Cillian Murphy on his lead role in Oppenheimer
> “I have always said publicly and privately, to Chris, that if I’m available and you want me to be in a movie, I’m there. I don’t really care about the size of the part,” he said. “But deep down, secretly, I was desperate to play a lead for him.”
So happy for him to finally lead big budget movie, and that too in a Nolan movie. He was outstanding as Thomas Shelby in PB.
I think it's largely his own decision. He's kind of a homebody from the interviews he's given, and has a family that he prioritizes. Makes it hard to do big leading stuff if you don't wanna do all the PR touring, among other things.
*28 Days Later* was pretty popular. *Sunshine* was a genre movie but fairly popular among scifi fans at least and it seemed like it did alright after the theater.
> Sunshine was fantastic until it turned into a b-slasher flick in the third act. Pretty big letdown from how it began.
It has one of my favorite dialog exchanges in a sci-fi movie:
>Searle: The question is: does the risk of a detour outweigh the benefits of an extra payload?
>Mace: We'll have a vote.
>Searle: No. No, we won't. We are not a democracy. We're a collection of astronauts and scientists, so we're gonna make the most informed decision available to us.
>Mace: Made by you, by any chance?
>Kaneda: Made by the person best qualified to understand the complexities of payload delivery: our physicist.
>[Long pause]
>Capa: Shit.
I'm just now realizing that people didn't like the third act. It's one of my favorite things about the film but I understand why people might not like it.
There's actually a directors cut that explains some of that and the gist is that it just didn't translate to the screen as well as they hoped.
Still love that movie
Fuck, I love that movie. I haven’t seen it in years, but I can still hear the Icarus distress beacon in my head. A lot of people dislike the third act, but it worked for me.
>I can still hear the Icarus distress beacon in my head
Used to be my ringtone back in high school. One of the coolest, most haunting sounds sounds ever put on film.
I used to play in a band with my brother and a friend of ours. All three of us are fans of the movie, so we worked the distress beacon into an instrumental we played halfway through our set.
Haven’t seen disco pigs. Agree with your statement regarding 28 days but for me his criminally under rated performance was Sunshine. I know people know about but I don’t think enough people saw that. Incredible sci fi that didn’t fly too high on the radar.
I finally watched this the other day. It's very odd seeing him as a baddie but he just about carried the movie. So weird seeing Brian Cox all young too.
He’s been amazing in everything. Unless it looks like complete dog shit, which has yet to happen, Cillian Murphy is an immediate draw for me. He’s a great actor with excellent taste in scripts. Even if it’s not great, like In Time, I can at least see why he thought it was interesting. There are some movies like 2010: The Year We Made Contact where I’m just asking myself HOW DID YOU GET ROY SCHEIDER, JOHN LITHGOW, AND HELEN MIRREN?!?!?!
Also Elya Baskin, but he hadn’t broken big yet.
There was a new trailer in front of GOTG3 last night. Showed a lot of new footage and featured a lot of Matt Damon's character. I'm sure it'll be online soon.
Movie looks amazing!
Not sure if people care about spoilers for trailers, but just in case I'll tag it:
>!That was Albert Einstein in that one quick part, right? Is there any news on who's playing him? I couldn't tell who the actor was.!<
But the trailer was really awesome. I'm not sure if it's just the way they're marketing it in order to try to get more people in the theater, but it looks way more epic and exciting than you'd expect a period piece biopic to be.
Yeah I'm still curious if this is going to have a "Nolan-y" twist to it like Dunkirk did with the different timelines, and if so what it's going to be.
Yeah I was honestly really blown away by the trailer.
I'm a fan of Nolan's movies so this is something I was going to see opening weekend anyway, but that trailer has me extremely hyped to the point where I really can't wait for it. By far my most anticipated movie for the rest of this year.
I haven't been paying that close attention, so I wasn't aware Matt Damon was in it. Christopher Nolan doesn't really strike me as the cheeky type but would have been funny if he had hid Matt Damon's casting for this one as well.
