Is anyone going to see Oppenheimer? (message, score, reviews, Savannah)
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I consider almost all forms of entertainment media of uncensored nudity of breasts/crotch area or sex to be pornography, so therefore, I don't want it anywhere around my family.
*Waves* Yep, that's me. One of my main issues is that you normally know to some degree if you are going to see a movie that has a lot of violence or gore, but you can barely find a show or movie out there now (not geared toward kids) that doesn't have completely unnecessary sex/nudity thrown in. My personal morals/beliefs are very against any type of pornography/adult entertainment. I consider almost all forms of entertainment media of uncensored nudity of breasts/crotch area or sex to be pornography, so therefore, I don't want it anywhere around my family.
I'm not into violence and gore, but it's rare for me to be surprised about it. Sometimes it's more severe than expected, but it being included was already known.
Fortunately, I'm not triggered by either nudity or sex, as I'm very much looking forward to Oppenhemier.
Also, I understand what constitutes pornography. Rest assured, I won't be getting all hot and bothered by seeing whatever is depicted, though I expect that I will appreciate its aesthetic content.
Why is there sex and nudity in a film about creating the atomic bomb? You can see that anywhere these days. But bringing the science to the screen will be cool if they stick to the story. My biggest fear is they will Hollywoodize this and ruin the story.
I was thinking you actually don't on movies these days as they always strive for a PG-13 rating. Meanwhile on so called premium TV those scenes are included with the story.
I saw it at a Thursday night preview. I was underwhelmed and slightly disappointed, especially after admiring the director’s Interstellar, Dunkirk, and the Dark Knight movies. There is a lot of very fine acting inside a very cerebral and political throughline about Oppenheimer’s ambivalence about the bomb. But it’s a movie that would have been twice as good at half the length—and with something besides its awful bombastic score and many visual cliches about atoms and light.
Oppenheimer was clearly a unique man. But Nolan packs too much of what he was about into the three hours instead of focusing on that important through line that is the heart of the story. Nolan doesn’t make bad movies. But IMO this wasn’t one of his best. YMMV.
I saw it at a Thursday night preview. I was underwhelmed and slightly disappointed, especially after admiring the director’s Interstellar, Dunkirk, and the Dark Knight movies. There is a lot of very fine acting inside a very cerebral and political throughline about Oppenheimer’s ambivalence about the bomb. But it’s a movie that would have been twice as good at half the length—and with something besides its awful bombastic score and many visual cliches about atoms and light.
Oppenheimer was clearly a unique man. But Nolan packs too much of what he was about into the three hours instead of focusing on that important through line that is the heart of the story. Nolan doesn’t make bad movies. But IMO this wasn’t one of his best. YMMV.
It would be true to say that I found it riveting start to finish, even though it’s slow and often hard to follow. But it would also be true to say that Oppenheimer is much too long and its delivery far too muddled to be considered anything more than a visually provocative biopic that seems less interested in character study than it does in setting a mood. Christopher Nolan likes to play tricks with chronology in his films, often to great success, but here Nolan’s stylistic and narrative habits are too jarring. Too inconsistent. This is not Tenet. I don’t want to spend time puzzling out timelines....
In the end, this is a film that seems to try very hard to be profound and powerful but cloaks so much of its story in camera tricks and loud, dialogue-burying music, that ultimately Nolan feels like his own worst enemy. His attention to detail is superb, of course, but one wonders if he even has the capacity to just play it straight from time to time, or if it’s all smoke and mirrors (fitting for the director of The Prestige).
I don't know why the country is so wound up about this movie, this historical figure; perhaps someone can explain that to me why it is, what the hype about this movie is. What am I missing?
Last edited by TamaraSavannah; 07-21-2023 at 08:06 PM..
I would bet that the scene or scenes are a part of his life story and are not gratuitous.
This is my concern about the movie. Not whether they are nude scenes, nor if they are gratuitous, but that they are irrelevant to the story. Or perhaps I should say that the story becomes irrelevant to the movie the director wants to make. The first reviews posted by Citylove ...
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Originally Posted by citylove101
I saw it at a Thursday night preview. I was underwhelmed and slightly disappointed, especially after admiring the director’s Interstellar, Dunkirk, and the Dark Knight movies. There is a lot of very fine acting inside a very cerebral and political throughline about Oppenheimer’s ambivalence about the bomb. But it’s a movie that would have been twice as good at half the length—and with something besides its awful bombastic score and many visual cliches about atoms and light.
Oppenheimer was clearly a unique man. But Nolan packs too much of what he was about into the three hours instead of focusing on that important through line that is the heart of the story. Nolan doesn’t make bad movies. But IMO this wasn’t one of his best. YMMV.
... make me wonder if it's worthwhile seeing in the theater vs waiting for streaming.
I saw it tonight. The auditorium was packed, mainly because there were not many screenings for this movie. Most in the audience were young people, probably many being college students.
The film is very long, and the plot advances through dialogues with frequently switched scenes back and forth. Personally I don’t like this type of technique. It breaks the chance to build up emotions, and often makes you confused.
My row has about 10 seats, and 4 people had walked out before the movie ended.
Last edited by MtPleasantDream; 07-22-2023 at 12:30 AM..
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