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[–] 10 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Unpopular opinion, but I left Oppenheimer at the 40 minutes mark. The main character was so unlikable, the movie pretentious, and I hated there was some kind of trial going on, but I had no context. So I left and did something better with my time.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Yeah I thought it was pretentious as hell. Par for the course from Christopher Nolan, making movies with 'deep meaning' feels that really aren't that deep actually.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago*

    He just has to overcomplicate things with some timeline fuckery. every. single. movie.

    • Memento: timeline is backwards
    • Inception: time runs at different rates in the real world vs the dream
    • Dunkirk: 3 timelines running at different speeds (1 hour, 1 day, 1 week)
    • Interstellar: time looping back on itself + time running at a different rate due to black hole fuckery
    • TENET: yeah ...
    • Oppenheimer: constant jump cuts between different periods in Oppenheimer's story

    Mind you, some of those are good movies and I can tolerate some of the timeline fuckery, but it's really becoming a gimmick.

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  • [+] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 child)
  • [–] -1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    You people are why audience reviews are meaningless

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    This movie sucked. If they told it in sequential order this movie would have bombed. Showing the scenes out of order made it more interesting than it had any right be

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    I’m with you to a point. There were many points in the movie where I turned to my wife and asked “I thought we were building a bomb?” I’ll say that it wasn’t a terrible movie but I think I would have enjoyed a documentary on Oppenheimer or the development of the bomb rather than a biopic where the director needs to make art.

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