One part Great Man Theory with tons of navel gazing and genuflecting to a handful of star figures. One part Sorkin-esque courtroom drama.

Zero parts fun.

Three fucking hours long.

Don’t waste your money on this shit bag, folks.

  • Moss [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I liked it but it was such a Nolan movie. Every physicist is introduced like they’re a superhero. JFK gets namedropped at the end like he’s a minor Marvel character being set up for a future movie

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
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      1 year ago

      They had an hour’s worth of political ahem thriller around whether a guy gets a Senate appointment to the Eisenhower cabinet.

      They completely ignored so much of the crazy shit that went down during the actual project.

      • The Baker & Williams warehouses, where they accidentally started a nuclear fire with stacked uranium
      • The Philadelphia Incident, when three scientists trying to fix a pipe full of uranium hexafluoride accidentally detonated it.
      • The Demon Core experiments
      • Site W, where the first Plutonium was developed, and the army would disect dead coyotes to measure the impacts produced by all their nuclear waste
      • Bikini Atoll & Operation Plumbbob, two major sites of nuclear testing
      • Eisenhower’s Atoms For Peace speech and the development of nuclear energy, both for civilian use and military locomotion

      All this shit was breezed over so they could make a movie about Oppenheimer not being a Communist.