Fat Man and Little Boy (7/9) Movie CLIP - Stop Playing God (1989) HD

[@teddownum7428]

John McGinley was terrific in this movie. What a criminally underrated actor.

[@k1lldash9]

He won 'Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series' 6 times, I wouldn't say he's underrated. I get what ya mean though, I forgot he was in Platoon for the longest time!

[@teddownum7428]

@@k1lldash9: Fair point--I could have phrased that better! He definitely *is* well regarded for his comedy, but he's also terrific in his dramatic parts (as he is here). I wish he'd get more credit for that, and more big-time roles, too.

[@k1lldash9]

@@teddownum7428 Yeah, I'd like to see him in more stuff to! I love this movie

[@nunyabidness3429]

I swear his aging is slowed down. That or he's looked 50 since he was 20.

[@AdamFoster-jc5zt]

Yeah, he's great.

[@Gankhisprawn]

That moment when Dr. Cox and Lieutenant Barclay went at it

[@ChristopherMB87]

Best holodeck program ever

[@macmaasi79]

Lieutenant Barclay is just Howling M. Murdoch in disguise

[@solid-state]

*Broccoli

[@puzzledandconfused]

Damn it, Reggie !

[@jamesburk8145]

"Dammit Kelso I don't care if they don't have insurance. I care whether we all get vaporized into radioactive dust somewhere down the line!"

[@abrahamlincoln9758]

"Hey Oppenheimer! What would ya say, ya do here?"

[@drewduncan5774]

He's just a straight shooter with upper management written all over him.

[@Pyrochazm]

I destroy worlds.

[@SAVikingSA]

Sup Abe how's things?

[@KK_on_KK]

I have a meeting with the bombs

[@adamsteele6148]

I have people skills damnit! Why don't you people understand that?!?

[@tomservo5347]

"Oppenheimer, quit playing God. You're not good at it and the position is already taken!"

[@robinj.9329]

James Robert Q. Why was that scene even in this movie? As far as I've been able to research, IT NEVER OCCURED! Just a hat tip to "political correctness"???

[@defundthepolice2007]

Robin Jacobs Many scientists working on the project were extremely morally apprehensive about completing the project the sooner the deadline approached because of the amount of people it would kill instantly by being vaporized and the fact that it would trigger a nuclear arms race that could lead to life on this planet ceasing to exist which almost happened. See Cuban missle crisis.

[@anandisrocking007]

@@defundthepolice2007 But MAD (Mutually assured destruction) worked otherwise without this USSR and USA world go to war and we would have had another world war. Dropping the bomb in Japan's was the right thing it not only saved millions of us soldiers it also saved japanese citizen as the emporor told even children to fight to death. The purple heart medal that the soldiers get till now was all made during the world war 2 in anticipation of invasion of japan. MAD is a disgusting policy to keep the peace but it works.

[@MikeGoesBadaBoom]

Ryan Harbison I believe Sakharov from the USSR, their nuclear father, and Oppenheimer both became pacifists

[@z0ttel89]

​@@robinj.9329 nuclear bombs are filth. The whole world knows that if one would be dropped today, everyone would retaliate with even more nukes and that would lead to a nuclear world war and to extinction of us as a species. Every country on earth is aware of this. Knowing and understanding this truth has nothing to do with 'political correctness'.

[@nik4790]

Man, John Mcginley really is a great actor.

[@ShadowIsatis]

If Oppenheimer hadn't done it, someone else would have.

That didn't stop Oppenheimer from regretting it for the rest of his life.

[@abrahamlincoln9758]

The unfortunate truth. We cannot disinvent, nor stop others from inventing.

[@superpilotdude]

In 1938 German scientists Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann inadvertently discovered nuclear fission. At that point the nuclear genie was out of the bottle. There was no turning back after that point. It was inevitable.

[@abrahamlincoln9758]

@Baramisio Hindsight.

[@Willaev]

@Baramisio And then it would have been invented into the Cold War, where it probably would have been used to start a war, not end one.