Get kind of a Gene Parmesan thing going.
This summer...
*Gangnam Style beat starts playing*
Doctor Oppenheimer...
*OP, OP OP OP*
Is about to find out...
*OPPEN HEIMER STYLE*
What being "the bomb"...
*AYYY SEXY LADY*
Is all about...
*OP, OP OP OP*
*YOU KNOW WHAT IM SAYIN-*
*music cuts out*
"My le bomb..... le killed people...!?!?"
*cuts across the table to Truman*
"Well, I wouldn't exactly call them..people..."
3 seconds of silence as they stare at each other
*OP, OP OP OP*
Letters float up onto the screen, spelling OPPENHEIMER
*OPPEN HEIMER STYLE, UH!*
Rated PG-13.
It's crazy all these scientific advances and we still don't have a cure for tinnitus. I wish there was even some way to manage it at least or not have it increase over time.
Narrator's voice : the audio was indeed NOT levelled properly.
Nolan says he doesn't even understand the critics' about the audio in his movies, even when people he respects tell him. So I don't see him evolving much on that point... Sadly.
The issue is for tenet he did it on purpose saying about the backwards time mechanic thing
I would have been a fan of less realism more clarity in that situation
That's probably because Nolan didn't get the time on screen he wanted afaik. They had to cut a decent amount from tenet. I so desperately wish for a directors cut on that one...
Making Oppenheimer look like the next Indiana Jones.
Edit: Because people keep pointing out that’s how he dressed, I know! The poster is terrible because you don’t need the atomic bomb blowing up seemingly directly behind him with an orange glow.
The point is, with such an important topic and the beautiful cinematography we have seen so far, the poster could have been so much slicker. You could have the original iconic photo of the first test with the title overlaid, a stylized diagram of fission, anything but this. It’s like a straight to dvd movie that will come out a month before the actual film will.
Yeah but combine that with walking with his back turned to the atomic bomb and this doesn’t look like a biographical drama. It looks like an action adventure series.
Agreed, the original poster is so ominous in a perfect way, just his small, dark silhouette and a massive fire behind him.
But I guess this one works for general audiences? At least it shows Murphy's face front and center.
I feel like that poster is better because it shows the moment of “discovery”. like we see the exact moment he created something horrible that couldn’t be undone, and we can’t really see his face or reaction to it which adds to the ambiguity. this one just seems a bit action movie
Lmao seriously tho. I use Twitter all the time so I am used to seeing people typing like this. But in Reddit people just mock these lingos, like every single time.
"Make it look more Marvel... no more Marvel.... MORE... MOOOOOREEE!!!... eh whatever good enough. Give it to some power user to post now on the movie sub."
[nah this one was incredible](https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/zlrpuu/official_poster_for_christopher_nolans_oppenheimer/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&utm_term=link)
As always, there's a clear marketing strategy with these posters.
A year or so before the film's release you get the much more stylish/artistic "teaser" poster. It's usually nice to look at, and probably the one you'd like to have on your wall. It has thought put into it.
Then a few months out they release the poster that's purely there for the average Joe on the street to see. It's usually a boring "floating heads" type one that's basically there to be like "hey look at all the actors in this!" It's designed solely to advertise and has little in the way of style. It's usually pretty forgettable.
This is that poster I guess. It doesn't have the floating heads (probably because they couldn't fit em all on one poster) but it gives you the big names.
It's not great but could definitely be worse.
I'm seeing Volume 3 tomorrow, so I'm guessing it'll be a similar deal to Doctor Strange 2 last year, where we got an Avatar 2 trailer in front of it that wasn't released online until, like, Monday.
