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punkfanalways
08/18/23 8:34:02 PM
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Like nothing exciting happens apart from one bomb going off. It was three hours of talking. We dont see Hiroshima or Nagasaki being nuked. Plus its constantly jumping around from place to place. Everyone looks so similar as well its hard to remember the links between people.

Nolan also forced his prestige moment in at the end as well with the whole Strauss thing which felt out of place and just in for a twist for the sake of it.

Cinematography was great but I couldnt actually tell you anything about the story outside of the bomb test going off.

Tell me Im not the only one?
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ellis123
08/18/23 8:35:17 PM
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punkfanalways posted...
Tell me Im not the only one?
Not liking dialog over explosions is very common amongst younger viewers, so no you are not.

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Doe
08/18/23 8:35:20 PM
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punkfanalways posted...
which felt out of place and just in for a twist for the sake of it.
It literally historically happened.

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AI_TechGam3FAQS
08/18/23 8:37:59 PM
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I liked it, it was very fascinating and the actors did a good job.

So many concerns over communism back in the day, seems exhausting

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punkfanalways
08/18/23 8:38:08 PM
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Doe posted...
It literally historically happened.

Im not doubting that. Its the way it was portrayed just to give a twist for the sake of it.
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Heartomaton
08/18/23 8:38:33 PM
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https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/8/5/0/AAcI8BAAEw5S.png

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Smashingpmkns
08/18/23 8:43:42 PM
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punkfanalways posted...
We dont see Hiroshima or Nagasaki being nuked.
That would have been entirely unnecessary

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chaos_knight
08/18/23 8:45:10 PM
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I liked it until the final hour, when it seemed to drag on forever.

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Kradek
08/18/23 8:46:15 PM
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punkfanalways posted...
Like nothing exciting happens apart from one bomb going off. It was three hours of talking. We dont see Hiroshima or Nagasaki being nuked.

Is this facetious or did it legitimately upset you?

Heartomaton posted...
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/8/5/0/AAcI8BAAEw5S.png

Lol that's a great rendition of that meme

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Nukazie
08/18/23 8:47:04 PM
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did the batman or joker ever have any cameo

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ProfessorKukui
08/18/23 8:47:51 PM
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We need the Bay cut.
Delete all the talking, keep the sex & 100x more nukes.

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Heartomaton
08/18/23 8:48:41 PM
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Kradek posted...
Lol that's a great rendition of that meme

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/8/5/7/AAcI8BAAEw5Z.jpg

I have some neat ones.

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BurmesePenguin
08/18/23 8:48:48 PM
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I'm sorry you expected an action movie, TC. I'm not sure if you ought to have researched more, or the trailers were misleading as I haven't watched them.

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Kradek
08/18/23 8:49:47 PM
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Heartomaton posted...
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/8/5/7/AAcI8BAAEw5Z.jpg

I have some neat ones.

That's also gold

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Heartomaton
08/18/23 8:51:03 PM
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Kradek posted...
That's also gold

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/8/6/3/AAcI8BAAEw5f.png

Because Oppenheimer.

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BurmesePenguin
08/18/23 8:52:13 PM
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Heartomaton posted...
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/8/6/3/AAcI8BAAEw5f.png

Because Oppenheimer.
Did the fish have sex while saying that line?

Because Oppenheimer.

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Trumpo
08/18/23 8:52:42 PM
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Felt like the shortest 3 hrs for me, good dialogue and musical score kept me entertained all throghtout. I watch it on real Imax 70mm too and clapped with the NPCs when the credit screen came.

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Full_Pokedex
08/18/23 8:54:06 PM
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Everyone should watch this movie to get a good idea of the man that basically doomed the planet.

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BurmesePenguin
08/18/23 8:54:50 PM
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Duncan going full duncan again. Hopefully this time the account goes bye bye.

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Kradek
08/18/23 8:54:53 PM
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Heartomaton posted...
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/8/6/3/AAcI8BAAEw5f.png

Because Oppenheimer.

Oh are you making these yourself? Or do you just have so many?

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ellis123
08/18/23 8:55:18 PM
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Kradek posted...
Oh are you making these yourself?
No, they aren't new.

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Kradek
08/18/23 8:55:38 PM
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ellis123 posted...
No, they aren't new.

