My grandfather was part of the Manhattan Project. He conducted research on uranium isotope separation. Afterwords he spent the rest of his life (for as long as he could) too limiting nuclear weapons and advocating against their use.

Oppenheimer’s removal of his security clearance was not about attributing blame for the A-bomb, rather punishment for not supporting the H-bomb, along with Strauss’s vendetta against him. The last visit to Jean also played a big part (McCarthyism was big at the time, which I’m sure you are aware of as you have a good knowledge of history). And yes, it was worth watching in an iMax theatre.

@wilmaso

4 ай бұрын

It was a true Imax experience

American Prometheus is also the name of the book the movie was based off of :)

I quickly realized, while watching this, if i had to ask myself "is that so and so" yes it was 😂 Also, the one wbryone misses is Gustav Skarsgaard. Who played Floki in Vikings was Hans Bethe.

Thank you, Derek! ☢ What a ride, right? Thank you for speaking so eloquently on the philosophies explored in it. ෴ As for comparisons to the pink-lovin' doll movie, I say they're very like apples and oranges. Since you asked, I saw them both the same day... and I'm glad I saw BARBIE (2023) second... it enabled me to be able to get to sleep without nightmares.

This movie was my best theater experience. So good I watched it 3 times. Nolan movies are meant to be seen on the big screen. After Interstellar, this is IMO Nolan's best film

@christianlucas91

5 ай бұрын

i watched it 3 times too haha..

@OpenGL4ever

5 ай бұрын

I watched it one time in an IMAX theater and i was disappointed by the bomb scene. It didn't look like a nuke because it wasn't a nuke, when they made the movie.

@CarlosAM1

4 ай бұрын

@@OpenGL4ever True. Honestly that is the only part of the movie I can truly say I did not like at all, at least visually.

You mentioned the bongos... That was Feynman.

9:45 that is Alex Wolff from Hereditary! I didn’t notice, good catch!

great reaction!

banger video

I loved this movie. It is the best picture and any cinephile trying to make a case for others like flower moon, past lives, holdovers is just pontificating to hear themselves talk. -u can’t put the genie back in the bottle but it was inevitable whether it was Oppenheimer or anyone else.

Good, it did its job

and Joe McCarthy came along to make everything swell again.

Look its Han Solo😂😂😂

I appreciate the T-shirt. "Grayduck" is the best way to play the game. None of that "Goose" nonsense. :)

5 mins to Midnight ... still.

52:10 yep. We watched Oppenheimer first, then Barbie, with a 40 minute or so break in between. I still think they could've edited it down to 2 hours, maybe 2.5 hours. It definitely was an experience to see it in the theater.

Black and white vs color is Strauss vs Oppenheimer. Not subjective vs objective.

@b3z3jm3nny

5 ай бұрын

… did you tell that to Nolan? Cause he said “One is in colour, and that’s Oppenheimer’s subjective experience. That’s the bulk of the film. Then the other is a black and white timeline. It’s a more objective view of his story from a different character’s point of view.”

@Jabberwocky415

5 ай бұрын

@@b3z3jm3nny Objective in that it’s from outside Oppenheimer’s perspective. But it’s still from Strauss’ point of view, so not entirely historically objective.

@wanipokfilm.4879

5 ай бұрын

Actually, Black and White vs. Color are Fission vs. Fusion, Because the beginning of the film shows Oppenheimer and Strauss for close-up shot.

So in your opinion every single japanese soldier and citizen would commit suicide instead of surrendering? sorry but this is a bit of a convenient fable. and don't you think if that was the case they wouldn't have surrendered even after the atomic bomb? If they all wanted to die as you say why surrender? Or maybe the idea was we have spent a lot of money let's see what kind of damage this thing can do? and maybe scare the soviets (since the cold war had practically already started) ?

@SleepyWaffles

5 ай бұрын

Not necessarily commit suicide, but fight until the last man? Yes. That is a historical fact confirmed by interviews of both Japanese leadership and common soldiers. Regular foot soldiers actually thought that they were winning the war. We know that the atomic bombs were the primary factor in their surrender because the US had called for it back on July 26th. On the 29th Japan said they were increasing aircraft production. We dropped the first atomic bomb on August 6th and the second on the 9th. On the 10th they gave their intention to surrender. Without dropping the bombs, the next step was a ground invasion of Japan. Months of fighting would happen, and hundreds of thousands of lives, both American and Japanese, would have been lost. This is not a convenient fable as you say. This is backed up by many historical documents. Try reading sometime

@iKvetch558

5 ай бұрын

At the very least, the Japanese had organized and trained something like 2 million of their "civilians" to fight as part of their Volunteer Fighting Corps, and planned to use them in mass attacks armed with little more than clubs, axes and spears to try and throw the Allied landing troops back into the sea...and they were ready to use up to 26 million more of their people in a similar way. Even if not every Japanese "civilian" was going to actually fight to the death, the fact that the Japanese had notified almost 30 million men and women to be ready to follow the orders of the military to participate in fighting the invading Allies should at least change the way we should assess how many "civilians" there really were. There is also to keep in mind the fact that the Japanese had lied to their own people and told them that the Americans would do to them all the things the Japanese had done to China's civilians since 1937 at least...plus a whole lot more. The Japanese people had been told that the American Marined cut babies out of wombs to eat them, and that Allied troops would behave like the Reapers from Firefly...so the Japanese people were much less likely to surrender.

@ReverseFlash23

5 ай бұрын

@@SleepyWaffleshey turn the exhaust fan on man, your cooking too much 🔥

@JNB0723

5 ай бұрын

@@iKvetch558 Have you studied history of American occupation of Japan. American soldiers committed tons of atrocities against the Japanese following their surrender.

the most boring movie from Nolan, I enjoyed tenet more..

@ravinx9979

Ай бұрын

You just have a low attention span