Oppenheimer (2023) (Christopher Nolan's doing his film again)

[Blue Jam]

Was looking forward to this. Just saw the trailer at the cinema:

Hmmmm... looks a bit cheesy tbh...

[Mister Six]

This is opening the same day as Barbie in the US, so Mrs Six and I are going to buy a ticket to Oppenheimer and sneak into Barbie after.

[Blue Jam]

Love me some nucular bum stuff but honestly more tempted by Barbie

[Butchers Blind]

Anyone know if the dialogue is audible in this one?

[Gulftastic]

They really do seem to going all in on this one.

Seems an odd choice to get this kind of push.

[13 schoolyards]

They really do seem to going all in on this one.

Seems an odd choice to get this kind of push.

Nolan left Warners after they screwed up the covid release of Tenet (or, you know, maybe it wasn't that great) so his new producers Universal are going all out to make this a success and get him to stay with them - he is pretty much the only director left who can make non-superhero blockbusters that audiences (usually) come out for.

[Inspector Norse]

Already know how it ends

[dissolute ocelot]

How many car chases does it have?

[frajer]

How many car chases does it have?

Not sure but loads of killings

[GMTV]

I don't think I've seen anything with Jack Quaid in, or at least I can't remember if I have. But he looks EXACTLY like he's been generated via AI as the child of Dennis Quaid and Meg Ryan.

[Claude the Racecar Driving Rockstar Super Sleuth]

It's going to bomb.

Having been underwhelmed by his last two efforts (not helped by paying through the nose to see them at the BFI IMAX) I was thinking Nolan needed to do something a bit more low key and character focused -ironically, he seems to have forgotten Memento. I'm not really feeling all that enthusiastic about this though. The fact that he shot a biopic in IMAX makes me think that his attention all went on one big fuck off explosion.

[Minami Minegishi]

Yeah, I don't mean to threadshit because I really despise Nolan and all his awful films since the Insomnia remake, but that trailer makes this look even worse than normal. Some of that dalogue would be vastly helped with some Bane style masking.

"We're in a race against the NAZEES. And I know what it means if the NAZEES have a bomb."

"Let's go recroot some SAI-ANTISTS"

"Why? WHY? Maybe because this is the most important thing to ever happen in the HISTORY OF THE WORLD!"

Fucksakes posh-boy, spend less time on your IMAX wanking and more time on the screenplay, especially as Lynch just did this properly.

[Blue Jam]

Sitting through three hours of dialogue of this quality would seriously test my will to live.

Lots of mileage in a biopic of Oppy and his bestie Richard Feynman, but I'm not sure I want to see how they inevitably fuck up the portrayal of Feynman.

[Claude the Racecar Driving Rockstar Super Sleuth]

"Why? WHY? Maybe because this is the most important thing to happen in the HISTORY OF THE WORLD!"

I hadn't seen the trailer, so i thought you were just taking the piss, but no, that is actually the line.

[Sonny_Jim]

I'm a bit of a nuclear bomb nerd and I like Christopher Nolan movies, even Tenet, so I'm super psyched for this.

Please don't let it be shit.....

[elliszeroed]

Ray Monk wrote a good book on Oppenheimer- Inside the Circle, if anyone's interested.

His bio on Wittgenstein is also great.

[Lord Mandrake]

For something shot on IMAX it looks a bit flat, 90's Oliver Stone vibes.

[PlanktonSideburns]

Oliver's tone

[elliszeroed]

For something shot on IMAX it looks a bit flat, 90's Oliver Stone vibes.

He just watched episode 8 of Twin Peaks: The Return and thought, 'now there's an idea!'

[PlanktonSideburns]

Yea this looks like it might be episode 8 for people who's ideal holiday destination is a premier inn

[PlanktonSideburns]

Einstein giving him an occular fuckoff notice made me laugh though

[Lord Mandrake]

He just watched episode 8 of Twin Peaks: The Return and thought, 'now there's an idea!'

You're outing me as someone that's never seen Twin Peaks ie; an uncultured swine.

[Minami Minegishi]

Just watch episode 8 of The Return.

I assume that Nolan will have his cake and eat it by showing how much of a GENIUS Oppenheimer is at stopping the NAZEES and how cinematically AWE-INSPIRING the test explosion looks, whilst also moralising just enough to keep the Picturehouse liberals happy.

Lynch makes it look like the gates of hell have been opened by faceless bureaucrats, unleashing horror and evil upon the world.

[Butchers Blind]

Hope the score to this will be dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum DUM DUM DUM DUM DUM DUM DUM DUM etc.

[phes]

Would've been easier to keep a straight face through this trailer if it was a hip-hop musical peppered with OP-OP-OP-OP-Ennnnnnnnnnnheeeeeeimer REWIND *rap show EXPLOSION* jingles

What a crock of shite

[PlanktonSideburns]

Amazing they got John virgo to play Einstein

[dissolute ocelot]

Do they have an AI CG Peter Sellers to play Edward Teller?

[madhair60]

Hope the score to this will be dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum DUM DUM DUM DUM DUM DUM DUM DUM etc.

It's gonna be a boppenheimer

[phantom_power]

I assume that Nolan will have his cake and eat it by showing how much of a GENIUS Oppenheimer is at stopping the NAZEES and how cinematically AWE-INSPIRING the test explosion looks, whilst also moralising just enough to keep the Picturehouse liberals happy.

How's that having your cake and eating it? That is pretty much the standard opinion on the issue

[Blue Jam]

Was at the cinema again just now and saw a different trailer with more bombs and less dialogue. Did Nolan see the reactions to the first trailer and think "Shiiiiiiit, better put out another one"?