I watched Openheimer in a IMAX movie theater today, it was not bad I liked it, especially the cinemography.

But somehow - probably because I didn’t do enough research before going - I was expecting a lot of nerdy physics science like in the Martian, but it was mostly politics.

  • simple@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    The last hour was definitely hit or miss depending on the person. Most of the movie was pretty much what I expected but after the bomb it mostly turns into just courtroom politics. I really think they could’ve shaved a lot of time there.

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      1 year ago

      Oppenheimer went through his life naively and confidently making certain choices. Juxtaposing him facing consequences for a lifetime’s worth of small actions while being the one to punish himself for the big one was brilliant and crushing.

      Any director could have made a movie where the climax was the explosion, or a debate about the morality of it featuring a lot of footage of dead civilians.

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        1 year ago

        People seem to be missing the point it was a character study. Not a Manhattan Project movie nor a war movie. I wasn’t expecting the courtroom as I was only familiar with the Manhattan Project stuff and the movie wouldn’t be the same without those parts for the reasons you see well described.