Every Critic LIED. Oppenheimer is OVERRATED - Movie Review
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.ย. 2024
- Christopher Nolan is one stubborn man. He refuses to address the flaws in his scriptwriting, I presume due to the money his films make, and so we continue to get the same issues everytime. Exposition instead of characterization. Disjointed editing as part of some lame mind game instead of a solidly crafted picture. Good, but shallow performances which are never given time to breathe.
Cillian Murphy and a vast supporting cast all do a good job. But the Nolan-esque approach to this subject matter ultimately holds the film back from being truly great upon careful examination. What went wrong and what went right? Watch and find out more.
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people think that liking oppenheimer makes them smarter
No you can hate it. It was politics movie and not a scientific movie. I don't know if watching a political movie means who watches it is smart.
But it was not a movie for you.
For me it was 10/10 experience
@@artandarchitecture6399
I didn't say I was smarter.
I saif This was the best political and internal conflict movie made.
Exactly!!!!!!
@@shrin210no it's not the best political and "inner conflict" (whatever that means) movie ever made
@@leob4403
Then what is political movie according to you 😂
So I wasn't the only one who thought this was a hollow movie? What a relief. The whole story evolves around mathematicians and physicists cracking equations and taking about maths problems, but not a single scene shows that. All the characters were scripted as two-dimensional and there is a total lack of emotions even in the most poignant moments (with one exception in the last minutes of the film). What an overhyped piece of mediocracy.
Exactly right! Nolan isn't known for creating rich characters and it is once again on display here.
@@TheAussieCriticwith exceptions Insomnia and Prestige I would say. Al Pacino had a really interesting suffering cop character, and then Christian Bales character in Prestige was an interesting concept
I've never understood the hype surrounding Christopher Nolan. His films are decent, but not masterpieces. I think it's a huge exaggeration that some people put him on the same level as Kubrick.
Tommy Wiseau is a more interesting director than Nolan.
To be fair Interstellar is pretty good but yeah I agree most of his other films are average at best.
@@benpoke His films are good to mediocre, none of them are really bad. As an old scifi fan, I also liked Interstellar, but it had its unnecessary lengths and a little more exciting plot would have been good. I have only seen each of his films once or twice, for me they are not cult masterpieces. My personal opinion, which of course everyone can see differently.
Interstellar was almost perfect. Everything else is cringe.
Dark Knight and Inception are his best
I can make this movie 10x better simply by deleting every scene shot in black and white. Nolan tried to combine two completely different movies and one of them sucked.
Well, just because few did not like it, does not mean it sucked. Many likes this Nolan's complicated storytelling
@@the-boy-who-lived, most of the technical aspects were great during the "C-SPAN bureaucrat" plot line. However, the writing, editing, and subject matter were not. It's essentially an hour and a half of people reading transcripts of extremely repetitive depositions with taiko drum, car chase music.
@@purdysanchez I appreciate your opinion. But it is always a subjective matter
@@the-boy-who-lived, obviously. You can say Taylor Swift plays brilliant songs, and musicians are free to say her music is juvenile. You can say Frank Zappa is the best and successful producers are free to say his music is too weird.
thank god, i feel like the entire world is trying to gaslight me into thinking this was a good movie
Yeah, like, people really looked at me and said "Did you expect an action movie ? "...
No, my favorite series is MAD MEN, I was expecting clever dialogue, silent drama and delicate storytelling...
That's ALL lacking on the film, dialogue is either bland or too brash, the atomic impact is lacking both visually and emotianally...
And the pacing of the movie is all wrong... WTF was the need for mixed timeline and confused editing... Some directors are not the TARANTINO they think they are..
I agree this , is very over rated , very boring film , sad to see Nolan going in this direction.
@harryh.r.9082 im not convinced tarantino would make a very good serious biopic either tbh. Tarantino is a genius at a very specific type of film. But i agree with you on pretty much every point.
@@3brenm Nolan is a failed child of Tarantino and David Lynch, that has the budget of Spielberg and a following as loyal as Scorsese.
But he doesn't have the talent or the creative execution as any of these directors, and shouldn't be enrolled to carry films that these directors would be better suited.
He has his own niche that was exemplified in Memento and Dunkirk. He shouldve stayed in that lane.
Y'all could not be more sideways. 10/10, fantastic fuckin movie. Go see it in 70mm IMAX and tell me I'm wrong
The emperor has no clothes on.
It is an incredibly boring courtroom drama, with a grossly misleading marketing campaign tricking the audience into believing it’s about the development of the bomb. A missed opportunity, imo.
What was the big point about filming this dialogue-heavy film in IMAX anyway?
It's all part of a shady marketing campaign called Payola. Notice on the praises how they tell people to watch it its a masterpiece and to watch in 70mm imax. People drove hours to watch a 70mm snoozefest that is only good for treating insomnia.
Nicely put. Suspected this would be a pile of pretentious tripe, groaning under the weight of its own self-importance, so good to hear it confirmed.
Everyone said you had to see it in imax, but for what? For extra crisp dialogue? A regular theater viewing will do just fine
This movie can be replaced with _Judgement at Nuremberg_ easily. At least that movie lets you know early on that it's a courtroom drama, so you know what you're getting into within the first ten minutes, and you can quickly decide whether you're onboard for the ride or not. But the movie _Oppenheimer_ keeps dumping exposition with the constant promise that something interesting will happen, and then nothing ever does.
Even the fact that Oppenheimer is shot in IMAX promises that the full screen will be used to offer more information, because the visual stimuli cannot be contained to 35mm or whatever, but instead the 70mm was mostly used for extra negative space to emphasize what you can already see on the screen with an 16:9 or 1.85:1 aspect ratio on your TV screen at home.
I’m disappointed that they thought a sex scene was more worth showing than the actual destruction of the Japanese cities.
Good point! I laughed out loud because you're so very right. What a bizarre choice. More time is spent making us feel sorry for Tatlock's death than a Japanese massacre.
The movie is about Robert Oppenheimer, not the atom bomb…. Hence the name…. “Oppenheimer”……………
@coralice6263 are you implying that you didn’t understand what type of person Oppenheimer was? Or are you saying that his character wasn’t interesting?
@coralice6263 I haven’t seen I Tonya, but I understand your point. However, that opinion is very personal, because for example I actually believe the opposite. What made me love the movie was precisely how the character Oppenheimer was portrayed, and how he interacted with his struggles in life and the people around him. And this is not to mention the best part about the movie, the soundtrack and the atmosphere.
