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Chopper's Oppenhiemer Movie Review. Spoiled and Soiled.
#1
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
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#2
chopper wrote:
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...

A good New York Jewish boy with a sick sense of humor.

I'm imagining a movie along the lines of Portnoy's Complaint with a little math and an atomic bomb and a tragic love story... Or maybe something like "Real Genius" covering his time at Princeton and culminating in his watching an atomic bomb test.
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#3
Good review, chopper.
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#4
So… the Barbenheimer version is the same but Oppie is driven to build the bomb because Barbie didn’t notice him?!
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#5
Watched this last night. I'm still puzzled how the guy who played Teller could look (at least to me) like his face was sweating in every shot, not matter if it was hot or cold.

I thought Robert Downey Jr did a decent job breaking out of his Iron Man persona, but there were a couple times he delivered his lines just like Tony Stark would have.

really thought the nudity was unnecessary as well.
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#6
timg wrote: really thought the nudity was unnecessary as well.

Unpossible.
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#7
It wasn't quite clear, could you please provide some more details to support all of your conclusions?
Be sure not to leave anything out.
Thank you.
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#8
chopper wrote:

There's way too many scientists who look alike in the movie. Way too many.

That's because most of them were Jewish. My uncle was one of them.

And they knew exactly why they were working on it. From what I've gathered, most of them never had any second thoughts. They were fighting against the end of civilization.
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Steve G. wrote:
[quote=chopper]

There's way too many scientists who look alike in the movie. Way too many.

That's because most of them were Jewish. My uncle was one of them.
Did your uncle have anything to say about Feynman?
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jonny wrote:
[quote=Steve G.]
[quote=chopper]

There's way too many scientists who look alike in the movie. Way too many.

That's because most of them were Jewish. My uncle was one of them.
Did your uncle have anything to say about Feynman?
He never discussed his experiences with me. Maybe with my cousins and definitely with my aunt.
(Only kidding about all looking alike. Even if you take a look at the publicized top guys, they looked nothing alike)
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