If there really is no CGI (dubious even if he says so) then they must be making creative using of miniatures, practicals, and historical footage. Looking forward to it regardless.

Nolan did break down the process that they used if you're interested

How Christopher Nolan Recreated Oppenheimer's Nuclear Bomb Explosion Without CGI (movieweb.com)

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.

I've seen it twice. Once in IMAX Digital (the 35mm was damaged and I didn't feel the need to reschedule) and once around Christmas last year on Blu-ray (family member's house, they don't have a 4K player, that'll be my next re-watch).

Oppenheimer was one of the best of 2023, easily. Its only equal or better was Across the Spider-Verse. 

While I wouldn't go as far to say it dragged, a good amount of the Strauss stuff felt like filler to me. The film is an even 3 hours and probably could've been a masterpiece if about 30 minutes to 40 minutes were cut and maybe a few more minutes of scenes in the film. While I don't think the film glorifies the atomic bomb and war (but I can see why some would say it does), I could've used a couple of extra minutes to get the perspective of the Japanese and the discussion of using the bomb on them. I know it's Oppenheimer's story first and foremost, not the Japanese. But that as it may, I think it would've helped. 

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I personally never got the impression that the film was glorifying the atomic bomb. I felt it pretty clearly conveyed that it was a horrific weapon and that building it, while it may have seemed necessary, opened an immensely dangerous pandora's box.

Given the controversial subject matter I thought it was handled with intelligence and care.

Yeah I loved Minus One so much.

It was such a fantastic balance of old school monster movie fun with a heartfelt and moving human component. And it absolutely deserved its oscar; it looks crazy good, especially considering the filmmakers had a tiny fraction of the budget their Hollywood counterparts enjoy.

I'm a big fan of Godzilla so I expected to like it, but it blew my expectations out of the water and is now my personal pick for the best film in the series; no small feat as said series totals 38 films over the last 70 years.