[@NathanStar-vw3dm]

Poor Oppy. He was just the face of inevitable progress.

[@joycesagulla9729]

STOP ALL WAR FOREVER!!!!!!

[@headsworthtg3585]

‘inevitable’

[@米空軍パイロット]

@@headsworthtg3585 Well he was by far not the only person working on the bomb. Somebody was going to figure it out within the decade.

[@Cash4gold84]

Bruno56 ted kaczynski was and will always be right. Yes, this is what progress is it’ll never stop.

[@Cash4gold84]

Bruno56 lmao right

[@Matthiasflint]

Damn, this is a good example of the circumstances that make a great Doctor Cox.

[@NeoXiao111]

I grew up in Oak Ridge and worked at ORNL. They really keep up the secrecy in and around the entire area. I can see how stressful this would be during wartime. Truly scary that this was not long ago.

[@Connection-Lost]

1989 was a long time ago man

[@buckhorncortez]

What they really get wrong is Oakridge was as big as it was because the processes barely worked individually and needed thousands of steps as a cascade in order to work at all. For the size of Oakridge, they made 10 grams of U235 a day - which is why two of the original bombs were plutonium and not uranium. The plutonium process provided far more fissile material than the U235 produced at Oakridge. They ultimately scrapped all of the calutrons after the war - which was the biggest building Y-12. So, it was not built "to make thousands of bombs." It was built to make whatever could be made as fast as possible to try and end WW II.

[@unavailableusername9694]

Well, Hollywood.

[@jonemeigh5588]

Dramatic license. And the fact that people today know Oak Ridge but probably don’t know Hanford, Washington, where the plutonium was made (hence the doctor referring to plutonium experiments going on “at Oak Ridge”).

[@blindingshadow3463]

No, fat man was plutonium, little boy was uranium?

[@blindingshadow3463]

You do realize we made thousands of them just as he said, plutonium was our design. Little boy was German, just look at the two bombs side by side. We were inefficient at first with uranium but that quickly changed.

[@feuerein]

Yep, extremely slow and tedious process, gaseous diffusion.

[@soundfridge3431]

"Now this Oppenheimer fella, he's got upper management written all over him."

[@scottmatheson3346]

oppenheimer, what would ya say ya do here?

[@inigobantok1579]

The funny thing was that Oppenheimer was brought in becoz he really has a way to rally people or eggheads under one roof and work with them.

[@KevinBalch-dt8ot]

@@scottmatheson3346 - I show up at work 15 minutes late. I used the side gate so General Groves doesn’t see me. Then I space out over my TPS Reports.

[@darkhighwayman1757]

The genie was already out of the bottle

[@cambellfan22]

1:30 its scary how accurate he mentions that everyone is going to have bombs

[@Nonaggress]

Gee it's almost like this movie was made at the end of the cold war!

[@empyreanpromethean4831]

Is it not obvious that would happen? Seems pretty obvious to me. Say there is some new technology created, or new weapon, and only law enforcement can legally have it...it's eventually going to make it to the black market and around the world so that anyone with enough money and connections can get it. It's the same principal here. It's also obvious that someone is going to set one off at some point and then another in retaliation and then another and another and another. Oppenheimer was right about one thing though...it's going to stop all war forever...because there won't be anyone left to wage war.

[@WednesdayAddamsMW]

Fortunately, only nine countries have gotten them since, though one doesn't acknowledge it. No, this doesn't include former Soviet republics that briefly possessed Soviet nukes before giving them to Russia; Russia inherited the Soviet arsenal.

[@bigj1905]

@@WednesdayAddamsMW Although technically true, most European Nations are probably capable, but the U.S, and Britain all encourage other countries not to get the bomb, as they are more than capable of protecting European countries from threats.

[@jonemeigh5588]

Well this is a movie made after the fact. But all the scientists working on the bomb knew eventually more nations would get it. I believe it was Richard Feynman who said when he was in NYC the day it was announced the Japanese surrendered, he from a skyscraper looked out over Manhattan as the celebration was going on and was sad because he was envisioning the destruction of everything he could see.

