Watched it yesterday. It’s a definite let-down. Even the Trinity test was strangely underwhelming. You’d think he could have given that part a bit more oomph or otherworldliness (cos that’s how it was). Summary 5/10 - a slick TV movie.
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I’ve sent the screenshot to Nolan, he’s looking for people like you… beware…
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hrmmm, we’re into you… GRETA
not YOU you.
Ok i need more caffeine.
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I saw Oppenheimer in IMAX yesterday.
Went into it remembering it was a movie about a person first, and what he did second. So maybe this made me not disappointed like others?
Anyway, I was entertained. Got my $20 worth.
My sister had two audio triggered jump scares. Those were easily worth $10 each.
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Twin Peaks: The Return (spoilers) had a good bit of atomic-related plot including a great CGI sequence of the bomb itself & some underlying Jack Parsons-styled mythos. I agree he would have had fun with a movie like Oppenheimer.
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Never stop searching for the truth!
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Or, just hang around here long enough and the truth presents itself eventually anyway.
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I don’t see a way to do God Emperor ‘correctly’ on film. Just a very difficult approach to the source material where Frank is at his best just…monologuing. I feel this is hard to translate correctly from a visual standpoint.
God Emperor is my favorite book of sci-fi/fantasy, hands down, & would love more than anything to see the last 3 books of that series amended to tape (the 2000’s sci-fi channel Dune -> Children of Dune was pretty stiff but enjoyable nonetheless) but I feel that the best opportunity for those stories would be in a TV show format produced by HBO or something, similar to how Foundation is being tackled.
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No, I’ll add it to my watch list :-).
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I’m going to see Oppenheimer on Saturday. Barbie did not disappoint
Would love to hear what you think 
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I’ll give Oppie a shot when it hits streaming. For Cillian. But yeah Hollywood is shite and probably always has been but every once in a while some good stuff slips through. Everything Everywhere was worthy of its accolades. Other than that I think the only “Hollywood” films I’ve loved over the past 5 or so years would be Nomadland, Licorice Pizza, and The Lighthouse. Those are all wonderful and I don’t think Nolan could have knocked any of those outta the park.
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I think both this and Barbie raise the bar of how high any bombastic Hollywood blockbuster can get. My view is positive, although I used to be a MUBI snob when I was younger, both physically and I think spiritually as well.
Of course it’s cheesy and a bit dull, but it doesn’t matter that much. It’s a different category and a different purpose. It’s like saying genre books are bad because they’re not as sophisticated or ambitious as literary books. That’s like comparing pork to chocolate, it’s just two different things that might have some particular similarities, but are meant for different things. Comparisons like this are deeply flawed, therefore irrelevant, I believe.
All in all. I think what Nolan often does is kind of like adding a dash of subtlety to ketchup. It’s still ketchup, but it slowly trains the palate to work better and eventually might introduce the viewer to a different world of cinema one day.
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This is unfair to ketchup
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All in all. I think what Nolan often does is kind of like adding a dash of subtlety to ketchup.
Or maybe more like a gourmet-burger chef.
Love it, but I am now deaf
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Reminiscence over a streaming service + “when I was younger” = me feeling really fucking old.
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Oh come on, it’s been alive for over 15 years already. Trust me, like most of us here, I did experience these antiquated enigmatic devices such as fax, landline phone, casette records, video rental and all the other marvelous lost artefacts of the late 20th century. Time flows, you know. You can’t step into the same river twice. It’s time to move on.
But back to the topic, it used to be called Auteurs. That was around 2007-2010. But back then, I used it only for film ratings + lists, as it wasn’t available to stream in many places besides US. I found a lot of cool stuff there though and mostly pirated it. For example, Netflix came to my country only in ~2015.
This website and rateyourmusic.com were the defining moments of my youth.
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Sorry if it sounded harsh, I was just being sarcastic.
It’s just that in every single topic someone always has to say this “i feel old because of … (insert some popcultural thing)” thing. On top of that, my childhood friend always does this. He sends me a pic of us 20 years ago or some old song and always adds “i feel old”. As if I had to reaffirm him somehow.
I don’t feel old, I feel very good, very open, almost elevated. There’s so much stuff to try, see, hear, read and digest nowadays, from all the history, available on a whim. It’s bonkers. I love it.
But yeah, MUBI has gotten very very good over the years. They don’t have that many films as other platforms, but the content curation is just pure class. Also, the owner is a massive cinephile himself as far as I know. And it’s kind of his own side project. Labour of love you might say. They don’t care about the profits that much, so yeah. I recommend it.
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