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Mixed thoughts on this one
Chalamet is excellent and the supporting cast is solid as well. Good direction and overall a polished movie.
The scene featuring the performance of The Times They Are-A Changin' is fantastic spectacle; I got chills. Very few of these musician biopics have channeled the rare air of an iconic performance like this did.
I did think the movie suffered a bit from an identity crisis. The first two acts are mostly about the life and times…
Great movie but the ending is terrible.
You mean to tell me that Peter is suddenly going to love his boss because he works blue collar now, that he doesn't want to do nothing anymore? Hell, Lawrence expresses pretty negative feelings towards his work at the beginning of the movie, why is this now a dream scenario now for Peter? And are Samir and Mike just happy at an identical rival tech company?
They should've just fixed their software and used it somewhere else.
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
What strikes me about Oppenheimer is how deeply American its story is. Oppenheimer begins the movie expressing his deep love for the nature of New Mexico. When it comes time to build the most destructive weapon in human history, his first instinct is to blow it up on that land that he loves. The creation of the company town at Los Alamos mirrors so much media surrounding westward expansion and manifest destiny; the American creation of the bomb is a micro…
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Watching a man assist in the killing of his wife's family and then the attempted killing of her is one of the most depraved things I've seen in a movie. What's horrifying about it is not that he doesn't love her, he does, he's just too stupid, evil, greedy, and spineless to not go through with it.
Seeing the 3.5 hr movie that's sometimes not chronological was something of a dizzying experience; you're not always sure what's happening specifically but the through line is always clear as day.