[@simonphoenix3789]

The cat was already out of the bag, and there was no way it was going back in. By this time everyone knew that, so its a good thing that it was the US who got it first.

[@shogun2215]

Was it? Was it really? Because even though the US got it first, they STILL wiped out two cities full of innocent people. And they didn't even have to.

[@develynseether4426]

Finding out your magic uncle didn't really remove his thumb or what's in the McDonalds sauce is cat out of the bag. This was more akin to opening Pandora's Box.

[@timlafreniere1580]

I have become death, the destroyer of worlds.He knew.

[@normanroscher7545]

Fortunately nuclear weapons have not destroyed the world. Yet.

[@alexrennison8070]

"You ought to stop playing God, because you are no good at it & the position is taken!" Killer line.

[@bangthehankers1985]

Powerful scene.

[@patwiggins6969]

Damn McGinley is awesome I'm this scene! I've always viewed him as a second rate/comedy actor but he shows his range here

[@hankkingsley2976]

I'm a huge Michael Bolton fan

[@deadbeef576]

You should watch Platoon, he is great in there too

[@rogerkincaid931]

Never thought Howling Mad Murdock would play Oppenheimer.

[@starguy2718]

Lt Reg Barkley

[@Nexus974]

Pretty serious acting from a couple guys known for their comedy

[@JnEricsonx]

That's usually how it works, or vice versa, like in Airplane.

[@Nexus974]

@@JnEricsonx no one can deny this is a very well acted scene

[@timandshannon03]

"Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." He knew what he did.

[@PikaPetey]

Did this actor go on to play a character in scrubs?

[@MrFunguspower]

Barclay has sure been an engineer for a long time.

[@zerocool1ist]

"Now i have become death, the destroyer of worlds." -J. Robert Oppenheimer

[@chilliecheesecake]

He was quoting the Bhagavad Gita, Einstein.

[@codymoe4986]

@chillecheesecake...Yeah, he cited the source with the original quote..go check the black and white... Congratulations, you are just as big of a poser as the original poster...

[@tykjenffs]

Easily the best 80s movie I have never seen.

[@timmayer7248]

I totally forgot McGinley is in this movie. I've gotta watch this again.

[@standardcake18]

This scene was really well done.

[@hi12235]

Ikr. Such a good scene. Acting is great. Creates such a good argument in a really intriguing crisis.

[@Shanethefilmmaker]

You know things are fucked up when Dr. Cox is talking you out of making the A-Bomb.

[@DanielMazahreh]

To be talked out of developing the bomb is a duty if one believes in creating peace in the world.

[@tigerdogg5512]

This is one of the greatest scenes in movie history!

[@hinglemccringleberry9389]

I absolutely HATE your pfp

[@marcusaurelius6012]

Dr McGinley got fired after this, and ended up as a Pl Sgt in Vietnam. Survived a huge battle near the Cambodian border, was then promoted to Platoon Commander

[@petercampbell8694]

Dr Cox's Grandfather 🤣

[@117rebel]

Well he got what mostly what he wanted. There hasn’t been a major war between powerful countries since WW2. Just small wars between powerful countries and weaker countries. That’s probably the best we can hope for.

[@thef0urth326]

At the expense of having enough nukes to end the world a hundred times over, ready and waiting to be launched. Oh, don't forget there have been several _very_ close calls, in some cases having the whole world's fate rest in the hands of one man. That's not really a great trade off. World War 2 killed, at most, 85 million people. Even a small nuclear exchange would kill billions, some through the immediate detonations, some through radiation sickness, and the rest through nuclear winter and poisonous air, land, and water. I'd take a world war every 25 years over one nuclear war.

[@limelightraver5690]

True.

[@melaniemanning2462]

Yes but for a long time the cold war had everybody scared of mutual assured destruction. So no one knew that was going to be the result.

[@pop5678eye]

The people who made the most terrifying weapon ever still underestimated the level of malice and cruelty humanity is capable of. Nuclear weapons have only ever served to deter others from using them but they have not actually stopped more wars from happening. Even with alternate WMDs or just conventional weapons wars continue to be cruel and terrifying well into the 21st century.