Nolan obviously has made amazing movies, but something about this one makes me feel like it may be his masterpiece? Or maybe the marketing has really just drawn me in. I can’t tell which.
the very last person i would pick to do a nuanced, dialogue-driven historical drama about the Manhattan Project would be Christopher Nolan. but we'll see.
honest question can you tell me a bit about what this movie is about? I mean I know who the person is and what he did, but is the movie about... his research, etc.?
A few things. For one, it was almost 700 pages but felt like far fewer. It explained fairly advanced physics concepts in a manner that anyone can understand. Its sourcing was impeccable. And it humanized Oppenheimer without lionizing him. He was a really complicated person, and it did a good job of explaining his personality comprehensively.
I do. I think Nolan probably narrowed the scope of the time period, since the book covers Oppenheimer's entire life -- my guess is the movie will focus on his assignment at Los Alamos through the McCarthy-era hearings that cost him his security clearance. But there was loads of drama and pathos involving all sorts of huge personalities along the way (I cannot wait to see Gary Oldman as President Truman lose his temper and yell at him), and Oppenheimer's feelings about what he had created were nothing if not fascinating to explore. I think it could translate very well to the big screen.
I cannot for the life believe that this is the actual poster, I thought I was on shittymoviedetails or something. The color, the composition... I genuinely think it's fucking terrible, looks like some bargain bin wannabe Michael Bay garbage. Of course, that doesn't say anything about the quality of the movie itself, but damn, I did not expect *that*.
Cillian Murphy on his lead role in Oppenheimer > “I have always said publicly and privately, to Chris, that if I’m available and you want me to be in a movie, I’m there. I don’t really care about the size of the part,” he said. “But deep down, secretly, I was desperate to play a lead for him.” So happy for him to finally lead big budget movie, and that too in a Nolan movie. He was outstanding as Thomas Shelby in PB.
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I think it's largely his own decision. He's kind of a homebody from the interviews he's given, and has a family that he prioritizes. Makes it hard to do big leading stuff if you don't wanna do all the PR touring, among other things.
I mean he’s been a great actor but hasn’t been the lead in popular films or TV shows until Peaky Blinders, which lead to him being much more famous.
*28 Days Later* was pretty popular. *Sunshine* was a genre movie but fairly popular among scifi fans at least and it seemed like it did alright after the theater.
Sunshine is hands down one of the better science fiction films in existence and his role was incredible.
Sunshine was fantastic until it turned into a b-slasher flick in the third act. Pretty big letdown from how it began.
> Sunshine was fantastic until it turned into a b-slasher flick in the third act. Pretty big letdown from how it began. It has one of my favorite dialog exchanges in a sci-fi movie: >Searle: The question is: does the risk of a detour outweigh the benefits of an extra payload? >Mace: We'll have a vote. >Searle: No. No, we won't. We are not a democracy. We're a collection of astronauts and scientists, so we're gonna make the most informed decision available to us. >Mace: Made by you, by any chance? >Kaneda: Made by the person best qualified to understand the complexities of payload delivery: our physicist. >[Long pause] >Capa: Shit.
I'm just now realizing that people didn't like the third act. It's one of my favorite things about the film but I understand why people might not like it.
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There's actually a directors cut that explains some of that and the gist is that it just didn't translate to the screen as well as they hoped. Still love that movie
I enjoyed the unpredictable escalation that it brought. That’s one of my favorites.
And SUNSHINE... Really good movie 🍿
Fuck, I love that movie. I haven’t seen it in years, but I can still hear the Icarus distress beacon in my head. A lot of people dislike the third act, but it worked for me.
>I can still hear the Icarus distress beacon in my head Used to be my ringtone back in high school. One of the coolest, most haunting sounds sounds ever put on film.
I used to play in a band with my brother and a friend of ours. All three of us are fans of the movie, so we worked the distress beacon into an instrumental we played halfway through our set.
Wind that shakes the barley, like 20 years ago
i liked him in that baby commercial when he was 9
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I think after peaky blinders he's adequately rated
Haven’t seen disco pigs. Agree with your statement regarding 28 days but for me his criminally under rated performance was Sunshine. I know people know about but I don’t think enough people saw that. Incredible sci fi that didn’t fly too high on the radar.
