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This and the Dune movies were easily few of the best movies we watched in the last years. So much nuance, great acting all around and amazing cinematography to boot. I do love you guys for always choosing great quality content, this thing alone probably makes you my favorite reaction channel since the hotd/got days (well plus the amazing banter). And while the boys is a severely overrated show I do the blind eyes, most of the time you do banger after banger after all, great movie choices, even good anime (like death note), topping quality with Chernobyl and even starting True Detective and Peaky blinders series now, which are absolutely BEYOND fantastic journeys. Cheers to the fantastic australian DUO!
It's so good, never felt like that from a film before, it really feels like you're looking into an inevitable future that's coming for us and it's very scary and very real
The Nukes were a necessary evil. They saved millions of Japanese, and atleast a million allied soldiers. The Japanese were starving to death, but still had a three million man army left, and were never going to surrender, with a three million man army willing to fight for the homeland. Also Nuclear weapons did create a peace the world had never seen before. They prevented the third world war, and all the wars since then haven’t even added up to how many died in WW2. Hence why it has been called the “Long Peace”. As hard as is to grasp, the invention of nukes were objectively, and overall…. a good thing. Human beings needed the guarantee of total destruction to keep themselves somewhat in check.
Cillian Murphy and Robert Downey Jr. both won oscars for best actor and best supporting actor respectively for their amazing performances. Strauss for sure makes the sneaky snake tier list.
If I remember correctly, OPPENHEIMER (2023) is only the 6th film to win Oscars for both Actor and Supporting Actor. The other 5 were GOING MY WAY (1944) (Bing Crosby and Barry Fitzgerald), THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES (1946) (Frederic March and Harold Russell), BEN-HUR (1959) (Charlton Heston and Hugh Griffith), MYSTIC RIVER (2003) (Sean Penn and Tim Robbins), and DALLAS BUYERS CLUB (2013) (Matthew McConaughey and Jared Leto). Funny how the 3 most recent films to do this achieved it in 10-year intervals, and 4 of those 6 movies also won Picture (only MYSTIC RIVER and DALLAS BUYERS CLUB have failed to win it).
"Can your hear the music?" by Ludwig Goransson is a masterpiece of a soundtrack. The second oscar win for this genius composer, we will hear of him for a lot of time
One of my favourite films of all time. When I saw it last year it just blew me away. A 3 hour masterpiece from beginning to end. Cillian Murphy giving one of the best performances I’ve seen. What an actor!! Absolutely deserved his Oscar for Oppenheimer. I’m glad you guys enjoyed it too.
Absolutely incredible film. My favorite film of 2023. Quite possibly Christopher Nolan’s best film, and undeniably the career defining performances from both Cillian Murphy and Robert Downey Jr. The Academy got it right with the Oscars that they gave this movie, for Best Picture, Best Director for Christopher Nolan, Best Actor for Cillian Murphy, Best Supporting Actor for Robert Downey Jr., Original Music, Cinematography, and Editing.
Not even remotely Nolan's best film, and certainly no "career-defining" performance by either of those two actors, especially not RDJ. And best film of the year? That's a total joke. Compare it to e.g. a masterpiece like _Poor Things_ and you quickly see what total nonsense those awards have become. I'd say the only redeeming feature of the film was the soundtrack.
@@hoon_sol I personally thought POOR THINGS was the worst of the nominees, made even worse especially when compared to THE FAVOURITE (2018) from the same director. OPPENHEIMER was the 3rd best of the nominees in my view, after KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON and THE ZONE OF INTEREST. At the same time, we need to realize that art is subjective, and one person's definition of best will not align with another (for example, I think GLADIATOR (2000) is the worst film to win Best Picture) and it is broad consensus of a large group of people that ultimately determines who wins.
@@axr7149: It's clear from the way you capitalize film titles that you have absolutely zero idea what you're talking about, and when you talk about absolute steaming garbage like _Killers of the Flower Moon_ as if it somehow weren't the total trash it was, then it's even clearer that you really have zero idea about film in general. Of course trying to pull the "muh art is subjective" out of your ass is exactly what I expect from someone who tries to elevate garbage to the same level as actual cinematic art.
Cillian Murphy is one of the best actors alive. And so humble, he just does his work, a few interviews and then dips back to Ireland to hang out in a random pub
We did a whole Barbenheimer day when this came out. About 10 of us going for brunch, watching this, heading to the pub for a whiskey, going back to watch Barbie, then having dinner and cocktails. Not even joking one of the best days of my life.
Good that you ended on Barbie lol. Ending on this movie would be a rather depressing end lol. After I watched this in theaters I spent the entire ride home imagining the world engulfed in firestorms.
Cillian Murphy is one of the greatest actors of his generation. You guys will absolutely love Peaky Blinders. Funny that you mentioned Sheldon Cooper: he once adopted cats and named them Oppenheimer, Fermi, Frisch Feynman, Teller and Zazzles 😂😂
I had watched footage of the real Oppenheimer speaking prior to seeing this movie. The moment Cillian Murphy opened his mouth and started speaking I gasped because I knew he'd get that Oscar. He embodied the man's speech and mannerisms flawlessly.
9:48, One thing that I thought was very refreshing about Oppenheimer and his contemporaries is how diverse they were in their interest. Sure he was a brilliant physicist but he also had an interest in music, art, religion, history and languages. Quite often the representation of very smart people is that they are only interested in their particular field and clueless about all else. As we can see Oppenheimer was also a ladies man. Also many of the scientists Oppenheimer meets in this movie are legendary figures in the sciences. Some were his heroes and some his rivals.