[@cerebralm]

The superpowers have had no kinetic war on their own soil since the invention of the bomb. That probably won't last forever, but it's not nothing.

[@slightlyaboveaveragebutaverage]

They stopped the Japanese, putting an end to WW2. MAD has prevented WW3. The wars that have existed since have been between undeveloped countries and whosoever feels the need to butt into their business. War, while it is the most awful thing, it's nothing compared to the wars that existed before the nukes dropped. Not even comparable.

[@codymoe4986]

Name a war or conflict, that has occurred since 1945, that even approaches the carnage of WW2...you can't. The reason is quite obvious...

[@slayerdoomguy1503]

Those last words slap the reality into him..... "what have I done?"

[@servodriven]

Terrific line at the end.

[@maximusdarkultima]

that's a line that can be said to most world leaders today

[@OneBiasedOpinion]

If not him, then someone else. Nobody was going to like it and he knew it. He chose to be willing to be the one whose name would be emblazoned on the discovery and the one who would be blamed for it for the rest of time.

[@The_Mimewar]

Lt. Barclay has been around!

[@hiddenfromhistory100]

we are now reaping what we have sowed

[@BaronVonSparklefarts]

Who here was waiting for Dr Cox to call him "newbie" or maybe a girls name.

[@armvex]

Not me, he look so yung he would say that to him self.

[@italbadboy4382]

Definitely going to compare this movie to Oppenheimer

[@dave23024]

1989: Fat Man and Little Boy 2023: Fat Boy and Little Man

[@maxstone9999]

He might be right. Maybe 100 years early but he might be right. Those bombs aren’t going to sit around forever unused.

[@skeetrix5577]

who's watching on the release day of the new Oppenheimer movie?

[@drahunter213]

“That place wasn’t built to make one it was made to make thausands…the war to end all wars just changed warfare itself where countries are ready to launch at a moments notice…been been in a Mexican standoff all these years to this day…

[@jetnipatteeravithayapinyo2468]

“Somebody turn off the goddamn sprinkler!”

[@joshpagano]

Leaderdogs for the Blind's "Yellow & Black Attack" brought me here

[@RodCornholio]

Still relevant sentiments.

[@feardotcm4651]

Hey was right. Now just about everyone has THE BOMB. And were just waiting for them all to go off. Scary part is, ones we have now are monsters compared to the little firecracker of then.

[@NoticerOfficial]

I seriously cannot wait for Christopher to drop his Magnum Opus on this tale

[@Wolkebuch99]

Sadly it's a bloated cult-of-personality meant to make us trust-the-soyience, this film was way better

[@Archie2c]

Dwight Schultz delivered

[@lucaliliahidas5738]

"You're not good at it, and the position is taken." Ouch

[@yourdrummer2034]

No truer words were ever said that came true.

[@AngelicusImmortus]

Sad point is, Oppenheimer was involved in the construction of the H-Bomb. And stated the famous “I am become death, destroyer of worlds” then spent the rest of his life (ruining his career) by trying to stop people using the bomb and trying to find ways to counter radiation poisoning.

[@dovbarleib3256]

Actually Oppie refused to even take part in the H bomb research. It is the main reason why they drummed him out for being a Communist.

[@codymoe4986]

Atomic bomb, not the hydrogen bomb... I believe he actually protested against the development of the latter...

[@dkbros1592]

He did what his karmic duty want he did what he has to do

[@ryancoulter4797]

There’s a Canadian series from the 70s and later the 90s called Witness To Yesterday where an actor/journalist interviews famous people from history, played by Canadian actors and celebs (Alex Trebek played Mark Twain in the 70s version). One of the 90s episodes he interviews Marie curie. She acts like she’s made a great scientific advancement. The host then plays her footage of the first atomic bomb, Hiroshima, the h bomb, the 61 crisis, and everything after. As she sits there stunned by what she sees he has the crew dim the studio lights and she sits there, glowing blue from her lifetime of radiation.

