Stoked how bad Oppenheimer was

[shigginpit]

@Kegeratorz

never seen Shawshank

biggest shock of the thread.

@Tamiko

Tattoo it on your chest as a reminder.

good one!!!

[Ryan]

@Tamiko

Tattoo it on your chest as a reminder.

You really need a system if you’re gonna make it work

[re5et]

Oppenheimer was fine . I was impressed how many people were at the cinema early on a Sunday morning to see a science movie - though it’s not really a Science movie thankfully.

It’sa Biography of the bloke who Is credited with the bomb but also a look at how politics and the spectre communism, americas paranoia/ political manoeuvres .

Sound seemed ok (was in modern imax Cineworld ) … lots of rumbling bass

Good performance from main bloke and Robert downy junior
It’ll win some awards but that doesn’t mean it’s good.

Shawshank redemption is better.

[tallrobphilp]

I haven’t seen Oppenheimer but I have several common complaints with movies in recent years. I like a lot of Nolan stuff e.g. Memento, Insomnia, Inception etc and I liked his Batman but there didn’t need to be three Batman movies. Everything doesn’t need to be 2-3 hours long and you don’t need to make a franchise out of every idea. They milk every IP to death until whatever was good about it is long forgotten.

Tenet was a mess, he’s badly overplayed his hand with all this time-bending stuff. Even Dunkirk (which was basically a good film) didn’t need the time-shifting stuff but he couldn’t help himself. It’s like M Night Shyamalan, everyone is now just waiting for the “they all live inside a snow globe” twist at the end. Enough already!

I recently saw the latest Mission Impossible at the cinema and it was pretty entertaining, great action etc but too long at about 2:45. Top Gun Maverick was about 2:10 (still pushing it a bit) but it was an incredibly fun and entertaining popcorn movie and never boring.

I haven’t gone to see any recent Marvel films because I’m sick to death of the whole thing and I don’t need to see another movie that ends with something massive falling from the sky. The carnage is on such a grand scale it loses any sense of threat or jeopardy, it’s not a good sign when I couldn’t care less which characters live or die.

And yes, they really need to stop mixing the dialogue so low you can’t hear it. They’re doing it on the telly as well, you keep having to rewind to work out what they’re saying!!

[onthebannedwagon]

@Ryan

My metric for movies is simple:

I measure everything against The Shawshank Redemption. It’s either better, worse, or on par with The Shawshank Redemption.

Its a popular movie. If you find yourself amongst circles praising a movie you didn’t like, just change the subject to how great The Shawshank Redemption is

Ha ha. Right after I read this I thought to myself “I’m so glad Tom Hanks wasn’t in Shawshank Redemption to ruin it”.

[reeloy]

…the last time i went for big screen, was dune…
…the next time i’ll go for big screen will be dune part 2…
all other hollywood blockbusting attempts have left me totally unimpressed since ages…

oppenheimer seems like a nice try and a story totally worth to be told in great visuals…
but nothing that would make me go to experience it on a big screen…
no matter if it’s popcorn cinema or not…i’m done with popcorn…either way…

[onthebannedwagon]

@reeloy

i’m done with popcorn

Does popcorn give you IBS as well?

[reeloy]

ibs?

[Fin25]

Is Batman Shit?

[Fin25]

Interesting Bomb Shenanigans

[onthebannedwagon]

@shigginpit

irritable baby snakes.

Mine is a reply by a man who struggled to make a joke involving Samuel L. Jackson and quicky gave up.

[plragde]

Honestly, Christopher Nolan should have made the Barbie movie, and Greta Gerwig the Oppenheimer movie. I might have seen both. Instead, I will see them sometime on a plane (though I tend to watch other people’s screens with no sound or subtitles, just for the challenge) or on some streaming service I get for free with my Internet/mobile package.

[shigginpit]

@plragde

watch other people’s screens with no sound or subtitles, just for the challenge

there’s a word for this, but there’s too many snakes on this plane for me fully articulate it to you.

[onthebannedwagon]

@plragde

Greta Gerwig the Oppenheimer movie.

While Gerwig started her career staring in mumblecore films, Nolan ended up inadvertently defining the genre without anyone knowing it, including himself.

[lesstalkmoredisco]

I saw this video some time ago. Seems relevant here still. Haven’t seen Oppenheimer yet.

Why You Can't Hear The Dialogue in Tenet

[plragde]

I almost minored in film at university, so planes are not my favourite place to see anything. There’s a very narrow window. There’s crap I’d never see under any circumstances, and there are movies that if I’m going to watch, I’d want to do so on at least my recent Macbook or iPad. Sometimes if I remind myself that I’m oxygen-deprived (they’ve probably gone back to fewer air exchanges now that they think COVID is over, right?) and I’m bound to waste the time anyway, I can broaden that window a bit. But also, my noise-cancelling headphones are pretty good at music reproduction, and I have some amazing music on my iPhone, and when I listen, I seriously listen, it’s not wallpaper. Not much can compete with that.

I like the big-screen experience, but the last film I saw in a theatre was in February 2020, and I don’t know when I’ll go back. (It was “Portrait of a Lady on Fire”, which is an amazing film, so as with my last major travel, at least I went out on a high note.)

[onthebannedwagon]

A few years ago I managed to get teary eyed on a plane watching Fletch with Chevy Chase for the first time. It was a bit perplexing but I embraced it and feel like I even grew a bit.

[plragde]

You know you cry more easily on planes, right? Oxygen deprivation again.

[HoojerBob]

It’s dependably the favourite film of people who aren’t really into film.

[onthebannedwagon]

I always attributed to those little bottles of Sutter Home Cabernet.