I saw a good comment suggesting that Oppenheimer would have worked better as an HBO Chernobyl style mini-series. This was a great movie, although the rushed pacing and amount of info dump was a bit difficult to keep track.
Bingo! I was thinking the same thing,a limited series would have been amazing…everything felt rushed…and very little character development..the overlapping music didn’t love too much either.
Agree with your comments.. visually Oppenheimer was gorgeous to watch, but the storyline with all the characters was confusing and hard to keep straight.
Same here, I felt little to nothing for the characters except the scene where Einstein told Oppenheimer he doomed Earth forever - that shook me to the core. 💀💔💣
The sound was so over used I got soooo bored. Instead of the sound helping the intensity they over played it so much I just wanted the buzzing sounds to desperately stop. The editing got repetitive, the back and forth in time got boring. Seeing famous actors constantly popping in pulled me out of the movie over and over. I found myself not caring about what happened to any of the characters. Matt Damien didn’t work for the role. It just felt like we’ll there is Matt Damien again. The women were pathetic. The plot line with Robert Downy Jr. just felt petty. I guess I was supposed to care about the spy but I was so bored I couldn’t even bother to try and remember who that was. I almost walked out. I personally will not be watching another Nolan film in the theaters. The pacing felt mechanical as if an android with no human feeling was attempting to create feeling having no actual idea what feeling is.
I completely agree. I’ll say this, while the movie indeed felt intense at times, I think the sensation was done more on a surface level rather than a deeper. In other words, I believe that the movie - with it’s grandiose sound and visual (especially with IMAX) circled around with the emotions without actually touching them. It was loud, and so it was stressful at times, but I didnt get stressed because of the circumstances in the story, I got stressed because it was.. Well.. loud, which I feel similarly with the likes of Tenet - intense music and visuals yes, but shallow story: Rushed, undynamic, repetitive, predictable. So again, the sound was great, but in the end of the day that’s a mere empty trick if the storytelling is not there. The storytelling was flawed, on Perhaps all levels. To begin with, although I agree with your overall opinion of the movie, I’d have to say that I don’t agree regarding the editing. It was (IMO) not great at all. Too much cutting, no room to breath. Every single time a character is talking in a dialogue, the camera switches to that person. The editor seems to almost never have the guts to just let it be, let the shot stay where it is, let us stare at Matt Damon even though Cillian Murphy is currently talking - but no - We just have to change shot, because that guy is not saying anything, just listening, and We can’t let the camera stay there because nothing is happening. This way of editing results in exremely repetitive shot-sequences. We constantly switch between a close-up on Person A and a close-up on Person B. But this is not just the editor’s fault. It starts with the directing, and How Nolan chooses to block the scene. The way I remember it (I watched the film 4 hours ago), the blocking was always very static: Person A sits on this side, Person B sits on the opposite side, Sometimes he’s standing yes, but they never really break the wall. Person B stays at his corner, and Person A has No plans moving into B’s zone, which means that the shot doesn’t naturally progress/turn into another shot (something, for example, Spielberg is a master at), which therefore means that We always have to switch between the - as I said - two same shots which gets very repetitive. Another part of the story that’s lacking, is the dramaturgy. The film is constantly moving. There’s never a pause, with no music, no grand sounds, just a room to breath where We listen to a complete dialogue without post-production sounds. It just doesn’t happen, it takes a few seconds until that tense music is rolling again and all of a sudden We change scene, and then again, and then again, and then a new scene, and a new scene, and another new one. It just runs and runs and runs, it feels like a 3 hour long montage. A great director like Nolan must know that the key to an engaging story is to make it dynamic. There must be pauses from tension, so the few times it gets tense We actually react to it… …you mentioned that stuff where always happening and you where sad that you couldn’t enjoy them. But isn’t the mere fact that stuff is always happening, Well, the very cause of your disconnection to the story? If we’re constantly bombarded with content, We very quickly get desensitized to it. It goes the same with p*rn. People constantly see these easy-access explicit videos online, and so they get used to it and once you’re addicted, it just doesn’t do anything anymore and you have to move onto more extreme contents. I would say Oppenheimer in that sense is a 3 hour long p*rno, only that the p*rn in this case is made of constant use of tense music, a bunch of