Been watching you guys for a while and really enjoy your channel, but I think this might be my favorite post-content breakdown yet. You had a few insights that I missed that made me rethink a few things, and that's a pretty big deal for me. Thank you, you made me appreciate a film more than I did prior to watching your reaction.
Yes! I hope they do 28 Days Later, that would be great. I’d like them to watch a few zombie movies and that, horrors too. That would propel like channel too.
Don’t find many thriller biopics out there. Filmed as a historical drama, edited and scored like an action film. A rare combo of genres, Nolan and his talented team can seemingly do anything and make it grounded, compelling, visually stunning, musically epic, and downright impressive. What’s he got up his sleeve for his next project? My notifications are set.
The growth of this channel and you guys in particular has been beautiful to watch... You guys have really started to appreciate the depth of art.. who would have thought spartan would be watching a heavy dialogue based movie on quantum physics 💙💙
Thanks for reviewing this one. It might interest you to know that Einstein visited Japan in 1923. He lectured in Kyoto, Tokyo… and Hiroshima. Greetings from Kyoto.
"We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried, most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita. Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty and to impress him takes on his multi-armed form and says, “Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.” I suppose we all thought that one way or another."
Great reaction guys like always, This movie is another masterpiece from Nolan. What he has put before our eyes definitively deserves to be seen, as does Cillian Murphy's performance in the role of Oppenheimer and the irreconcilable but fantastic, but Robert Downey Jr. in the role of Lewis Strauss is in another level what a great performance truly amazing. The Trinity Test recreation was filmed without special effects, Nolan is no stranger to recreating dramatic events on the big screen but in perhaps his most ambitious move yet, the director decided to film the atomic bomb test without using any CGI or visual effects. That means what you see on screen really did take place - although on a smaller scale. The movie opens with an ominous opening caption, which reads: “Prometheus stole fire from the gods and gave it to man. For this he was chained to a rock and tortured for eternity.” The film is based on Kai Bird’s 2005 Oppenheimer biography American Prometheus and explaining the comparison, Kai writes in his book: “Like that rebellious Greek god Prometheus who stole fire from Zeus and bestowed it upon humankind, Oppenheimer gave us atomic fire. The cast lived together during filming, Nolan moved his cast and crew into digs together. Emily Blunt likened the situation to ‘summer camp’ and told People: “We were all in the same hotel in the middle of the New Mexican desert. We only had each other.” in another unusual move, Nolan wrote the script in first person in order to reflect how most of the film is being told from Oppenheimer’s perspective and using his memories. Matt Damon told in an interview: “I’ve never seen that done before. Instead of ‘Oppenheimer walks across the room,’ it’s ‘I walk across the room.’ This was a way for him to signal that, Okay, this is what the movie’s going to feel like. It’s going to feel immediate.” Keep up the good work.
One of the saddest things to me about this movie is that I've seen examples of people like Oppenheimer in real life. People who are brilliant in their own line of work, absolute geniouses, but completely inept at basic social requirements like being a father, staying faithful to a partner, or joining a sub-culture that will get you in trouble with the government. "Embrace revolution in science, why not society as well" is so incredibly logical, but so easy to ruin someone's life. I think he's on the spectrum in some way, and I think it's a common issue with people extremely gifted like him. Once you understand the fabric of reality, it's hard to care about the constructs of culture.
In Oppenheimer's case, his sub-culture was a murderous ideology, fuelled by drunk utopian hubris, and it has yet to answer for its crimes. Millions had already died in 1930s Soviet Union directly due to the actions of communist practice.
And yet, once he lost his security clearance he and Kitty stayed together and had another 3 children, and he took up sailing. ..the man was a great contradiction!
I saw this in IMAX which is an extra level of immersion. Huge screen that wraps around the audience and curves from top to bottom. Almost like a half dome. The speakers are LOUD and definitely way too loud during the previews but when the drums are ramping up tension and that otherworldy soundtrack is playing with those atomic visuals it was nothing short of a Religious experience.
The bit about Feynman trusting the glass of the windshield stopping the UV was true. He later figured he was the only person who watched the test with the naked eye.
Nolan did something interesting with the color. The color segments represented the subjective "story" version of the movie, from Oppenheimer's perspective and how he wants to be remembered. The B&W scenes represent a more objective account, using only the things in the historical record. The color scenes paint a sympathetic portrait of a complicated man, and the B&W scenes portray an opportunistic power-grabber. Though Strauss is the villain of the movie, many of the things he said were factually correct. Taken together, the movie shows the struggle in understanding Oppenheimer's life and motivations.
I didn't expect what is essentially a biopic, based in actual history, to deliver satisfying "plot twists". All of the characters and time period changes made it hard to keep up throughout the movie but it all came to a high point in those final 30 minutes. You get the takedown of Strauss, Kitty standing up for her and her husband, and the reveal of what he and Einstein talk about, and it ends with that chilling final line.
Yeah, imagine the pitch meeting. Nolan: "I want to make a three-hour, R-rated movie mostly about mathematics and politics. And a third of it will be in black and white. And I'm shooting it in IMAX." Studio: ....
Yeah, at this point you'd think people would've stopped underestimating you guys, like you were incapable of enjoying anything slightly more sophisticated. Great reaction as always.
The cyanide apple incident is attested from several sources about Oppenheimer, but his living family says that it never happened. We don't know for sure that it happened, but to me it makes sense that his family would want to say it didn't happen.
Very rarely does a movie live up to the hype. It's a masterclass in pacing and pathos with some of the most magnetic and memorable performances in recent memory.
