1 - Holy cow are there a lot of characters to keep track of. Really tough at the outset.
2 - Wow I didn’t know X and X were in this movie. That’s cool and boy can they act!
3 - I’m SO glad I didn’t see this in the theater. Between the super-fast pacing and the various European accents I can barely catch much of the dialogue. If I didn’t have closed captions on I’d be completely lost. 🫠
@gedeonm i think i missed a bunch of dialog seeing it in the theater. i’m fine with the accents, but my hearing is shitty. it’s never loud enough.
and even though im a Nolan super fan im not sure i got much from the cinema experience.
that said i did see it projected from crazy huge actual film stock. and while im sure not one other person in the theatre noticed, i’m the cinema nerd that did. i’m not sure when i saw a movie on film prior — but im guessing it was before my now adult kids.
@gedeonm i don’t often buy movies mostly because im content (ok, maybe delighted) to just watch whatever is cheap on Prime. i don’t mind stinkers and old stuff.
but im going to buy oppenheimer. i feel like i should support filmmakers doing real drama. its hard. but also because it’s got so much going on that i really want to understand and that’s going to take a few viewings.
also i had relatives who worked on some of this stuff so i feel like its my duty to grok the hard lessons.
@isaiah@gedeonm I’m hot and cold on Nolan overall (didn’t like Inception; love Interstellar; liked DUNKIRK and ½ of the Dark Knight trilogy), but bought OPPENHEIMER without having seen it. Biopics are challenging, but it’s a really interesting film brilliantly acted.
@tantramar@gedeonm my son loves space movies that use at least some real physics. so interstellar is one of his faves. we’ve seen it a half dozen times at least. and it’s a long one too.
it wasn’t my favorite nolan film, but i enjoy it nonetheless — probably just vicariously from my son, but i’ll take it.
@tantramar@gedeonm i’ve seen Arrival more times than i care to admit. the only movie i’ve seen more is the original blade runner. i obviously loved loved loved Gosling and de Armas in the new one too.
and, of course, i have tickets to the really expensive imax for Dune 2 tomorrow. i watched Dune 1 for, i think, the sixth time today to prep.
so, uh, yeah. i might be a Villeneuve fan. lol 😝
@tantramar@gedeonm i admit i kinda loved the dark knight films. i’m such a sucker for film noir grownup dramatic superhero flicks. i loved Logan too. so good.
i mean — on saturday afternoons — yaaaas — inject that melancholy right in my veins. 😂
unfortunately i think Zack Snyder might have nuked (see what i did there) the whole genre for at least a generation.
we really need a new christopher reeve to save DC from the depths of their abyss.
@isaiah@gedeonm I keep waiting to hear something positive about Snyder’s work, so I’ve checked out of all that. 🤷♂️ Henry Cavill seems good, though? I liked him in Mission: Impossible — Fallout.
Finally finished #oppenheimer. Act 1 is confusing and overwhelming. Act 2 was solid and compelling. Act 3 totally lost me. Meandered without focus to an unsatisfying and vague conclusion.
Was it a good movie? Yes. Was it worthy of the Best Picture? Sure didn’t feel that way to me. RDJ deserved his win tho, he was great.
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