switching in between shots, and short ”scenes” that quickly turn into a new scene right before We get bored. But all that it does is making us (me atleast) disconnected and bored… …the movie is constantly changing scenes, so much that I can’t say if they’re actually scenes but instead parts of a 3h long sequence that never seems to end. The scenes must in one way or another get independent, in order to make them iconic. We remember the classic baptism scene or the restaurant scene in The Godfather, they were like their own short movies, making them a part of a longer collection of short movies (scenes) which then form a living masterpiece that is the Godfather. We remember that ”what’s so fuckin funny” scene in Goodfellas, or the La Marsellaise scene in Casablanca, or the Exodus scene in Shawshank Redemption, woman in red dress scene in Matrix, little girl in red coat in Schindlers list, and many more classic scenes, because they where like their own short movies that connected Well like a puzzle with the rest of the film. But Oppenheimer to me felt like a neverending sequence that finally stopped with the (great moment I must admit) horrifying end scene. There’s No dynamic, and the fact that it’s trying to escape boring moments makes it boring. But Cillian Murphy was a Good choice as Oppenheimer, and Einstein was great! 6/10 is probably where I’d put it too! Was very excited, left not as satisfied. But hey, each to their own. We are all equally dumb, and our opinions weight the same :) thanks for the review, thumbs up from here👍🏼
Yeah, I very much agree with you. The last bits of the story were not as that engaging. They started dropping character names that has appeared for like a 30 seconds before that I totally forgot about already and did not care. Its like this for the last 40~ minutes, but before that its a real masterpiece imo.
So disappointed in this movie. Didn't like it for four reasons: 1. too loud - I saw it in an IMAX; my ears were ringing, and my chest was thumping; 2. too much mood music overlaying the dialogue; I want to hear the story and the character development, not the incessant music; 3. too many fast scene cuts, it made me dizzy, and felt amateurish; 4. I wanted to see more about the actual scientific and engineering advancements that made the bomb possible; too much time was spent instead showing Oppenheimer's battle with Straus.
This is typical Nolan. It’s an astonishing technical achievement, it’s interesting, the acting is flawless. At the same time it really doesn’t have any heart, you don’t care about the characters, at least none outside of Oppenheimer. The first half is disjointed and frankly boring. The second half feels like a different movie entirely, it’s tighter and less choppy. I can’t explain it, it’s a 3 hour movie that feels 30 mins too long and rushed at the same time. One thing that can’t be argued, Murphy puts in a top 10 all time performance. They should give him his Oscar now.
Nolan tried way too hard to make JFK and he falls short. The bomb explosion was well done but also anticlimactic and underwhelming. I was mixed on it but I gave it a marginal recommendation because I was trapped in a theater for almost 3.5 hours
It reminded me of Oliver Stones JFK. Super epic and tons of info but hard to take in one sitting. I think if they would have made it a more linear thing rather than cutting back and forth. I did tear up during the scene when he was being cheered on. Very emotional knowing what he’s brought upon humanity and the earth itself. Also liked when Truman put him in his place like “you made it but I hear the brunt of having deployed it”. I’ll definitely rewatch it but when it streams, I’m used to my closed caption and being able to rewind to soak it in.
I totally agree with your criticisms. I understand Nolan's idea to make it more about the story than individual characters- and that is precisely why I think he should not have directed Oppenheimer.Tbh, I experienced more of Oppenheimer's emotional complexity by reading his Wikipedia page. Nolan def. has his strengths but he is not good at creating complex characters and dialogue that mirrors those intricacies. The cinematography and the acting were stellar but that could not save the movie from being disappointingly flat in my opinion.
I don’t see how that makes sense. I liked a lot about it, it just didn’t come together for me as a whole. I’m glad I saw it, but don’t want to rewatch it. For me that’s the exact definition of a 6/10, which is what I gave it
Because it's such a Hyped up movie that it's almost illegal to dislike it. I think Oppenheimer sucks. Almost half the movie is the most boring ass suplot I've ever seen. Who gives a shit about the communist accusations / security clearance?Oppenheimer is all about the Manhattan project. That was his Journey, his legacy. I cant believe it all culminanted into that 1 hour suplot with Strauss conspiracy. Yikes Character development was atrocious. Too much bouncing around. Longest dialog is like 30 seconds and you can't hear half of it without subtitles because soundtrack covers up this abomination. Please. The movie is just... boring. Specially the second half of the movie. It's not illegal to think it sucks.
