Oppenheimer (Christopher Nolan, July 21, 2023) Movie • Page 61

solid flick. bit too much robert downey jr towards the end.

 

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He's talked about his (obviously right because a dumb CGI explosion would look ridiculous) choice a lot.

I mean, I’ve done a lot of explosions in a lot of films. But there is something very unique and particular about being out in a desert in the middle of the night with a big cast, and really just doing some enormous explosions and capturing that. You couldn’t help but come back to this moment when they were doing this on the ultimate scale, that in the back of their minds they knew there was this possibility that they would set fire to the atmosphere. It was pretty amazing to engage in that kind of tension."

 

Yeah but have you ever considered he’s wrong Jason? And that we know better than him?

 

All those really say is “just because I want to make it practical”, which of course is his prerogative, but they didn’t really address the why over not using CGI. But whatever

 

He literally does in the quote Jason posted

 

Speaking of other big bombs, the Danny Boyle film “Sunshine” had a giant cube of all the world’s mined uranium, on a big ship that was thrown into the Sun. Doing the calculations, in real life it would be the equivalent of a few Empire State buildings put together. Thought it would have been more than that, but apparently not.

 

All this arguing really buried the lede. This really is the funniest video ever.

 

eh, I see both sides of it - I can admit that it is much more likely that I just missed what Nolan was going for with the Trinity Test (and a lot of the movie, apparently) than it is that he goofed up on such an important sequence, but he also seems to be one of those directors where his fans jump all over any criticism of him. and he does do weird stuff sometimes. slowly rolling the airplane into the side of the airport in Tenet looked laughably bad, even if they really did it practical and filmed the whole thing for real. also burying the dialogue that seemingly explained the plot so low in the mix that it is impossible to hear is a frustrating and confusing choice that was very distracting to me.

 

nah I think they should have used a sound machine to make a louder fart

 

I am not a Nolan defender, I think Tenet is bad and that plane scene is stupid as fuck

 

Sunshine is a fantastic movie, Pinbacker and all

 

Yes, let’s pivot to re-litigating Tenet (which rules), instead of continuing this CinemaSins brained case for a CGI boom.

 

inception bad

 

christ

 

hey, I like Tenet a lot! but the plane scene looked bad

the only movie of his that I would say is not great is Dark Knight Rises, and there's still a lot of cool stuff in that one

 

Tenet is him trying to do something like inception again and failing. Inception is actually fun and good.

 

Tenet is better than Inception.

 

It’s a fantastic film up until his character is introduced, and then it becomes sort of horror schlock, but still, the sequence of the cube falling into the Sun was gorgeous. Beautiful score as well

 

Sunshine rocks. All 3 acts.

 

Maybe I’ll take it to the 28 Years thread but if people are rocking with THAT ending they should reevaluate Sunshine imo

 

I still feel like Sunshine is a fairly niche movie that not many have seen.

 

Sunshine is better than Oppenheimer

 

Sunshine rules.