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longhorn320

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Re: OT - TV shows and Movies
« Reply #350 on: March 01, 2024, 04:30:49 PM »
Oppenheimer spent most of the movie showing the government investigation into his communist connection and very little on the actual development of the bomb

this was very disappointing to me

also the movie is way too long 3.5 hours

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Re: OT - TV shows and Movies
« Reply #351 on: March 01, 2024, 05:20:45 PM »
Agree. 
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Re: OT - TV shows and Movies
« Reply #352 on: March 01, 2024, 09:23:16 PM »
Quote from: longhorn320 on March 01, 2024, 04:30:49 PM
Oppenheimer spent most of the movie showing the government investigation into his communist connection and very little on the actual development of the bomb

this was very disappointing to me

also the movie is way too long 3.5 hours


When Nolan stuffed 3 movies (an Oppenheimer biopic, a trieastie on nuclear weaponry, and a courtroom drama) into 1, this was to be expected. 
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« Reply #353 on: March 01, 2024, 09:36:53 PM »
I mean, the movie is called Oppenheimer, not the Manhattan Project.  I guess I always expected it to be about the man, not the bomb.

Also, it's Christopher Nolan, it's never going to be just a straightforward anything
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Re: OT - TV shows and Movies
« Reply #354 on: March 01, 2024, 10:06:28 PM »
I guess, maybe it was too artsy fartsy for a simple guy.  I did not like it, nor did my wife, who actually IS arsty fartsy.

Did I mention she's French?

She's a joy, her mom was Irish and it shows, every day.
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« Reply #355 on: March 01, 2024, 10:21:40 PM »
I guess for a summer blockbuster, yes.  As a Best Picture nominee these days, it was way more mainstream than 95% of nominees over the past decade.

Remember when they went from 5 to 10 to get more mainstream movies nominated, because the nominees were too artsy?  That lasted like a year, with Toy Story 3 getting a much deserved nomination.  Then they just went from nominating 5 artsy movies to 10.

As long as I'm rambling, I've never been more.upset.aboit a money grab than Toy Story 4.  Toy Story 3s ending was absolutely perfect, and naturally they couldn't leave well enough alone
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Re: OT - TV shows and Movies
« Reply #356 on: March 01, 2024, 10:35:23 PM »
Quote from: ELA on March 01, 2024, 09:36:53 PM
I mean, the movie is called Oppenheimer, not the Manhattan Project.  I guess I always expected it to be about the man, not the bomb.

Also, it's Christopher Nolan, it's never going to be just a straightforward anything

Its fine to show a personal side but he is famous for only 1 thing

I would have liked to see more about that thing then trying to figure out if his security clearance should be lowered
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« Reply #357 on: March 01, 2024, 10:52:06 PM »
Quote from: longhorn320 on March 01, 2024, 10:35:23 PM
Its fine to show a personal side but he is famous for only 1 thing

I would have liked to see more about that thing then trying to figure out if his security clearance should be lowered
Disagree, having his clearance pulled as political retribution is a major part of his story.  And I also think that to correctly frame that, you need to show that backstory 
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« Reply #358 on: March 01, 2024, 11:22:39 PM »
Quote from: ELA on March 01, 2024, 10:52:06 PM
Disagree, having his clearance pulled as political retribution is a major part of his story.  And I also think that to correctly frame that, you need to show that backstory
and they did for 3.5 hours
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« Reply #359 on: March 01, 2024, 11:59:35 PM »
Quote from: longhorn320 on March 01, 2024, 11:22:39 PM
and they did for 3.5 hours
I mean the movie is 3 hours long, and at least half of it is about Los Alamos, so tough to find where 3.5 hours comes from.

It's like going to see Hamilton and complaining that people kept singing and ruining all the history.  The movie told you right up front what it was. If that wasn't the movie you wanted to see, that's fine. But complaining that a movie that told you it was a biopic was a biopic seems like a weird complaint
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Re: OT - TV shows and Movies
« Reply #360 on: March 02, 2024, 12:15:30 AM »
Quote from: longhorn320 on March 01, 2024, 04:30:49 PM
Oppenheimer spent most of the movie showing the government investigation into his communist connection and very little on the actual development of the bomb

We don't want any more countries coming up with a bomb, do we?  :57:
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« Reply #361 on: March 02, 2024, 02:33:22 AM »
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« Reply #362 on: March 03, 2024, 07:24:54 PM »
Quote from: betarhoalphadelta on March 01, 2024, 04:21:54 PM
My wife has a friend who is just over the damn moon for that dude. My wife doesn't see the appeal.

Which is good, because I look nothing like him :57:

https://youtu.be/ZTwekCKTklE?si=EkhAxOtyxfDa2FQ_&t=93
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« Reply #363 on: March 03, 2024, 07:27:19 PM »

Saw Oppenheimer, hadn't added it

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