This was an indescribable piece to experience at the cinema! I’ll remember how I felt watching it forever. Amazing, chilling work! What an incredible movie.
One of the best Nolan films, first time I heard reviews people were saying "its just so much dialogue. But I thought the dialogue was perfectly paced and suspenseful all the way to the end. Maybe the best Nolan film.
Cillian Murphy is my favourite actor! Im a retired ballet dancer and I can see how, because he is such a phenomenal stage actor, he can really change his whole appearance. In none his roles, does he look or sound the same. As Emily Blunt says, he's very clever. Do watch his other movies... many of them are Irish or British productions...watch him in Breakfast on Pluto as a transgender woman, then watch him in Red Eye and the Wind That Shakes the Barley... it's almost inconceivable that it's the same man in each film, and that these movies were made in only 18 months. Then he's completely different in Sunshine and as for Peaky Blinders...well!!! The list goes on . I really admire him ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ .
The surviving author of the book it’s based on met the cast and crew. According to Murphy, American Prometheus was required reading for the movie. There is an Oppenheimer documentary on Peacock called To End all Wars, people being interviewed include the Director and the surviving author. You two might like it
Film is probably Nolan's best script, it is incredibly dense and setups and calls back earlier lines repeatedly. I think the most important line of the film is when Oppenheimer is teaching Quantum Mechanics, and he asks whether Light exists as a wave or a particle. And then answers that it is both, which is paradoxical, but true. And that line essentially encapsulates Oppenheimer's entire character. He's someone that built the Atomic Bomb, but refuses take have responsibility over the inevitable arms race. He's for developing an A-Bomb which kills hundreds of thousands, but is against building a Hydrogen Bomb. He's a communist, and yet also a capitalist. A family man and a womanizer. He lives a life of contradictions to the point that not even he can adequately explain his own actions and beliefs. And so we are left examining a man no one can fully understand.
This film had such a big impact on me like an atomic bomb. At the end of the film, I was shaking and crying without any reason. It was shocking and at the same time and increadibly awsome. I can't discribe properly how many emotions were running through me.
One other note about Oppenheimer's motivations--the fact that he was Jewish. I appreciated the movie including the quote "It's not your people they're putting into camps, it's mine," but wish they had explored that aspect of his motivation a little more.
I already love you guys. You two and "Suzy and Steejo" both have good chemistry when reacting to movies. Not to be the American over here: but your the Australian version of Suzy and Steejo.
5:55 Niels Bohr might be a familiar name from high school chemistry class... he founded the Bohr Model of the atom, the model that stated that electrons orbit the nucleus of an atom at fixed energy levels, with different distance orbits requiring different amounts of energy to move between, and the excess energy the movement creates releases photons (energy). 20:48 yes, the Manhattan Project cost around 2 billion dollars at the time. 38:05 over 200K people died due to the explosion and the cancer from the radiation zone in the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Nothing like a little nuclear holocaust to make existential anxiety return in todays climate.
One thing that I like about Oppenheimer is that it shows both he and Turing both had connections to poisoned apples. And both were discarded and destroyed by their countries after their usefulness is done. Note also the Biblical symbolism around the Garden of Eden, and humanity's exile from it -- both snake and apple being mentioned in the same scene.
The sound in the IMAX theatre where I saw this movie was incredible.. the moment the blast and sound wave hits the scientists during the Trinity test … they must have turned every speaker in the Theatre up to maximum and pointed then all directly at the audience, the sound of the blast felt like it blew you back down into your seat.
You kids might enjoy the film, "A Beautiful Mind" starring Russel Crowe in a roll that will surprise you. It's a great film that won numerous Academy Awards (back when that meant something), numerous Critics Choice awards and a truckload of others. Like Oppenheimer, it's based on a true story and while they got a few things wrong (you have to when making a film if only for brevity) but they got most of it head on. Love your channel. Cheers!
It's a really really great movie with great actors and an amazing soundtrack! I watched it twice in Cinema and the vibrations and Sound effects...just awesome...and then this ending...
37:25, In his famous song "Russians", the singer Sting lamented "How can I save my little boy from Oppenheimer's deadly toy?" This is it when it became reality. To be honest I'm more worried about Teller's more deadly toy the hydrogen bomb, which uses an atomic bomb to kick off an even more powerful explosion.
Score for this movie is brilliant. Glad you guys noticed it. Ludwig Goransson also did The Mandalorian, Black Panther, and Creed. The score for Oppenheimer won him an Academy Award. 😊
Great reaction as usual! As I've gone back through Nolans films, I've noticed that almost every one of them (with the exception of Batman) reflect his obsession with time. I'm sure it's been brought up before by people much smarter than myself, but especially his movies interstellar, Tenet, inception, and memento really chew over time and it's meaning.
It really was a special delight to watch this in IMAX theatres, especially when the bomb went off, people were silent and glued. You're totally robbed of that moment when you watch at home. Being in the cinemas forces you (if you're respectful), to be quiet and and absorb the moment as the characters are. At home it really doesn't hit the same. This movie, and plenty of others obviously, have so many emotional beats where a silent reaction is more appropriate and impactful and doesn't require commentary or a remark. Fun reaction nonetheless though!
