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Cinco Ranch Aggie said:

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BenTheGoodAg said:

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LMCane said:

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I wish they put some type of emphasis on the crew of the Enola Gay rather than just on how to build an atomic weapon

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For the film 'Oppenheimer'?

They'd have to call the film 'Gay' and this thread would melt-down.

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I admit I laughed.

Would love to see either this movie have some focus on the actual bombing mission, or a stand-alone movie about it. I do, however, seem to recall a TV movie being made back in maybe 1980 that for some reason I was not able to watch at the time.

Edit - not bad for my memory here. Enola Gay: The Men, the Mission, the Atomic Bomb (1980)

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It's been covered, rewatch Pearl Harbor, the entire damn thing, all the way to the end, then report back.

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Pearl Harbor covered the bombing missions of August 6/9 1945? Guess I'll have to go back and rewatch that one to see where I missed Ben Affleck and the other guy piloting B-29s to end the war after having piloted P-40s to start the war.

New TV spot with new footage/dialogue premiered during Bengals/Chiefs tonight. Hopefully it's online soon.

Not the greatest quality, but here's a bootleg version...

#Oppenheimer pic.twitter.com/KYHWysXJaj

— AKTENETV (@aktenet) January 30, 2023

That is very cool

If this movie sucks or is a box office dud, the headlines will write themselves

From Matt Bellini's latest newsletter tonight…

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Get excited to sit: I'm told Christopher Nolan's July nuclear-bomb drama Oppenheimer clocks in at around 3 hours, depending on last minute tinkers, which would be his longest film. (Interstellar is 169 minutes.) Will be interesting to see how this summer's blockbusters stack up amid all the recent criticism of length.

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… which reminds me of something I keep thinking every time I see a TV spot for this movie, which is that every trailer and spot so far has only shown footage from before, and leading up to, the very first test at Los Alamos. And I can't tell if *that's* the entire movie, essentially - the lead up to the test, with the climax being the test itself - or if there's a whole section after the test - say, the third act - at Tinian Island, Hiroshima, etc, and Nolan is just saving all that stuff for the movie itself, or the next trailer. Because if it's the former, that wold seem to be, literally, a stretch at three hours. But if the movie is the latter - the lead up to the test, the test, AND Tinian/Hiroshima - that would make more sense needing three hours to tell that story.

Did Oppenheimer himself ever go to Tinian? Because if not, that might tell us something right there, as we almost assuredly wouldn't spend that much time - especially the climax of the movie - away from him.

There's also of course the black-and-white hearing footage, which takes place in '54, I think, but I'm assuming that's all a framing device we cut back-and-forth from, and that the entire third act isn't just a black-and-white security hearing.

i would be surprised if there are any more than a few Japan-related scenes.

But the movie is called "Oppenheimer" not "Operation Centerboard". It is going to be focused on him and his life experience.

The primary source of this movie is the book "American Prometheus".

J. Robert Oppenheimer, often credited as the "father of the atomic bomb", was a physicist that had a significant role in the Manhattan Project as the project head and coordinator.[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Prometheus#cite_note-2][2][/url] The project eventually led to the creation of the nuclear atom bomb, a weapon of mass destruction. This bomb is regarded as a crucial turning point and a significant meeting between science and wartime weapons. This pivots Oppenheimer as not only an important historical figure but also as a symbol for atomic bomb ethics and political discourse about nuclear power.[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Prometheus#cite_note-3][3][/url] This book dives into various components of his life inside and outside the Manhattan Project. His early life, ambitions, ideas, relationships with other physicists, and impact are all discussed in this book.

This suggests much more of a character piece than an action movie. Even if the movie is 3 hours long. Lots of build up to Trinity explosion as the first bomb, his reaction to seeing his creation in person, his reaction to the use of his creation on cities, and then post war reactions to the "horror" of war and how Oppie felt about the use of such weapons, his fallout with Truman, and then his eventual loss of clearance effectively kicking him out of the military industrial complex.

