Oppenheimer - MOVIE REACTION!!

[@BlindWave]

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[@horstpansen1756]

"Nobel invented Dynamit" is a dumb line. Nobel was unhappy with the fact that his invention was being used for wars. That is why he has established the Nonel Prize for inventions that serve the benefit of humanity. Nobel would not have given himself a Nobel Prize.

[@levipolacek6938]

the first thing i did after leaving the moives was look up it was wild leaving 'the theater

[@OctoStar20]

That ending scene is so damn effective. Cillian Murphy portrayed a million emotions with his eyes while doing absolutely nothing. That stare alone should get him an Oscar.

[@phantom2683]

There's always greatness in Murphy's stare... First peaky blinders, and now this

[@janellelives5158]

@@phantom2683It helps that he has such piercing blue eyes.

[@SrCadet1234]

There's another movie where Cillian Murphy portrayed a million emotions with his eyes while doing absolutely nothing. It was called sunshine and it's heavily overlooked.

[@moddable6921]

Too bad the Oscars are left-wing and won't give awards to anything with no blacks in it

[@acchuptalaily7353]

@@moddable6921Oppenheimer has been an awards season darling this whole year, what the hell are you talking about??

[@robinandrews3792]

The use of the feet stamping to represent horror and anxiety is a masterstroke. The scene in the auditorium is *unbelievably* effective at conveying such a complex mixture of negative emotions.

[@ladrac198]

I was overwhelmed by that scene to the point of tears when I saw it for the first time a few days ago. The applause coming back like the sonic boom is one of the best edits I've ever seen in a film.

[@MattyBmemes]

I also get strong shame in scenes like where's he's naked talking about his cheating, the foot stomps show up but you don't have the context for the sound yet

[@mik3lang3lo]

Nolan Bro detected

[@robinandrews3792]

@@mik3lang3lo or, just maybe, someone who likes this movie a lot? :D

[@Sif3r]

​@@mik3lang3loor maybe it's someone who appreciates the intricate details that make up a masterful movie.

[@moonleafteaofthemonth]

For a 3 hour movie, the edit down on this was really good, guys. Still gives me chills. That sonic boom in the theater, I felt it again just hearing it again here. So good.

[@1100MC]

I didn't jump when the sound came back during the bomb scene because I expected it, but that crowd boom fucking caught me off guard and made me jump.

[@sschicken2333]

IMAX got my ass twice

[@koryeasterday5164]

I knew it was coming and Imax still made me jump anyway.

[@1100MC]

@@sschicken2333I heard it was fucking incredible in IMAX, sadly there was no IMAX open in Sydney when it released there, but gonna make it up and watch DUNE Part 2 in IMAX when it comes out.

[@NovusIgnis]

I felt myself not being able to breathe while the bomb was going off. It's such a breathtaking scene.

[@koushikraja331]

RDJ went from portraying a charming narcissist who was redeemable to an absolute raging egomaniac who thought that two of the greatest scientific minds on the planet would be making HIM the subject of their conversation when they got together. and 43:08, can't believe the woman whose flesh was peeling off was actually Nolan's daughter.

[@jayburn00]

To be fair, RDJ's character was a bit more complicated than how he was depicted here. He actually did a lot of good things including helping refugees and starting the atoms for peace initiative.

[@koushikraja331]

@@jayburn00 yeah, I agree, but I meant his portrayal in the movie. I had seen snippets of RDJ talking about Strauss and while he makes it clear that he is an antagonist in this story, he always mentions that he is a very complicated man.

[@fredvasquez4201]

the things He does for the cinema! Burned his own daughter! Bravo Vince!

[@MarshallFlores]

@@jayburn00 On the contrary, I think RDJ did a pretty solid job humanizing Strauss, because the film also underplays just how much Strauss stacked the deck against Oppenheimer in the hearings, including authorizing illegal wiretaps against him and his lawyer and then sharing those wiretaps with Roger Robb.

[@Kaiserboo1871]

@@koushikraja331 Well I mean, no one is completely evil or completely good. But Strauss was clearly an antagonist in Oppenheimer’s life.

[@146348]

1:05:51 Interesting fact: The line about “honeymoon” in Kyoto was actually true and a last minute improvisation by Nolan and the actor. Here’s the full backstory from a Christopher Nolan interview with Insider magazine…… Christopher Nolan has said that the most chilling line in "Oppenheimer" was actually a last-minute addition suggested to him on the day of filming. While Nolan penned the entire script for the epic three-hour movie alone, he revealed in an interview with The New York Times that there was one small improvised moment from a cast member that was too good to leave out of the final cut. The Academy Award-nominated director said that James Remar came up with the nauseating moment in which his character, Henry L. Stimson, says that they should strike Kyoto off a list of possible bombing locations in Japan because it's a "beautiful" city where he and his wife honeymooned. Nolan recalled that Remar "kept talking to me about how he learned that Stimson and his wife had honeymooned in Kyoto" after doing his own research into the then-Secretary of War. Remar explained to him "that was one of the reasons that Stimson took Kyoto off the list to be bombed," said Nolan. Nolan had initially written Stimson "crossing the city off the list because of its cultural significance," but the filmmaker told Remar to "just add" the additional line about honeymooning in Kyoto.

