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I doubt it w Nolan's preference for doing things in camera.

It's reality. Couples get naked in front of each other.

Honestly, I saw the film twice in theaters and once at home and I never once felt that the dialogue was difficult to understand. I asked a bunch of friends the same thing and they all said that this was a non-issue. The film has grossed a billion dollars. If the dialogue was as unintelligible...

Well it is a useless argument because that's their style and its not going to change. I mean it's like saying someone was annoyed by the elliptical narrative structures of The Killing and Pulp Fiction because it wasn't perfectly linear. Come to think about it, Oppenheimer fits into that category...

And I understand that w Welles he had budget limitations on certain films so the level of professionalism of the re-recording of dialog was compromised. But Welles approach to sound and dialog was pretty consistent his entire career. And it was singular.

Having trouble understanding the dialog? Subtitles. I wouldn’t want Nolan - or Altman or Welles or any director for that matter - to change their style to make the dialog “clearer.” It would take away from the performances and the overall effect that Nolan wanted.

It deserves every nomination it received.

thanks for reminding me. just bought the 4k !

Rod Serling wasn't as optimistic...

Barbie and Oppenheimer was "lightning in a bottle." I can think of films in the last 10 years that were better - but not as broad in their appeal and limiting in a lot of ways (too inside, too stylized, too viiolent ...) But it's interesting that both B and O were both really perceptive bits...

The Oppenheimer and Barbie phenom was a not a repeatable thing or anything that any studio/production head or pundit could have anticipated. These films exceeded expectations in every way. They were that rare combo of being smart, artful, relatable, stylish, entertaining, intelligent and...

It is riveting, creative, dynamic, full of energy and suspense and fascinating, complicated characters. It takes audiences on a journey in a way that is innovative and unlike anything they have ever seen. And great acting. Nolan at the peak of his powers.

See above. The reasons why it has connected, is a very, very interesting discussion and I think it says a lot about the state of the world. I think the vast connection to it lies in an almost unconscious attraction to what this film is saying. It defies anything that would have been detected...

People will be writing papers about why Oppenheimer struck a nerve with audiences. Film - art in general - can be a very accurate social barometer. OPPENHEIMER is about today's world as much as it is about a critical inflection point in history. I think all this is endlessly fascinating...

Wes Anderson too but it is a smaller audience.

One of the textbook movie marketing misses of all time. Cost the head of marketing at Disney her job. https://english.elpais.com/culture/2022-03-12/a-decade-on-disneys-john-carter-is-still-remembered-for-one-of-the-worst-marketing-campaigns-in-movie-history.html

not missing anything, I just added this link on the Halsman/ Oppenheimer portrait to the last post on Oppenheimner.

If both Cillian and Downey Jr. don't get Oscars for their work in O, that would be a shame.

Those of you reading this thread will find this article interesting. https://www.magnumphotos.com/newsroom/science-technology/oppenheimer-philippe-halsman/ Nolan captured everything discussed in the article - about the man and his eyes.

It's just a smoothness and something subliminal almost w action.

A 3 hour drama. 3 hour films = less shows per day. Though the ding by that fact offset by premium Imax ticket sales for this one.

Trust in the artists - writers, actors and directors - will always move the needle in this industry. Audiences get into ruts and support the same old s for a while and then hunger something fresh. But it cannot be predicted.

It was not coordinated. The magic of successful movies and cultural phenoms like this is that it is unpredictable.The MBA types and less adventurous development execs do their best to predict the future and they will never be able to.

And Oppenheimer is so much more than a standard historical retelling of the "entire story." It has art film logic powering it not conventional storytelling expectations (if anything, the film is constantly denying you the epic. The epic is Oppenheimer's eyes/mind.) It's a stunning allegory...

There wasn't social media in 1945. Tokyo was practically destroyed. There wasn't live coverage. Communications between cities were destroyed. I wouldn't want to Monday Morning QB the situation on the ground at the end of the war in Japan. Especially as a non japanese who never believed in...

This just popped into my head. I think Nolan had a particular film in mind when developing a visual scheme for Oppenheimer: Dreyer's The Passion of Joan of Arc. Oppenheimer obsessively gets close to Murphy's face throughout. The star of the film are his eyes. Just like Dreyer did with...