#oppeheimer

[stridingseer]

Watching Barbie and then Oppeheimer almost back to back in the span of almost one day is the best movie choice I’ve made in a while. 

[ayangggku]

Oppenheimer (2023) Streaming Link!

[clacefe]

Okay, ships I didn't know I needed until it was memed to literal death:

Barbie/Oppenheimer

It has potential, you can't deny it ;)

[justsayinghi5]

Here’s the article

i knowwww this whole thing is over dead but this did literally make me laugh. like ov all the things to happen to someone imagine this happening to you lol

[jontheblogcentric]

My Predictions For The 2023 Academy Awards

This year makes it my twenty-third year of seeing all the Best Pictures nominees before Oscar night! How do I do it? Actually how do I afford it? Anyways the Oscars are again to be held on the second Sunday of March. Jimmy Kimmel is back as the host. Its’ so refreshing to have a host back! Once again, I make my predictions for who I think will win. Here’s who I think will be the winners of the…

[denimbex1986]

'Christopher Nolan will be honored by the Federation of American Scientists for his cinematic portrait of J. Robert Oppenheimer in Universal’s Oppenheimer this November. The five-time Oscar nominee will be bestowed with the org’s Public Service Award which recognizes outstanding work in science policy and culture.

The awards ceremony, which will take place in Washington D.C next month, revives a decades-long tradition that began in 1971, which honors the contributions of a diverse group of scientists, policymakers, and tastemakers in pursuit of advancements in science and technology.

“Nolan’s film depicts the scientists who formed FAS in the fall of 1945 as the ‘Federation of Atomic Scientists’ to communicate the dangers of nuclear weapons to the public. We continue to pursue their vision of a safer world, especially as current events remind us that those dangers are real and resurgent,” FAS CEO Daniel Correa said.

Nolan tells Deadline, “I am especially honoured to be recognized by the Federation of American Scientists, a body formed to give scientists a voice in policy making during the very period we attempt to portray in Oppenheimer.”...

Oppenheimer is the third highest grossing movie of 2023 to date at $939.1M worldwide, an unprecedented achievement for a three-hour feature drama movie, in particular one that opened on the same weekend with the year’s highest grossing movie, Barbie, which counts $1.43 billion global.'

[cuttlefishemergency]

of all the movies to have come out this year, oppenheimer is certainly one of them.

[ladysophiebeckett]

love how they just make shit up and pick a random ass day with no forethought. they did this last year too. and it was $3.

[nuvemzinhacorderosa]

maybe I'm late to the party but I wanted to do a Barbnheimer Weblena, and I was thinking about their dynamic, from the way they dress you would assume that Webby would see Barbie, and Lena would see Oppenheimer, BUT NO, Webby is obsessed with history and is very studious, and she loves explosions, so she would be excited for Oppeheimer, now lena, Lena WOULD CRY WATCHING BARBIE, I know she would.

[rubyvroom]

Oppenheimer certainly is a movie

So I did see this film and to its credit I am giving it some thought afterwards. There is a movie inside this movie that is actually pretty good; however, some Decisions were made that obscure this fact.

It is ultimately a Great Man film, and it stood a chance to do an interesting variation on the Great Man film where the Great Man is also the villain of the film. It actually feints at this in ways that I think are extremely interesting, but undermines it structurally in a way I think is detrimental to the film as a film, not to mention to the film as a moral argument.

The ending, for example, where Christopher Nolan just cannot help putting in a clever "oh the irony" moment to leave you wow'ed, as a Nolan-ism, but it is so transparently doing this that it makes you look back in annoyance at the previous 3 hours.

This invented conversation between Einstein and Oppenheimer Nolan just had to conceal from us earlier in the film to bring back at the last minute so that the viewer can think, oh wow! Of course that conversation was not what Strauss imagined it was at all, he was as a paranoid narcissist assuming they were talking about him rather than reciting the theme of the film out loud for us! It was all a misunderstanding! How tragic!

But why do that? Other than the wow, what is this scene accomplishing? What is this investigation/hearing structure that we spend much of the run-time of the film in accomplishing? It gives the film a structure that allows us to jump around in time, but what did we get out of this other than last minute reveals? Why did he make it this way?

Well, this is the way to have a film about J Robert Oppeheimer with a villian who is not J Robert Oppenheimer.

So you have Strauss in that role, and honestly, he is played so magnetically by Robert Downey Jr that it almost works. You basically go with it for 2 hours and 50 minutes or so. Because unlike the protagonist of this film he has agency. He is making decisions. He has convictions that he will explain and demonstrate. He's the character making the film go, more or less.

Oppenheimer does none of those things. He is a passive player in his own story. Which is a deliberate decision they made in order to absolve our protagonist of all sins. Especially if you look through all the contradictions to actual history.

In this movie Oppenheimer really doesn't wrestle with any moral quandries, he does not make difficult choices. The Manhattan Project is a task he is uniquely suited to, as he is to nothing else, as though he is forged for this and only this purpose. Oppenheimer is less an archer than an arrow loosed at the target of the Trinity Tests and left there quivering ever after. It's an inevitability. He does it because it's what he does, what he was always going to do. As a main character he's not so different from the Tenet protagonist in this way. Just like Tenet, this movie is a clockwork propelling the Great Man where he needs to be.

The film absolves Oppenheimer in this way, treating him as swept along by the forces of history rather than making moral decisions. And hell, maybe that's how it actually happened - humans frequently blunder into moral quagmires without planning to. We avoid thinking about the inconvenient truths and wrestling with cognitive dissonance all the time. On top of that, Oppenheimer himself gets a special dispensation for being a Scientist, with zippy quantum physics imagery flashing in his head all the time. How can we expect him to focus on the real world implications of his fancy science? [Let's ignore the fact that real world logistics is actually the thing he is accomplished in, as we see in the whole section where he designs the Los Alamos project. He didn't actually discover the principals of the bomb, or design the bomb himself. He's not Einstein. He's not even Niels Bohr. He's a project manager. An extremely good one! But let's ignore that, the movie wants us to think flashy Science Visions when we think of Oppie, so okay.]