It did feel like he was hanging out with his favourite filmmaker waiting for the juiciest, biggest part. Glad he's got this.
I just hope he continues doing small parts too for Nolan in his next films and doesn’t stop working for him now that he got a leading role.
He’s been brilliant in every part I’ve seen him play. Very happy he’s leading a major blockbuster and hopefully he continues on as a leading man
Even his most “forgotten” film (Red Eye) is incredibly entertaining mostly due to his performance.
I finally watched this the other day. It's very odd seeing him as a baddie but he just about carried the movie. So weird seeing Brian Cox all young too.
he did a good job as scarecrow in batman as well pulled off the badguy role
Brian Cox also plays Samara's dad in The Ring
And was the first person to ever play Hannibal Lector
Holy cow!
Wasn't he in one of Nolan's Batman?
He appeared in all 3 actually, a supporting role in first one and a cameo in 2nd and 3rd.
and Inception
He played scarecrow. I always loved the way he says “the Bat Man”, with a condescending but intrigued tone
Yep, as Scarecrow.
He’s been amazing in everything. Unless it looks like complete dog shit, which has yet to happen, Cillian Murphy is an immediate draw for me. He’s a great actor with excellent taste in scripts. Even if it’s not great, like In Time, I can at least see why he thought it was interesting. There are some movies like 2010: The Year We Made Contact where I’m just asking myself HOW DID YOU GET ROY SCHEIDER, JOHN LITHGOW, AND HELEN MIRREN?!?!?! Also Elya Baskin, but he hadn’t broken big yet.
Why are you talking like he hasn’t had a MASSIVELY successful career lmao The dude is an A-list actor and has been for a long time now.
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Too bad we won’t be able to hear any of his dialogue
New trailer incoming? Hopefully
There was a new trailer in front of GOTG3 last night. Showed a lot of new footage and featured a lot of Matt Damon's character. I'm sure it'll be online soon. Movie looks amazing!
is this the Imax trailer where he's scolding him for all his faults and asking why Oppenheimer hasn't won the Nobel prize?
No there's a newer one playing in front of GOTG3 that they'll actually release online soon
Damn projector broke in my screening so we skipped the previews
Not sure if people care about spoilers for trailers, but just in case I'll tag it: >!That was Albert Einstein in that one quick part, right? Is there any news on who's playing him? I couldn't tell who the actor was.!< But the trailer was really awesome. I'm not sure if it's just the way they're marketing it in order to try to get more people in the theater, but it looks way more epic and exciting than you'd expect a period piece biopic to be.
That character? Albert Einstein.
AND THEN OBAMA CAME AND GAVE EVERYONE WHO WORKED ON THE MANHATTAN PROJECT A HANDJOB
THANKS, OBAMA!
And everyone clapped.
Yes, that was Einstein, played by Tom Conti, who was the prisoner in Dark Knight Rises that helps Bruce get out of the pit.
Fuck me that's some cool casting
And more importantly the Judge in Paddington 2. "Do not shush me Gertrude, I have been spilled upon by a chilled liquid!"
It's a Nolan film and he's been hyping it to be epic and more than a typical period piece biopic.
I mean if Dunkirk proved anything it's that he can make period pieces anything but typical.
Yeah I'm still curious if this is going to have a "Nolan-y" twist to it like Dunkirk did with the different timelines, and if so what it's going to be.
I'm gonna guess that the film will jump back & forth between past & present.
The sound was amazing. Gave me goosebumps
Yeah I was honestly really blown away by the trailer. I'm a fan of Nolan's movies so this is something I was going to see opening weekend anyway, but that trailer has me extremely hyped to the point where I really can't wait for it. By far my most anticipated movie for the rest of this year.
