Oppenheimer kinda sucked

[Gabbar99]

I'm sure we've had a thread on it before, but didn't feel like searching for it. Sorry.

We watched it the other night. The first part jumped around between timelines and it was annoying to keep track where we were.

The middle part where they actually built the bomb was fairly compelling, but they could have told us more. They showed the test bomb being wired up but never had the general ask how it was detonated or how they detonated the bombs dropped from the plane. It was not meant to be scientific, but it would have taken a minute to satisfy our curiosity about some things.

Then (spoiler alert) they drop the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the movie is about over, right? Wrong. We get long, long, long scenes about the minutia of Oppenheimer's security clearance hearings and Strauss's confirmation hearings. I get the point is the moral and ethical debate about what they did, but that's lost on the whole procedural.

Wasn't terrible, just disappointing.

[Bando]

wut

[Karl_Hungus]

Then (spoiler alert) they drop the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

They did? Thanks for ruining the movie

[Cantplankwell]

I found it very disappointing.

What ruined it for me was listening to the audio book "The making of the Atomic Bomb" first. It was an eye opener of how things went from a theory to use in just 3 years, and how incredibly complex that process was, as well as the many characters that came and went and their contributions to the Manhattan project. I think the movie producers made an impossible task for themselves because JRO is inexorably tied to the story of the atomic bomb. It would have been better in say a 10 part Netflix series where the difference facets of his life and the Manhattan project could be better explained in contrast to the constant jumping around.

Also found it hard to fathom Oppenheimer getting naked with the ladies, this did not fit.

[Payton1221]

It's been a while since I watched it, but I recall it being two movies: the first half and the second half. I liked the first part but not the second.