Oppenheimer Movie Review

shizukaanderson101

7/26/2023

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00:00 Yes, that Oppenheimer review embargo has lifted, which means your feed is flooded with Oppenheimer reviews

00:05 So I do appreciate you clicking on this review in particular. Good news is it's gonna be a really easy review

00:11 It's my favorite kind of review. This movie is epic

00:14 So Oppenheimer is written and directed by Christopher Nolan as I understand it's based off of the book American Prometheus

00:24 Stars Cillian Murphy as J. Robert Oppenheimer who's known as the father of the atomic bomb

00:30 And this is a biopic chronicling his life leading up to the Manhattan Project him doing the Manhattan Project

00:34 And what came after the Manhattan Project the good the bad the heavy it's here now Cillian Murphy is

00:40 Absolutely brilliant in this film as J. Robert Oppenheimer. There's something about Cillian Murphy's eyes that pierce

00:46 absolutely that lends to those heavy moments of

00:50 regret and

00:52 Despair that he feels later on in the film absolutely whether it's with a stare or him delivering dialogue his performance in here is an

01:00 absolutely

01:02 Soulful and heavy one. I should backtrack cuz it didn't start out that way. You know he starts out. He's a pretty

01:07 Relatable guy I mean true neutral absolutely I like that about him in the D&D personality scale he was true neutral

01:15 I just appreciate people like that. He's a flawed human, but we're all flawed humans

01:19 Maybe in different ways, but I was surprised at how relatable he was which is why it makes it so much worse

01:25 when he becomes the guy who's like I just wanted to help the world and

01:30 It's worse because of me because it's easy to be like Oh father of the atomic bomb, but it's like yeah

01:35 But what does that do to somebody?

01:38 What does that do to the person who made the device that killed that many people someone who's not a military mind?

01:45 He's a scientist Gillian Murphy makes you feel all of it. He's always been an incredible actor

01:49 But this is the kind of performance that an actor gives that is

01:52 Truly special everyone in the movie actually did a great job. It's a packed cast. I cannot

01:57 Logistically list off the entire supporting cast here Emily Blunt Jason Clark Robert Downey jr. Matt Damon and more there

02:06 There are people in this movie. I didn't know we're in this movie

02:09 It's like you two kind of shows

02:11 How many people just want to work with Christopher Nolan at this point? I think that's great

02:16 But also Robert Downey jr. Another amazing performance is one of those performances. I don't logistically know the exact number

02:23 I don't know that how many minutes of screen time he had it's like ever since I learned

02:27 Anthony Hawkins had like 15 or 16 minutes of screen time inside them through the lambs

02:32 I always questioned that I don't know why it's just a me thing from then on

02:36 I don't think he had a lot of screen time, but when I think of the movie

02:40 I absolutely am going to think of him and his performance

02:43 I love the fact that Robert Downey jr. Doesn't have to work a day in his life

02:49 And at that point sometimes actors will be like, yeah, I can phone it in get a paycheck

02:53 It'll be fine Robert Downey jr. Must have more money from those fuck you Marvel paychecks then Heisenberg at this point

03:00 No, I'm not talking about the German scientist

03:02 I'm talking about the fictional drug kingpin and the dude's still like I'll clock on an amazing performance and knock it out of the park

03:08 I don't have to but I want to it was incredible to watch and what I loved

03:13 most about this what gripped me is this feels like a

03:17 Cinephiles film it feels like a film for film fans for the love of cinema and the art of cinema in that Francis Ford Coppola

03:26 Bram Stoker's Dracula kind of way, you know that movie grabs me

03:30 One of the reasons it does anyway is because the visual effects in that movie are all in-camera effects

03:36 They're all practical and I'd heard that flex for this movie for Oppenheimer. No CGI anywhere in this movie and I

03:43 Appreciate that it's kind of funny how the flex is flipped. It used to be like this movie has

03:48 3,000 CGI shots. That's the flex now the flex is the opposite

03:53 It's reversed now the flex is zero and that's as cool as it gets and it's not just for the nuke scene