Good watch... Not really for everyone, and not a simple biopic! Some people dont even actually get Nolan's structure and narrative, many go with the flow of knowing from others that is good!... No other title could exist besides the one that exists! Congrats for chosing this watch!... Still not watching this one in the theaters and cinemas is missing the "experience" of the senses, that gives you the sense that you watching something deeply layered and profound!,,, In a sense its not a good movie to react, because any spooken reaction phrase or word will bring anyone to somewhat merit rational interpretation, that could make one to go look for something that Nolan is not actually interested that we should care about!... Its actually the underlined sense of threat and morality that is at play here!... And not what we may rationalize in bits of reactions thru the disclosed narrative, in an effort to make sense of things that "were, are or could be" happening!... ... Its of course... Quantum Mechanics, the study of the behavior of matter and energy at the smallest scales that the movie translates even with is desajusted space and time sense of things happening in duality and in uncertainty over that same unmeasured time periods, with the black and white being the bleak present!... Maybe!... Thats because Quantum mechanics is a fundamental theory in physics that describes the behavior of matter and energy at atomic and subatomic levels. It introduces concepts such as wave-particle duality, where particles like electrons exhibit both wave-like and particle-like properties, and superposition, where particles can exist in multiple states simultaneously. Quantum mechanics also includes the principle of uncertainty, which states that certain pairs of properties, like position and momentum, cannot both be precisely measured at the same time. This theory has profound implications for our understanding of the natural world and underpins much of modern technology, including semiconductors, lasers, and quantum computing. The film delves into the scientific, ethical, and personal dimensions of Oppenheimer's work, which is deeply intertwined with the principles of quantum mechanics and nuclear physics. all the rest in the movie is for dramatic effect of a biopic... which in reality is not the most important despite also being important its just "waves of motions"!... The important message is the "chain-reaction morality" stated in the end with Albert Einstein! Spartan is on point with it by lighting the focus on that!... He's Prometheus, a symbol of human striving, particularly the quest for scientific knowledge and technological progress. His gift of fire represents enlightenment and the spark of innovation that drives human advancement. He's also the theme of rebellion against unjust authority and the suffering that can accompany such rebellion. And of course he's also the cultural myth that influences the struggle for freedom and consequences of human creativity and ambition. In the end OPPENHEIMER like Prometheus shows us that the quest for progress comes with deeply important challenges in the morality of those that are involved in it.
Everytime I rewatch Oppenheimer here i always follow it up with a rewatch of Godzilla Minus One both films are masterpieces and both centered around the Atomic Bomb's creation and the impact of them physically and psychologically on top of the impact of everything else that happened throughout the entirety of WW2
I didn't think I would like this movie, but after having seen it I retract my statement For a movie with so much heavy dialogue and long runtime, it had me engrossed and so engaged that it felt so short watching it
Wow what a brilliant film and way of re-telling history! we were pleasantly surprised by how much we enjoyed this!
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Nice little touch, when your own background started shaking
please watch peaky plinders at some point on the channel!
React to Godzilla Minus One movie please 🙏🥺
This and the Dune movies were easily few of the best movies we watched in the last years. So much nuance, great acting all around and amazing cinematography to boot.
I do love you guys for always choosing great quality content, this thing alone probably makes you my favorite reaction channel since the hotd/got days (well plus the amazing banter). And while the boys is a severely overrated show I do the blind eyes, most of the time you do banger after banger after all, great movie choices, even good anime (like death note), topping quality with Chernobyl and even starting True Detective and Peaky blinders series now, which are absolutely BEYOND fantastic journeys.
Cheers to the fantastic australian DUO!
In the ending when Oppenheimer was speaking with Einstein, that whole sequence gives me chills every time. "I believe we have". Such a great film.
It's so good, never felt like that from a film before, it really feels like you're looking into an inevitable future that's coming for us and it's very scary and very real
My jaw dropped. Masterful.
And there was also nice post credit scene....
This, but imagine “what I’ve done” by linking park playing in the end.
The Nukes were a necessary evil. They saved millions of Japanese, and atleast a million allied soldiers. The Japanese were starving to death, but still had a three million man army left, and were never going to surrender, with a three million man army willing to fight for the homeland. Also Nuclear weapons did create a peace the world had never seen before. They prevented the third world war, and all the wars since then haven’t even added up to how many died in WW2. Hence why it has been called the “Long Peace”. As hard as is to grasp, the invention of nukes were objectively, and overall…. a good thing. Human beings needed the guarantee of total destruction to keep themselves somewhat in check.
Cillian Murphy and Robert Downey Jr. both won oscars for best actor and best supporting actor respectively for their amazing performances. Strauss for sure makes the sneaky snake tier list.
I loved Murphy winning , I wasn’t sold on RDJ though
If I remember correctly, OPPENHEIMER (2023) is only the 6th film to win Oscars for both Actor and Supporting Actor. The other 5 were GOING MY WAY (1944) (Bing Crosby and Barry Fitzgerald), THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES (1946) (Frederic March and Harold Russell), BEN-HUR (1959) (Charlton Heston and Hugh Griffith), MYSTIC RIVER (2003) (Sean Penn and Tim Robbins), and DALLAS BUYERS CLUB (2013) (Matthew McConaughey and Jared Leto).
Funny how the 3 most recent films to do this achieved it in 10-year intervals, and 4 of those 6 movies also won Picture (only MYSTIC RIVER and DALLAS BUYERS CLUB have failed to win it).
Cillian is pronounced Kilian! Phenomenal actor ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ He's fantastic in Peaky Blinders and in the dozens of Irish independent movies he's made!
"Can your hear the music?" by Ludwig Goransson is a masterpiece of a soundtrack. The second oscar win for this genius composer, we will hear of him for a lot of time
Watching this movie in the cinema was am EXPERIENCE. At times, the whole room was shaking
It was. I saw this in IMAX & the Trinity Test scene in particular was incredible.
@@cluster_f1575i wish my country had IMAX.. One day I'll try it when I travel to US!
