Matt Christman - Oppenheimer

[@RibbyCribby]

I miss Matt. Hope he's feeling better soon

[@mrpaul79]

He's out of the hospital!

[@Personal_Chizo]

​@@mrpaul79Is he? Ah, damn, that's great to read! ❤

[@andrewseaman9913]

Recovery from a stroke can be a long road, and the more he focuses on rehabilitation now the better he will be. The real pernicious thing is that, soon after, you *feel* pretty alright, all things considered, but its an uphill climb back to normal physical function albeit a climb that is worth pursuing with all of your attention.

[@mikeds22]

@@andrewseaman9913do we know it was a stroke?

[@kidnameless]

​@@mikeds22 He basically confirmed it on Twitter, yes. I'll just write what he said here in parentheses so you aren't forced to look it up. (TED TALK: "I had a stroke, I experienced ego death and collective consciousness. I realized we are one with the universe." ME: "I experienced that Dracula was cool.")

[@nickbooze9766]

Blessed thumbnail

[@berdyderg900]

We must make it reality

[@Badtown1988]

The Truman scene was beyond chilling and yet also made me laugh out loud.

[@masontthompson81]

I heard about that meeting from Dan Carlin's podcast. Truman was apparently a bit harsher and more vulgar than how he's portrayed here.

[@ItsOgre]

Supposedly Matt had a stroke, at least he tweeted as such, hopefully he can build some new grooves and rebuild old ones in his brain because I truly appreciate these little gems.

[@muscularclassrepresentativ5663]

WE’RE SO BACK WOOOOO

[@mattgilbert7347]

The Truman scene is very much a "why settle for the lesser of two evils?" moment.

[@na8291]

pleased to report that our treat boy had resumed posting today

[@sandrasim46]

Between oppenheimer and Dunkirk, nolans portrayals of ww2 are strangely dry and sterile and clean, very british

[@Retrostar619]

I remember hearing Dunkirk is Nolan dealing with wated time and emotional repression, and that feels about right to me.

[@Mekaniac]

i miss him

[@stevensmith1031]

Same

[@IjwPetersen]

same. glad he's out of the hospital

[@seanruss2217]

Well done, great edits keep it up

[@akshatjain2775]

The sermons of Christman

[@TheJugmll]

thank you as always for these!

[@c.andrew3944]

Today I am thankfull for Mr. Chapo and Speaker of the House Delegate for this cut.

[@timchuck9969]

Has Matt seen Twin Peaks the Return? That show has the artistic version of the story of the bomb that he’s looking for here

[@78deathface]

I feel like he’s said he’s not into Lynch, but I could be wrong

[@markkeogh2190]

Possibly the best TV show ever made.

[@mattgilbert7347]

@@markkeogh2190 Episode 8 is the Apex of TV

[@mattgilbert7347]

@@78deathface You're right

[@masontthompson81]

I want a movie with Oldmans Churchill and Truman just talking to each other.

[@zainmudassir2964]

Two Ghouls of history sharing times. Churchill celebrating the Great Bengal Famine while drinking

[@Saramusvasque2838]

And then hear about him killing JFK as Lee Harvey oswald

[@pinkmatter8488]

you should do one on when they talked about Assassin 33 A.D.

[@stevensmith1031]

Agreed, that was a banger

[@DLSacks]

My friends and I actually watched that because of Chapo and it's exactly like they say, it sort of unironically rocks.

[@yeetboi9817]

I think the conversations were a little neat sometimes, like they were finishing eachothers sentences. Like Sorkin - lite.

[@Garrett1240]

Nolan is every 18yr olds fav filmmaker, as well as Ben Shapiro’s apparently. Oppenheimer might be the most Nolan-esque Christopher Nolan movie to date too. I enjoyed it.

[@tokilladaemon]

Yeah its weird cos his movies are a lot less profound than they appear to be superficially, which would usually really annoy me, but somehow most of them are still very entertaining. Interstellar was a load of crap tho

[@danielyoung6778]

Yeah he's a good first filmmaker because he kind of has the perfect alchemy to seem cool to a teenage boy. His movies are about hyper competent, genius and troubled straight men who feel isolated in society and through their genius try to change it. The fact that they are narratively complicated but not thematically or morally difficult helps a lot too.

