My Review of 'Oppenheimer'

What I really loved about Oppenheimer is they painted him as a morally grey person. They don’t make him look absolutely evil and don’t make him out to be a saint.

This movie was a breath of fresh air compared to the never ending sea of superhero movies.

I liked that the movie didn't necessarily frame it as Cillian good guy, RDJ bad guy. It felt like it was giving both characters grey morals which makes it a much more believable story.

The movie is absolute masterpiece. The ending when Oppenheimer told Einstein they started a chain reaction that could end the world made every hair in my body stood up.

Ludwig Goransson’s score for the film deserves praise too. The best score I’ve heard in years and one of the greatest ever in my opinion

I don't think the messages out of the movie are contradictory. Nolan is known for not hammering a single message but rather present an open field of themes and questions and trusting the audience to reach their own conclusions.

I felt what made Oppenheimer not boring over the span of three hours is that they didn't drag any moment too long and just kept the flow and pacing even

Oppenheimer was original and though-provoking. It’s score was breathtaking as well as its acting. Loved it!

10:20 that scene isn’t showing Truman as the villain it’s just challenging his perspective. Oppenheimer is so self centered that he doesn’t realize other people have stained hands just like him. When he’s crying over Gene’s death Kitty says “you don’t get to commit a sin and then ask all of us to feel sorry for you when there are consequences”. That can genuinely be the message of the entire movie said plain right there.

One of the basic problems with Lewis Strauss is that Oppenheimer's consulting contract was coming up for renewal, and all Strauss had to do was not renew the contract and Oppenheimers' clearance would become inactive. The exact same result as taking his clearance away from him. Instead, Strauss wanted to get even with Oppenheimer for embarrassing him twice in front of Congress by humiliating Oppenheimer. What is not made clear in the movie is Strauss illegally stacked the deck by having Oppenheimer's hotel room bugged and his phone wiretapped during the hearing. Strauss also illegally had Oppenheimer's attorney's phone tapped. So, let's not even attempt to justify what Strauss did. He was petty, vindictive, and in the position to use his power to ruin someone else, which is what he tried to do. Not a very admirable performance on Strauss's part.

Being a history fan, this movie was really exciting. The whole idea of the Manhattan project- building a community to achieve a huge feat- was something always so intriguing to me. And it was nice to see an accurate portrayal of it

Oppenheimer is a film you need to watch twice because of how fast paced it is. You miss out on a lot. For instance I immediately caught this but all my friends didn’t until I mentioned it: Jean’s death might’ve been murder. There’s a blink and you’ll miss it moment of a black glove holding Jean under water. What does this mean? Well, it’s a nod to the conspiracy theories but for the context of this film I think it’s Oppenheimer imagining the worst possible outcome and his guilt. I took it as Oppy imagined an FBI agent killing her but that black glove could be him imagining himself killing her and thus feeding into his guilty conscience.

What I love is that the movie had gone to the actual locations in which Oppenheimer is heavily associated with: Princeton, NJ; UC-Berkeley; and various places in New Mexico. Even better; NO CGI. All the explosions in the movie were real.

I liked watching the audience jump in their seats when they didn’t know sound comes after sight. Apparently most politicians can’t even see right now what they are playing with. The minds and lives of the people. The young who will inherit the country better gain wisdom.

I can barely watch other 3hour movies but Oppenheimer is just so goddamn amazing and I'd very much rather watch it over and over again instead of watching like Avatar 2 or another movie over 3hours

Saw the film THREE times. Yes, ik but that is a testament to how magnificent it is. Truly a masterclass in cinema from Nolan amd a breath of fresh air in an oversaturated film industry. I definitely loved seeing it in 70mm IMAX.

When the credits were rolling I heard a couple say, "I can't believe they didn't show us bombing Japan." I thought to myself, "Wow, this movie really went right over your heads."

I cried during the film when oppenheimer finally said; "now I am become Barbie, in a Barbie world."

I fell in love with this movie opening day. And have now seen it another two times to catch things I missed. It's truly a roller coaster due to the tense score addition. Once again a great movie but Nolan's choice of Ludwig on this film added a whole other level of suspense.

I loved Oppenheimer! A 9/10 in my book, I didn’t even feel like it was 3 hours long tbh. It actually made me more interested in learning about mathematics/physics.