Saw it in IMAX 3 times, hands down the best movie going experiences
Yes, I saw this in IMAX twice on the biggest screen in the UK. It was an incredible experience.
The silence when the bomb exploded was actually silent
it was insane
One of my favourite films of all time. When I saw it last year it just blew me away. A 3 hour masterpiece from beginning to end. Cillian Murphy giving one of the best performances I’ve seen. What an actor!! Absolutely deserved his Oscar for Oppenheimer. I’m glad you guys enjoyed it too.
Absolutely incredible film. My favorite film of 2023. Quite possibly Christopher Nolan’s best film, and undeniably the career defining performances from both Cillian Murphy and Robert Downey Jr. The Academy got it right with the Oscars that they gave this movie, for Best Picture, Best Director for Christopher Nolan, Best Actor for Cillian Murphy, Best Supporting Actor for Robert Downey Jr., Original Music, Cinematography, and Editing.
Not even remotely Nolan's best film, and certainly no "career-defining" performance by either of those two actors, especially not RDJ. And best film of the year? That's a total joke. Compare it to e.g. a masterpiece like _Poor Things_ and you quickly see what total nonsense those awards have become. I'd say the only redeeming feature of the film was the soundtrack.
@@hoon_solcalm down bro, stick your tampon back in
@@hoon_sol I personally thought POOR THINGS was the worst of the nominees, made even worse especially when compared to THE FAVOURITE (2018) from the same director. OPPENHEIMER was the 3rd best of the nominees in my view, after KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON and THE ZONE OF INTEREST.
At the same time, we need to realize that art is subjective, and one person's definition of best will not align with another (for example, I think GLADIATOR (2000) is the worst film to win Best Picture) and it is broad consensus of a large group of people that ultimately determines who wins.
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It's clear from the way you capitalize film titles that you have absolutely zero idea what you're talking about, and when you talk about absolute steaming garbage like _Killers of the Flower Moon_ as if it somehow weren't the total trash it was, then it's even clearer that you really have zero idea about film in general. Of course trying to pull the "muh art is subjective" out of your ass is exactly what I expect from someone who tries to elevate garbage to the same level as actual cinematic art.
@@hoon_sol Lmfao. In no universe is Poor Things a better film than Oppenheimer.
Cillian Murphy is one of the best actors alive. And so humble, he just does his work, a few interviews and then dips back to Ireland to hang out in a random pub
We did a whole Barbenheimer day when this came out. About 10 of us going for brunch, watching this, heading to the pub for a whiskey, going back to watch Barbie, then having dinner and cocktails. Not even joking one of the best days of my life.
it is good 😃
Good that you ended on Barbie lol. Ending on this movie would be a rather depressing end lol. After I watched this in theaters I spent the entire ride home imagining the world engulfed in firestorms.
Cillian Murphy is one of the greatest actors of his generation. You guys will absolutely love Peaky Blinders. Funny that you mentioned Sheldon Cooper: he once adopted cats and named them Oppenheimer, Fermi, Frisch Feynman, Teller and Zazzles 😂😂
I had watched footage of the real Oppenheimer speaking prior to seeing this movie. The moment Cillian Murphy opened his mouth and started speaking I gasped because I knew he'd get that Oscar. He embodied the man's speech and mannerisms flawlessly.
9:48, One thing that I thought was very refreshing about Oppenheimer and his contemporaries is how diverse they were in their interest. Sure he was a brilliant physicist but he also had an interest in music, art, religion, history and languages.
Quite often the representation of very smart people is that they are only interested in their particular field and clueless about all else. As we can see Oppenheimer was also a ladies man.
Also many of the scientists Oppenheimer meets in this movie are legendary figures in the sciences. Some were his heroes and some his rivals.
I went to see this when it released and the entire cinema was dead quiet when the credits rolled. Fantastic film, fantastic ending.
Yes, that was my experience as well.
Been watching you guys for a while and really enjoy your channel, but I think this might be my favorite post-content breakdown yet. You had a few insights that I missed that made me rethink a few things, and that's a pretty big deal for me. Thank you, you made me appreciate a film more than I did prior to watching your reaction.
Cillian Murphy’s was also in a film called 28 days later
If you haven’t watched it I highly recommend it 10/10 for a zombie movie
Yes! I hope they do 28 Days Later, that would be great. I’d like them to watch a few zombie movies and that, horrors too. That would propel like channel too.
Cillian Murphy is incredible I was shocked to see how he was in Peaky Blinders loool he completely owned that gangster role
Don’t find many thriller biopics out there. Filmed as a historical drama, edited and scored like an action film. A rare combo of genres, Nolan and his talented team can seemingly do anything and make it grounded, compelling, visually stunning, musically epic, and downright impressive. What’s he got up his sleeve for his next project? My notifications are set.
Cillian Murphy is such an incredible actor. He can convey such emotion without uttering a word.
The growth of this channel and you guys in particular has been beautiful to watch... You guys have really started to appreciate the depth of art.. who would have thought spartan would be watching a heavy dialogue based movie on quantum physics 💙💙
Thanks for reviewing this one.
It might interest you to know that Einstein visited Japan in 1923.
He lectured in Kyoto, Tokyo… and Hiroshima.
Greetings from Kyoto.
"We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried, most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita. Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty and to impress him takes on his multi-armed form and says,
“Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.”
I suppose we all thought that one way or another."
So glad u guys reacted to this masterpiece. My favourite film of last year and in my top films of all time.
