https://ahf.nuclearmuseum.org/ahf/profile/l-worth-seagondollar/). There were a lot of older guys in the theater and, being 3 hours long, we all ended up at the urinals as soon as it ended. Seems like they enjoyed the trip down memory lane.

[edit: I don't know why the Amazon link doesn't work.]
For folks interested in how we survived what came next, I highly recommend "Command and Control" by Eric Schlosser.
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If you don’t podcast, may I suggest giving it a go. My favorite historical podcaster OSS Darryl Cooper, followed by Danieli Bolleli (warning- His English is broken)
One of the Jocko/Cooper podcasts Cooper was stating Oppenheimer was at minimum a Russian sympathizer, at max a Russian spy.
Stalin knew about the successful detonation before Truman did.
THAT should have been the movie.
 
Trinity and Beyond

Is a good movie if you just care about the bomb.
 
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