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Oppenheimer.
It's probably an interesting movie, but holy shit each shot is less than 3 seconds long and it just cuts around to different camera angles every 3 seconds for 2 hours...
Not only was this making me feel physically sick and disoriented, but this erodes tension in the film and is completely unnecessary. You don't need 14 shots of someone walking down a damn hallway or having a think, you need one (1).
Take all that shit out and you're probably left with a story worth actually telling.
I love Christopher Nolan.
Interstellar and Inception are my two favorite movies.
Oppenheimer and Dunkirk are the two most boring movies I’ve ever seen.
Hear hear. And the explosion was so fucking lame. Like why was the soot in the flames? We know what a plasma looks like. Heck, we even know exactly how that very bomb looked like when it exploded (cf. picture attached). It could have been an otherworldly experience akin to the well researched and well simulated black hole in Interstellar...
But no. We got gasoline. On fire. In an otherwise dizziness inducing and plain boring movie.
Edit. Looks like in struggling to attache a screen cap so I'll leave it as an exercise to the reader to googelidoodeli "atomic bomb plasma"
Yeah, he supposedly wanted to make sure the bomb was a practical effect because he thought that would look better. Neglecting the simple fact that you cannot do a practical atomic bomb explosion for your movie, and that gasoline is not a nuclear bomb.
Don't know how feasible, but I would have loved the idea of licensing the original footage and "restoring" it as best as possible with some tasteful CGI...
The original footage as in footage of the Trinity test?
I suspect it would already be public domain under US law, but would lack the coverage they'd need to do anything meaningful with it.
Yes. And fair point
They must have learned from cocomelon where in order to retain a toddler's attention they have to switch scenes every 3 seconds.
I agree. It succeeded as a history lesson, but part of that success was it being boring as fuck.
Felt the same way about Contagion. Very realistic depiction of how a pandemic plays out. And I cared about exactly zero characters and can’t even really remember what happens because it’s narrative was totally un-gripping.
I agree with this. I went to see it with my dad and girlfriend. Brighter than a 1000 suns is a phenomenal book about the entire project and both my dad and I were excited to see it
The science and history were poorly handled and the movie did not need to be 3 hours long. Could have been an easy 1:45 and it would have hit the plots
It's a lazy way to cover up problems.
AKA the Jason Bourne school of editing.