[@Seek1878]

She DID make a great scientific advancement.

[@horroRomantic444]

You could stop all wars if everyone is dead.

[@martinmartinpu]

I need an raincoat

[@patrickallison1283]

“...Oppenheimer, what would you say...you do here...”

[@abrahamlincoln9758]

"Good luck to you. I hope your nukings go really well."

[@Scrapla1]

One of many gifts from the men in small hats

[@vincefaulkner123321]

Stop war?! Well he's kinda right because after the next big one there won't be any humans left to fight each other

[@Backyardmech1]

vince faulkner And the fourth one will be fought with sticks and stones

[@waynefurnell5354]

Einstein said something along the lines of if ww3 is fought with nuclear weapons then ww4 will be fought with sticks and stones

[@chrisgraham5937]

@Matt Horkan true but you forget about the dust kick up that will blot out the sun for about 25 years...

[@ThePilot3332]

@@chrisgraham5937 pretty sure that's an overstatement.

[@AdhamOhm]

Still, there hasn't been a major world conflict on the scale of WWII since it ended. The death tolls of the so-called "wars" that came after were pathetically tiny compared to the 1940s. They were all just skirmishes. Proportional to the world's population, the decades following WWII were the most peaceful times this planet has ever seen.

[@strangelee4400]

But Mutually Assured Destruction worked...so there.

[@catwaterboy]

My plan for immortality worked, Haven't died yet.

[@abrahamlincoln9758]

That is the craziest thing about MAD. Somehow we came through the most dangerous time. Now we have to maintain. I'm not so sure we can keep it up forever.

[@ThePilot3332]

@@catwaterboy if you were projected to die soon but didn't, then it did work. No nuclear weapons would most likely mean a total war between the soviets and the west in the 50s.

[@xraystudios3693]

Wait... Is that Dwight Shultz who played Murdock in the A-team?

[@freetobe3]

Murdock and Dr. Cox together? What the hell is going on?

[@jamesfracasse8178]

William Murdoch?

[@tvmanin]

Even the rain sounds like radiation counter 🤣

[@PetersPianoShoppe]

A great scene that gets right to the heart of the matter, the likes of which is not seen in Nolan’s Oppenheimer. Also benefits from not having incessant Goransson strings blaring all over it.

[@stanley3119]

I think the Niels Bohr American Prometheus scene handled it pretty elegantly.

[@phillipkalaveras1725]

Google quit playing God. You're not good at it and the position is already taken. November 1, 2020

[@michealbaker1873]

I mean he’s not wrong a bunch of countries have a bunch of nukes now I know this has nothing to do with this but reminds me of the ethical dispute in Jurassic park

[@joesmith389]

Just waiting until he starts calling everyone Nancy.

[@MazeThePlaya]

John C. McGinley looks so small and lean here... I remember him a lot buffer.

[@waynefurnell5354]

This was 31 years ago

[@JohnnyC01]

Have you seen him in Platoon?

[@50srefugee]

"Big enough to stop all war forever." Dream on, mister. It was Nobel's Lesson all over again. But if it's possible, you have to do. HAVE to, because the other guys will do it anyway.

[@TenBear]

John C McGinley is awesome as always

[@yobroh0]

This is as real as cinema gets.

[@MrAirnike8]

NOW WHY THE FU CK DO THEY NOT TALK ABOUT THIS MOVIE?!?

[@curiousgeorge5992]

Peace in our time huh. How many Chaimberlains are there...

[@alexmiller9198]

So right. As we all know now: Oppenheimer was wrong, wars did not end. And they will not.

[@AdhamOhm]

We haven't had a conflict on the scale of WWII since then. Just small skirmishes and "wars" consisting of large powerful countries slaughtering smaller weaker countries. Far fewer people are dying now compared to the 1940s.

[@starguy2718]

"Stop playing God!" "Who's 'playing'?

[@Adrian101882]

Extremely realistic rain

[@jonahfalcon1970]

Yeah, SHODAN is the one who's too good at playing God.

