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re: Oppenheimer | Review Thread | 93% with 117 reviews on RT
Posted on 7/19/23 at 10:40 am to alumiknotty
Posted on 7/19/23 at 10:40 am to alumiknotty
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It was not hard to understand either audibly
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Posted on 7/19/23 at 10:47 am to CU_Tigers4life
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You might want to put a "Spoilers" or "No Spoilers" option on your subject line OP
Spoiler....the bomb worked
Posted on 7/19/23 at 10:52 am to alumiknotty
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Even Tenet was not overly complex. It was not hard to understand either audibly or conceptually.
Posted on 7/19/23 at 11:07 am to St Augustine
Did Nolan kill off Bale's batman or not?
Posted on 7/19/23 at 11:08 am to Cs
Some mixed reviews
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@ScottDMenzel
#Oppenheimer has several terrific performances including Cillian Murphy, Robert Downey Jr, and Matt Damon but man oh man, the pacing is so bad. There is way too much exposition. It’s like Nolan was trying to make two different movies in one and it was just a chore to sit through.
Average moviegoers are going to struggle with this one. There is so much that could have been cut to make it great at 2hr and 15 minutes. That said, it is worth seeing for the performances & technical details. I can see this being in the awards convo but not winning much.
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@davidehrlich
frustratingly mixed on Oppenheimer, which spends 3 hours staring at Cillian Murphy's face in extreme close-up but struggles to see much of anything behind Oppenheimer's eyes.
it's towering work in so many respects. maddening in so many others. my review: indiewire.com/criticism/movi…
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@TheInSneider
OPPENHEIMER, aka MEN TALKING, was mid-tier Nolan for me, and something of a letdown considering my sky-high expectations. The cast is great, loved the score & Trinity Test sequence, but the last 45 minutes are a GRIND, not a CLIMAX. Nolan can’t resist a “twist” ending. A shame…
Filmmakers — looking at you, Aaron Sorkin — need to realize that no one these days gives a shite about communism. Oppenheimer gets bogged down in that storyline and it’s a drag. A “good” movie, to be sure, but a tough one to recommend. Pretty sure I’ll never watch it again…
This post was edited on 7/19/23 at 12:23 pm
Posted on 7/19/23 at 11:31 am to RLDSC FAN
Opens at 97% after 63 reviews
Posted on 7/19/23 at 11:32 am to RLDSC FAN
Posted on 7/19/23 at 11:33 am to RLDSC FAN
Seeing the early reviews
Posted on 7/19/23 at 11:36 am to Bottom9
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It's okay to admit that his sound quality sucks dick
am i in the minority that i have never once had a problem with hearing his movies in theater?
i see it complained about all the time, and it has never once been an issue.
the closest complaint i have is that the beats during the car sequence in Tenet hurt my ears, but even if i listen to it on youtube now, it would do that.
Posted on 7/19/23 at 11:41 am to finchmeister08
Yeah, Jahns and Chris Stuckmann are some of the critics I enjoy. Stuckmann loved it too.
Posted on 7/19/23 at 11:43 am to RLDSC FAN
Posted on 7/19/23 at 11:45 am to finchmeister08
I'm assuming Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic scores will drop, but this doesn't seem to be as polarizing as I feared it would be.
This post was edited on 7/19/23 at 11:49 am
Posted on 7/19/23 at 11:47 am to ohiovol
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I'm assuming Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic scores will drop
Yeah actually reading the reviews, it seems the top complaint is that its good but too long bordering on tedious at times.
Posted on 7/19/23 at 11:49 am to GetCocky11
Stuckmann says the dialogue issues from Tenet and The Dark Knight Rises are back for Oppenheimer.
This post was edited on 7/19/23 at 11:51 am
Posted on 7/19/23 at 11:50 am to alumiknotty
I do not think Dunkirk was unnecessarily complex. Tenet was complex, I'm not sure it was unnecessary.
I don't like Nolan movies because they're smart and I'm smart and I can show how smart I am because I like them.
I like them because they're very different from almost everything else out there. They're great at creating an otherworldly, somewhat surreal sense of place but without being completely unrelatable or immediately unrealistic. And they do that without being art house or too niche, they're often epic in scope. I don't really know how else to describe it, they're just right up my street.
I don't like Nolan movies because they're smart and I'm smart and I can show how smart I am because I like them.
I like them because they're very different from almost everything else out there. They're great at creating an otherworldly, somewhat surreal sense of place but without being completely unrelatable or immediately unrealistic. And they do that without being art house or too niche, they're often epic in scope. I don't really know how else to describe it, they're just right up my street.
Posted on 7/19/23 at 12:16 pm to GetCocky11
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Yeah actually reading the reviews, it seems the top complaint is that its good but too long bordering on tedious at times.
i'm hyped for this movie, but i can't see it not insisting upon itself.
Posted on 7/19/23 at 12:16 pm to Bottom9
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Can't wait to see Nolan turn a straightforward story into 25 separate stitched together backwards stories that fuse into one the last 2 minutes of the movie and has horrible audio!
I agree with this. Tenet audio was a disaster.
Posted on 7/19/23 at 12:18 pm to 3nOut
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am i in the minority that i have never once had a problem with hearing his movies in theater?
Yes, you are.
Posted on 7/19/23 at 12:23 pm to Pettifogger
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They're great at creating an otherworldly, somewhat surreal sense of place but without being completely unrelatable or immediately unrealistic. And they do that without being art house or too niche, they're often epic in scope.
Most of Nolan's movies (ex Batman) are experiments with narrative structure; particularly time. Memento played with time in a single narrative. Inception ran three or four stories at once at different paces. Same for Dunkirk. One hour, One day, One week. Tenet had a mostly linear movie timeline in which half the characters were moving backward through time. Interstellar treats time as a (physical) fourth dimension. Curious to see how this one works out.
Posted on 7/19/23 at 12:23 pm to Pettifogger
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I like them because they're very different from almost everything else out there. They're great at creating an otherworldly, somewhat surreal sense of place but without being completely unrelatable or immediately unrealistic. And they do that without being art house or too niche, they're often epic in scope. I don't really know how else to describe it, they're just right up my street.
IMO Inception is really the peak of his masterpiece within that description.
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