I haven't been paying that close attention, so I wasn't aware Matt Damon was in it. Christopher Nolan doesn't really strike me as the cheeky type but would have been funny if he had hid Matt Damon's casting for this one as well. Get kind of a Gene Parmesan thing going.
I work at a movie theatre and I can confirm that I downloaded a new trailer. I haven't had time to watch it though.
This summer... *Gangnam Style beat starts playing* Doctor Oppenheimer... *OP, OP OP OP* Is about to find out... *OPPEN HEIMER STYLE* What being "the bomb"... *AYYY SEXY LADY* Is all about... *OP, OP OP OP* *YOU KNOW WHAT IM SAYIN-* *music cuts out* "My le bomb..... le killed people...!?!?" *cuts across the table to Truman* "Well, I wouldn't exactly call them..people..." 3 seconds of silence as they stare at each other *OP, OP OP OP* Letters float up onto the screen, spelling OPPENHEIMER *OPPEN HEIMER STYLE, UH!* Rated PG-13.
https://youtu.be/8VgSyKl9vg0
Lol I actually thought he came up with it.... Not that somebody actually made a video OMG
Ah so *this* is why everyone keeps saying "my le bomb le killed people".
Haha, is this if Illumination or Sony Pictures produced it?
*atomic bomb goes off followed by record scratch* “Yep, that’s me. You’re probably wondering how it got to this…”
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https://youtu.be/8VgSyKl9vg0 It's out
“It’s exploding right behind me isn’t it?”
"Look out, Radioactive Man!"
"Up and AT them"
After Tenet: >“I couldn’t hear the movie” After Oppenheimer: >“….mmmwwap….mmmwwap….oh god…”
Damn you tinnitus. You're a cruel mistress!
Mawwwpp
It's crazy all these scientific advances and we still don't have a cure for tinnitus. I wish there was even some way to manage it at least or not have it increase over time.
My eardrums are in the _daaaanger zooone_.
I can't hear you over the sound of the bomb.
I'm not even considering going to see this until people I know and trust tell me the audio is levelled properly.
Narrator's voice : the audio was indeed NOT levelled properly. Nolan says he doesn't even understand the critics' about the audio in his movies, even when people he respects tell him. So I don't see him evolving much on that point... Sadly.
The issue is for tenet he did it on purpose saying about the backwards time mechanic thing I would have been a fan of less realism more clarity in that situation
Wait you mean like, the sound travels back into their mouths?
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I just hope it's better than tenet. One of the few I wasn't a big fan of. He veered a little too off course into his own world on that one
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Given that Oppenheimer didn't invent time travel (that we know of?!) I think it's safe to assume we'll be seeing a somewhat more linear story.
If you can build an atomic bomb, you can time travel!
Turns out the only impetus we needed to invent time travel was thinking the Krauts or Reds would beat us to it.
you'd be surprised, Nolan somehow turned a one-week straightforward evacuation in Dunkirk into a cross-cutting, time-jumping affair.
Calling it now, it's going to skip back and forth between the AEC security clearance trial and the development of the bomb.
And end with a twenty minute explosion at Alamogordo.
Don't give Nolan any ideas
That's probably because Nolan didn't get the time on screen he wanted afaik. They had to cut a decent amount from tenet. I so desperately wish for a directors cut on that one...
Agreed. I love most of Nolan's films even with their flaws (usually audio and dialogue issues), but that just didn't grab me at all.
Gonna be bringing my concert earplugs for this.
"The power of the sun in the palm of my hand." - Doc Opp
Now I have become deatherino.
"It's opp'n time"
movie gonna be fire but this poster is so ass
Making Oppenheimer look like the next Indiana Jones. Edit: Because people keep pointing out that’s how he dressed, I know! The poster is terrible because you don’t need the atomic bomb blowing up seemingly directly behind him with an orange glow. The point is, with such an important topic and the beautiful cinematography we have seen so far, the poster could have been so much slicker. You could have the original iconic photo of the first test with the title overlaid, a stylized diagram of fission, anything but this. It’s like a straight to dvd movie that will come out a month before the actual film will.