@@BigZ-19 I just meant to say that at the end of the day, we all either like or dislike a film, and that is alright, we all have different tastes. I just thought this review was very messy because he obviously didn't enjoy it, but kept giving us bluff about what he did like about it. Is alright to not like a film that is being praised by many people. Nobody will think less of you.
I agree with the whole emotionless thing for Oppenheimer. Like, I got sad during inception and then excited and then happy and kind of mellow and empty towards the end(in a good way). But with this I felt numb and empty the whole time because it moved too fast for me to connect with it. Dunkirk orderline made me cry my eyes out and I found it insanely moving. Maybe the reason why you found it hard to connect with Dunkirk and Oppenheimer is because you can’t relate to the people. Eg sure you might’ve been in the army at some point but wouldn’t have had to be residues from a place you could get killed . You weren’t alive when the bomb got created for example. I know this is not true for me but I was just thinking it could be a subconscious thing
I give it a 4/10 some classes in school in college were more entertaining than this And what you said about the characters is SO TRUE They say in the movie this character is this or this character is a spy and the whole time I’m like who ? who’s who ? the only character that I know his name the main character but other than him I couldn’t figure out the name at all and the best part of this movie was Matt Damon
I couldn't agree more.... But 3 hour movie of loads of taking but no good character to connect with. I think its a opinion thing and I personally did not like it the movie. 3 hour story that could have been told in 30 minutes. Nolan drop the ball on this on for me.
Alan Turings movie the Imitation game was a historical movie as well, and it was sooooooo much more entertaining than this crap. When I hear a movie with so many top actors and actresses I know its trying to compensate for something
I think the reason the storyline was confusing to keep straight because of the way it was edited. I think having it be quite a choppy style and in less of a chronological order made it for me personally and the people I watched it with harder to emotionally connect with it because we had to focus so much on who was who with there being so many characters and things happeneing at the same time. I think it could’ve worked jsut as well or even better if it was in more chronological order with a few flashbacks or scenes jumping forward in time to foreshadow or something like that. Then again that’s just my opinion
"every white person on the planet" so basically it's standard Nolan. Shocker there😂. Seriously I appreciate this review- I share a lot of your opinions - my favorite director too, his recent films haven't done as much for me as his early to mid 2000s era Batman- Inception was a golden era for Nolan.
I appreciate your perspective and wonder how I myself will respond to such a monstrosity of a script, and the blizzard of celebrity appearances which accompany. Like you, I tend to view epics of this sort as over indulgent and tedious.
Same here. Boring movie about a boring person who was not a hero figure. So he felt guilty. So what?? I go to movies to be entertained. Way too long. Yes. Good acting and very artistic. But.. Ho hum. Boringly….. interesting movie. But yuck. Made me feel bad. Nope. I would never watch again.
Dang, that sucks! I have to care about the characters, especially in a 3hr movie. I still want to see it but seems like he went overboard on the guest appearances instead of giving a little more substance to the main characters.
I just saw this movie a few hours ago. I was really excited but left feeling...dissatisfied? Were there AWESOME parts in this movie? ABSOLUTELY! I just didn't *feel* much about the conflict, hearings, infidelity...it was strange but I did really enjoy the movie overall. I completely agree with you.
It wasn't a bad film per say. I'd say it's probably one of the best films of the year objectively speaking. (Though that's not saying much to be fair) But I just didn't get engaged, I was just bored start to finish. I mean if I wanted to watch something boring, I'd just watch Elemental or that Dreamworks film that missed this time. Acting was great, Writing was alright, Editing was...not good but I seen worse, but I just didn't like it.
I thought RDJ was overwrought and the cast was overwhelming. I liked the first two hours were good, but the last hour drags. I didn’t feel for the characters and did like killian Murphy. He’s great. Too much cutting. Everyone were caricatures not fully fleshed characters. I also felt the movie was too long and too short.
I have been looking for this review because I felt so weird for not loving this movie after everyone else seemed to fall in love with it. It is a FILM but I just left it feeling empty and more disappointed in movies and the world in general.
I couldn't disagree more with your assessment of the editing as being handled "extremely well". For me the editing was the main detraction of this film; I felt it undermined the performances of the actors.
