07-24-2023, 04:08 AM
The movie or your review?
chopper wrote:
Too long
When the atomic bomb itself is a subplot you know the director was given a blank check and unlimited power
Could have easily been two hours long. PICK A FRICKIN PLOT WILL YA?
Too long
The guy who played Oppie is good. But it's just all too much. Also, does he ever blink???
Kitty Oppenheimer was a terrible mom and a drunk. In this film she is a hero.
I still have no idea why the Strauss guy was so mad--I mean in real life, not the film. Oppenheimer tried to make a joke. The guy was butt hurt over it for 40 years.
I'm not even sure Strauss KNEW Einstein. And also, who cares? Oppie created the atomic bomb.
There's way too many scientists who look alike in the movie. Way too many.
Too long.
The US Communist movement of the 1930s and 40s was largely fueled by THE DEPRESSION. When you are feeding your kids sawdust and water for breakfast even Communism seems like an okay deal. This is why ... not a like the plot in this pos to take over some old white guy's congressional suit jacket.
Jean Tatlock was a lesbian. That's why she said no to Oppie's proposals. That's why they split up. She liked women and could not live with the shame after she'd enjoyed sex with women. That's why she killed herself. In the film she drowns herself over Oppie. Puh-leeeze.
Too long
Gen Groves and Oppie met randomly on a train long before the war. That's how Groves found him or thought of him for Alamos. In the film? No.
Groves was a lot meaner in real life than Jason Boune's dad made him out to be in the film.
After he had some time to mull it for a while, Oppie wasn't cool with wiping out 250k people with two bombs. He regretted it. PEOPLE HAVE THE RIGHT TO CHANGE THEIR MINDS ABOUT STUFF. Sorry President Truman. Sorry this movie.
The guy who played Truman was pretty weak.
Too long
The day after Trinity Oppie wanted the Soviets and the Japanese to come--by force-- to the Trinity site to witness his new thing. Groves and Truman said no. "From this moment on, the cold war was set in stone" --Oppie's little brother. Not in the movie.
Oppie was a weird guy. His version of "playing" as a kid was answering ideological questions put to him in French--in Latin. It only got worse. Not really in the movie.
I still do not understand how Oppie's father came to the US on a boat and like seemingly six years later owned a building and several Picassos in his penthouse home. Not in the movie.
Richard Feynman was the only one at Los Alamos with a personality to speak of. In this film he is a sub sub sub plot guy.
Too long.
Oppie's children were majorly messed up by their mom and dad. Oppie tried to give the daughter away once. Not in the movie. Peter refused to speak of his mom or dad much and worked as a framing carpenter most of his life. Not in.
You will want to wear a catheter and a bag if you see the film while enjoying a diet coke.
Too long