[@sheriffliberty9302]

Interesting take, Kubrick was a life long UK resident and his movies became more cold and distant after he moved there...

[@Garrett1240]

No he wasn’t a lifelong UK resident. He grew up in NYC and lived his first 30-something years there.

[@ashsherod6321]

"it's an atomic Lucifer that takes over the world." In Twin Peaks S03E08 that's done directly.

[@TheBarkingGnome]

Optimist take: Truman was disgusted by Oppenheimer's guilt because Truman believed himself to be the truly guilty party, and had long wrestled with the guilt of "pressing the button". So to see Oppenheimer show such torment threw Truman into a bitter rage, as if to say "You think YOU did this? Motherfucker, you have no idea what the weight of that bomb felt like."

[@thorharter8658]

I saw the elongation of the narrative as Nolan applying the breaks to the plot, the series of events that drive the narrative, right as Oppenheimer completely loses control and tries to slow down this machine process that he was a part of but didn't realize it's orientation until he was discarded by it.

[@berdyderg900]

Good channel, algorithm, etc

[@cooladam9930]

It was weird how bad the bomb looked in Oppenheimer after it was hyped so much

[@StamesJevens]

Weird how mid the entire movie is

[@AloisWeimar]

Speedy Recovery to our favorite communard

[@ImZeroDayz]

Miss u Matt!

[@lmackenzie9198]

What does Matt mean when he refers to the end of WWII as the killing of Christ

[@DLSacks]

I felt mixed on Oppenheimer. The trinity scene and the "victory" speech scene were absolutely jaw dropping 10/10 scenes. They were also the only two scenes without that goddamn incessent score that Nolan insists upon. The movie itself is decidedly left-wing and has real things to say, but is frustrated by its own non-linear overlapping story structure. There's a version of this where all three stories could have been told linearly that would have likely been better. There's no reason to film and structure it like Memento. The music and editing are this weird crutch because Nolan doesn't seem to trust the dialogue or his actors which is insane because it's an all-star cast. I really like Matt's take here on Nolan as a literalist who struggles to hit the right notes, but the struggle becomes part of the effect of seeing the movie. It was absolutely worth seeing, a thumbs up recommended movie for me, but I can't imagine rewatching it because it does lack that transcendent element that other directors imbue into their projects.

[@dickdingus775]

Oppenheimer is nowhere near as obtuse as memento

[@DLSacks]

I know what you're saying, but Memento only had 2 simultaneous stories being told and this has 3. And Memento's second story-telling device is basically functioning as pure expository narration for the first half of the movie - it's only when we realize that the B&W is more than exposition and links to the in-color events that it gets more confusing. Oppenheimer has two in-color stories moving forward and a B&W and it's not really clear why it needs to jump between them. Maybe I do need to re-watch it, but I didn't find a compelling story or character reason for the movie to be told that way. I like Matt's analysis that Nolan might be struggling to figure out which story he wants to tell too.

[@shadyd2544]

This is pretty much the best you can get from modern Hollywood. Enjoy it because real movies in the mainstream at least are going downward to say the least. People couldn't even handle how "negative" Avengered Infinite war ended even knowing it had a freaking sequel. Good luck on the future.

[@dickdingus775]

@@DLSacks I think your critiques are fair and it's ultimately a matter of preference, personally I thought the nonlinear structure worked because it undercuts all the vaguely triumphant "I fucking love Science" discovery stuff of the beginning half with the crushing knowledge of where this is all headed, to the brutal instrumentalization of all these breakthroughs in theoretical physics by a reptilian politic elite for war crimes and political hegemony I also think there is value in nonlinear storytelling in plot that centers the work of a lot of great physicists who fundamentally upended a lot of common sense notions of how reality operates, the guy most associated with the relativity of time is a big supporting character here :)

[@JPH1138]

@@DLSacks Well, a big reason for not having it in chronological order would mean that the film would keep going long after it would have felt like it should have finished to follow Strauss's confirmation hearing or dropping those scenes. I think at the end of the day he wanted to tell a story about there not being any human achievement, no matter how momentous or dangerous, that cannot be completely hijacked by petty men playing politics and that's why Lewis Strauss was such a big part of the movie.