@@TheAussieCritic
Oh so you're just stupid. That's ok darling. There's no need to try to understand the point of something you're watching is there sweetie
How many scenes do you want with slow, suspenseful music? Yes.
I cannot believe the monotonous score for this film was nominated for an Academy Award, but the classic scores to films like “Back to the Future,” “Jurassic Park,” and “Edward Scissorhands” weren’t.
@@bcdside I had to tap out after 30 minutes, mostly due to the score - constantly screaming at you to be moved to a teary slow clap, regardless of the actual contef the scene. What a mess.
@@AllHijinksNoHighDinksthis was my biggest gripe with the film, aside from the terrible pacing and over-reliance on montage instead of fleshing out characters we become invested in. The music was so loud in the mix, and so incessant. I was bombarded by constantly being reminded that I was watching a production of actors, editors, music composers instead of getting lost in the story itself. I watched The Day After Trinity and I found it ironic that a a low budget documentary about the subject had more heart, emotion, and resonance than the biopic. This movie annoyed me on multiple levels and after the huge disappointment of Tenet, Nolan seems to make cinematic movies where plot and story take a backseat to production, editing, and technique. It felt like a 2hour long movie trailer with a 1 hour courtroom drama about a character I never cared about. The best part of the movie was Emily Blunt in the interrogation scene.
@@djstarsign Dude, seriously! I feel like I'm in the twilight zone or some shit....everyone in my family is telling me that "i'm an odd duck" for thinking the movie was heavy handed in it's pacing and score. Fuck this movie for gaslighting me! Nolan's the crazy fuck who mandates a schizophrenic narrative framework whether it serves the spirit of the film of not. I'm crazy?
Nonono, Nolan needs to tell me why he thought Oppenheimer would be a great canvas to repurpors the narrative gimmick of Memento. How is it not a totallly unnecessary mental chore? What purpose does it serve - except to hold a few of our neurons hostage? If I'm constantly trying to parce out what exactly happened in a linear historical sense at a low level in the back of my head, then i'm not fully able to become invested in scenes on an emotional level. Let alone enjoy the movie. So what can justify that? What's the payoff?
I just couldn't care, and sensed they knew that I didn't care, and that was why they were battering me over the head with the score: "WE KNOW THIS IS GETTING CONFUSING BUT WE NEED YOU BACK AT A 11 OUT OF 10 EMOTIONALLY FOR THIS SCENE FEATURING TWO GUYS TALKING IN AN OFFICE. ACTUALLY WE NEED YOU THERE FOR ALL THE SCENES OKAY JUST STAY WITH US UP HERE AT "NERVOUS BREAKDOWN" C'MON A LITTLE LONGER JUST UNTIL WE SWEEP THE OSCARS. THIS IS CINEMAAAA!"
Fuck this movie. Fuck it right up it's stupid ass.
To be honest, I've lost respect for Nolan. The hype for this movie borders on a scam
Still the gullible sheep are in majority so there's nothing you can do unfortunately
It does indeed. Now they're awarding this over hyped movie. But that's what the industry has turned into. The films are so sub par that the minute anything with a huge budget comes out it is instantly seen as "Important" regardless of how good it is.
Watch the movie _Judgement at Nuremberg_ instead. It handles the tragic nature of people trying to escape the consequences of their actions with so much more class than Christopher Nolan could ever dream of.
@@youtubeviolatedme7123 Watch an interview with Oppenheimer. There's one on youtube. Murphy might have looked the part but he behaves and sounds NOTHING like Robert Oppenheimer. Oppenheimer moved slowly. He spoke in a very calm measured way.
@@roquefortfiles I think Cillian Murphy's acting was serviceable in some scenes more than others. Like you said, his voice doesn't match the real Oppenheimer's, and Murphy's body language would be too assertive sometimes. But even when Murphy was doing an okay job (usually in scenes where he didn't have lines of dialogue to deliver), Christopher Nolan's choppy editing, handheld camera movement, and frenetic cinematography just didn't give Murphy's acting the room it needed to breathe. Nolan wasn't making deliberate artistic choices as critics will proclaim, rather it's just the only way Christopher Nolan knows how to make movies, because that's how he directs every single movie he makes. And before Nolan used IMAX, it was even worse. Batman Begins, for example, is visually one of the ugliest movies I've ever seen, and fortunately the excellent script redeems the movie. Seriously, the scene where Bruce's parents die is so poorly shot I nearly threw up.
In my opinion, it was one of the worst films I've ever seen in my life of fifty plus years. The explosion looked horrible also.
I think Nolan just recorded himself throwing lighter fluid on a campfire, put it in slowmo, and called it a day
They could have colorized some old atomic bomb test footage and it would have been better
I uniroincally agree.
I feel like the whole world was hypnotised into believing it was a masterpiece because it had all the hallmarks of one, but the execution was a disaster.
Entire movie felt like it was trying to be over intellectual
yesss
It was a personal struggle movie.
Not every movie is for everyone is what i understood after this.
@@shrin210 why didnt it include bhagavd gita in oppenheimer life? that book is as important as bible was in newton's life
@@mr.gamerkabir8142 Ask directors? Its
Westerners insecurites
Facts
It's like every other Nolan film. Visually and aurally stunning, artificially tense throughout, edited by, and for, overstimulated adhd brains, and filled with NPC's that relate in a completely unconvincing way.
Edited for overstimulated adhd brains… hmmm… last time I checked, the main argument against Oppenheimer being a good movie was that it was “boring” and “too long”. Doesn’t that entail that the critics of the movie have the “overstimulated adhd brains”? Such as yourself?
No, he did some very interesting movies, insomnia, prestige and Inception. But he made even more pretentious overhyped drivel, I think his last movie that held up was Inception 14 years ago. Interstellar had some interesting elements but ultimately didn't work as a story
It’s a boring movie about mass murderers.
If you wanna watch a movie about murders go watch horror movies.
I remember the scene where tatlock made him read sanscrit while riding him made me laugh. It felt like it was written by a teenager. Like we need to show that they are just quirky and smart like that. Reading ancient religious text turns them on.
Agreed! It was a terrible idea and it destroyed any power the "I am death" line had during the trinity blast for me.
