Oppenheimer
By snowy
@snowy22315 (189107)
United States
July 23, 2023 8:58am CST
We saw this yesterday as I promised. It was a very long movie at 3 hours. The movie was powerful and enjoyable but probably could have been done in 2 hours and 15 minutes, and not lost a thing. It spent alot of time on the back story of Opphenhimer and his friendships with leading physicists of the day including Einstein. He gathered them as a team to work at Los Alamos.Their working on the A bomb was a relatively small part of the movie. Oppenheimer and many of his colleagues were very ambivalent about what they were doing and creating, as they knew the devastation it would bring.
Oppy was later was brought up on charges by Lewis Strasser part of the Atomic Energy Comission of being unAmerican due to his brother's and his wife's prior membership in the Communist party which had some consequences for the scientist. The movie was interesting in my opinion, but some parts were quite dry. I think the most interesting thing about it, was Cillian Murphy's dead on portrayal both in a physical and emotional way of Oppenheimer. 4 stars from me.
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@snowy22315 (189107)
• United States
23 Jul 23
Ha, it was a long time. The movie was good, but not riveting through most of it...so it seemed like 3 hours. We looked at our watches a few times.
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@kobesbuddy (78856)
• East Tawas, Michigan
23 Jul 23
I have a hard time sitting for three hours, my attention span looses power and starts wandering. Yet, this movie sounds very interesting. Being associated with the Communist Party, that really put him in a tight squeeze!
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@snowy22315 (189107)
• United States
23 Jul 23
Especially in that era. It was around that time the Rosenberg were executed forsuppose CD lying trying to pass nuclear secrets to the Russians.
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@snowy22315 (189107)
• United States
23 Jul 23
@kobesbuddy Ethel probably had no part in it. It was guilt by association.
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@kobesbuddy (78856)
• East Tawas, Michigan
23 Jul 23
@snowy22315 I never heard about this, how awful of the Rosenbergs!
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@maclanis (2406)
• Belgium
24 Jul 23
I went to see it yesterday as well, and I really enjoyed it. I agree that it could have been a little bit shorter. The last part took a bit too long. Nevertheless, it was a great movie and I thought Cillian Murphy's acting in particular was excellent.
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@snowy22315 (189107)
• United States
24 Jul 23
Yes, he was really good. They all were good in their roles I thought.
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@ptrikha_2 (47853)
• India
23 Jul 23
3 hours is a long length and almost like a complex fantasy movie like Lord of the Rings or like a war movie, that too without any songs as in the Bollywood movies.
But perhaps a movie I too would like to watch in a Sciento-Historical perspective.
Nice Review !
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@snowy22315 (189107)
• United States
23 Jul 23
Thank you..Lord of the Rings was a long movie too..but it went by fast, unlike Oppenheimer. I mean it didn't drag, but like I said, they would have been just fine eliminating 45 minutes of the back story or maybe some of the interrogation scences.
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@ptrikha_2 (47853)
• India
24 Jul 23
@snowy22315
Yeah that would have made for a more interesting watch !
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@RebeccasFarm (94527)
• Arvada, Colorado
23 Jul 23
Was it tolerable Snowy? I am scared of a movie that long.
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@snowy22315 (189107)
• United States
23 Jul 23
Barely, Do you remember Ghandi? That was close to 4 hours. Gone with the Wind also. The thing about Ghandi I went to see that with a friend of mine who is visually handicapped. We had to sit in the first or second row...so had to had to have our heads back the whole time..
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@snowy22315 (189107)
• United States
23 Jul 23
@RebeccasFarm Well, I am certainly over that now!!! I think Ghandi was out in 1980 or something..
. I liked both of them for different reasons.
. I liked both of them for different reasons.2 people like this
@snowy22315 (189107)
• United States
23 Jul 23
He was indeed. He gathered the team that worked on the bomb and put them together at Los Alamos.
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@snowy22315 (189107)
• United States
23 Jul 23
@LadyDuck Yes, It is something that people should know especially here. I was familiar with his work, but those of a current generation probably don't even know the name. Friend made the comment in the theater that there were mostly those of an older generation there. I said well it isn't about comic book heroes or video games what do you expect?
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@LadyDuck (473958)
• Switzerland
23 Jul 23
@snowy22315 I thought to remember this from history I learned in school.
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It sounds like something I may want to wait to see until I can watch it at home.@snowy22315 (189107)
• United States
23 Jul 23
Yes, I didn't want to put too many details in there. It would ruin the movie.
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@snowy22315 (189107)
• United States
24 Jul 23
I like the science, the history and the human interest of a movie like that
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@snowy22315 (189107)
• United States
23 Jul 23
It could wait until it is on DVD in my opinion...but it depends on how much you want to see it
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@snowy22315 (189107)
• United States
23 Jul 23
Alot of his part was slicing through the action of the movie and made it disjointed.
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@Dreamerby (7974)
• Calcutta, India
23 Jul 23
@snowy22315 yes true...but yes it was a form of storytelling...
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@Dreamerby (7974)
• Calcutta, India
23 Jul 23
Heyyy I saw it yesterday too.... It was a dialogue-driven movie and actual acting. I mean the facial expressions of Cillian Murphy after the trinity test succeeded and the ound arrangements and everything was just riveting! It was more of a storytelling though. Somehow the trial scenes were a bit boring... but overall good film. 3 out of 5.
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@snowy22315 (189107)
• United States
23 Jul 23
He did a fantastic job. I think it would have been a better movie if it had been shortened and I didn't like the out of sequence happenings in the film. Keep things in sequential order.
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@Dreamerby (7974)
• Calcutta, India
23 Jul 23
@snowy22315 yeah those out of sequence things happen with good books too...But I too felt sequential order would have been better
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