This movie was a masterpiece, truly a work of art for story telling. The ending brought a tear to my eye as a flood of emotions filled my mind with what Dr. Oppenheimer must have felt. The guilt and responsibility for his creation. He died at the height of the Cold War so he died thinking he killed the human race
@@Quixote1818 my theater had everyone clapping, it was the perfect experience for me as right when I got out of the theater the rain started to drizzle. Once I got to my car sat down and thought more about how Oppenheimer must have felt they was a huge lightning storm and the rain stayed pouring hard. I really did have a crazy experience after lol. Really interesting ride home
When you are ignorant of history…you won’t get it….history isn’t entertainment, it’s a lesson to be learned..and if you don’t want to learn…you sound like this guy.
Hey man thanks for being a dick for no reason, appreciate it. Thanks for understanding that art is subjective and my opinion is valid, super cool of you.
No amount of knowledges of history has anything to do with whether a film is gods or bad. All you did with that comment is tell us what an enormous Nolan Fanboy you are.
You didn't like it that much because it was a bad movie. It somehow convinced every it was a masterpiece with the cast, director, theme and premovie hype. But in reality it was a fast-paced mess.
I can't take any movie "critic" seriously when he has two super hero movie posters on his wall for all his podcast presentations. More like a child brain inside an adult body. WHen ever you hear a critic, you have to pay attention to the other movies they like and dislike to trust their opinion. This guy probably shouldn't be rating movies.
I can’t take any commenter seriously who doesn’t respect the concept of subjective opinions and feels the need to attack someone’s taste. Address the points I actually made in the video, state an opinion of your own about the film, or shut up. (Oh and btw, most critics liked both The Batman and Across the Spiderverse, so your comment is even more absurd)
@@BoxOfChocolatezbro for real, I don’t know who pissed in his cereal but people are free to enjoy and criticize ANY movie no matter what background they have. How closed minded he must be. Personally I loved the animated Spider-Man movies, the art work and mixed comic like animations was amazing.
This is my review, am I supposed to talk about what someone else felt? This was my experience with the movie and I communicated it honestly. I praised many aspects of the film while acknowledging it just wasn't for me as a whole. Your comment is ludicrous.
@@BoxOfChocolatez not as ludicrous as your opinion. You said you like it, but at the same time you said you didnt. What can be more ludicrous than that. I didnt say you're dishonest. Yes that is your opinion. But your opinion sucks, that's what im saying. You say i didnt feel this, i didnt feel that, well the movie was not made for you, and its certainly not meant to satisfy your feelings...
@@melerad2814 I said I appreciate the craft on display but my personal enjoyment level was not that high. I specifically said that the movie isn't for me and that's ok because a lot of other people loved it and that's good for them! You're coming at me antagonistically when I gave the movie a positive review. You need to take a step back and chill, ask yourself why this got you riled up, cuz it's not healthy man.
@@BoxOfChocolatez sorry to disappoint you, but im actually enjoying this conversation. It seems to me, that you're trying to pass to me what you are feeling. You're the ones who's riled up by my comment. You better cool up man. You've got to learn how to handle comments much better. You're not gonna get a lot of subscribers, if you react like this. Hahahha
@@melerad2814 If those subscribers are anything like you, then I don't want them. You've said nothing of value this entire time and from the jump have been antagonistic toward me for giving this movie a POSITIVE review. I acknowledged the movie wasn't for me, but it was very well made and I'm glad people are loving it. What the hell else do you want?
I saw a good comment suggesting that Oppenheimer would have worked better as an HBO Chernobyl style mini-series. This was a great movie, although the rushed pacing and amount of info dump was a bit difficult to keep track.
Bingo! I was thinking the same thing,a limited series would have been amazing…everything felt rushed…and very little character development..the overlapping music didn’t love too much either.
Ooooh this is so true
Agree with your comments.. visually Oppenheimer was gorgeous to watch, but the storyline with all the characters was confusing and hard to keep straight.
Same here, I felt little to nothing for the characters except the scene where Einstein told Oppenheimer he doomed Earth forever - that shook me to the core. 💀💔💣
The sound was so over used I got soooo bored. Instead of the sound helping the intensity they over played it so much I just wanted the buzzing sounds to desperately stop. The editing got repetitive, the back and forth in time got boring. Seeing famous actors constantly popping in pulled me out of the movie over and over. I found myself not caring about what happened to any of the characters. Matt Damien didn’t work for the role. It just felt like we’ll there is Matt Damien again. The women were pathetic. The plot line with Robert Downy Jr. just felt petty. I guess I was supposed to care about the spy but I was so bored I couldn’t even bother to try and remember who that was. I almost walked out. I personally will not be watching another Nolan film in the theaters. The pacing felt mechanical as if an android with no human feeling was attempting to create feeling having no actual idea what feeling is.
