Rock solid review. A bit hard and on the wayside, but still putting it out there.
I think the movie is impressive in how it took the life of a very interesting man and turned it into something boring. Like, I didn’t even think that was possible beforehand.
Well they do tend to have to tone down American heroes because most are super flawed.
Thru can’t even cover some because it would be difficult to explain the huge gaps where freaky shit happened. Like the founder of jpl Jack Parsons, how would you explain the time he hung out on a boat with Hubbard until Hubbard fucked his gf/fiancee and kicked him off the boat. He doesn’t like the next three months “practicing magic” which was mostly writing wishes on slips of paper and masturbating onto them.
Fuk u Oscars, The Streets have spoken!
This post was sandwiched between a bunch of posts from the SideOfTheRoad Community in my subscribed feed, so it was weirdly appropriate. Smashed cars, abandoned furniture, Oppenheimer reviews, random toilets … all to be expected.
Haven’t even seen it and it has vibes of “this could have been a 90 minute TV special”.
If I’m going to the theater, I’m going for a spectacle. Anything less than that can be streamed.
I think the cinematography for Openhimer was deliberately and deceptively simple. Nolan leverages the 70 mm format to capture a lot of textures without being heavy handed.
This film was kind of a big departure from Nolan’s typical action oriented style. I do think that some of the performances were mid, and the dialogue was a bit droll at times.
That said, I think he is extremely masterful in his ability to tell a story non linearly, which made the overall story more compelling since they packed a person’s whole adult life’s story into three hours.
I think the ending conveyed the overall point of the film, and still highlights the complexity of human nature.
Overall, I think the Openhimer tries to use subtleties in an era when “bigger is better”.
