Watching Oppenheimer again, and reminded again that I'm not particularly jealous of the genius for physics. The genius for languages, on the other hand—an intense pang of jealousy there.
Also I have no idea how anyone understood, much less enjoyed, this movie, if they had not previously read at least American Prometheus and ideally Making of the Atomic Bomb.
@luis_in_brief I haven't read either, and I enjoyed the movie just fine—but after Interstellar, Dunkirk, and Tenet, I moved on to enjoying the latter era Nolan movies as what Patrick H Willems defines as "vibes movies".
@ebassi Weirdly I haven't seen any of those. Parenthood and post-COVID reduced work travel hasn't been great for my movie watching.
But Opp is definitely a vibes movie. Honestly amazing how it can sustain vibes of INCREDIBLE INTENSITY for three hours despite being entirely conversational.
@ebassi (not necessarily good, honestly? but simply as a piece of Doing What It Said It Would Do On The Tin, brutalist cinematic architecture, impressive.)
@luis_in_brief in a sense, Oppenheimer is similar to Tenet: a movie that strips away all the structural elements of a genre (biopics for the former, action blockbuster for the latter) and tries to sustain the whole thing through vibes and character alone. Though at least in Opp there’s a lead that knows how to act…
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