Oppenheimer (Full Reaction)
Added 2024-03-10 21:07:21 +0000 UTCIt's Oscar day! Since Lamby is from Ireland, we are both rooting for the Irish actor Cillian Murphy to take home an award to night! Christopher Nolan's directing was phenomenal as well! Here's hoping he wins for Best Director! I give this movie a 10/10.
Let me know your thoughts on this film!
Watched on: Peacock / Runtime: 3:00:24
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https://youtu.be/3NjXD72Wk1s?si=cFbspcsbF1qrAL1O A Deep Dive of Oppenheimer by Erik Voss👍👍
Gabriel Urias
2024-08-14 04:20:46 +0000 UTCThis was a beautiful gift and I totally enjoyed your beautifully simple yet ingenious questions of past history🤔🙂🫡😍🌹
Gabriel Urias
2024-06-22 04:14:09 +0000 UTCThere’s another way to analyze the results of this movie to assess what it says about Oppenheimer’s brilliance and ruthlessness, Dearest Jax. Consider: from the evidence in the movie can we say we know some things about what Oppie wanted and what ‘the Govt’ wanted? I think we can say that Oppie said he wanted to leave Los Alamos, stop making atomic bombs, get back to academia. We can say some members of the government wanted the exact opposite for him. Strauss hatched an elaborate plot to find a forum to attack Oppie absent an attorney, absent rules of evidence, just all the cards stacked against him. He has to protect the women in his life, trying to keep their identities secret and as much out of the mud as he can. All Oppie has to work with is his brain. If we accept those from, I guess, a simple game theory perspective, what, then, is the most satisfying result from Oppie’s point of view? Well, we’d sure like to turn Strauss’ plot against him. It’d be cool if we could do it any way either where he never knows I knew or only he knew, so if he gets dragged out of his office screaming, “It was all Oppenheimer!” he’ll sound like a loon: check I don’t want to make bombs anymore…… oh, I lost my clearance and can’t anymore? Well, shoot! Check. I need to protect the women in my life….. it was painful but I had to force my current wife to relive my infidelity……..which sucked for both of us but doing that, ultimately protected both of them. Check He even finagled a way to spend his later years with his one true love. Hard to argue that Strauss, an ambitious, intelligent, ‘schemer’ (to borrow from the Joker), a dangerous and ruthless adversary was playing checkers and Oppie was playing chess.
Lamar Smith
2024-03-21 12:08:47 +0000 UTCMy favorite movie of the year. I think I have seen it 9 times now.
DITI123
2024-03-17 04:22:01 +0000 UTCThere were so many moments where I was like “that’s my new favorite scene!” I can’t name a favorite at this point lol 🙂 The movie was so densely packed with amazing dialogue and imagery… it was like every single frame of film mattered. Loved it, and thanks for the reaction!
CatbookPro
2024-03-15 18:34:01 +0000 UTCI haven't seen that film yet! I've heard it's incredible!
Jacqueline
2024-03-14 05:49:35 +0000 UTCThank you!! Nolan makes impeccable films!
Jacqueline
2024-03-14 05:49:07 +0000 UTCI love code words! Thanks! I'm so glad you enjoyed it.
Jacqueline
2024-03-14 05:48:02 +0000 UTCHahaha! The Irish must stick together!
Jacqueline
2024-03-14 05:47:32 +0000 UTCI had no idea Feynman played the bongos! That's so cool! I will definitely check out that video.
Jacqueline
2024-03-14 05:41:39 +0000 UTCAlso, good eye spotting Gary Oldman as Truman! He was totally unrecognizable to me.
Horace Cocroft
2024-03-14 02:53:55 +0000 UTCIt's such a great movie! ❤️
Jacqueline
2024-03-14 00:31:09 +0000 UTCAs long as you're doing Nolan films, Inception has enough action to qualify for a viewing in the action catagory.
Horace Cocroft
2024-03-13 19:17:53 +0000 UTCKeep the Nolan films coming!!! LOVED THIS REACTION (AS USUAL)
DaftBasterd
2024-03-13 03:18:04 +0000 UTCSome might remember Tom Conti (Einstein) as Ross's ephemeral English father-in-law in Friends. :-) I hadn't recognized Josh Hartnett (Ernest Lawrence) , who looked surprisingly good. (No, I haven't seen Penny Dreadful.)
Happy Hanukkah
2024-03-12 20:52:57 +0000 UTCMathew Modine who is in this film as well as playing Papa in Stranger Things, is a REALLY good actor. He has been in many famous films. He was the police captain who hides in his house in "The Dark Knight Rises." EDIT:Oh, the actor who plays Einstein was also in The Dark Knight Rises.