This is all super interesting - and good to know that Oppenheimer never visited Tinian (which I agree means that the movie won't likely go there or to Hiroshima in any significant way) - but man, now I'm even more curious as to how Nolan is going to mage to fill that three hours. Even the longest biopics, ones that feel like an eternity, aren't three hours. Granted, I have complete faith in Nolan, it just seems unlike him to do a straight up character piece with little action other than the initial Los Alamos test.

TCTTS said:

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This is all super interesting - and good to know that Oppenheimer never visited Tinian (which I agree means that the movie won't likely go there or to Hiroshima in any significant way) - but man, now I'm even more curious as to how Nolan is going to mage to fill that three hours. Even the longest biopics, ones that feel like an eternity, aren't three hours. Granted, I have complete faith in Nolan, it just seems unlike him to do a straight up character piece with little action other than the initial Los Alamos test.

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I actually think this IS his Oscar bait film, which requires a full-on character piece.

And I also think it is being done so as a FU to WB after their falling-out.

Either way I cannot wait

American Prometheus spent a lot of time at Berkley and with his academic career before he ever went to Los Alamos and then a lot of time with the security clearance hearing afterward Los Alamos. I can't imagine the ending of the movie is him losing his clearance. His personal life was pretty messy so I'm sure there will be plenty of drama surrounding it.

BenTheGoodAg said:

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This is a fan-made poster. Damn.

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So you're saying Pauly Shore is NOT in this? Hard pass.

The Porkchop Express said:

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Still holding out hope it's an alternative-history story where he turns into a giant super villain from the radiation and they have to wakeup Godzilla to stop him.

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Is there a giant blue schlong involved?

if you're wondering why THE DARK KNIGHT RISES and INTERSTELLAR share weird pacing issues and come in at almost exact running times, it's because they were shaved down to the bone to accommodate the 2 hour and 45 minute 15/70 IMAX film platter limit

— Brendan Hodges (@metaplexmovies) March 28, 2023

not surprising. it is a biopic. that means lots of indoor and close-up shots.

not much need for Imax spectacle outside of the Trinity explosion/any other explosions they include.

To be clear, the movie was still shot in IMAX and will be projected in IMAX. It's just that if it's over 2h 45m it can't be projected on 70mm IMAX film (due to the physical size of the film reels), which Nolan prefers over digital/laser projection. But since the vast majority of IMAX theaters are either digital or laser nowadays (like, nearly all of them), a 3-hour runtime is fine since there's obviously no physical film to deal with.

So what Brendan is saying is that *if* Oppenheimer is over 2h 45m, that means Nolan is sacrificing not showing the movie in the 70mm IMAX film format - his favorite - because he thinks the 3h runtime is *that* important (whereas Nolan was willing to cut The Dark Knight Rises and Interstellar down to 2h 45m in order for those two movies to be shown on 70mm IMAX film).

I don't know the last time I went to a movie without missing some for a bathroom break. Sucks.

Chipotlemonger said:

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I don't know the last time I went to a movie without missing some for a bathroom break. Sucks.

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https://runpee.com/

This app let's you know when's a good time to go and what you miss while you're gone.

I've thought about that before, but I abhor phone usage at the movie theaters. It's a Catch-22 I find myself in.

So it sounds like Nolan and IMAX may have simply made bigger film platters for the 70mm IMAX projectors...

If I could view space as five dimensions, I would go back in time and watch THE DARK KNIGHT for the first time in IMAX. It's easy to forget how Nolan revolutionized the format for narrative filmmaking, but at the time it felt like you were watching film history in the making.

— Dan Marcus (@Danimalish) March 28, 2023

The Dark Knight was indeed a spectacular IMAX experience. Glad I did that.

Still remember the opening scene well. Those shotgun blasts from the banker shook the whole theater.

TCTTS said:

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That opening shot, in 70mm IMAX, slowing panning toward the buildings as one of the windows exploded, was one of the few times I - and the audience we saw it with - ever actually gasped in a theater.

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Yea I knew we were in for a great ride at the end of that whole opening sequence.

Matt Damon praises 'OPPENHEIMER' again :

"Chris [Nolan] adaptation of the book is phenomenal. It's spectacular". pic.twitter.com/cMV5ygLjeg

— Christopher Nolan Art & Updates (@NolanAnalyst) March 31, 2023