First teaser poster for Christopher Nolan's, Oppenheimer

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curl-6 said:

Finally got around to seeing this one, and it was fantastic.

The performances, (especially Murphy, Downey Jr, and Blunt) direction, script, cinematography, editing, music, all superb.

It beautifully portrays the apocalyptic nature of nuclear weapons and the psychology of the people involved, the setting is realized well, and while the runtime is long it never dragged or felt anything less than engrossing.

If this had come out in 2022, 2021, or most recent years it would have been by film of the year. It just so happened to come out the same year as one of my all time favourite films, Godzilla Minus One, which funnily enough is also about the atom bomb.

I might give this a chance because of your post, but I don't remember one movie of his that I enjoyed. His two first Batmen were too much Thatcher era propaganda, with the second one in particular getting just too close to Nazi values for my taste, that I never cared to see the third or his other movies from then on.

Back to your post: Godzilla-1 is just genius! An absolute delight from start to finish, an oddity to great Cinema making, and it brought my inner child so much back to the surface I was grinning like an idiot when it was over. When it got to Netflix, I downloaded it immediately and see bits of it from time to time. Amazing that it got an Oscar to boot.