Felt the same way too and walked out as well
Agree. My line about the movie is 'Too much Oppenheimer, not enough fission.'
Wow, as if its a movie about Oppenheimer 😂
@@DogukanIsmailMezda ITS NOT UP FOR DEBATE LOL
HE SAID IT WAS TO MUCH OPPENHEIMER lol THE END.
PS I AGREE. We dont NEED to see him have sex lol
I completely agree.
I’ll say this, while the movie indeed felt intense at times, I think the sensation was done more on a surface level rather than a deeper. In other words, I believe that the movie - with it’s grandiose sound and visual (especially with IMAX) circled around with the emotions without actually touching them. It was loud, and so it was stressful at times, but I didnt get stressed because of the circumstances in the story, I got stressed because it was.. Well.. loud, which I feel similarly with the likes of Tenet - intense music and visuals yes, but shallow story: Rushed, undynamic, repetitive, predictable. So again, the sound was great, but in the end of the day that’s a mere empty trick if the storytelling is not there.
The storytelling was flawed, on Perhaps all levels. To begin with, although I agree with your overall opinion of the movie, I’d have to say that I don’t agree regarding the editing. It was (IMO) not great at all. Too much cutting, no room to breath. Every single time a character is talking in a dialogue, the camera switches to that person. The editor seems to almost never have the guts to just let it be, let the shot stay where it is, let us stare at Matt Damon even though Cillian Murphy is currently talking - but no - We just have to change shot, because that guy is not saying anything, just listening, and We can’t let the camera stay there because nothing is happening. This way of editing results in exremely repetitive shot-sequences. We constantly switch between a close-up on Person A and a close-up on Person B.
But this is not just the editor’s fault. It starts with the directing, and How Nolan chooses to block the scene. The way I remember it (I watched the film 4 hours ago), the blocking was always very static: Person A sits on this side, Person B sits on the opposite side, Sometimes he’s standing yes, but they never really break the wall. Person B stays at his corner, and Person A has No plans moving into B’s zone, which means that the shot doesn’t naturally progress/turn into another shot (something, for example, Spielberg is a master at), which therefore means that We always have to switch between the - as I said - two same shots which gets very repetitive.
Another part of the story that’s lacking, is the dramaturgy. The film is constantly moving. There’s never a pause, with no music, no grand sounds, just a room to breath where We listen to a complete dialogue without post-production sounds. It just doesn’t happen, it takes a few seconds until that tense music is rolling again and all of a sudden We change scene, and then again, and then again, and then a new scene, and a new scene, and another new one. It just runs and runs and runs, it feels like a 3 hour long montage. A great director like Nolan must know that the key to an engaging story is to make it dynamic. There must be pauses from tension, so the few times it gets tense We actually react to it…
…you mentioned that stuff where always happening and you where sad that you couldn’t enjoy them. But isn’t the mere fact that stuff is always happening, Well, the very cause of your disconnection to the story? If we’re constantly bombarded with content, We very quickly get desensitized to it. It goes the same with p*rn. People constantly see these easy-access explicit videos online, and so they get used to it and once you’re addicted, it just doesn’t do anything anymore and you have to move onto more extreme contents. I would say Oppenheimer in that sense is a 3 hour long p*rno, only that the p*rn in this case is made of constant use of tense music, a bunch of switching in between shots, and short ”scenes” that quickly turn into a new scene right before We get bored. But all that it does is making us (me atleast) disconnected and bored…
…the movie is constantly changing scenes, so much that I can’t say if they’re actually scenes but instead parts of a 3h long sequence that never seems to end. The scenes must in one way or another get independent, in order to make them iconic. We remember the classic baptism scene or the restaurant scene in The Godfather, they were like their own short movies, making them a part of a longer collection of short movies (scenes) which then form a living masterpiece that is the Godfather. We remember that ”what’s so fuckin funny” scene in Goodfellas, or the La Marsellaise scene in Casablanca, or the Exodus scene in Shawshank Redemption, woman in red dress scene in Matrix, little girl in red coat in Schindlers list, and many more classic scenes, because they where like their own short movies that connected Well like a puzzle with the rest of the film. But Oppenheimer to me felt like a neverending sequence that finally stopped with the (great moment I must admit) horrifying end scene. There’s No dynamic, and the fact that it’s trying to escape boring moments makes it boring.