Great reaction guys like always, This movie is another masterpiece from Nolan. What he has put before our eyes definitively deserves to be seen, as does Cillian Murphy's performance in the role of Oppenheimer and the irreconcilable but fantastic, but Robert Downey Jr. in the role of Lewis Strauss is in another level what a great performance truly amazing.
The Trinity Test recreation was filmed without special effects, Nolan is no stranger to recreating dramatic events on the big screen but in perhaps his most ambitious move yet, the director decided to film the atomic bomb test without using any CGI or visual effects. That means what you see on screen really did take place - although on a smaller scale.
The movie opens with an ominous opening caption, which reads: “Prometheus stole fire from the gods and gave it to man. For this he was chained to a rock and tortured for eternity.” The film is based on Kai Bird’s 2005 Oppenheimer biography American Prometheus and explaining the comparison, Kai writes in his book: “Like that rebellious Greek god Prometheus who stole fire from Zeus and bestowed it upon humankind, Oppenheimer gave us atomic fire.
The cast lived together during filming, Nolan moved his cast and crew into digs together. Emily Blunt likened the situation to ‘summer camp’ and told People: “We were all in the same hotel in the middle of the New Mexican desert. We only had each other.” in another unusual move, Nolan wrote the script in first person in order to reflect how most of the film is being told from Oppenheimer’s perspective and using his memories. Matt Damon told in an interview: “I’ve never seen that done before. Instead of ‘Oppenheimer walks across the room,’ it’s ‘I walk across the room.’ This was a way for him to signal that, Okay, this is what the movie’s going to feel like. It’s going to feel immediate.” Keep up the good work.
The sound design in the theater was crazy good
One of the saddest things to me about this movie is that I've seen examples of people like Oppenheimer in real life. People who are brilliant in their own line of work, absolute geniouses, but completely inept at basic social requirements like being a father, staying faithful to a partner, or joining a sub-culture that will get you in trouble with the government. "Embrace revolution in science, why not society as well" is so incredibly logical, but so easy to ruin someone's life. I think he's on the spectrum in some way, and I think it's a common issue with people extremely gifted like him. Once you understand the fabric of reality, it's hard to care about the constructs of culture.
In Oppenheimer's case, his sub-culture was a murderous ideology, fuelled by drunk utopian hubris, and it has yet to answer for its crimes. Millions had already died in 1930s Soviet Union directly due to the actions of communist practice.
And yet, once he lost his security clearance he and Kitty stayed together and had another 3 children, and he took up sailing. ..the man was a great contradiction!
Cillian Murphy KILLED IT in this one, can barely say I'm surprised though. 💜
Love the Aussie accent!
11:04 "I KNOOOOOOOOOOOERRRRRRR!"
You’ll need to see Godzilla Minus One to get the proper sequel to Oppenheimer. Both came out in 2023.
Fallout was a good sequel, was made by Chris Nolan's brother too.
I saw this in IMAX which is an extra level of immersion. Huge screen that wraps around the audience and curves from top to bottom. Almost like a half dome. The speakers are LOUD and definitely way too loud during the previews but when the drums are ramping up tension and that otherworldy soundtrack is playing with those atomic visuals it was nothing short of a Religious experience.
The bit about Feynman trusting the glass of the windshield stopping the UV was true. He later figured he was the only person who watched the test with the naked eye.
I'm sure somebody else has mentioned it but Cillian is pronounced Killian.
24:24 Jason Lannister 33:08 Dr Brenner (Papa)
"I am become Death. The destroyer of (all) worlds."
The ending of this film says it all. 😳
They should watch the clip of the real Oppenheimer saying those words, it's pretty haunting
well they havent been used since lol
I'm glad I seen this in IMAX multiple times. It was a beautiful movie
Watching this movie in IMAX was an amazing experience.
The score by Goransson is just sublime.
Nolan did something interesting with the color. The color segments represented the subjective "story" version of the movie, from Oppenheimer's perspective and how he wants to be remembered. The B&W scenes represent a more objective account, using only the things in the historical record. The color scenes paint a sympathetic portrait of a complicated man, and the B&W scenes portray an opportunistic power-grabber. Though Strauss is the villain of the movie, many of the things he said were factually correct. Taken together, the movie shows the struggle in understanding Oppenheimer's life and motivations.
You guys are becoming real science nerds. I love it ;)
Another great movie with Cillian Murphy : Sunshine.
what u got right is the short o in oppenheimer. what you got wrong is the c in cillian murphy - it's pronounced like a k
this really makes me realise you two should watch A Beautiful Mind as well! perhaps a cheeky Good Will Hunting one day too? ^_^
I didn't expect what is essentially a biopic, based in actual history, to deliver satisfying "plot twists". All of the characters and time period changes made it hard to keep up throughout the movie but it all came to a high point in those final 30 minutes. You get the takedown of Strauss, Kitty standing up for her and her husband, and the reveal of what he and Einstein talk about, and it ends with that chilling final line.
Billion dollar box office R Rated without action like deadpool just Dialogue🐐 Nolan ended the Director Goat debate that night
+ 3 Hours and a bit
Yeah, imagine the pitch meeting.
Nolan: "I want to make a three-hour, R-rated movie mostly about mathematics and politics. And a third of it will be in black and white. And I'm shooting it in IMAX."
Studio: ....
41:29 i see what you did there with the background…nice touch👏
Yeah, at this point you'd think people would've stopped underestimating you guys, like you were incapable of enjoying anything slightly more sophisticated. Great reaction as always.
I’m the extra playing cards at 34:43 😂
haha are you actually? that's pretty cool!
@@SpartanandPudgey Yes! I worked at Los Alamos and they wanted real scientists to play the background scientists.