@@TheAussieCritic Now I am become death, the destroyer of that ass
Bro i took my sister to see it and im hindu and when jean was holding geeta which is religious text while having sex was so embarissing they wasted that lin
Absolutely! Oppenheimer had such high regard for the Hindu texts, so I don't know how they thought it was a good idea to be so uncouth. @finger2365
What a disrespectful way to handle this religious book
One thing you really forgot to mention and that's the word 'Pretentious' This movie was a very pretentious historical drama. Else i have nothing to say about it since you had mentioned most of it and i agreed with Majority of the comments here. Happy to see I wasn't the only one.
the Nolan editing kills me. Just follow a frigging normal sequence of time for once. Also shame on Nolan for not using actual footage of trinity. his explosion looked like a gasoline explosion at the completely wrong scale.
It's the rare occasion I actually would have preferred CGI over practical effects. The camera has to be placed close and it messes the effect up
This is accurate. If you look at old footage of nuclear detonation tests, what we saw in the film was nowhere near that.
Chris and his brother Jonathan write their stories out of sequence to try and mask their weak writing and inability to focus a proper narrative. Nolan may be a brilliant film maker but he doesn't seem to understand the most basic and essential tenant of writing - narrative completion.
it feels like i watched a 3 hour long trailer instead of a movie
Thats what my brother said too. Totally on point.
Exactly! That's what I really felt too. Waiting for character development and already 3 hours pass by and Really? That's what I got.
Oppenheimer was so bad i liked the Barbie movie lol
Downey's performance was AVERAGE and forgettable..
Yea the constant jump cuts broke the immersion in every scene, there was rarely more than a minute straight in a single scene
You articulated perfectly the frustration I felt watching this. Thank you…thank you…thank you.
Glad to hear!
Frustration?😂 Are you… angry… at a movie?
@@dexterlidenit's not just a movie though is it, this and Barbie were some pretty major cultural events, that people talk about to this day
@@leob4403 well no it quite literally is just a movie. Sure it had a big impact on society and is to this day discussed. I just thought it’s funny how you can get frustrated at a movie
@@dexterliden that doesn't make any sense. You know the Bible is just a book? Why do we talk about inanimate objects? Can inanimate objects tell us something about humanity maybe?
The constant cutting made me want to walk out of the theatre early
Oppenheimer is a very good movie, but this sweeping awards at the Oscars over better movies seems so unreal to me.
All the best bits were in the trailer and I realised half way through, oh crap this isn't gonna get any better
Very true
The movie was a three hour trailer
@JustinTaylormade yes it had no actual scenes to really draw you in. Just constant music played over quick endless cuts. And when you say you don't like it people claim you're stupid and wanted more action. Uh no if anything I wanted it to be a lot slower
"When the man himself is boring and uninteresting, focus on his deeds" - Me.
They should have told the story more of the bomb, the war, it's construction and the conseqences and how Oppenheimer tied into all that. Focusing on shit like his security clearance for most of the movie bored me to tears.
You read my mind. Thank you, sir! 🌷
@@babs420th9the movie is called “Oppenheimer” not “the bomb”
“Should have”? No, they shouldn’t have. Just because you want another action movie, on top of the thousands we already have, doesn’t make Christopher Nolan required to make one😂 If you want to learn about the Second World War and the atom bomb and it’s consequences, literally go and watch the hundreds of different documentaries of that. Hopefully you hear how stupid your comment sounds…
This is why I prefer “Fat Man and Little Boy”.
@@dexterlidenwhat makes you think he wanted another action movie? He just thinks the movie focused too heavily on uninteresting topics. I swear, the people who defend this movie act so damn pretentious and are so quick to talk down to anyone who didn’t like it.
Oppenheimer is like a bad action movie where everyone talks instead of punching each other. The constant short cuts jumping between time and characters is a cheap gimmick that artificially creates tension and drama instead of relying on good dialogue and acting. I'm glad some people can see this movie for the overhyped oscar bait that it is.
The most overrated mediocre director of our time. The last one was Spielberg.
When I left the theatre and had a moment to ponder the film...I felt like it didn't leave me anything, it didn't teach me anything. I could've gone along with my life not knowing that a movie like oppenheimer existed.
Glad im not the only one
i didn't like the editing.
It was so unnecessary, a linear storyline would’ve made it so much better
'Pure cinema' in Nolan's hands becomes a film that is imperceptibly different from a three-hour long trailer for an actual movie.
Exactly right. All pure cinema is like this IMO. I don't think it's bad to have movies which eschew conventional storytelling, but I don't think it works for a biopic.
Brilliantly put!
Disjointed pile of floggery with the most annoying soundtrack since aussie masterchef.
Waste of oxygen 🥱
The soundtrack deserves the highest praise. It moved the movie along so well and drove emotions all over the place.
nolan is such a overrated director hasnt made anything decent since the dark knight trilogy Oppenheimer feels more like a oliver stone film than a nolan film
As an Audience, it is not my responsibility to enjoy a movie, PERIOD, I hate that people are being told that this the most epic movie ever and they are buying it like sheep!!!
Yeah! They should be the type of sheep that buys YOUR half baked shit NOT theirs! Waaaaaa!
It is your responsibility to stuff yourself with overpriced candy and pay ridiculous money for tickets to the next blockbuster, if the hype machine says the movie is a masterpiece that's just a fact you have to accept
@@leob4403 Or… and hear me out. Ignore all that. Go watch a movie, or don’t, and leave it at that. You act like there’s a mysterious evil movie maker clan that sits in dark ritualistic chambers, smoking cigars and wondering how they can fill you with candy and movies made to rot your brain so that they can take over world. Darrrr.
Great review, I was searching for a critical point of view with more knowledge then myself that could put into words the frustration that this movie left me with. Oppenheimer was supposed to be the main focus here, but we are left with so little info about: why he wanted so badly do build this bomb, when so many of his colleagues refused to, his personal struggles with this duality before, during and after the construction, it's so unclear. How he felt about his family, he abandoned his child at some point, it's not clear to whom, for how long and how that affected him. When his lover died he was suffering?!?? that was surprising, nothing in the movie let us know that she was important to him. The process, he needed clearance? For what, what that implies, why he cares? Why we should sympathise with him if he does not have it?
