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Oppenheimer (Christopher Nolan, July 21, 2023) Movie • Page 60

Discussion in 'Entertainment Forum' started by Serh, Oct 8, 2021.

  1. Brother Beck

    Trusted Supporter

    you guys are slowly but surely convincing me that there is a slight chance that Christopher Nolan may know more about making movies than me and that the scene looked exactly how he intended it to look.....
     
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  2. MidDave

    Today is my Saturday Supporter

    Eh, he made that bad Batman movie so it's kinda a tossup.
     
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  3. justin.

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  4. LightWithoutHeat

    I'm Forever Yours

    Thanks for pointing this out.

    In addition to that, the design of the bomb utilized TNT (among other compounds) to create the implosion necessary to start fission. So his use of TNT to simulate the explosion mirrors what was actually used in at least part it.
     
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  5. irthesteve

    formerly irthesteve Prestigious

    Imagine making a 3 hour cinematic masterpiece and the boom scene is just a little "whoopsie" mistake he made and shrugged his shoulders at
     
  6. Tim

    all of this is temporary Supporter

    Also. Sitting in the theater, seeing that sequence in context, I did think it was incredibly awesome/awful. Like, watching Oppenheimer and company watch the bomb, and the way it abstractly depicted the explosion… I felt the impact. And also the impact of the aftermath; the scene of Oppenheimer giving his speech intercut with the flashes and melting faces was so heavy.
     
  7. justin.

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    The last half of the movie is what stuck with me the most
     
  8. Ferrari333SP

    Prestigious Supporter

    IMO, if anything, showing the true scale of the explosion via CGI would have communicated how terrifying nuclear explosions are - certainly, the reactions of the characters and the lighting showed they were in awe, or terrified, but what we the audience saw did not do that. What we saw did not induce the same terrifying awe the characters experienced.
     
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  9. Sean Murphy

    Most Prestigious Supporter

    do you think that the viewers, by the year 2023, were so wholly unaware of the magnitude and devastation of a nuclear explosion so much so that they were looking at Oppenheimer for education on nuclear explosions?

    the movie was not created or meant to scare us with an explosion scene. it just feels like you guys keep missing the entire point of the rebuttals here because you just wanted a bigger boom.
     
  10. JoshIsMediocre

    peak middle management Moderator

    oh christ learn to post murph
     
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  11. Sean Murphy

    Most Prestigious Supporter

    i dont post often
     
  12. Ferrari333SP

    Prestigious Supporter

    I wanted an accurate-appearing boom boom, to get a sense of the terrifying awe that those on the ground felt. Most here seem to have felt that same awe with the TNT-explosion we got, but for me it just didn’t work, especially since I know Nolan would have been perfectly fine using CGI and gotten a better product, for such an important set-piece. If Nolan himself has stated that he intentionally did not want to scare us with the explosion, but to underwhelm us a bit, then I’ll retract my statements.
     
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  13. Sean Murphy

    Most Prestigious Supporter

    BppEboW.jpeg
     
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  14. JoshIsMediocre

    peak middle management Moderator

    not the point of the movie! it's an adaptation of a biography of Oppenheimer!
     
  15. imthegrimace

    Grimace Summer Supporter

    shut up
     
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  16. SpeckledSouls

    Trusted

    It's so funny because this conversation doesn't matter at all. You guys like the original, we don't. Who cares?
     
  17. Sean Murphy

    Most Prestigious Supporter

    when I saw this in 70mm imax i can tell you that i was not 'underwhelmed' by the scene lol

    did you watch this on a flight?
     
  18. JoshIsMediocre

    peak middle management Moderator

    blame ferrari for posting that dumb bullshit and starting the conversation! if you don't want to participate then head out pal lol
     
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  19. Ferrari333SP

    Prestigious Supporter

    IMAX, haha


    This is just a hill I will remain on forever
     
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  20. JoshIsMediocre

    peak middle management Moderator

    i'm gonna push you down it
     
  21. MidDave

    Today is my Saturday Supporter

    Was this movie any good? Never saw it.
     
  22. Brother Beck

    Trusted Supporter

    hey, I said there was a slight possibility that all of these rebuttals have something to them and that maybe I missed what Nolan was going for with that sequence and the entire movie

    I'm gonna watch the whole thing again with this stuff in mind - particularly that thing about Prometheus and this using actual, practical fire
     
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  23. Ferrari333SP

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    We should have another bomb film, but this time on the biggest bomb ever tested, the 50-MT Tsar Bomba in the Soviet Union. Was reduced from 100-MT, as scientists were worried at how truly catastrophic a bomb that big would have been

     
  24. SpeckledSouls

    Trusted

    Honestly? It was fine. Definitely not bad, just whatever.
     
  25. JoshIsMediocre

    peak middle management Moderator

    this guy won't shut up about bombs
     
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