03:58 Like I thought it was gonna be like, okay, the nuke scenes gonna be practical. That's cool

04:01 Not with a nuke other explosives, but okay, it's gonna be practical, but it's not just that

04:06 There are scenes when Oppenheimer's in his head showing how he views the world what he thinks about you see space supernova

04:12 He thinks about quantum theory you see Adams whizzing around

04:15 It's easy to not even think about it when you're so used to movies having CGI

04:20 But when you see moments like that with practical effects and it feels practical it feels tangible

04:25 It feels like it's something in the world. It's completely different. It's a magical experience

04:32 I appreciated and connected with the film on a level I wasn't expecting to

04:36 Because of the absence of CGI in scenes and shots that otherwise would have had CGI

04:43 Christopher Nolan's the type of director who inspires people to be directors

04:48 Things like that are why as for the nuke scene. I don't know about you. I love seeing nukes in movies

04:54 It's just a fun thing and any other movie. I'd be like, yeah the nuke it's coming. Let's do it

04:59 I didn't feel like that in here and I appreciated that

05:02 I love the fact that when it's leading up to the bomb the movie doesn't really logistically revolve around that

05:09 It is about Oppenheimer's properly titled

05:13 It's about him and the work he did and the aftermath of it not that one thing he did

05:19 But when it was leading up to the bomb you feel the fear in the room the anxiety the tension

05:24 I love the fact that Christopher Nolan was like, yeah, you're looking forward to the bomb. We're gonna make it look cool

05:29 But that's not what's important

05:31 The thing I remember from that scene is the look on Killian Murphy's face while he's watching it. It's the reaction of Oppenheimer

05:38 That's important Oppenheimer wasn't overshadowed in his own film and his own biopic by the bomb

05:44 I feel like it'd be easy for that to be the case

05:47 I will say the last hour or so of this film

05:49 Relies on a lot of exposition it deals with the government and Oppenheimer and you're hearing about things that happened

05:56 But you're not necessarily seeing those things. I would have liked to have seen those things

06:00 but if it showed those things this movie would be five hours long as opposed to three the last hour or so of this film

06:07 Could be its own film. It could be a

06:09 You know sneaky government paranoia courtroom drama, but technically not a courtroom drama

06:15 But still the vibe of a courtroom drama type film

06:18 I mean it's hard to condense a man's life who did all this did so much and dealt with so much

06:25 After the Manhattan project into a three-hour film

06:28 It's a great three-hour film that works well for its runtime and actually tells more than you would think

06:33 They could put into this three-hour runtime the musical score was

06:37 Amazingly haunting and swells what it needs to it. It's absolutely impactful. There are a couple moments of tension in here

06:44 musical score

06:46 Absolutely knocked it out of the park

06:48 but what I liked about the audio mixing with the musical score is some Christopher Nolan movies recently of

06:53 The audio has been a bit uneven and the musical score is kind of overridden the actors voices and the dialogue couldn't really hear

07:01 What was going on so clearly this movie does not have that problem. I

07:05 Appreciate that. I don't mind saying this is Christopher Nolan at his heaviest. We've had some good times

07:10 We've had some action adventures, but if someone said this is Nolan

07:14 Going for his Oscar. I wouldn't argue it, but I would add yeah

07:19 And the cool thing is it doesn't feel like he's trying for the sake of that. You know, how it is some Oscar bait

07:25 You're like, yeah, why not just beg for it?

07:27 This is just Christopher Nolan making good dramatic stuff the story performances filmmaking editing all top tier

07:34 It's a visually beautiful epic tragedy and it is

07:37 awesome tacky

07:40 I already want to see it again because the screening wasn't in 70 millimeter iMacs

07:49 The 70 millimeter film not iMacs. I really want to see this in iMacs

07:54 It's as simple as that or so Oppenheimer. Have you seen it? What did you think about it?

07:58 Whatever you thought comment below let me know and as always if you like what you've seen here

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