Oppenheimer

[Fried Chicken]

Oppenheimer is doing well at the box office and getting great reviews. I saw it this week. This movie is just ok. It wasn’t bad. But it definitely isn’t great. It’s way too long. Nothing really happens. At times it’s just strange.

I like Christopher Nolan movies, typically. This was definitely one of his worst. I feel this is a classic case of people loving it because they are supposed to love it. I get there were some artsy fartsy elements that people in Hollywood drool over, but the movie was barely watchable the first time around. I can’t imagine watching it again. I found myself checking my watch often.

Again, it wasn’t bad. I’m not saying don’t see it. But it definitely isn’t everything people are making it out to be.

 

[athenscock3]

I was disappointed too. Read the book and enjoyed it. Movie was out of sequence and had too much psycho-babble in it.

 

[Crutcher]

Oppenheimer is doing well at the box office and getting great reviews. I saw it this week. This movie is just ok. It wasn’t bad. But it definitely isn’t great. It’s way too long. Nothing really happens. At times it’s just strange.

I like Christopher Nolan movies, typically. This was definitely one of his worst. I feel this is a classic case of people loving it because they are supposed to love it. I get there were some artsy fartsy elements that people in Hollywood drool over, but the movie was barely watchable the first time around. I can’t imagine watching it again. I found myself checking my watch often.

Again, it wasn’t bad. I’m not saying don’t see it. But it definitely isn’t everything people are making it out to be.

Was it better or worse than Barbie?

 

[ScWildthing61]

Saw it too and it did jump around the page a bit, but would still sit through it anytime over being subjected to barbie!

 

[athenscock3]

Was it better or worse than Barbie?

Have no idea and never will.

 

[Uscg1984]

I haven't seen it, but I'm not surprised it has done well at the box office. There are too few big-budget movies coming out of Hollywood these days that appeal to mature audiences who want plot-driven movies rather than CGI-infused fantasies about 1980s toys or super heroes. So, when one comes along, I'm not surprised that demographic buys tickets in large numbers. That said, it's disappointing that some of the reviews have been, well, disappointing. Still, I will probably see it when/if it comes to the local single-screen theater here in the sticks of Montana.

 

[Crutcher]

I haven't seen it, but I'm not surprised it has done well at the box office. There are too few big-budget movies coming out of Hollywood these days that appeal to mature audiences who want plot-driven movies rather than CJI-infused fantasies about 1980s toys or super heroes. So, when one comes along, I'm not surprised that demographic buys tickets in large numbers. That said, it's disappointing that some of the reviews have been, well, disappointing. Still, I will probably see it when/if it comes to the local single-screen theater here in the sticks of Montana.

I liked it, but it was kind of hard to follow. It jumped around chronologically - sometimes the chracters were middle-age, sometimes younger, and sometimes older. It became clear why towards the end, but the beginning was kind of muddled.

 

[Go Gamecocks]

This movie is just ok. It wasn’t bad. But it definitely isn’t great. It’s way too long. Nothing really happens. At times it’s just strange.

You nailed it.
The real tragedy of this movie is it left out Oppie's brilliance in managing Los Alamos during the A-Bomb dev. period.
His relationship with Groves was another piece of history that is epic.

So we get too much Tatlock & persecution by Strauss, and almost no Oppie/Groves dynamic with how things went down at Los Alamos.

Both Murphy & Damon can act....Nolan should have turned them loose and showed all the tension between Los Alamos & the Pentagon going down the wire to Aug. '45.

 

[Forkcock]

The last movie I saw at the theatre was Saving Private Ryan. Hollywood blows. If you're not into comic books or wokeness, you're screwed.

 

[ToddFlanders]

It seems like it was always going to be a good movie - but the "Barbieheimer" marketing scheme made it a "must watch."

 

[Horseshoe04]

Star Wars, James Bond & Indian Jones & Fast & Furious 11 &1/2,
outside of that it takes a lot to get me and the Boss to the movies
PS
..... IF you can marry a car chick I recommend it.