Originally Posted by monet View Post
Originally Posted by tableplay View Post
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.
Better than most of the trash they release today.
I didn't take it too seriously.
I hope Horizon is better but it's probably about the same level.
No hurry to go see it.
Wait for Streaming, so I can be comfortable and pause when necessary.
I watched SaltBurn the other day.
Had to fast forward some of the sick, disgusting scenes.
Most of the ending was just sick, shock-factor, fast-forward for me.
Talented Mr. Ripley did it first and better.
I watched it mainly to get a look inside the Drayton House, where they filmed it.

(lul I think you watched Fat Man. John Cusack turns into a Radioactive Monster, just like in modern day real life, lol.)
Well, I downloaded Fat Man and Little Boy yesterday, so, once I start watching it, I'll likely know in the beginning moments of the film if I already watched it at some point. Speaking of the Talented Mr. Ripley, I watched the Netflix TV series version (IIRC it was eight episodes or so) a few months back. There was nothing really wrong with it, but it didn't come close to the film version with Matt Damon IMHO.