Originally Posted by monet View Post

I watched Oppenheimer today and my gut feelings about the movie were wrong.
It's highly entertaining at times.
Good Musical Score.
Nice Cinematography with some nice wide-angle shots.
I do not see the reason for the sex scene on the chair in the backdoor court room.
I get it though.
Sex Sales.
That scene is just a bit uncomfortable since everyone else is dressed in the room and his wife is right there.
I get it.
Shock Value.
Another problem with the movie is the ongoing music.
They don't need to run 3-hour long music constantly during the film.
It would be more impactful in many of those scenes if it was just dialog and no music.
Nolan really went cray cray with never-ending pulse pounding epic music.
It's good but it also gets annoying after a while, being that the movie is 3 hours long.
I held out a long time but glad I finally viewed it.
I think that if you watch the Paul Newman version Fat Man and Little Boy (1989) first that it compliments what Nolan was doing here.
It kind of reinforces this newer version.
In my opinion, Oppenheimer is the better version of this story.
But I don't mind long winded movies.
I couldn't get past the politics of Oppenheimer. Probably an expectations sort of thing. I mean, of course there were politics and scheming present during the effort to make The Bomb, but my interest in physics created a desire for the movie to have a lot more of that element, which it didn't. Anyway thanks for the Fat Man and Little Boy reco - I didn't see that one if my memory serves me, so I am looking forward to watching it.