Saw it yesterday.
Honestly, was pretty good but lop 30 mins off each end and it would be much more engaging.
As it was, it felt too long & political. I get what Nolan was doing, and I do enjoy his work- but still… this film as subtle as a reversing garbage truck with two flat tyres
I saw the film last night with my GF. We both enjoyed the film, but the background audio at times drowned out the dialogue, which was a bit frustrating.
I can see how Oppenheimer was conflicted - a research scientist who pursues his work to it's physical conclusion and then has to grapple with the moral ramifications of his work.
Nolan may have been rather unsubtle in his messaging, but you can clearly see the child-like naivety of the American politicians (and military industry) who desire the "biggest and shiniest toy" to show off. Not to mention their insane obsession with defeating communism at all costs.
Having been to both Hiroshima and Nagasaki, having stood at "ground zero" at both locations, having spent time in the museums and memorials to all the victims, I can firmly say that nuclear weapons should be destroyed and removed from the hands of the morons in charge of our countries.
I saw the film last night with my GF. We both enjoyed the film, but the background audio at times drowned out the dialogue, which was a bit frustrating.
I can see how Oppenheimer was conflicted - a research scientist who pursues his work to it's physical conclusion and then has to grapple with the moral ramifications of his work.
Nolan may have been rather unsubtle in his messaging, but you can clearly see the child-like naivety of the American politicians (and military industry) who desire the "biggest and shiniest toy" to show off. Not to mention their insane obsession with defeating communism at all costs.
Having been to both Hiroshima and Nagasaki, having stood at "ground zero" at both locations, having spent time in the museums and memorials to all the victims, I can firmly say that nuclear weapons should be destroyed and removed from the hands of the morons in charge of our countries.
Too late, and, like US 2nd Amendment, you won't be able to roll it back. Oppenheimer opened up a Pandoras Box .. and this box cannot be closed. Possible Nuclear Holocaust is a threat that humanity will have to live with.
I saw the film last night with my GF. We both enjoyed the film, but the background audio at times drowned out the dialogue, which was a bit frustrating.
I can see how Oppenheimer was conflicted - a research scientist who pursues his work to it's physical conclusion and then has to grapple with the moral ramifications of his work.
Nolan may have been rather unsubtle in his messaging, but you can clearly see the child-like naivety of the American politicians (and military industry) who desire the "biggest and shiniest toy" to show off. Not to mention their insane obsession with defeating communism at all costs.
Having been to both Hiroshima and Nagasaki, having stood at "ground zero" at both locations, having spent time in the museums and memorials to all the victims, I can firmly say that nuclear weapons should be destroyed and removed from the hands of the morons in charge of our countries.
I see there is another doco on Foxtel currently; "To End All War: Oppenheimer & the Atomic Bomb" 2023, 1h27m, looks good.
Good doco, watched it last night. Seeing some of the injuries was shocking, cant imagine the ones that werent shown. It was a very sad decision to use on a civilians.
Today, 6th August 2023, marks the 78th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.
When you get off at the train station and start walking toward the hypocenter, about a km away, you come across plaques along the way that show the amount of destruction at that point.
The fireball reach 1 million C, and the ground temperature 4000C for about 3 seconds. The surface temperature of the Sun is in the order of 5000 C.
At a radius of 2km, the vast number of people were severely burnt. Out at a km, like where the railway station is, you received a fatal dose of radioactive rays.
The Hiroshima device, Little Boy, was untested. It was a uranium gun bomb. They were just confident that the simplicity of its design world work.
The Fat Man device on Nagasaki was an implosion plutonium design. The same type as the "Gadget" they tested in New Mexico.
The design of the shaped explosives took some of the most brilliant minds of the time to design, amongst them, John Von Neumann.
Hands Bethe, who went onto win the 1967 Nobel Prize for his work on stellar nucleosynthesis, said, “Von Neumann’s mind seemed to indicate that he belonged to a new species, an evolution beyond man."
- Wayyyy to much music. Was very distracting and couldn’t hear some of the dialogue. It felt like I was watching an extremely long movie trailer.
- It was about 1 hour too long, it didn’t have to be 3 hours
- The explosion when the a-bomb went off I felt could have been better. Too many close ups and different angles which didn’t really show the true power or size of the explosion
- It was hardly linear the way the story was told. Too much jumping around to different times which made it more complicated than what it could have been. I like movies where you can understand what is going on as you’re watching it, not working everything out at the end.
For those who haven’t seen it I’d recommend to go watch it but it was overhyped and not Christopher Nolan’s best movie.
ha. Very good.