Thanks

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ellis123
08/18/23 8:57:20 PM
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Kradek posted...
Thanks
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/5/2/1/AAeNRvAADQIp.jpg

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Heartomaton
08/18/23 8:58:23 PM
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Kradek posted...
Oh are you making these yourself?

Oh, no. I just have a collection. I was just posting the other two cuz you reacted positively to the first one.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/8/6/9/AAcI8BAAEw5l.jpg

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rexcrk
08/18/23 8:59:23 PM
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I liked seeing naked Florence Pugh in it

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Kradek
08/18/23 9:04:13 PM
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ellis123 posted...
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/5/2/1/AAeNRvAADQIp.jpg

Well the main one that made me think they were making them was the Oppenheimer one. It's true there's a lot of people memeing so that increases the chance, but also it was part of a specific discussion I was having. Also, lol

Heartomaton posted...
Oh, no. I just have a collection. I was just posting the other two cuz you reacted positively to the first one.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/8/6/9/AAcI8BAAEw5l.jpg

Cool deal, thanks. And lol.

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tripleh213
08/18/23 9:29:21 PM
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I liked the movie tbh

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punkfanalways
08/18/23 10:03:24 PM
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BurmesePenguin posted...
I'm sorry you expected an action movie, TC. I'm not sure if you ought to have researched more, or the trailers were misleading as I haven't watched them.

I knew it was a biopic. A beautiful mind is probably my favourite biopic. I wasnt expecting fallout 3 the film lol.

But like I said too many people looking so similar and not getting enough screen time and the forced prestige moment at the end as well.

I can see why people liked it. But it never clicked with for some reason.
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punkfanalways
08/18/23 10:04:49 PM
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KanWan posted...
The worth seems to be in going to watch the movie for the Nolan-isms since Im not sure how much more historical accuracy or moral siphoning you could get out of THE maxim of maxims

RATHER WATCH BARBIE

Tbh I watched it because its a Nolan film. He has a style and made this film in that style but I just dont think it complemented the story trying to be told. .
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BurmesePenguin
08/18/23 10:06:11 PM
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I don't understand what you mean by a prestige moment. You're making what happened in Oppenheimer sound much more corny and over the top than it actually is.

And A Beautiful Mind basically is an action movie. Or spy thriller, I guess.

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Turbam
08/18/23 10:07:42 PM
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You'll never be cenafanalways, tc

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punkfanalways
08/18/23 10:07:42 PM
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BurmesePenguin posted...
I don't understand what you mean by a prestige moment. You're making what happened in Oppenheimer sound much more corny and over the top than it actually is.

And A Beautiful Mind basically is an action movie. Or spy thriller, I guess.

The Strauss thing. Or more specifically the Einstein bit.
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BunkerBoy
08/18/23 10:08:38 PM
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Heartomaton posted...
Oh, no. I just have a collection. I was just posting the other two cuz you reacted positively to the first one.
You have this one? My favorite

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Guns_of_Verdun
08/18/23 10:09:28 PM
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BurmesePenguin posted...
Did the fish have sex while saying that line?

Because Oppenheimer.
I still have no idea thematically why they made him have sex when saying that line.

It was very WTF

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Kitt
08/18/23 10:10:46 PM
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I just felt like it went on for too long. I really wanted it to just end after a certain point. I could have sworn the 3 hour mark hit and we sat in the theater for an extra 20 minutes.

I saw a letterboxd review that said Christopher Nolan doesn't know what sex is and that gave me a giggle.

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BurmesePenguin
08/18/23 10:11:34 PM
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punkfanalways posted...
The Strauss thing. Or more specifically the Einstein bit.
Yeah I don't understand how you are relating that to Prestige.

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Heartomaton
08/18/23 10:14:25 PM
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BunkerBoy posted...
You have this one? My favorite

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/2/1/1/AAdvQkAADM4r.jpg

Yeah I have that one and a different version.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/6/3/0/AACKVtAAEG2W.jpg

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punkfanalways
08/18/23 10:31:56 PM
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BurmesePenguin posted...
Yeah I don't understand how you are relating that to Prestige.