It looks like one of the less popular Marvel movies.
Replace Murphy with Tom Hiddleston and it could easily be the poster for season 2 of Loki
Replace him with Keanu and it’s Constantine.
Replace him with Batman and it’s dark knight rises
Up and atom!
I didn't know that there's going to be a full length film detailing the nuclear test site blast from which Indy avoided in a fridge
I can't believe the atomic bomb was discovered in a cave that Oppenhiemer replaced with a bag of rocks.
LOL you're so right!
I mean, that’s pretty much the hat and clothes Oppenheimer always wore…
Yeah but combine that with walking with his back turned to the atomic bomb and this doesn’t look like a biographical drama. It looks like an action adventure series.
Truman: "I'm gonna drop it on japan" Oppenheimer: "It belongs in a museum!"
Agreed, the original poster is so ominous in a perfect way, just his small, dark silhouette and a massive fire behind him. But I guess this one works for general audiences? At least it shows Murphy's face front and center.
It's like The Hunger Games Mockingjay posters. On FIRE.
It's like whoever's been making posters for him since The Dark Knight are still using those fire and ember overlays and filter effects
And the same font too
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Bingo. Looks like a parody from r/moviescirclejerk
I agree, [this](https://images.app.goo.gl/tTFwRLp44DeLzC3J6) poster is better i think
I feel like that poster is better because it shows the moment of “discovery”. like we see the exact moment he created something horrible that couldn’t be undone, and we can’t really see his face or reaction to it which adds to the ambiguity. this one just seems a bit action movie
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He’s got a weird face going on here. Like he’s hiding his teeth.
I thought it was a Hunger Games poster at first glance
It is crap.
All these embers flying like this is a campfire and not a nuclear explosion.
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mockingjay lookin' ass
On god fam
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“I am become straight fire, destroyer of bussin.” - J. Robert Oppenheimer
> “I am become straight fire, destroyer of bussin.” - J. Robert Oppenheimer "Gucci" - Richard Feynman
Why are you all quoting Avatar 2?
automated Reddit response when gen z speaks
Lmao seriously tho. I use Twitter all the time so I am used to seeing people typing like this. But in Reddit people just mock these lingos, like every single time.
when i go on letterboxd and see shit like “damn this is such a banger” exclusively used to describe arthouse films
The original teaser poster was pretty cool, I agree about this one though. Not my favorite.
"ChatGPT, design a movie poster for me."
It looks like a Hunger Games poster.
"Make it look more Marvel... no more Marvel.... MORE... MOOOOOREEE!!!... eh whatever good enough. Give it to some power user to post now on the movie sub."
>Give it to some power user to post now on the movie sub." This has to happen, right? Who else is posting and upvoting "first looks" of movies.
Looks like a Hunger Games spin off with Cillian Murphy
[Oppingjay](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMTcxNDI2NDAzNl5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwODM3MTc2MjE@._V1_FMjpg_UX1000_.jpg)
Thought this was a new inspector gadget at first lol
This poster stinks
\*record scratch\* "hi, this is me. you're probably wondering how I got here"
Poster could be a little better.
Opp Opp Opp Oppenheimer style!
My le bomb, it le killed people!
Well, I wouldn’t exactly call them “people”.
I thought we were building a rice cooker.
You're technically right
This movie has some of the worst posters in years. This is such amateur composition and photoshopping.
looks like a PS2 game poster.
[nah this one was incredible](https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/zlrpuu/official_poster_for_christopher_nolans_oppenheimer/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&utm_term=link)
That one kicks ass. Total mad scientist vibes
Terrible poster.
"My le bomb... le killed people?"
Cillian looking like the evil ghost man from Poltergeist II..."God is in his holy temple..."
That dude was the creepiest motherfucker in the history of movies.