@@samn1952Lol spill the secrets on Bob Lazar
31:12 I love this line because I feel like it’s essentially the thesis for the whole film.
41:30 how the background of them started shaking just as the film's background 😂😂😂
Did you notice, that Haakon Chevalier was played by the same actor who played Tyland and Jason Lannister in HotD?
Haha I just noticed too! He’s really good
The cyanide apple incident is attested from several sources about Oppenheimer, but his living family says that it never happened. We don't know for sure that it happened, but to me it makes sense that his family would want to say it didn't happen.
What Cillian Murphy can convey through his eyes and facial expressions is absolutely incredible! He is the next Daniel Day Lewis. Both Irish btw.
Very rarely does a movie live up to the hype. It's a masterclass in pacing and pathos with some of the most magnetic and memorable performances in recent memory.
Cillian Murphy is an absolutely INSANELY good actor.
Watch the movie "28 days later". One of the best thrillers out there!!
Spartan: The Pipe and Hat is a good look right there
Pudgey: we will get you one
Spartan:☺️ 😂
I love you guys😂
55:35 Laughing in a moment like that…… she clearly doesn’t understand the tone.
This was an indescribable piece to experience at the cinema! I’ll remember how I felt watching it forever. Amazing, chilling work! What an incredible movie.
One of the best Nolan films, first time I heard reviews people were saying "its just so much dialogue. But I thought the dialogue was perfectly paced and suspenseful all the way to the end. Maybe the best Nolan film.
Cillian Murphy is my favourite actor! Im a retired ballet dancer and I can see how, because he is such a phenomenal stage actor, he can really change his whole appearance. In none his roles, does he look or sound the same. As Emily Blunt says, he's very clever. Do watch his other movies... many of them are Irish or British productions...watch him in Breakfast on Pluto as a transgender woman, then watch him in Red Eye and the Wind That Shakes the Barley... it's almost inconceivable that it's the same man in each film, and that these movies were made in only 18 months. Then he's completely different in Sunshine and as for Peaky Blinders...well!!! The list goes on . I really admire him ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
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This was wonderful to watch with you guys. Thanks for the cool content!
Great movie choice! Love from England
Thanks for your reaction, you both are very intelligent and curious 😀
The surviving author of the book it’s based on met the cast and crew. According to Murphy, American Prometheus was required reading for the movie. There is an Oppenheimer documentary on Peacock called To End all Wars, people being interviewed include the Director and the surviving author. You two might like it
You addressed niels bohr as 'this guy' 😮😅
This movie was meant to be seen in the biggest and loudest imax screen it was fucking crazy
Film is probably Nolan's best script, it is incredibly dense and setups and calls back earlier lines repeatedly. I think the most important line of the film is when Oppenheimer is teaching Quantum Mechanics, and he asks whether Light exists as a wave or a particle. And then answers that it is both, which is paradoxical, but true. And that line essentially encapsulates Oppenheimer's entire character. He's someone that built the Atomic Bomb, but refuses take have responsibility over the inevitable arms race. He's for developing an A-Bomb which kills hundreds of thousands, but is against building a Hydrogen Bomb. He's a communist, and yet also a capitalist. A family man and a womanizer. He lives a life of contradictions to the point that not even he can adequately explain his own actions and beliefs. And so we are left examining a man no one can fully understand.
This film had such a big impact on me like an atomic bomb. At the end of the film, I was shaking and crying without any reason. It was shocking and at the same time and increadibly awsome. I can't discribe properly how many emotions were running through me.
One other note about Oppenheimer's motivations--the fact that he was Jewish. I appreciated the movie including the quote "It's not your people they're putting into camps, it's mine," but wish they had explored that aspect of his motivation a little more.
I think this is such a brilliantly done film, for its subject matter, it just ramps up, and keeps your attention.
Ludwig Göransson's score is so good!! Smooth and haunting at the same time!
The chain reaction he was scared of was a lot worse then he thought was the best part of this movie
Yo, Imagine had they casted Bryan cranston for Heisenberg here😅😂... Would have been a slick move
6:36 “Similar to my brain”
…🤨”Please”
You guys are funny 😂
The apple symbolizes knowledge, and Oppenheimer poisoning it, symbolizes poisoned knowledge. As in dangerous, world changing discovery.
I already love you guys. You two and "Suzy and Steejo" both have good chemistry when reacting to movies.
Not to be the American over here: but your the Australian version of Suzy and Steejo.
5:55 Niels Bohr might be a familiar name from high school chemistry class... he founded the Bohr Model of the atom, the model that stated that electrons orbit the nucleus of an atom at fixed energy levels, with different distance orbits requiring different amounts of energy to move between, and the excess energy the movement creates releases photons (energy).
20:48 yes, the Manhattan Project cost around 2 billion dollars at the time.
38:05 over 200K people died due to the explosion and the cancer from the radiation zone in the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Nothing like a little nuclear holocaust to make existential anxiety return in todays climate.
One thing that I like about Oppenheimer is that it shows both he and Turing both had connections to poisoned apples. And both were discarded and destroyed by their countries after their usefulness is done. Note also the Biblical symbolism around the Garden of Eden, and humanity's exile from it -- both snake and apple being mentioned in the same scene.
The sound in the IMAX theatre where I saw this movie was incredible.. the moment the blast and sound wave hits the scientists during the Trinity test … they must have turned every speaker in the Theatre up to maximum and pointed then all directly at the audience, the sound of the blast felt like it blew you back down into your seat.