Christopher Boscarino
2024-03-12 15:38:59 +0000 UTCCode: Bring In The Sheets! Such a great reaction! Keep up the great work, Jax!
Mister Lou
2024-03-12 05:53:06 +0000 UTCSupporting Strauss’ and anyone else following nuclear development’s opinion are some incontrovertible facts. 1. Though somewhat sped up, the Soviet efforts, essentially, mirrored the American development. Some of this is just the requirements on science, before you get the big boom there are several intermediate steps to go through and both regimes checked a similar-enough looking list to make a side-by-side comparison inevitable and the conclusion is inescapable - the Soviets achieved the same feats in less time, though the exact day to day process was hidden. 2. The Soviets DID receive intelligence, instructions and advice from within Los Alamos. There WAS spying involved though never definitively linked to Oppie. The Rosenbergs and others spring to mind. 3. Mitigating factors also explain the shortened Soviet path. The Soviet system is designed to be able to throw massive amounts of men and material at problems to satisfy the leader. The Americans were forced, in many instances, to stab into the dark for all the myriad solutions required. The Soviets had the advantage of working on a problem they KNEW was solvable. “We KNOW the Americans accomplished this…… we just have to figure out the HOW.” In that ‘Red Scare’ era, Strauss might have gone too far targeting Oppie so personally but his thinking, seems to me, isn’t too out of bounds. It seems every logical step he took was more or less reasonable until the conclusion, “……and it was ALL Oppies’ fault!”
Lamar Smith
2024-03-11 15:29:44 +0000 UTCBest picture, best director, best actor, best supporting actor. (Also best original score, cinematography, and film editing.) Well deserved.
Happy Hanukkah
2024-03-11 08:48:09 +0000 UTC2:50:53 Well, big surprise! Of course Irish Lamby and Irish JFK are going to side with Irish Cillian Murphy! :-)
Happy Hanukkah
2024-03-11 08:44:14 +0000 UTCLeaving aside Oppenheimer and considering Strauss: The movie presents Strauss as a villain. In real life, as usual, the issue is more contentious. I do not have any firm opinion, but here's the basis for the counter-argument (cherry-picking and lightly editing Wikipedia): "Strauss's feelings towards Oppenheimer extended beyond disliking and disagreeing. He had become aware of Oppenheimer's former Communist affiliations before World War II and had begun to think that Oppenheimer might even be a Soviet spy. ... Strauss was suspicious of Oppenheimer's tendency to downplay Soviet capabilities. In 1953, Oppenheimer stated in Foreign Affairs that he believed the Soviets were 'about four years behind' in nuclear weapons development. The United States had exploded the first thermonuclear device the previous year; however, only a month after Oppenheimer made his proclamation, the Soviet Union declared that it had tested its own fusion-based bomb. ... Strauss's suspicions increased further with the discovery that in 1948 and 1949 Oppenheimer had tried to stop the long-range airborne detection system that Strauss had championed and that had worked in discovering the Soviet Union's first atomic weapon test."
Happy Hanukkah
2024-03-11 08:42:14 +0000 UTCRelated to this (and quoting myself): Ernest Lawrence to Oppenheimer: "You're not just self-important, you're actually important!" Here's an anecdote about Oppenheimer: "Once, Oppenheimer took Peierls and a group of graduate students to a steak restaurant for dinner. He proceeded to order his entrée rare, and this was echoed by everyone in turn until the last student at the table requested his,'Well done.' Oppie looked at him for a moment and said, 'Why don’t you have fish?'" I think it's easy to understand how Oppenheimer would have rubbed many people the wrong way. In the meritocratic community of physicists, filled with idiosyncratic characters, this was less of an issue. "If I ever meet [a humble physicist] I'll let you know." When he was outside of his circle, and especially among powerful men ... well, trouble can be foreseen.
Happy Hanukkah
2024-03-11 08:39:46 +0000 UTCChristopher Nolan is a genius when it comes to capturing concepts. The way he uses the music to make you feel uncomfortable is done so perfectly. In music when you have two waves that are different it creates a pattern that can be expressed as a fraction. The more complex the fraction is will bring your ears closer to discomfort and pain. The cool thing about waves is that they can pass through each other without effecting each other's momentum, so waves on the surface of the water always radiate in a perfect circle. Also feynman was notorious for playing the bongos, in his most famous lectures he's introduced as a bongo player rather than a theoretical physicist that he later jokes that people appreciate the arts more than they do the sciences. There is a cool video on YouTube about how Pythagoras broke music you should check it out. I think you'd find it fascinating.
Alvin Baca
2024-03-11 05:28:32 +0000 UTCThanks for your reaction. Love that movie!