[@aliensoup2420]

Discovery and invention are not singular events and do not occur in a vacuum. If it is possible, someone will eventually make it happen.

[@christopherberg8273]

The real pandoras box.

[@jimmy2k4o]

Oppenheimer playing god…….. Well if it works it works…… We waited all history for god to stop war. In the end Oppenheimer came the closest.

[@jumping438]

Best scene in the movie.

[@martinm.1967]

Is this Barclay from TNG?

[@ernesthill4017]

Yes

[@tastelesstouch]

The bomb to end all bombs

[@NinoNiemanThe1st]

The doctor linking Slotin's idiocy to awful experiments on unknowing people at Oakridge was a rather ridiculous linkage in this movie. They were two completely different things going on. One stupid-is-as-stupid-does, the other a crime against innocent people.

[@dovbarleib3256]

Plus the Oak Ridge bomb factory by the end of the war had only purified enough U 235 for 1 bomb. So the accusation against Oak Ridge was not true.

[@VulpinetideCuteTimes0w0]

Would he have preferred Hitler get his hands on nuclear weapons first?

[@calebgarrett214]

No tellin how many lives he saved

[@jonnekallu1627]

Welp. We're still here.

[@highallmighty233]

Oppenheimer should have said "where do you think we are?" would've blown his mind!

[@BedsitBob]

Am I missing something here? They're talking about *creating* a bomb, but the Demon Core accidents happened *after* the bombs were dropped on Japan?

[@jonemeigh5588]

They combined story elements from the entire timeline of atomic development for the drama. John Cusack’s character Merryman was not a real person but a an amalgam of both Daghlian and Slotin.

[@jobckts682]

I Hate these Downpour Rain scene, in every movie. Happens, on Ave, Twice a year. 8hrs total. Cmon.

[@russell5078084]

For I have become Death the destroyer of worlds.

[@aldosigmann419]

Everybody gotta die sometime Red....

[@nerovipus6327]

In many ways oppenhiemer has less to feel guilty for than most. If you even belive that he had a fraction of remorse for what he had done then he is still better than many in the world. He created something that existed only in peoples imagination and then changed his views. The rest of the world did not have that excuse. They had seen the demonstration, the devastation a d the data and still they continued.

[@jebbroham1776]

The only thing that makes us stop and think about using nukes, is the thought of what remains afterwards. Even if you were spared death from the bombs, the fallout and a world without society would finish the job.

[@ryanotte6737]

Threads... the threads would be broken indeed.

[@hankkingsley2976]

We're rocket surgeons but yet we're having a conversation out in the pouring rain

[@ryanotte6737]

Dramatic setting... to add to the drama. 😜

[@hankkingsley2976]

@@ryanotte6737 I guess but there's really nobody on this planet that I care enough about to follow them out into a freaking rainstorm to argue. At this stage in my life it's just a hell of a lot easier

[@insaneTrout]

Lol "big enough to stop all war".... nope,....just creating another pissing match.

[@Gukworks]

Barkley needs to end program and erase.

[@KevinBalch-dt8ot]

I just saw “Oppenheimer” and was “Meh”. I was a nuclear engineer and am familiar with the physics and the history of the period. But with the chronological jumping back and forth in the movie, I can’t see how any lay person who had not read the book the movie was based on “American Prometheus” would not have been lost. I haven’t seen “Fat Man and Little Boy” in its entirety but it looks like a far more appropriate movie for most people. Paul Newman did a better job portraying Leslie Groves but should have added on weight like Matt Damon did. I think people are flocking to “Oppenheimer” just based on the movie reviewers rather than talking to average people who had actually seen it.

[@atlasprime6193]

Yeah, it’s not for everyone. For me, I can easily differentiate the back and forth and follow the story till the very end, so I was greatly entertained by the whole movie.

[@crimony3054]

Seems someone could do a 12-part miniseries like they did for Chernobyl. Not now. We've done our Oppenheimer movie for a generation. Leslie Groves built the two things that America's military might is known for -- The Pentagon and the atomic bomb. Interesting he's not better known.