But Cillian Murphy was a Good choice as Oppenheimer, and Einstein was great! 6/10 is probably where I’d put it too! Was very excited, left not as satisfied. But hey, each to their own. We are all equally dumb, and our opinions weight the same :) thanks for the review, thumbs up from here👍🏼
I agree with you review
On point.
Yeah, I very much agree with you. The last bits of the story were not as that engaging. They started dropping character names that has appeared for like a 30 seconds before that I totally forgot about already and did not care. Its like this for the last 40~ minutes, but before that its a real masterpiece imo.
So disappointed in this movie. Didn't like it for four reasons: 1. too loud - I saw it in an IMAX; my ears were ringing, and my chest was thumping; 2. too much mood music overlaying the dialogue; I want to hear the story and the character development, not the incessant music; 3. too many fast scene cuts, it made me dizzy, and felt amateurish; 4. I wanted to see more about the actual scientific and engineering advancements that made the bomb possible; too much time was spent instead showing Oppenheimer's battle with Straus.
This is typical Nolan. It’s an astonishing technical achievement, it’s interesting, the acting is flawless. At the same time it really doesn’t have any heart, you don’t care about the characters, at least none outside of Oppenheimer. The first half is disjointed and frankly boring. The second half feels like a different movie entirely, it’s tighter and less choppy. I can’t explain it, it’s a 3 hour movie that feels 30 mins too long and rushed at the same time.
One thing that can’t be argued, Murphy puts in a top 10 all time performance. They should give him his Oscar now.
Nolan tried way too hard to make JFK and he falls short. The bomb explosion was well done but also anticlimactic and underwhelming. I was mixed on it but I gave it a marginal recommendation because I was trapped in a theater for almost 3.5 hours
It reminded me of Oliver Stones JFK. Super epic and tons of info but hard to take in one sitting. I think if they would have made it a more linear thing rather than cutting back and forth. I did tear up during the scene when he was being cheered on. Very emotional knowing what he’s brought upon humanity and the earth itself. Also liked when Truman put him in his place like “you made it but I hear the brunt of having deployed it”. I’ll definitely rewatch it but when it streams, I’m used to my closed caption and being able to rewind to soak it in.
I totally agree with your criticisms. I understand Nolan's idea to make it more about the story than individual characters- and that is precisely why I think he should not have directed Oppenheimer.Tbh, I experienced more of Oppenheimer's emotional complexity by reading his Wikipedia page. Nolan def. has his strengths but he is not good at creating complex characters and dialogue that mirrors those intricacies. The cinematography and the acting were stellar but that could not save the movie from being disappointingly flat in my opinion.
I really like how honest you are.
Thanks, no matter what I thought of a film, the only thing I can do for sure is be honest about it.
It's almost like you are afraid of not liking it.
I don’t see how that makes sense. I liked a lot about it, it just didn’t come together for me as a whole. I’m glad I saw it, but don’t want to rewatch it. For me that’s the exact definition of a 6/10, which is what I gave it
Because it's such a Hyped up movie that it's almost illegal to dislike it. I think Oppenheimer sucks. Almost half the movie is the most boring ass suplot I've ever seen. Who gives a shit about the communist accusations / security clearance?Oppenheimer is all about the Manhattan project. That was his Journey, his legacy. I cant believe it all culminanted into that 1 hour suplot with Strauss conspiracy. Yikes
Character development was atrocious. Too much bouncing around. Longest dialog is like 30 seconds and you can't hear half of it without subtitles because soundtrack covers up this abomination. Please. The movie is just... boring. Specially the second half of the movie. It's not illegal to think it sucks.
Cuz people like u gonna attack him and say he’s not smart enough
@@BigZ-19 I just meant to say that at the end of the day, we all either like or dislike a film, and that is alright, we all have different tastes. I just thought this review was very messy because he obviously didn't enjoy it, but kept giving us bluff about what he did like about it. Is alright to not like a film that is being praised by many people. Nobody will think less of you.