And I have another serious question for anyone, especially for those who thinks this movie is a masterpiece. If those bombs would have fallen on your hometown during that period, would you be happy on how this story was portrayed? Would you think that the ethical and moral part was sufficiently explored and addressed?
It is not overrated, that is being too nice. It is a bad movie (4 out of 10 bad). The reviews and positive publicity ARE a scam (on a Goebbels level). It is way too long, boring, at times confusing, staccato acting, no care or concern for either protagonists or antagonists, choppy editing, distracting and weird script choices (nudity, how Einstein was used, etc).
Lol! Maybe you're right. I need to be more ruthless! I agree with you, though, the praise does feel coordinated.
The Editing to me was the Worst Ive seen in Years and Im a Videographer and Like Nolan for the most part. It felt like a Music video the way it cut over and over. I rarely rate a film while watching it but this was so bad to me I ended leaving more than halfway thru it. I forgive Nolans mistakes a lot but this time all his mistakes were so in your face I just had enough. That's not mentioning nudity that pops out of nowhere simply to make the film more risque. My least favorite Nolan film
Very true! I think if you took most scenes and edited them linearly then you'd immediately improve the story. Not every film needs to play with time.
@TheAussieCritic right, they had good elements, good casting, it just was not put together right at all to me. I was supposed to take someone and they couldn't make it and I was Glad they didn't come. I felt like I was watching a Trailer that never ended instead of a full film. Its so much bouncing around I couldn't care less about the woman who died he used to date, nothing. I have defended Nolan for years but this had me like I can see what yall talkin about here
😂 Yeah, the death of the girlfriend didn't hit me either!@@brovawinston
@TheAussieCritic the death of his ex was just a blessing as it was one less robot character to keep track of.
Take your meds, this movie was edited to perfection with past, future and black n white scenes perfectly organized. you probably didn't even catch that lmao
I hated the editing so much. All the scenes were sooooo short. Nothing felt cohesive, just constant whiplash.
I had to force myself several times to stay in my seat. This is a very bad movie.
The Batman is way better than this overrated boring oppenheimer
Middenheimer
Gotta wonder how many people who loved it will stream it and quietly realise that that don't want to continue
I’ve been watching it over the course of a few weeks to help me sleep
Maestro is a far superior film. Bradley Cooper should have been nominated for Best Director and win for Best Actor.
I don't like Bradley Cooper that much but i think he was better than Cillian, he won the Oscar because this mid movie made more than 900 millions at the BO.
One of the most overrated movies ever
I wore out after 30 minutes, my wife lasted 1 hour and my 16 year old son agreed to stop the film after 90 minutes. We were exhausted!
The editing is horrendous, short clips of mostly uninteresting conversations (the hearings, especially) stacked on each other. Nothing justifies the leaps in time, nor the black and white. It's just trying to show off as intellectual, but it's straight stupid.
The characters are just sketches, even Oppenheimer's is dead flat. Do we see any of his struggles, the huge drama that might have played out inside him? No.
Actors are ok, although I rarely ever seen a movie where I was conscious about looking at an actor and not the character he is playing. Robert Downey Jr. in black and white with his wig or whatever felt particularly false.
Other super interesting characters - Einstein, Gödel, "excusez de peu" - are straight out jokes.
But the worst for me was the use of music. It was omnipresent, repeating without pause over the dialogs (without pause either). No rhythm changes, no pauses. Very fatiguing.
After 90 minutes I felt like having watched a trailer the whole time.
7 Oscars? It's a joke.
Surely cinematic sound recording and editing in 2023 allows for much clearer and louder dialog over the sound effects that nearly blow audiences out of their seats?
Very true!
"nearly blow audiences out of their seats"
LMAO there were literally a couple of moments in this movie, where the friend I went to watch it with literally jump in her seat because some unnecessary booming sound on the soundtrack. The film literally had audio jump scares in it, who needs that in a biopic Nolan?
This is probably Nolan's worst movie, least entertaining to say the least
I'll go one level more.. This is a rubbish movie. Dry bland.
How Nolan managed complex ideas like inception and interstellar was amazing and on the other hand dunkirk and oppenheimer were underwhelming.
The most powerful invention and it's aftermath deserved more.
Also, the most awesome lines of philosophy said by Oppenheimer "And Now I am become Death, Destroyer of Worlds!!" (an ardent and open student of Hindu / Indian philosophy) during a tear-jerker interview in real life were unnecessarily hidden behind boobs and raunchy scenes. Oppenheimer's knowledge of mysticism and spirituality and Sanskrit and Hindu philosophy and the reason for an important part of his thinking and decisions was not done justice with, for this crime towards truth and art, we will never forgive nolan.
Completely argee re the I am death scene.
inception idea was a clear cut inspiration from satoshi kon's paprika. Heck even some scenes were downright copied from paprika.
Interstellar was a garbage film only attracting those elementary going children interested in science. Had the most shallow characters possible and the idea of relativity and black holes were already 100 yr old and not newer idea that nolan made a movie on that. A father daughter separated by relativity of time isn't a "genius" idea...
"This is a masterpiece to those who have seen less than a 100 films"
I laughed my ass off, but this should have said "...in the last 10 years"
Because this movie brought in a lot of people who rarely make an event of a movie.
In fact, if Killers of the Flower Moon swapped marketing tactics, it would go down as best of the decade.
Most of Nolan's movies are garbage. It's the truth. They always have a gimmick to throw your attention away from the trash seeping everywhere lol. He's the new M. Night Shyamalan. He had 1 okay film decades ago, but every movie since is trash. Oppenheimer was the movie form of "Andor." It was the most boring thing you'll ever see.... terrible writing too and even worse filming. They gave them the Oscar awards cause the movie promotes communism and swinging
Your opinion is of course fact
this movie will make you angry, and after watching it you want revenge to the poeple that keep telling this is a great movie
Sounds like you are delusional
Yep, I left the movie angry also. Angry that I fell for this "Get Rich" scam. The whole movie industry appears to be in on it, with the unknowing assistance of Nolan's loyal to a fault fans.
You know whats absolutely crazy.....had this movie been just marketed as
"A Film By M. Night Shaymalan"
It would have been ripped to shreds and all the flaws would be analyzed. But nope. Its Nolan, it cant be touched by all the Nolan fanboys. People saying 10/10 or "Masterpiece" are delusional. 6 at best. There are so many movies that I will rewatch many more times than Oppen. This was Nolans worse film next to Interstellar and Dunkirk, and Tenet. Dude has not made anything above a 6 in decades. I can not believe the hype this movie got. I watched it 2 times. Then 1 more to see what I was missing, and still nothing.
