Oppenheimer

While I know people don't like Grace Randolph, she's right in saying that both Nolan's own name and the Barbenheimer craze both got that movie the massive success it has.

Don't get me wrong, I love the movie. I hope it wins Best Picture and that he wins Best Director. Heck, I hope on re-release, it gets to a billion.

Does that mean we're not getting a spinoff with Jack Quaid as Richard Feynman, or a prequel with Tom Conti as Albert Einstein?

That is correct.

Not even Josh Peck as that guy I forget his name?

No spins offs period.

Yeah. The way Oppenheimer covered everything, there's no real way TO continue that story.

It should have been two movies.

Josh Peck was Kenneth Bainbridge.

Now that I think about it, a biopic of Richard Feynman with Jack Quaid would be kind of awesome. Feynman is just in the background of Oppenheimer but he'd steal the show otherwise. Feynman was quite a character.

Frankly it is better to just state your own opinion rather than cite the “Marvel doesn’t need two Native superheroes” rando.

I don't agree with everything she says. She didn't like the movie and I thought it was great. I can see her problems with it and yet also think of everything Oppenheimer did right and why those things don't necessarily bother me personally as well.

Edited by futuremoviewriter on Feb 2nd 2024 at 10:31:40 AM

As noted in the Oscars thread, In Academy Awards 2024 Oppenheimer has sweeped up whopping seven Oscars, including the Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor in a Leading Role, Best Actor in a Supporting Role, etc.

Goddamn. While I already expected this movie to win some Oscars, but this is way more than I expected!

Yeah, I did not expect Oppenheimer to clean up like it did. I tried (and failed) to catch some movies before the Oscars and wound up seeing Past Lives, half of Barbie, Maestro, and Oppenheimer.

I have to say, Oppenheimer was definitely... more. Whether that's good or bad is up to the person, but it was just a lot. A lot of runtime, a lot of editing, a lot of directing, a lot of story, a lot. And I think it was handled pretty expertly. Based on what I had seen, I definitely think it probably deserved the win.

You still don't need to dilute your own opinions by filtering them through a known crackpot. Especially when they're as basic as "part of this movie's success was its massive memetic status."

Bringing Randolph into the conversation only serves to make your (very basic) point a lot less credible so I don't understand why you'd mention it.

It's not like she's the only person I watch. I watch other reviewers review plenty of things, including Oppenheimer. I was revisiting the Double Toasted review last night where they criticized the movie's runtime more than anything else and it still doesn't really influence my opinion that much.

There's something that's lost if this movie doesn't have the detail or attention on certain plot elements that it does certainly. Having rewatched the movie again Saturday night—my friend hadn't seen it yet and he deserved to before it won the awards it did, this is definitely one of those movies that you don't catch everything on the first viewing and discover there's so much more to learn or discover as you keep rewatching it too.

Yes, I did the "Barbenheimer" trend. Well, it was my mom's idea, we would see this first, and then "Barbie".

But seriously though, this was...pretty good, but as my hearing is a tad more sensitive, seeing this movie with the SuperScreen (in which the bass is cranked up so your seats would feel the noise more than the other screens did) made my anxiety go up (like after the initial bomb test, where the noise wouldn't kick in until a few minutes later because of the distance, and the OTHER time later on during...IDK, a meeting?) and I was afraid of another "blast" of my eardrums. (Also I'm not a big history buff so I was just riding the movie out til the credits)

But the one thing that gave me utter anxiety was the ending. See, back in 2001 I briefly had a fear of nuclear war, and the ending saying that more and more of those bombs are being made, and making the bombs smaller and harder to detect are making me scared that I won't live to retirement age.

Edited by wooden-ladybug93 on Mar 13th 2024 at 5:56:12 AM

Honestly, I expected this film to win around two or three Oscars at most.

I wondered which of the likely upcoming nominees would top it at the time and then it turned out—none of them did. Once I saw how well it did at the Golden Globes, I had a strong feeling it'd be unbeatable moving forward. I looked at how the other award shows played out too though of course just to be sure and yeah, Oppenheimer at each of them was always the one to beat.

Probably the first time I EVER saw the winner months before the awards season actually too. That's particularly special. Oppenheimer came out in JULY and it rode that wave of hype—though I first saw it in October for the record. Haha.

Yeah I know Everything Everywhere All at Once came out earlier than July last year (it was March for the record). That I didn't see until the actually awards season though while Oppenheimer I went into awards season already being a big supporter of.

Edited by futuremoviewriter on Mar 14th 2024 at 8:34:19 AM