00:00Yes, that Oppenheimer review embargo has lifted which means your feed is flooded with Oppenheimer reviews
00:06So I do appreciate you clicking on this review in particular good news is it's gonna be a really easy review
00:11It's my favorite kind of review this movie is epic
00:19So Oppenheimer is written and directed by Christopher Nolan as I understand it's based off of the book American Prometheus
00:25Stars Cillian Murphy as J. Robert Oppenheimer
00:28Who's known as the father of the atomic bomb and this is a biopic?
00:31Chronicling his life leading up to the Manhattan Project him doing the Manhattan Project and what came after the Manhattan Project the good the bad
00:38The heavy it's here now Cillian Murphy is absolutely brilliant in this film as J. Robert Oppenheimer
00:44there's something about Cillian Murphy's eyes that Pierce absolutely that lends to those heavy moments of
00:51regrets and
00:52Despair that he feels later on in the film. Absolutely, whether it's with a stare or him delivering dialogue
00:58His performance in here is an absolutely
01:02Soulful and heavy one. Well, I should backtrack cuz it didn't start out that way, you know, he starts out. He's a pretty
01:08Relatable guy. I mean true neutral. Absolutely. I like that about him in the D&D personality scale. He was true neutral
01:15I just appreciate people like that. He's a flawed human, but we're all flawed humans
01:19Maybe in different ways, but I was surprised at how relatable he was
01:23which is why it makes it so much worse when he becomes the guy who's like, I just wanted to help the world and
01:31It's worse because of me because it's easy to be like Oh father of the atomic bomb
01:35But it's like yeah, but what does that do to somebody?
01:38What does that do to the person who made the device that killed that many people someone who's not a military mind?
01:45He's a scientist Gillian Murphy makes you feel all of it
01:48He's always been an incredible actor, but this is the kind of performance that an actor gives that is
01:53Truly special everyone in the movie actually did a great job. It's a packed cast. I cannot
01:58Logistically list off the entire supporting cast here Emily Blunt Jason Clark Robert Downey jr
02:04Matt Damon and more there there are people in this movie. I didn't know we're in this movie
02:10You too kind of shows how many people just want to work with Christopher Nolan at this point
02:15I think that's great. But also Robert Downey jr. Another amazing performance is one of those performances
02:20I don't logistically know the exact number. I don't know that how many minutes of screen time he had
02:26It's like ever since I learned Anthony Hawkins had like 15 or 16 minutes of screen time inside them through the lambs
02:32Like I always questioned that I don't know why it's just a me thing from then on
02:36I don't think he had a lot of screen time
02:38But when I think of the movie, I absolutely am going to think of him and his performance
02:44I love the fact that Robert Downey jr. Doesn't have to work a day in his life
02:50And at that point sometimes actors will be like, yeah, I can phone it in get a paycheck
02:54It'll be fine Robert Downey jr. Must have more money from those fuck you Marvel paychecks than Heisenberg at this point
03:00No, I'm not talking about the German scientist
03:03I'm talking about the fictional drug kingpin and the dude's still like I'll clock on an amazing performance and knock it out
03:08Of the park. I don't have to but I want to it was incredible to watch and what I loved
03:14most about this what gripped me is this feels like a
03:18Cinephiles film it feels like a film for film fans for the love of cinema and the art of cinema and that Francis Ford Coppola
03:26Bram Stoker's Dracula kind of way, you know that movie grabs me
03:30One of the reasons it does anyway is because the visual effects in that movie are all in camera effects
03:36They're all practical and I'd heard that flex for this movie for Oppenheimer. No CGI anywhere in this movie and I
03:43Appreciate that it's kind of funny how the flex is flipped
03:46But it used to be like this movie has 3,000 CGI shots. That's the flex now the flex is the opposite
03:53It's reversed now the flex is zero and that's as cool as it gets and it's not just for the nuke scene
03:59Like I thought it was gonna be like, okay, the nuke scenes gonna be practical. That's cool
04:02Not with a nuke other explosives, but okay, it's gonna be practical, but it's not just that
04:06There are scenes when Oppenheimer's in his head showing how he views the world what he thinks about you see space supernova
04:12He thinks about quantum theory you see Adams whizzing around
04:15It's easy to not even think about it when you're so used to movies having CGI
04:20But when you see moments like that with practical effects, and it feels practical it feels tangible
04:26It feels like it's something in the world. It's completely different. It's a magical experience
04:32I appreciated and connected with the film on a level
04:35I wasn't expecting to because of the absence of CGI in scenes and shots that otherwise
04:41Would have had CGI Christopher Nolan's the type of director who inspires people to be directors
04:49Things like that are why as for the nuke scene. I don't know about you
04:53I love seeing nukes and movies just a fun thing and any other movie. I'd be like, yeah the nuke it's coming. Let's do it
04:59I didn't feel like that in here and I appreciated that
05:02I love the fact that when it's leading up to the bomb the movie doesn't really logistically revolve around that it is about
05:11Oppenheimer's properly titled it's about him and the work he did and the aftermath of it
05:17Not that one thing he did but when it was leading up to the bomb you feel the fear in the room the anxiety the tension
05:24I love the fact that Christopher Nolan was like, yeah, you're looking forward to the bomb. We're gonna make it look cool
05:29But that's not what's important
05:31The thing I remember from that scene is the look on Killian Murphy's face while he's watching it. It's the reaction of Oppenheimer
05:39That's important. Oppenheimer wasn't overshadowed in his own film and his own biopic by the bomb
05:44I feel like it'd be easy for that to be the case
05:47I will say the last hour or so of this film
05:50Relies on a lot of exposition it deals with the government and Oppenheimer and you're hearing about things that happened
05:56But you're not necessarily seeing those things
05:59I would have liked to have seen those things
06:01but if it showed those things this movie would be five hours long as opposed to three the last hour or so of this
06:06Film could be its own film. It could be a
06:09You know sneaky government paranoia courtroom drama, but technically not a courtroom drama
06:15But still the vibe of a courtroom drama type film
06:18I mean it's hard to condense a man's life who did all this did so much and dealt with so much
06:25After the Manhattan project into a three-hour film
06:28It's a great three-hour film that works well for its runtime and actually tells more than you would think
06:33They could put into this three-hour runtime. The musical score was
06:38Amazingly haunting and swells what it needs to it. It's absolutely impactful. There are a couple moments of tension in here
06:45musical score
06:47Absolutely knocked it out of the park
06:48but what I liked about the audio mixing with the musical score is some Christopher Nolan movies recently of
06:53The audio has been a bit uneven and the musical score is kind of overridden the actors voices and the dialogue couldn't really hear
07:01What was going on? So clearly this movie does not have that problem. I appreciate that
07:07I don't mind saying this is Christopher Nolan at his heaviest. We've had some good times
07:11We've had some action adventures, but if someone said this is Nolan
07:15Going for his Oscar. I wouldn't argue it, but I would add yeah
07:20And the cool thing is it doesn't feel like he's trying for the sake of that. You know, how it is some Oscar bait
07:25You're like, yeah, why not just beg for it?
07:27This is just Christopher Nolan making good dramatic stuff the story performances filmmaking editing all top-tier
07:34It's a visually beautiful epic tragedy and it is
07:39awesome tackular I
07:45Already want to see it again because the screening wasn't in 70 millimeter IMAX
07:49The 70 millimeter film not IMAX. I really want to see this in IMAX
07:54It's as simple as that or so Oppenheimer. Have you seen it? What did you think about it?
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