I let myself be influenced by all those unanimous positive critics and so I had high expectations of it. Now, this scam indeed has to stop and the general dick-sucking chain about it must be broken. All this acclaim is incomprehensible to me. That was sincerely the most awful and painful cinematographic experience of my life and I've seen tons of films! I lost 3 hours of my existence on this overly long, boring, convoluted, chaotic and confusing crap, with its complicated dialogues spit out at lightning speed, thousands of characters whose names and roles you can't remember (and quite frankly don't have the time to give a shit about), way too loud sound effects (I had to cover my ear multiple times), crazy misleading editing and constant jumps around time to the point where you don't know what is when. Furthermore, some scientific principles that were per se not so difficult to understand were explained in an unnecessarily overcomplex way. I thought I was going to die of a brain seizure. And those stupid sex scenes... Moreover, the script in itself is nonsense with stakes you have a hard time relating to, other than the one with the bomb - I mean, who the hell gives a flying f*** about that f***ing guy's security clearance or whether he was a communist or not? Was that worth an hour of runtime? First time in my life that I had to take acetaminophen during a screening (I'm not kidding) and I'd rather have sit on a plank full on nails than watch this 3 hour-long piece of turd. I was checking my watch all the time and I didn't walk just because I don't like to leave a cinema before the end of a movie and because I was hoping it got better but it didn't. The people with me also hated it and from the comments and sighs of relief I overheard from the audience in the theater after it was finally over, it seems the majority disliked it. It's a terribly bloated and overrated flick with an absolutely outrageous propaganda around it. Besides, the actors were not that great either, with for instance Cillian Murphy showing only one facial expression for the entire movie. Emily Blunt was good though. Plus that whole "it's not for everybody"-BS statement that I keep seeing everywhere upsets me even more - it's just a way of saying that this movie is for intelligent people only. There's a near 100% positive consensus about this atrocious film and there are not 100% of intelligent people among movie-goers. It's just that it's trendy to say how great it is and that it makes people "feel" smart. And there's also this other retarded recurring statement which says that if you don't like it, that's because you like Marvel movies. How ignorant must one be to say that? There are other options that these 2. I'm 49, my wife is 39 and my son nearly 19. We're all full grown intelligent adults not caring for Marvel and we didn't go there hoping to see a cartoon. We knew it was supposed to be a serious film and those insane dithyrambic ratings made us expect a real masterpiece and we got something that I wouldn't even call decent. Like another honest reviewer said, it's a good 2-hour movie buried in a 3-hour mediocre one. Lost time can't be given back and feeling physically sick for the wrong reasons plus risking hearing damage because of a movie is not normal. I am never seeing this thing again.
Sigh of relief from my side too. That you covered everything I was feeling after the movie. I felt like I was robbed and cheated on. I felt stupid thinking if I missed something. I wondered why the hell this was an Imax movie and why I wasted so much money on something that I could have seen at home, while sipping tea, that could have helped me stay awake through it.
Thanks for summarizing up my feelings and thoughts. I've seen it yesterday and in the cinema I was really looking forward for it to end, especially during the utterly boring Strauss sub-plot.
@@DavePaddy You're welcome. I'm glad other people sharing these feelings dare to speak up. Because I never thought for a second that this general positive consensus was real. And yeah, that part with Strauss was probably one of the most "who gives a fuck" subjects in the history of cinema.
@@GS-ky5ts You didn't miss anything and you had no reason to feel stupid. The film is what it is... Like I said, on top of the wasted money, the time lost on this thing can't be given back unfortunately. Let this be a lesson for all of us! :D
You Sir just spoke what I exactly wanted to say. Oppenheimer is an overrated bloated 3 hr long piece of turd. Lost 3 hrs of my life that I am never gonna get back. Forget about the bucks that I shelled out to watch this pretentious crap. Cilian Murphy, RDJ, Matt Damon all looked wrongly cast and their performance sucked mammoth balls. The whole film seems to be a sham and we all fell for it cuz of the director who is living on his laurels. I was bored to death, looking at my watch every 10-15 min cursing at myself hoping when this ordeal is gonna end 🤬🙏🤦♂️
Nolan have been overrated director since beginning. People just pretends to be fan of Nolan's movies otherwise he will be termed as stupid who don't understand sci-fi.
When "critics" call him the greates filmmaker of our era gives me a grasp of the current state of cinema in Hollywood. Pathetic.
Agreed!
Might I ask you, who is a great filmmaker for you? Don’t see my comment as a way of harassing or trying to blame you, not at all, just a curiosity
Of course! Besides all the obvious ones (Kubrick, Welles, etc) I would say, working today, great filmmakers would include Shinichiro Watanabe, Paul Thomas Anderson, Lynne Ramsay. There are many who have great films but then have average-to-good ones in the mix, but those three have been consistent IMO.@@eliteworldstudio
@@TheAussieCriticcan't agree there, The Master and Inherent Vice were not good movies
I saw it today and I was underwhelmed. Just as you stated it was bleak “JFK” that couldn’t find its core. Probably Nolands weakest film so far
I came to this review expecting all the comments to be calling you out for not liking it but instead they seem in agreement. Nice to see that some of us still have our heads on straight and arent caught up in the group mindswamp. Thank you for also not mentioning the barbie movie.
Glad you liked it and thanks for commenting!
Yeah… Its one of those things where you’re almost not allowed to not like Nolan films. Maybe I am old school, but I need a movie to be entertaining. I am not a film student who is really going to sit there and get off on beautiful cinematography alone. If I am sitting for 3 hours, I need it to be great. And its like they knew it was boring so they made it ear splittingly LOUD at some parts for long periods of time to make sure we don’t doze off.
Lot of Hollywood film promotion bots 🤖 out there. It’s obvious when you read someone gushing about this crappy film. It was Awful. Bore fest.
It is odd how people get so defensive about this film. I just don't think it was particularly deep, interesting or well written. Cinematography and acting was good, that's about all i can compliment though.
@@3brenm I think it’s a lot of Hollywood bots 🤖 paid to promote it on social media and then some pseudo intellectuals. The film sucked. Friend I was with got up and left 90 minutes in because it was so monotonous.
