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Post by meister on Jul 23, 2023 7:24:54 GMT
Went to see this last night. Not an easy film with multiple timelines and a plethora of characters but worth the effort. Great to see a film where you don’t check in your brain at the door! Cillian Murphy is outstanding and it was a story I was not familiar with so found it had the pace and energy of a thriller, especially in the lead up to the Trinity test. Five stars from me - highly recommended.
Oh, and great to see cinemas full and buzzing again post Covid. The Barbieheimer effect!!!
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Post by Stephen on Jul 24, 2023 23:05:33 GMT
Saw this today in 70mm film at Picturehouse Central. Having spent the past few weeks rolling my eyes at articles of Christopher Nolan explaining why this really should be seen in IMAX...I now understand. WOW. This will lose a LOT of impact on smaller screens. This really must be seen on proper IMAX 70MM Film stock! It's an intense watch. Maybe just me but definitely the most intense film I've seen in a cinema where the horror is real and not goofy. Sublime use of sound to build the incredible tension. The cast are proper top notch here too.
At the end myself and the rest of the screen looked shell-shocked leaving the screening only to be faced with the swarms of dressed-up Barbie attendees. It really was bizarre. It took me a good hour to feel back in the real world after this one.
For the filmmaking alone - 5 stars.
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Post by rob2bob on Jul 25, 2023 14:42:50 GMT
Just seen this film today.
Well I have left the cinema wanting to learn more about this and Google will be my friend in a bit more research.
I must admit though I did find it all a bit confusing with the multiple timelines/narratives... I do not normally struggle, but on this occasion it took me too much effort that it detracted from the film!
At 3 hrs it is LONG and dare I say this out loud, but I have also left the cinema thinking it is being over-rated as a film. Not a 5 star film from me (too much hype IMHO)... though Cillian Murphy definitely a great/mesmerising actor that one cannot take ones eyes off when he is on screen.
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Post by mkb on Jul 30, 2023 18:53:08 GMT
Saw this today in 70mm film at Picturehouse Central. Having spent the past few weeks rolling my eyes at articles of Christopher Nolan explaining why this really should be seen in IMAX...I now understand. WOW. This will lose a LOT of impact on smaller screens. This really must be seen on proper IMAX 70MM Film stock!... You saw it in 70mm, but then say it must be seen in IMAX 70mm? I agree, but I am confused because you are endorsing the format you didn't see rather than the one you did. (Apologies if this is man-splaining, but IMAX 70mm has three times the celluloid area per frame as 70mm. IMAX 70mm takes up 15 perforations of the 70mm strip per frame with the film running horizontally, whereas standard 70mm takes up 5 perforations with the film running vertically. Obviously, both are huge improvements over 35mm.) Options for seeing Oppenheimer in the UK in IMAX 70mm are BFI IMAX in London, Science Museum IMAX in London (but I hate the fact that you look at the bottom 5% of the screen through safety rails) and the Vue Printworks IMAX in Manchester. Options worldwide are usually listed at in70mm.com/now_showing/index.htm ) |
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Post by mkb on Jul 30, 2023 19:24:58 GMT
Oppenheimer turns out to be an intense courtroom-style drama with mainly metaphorical bombs exploding -- the literal ones are relegated to a sideshow in the middle act. The problem is that Nolan has directed and fast-cut every single scene with the melodrama knob turned up to 11, even for what in reality were probably some fairly mundane moments. Rather than simply tell the tale, Nolan seeks to obfuscate so that he can have some revelations later on, and this only serves to confuse. You probably need two viewings to fully understand it, but after three hours, once was enough.
If this were fictional, you would say there are far too many characters to keep track of. The script writing felt self-indulgent. A better writer could have told this story in 90 minutes and made it far more compelling.
The science is presented in a patronisingly dumbed-down way, and quite why Nolan shows electrical sparks on screen every time someone talks about nuclear fission is anyone's guess.
There's gratuitous female nudity -- I don't mind nudity as long as it applies equally to both genders -- and some scenes where we see what Oppenheimer is thinking (according to Nolan) rather than reality, and I was unconvinced by his interpretation of the character of the man.
While the acting performances are of a good standard throughout, there is a tendency towards being dramatic rather than being real. That's ok in an action adventure, but a biopic requires more nuanced direction.
I braved the rail strikes and travelled up to Manchester yesterday to see this in IMAX 70mm (as well as Jack Holden's excellent performance in the one-man play Cruise over at Home). The IMAX shots -- the ones presented in the full-frame 1.43 IMAX ratio -- look absolutely stunning, and show how far regular digitial cinema still needs to travel before it can come close to emulating this. (It will though, as anyone who has seen The Bourne Stuntacular at Florida Universal Studios or Abba Voyage in London can testify.)
Three stars.
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Post by Marwood on Aug 6, 2023 22:29:44 GMT
So I saw Barbie two weeks ago and this had been fully booked everywhere I had looked at (even 4 in the morning screenings at BFI IMAX, what is wrong with people?) so Barbieheimer was never going to happen but I saw Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles this afternoon and this at the Regent Street Cinema in the evening so I have pioneered the Turtleheimer day out: I liked this a lot but like other people have said, there are an awful lot of characters to take in and remember who is who and who said what to who in the last third so things did blend into one : I’m not sure how long it’s got left at BFI IMAX before something else comes along to replace it but I’d like to watch it again in a few weeks time to put things together more clearly.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 27, 2024 7:18:32 GMT
I really hope this gets the Oscar for best film
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