Have you seen the prestige? Im talking about when the guys goes on about the three parts of a magic trick and most importantly the reveal

Nolan uses that in all his films for a big reveal at the end subverting your expectations. In this case there were two cases... one) that Robert and Einstein werent shit talking about Strauss. 2) that Strauss was conspiring against Robert all along. There was no need to obfuscate that throughout the film and its sole purpose of omitting it was so they could have the twists at the end.
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BurmesePenguin
08/19/23 2:39:46 AM
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1) I don't think anyone thought they were shittalking Strauss other than Strauss. At least I didn't. I thought that was the point. To call it a reveal is a bit much.

2) The reason to obfuscate it was because that's how it was in history, no? Or rather to Oppenheimer himself. That is actually a twist. I guess I was just confused that you refer to a twist in a Nolan film as a Prestige moment.

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Questionmarktarius
08/19/23 2:45:29 AM
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Can you really "spoil" a film about Oppenheimer?
It's like spoiling a film about Jesus. We all know how it ends.
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Kradek
08/19/23 2:48:32 AM
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BurmesePenguin posted...
1) I don't think anyone thought they were shittalking Strauss other than Strauss. At least I didn't. I thought that was the point. To call it a reveal is a bit much.

Yeah, they made this glaringly clear. That aide who had turned against Strauss because he saw the kind of mastermind monster he was tells him maybe they weren't even talking about it at all, and then after showing Strauss's "wait, COULD THAT BE TRUE?!" face and him walking out to the reporters it reveals the convo Oppie had with Einstein, and it was just science shit and "lawl you were right we did doom the world", which while I jokingly address it I did really enjoy Murphy's delivery and the way he just stared into the void horrified by what he had done. The reason Einstein doesn't talk to Strauss as he passes by him is because he's busy thinking about what Oppie just said and what it could lead to, however Strauss took it as Oppie telling Ein "lol man fuck that guy Strauss, he ain't no scientist. He's just a bitch. Let's get all the physicists to revolt against him?" just because he and Ein casually had conversations. I guess it's true Strauss did ask Oppie what he said to Ein, to which Oppie didn't respond (or gave a cryptic non-answer), but damn was that some heavily misplaced inference.


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Questionmarktarius
08/19/23 2:53:27 AM
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Hot take: Alan is the better Oppenheimer.

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Kradek
08/19/23 2:54:15 AM
#45:


Questionmarktarius posted...
Can you really "spoil" a film about Oppenheimer?
It's like spoiling a film about Jesus. We all know how it ends.

I actually didn't know that he was vilified by our government, which concocted a conspiracy to discredit him in an effort to get Hydrogen bombs running and that Oppie spent the rest of his years speaking out against nuclear armaments. Watching them railroad him was one of the most interesting aspects of that movie. I knew his whole "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds", however I figured that was just immediate guilty and then he fucked off into obscurity forever. I also just now learned that he revealed that thought he had after watching the first test in a NBC interview about 2 years before he died.

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Questionmarktarius
08/19/23 2:56:09 AM
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Kradek posted...
I actually didn't know that he was vilified by our government
Oh yeah, he was totally communist and blacklisted, until the US government needed him to make the nukes.
Same thing happened to Werner von Braun, who was a total-ass Nazi, until the US needed him to get to the moon.

Soviets did it too, dragging Korolev out of the gulag to make Sputnik
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MICHALECOLE
08/19/23 2:58:38 AM
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ellis123 posted...
Not liking dialog over explosions is very common amongst younger viewers, so no you are not.
This post was honestly my favorite from the get

hilarious in every way
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indica
08/19/23 3:03:38 AM
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Guns_of_Verdun posted...
I still have no idea thematically why they made him have sex when saying that line.

It was very WTF
Yeah, it was very cringy, completely made up (he did say this but there's no historical record of him doing it while fucking, although I guess it's possible), out of place thematically for this type of movie and apparently pissed off a bunch of Hindus which is understandable

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Questionmarktarius
08/19/23 3:04:41 AM
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Guns_of_Verdun posted...
I still have no idea thematically why they made him have sex when saying that line.
I am become Dick, destroyer of wombs

I dunno either.
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BurmesePenguin
08/19/23 3:09:11 AM
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Was the Destroyer of Sex scene more or less cringe than at the end when Strauss goes "who voted against me? What asshole do we meaninglessly namedrop for this?" and aid goes "Uh, some new upstart senator. His name is, uh.... *checks notes* *warm spotlight on his face* ...John Kennedy, sir."

I know who that is so I clapped!

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