Nolan is a brilliant scammer, he tricks a lot of people to believe a pedestrian propaganda bro courtdramma is some kind of masterpiece. Kind of amazing.
This I
He doesn't need to do anything actually. He has a huge film studio and marketing team behind him, and the mass medias and critics are paid off aswell, it's a no brainer this movie will make huge money with marketing like that
I watched it on the big screen for free and still felt it was a waste of my time. The movie doesn't commit to one main theme or message, it juggles with three simultaneously and thereby fails to deliver. I was honestly excited about the internal conflict a person would feel while making the first atomic bomb and then witnessing the destructive power of such weapon. I ended up watching a 3 hour long story about how a politician was mad at a guy that spent most of his time being petulant, unlikable, and straight up dishonest. And as much as the movie tries to portray him as a man with remorse and qualms, I can't feel sorry for him after knowing what those two bombs did to innocent people, in fact, I wanted the movie to show the effects of what was built towards the end, to bring more awereness to the audience, about how bad things can get when science is not paired with ethics. Everyone that hears me criticize this movie treats me like some sort of heretic...
You're safe here fellow heretic!
A mí me encantó la película, pero está bien que opines distinto. Nadie debería cancelar a nadie. Por ejemplo yo está agonizando mientras veía Barbie. Me pareció horrible. Era tan poco divertida, como superficial y con una de las tramas más flojas que he visto. Obvio te imaginaras casi nadie está de acuerdo conmigo y quieren llenarla de Oscars. En fin. Te comprendo.
@@recetasfaciles2816 Yo respeto tu opinion.
What are the 3 themes you think it was trying to juggle?
I don't see you as a heretic but I disagree with you. There wasn't a lack of commitment to themes, the themes were quite literally conflicted. That was the point
One question, how many movies about the WW2 or the Holocaust do we need? I feel like 10 are released every year 😂
When I came out from the hall...
I was more anxious about the groceries that was required for the night🥲
I personally believe doesn’t deserve that high score in rotten tomatoes nor to be called a masterpiece, the first part of the movie feels super heavy and dense they wanted to pack so much information in the first hour, the Manhattan project which is the middle it’s really good and the ending feels again heavy the guy uses too many closeups or medium shots and doesn’t allow the movie to le it breathe there’s outstanding things but it also has too many cheesy lines there’s better Christopher Nolan movies than this one, the movie that runs for 3hr feels heavy and dense most of the time which tells me there’s a problem with editing, the good side is that Cillian Murphy’s performance it’s amazing and the score is outstanding as well, having said that you should still see it anyways and judge for yourself ps: I feel that Nolan works better when his brother helps him to write the scripts rather than him writing them.
I think you're right. He needs someone to curb his excesses. As I said, I think it's overrated because it's an average-to-good film being pushed as a masterpiece. But, would a masterpiece violate basic writing rules like "show, don't tell"? Thanks for commenting!
I'm 15 seconds in and 100% in agreement with you. Nolan is the most overrated director on planet earth. The marketing department for this movies and his PR must be gods from another planet.
The first 5 seconds were actually nice, raindrops on the surface of water. I thought it might actually be a good movie. Then at 15 seconds it already went awry 😂
What an unnecessarily convoluted movie for an otherwise straightforward story. I don't know much about the man (Oppenheimer), so for most of the movie I was thinking he was being tried for treason or some other serious crime, but in reality half the story is just about whether or not he's going to keep his job. Why focus so much on this plot point? Seems like Nolan was just trying to do things differently for the sake of being different. I found the same thing with "Maestro". It focused on a plot point that wasn't that interesting.
The point at 4:05, is spot on. I agree with every point raised in this video. He's made good movies, but he is by no means extraordinary.
The only movie of his that really made an impact on me was interstellar, which is very flawed also, but the soundtrack, visuals, and Mathew sold me
I agree. Save your money and don’t watch this BORING movie! Worst three hours of my life this year…people walked out of the theater…it was awful one explosion and not even inspirational or thought provoking. Do not expect an action movie they just talk and question this guy for hours….AWFUL!!!!
And the dialogue didn't have the style of a Mamet or Sorkin script. I think this is what hurt those court scenes.
Bro probably expected a movie where oppenheimer gets superpowers because of the radiation of the bomb and killed nazis with explosions and linkin park in the background
I clearly explained otherwise in the video.@@nex_ialist06
@@nex_ialist06 it's cinema not a book lol... nobody expected superpowers... oversmart people think they like the movie and they are the most intellectual in this world.. a documentary on youtube regarding oppenheimer is better than this movie,.. toooooo boring... courtroom bs
@@no_one161 i don't think of myself as more intellectual than anybody else just cause i liked a movie, i just enjoyed that's it
Inception was great, at least to me - but after that, none of his movies really stood out. Not Interstellar, not Dunkir, not Tenet, and now not Oppenheimer. Dark Knight Rises was good - but then again, Batman is a whole different thing than a standalone movie like the others I have mentioned here. Kind of makes me wonder if the praises he receives surpasses his actual work.
I cared about Alan Turing in The Imitation Game - I did not care at all about Oppenheimer. Cillian Murphy is a great actor, no complaint about acting, but the movie overall was less interesting than a Tom & Jerry episode.
Dark Knight Rises was a story mess though, it had holes all over, I agree Inception was his last movie that fully worked
I feel like saying you didn't like this movie gets you cancelled.
you're confusing this movie with barbie then
It really doesn't. Everyone is entitled to their own opinions and I haven't seen a single person get cancelled because of this. I believe the film was amazing due to my familiarity with the history of Oppenheimer, it added a lot more onto it. They never try to emotionally attach you to Oppenheimer, they only try and show you his existential dread and guilt he faced for creating the weapon. It's a history film, history films aren't for everyone.