I agree with the whole emotionless thing for Oppenheimer. Like, I got sad during inception and then excited and then happy and kind of mellow and empty towards the end(in a good way). But with this I felt numb and empty the whole time because it moved too fast for me to connect with it. Dunkirk orderline made me cry my eyes out and I found it insanely moving. Maybe the reason why you found it hard to connect with Dunkirk and Oppenheimer is because you can’t relate to the people. Eg sure you might’ve been in the army at some point but wouldn’t have had to be residues from a place you could get killed . You weren’t alive when the bomb got created for example. I know this is not true for me but I was just thinking it could be a subconscious thing
Dunkirk is a fine movie! Oppenheimer is boring and the ribbonbars on the US army uniforms are wrong! It's Navy Ribbons?!
I give it a 4/10 some classes in school in college were more entertaining than this
And what you said about the characters is SO TRUE
They say in the movie this character is this or this character is a spy and the whole time I’m like who ? who’s who ? the only character that I know his name the main character but other than him I couldn’t figure out the name at all and the best part of this movie was Matt Damon
I don’t think it was edited well. Cut way too much and there was no room to breathe ever.
I couldn't agree more.... But 3 hour movie of loads of taking but no good character to connect with. I think its a opinion thing and I personally did not like it the movie. 3 hour story that could have been told in 30 minutes. Nolan drop the ball on this on for me.
Alan Turings movie the Imitation game was a historical movie as well, and it was sooooooo much more entertaining than this crap. When I hear a movie with so many top actors and actresses I know its trying to compensate for something
I think the reason the storyline was confusing to keep straight because of the way it was edited. I think having it be quite a choppy style and in less of a chronological order made it for me personally and the people I watched it with harder to emotionally connect with it because we had to focus so much on who was who with there being so many characters and things happeneing at the same time. I think it could’ve worked jsut as well or even better if it was in more chronological order with a few flashbacks or scenes jumping forward in time to foreshadow or something like that. Then again that’s just my opinion
"every white person on the planet" so basically it's standard Nolan. Shocker there😂. Seriously I appreciate this review- I share a lot of your opinions - my favorite director too, his recent films haven't done as much for me as his early to mid 2000s era Batman- Inception was a golden era for Nolan.
I appreciate your perspective and wonder how I myself will respond to such a monstrosity of a script, and the blizzard of celebrity appearances which accompany. Like you, I tend to view epics of this sort as over indulgent and tedious.
I feel like he was trying to do some stuff like a beautiful mind in the beginning but it didn't exactly work for me.
Same here. Boring movie about a boring person who was not a hero figure. So he felt guilty. So what?? I go to movies to be entertained. Way too long. Yes. Good acting and very artistic. But.. Ho hum. Boringly….. interesting movie. But yuck. Made me feel bad. Nope. I would never watch again.
Dang, that sucks! I have to care about the characters, especially in a 3hr movie. I still want to see it but seems like he went overboard on the guest appearances instead of giving a little more substance to the main characters.
If you're like me when it comes to Nolan's filmography you may end up feeling similar. But it's definitely worth seeing.
Might be a bit confusing with all the side characters, but still it's a great movie and I recommend you to watch it.
I just saw this movie a few hours ago. I was really excited but left feeling...dissatisfied? Were there AWESOME parts in this movie? ABSOLUTELY! I just didn't *feel* much about the conflict, hearings, infidelity...it was strange but I did really enjoy the movie overall. I completely agree with you.
Oppenheimer annoyed me. Like really pissed me off.
I liked it but I see your points, not much goes on.
No a ton of stuff goes on lol, almost too much.
Just saw Godzilla Minus One, I think that's a better film about the horror of the bomb and post-war fallout
The longest day & saving private ryan were great war movies...Dunkirk was not.
I agree. I didn't like it and couldn't finish it. It was storytelling, not a movie
It wasn't a bad film per say. I'd say it's probably one of the best films of the year objectively speaking. (Though that's not saying much to be fair) But I just didn't get engaged, I was just bored start to finish. I mean if I wanted to watch something boring, I'd just watch Elemental or that Dreamworks film that missed this time. Acting was great, Writing was alright, Editing was...not good but I seen worse, but I just didn't like it.
I thought RDJ was overwrought and the cast was overwhelming. I liked the first two hours were good, but the last hour drags. I didn’t feel for the characters and did like killian Murphy. He’s great. Too much cutting. Everyone were caricatures not fully fleshed characters. I also felt the movie was too long and too short.
I have been looking for this review because I felt so weird for not loving this movie after everyone else seemed to fall in love with it. It is a FILM but I just left it feeling empty and more disappointed in movies and the world in general.
