The first hour and a half felt like a fast paced movie trailer, not the actual movie. I kept waiting for the intense music and the fast scenes changing to stop, but it just didn't. It was very chaotic and made it rather hard to remember characters and get a deeper understanding of interpersonal relationships. For example, we were shown that Oppenheimer had a complicated romantic relationship with a communist woman but as an audience we never got to experience it with them, and thus, it just felt flat. I guess, the fast pacing was supposed to represent the countdown to the detonation but it was just extremely annoying to follow.
Then, we have the biggest letdown of the movie - the atomic bomb, which definitely needed CGI, and I even wondered if that was THE THING that was so widely advertised. I was waiting for the movie to show Heroshima or Nagasaki and hoped that maybe there we will see the THE THING. But no. There wasn't a spectacular bomb detonation.
The movie after that becomes just extremely slow paced.
Another big letdown is the IMAX experience. It was so widely advertised that we HAVE to see it on the biggest screen possible but the truth is, the IMAX screen doesn't add anything to the movie. It can be just as easily watched on a smaller screen and it would feel the exact same way.
The idea is great, the moral undertones are what is expected from a movie about the atom bomb, but the execution is just... disappointing. It sparks good conversations but the movie experience is just not enjoyable.
Then, we have the biggest letdown of the movie - the atomic bomb, which definitely needed CGI, and I even wondered if that was THE THING that was so widely advertised. I was waiting for the movie to show Heroshima or Nagasaki and hoped that maybe there we will see the THE THING. But no. There wasn't a spectacular bomb detonation.
The movie after that becomes just extremely slow paced.
Another big letdown is the IMAX experience. It was so widely advertised that we HAVE to see it on the biggest screen possible but the truth is, the IMAX screen doesn't add anything to the movie. It can be just as easily watched on a smaller screen and it would feel the exact same way.
The idea is great, the moral undertones are what is expected from a movie about the atom bomb, but the execution is just... disappointing. It sparks good conversations but the movie experience is just not enjoyable.
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