re: Oppenheimer | Official Reaction Thread | Spoilers

My takeaways...after finally seeing it last night.

Nolan went a bit too crazy with the sound. It was almost like "This is Spinal Tap" where he was showing that his volume went to 11.

Some of the details of things we know, that he had going on in the background, were awesome. Richard Feynman refusing to use the welder's glass...relying on the windshield to block the UV (it didn't show that he was seeing purple spots for 3 days afterwards)...then later showing Feynman playing the bongos...which he was known to do (obviously, my favorite Physicist).

I watched the movie with 8 PhD Physicists...so they were giggling in places where the rest of the audience wasn't as much...because they knew the details of how some of the things would play out. It's attention to those details that made this movie special to me.

Overall, it was well cast and presented. I really liked it, and it didn't seem like 3 hours to me at all.

Side note...My father worked on the Calutrons on the 1960s...so seeing Lawrence's early model was special to me. Also loved the Chicago Pile visit.