Oppenheimer

[Donger]

I'm in.

[BigBeauford]

I hope this is good. Nolan is steadily reaching hack territory for me with his last two outputs (Dunkirk and Tenet).

[staylor26]

Originally Posted by BigBeauford

I hope this is good. Nolan is steadily reaching hack territory for me with his last two outputs (Dunkirk and Tenet).

I mean, those 2 movies weren't his best work, but they're still better than 99% of the shit that Hollywood puts out. I thoroughly enjoyed both.

[BleedingRed]

Originally Posted by staylor26

I mean, those 2 movies weren't his best work, but they're still better than 99% of the shit that Hollywood puts out. I thoroughly enjoyed both.

Fact!

I loved Dunkirk

[Stryker]

Originally Posted by BleedingRed

Fact!

I loved Dunkirk

This!

[BigBeauford]

Originally Posted by staylor26

I mean, those 2 movies weren't his best work, but they're still better than 99% of the shit that Hollywood puts out. I thoroughly enjoyed both.

Excluding Home Alone 4, I'm not sure there is a movie I've enjoyed watching less in the last 2 years than TENET. It was an absolute mess with regards to the audio-visual and storytelling departments. Dunkirk was just boring and (saw it in IMAX) horribly loud. He really needs to clean up his act on the audio front, many of his films have barely audible dilogue with his crap sound mixing. Sorry, I know it's not the thread for it, but he's come an embarrassingly long way away from his Memento days.

Denis Villeneuve, not Nolan, should be getting the kind of cult-like following for gorgeous heady movies.

[Lzen]

Originally Posted by staylor26

I mean, those 2 movies weren't his best work, but they're still better than 99% of the shit that Hollywood puts out. I thoroughly enjoyed both.

Dunkirk was okay. Not great but decent.

I did like Tenet a lot more. But I can understand why some would hate it. It was a little confusing, kind of like Inception was.

And you're right, most movies these days are crap.

[DJ's left nut]

Originally Posted by staylor26

I mean, those 2 movies weren't his best work, but they're still better than 99% of the shit that Hollywood puts out. I thoroughly enjoyed both.

Dunkirk was fantastic.

But you HAD to see it in a theater with the screen/sound to do it justice. I loved that movie and never understood how anyone possibly couldn't.

Then I watched it at home once and, while I enjoyed it, understood how someone might not. It loses so much when placed on a smaller screen.

Tenant, OTOH, was disappointing as hell. I was fired up to see that movie and didn't even make it to the end. It was Nolan sniffing his own farts in a big way.

But Oppenheimer is gonna be great.

[ToxSocks]

Originally Posted by BigBeauford

I hope this is good. Nolan is steadily reaching hack territory for me with his last two outputs (Dunkirk and Tenet).

What?

I thought Dunkirk was awesome.

[Bowser]

Originally Posted by Detoxing

What?

I thought Dunkirk was awesome.

I thought it was a lesser effort by Nolan, but still better than nearly all the muck Hollywood burps out. The story was choppy (by his standards) and the sound was WAY too loud in the theaters, but yeah, would definitely watch again.

I need to re-watch Tenet and see what a second viewing does for me. I liked it pretty well, but I think it might get better when you have a feel for it going in.

[Buehler445]

I hope this isn't a miss.

I really liked Dunkirk and Nolan's capacity to put WWII visuals on the screen.

But this is a very different endeavor. I read the General and the Genius (not Genious btw) about the Manhattan project focusing on Oppenheimer and Groves. Whatever you might think about the book, the story of Oppenheimer is a very very complicated and nuanced story. It is difficult for scholars who have spent a lifetime studying the Manhattan project and subsequent events and interviews.

Any artistic license taken would seriously impact a well documented life executing well documented events. It's not like the Dunkirk movie that had relatively faceless characters that he could use in whatever way he wanted to tell the story.

FWIW, the General and the Genius is a really good book for those interested. There are a lot of touchy subjects it does a good job of navigating them fairly and (IMO) objectively. And some of them are pretty serious, like how Stalin knew about the bomb before Truman at Potsdam.

All that is difficult to tell in an anthology of books, much less in a feature film.

But Nolan has earned the rope to hang himself.

[mr. tegu]

This story has the potential for a tremendous movie.

[notorious]

He has one of the most important and terrifying quotes in the history of Earth.

I can’t imagine living with what he had to live with. Creating something powerful enough to end humanity.

I am ready for this movie. The cast is fantastic, too.

[Buehler445]

Originally Posted by notorious

He has one of the most important and terrifying quotes in the history of Earth.

I can’t imagine living with what he had to live with. Creating something powerful enough to end humanity.

I am ready for this movie. The cast is fantastic, too.

Throw that book I mentioned on audible.

It is a fascinating listen. I'm sure there are other good books about it too, but this looked at the human element of the job. It's really ****ing good.

[Jenson71]

Originally Posted by Buehler445

Throw that book I mentioned on audible.

It is a fascinating listen. I'm sure there are other good books about it too, but this looked at the human element of the job. It's really ****ing good.

Richard Rhodes, a KC native, wrote the definitive book on the subject, The Making of the Atomic Bomb, which won the Pulitzer Prize.