[@zainmudassir2964]

Hope matt recovers

[@icarusearthbound]

Matt cannot fail, we can only fail matt

[@davidkite7529]

Is world war 2 boring yet?...........no? Still a vastly intriguing subject for film? Good just checking

[@Garrett1240]

Ben Wheatley did Meg 2?

[@vashsunglasses]

I've never understood the critique that Nolan movies are unemotional. If he's a reptile, maybe I'm one too? That's the only thing I can figure. That or there's multiple mental definitions of "emotional" and mine is different from some other people's.

[@MatauReviews]

Probably! I’d pay good money to see him do a rom com

[@jm6406]

have to assume I have a similar autism to whatever nolan gets up to in his movies

[@diegowushu]

I don't know how anyone can watch Fisher's final conversation with his father in Inception and still think there's not emotion enough in his films. It makes me tear up without fail.

[@Retrostar619]

​​@@diegowushuI think with Nolan, he's viewing the human condition from behind frosted glass. So whenever you get a scene like this, it's like Nolan is doing his best impression of heightened emotions. It's good enough to pass, but it's only ever a copy of a copy.

[@northwestpsychfest7329]

Barbie is kinda fun. Saw it with my mom and sis

[@DLSacks]

Still haven't seen Barbie, want to, but I'm fully expecting it to be like a Pixar movie. As in, well-made, kind-of-funny, with a positive up-beat message about "being yourself" or what-have-you from a decidedly 2nd-3rd wave feminist perspective. But with nothing really particularly new, interesting or insightful to say unless you're young, and not used to entertainment being that way. Also, because chuds hate it (and Pixar) for vaguely positive and empowering messages aimed at a diverse audience, you don't want to fall into hating those things and be lumped in with them. I think that's what Matt's doing here. He could dissect it and find it mostly empty at its core, but he's not fucking Jordan Peterson, and has no real interest in that. A real "let people enjoy things" moment from him.

[@northwestpsychfest7329]

I grew up during the prime Barbie era and my sister was big into Barbie dolls ( i was into GI Joe) and frankly the film helped me understand a bit more about the history and culture of the Barbie explosion. Prior to Barbie, the only dolls girls had marketed to them were baby dolls, the implication being that girls grew up to be mothers. Barbie turned that notion on its head and certainly was in keeping with transformational nature of its time. I think there's far more to the film than meets the eye. That said, I'm a screenwriter and a cinephile; Barbie is not a film I would see again. @@DLSacks

[@reubencanningfinkel5922]

New American MATTerialsm. Hegel in Yank flesh. I love this!

[@greg4629]

the last part is like a punchline

[@DAILYBLUNTATHON]

How can it be pretty good and also one of Nolan's better films ??? Nolan is nice wit it.

[@nicolev2028]

Biden reminds me of that Truman scene. Tragically ironic cuz Biden saw it and probably was too dense to get it

[@Peekul1]

Did this guy die?

[@damianv5385]

Sam Hyde

[@kingofsting19]

Barbie movie was fun. Matt's inner Marxist just can't accept a valid social critique divorced from material analysis. And yea, the critique is innately lesser because they can't do that because it's a Mattel product, but it's honestly not significantly worse in quality or messaging than Oppenheimer for the same reason.

[@MH-dy5pb]

Its cringe

[@PvtBlondie]

The fact that a Barbie movie came out and had any true artistic merit is an amazing feat by itself. One of the things that makes it great is the lengths they went to make a product movie by name only

[@saltoftheegg]

A man who has never once taken feminism seriously didn't like Barbie I'm shocked

[@rishishard4742]

If feminism is women dropping bombs on kids and girl bossing it up, I want no part of it

[@genxerfool9797]

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