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Oppenheimer (starring Cillian Murphy, written/directed by Christopher Nolan) - update (11/29): the "Oppenheimer 4K UHD Physical Media Shortage Crisis" is over!

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Overly loud music in a historical huh? Yup, it's a Nolan movie. :lol:

 

1 hour ago, Fizzzzle said:

The idea that scientists (like the ACTUAL scientists who worked on the Manhattan project) thought that there was even a remote possibility that a nuclear bomb would destroy the world is a total myth. I get that it makes for good storytelling, but it's patently false.

 

I think it comes from some scientist saying "like... yeah, sure, maybe, a hypothetical bomb, if it was the size of Connecticut was detonated then yeah, potentially the atmosphere could fucking explode" and people ran with that.

 

IIRC they briefly thought it might ignite the atmosphere but then realized they'd fucked up by an order of magnitude somewhere in the calculations.

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40 minutes ago, BloodyHell said:

I’m definitely seeing this.

I’m definitely not seeing Barbie. 
 

I doubt either will be great, but this looks like it might be worth the ticket price.


I think both will be really well made, and I could not have been more skeptical of a Barbie movie than I was! Whether any given person likes the films, that remains to be seen.

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On 6/1/2023 at 12:48 PM, Brick said:

I was surprised he didn't go for R for Dunkirk. 

 

Sexuality, nudity, and language? Are we going to see Oppenheimer bust a nut before busting atoms? 

I'm reading through the book right now, and Oppy was quite the ladies man.

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I've been revisiting Nolan's films recently and it's a good reminder of how well deserved his unique place in Hollywood is.

 

I maintain Dunkirk is his best film. It hums along with Nolan's trademark precision and is a masterclass in building tempo and tension. There's also a simplicity to it that avoids Nolan giving into his worst instincts. World War II has such a clarity to it that paves over Nolan's propensity for complexity, making the emotion so much more accessible. It makes me hope that some of that is shared in Oppenheimer.

 

The magic of The Prestige is that it feels like Nolan's best character work, but both protagonists share only a single notable trait. It feels like a deep dive into these two men, but it's an illusion of depth resulting from the maze of plotting and twists. I love it. It's a feat of writing and editing and it shows how much Nolan can do without IMAX action scenes. Nolan clearly knows how to tell a good story about men that are driven and calculating, and again, makes me hopeful about his ability to exemplify the same things in Oppie.

 

Inception is what comes to my mind as the prototypical Nolan film, despite being solidly in the center of his filmography. There are so many moving parts and so much explanation is required, but it still pulses along and most importantly it uses its crazy premise to show us some incredible things. Things like the rotating hallway fight or the bending city are iconic because they are just so viscerally awesome.

 

Interstellar is a film I love, but at times it veers away from using its layered conceits to show us things that are visually incredible and toward showing us things that are supposed to be intellectually riveting, and it just doesn't always work. Waves the size of mountains works on both levels, but I always have a hard time with the visualization of time. Still a lot to like about this film, but it's easy to see how it lead to Tenet.

 

With Tenet Nolan chases the intellectual over the visual every time, and it falls flat because of it. Seeing things in reverse, even when the rest of the frame is moving forward, doesn't have impact me as a viewer beyond confusion. You can explain all you want about temporal pincer movements or the bizarre effects of inverse entropy, the result on screen is more often a sense of oddity than of awe. I imagine that the more straightforward story of Oppenheimer will avoid this particular pitfall.

 

Still have a few more to get through. I haven't seen Memento in a long time.

 

 

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53 minutes ago, Kal-El814 said:
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Stars leave Oppenheimer premiere as Hollywood actors' strike called

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Cillian Murphy and Emily Blunt leave Oppenheimer premiere as Hollywood actors join major strike.

 

 

Surprisingly, Nolan actually had a reasonable reaction to this.

 

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“Unfortunately, they’re off to write their picket signs for what we believe to be an imminent strike by Sag, joining one of my guilds, the Writers Guild, in the struggle for fair wages for working members of the unions, and we support them.”

 

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On 7/12/2023 at 7:45 PM, TheLeon said:

I’m now debating making the multiple hour trip to Indianapolis to see this in 70MM IMAX. But then again, it’s been well established that my eyes are dumb, so maybe I’ll just stick to my local “imax” and save my time/money. :p

I'll just stream it to my phone when it eventually gets a digital release. :cool:

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I guess this is a spoiler, but not really, I dunno... but about this sex scene...

 

 

 


Apparently this movie features a 15 minute dialog free, fully nude sex scene involving a long... drawn out... minutes long closeup camera shot of Cillian Murphy's backside thrusting into Florence Pugh... It's supposed to be very graphic and very awkward and is very divisive...

 

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3 hours ago, ort said:

I guess this is a spoiler, but not really, I dunno... but about this sex scene...

 

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Apparently this movie features a 15 minute dialog free, fully nude sex scene involving a long... drawn out... minutes long closeup camera shot of Cillian Murphy's backside thrusting into Florence Pugh... It's supposed to be very graphic and very awkward and is very divisive...

 

 

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6 hours ago, ort said:

I guess this is a spoiler, but not really, I dunno... but about this sex scene...

 

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15 minutes of the worst camera angle in porn? Ehhhhhhh

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