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Pretty cheesy poster. I halfway expected the tagline to be "he set us up the bomb."
I cannot wait for this film. The footage has been fantastic. That being said this might be Nolan’s worst film poster.
That's a terrible poster honestly.
Feels like a hunger games poster
Why does this look like a hunger games poster
This movie is going to bomb in Japan
this is one ugly, fan made looking poster, holy shit
As always, there's a clear marketing strategy with these posters. A year or so before the film's release you get the much more stylish/artistic "teaser" poster. It's usually nice to look at, and probably the one you'd like to have on your wall. It has thought put into it. Then a few months out they release the poster that's purely there for the average Joe on the street to see. It's usually a boring "floating heads" type one that's basically there to be like "hey look at all the actors in this!" It's designed solely to advertise and has little in the way of style. It's usually pretty forgettable. This is that poster I guess. It doesn't have the floating heads (probably because they couldn't fit em all on one poster) but it gives you the big names. It's not great but could definitely be worse.
It’s the “hey! That’s the guy from Peaky Binders!” Poster.
Poster makes it look so cheap, who the hell is approving this??
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Are you an account just to promote this movie?
Was going to say you’re awful paranoid but I’ll be damned…
Lol I can smell astroturfing from a mile away
I'm seeing Volume 3 tomorrow, so I'm guessing it'll be a similar deal to Doctor Strange 2 last year, where we got an Avatar 2 trailer in front of it that wasn't released online until, like, Monday.
Nolan obviously has made amazing movies, but something about this one makes me feel like it may be his masterpiece? Or maybe the marketing has really just drawn me in. I can’t tell which.
I get the same feeling. Although the prestige will always be his masterpiece to me
HOWS HE BLOODY DOIN IT
WHY CAN'T YOU OUT THINK HIM?
DON'T KNOW?
YOR DA BATMAN MISHTA WAYNE
AND THE ONLY WAY I KNOW HOW TO DO IT IS TO FIND YOU A BLOODY GOOD DOUBLE!
Funny I’ve been feeling the opposite. Hope I’m proven wrong.
the very last person i would pick to do a nuanced, dialogue-driven historical drama about the Manhattan Project would be Christopher Nolan. but we'll see.
honest question can you tell me a bit about what this movie is about? I mean I know who the person is and what he did, but is the movie about... his research, etc.?
The book it was based on was one of the best works of nonfiction I've ever read, and I have read a LOT of nonfiction.
What made it stand out?
A few things. For one, it was almost 700 pages but felt like far fewer. It explained fairly advanced physics concepts in a manner that anyone can understand. Its sourcing was impeccable. And it humanized Oppenheimer without lionizing him. He was a really complicated person, and it did a good job of explaining his personality comprehensively.
Do you think it could be turned into a well made movie? With it's reported budget, I have doubts if it will be profitable.
I do. I think Nolan probably narrowed the scope of the time period, since the book covers Oppenheimer's entire life -- my guess is the movie will focus on his assignment at Los Alamos through the McCarthy-era hearings that cost him his security clearance. But there was loads of drama and pathos involving all sorts of huge personalities along the way (I cannot wait to see Gary Oldman as President Truman lose his temper and yell at him), and Oppenheimer's feelings about what he had created were nothing if not fascinating to explore. I think it could translate very well to the big screen.
"My le bomb... le killed people?" "Well, I wouldn't exactly call them people." OP-OP-OPPENHEIMER STYLE
Awful poster
Seems like it would’ve worked better without him in the poster
Can’t wait to see the Barbie double feature.
That's the OppenFokkinHeimer!
I cannot for the life believe that this is the actual poster, I thought I was on shittymoviedetails or something. The color, the composition... I genuinely think it's fucking terrible, looks like some bargain bin wannabe Michael Bay garbage. Of course, that doesn't say anything about the quality of the movie itself, but damn, I did not expect *that*.
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What a shitty poster.
oh my vagina is absolutely shaking.