I think the President Truman scene went over your heads
You kids might enjoy the film, "A Beautiful Mind" starring Russel Crowe in a roll that will surprise you. It's a great film that won numerous Academy Awards (back when that meant something), numerous Critics Choice awards and a truckload of others. Like Oppenheimer, it's based on a true story and while they got a few things wrong (you have to when making a film if only for brevity) but they got most of it head on. Love your channel. Cheers!
Greetings from Poland
Great reaction! Should react to V for vendetta or pursuit of happyness both great films
It's a really really great movie with great actors and an amazing soundtrack! I watched it twice in Cinema and the vibrations and Sound effects...just awesome...and then this ending...
37:25, In his famous song "Russians", the singer Sting lamented "How can I save my little boy from Oppenheimer's deadly toy?" This is it when it became reality.
To be honest I'm more worried about Teller's more deadly toy the hydrogen bomb, which uses an atomic bomb to kick off an even more powerful explosion.
Score for this movie is brilliant. Glad you guys noticed it. Ludwig Goransson also did The Mandalorian, Black Panther, and Creed. The score for Oppenheimer won him an Academy Award. 😊
"This guy's always sweating" had me dead
Great reaction as usual! As I've gone back through Nolans films, I've noticed that almost every one of them (with the exception of Batman) reflect his obsession with time. I'm sure it's been brought up before by people much smarter than myself, but especially his movies interstellar, Tenet, inception, and memento really chew over time and it's meaning.
Amazing in the IMAX theater. I always make it a point to go see Nolan’s film in the theater and if possible IMAX.
This movie is amazing.
It really was a special delight to watch this in IMAX theatres, especially when the bomb went off, people were silent and glued. You're totally robbed of that moment when you watch at home. Being in the cinemas forces you (if you're respectful), to be quiet and and absorb the moment as the characters are. At home it really doesn't hit the same. This movie, and plenty of others obviously, have so many emotional beats where a silent reaction is more appropriate and impactful and doesn't require commentary or a remark. Fun reaction nonetheless though!
since you guys are on a nolan spree, I hope you guys give memento a watch someday which is his first movie if i recall correctly.
That scene with Oppenheimer and Einstein is like "The Avengers", but for people who know the multiplication table.
And Kurt Gödel.
Don't be that guy
Good watch... Not really for everyone, and not a simple biopic! Some people dont even actually get Nolan's structure and narrative, many go with the flow of knowing from others that is good!... No other title could exist besides the one that exists! Congrats for chosing this watch!... Still not watching this one in the theaters and cinemas is missing the "experience" of the senses, that gives you the sense that you watching something deeply layered and profound!,,,
In a sense its not a good movie to react, because any spooken reaction phrase or word will bring anyone to somewhat merit rational interpretation, that could make one to go look for something that Nolan is not actually interested that we should care about!... Its actually the underlined sense of threat and morality that is at play here!... And not what we may rationalize in bits of reactions thru the disclosed narrative, in an effort to make sense of things that "were, are or could be" happening!...
... Its of course... Quantum Mechanics, the study of the behavior of matter and energy at the smallest scales that the movie translates even with is desajusted space and time sense of things happening in duality and in uncertainty over that same unmeasured time periods, with the black and white being the bleak present!... Maybe!... Thats because Quantum mechanics is a fundamental theory in physics that describes the behavior of matter and energy at atomic and subatomic levels. It introduces concepts such as wave-particle duality, where particles like electrons exhibit both wave-like and particle-like properties, and superposition, where particles can exist in multiple states simultaneously. Quantum mechanics also includes the principle of uncertainty, which states that certain pairs of properties, like position and momentum, cannot both be precisely measured at the same time.
This theory has profound implications for our understanding of the natural world and underpins much of modern technology, including semiconductors, lasers, and quantum computing. The film delves into the scientific, ethical, and personal dimensions of Oppenheimer's work, which is deeply intertwined with the principles of quantum mechanics and nuclear physics.
all the rest in the movie is for dramatic effect of a biopic... which in reality is not the most important despite also being important its just "waves of motions"!... The important message is the "chain-reaction morality" stated in the end with Albert Einstein! Spartan is on point with it by lighting the focus on that!...
He's Prometheus, a symbol of human striving, particularly the quest for scientific knowledge and technological progress. His gift of fire represents enlightenment and the spark of innovation that drives human advancement. He's also the theme of rebellion against unjust authority and the suffering that can accompany such rebellion. And of course he's also the cultural myth that influences the struggle for freedom and consequences of human creativity and ambition. In the end OPPENHEIMER like Prometheus shows us that the quest for progress comes with deeply important challenges in the morality of those that are involved in it.
One of the best movies in a long time. Christopher does it again, what a legend
I’m so happy I saw it in IMAX
Everytime I rewatch Oppenheimer here i always follow it up with a rewatch of Godzilla Minus One both films are masterpieces and both centered around the Atomic Bomb's creation and the impact of them physically and psychologically on top of the impact of everything else that happened throughout the entirety of WW2
15:36 … that’s not an interesting perspective. That’s what really is.
34:15 "Take in the sheets" because there will be radioactive dust in the air.
Spartan "yeah it was good but i miss Billy man"
😂
Tenet or Shutter Island got to be next!
You saw him for the first time in `28 Days Later`, except you haven`t seen `28 Days Later`.
I didn't think I would like this movie, but after having seen it I retract my statement
For a movie with so much heavy dialogue and long runtime, it had me engrossed and so engaged that it felt so short watching it
This movie is a masterpiece. Cillian Murphy absolutely killed it. Can’t wait to see you guys reacting to Peaky Blinders, hope it happens