We try with a few briefly shown newspaper covers to assign a motive to the man's drive, and not much more than that. His Jewish identity gets some lip service, without much conviction or, y'know, actual onscreen depiction. The Nazis remain a distant abstraction, less immediate than the lurking communists at every corner. Watch out for the commies, Oppie! They're the ones actually on his street corner, while Nazis are only represented as a couple headlines. Obviously none of those things really matter. In the end he builds the bomb because he can, because he can do it faster than anyone else and pretty much instantaneously upon realizing it's possible he is mentally committed to the task. It is his destiny and his terrible duty. It has to be him. He is a homing missile. A bomb.

THAT movie is interesting, actually.

I find that part of the movie weirdly compelling, and if they had leaned into that angle I feel like it could have been a great film? If they had only mentioned a few more similar incidents to the cyanide apple, played out his violent tendencies, and contrasted to a genuine love of science -- and what exactly does he love about it, really? -- where does that get us? What does it say about scientists and "progress"? What is the consequence of this race to be first to do the next thing, regardless of what the result of that thing will be? How does power use people like that? What does it do with them afterwards?

But most of this movie is not that.

Most of this movie is Oppenheimer being unfairly persecuted for being friends with communists, which is presented as an example of scientist as a naive babe in the woods rather than the savvy political operator he actually was in real life. And if you are not pearl-clutching at the thought of talking to commies, this entire plot thread feels incredibly overblown. It's so much of that three hours, you guys. So much. Oppie can't get his security clearance, Oppie is losing his security clearance, wow that's so unfair, and any sense of urgency of what he actually needs this clearance FOR ten years after the war is really underbaked. And honestly whenever they jettison that theme and cover literally anything else, the film comes back to life again -- the Los Alamos/Trinity section in the middle is gripping, his Girlfriend 1 and Girlfriend 2 show actual signs of life in the brief crumbs of onscreen time they are given -- but it's so vastly outnumbered by the time spent in board rooms and congressional hearings as to barely matter.

The purpose of which? The real thesis of this movie, which is that J Robert Oppenheimer was ultimately too naive to understand that the bomb he was making would be used to bomb somebody.

And the nation, represented by Robert Downey Jr (lol) is happy to discard him afterwards. Like I get that's the theme we're working with here. But the movie is none too interested in looking more closely at the why and the how of that discard; Oppenheimer's actual actions after the war are largely elided, as are Strauss's. No context. Oppenheimer's actual political convictions are murky. That would give him agency, you see, and the movie wants a passive martyr (and uses that word incessantly to boot). So our villian is Strauss, an ambitious and vindictive man, in opposition to our pure scientist Oppenheimer, who spent most of his career in Washington while somehow lacking any ambition or political opinions at all.

Really, did we need this movie? Yes, it's nice to have adult films with people talking and not punching. The craft is there. It's well made and well-acted, to varying degrees. I like looking at Cillian Murphy's face, and Nolan leans on that smartly. It's most vital sequence (the trinity test) is very good, and so is the scene where he hallucinates the cheering audience after the Hiroshima bombing melting in a radioactive flash.

But honestly? When your key sequence was mic-dropped by David Lynch six years ago, did we need this? What for? Can we have a real discussion now about Hiroshima and Nagasaki? That's the one real utility of this film and one we really have not seen come to fruition. Imagine a version of this film where that conversation between Einstein and Oppenheimer is not a gotcha but a catalyst for a real, raw and jaw-dropping look at how the world was warped by The Bomb. I guess for that we have to go to someone like David Lynch, and not Christopher Nolan.

[thewindsofwolves]

Anyways maybe it is too obvious, but Sansa obviously wants to go see Barbie, Jon obviously want to see Oppeheimer. They go see both movies together on the same day (on the release day).

[mhanevision]

"Two tickets to Barbenheimer, please?"

Day five of @usamamoweek2023 : Free Day

It may be a week since that big cinematic moment, and it's never too late to catch up on Barbie and/or Oppeheimer in your friendly neighborhood cinema.

The UsaMamo week will be over in a few days and I just have contributed something cool in able to celebrate the Miracle Romance. I have been juggled with other pursuits (like other art challenges I'm into, art market applications, and online store preps, more of them in the next posts) lately and hope I can find time to work on the other prompts - even it's late XD. Oh, and check out the tag #usamamoweek2023 for the most delicious reads and more! <3

Materials used: assorted alcohol markers (Copic, Ohuhu, and Zig Kuretake), Zig super black ink, Tachikawa spoon nib, Zig G nib, Sakura gelly roll in white, and Colleen colored pencils on Deleter Type B paper and on Kulelox comic paper

[stylecouncil]

how does barbie have 90 percent on rotten tomatoes and oppeheimer have 94. who is paying these critics. why does nobody want to be a cunt any more.

[clericofgale]

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[denimbex1986]

'In the movie Oppenheimer, the effect of the atom bomb in Hiroshima and Nagasaki can only be guessed at from the reactions and nightmares of Robert Oppenheimer, the physicist called the father of the bomb. It ended the war – initially killing over 110,000 in the two cities. Twice as many succumbed to burns, injuries, and radiation. We have been living in its shadow ever since...'

[cillixn]

Pls tell me you dont actually want to fuck cillian as oppeheimer… >.>

no ofc not