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Film Students Are Having Trouble Sitting Through Movies, Professors Say (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
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[–] 14 points 9 months ago (10 children)

Oppenheimer was rough. The whole fuckin thing about whether he was a commie or not, or just how commie he was, is it commie to not want to drop the bomb, etc. Myopic, tedious. You could cut an hour out and it would be the same movie. They didn’t even get into the “Demon Core”.

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    I'm surprised that's what your experience of it was. To me it was about his hopeless (arguably naive) struggle to do what he thought was right and true in a time where both truth and morality were mostly becoming weaponized in service of alignments of power. He thought he could thread the needle only to time and time again have simply been used by others to further their own agendas, leaving hurt bystanders in his wake.

    I somewhat agree that an hour could be cut out, though I don't exactly know which parts.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    Admittedly that is a more accurate synopsis. It was very informative in terms of how/why those events took place, how the politics of the era were conducted, the connections to our current era, a lot of things that don’t often get discussed. It is probably a very “important” movie, unfortunately it’s not a very entertaining one. Compare it to “Cheney”, for example, which was moderately informative, but highly entertaining.

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    I knew Hollywood would ruin it and I actively avoided seeing it.

    Now that I know how it was ruined I don't need to watch. Maybe in 10 years I'll ask AI to do a "trololol's cut" for me and I'll watch it.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (2 children)

    Cinema Sins will probably cover it in a year or two and that usually covers enough of a movie to get the gist of it. /S

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    Thx for the suggestion, I went after the trailer and saw it now.

    It's a biography. I'll skip. I'm assuming it's the typical trope of the story of a particular person and every character has to fit into the good or the bad guys.

    I tend to like books and movies where there's no clear line between good and bad, to the point that the author doesn't bother with the distinction. AND stories about things, projects or societies instead of individualistic centered plots. Not that those are bad, it's that I migrated to an English speaking country and English literature is really really biased in these things, and I crave for different styles.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (2 children)

    Oppenheimer is one of the few movies where I seriously considered just leaving before it even ended because I was so bored. And I wish I did because by the end of it I was pissed that I spent that much time watching it.

    I must have looked at my watch about 20 times wondering when it was going to end.

    I feel like most of the recent Christopher Nolan movies have been extremely disappointing. His movies now basically consist of 2-3hrs of tension building that lead to nothing.

    (And that trinity test was pathetic.)

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