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.

  • zifnab25 [he/him, any]@hexbear.netOP
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    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.