I’ve seen people unironically say people who didn’t like the movie must not understand nuclear physics enough to understand it. The iamverysmart crowd are really clinging onto this movie
@@swegatron2859 I mean the nuclear physics was very simplified
I don't care, i will never watch this again. It has nothing of value except the acting. They didn't even give as any scene with good dialogue about science or ethics.
boring along the way. Einstein is like a little dwarf coming out from nowhere every 5 minutes. when i saw the explosion of the bomb, my thought was " why they are using CGI from the 90?", not scary at all. and there i understood Nolan failed the movie
Einstein appearing randomly was some of the most embarrassing "nerd/geek" fan service since Star Wars sequels and Marvel
Like every Nolan movie - massively overrated!! Massively bombastic. Because of that, sure it looks nice, purely photographically its a good movie. But it's not even made to spark your attention. Contrary, it's a 3 hour tiktok scroll of a film. The focus shifts all the time. The soundscapes go wild over nothing. And the main character is trying to sound like Daniel-Day Lewis. People call Napoleon a flop but thats because a French story should not sound that US oriented. Oppenheimer makes countless of flaws, some of them just in the photography/editing realm that should not be the concern of criticism even. Nolan makes cartoon for grown-ups, that has been my stance since 2008, even though it looks allright, it's actually just... shite...
Its an emperor has no clothes situation where people dont want to admit how bad it was because of all the nolan fan boys are all like "you need a very high iq to understand this snoozefest" . Also bots pushing fake good reviews.
Its not hard to understand, its just bad.
@@3brenmthen why do I disagree with you?
I just got back from seeing it. While I didn't dislike it, I didn't think it was anywhere near as good as the hype suggests it is. Also, the movie could've been cut down a bit.
The hype misled the public thinking that it is an exciting action packed thriller with many war scenes. People go into the theater with this expectation only to find out it's a 3 hour talking film. So I'm not surprised many are disappointed with it.
@@starking1187 I wasn't expecting an action packed film. I was expecting a character piece. Even going in knowing what to expect, I was still disappointed by the film though. Though there were some good performances, the film felt bloated and a bit uneven.
@@plo617 exactly, people like you going in knowing what to expect felt disappointed. Imagine how those who went it with a different expectation felt?
To me it was the most boring Nolan film. I can’t believe he made this. I’ve been disappointed by his last 3 - 4 films but this was the worst. Interstellar, Tenet and now this. Dunkirk was decent. Batman Trilogy his last best. Prior to that all his movies were excellent.
@@starking1187 The talking didn't help though. Because Nolan chooses a doubled trial-like-sequence in both the two hearings - it requires the audience to be deprived of a clearer view of Oppie or else our sympathies would be too stacked in his favour. So he largely comes off as opaque and poorly established while the trial scene attempt to paint his life by numbers. It's not satisfying. He sits at the back of the room, mute on the couch for so much of it - seemingly a agency-less mannequin.
It’s awful
I feel like it said a lot without saying much at all... And it was longer than it had any right to be. The last hour could have been cut off, the story could have left off right where the atomic bombs were dropped, and it wouldn't have made a difference to the overall story. Also, the stakes at the "prosecution" were not high enough to warrant the dramatisation it received lol.
Hard disagree on this one. The last hour was the best and most important part as far as I'm concerned. That's when it truly started to dig into its themes even more
I partly disagree. I would probably knock off 30 mins, but the most tragic part of this man is that he built this weapon and then was struck off the record. He tried to prevent the H-Bomb but it was too late bc it was him who inspired the idea of nuclear weapons. Plus to see Kitty stand up for him in the trial was a superb scene. It would have been a crime if this film did not discuss the consequences of the project.
@@chrisjfox8715really cause I fell asleep
lol exactly. Why was RDJ's character even in the film? Completely unnessary. Instead of going into depth about what OPP did after the bombs dropped and how he lived out his later life, we have this trail regarding a character we have no investment in, other than he is played by a popular actor.
Nolan always try to make complicated movies while he forget that half of people are not that expert in science and they do not understand science concept which usually boring in school ? Why they would watch it in movie ? People want fun bruh
Making a film about genocide In war isn't supposed to be fun. I hope the lead in your water doesn't kill you
Absolutely. I really disliked it. One of the most unenjoyable movies I've ever seen in the theater.
For me, it was okay, but the last hour+ of the movie made me wanna dip out of the theater. Also I don't really see the point of the movie or what message it's trying to convey to the viewer. All in all not bad, but also far from where people hyped it.
@@schnekec Barbie was even worse too
@@2buckgeo843yeah. I didn’t like any of those movies, but Barbie is way worse.
None of those are “the movie of the year” in my opinion.
I don’t doubt the FNAF movie will end up being better.
@@juliabp6057 twisted metal show was better than both
Even the explosion wasn't that great.
I'm trying to get my hear around the idea of cinematic masterpiece. Probably, this isn't the one. This is basically you pay and also waste your three hours for absolute piece of junk.
# Rotten Tomatoes:
93% Official Reviewers
91% Audience Reviewers
# Meta Critic:
88% Official Reviewers
8.9/10 Audience Reviewers
#Cinema Score
"A" grade: on an “A+ to F” scale
#Post Trak
93%
# Chicago Sun-Times
Four out of four stars
They cannot ALL be wrong or just complimenting!!!
Enough Saying ,,,
They're all wrong
@@jaysonp9426 😅😅😅 Ok, we shall wait for the Golden Globe and Oscar nominations and wins to join the wrong list... 😂😂😂
@@a1971h lol so your idea of right is what everyone else thinks...got it
They are
Masses are Asses
Most people are liking it to look like intellectuals
some haven't seen enough
I dont like oppenheimer
@@a1971h even nazi made up 80 percent of germany
Were they right
Steal like an artist, something Nolan has mastered thru his career. The same can be applied to Tarantino, no idea is original.
Definitely Tarantino.
Ofc, no ideas are original, there are nothing original anymore, we just doing our take on it.
The bitterness in your tone is brilliant. You must be a damn true original with creativity coming out of every pore. These directors popularity are driven from the popularity of their movies yet you bash them like their success is a personal attack against you when it’s the people who watch are the ones your mad at
@@thomasmcshane2438 nope, the video thesis is that Nolan stole some style. Something that’s nothing new in movies, everything that you can think of has been made.
@@joaquinbowen7122with the same logic all music has been redundant since the stone age or whatever, as soon as all 12 notes were discovered, there was nothing else to say musically
I finally got around to seeing this movie. I didn't like it. This is a bad Terribly put together movie. Flash scenes rushing through the entire movie. Total Garbage.
Critics thought they were obligated to give it a good review because it ticked all the boxes: great actors, good music, cinematography, and persecuted Communist sympathizers. But even the sex scenes were boring. 😢
It's long, slow and boring. And Oppenheimer unlikable. No redeeming qualities. Boooooring.
I wouldn't say it's slow. I even felt tired after all those quick conversations and the pompeus music all over the place.