Wreath35
2024-03-11 05:21:20 +0000 UTCI’m certainly open to other interpretations but I think a theme in this is about the pro/cons of being/being perceived to be the smartest guy in some awfully high-octane intellectual rooms. At one point Oppie thinks his recognized genius will protect him. It’s never stated overtly, but Oppie also seems to have ‘perfect sight’ coupled with a limited ability to alter possible futures he sees. The scientists want to see the thing built and detonated to prove their theories and the ascendency of their new science. The military want a weapon to end the current war, then want a weapon to cow the Soviets. The scientists want to prove it works to the world, but don’t want it to be used on people. The military wants to use it and Oppie realizes that handing it over means it will get used…… on civilians…… twice. Just from the different factions, it’s impossible for Oppie to satisfy all sides completely. It seems to me that Oppie had to chart a compromise course that satisfied none and had all sides expressing their frustration. As much as we say how necessary in big things compromise is, people HATE to compromise, especially when dealing with egos this big. Oppie had to deal with groups with differing agendas, all taking shots at him because he wouldn’t give either side everything they wanted.
Lamar Smith
2024-03-11 03:05:06 +0000 UTCCillian Murphy, Christopher Nolan, RDJ and the movie just won the Oscars. Super cool!!
Andy
2024-03-11 02:50:24 +0000 UTCI don’t have to explain to a group this knowledgeable that spending even a short amount of time inside a reactor guarantees a very short, excruciatingly painful death.
Lamar Smith
2024-03-11 02:41:44 +0000 UTCAn interesting story about the Soviet nuclear efforts. As the Russians were going to bring their first reactor fully online, most of Stalin’s gaze was centered on every detail of this. His perverted, corrupt, practically universally despised, head of KGB, Lavrenti Beria, who serially raped the female members of the Moscow ballet, often disturbingly young members of the same. So, Beria viewed this activation as his ‘baby.’ At one point, being a paranoid creature of the secret police, he insisted to the chief engineer (The Soviet Oppenheimer, essentially) that he be INSIDE the reactor room when it activated so he could ensure success. The Soviet Oppie turned absolutely white with terror and only with great difficulty managed to talk him out of it. I just wonder if the world wouldn’t have been a better place without that absolute toad of a human being.
Lamar Smith
2024-03-11 02:39:31 +0000 UTCYes it is!
Jacqueline
2024-03-10 22:29:46 +0000 UTCWow, I had no idea his brother was working on a project like that! It sounds great. I definitely want to watch the trailer! It's cool they both are telling very different stories around atomic energy!
Jacqueline
2024-03-10 22:29:27 +0000 UTCIndeed!
Jacqueline
2024-03-10 22:26:52 +0000 UTCRight!? I wanted to say so much but I didn't want to miss anything. The dialgue was wonderful. I felt unusually quiet throughout this reaction. ❤️
Jacqueline
2024-03-10 22:26:08 +0000 UTCMasterpiece.
Steve Mercier
2024-03-10 21:39:30 +0000 UTCSo just a funny little connection to this film. Christopher Nolan's brother Jonathan Nolan is actually directing and writing a Fallout TV series with all the episodes releasing on April 12, 2024. Fallout is a post-apocalyptic role-playing game series set within a world that instead of fearing the creation of the Atom Bomb embraced it and atomic energy became the main source of power giving birth to a new retro futurism world inspired by what people in the 1950s thought the future would look like. All I'll give away in case you ever dive into the show when it releases but the Fallout universe is VERY interesting in it's history, aesthetic, characters, and lore. But in many ways you can look at Oppenheimer as the prequal to Fallout both directed by two brothers, no idea if Christopher Nolan had any involvement but i imagine they talked together about the two projects and how they just happened to be both working on Nuclear themed movies/shows. Fallout Trailer: https://youtu.be/V-mugKDQDlg Don't have to reaction to the trailer (Could always do a fun live stream where you watch the latest movie/show trailers if that sounds fun) but I think you'd find it interesting after watching Oppenheimer and the fact both projects are connected by the Nolan brothers and the creation of the Atom Bomb by Oppenheimer and his team. Edit: Forgot to mention but unlike something like The Last of Us show the Fallout TV series is not an adaptation of any of the games but it's own stand alone canonical story set within the Fallout universe. It's also going to act as a great starting point for anyone not too aware of the games so you can go into this series with zero insight into the series, not everyone plays video games so having a Fallout show will be a great way to showcase this amazing universe to a whole new audience.
LittleGalaxyBoy
2024-03-10 21:38:35 +0000 UTCI just watched this on the plane! Such a difficult life, difficult path to try to navigate
Lamar Smith
2024-03-10 21:20:37 +0000 UTCThis will be a true test of your reaction skillz. Going to be hard to not just sit quietly and take it in. I know that was me when I watched it the first time...
Steve J
2024-03-10 21:09:54 +0000 UTC