Yeah if this reviewer didn’t like tenet, definitely wouldn’t like this one either.
There are way more people who seem to be enjoying Oppenheimer, where Tenets reception was more mixed
I agree, this movie wasnt it, tho after watching it I think Nolan would do great making a horror movie
I couldn't disagree more with your assessment of the editing as being handled "extremely well". For me the editing was the main detraction of this film; I felt it undermined the performances of the actors.
entirely agree with this sentiment. well done but not engaging.
This isn’t a movie about the first atomic bomb, it’s a movie about Oppenheimer. People need to remember this
Ok, so the trailer was misleading then?
well its boring 😁
This movie was a masterpiece, truly a work of art for story telling. The ending brought a tear to my eye as a flood of emotions filled my mind with what Dr. Oppenheimer must have felt. The guilt and responsibility for his creation. He died at the height of the Cold War so he died thinking he killed the human race
I had the same experience. In the theater I was in, most everyone clapped which surprised me as the movie was so somber.
@@Quixote1818 my theater had everyone clapping, it was the perfect experience for me as right when I got out of the theater the rain started to drizzle. Once I got to my car sat down and thought more about how Oppenheimer must have felt they was a huge lightning storm and the rain stayed pouring hard. I really did have a crazy experience after lol. Really interesting ride home
When you are ignorant of history…you won’t get it….history isn’t entertainment, it’s a lesson to be learned..and if you don’t want to learn…you sound like this guy.
Hey man thanks for being a dick for no reason, appreciate it. Thanks for understanding that art is subjective and my opinion is valid, super cool of you.
No amount of knowledges of history has anything to do with whether a film is gods or bad. All you did with that comment is tell us what an enormous Nolan Fanboy you are.
Okay if I wanted to learn about history I'd watch a documentary. A movie can teach history and do it accurately, but it has to be you know...enjoyable
You didn't like it that much because it was a bad movie.
It somehow convinced every it was a masterpiece with the cast, director, theme and premovie hype. But in reality it was a fast-paced mess.
It's all opinion, I and most people do not consider it bad.
I can't take any movie "critic" seriously when he has two super hero movie posters on his wall for all his podcast presentations. More like a child brain inside an adult body. WHen ever you hear a critic, you have to pay attention to the other movies they like and dislike to trust their opinion. This guy probably shouldn't be rating movies.
I can’t take any commenter seriously who doesn’t respect the concept of subjective opinions and feels the need to attack someone’s taste. Address the points I actually made in the video, state an opinion of your own about the film, or shut up. (Oh and btw, most critics liked both The Batman and Across the Spiderverse, so your comment is even more absurd)
@@BoxOfChocolatezbro for real, I don’t know who pissed in his cereal but people are free to enjoy and criticize ANY movie no matter what background they have. How closed minded he must be. Personally I loved the animated Spider-Man movies, the art work and mixed comic like animations was amazing.
Nice critique and I agree with you
You're selfish....you just care about what you feel...
This is my review, am I supposed to talk about what someone else felt? This was my experience with the movie and I communicated it honestly. I praised many aspects of the film while acknowledging it just wasn't for me as a whole. Your comment is ludicrous.
@@BoxOfChocolatez not as ludicrous as your opinion. You said you like it, but at the same time you said you didnt. What can be more ludicrous than that. I didnt say you're dishonest. Yes that is your opinion. But your opinion sucks, that's what im saying. You say i didnt feel this, i didnt feel that, well the movie was not made for you, and its certainly not meant to satisfy your feelings...
@@melerad2814 I said I appreciate the craft on display but my personal enjoyment level was not that high. I specifically said that the movie isn't for me and that's ok because a lot of other people loved it and that's good for them! You're coming at me antagonistically when I gave the movie a positive review. You need to take a step back and chill, ask yourself why this got you riled up, cuz it's not healthy man.
@@BoxOfChocolatez sorry to disappoint you, but im actually enjoying this conversation. It seems to me, that you're trying to pass to me what you are feeling. You're the ones who's riled up by my comment. You better cool up man. You've got to learn how to handle comments much better. You're not gonna get a lot of subscribers, if you react like this. Hahahha
@@melerad2814 If those subscribers are anything like you, then I don't want them. You've said nothing of value this entire time and from the jump have been antagonistic toward me for giving this movie a POSITIVE review. I acknowledged the movie wasn't for me, but it was very well made and I'm glad people are loving it. What the hell else do you want?