But yeah, I can definitely agree to boring. It just doesn't take the time to interest you in any of the characters, not even in Oppenheimer.
When you mentioned Soy Cuba, I was like "this is my kind of guy." I kept waiting for the movie to delve into the richness, complexity, and nuances of this story. It never did, instead it provided an extremely shallow representation of the man and his story, using references that anyone with only cursory knowledge of Oppenheimer would know. It was like an exposition of Easter eggs for morons. "Ooooh, he mentioned wanting to work in New Mexico some day!! Oooh, I know about that.!! Ooooh, some greasy communist girl mentioned the 'I am become death' quote. Ooooh, I know about that!!!" This was basically 3 hours of uninspired cosplay. Admittedly, I never finished the movie. There was a point at which I realized he's doing a worse job of telling this story than the one already in my head. And I agree, Malcolm X is proof that this kind of film can work, and is much more worth watching than this tableau of "look at the shallow facts you already kind of know".
To be fair, the 1 or 2 minute scene in the train at the beginning of the movie isn't bad.
Great review mate, you’re not the only one who left the cinema feeling sorta scammed. I was expecting for a Masterpiece but left with an above average biopic
Then you dont know true filmmaking
It was an absolute masterpiece.
@@User-sb6er If a bombastic soundtrack and 3 hours of a guy staring into the distance is filmmaking, then I'm Stanley Kubrick
It wasn't even average. It sucks bigtime.
You really want to see biopics , then go watch A beautiful mind, Aviator, The theory of everything , The man who knew infinity , Hidden figures , First man etc.
OMG what a boring film. Nolan should have just set up his cameras in the senate chambers and side offices because that is all this film is. It could have been a very interesting story about how the bomb was put together. There was absolutely no reason for this to be shot on Imax film. The entire film could have been an HBO documentary. Nolan has entered "Emperor with no Pants" classification on this one. If you've seen the trailer you've seen the film. It is all about the shots that make Murphy resemble Oppie. There's nothing else. And the bomb was a dud.
Glad to see I am not the only one that feel like this movie didn’t live up to the expectations
imagine if this movie was never filmed in imax
Good point!
The music overtakes the whole movie, drowns the dialogs. So annoying, 3H trailer.
I didn’t even find the sound design compelling, and at least in the 70mm IMAX print I saw, color correction was poor with skin tones fluctuating from face to face in the same scene. The most gripping moments came from Emily Blunt’s two wordless stares, and I would have loved to see more of her dismantling the committee towards the end. And does anyone really care about a pissing contest with Strauss? Not I, and not a top 100 film in my book.
Despite being an avid Nolan fan, I did not like Oppenheimer at all and it didn’t feel like a Nolan movie to me . The trailer was as good as bad the movie was.
Watched it in the theater, then just recently watched it on Blu Ray. I thought my first impression might have been that I was tired and missed something, but nope. The test sequence and the score were good, but this is a self indulgent chore of a movie that seems to be fixated on filling the screen with as many sociopaths as possible. The closest you get to any emotion is “guy spends 3 years hell bent on making a nuclear bomb, makes it, finds out it was used to kill people, and feels kinda bad about it…maybe?” And then we get a a whole hour of a security clearance hearing that we are told from the start has no real consequences for the protagonist. I get folks fawned over “Barbenheimer,” likely the younger siblings of the people that thought “Bennifer” was clever, but at least Barbie offered up some narrative ideas beyond “Nuclear weapons are bad.”
You bought it…who does that today… 😂
this film is a masterpiece that will be forgotten about in 2-4 years.
Just like the Barbie movie.
@@juliabp6057 that's cute you should bring that up, as i made no mention of it.
i respect the unabashed copium, very courageous. not smart but courageous, like a Nolan film.
bro who hurt you dawg? lmao you got your pussy in a knot you might wanna chill and untangle it, the guy was just saying the barbie movie is overrated too haha@@Jupa
I would say 2-4 months..
Absolutely forgettable
Assuming people will watch it next month ... which is not likelly since its bland/long and confusing..
The Oscars chose them over better films out there, and one person even ratio me for having an opinion. 🙄
It was Boring.
Pay attention next time, because you clearly didn't pay attention to the fact that it's a film about the life of Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb.
@@itzkhronical I did pay attention. It took all my strength
@@chrisobrien6254 Ah okay, well fair enough. The film just isn't for you then. We all have our opinions and preferences.
@@itzkhronical Of course a 3 hour long dialogue heavy talking film is going to be boring. There is no climax moments in the film other than the 2 minutes atomic bomb release out of a 3 hour film. I'm not surprised people found this film to be boring. Maybe next time the media can stop overhyping stuff, calling this film the best film of 2023 & Nolan's best work, giving many people the wrong expectation to what the film actually is, then perhaps people will not feel so disappointed.
@@starking1187 I never called it boring, people just don't have attention spans for this, or they don't find it interesting. Y'all have gotten comfortable with the action films and everything. I don't even like it because of Nolan bro, I'm not that big into movies, I just think it's a good movie. The trailers accurately shows what the film was but others didn't pay attention.
Just finished the movie, and I think if Tarantino was behind this movie, it'd have been way more watchable 🙈
Godzilla minus one is better
There were many content creators/'critics' riding the trend, claiming it was a 'masterpiece'.
Gladiator was/is a masterpiece.
Pit the two against oneanother and Oppenheimer would be forgotten if watched first, and switched off if watched second.
I loved it, but agree it could have been cut down by at least 30 minutes if not more.
Yeah agreed
Nope
Oppenheimer was exceedingly BORING!! It’s a Joke. Monotonous and meandering slop. It’s trash.
Aside from the obvious fact of Oppenheimer sweeping major awards and winning rave reviews from critics across the world, this film is not for enjoyment!!! It is for deep analysis, study and contemplation...
I think I may have just wasted 3 hours of my life
I know the feeling. It definitely wasn't satisfying for me.
Given this is a movie all about the making of a bomb... That means no action scenes. Everyone knows what the build up is for. The film is 3 hours long. The suspense he's able to produce from scene to scene which keeps you tied in. It's actually impressive. Any idiot could not just make this film.
Personally disagree cause I loved it but everyone is entitled to their opinions
Personally disagree, I very rarely dislike films... but this one was boring af...but everyone is entitled to their opinions
10/10 movie