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Oppenheimer Premiere First Reactions

Are any of these people actual critics, or the same hacks that hype everything? Erik David is notoriously in this category. He loved even Eternals and Quantumania.
 
Catching it next friday 70mm IMAX. After Dune 2, my most anticipated movie of the year. Oppenheimer does have me a little more intigued though simply because I don't know too many details of his life, just know he was pivotal for the nuclear bomb. Dune 2 I already know what's supposed to happen, it's about execution by Denis.
 

Davesky

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Movie critics then:

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0neAnd0nly

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Nolan is my favorite, but Oppenheimer will probably be the second best movie this year...

...because Godzilla Minus One is also coming out this year.
 

Sophist

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I am looking at the cast on both Wikipedia and IMDb but see no one listed for Von Neumann. Is he portrayed in the movie? Von Neumann was 100x the man that Oppenheimer was and the last true genius seen by the world. Unlike Oppenheimer (or Einstein), he didn't turned against the bomb after developing it and kept pushing nuclear weaponry forward. He was a true Patriot and died for his country (multiple cancers due to the radiation). Never forget that. You guys are immortalizing the wrong dudes.
 

EviLore

Expansive Ellipses
Staff Member
I am looking at the cast on both Wikipedia and IMDb but see no one listed for Von Neumann. Is he portrayed in the movie? Von Neumann was 100x the man that Oppenheimer was and the last true genius seen by the world. Unlike Oppenheimer (or Einstein), he didn't turned against the bomb after developing it and kept pushing nuclear weaponry forward. He was a true Patriot and died for his country (multiple cancers due to the radiation). Never forget that. You guys are immortalizing the wrong dudes.
Scientists should definitely be ranked based on how nationalistic and dedicated to weapons of mass destruction they are. We've been doing it all wrong!
 

nkarafo

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I don't trust Nolan. When i watched Interstellar, i was expecting it to be about space and science, but instead it was a sappy movie about love and family or something.

Now i'm expecting this to be, again, about science. But something tells me Nolan will Nolan.

Scientists should definitely be ranked based on how nationalistic and dedicated to weapons of mass destruction they are. We've been doing it all wrong!
Depends on the ranking. Is the rank based on how ethical they are? Or how good they are at their job/science and their achievements in their field?
 
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Spaceman292

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Scientists should definitely be ranked based on how nationalistic and dedicated to weapons of mass destruction they are. We've been doing it all wrong!
Pretty sure he was one of the guys who wanted to nuke Russia in the 1950s before they had a chance to make their own nukes. What a mad lad
 
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EviLore

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Pretty sure he was one of the guys who wanted to nuke Russia in the 1950s before they had a chance to make their own nukes. What a mad lad
Yeah:

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Von Neumann was, at the time, a strong supporter of "preventive war." Confident even during World War II that the Russian spy network had obtained many of the details of the atom bomb design, Von Neumann knew that it was only a matter of time before the Soviet Union became a nuclear power. He predicted that were Russia allowed to build a nuclear arsenal, a war against the U.S. would be inevitable. He therefore recommended that the U.S. launch a nuclear strike at Moscow, destroying its enemy and becoming a dominant world power, so as to avoid a more destructive nuclear war later on. "With the Russians it is not a question of whether but of when," he would say. An oft-quoted remark of his is, "If you say why not bomb them tomorrow, I say why not today? If you say today at 5 o'clock, I say why not one o'clock?"
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jason10mm

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I'm struggling to think how this film can be THAT compelling, we already know the outcomes and none of it is bad (well, aside from some Japanese cities). So any threat of atmospheric ignition, nazi or russian preemptive strikes, assassination, failure to develop the bomb in time to end WW2, etc etc are gonna ring hollow unless you are just clueless about history (or this is actually an alt history tale).

I can't imagine there are many, or any, action scenes unless they show the commando groups attacking the Nazi heavy water plants. Is it actually an espionage story like Breach or the like?

So it's gonna rest solely on the performances of the actors delivering momentous speeches to a swelling orchestral score and probably lots of "countdown to zero" pregnant pauses to stir up manufactured fear/anticipation/anxiety. I like Nolan for intricate plots, tight scripts, and fantastic visuals. But he needs a good foundation and he can certainly go overboard.
 
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