Christopher Nolan's OPPENHEIMER (2023)

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not looking forward to seeing how nolan once again completely ruined the opportunity to convey a compelling story in a too-cute-by-half way.
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although i just saw that gary oldman (one of my favorite actors of all time) is playing truman. so that's good.
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Stickman wrote:
I was already sold, but now I am really excited to see how this comes out.
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Reading some more stuff about this, early screeners coming out “devastated”. I’m coming around to wanting to see this. I guess it is a story I’m interested in after all
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Should I book tickets to go down to the city to see it in IMAX 70mm? The long-unfindable The Mother and the Whore is about to start a run in the same neighborhood where the IMAX 70mm theatre is. If they were playing at the same time, I'd definitely go and make a weekend of it. But I'm not sure either one by itself is worth it.
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You should be like me and go watch The Barbie Movie.
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Dang, that's awesome. Excited to see it.
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Are people forgetting this is the same guy who made Dunkirk and Tenet? Emotional movies these are not.
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BurtReynolds wrote:Are people forgetting this is the same guy who made Dunkirk and Tenet? Emotional movies these are not.
Dunkirk is actually quite emotional and captivating. I haven't seen Tenet.
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oh, you.
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BurtReynolds wrote:Are people forgetting this is the same guy who made Dunkirk and Tenet? Emotional movies these are not.
But Interstellar was about love.
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E.H. Ruddock wrote:
BurtReynolds wrote:Are people forgetting this is the same guy who made Dunkirk and Tenet? Emotional movies these are not.
But Interstellar was about love.
I was gonna say his attempts to inject emotion into his movies have been disastrous. Just be the sterile, distant guy. It's fine. Sort of. I guess.
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BurtReynolds wrote:
E.H. Ruddock wrote:
BurtReynolds wrote:Are people forgetting this is the same guy who made Dunkirk and Tenet? Emotional movies these are not.
But Interstellar was about love.
I was gonna say his attempts to inject emotion into his movies have been disastrous. Just be the sterile, distant guy. It's fine. Sort of. I guess.
He's really good at conveying tension and anxiety, and I can't think of a more appropriate subject than the friggin' nuke. This ain't exactly a love story.
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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tragabigzanda wrote:I think this will make a fairly enjoyable movie about ethical paradoxes, but Burt’s right the Nolan is probably incapable of rendering human emotion on screen
dude have you seen dunkirk lately? I teared up at least twice from the human emotion it conveyed on screen. And it avoided anything cliche or easy. It's a smart yet emotional movie.
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tragabigzanda wrote:I think this will make a fairly enjoyable movie about ethical paradoxes, but Burt’s right the Nolan is probably incapable of rendering human emotion on screen
Someone wasn't paying attention to the end of Intersellar
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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tragabigzanda wrote:
Stickman wrote:
tragabigzanda wrote:I think this will make a fairly enjoyable movie about ethical paradoxes, but Burt’s right the Nolan is probably incapable of rendering human emotion on screen
Someone wasn't paying attention to the end of Intersellar
It’s the only Nolan movie I haven’t seen
In my rankings, The Dark Knight, then Interstellar
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