[@ondrejkulhavy]

Thanks for the summary!

[@ICanEatWater]

so glad he added it too, its such an eerie thing to say that the people who lived in kyoto only lived because he had a honeymoon there

[@cubed.public]

@@ICanEatWaterit is an eerie line, but I think you’re missing the point. The reason Kyoto was off, like why Tokyo and many others, was because of the importance to Japan. The beautiful-ness was a BTW moment. It’s a bit off to say it’s because of a honeymoon, I’m sure if a general had a beautiful honeymoon in Hiroshima or any other important military target they’ll still keep it on the list.

[@andrewcrowder4958]

False. Stimson and his wife never honeymooned in Kyoto. If it was an improv by Remar, it was a gutsy one, but not true.

[@146348]

@@andrewcrowder4958 Your evidence?

[@jean-philippedoyon9904]

I don't know why, but one of my favourite scene in the movie is when Oppenheimer is teaching is first class in Berkley and you see it grow and grow. The concept of literally bringing to life a field of studies to an university is crazy to think about...what would be physics without quantum mechanics today ? Seeing it evolve in your class must be exciting !!

[@chrischika7026]

Berkeley* , i know cause I go there lol

[@DetectiveLoki731]

same

[@_P785_]

One of my favorite scene in the entire movie is the very beginning, when he’s just staring at the rain drops in a puddle but it’s showing what he’s thinking about.

[@JakeRayTM]

​@@chrischika7026ok

[@immnottellingyouwho820]

​@@chrischika7026The irony of this comment is palpable... Fix your own grammer before correcting others, and maybe people would think you're educated without you needing to point out that you went to a University.

[@rodrigofoli]

"Can you hear the music" is one the most beautiful soundtracks i've heard. I was mind blown in cinema in that scene

[@NoCluYT]

Fusion is just as good if not better

[@annaliu908]

20:03, "they need us.""until they don't." is also one of my favorite lines in this movie.

[@LS13.]

They portrayed his PTSD, and his realization of what he has done so fricken well. I actually got emotional. The scene where he sees the repercussions if it was dropped on that room

[@rjtavares1480]

Going to be a crime if Ludwig doesn't win Best Score

[@loreg1]

Legitimately my favorite score of all time. An absolute masterclass.

[@kassiogomes8498]

Killers of the Flower Moon score is better.

[@sbob.]

he will

[@spresso007]

​@@kassiogomes8498nah

[@Sif3r]

​@@kassiogomes8498you forgot to add 'I think' to the beginning of your sentence

[@ZukoHalliwell]

I thought you might be interested to know that, in December, 2022, the US Secretary of Energy nullified the decision of the security hearing and posthumously reinstated Oppenheimer's security clearance. I know it doesn't do much good now that Oppenheimer's been dead for 56 years, but at least justice was finally served.

[@MyMainMan90]

That's such a shame. They tried to dent his legacy and he died knowing that they succeeded in doing so only to finally get justice in a time when it doesn't even matter

[@ZukoHalliwell]

@@MyMainMan90 I think it does still matter. I mean, Oppenheimer isn't alive to appreciate the victory, but future generations will know that he was vindicated. Also, in the long run, I'd say the security hearings were more detrimental to those who arranged it. Strauss was denied the cabinet appointment, and Borden's career and reputation suffered as a result of his role in Oppenheimer's downfall.

[@greenpiersystem]

​​@@ZukoHalliwell Also, they all got nothing and now Oppy has his clearance back in spirit. And it's not like they're going to debate a dead man when they're likely dead too. So all that effort was for nothing. It may not necessarily be a clean victory for Oppy, but it's removing the victory from Strauss and making him into an example, that's for sure. -🖊️

[@Jabberwocky415]

So in other words, it was for us, and not for him.

[@ZukoHalliwell]

@@Jabberwocky415 I guess so.

[@thekfc-kevinsfilmcommentar4855]

Never gonna forget how Oppenheimer mentioned Kennedy like they were teasing his own solo movie LMAO 😂

[@Cotsos88]

Someone needs to edit the Avengers theme after the Kennedy namedrop. 😁

[@thekfc-kevinsfilmcommentar4855]

*JFK will return*

[@Knightowl1980]

Just a bit of foreshadowing for the Cuban missile crisis.,

[@ArthurKnight1899]

also an easter egg for JFK movie by Oliver Stone, as this movie is heavily inspired from it@@Knightowl1980

[@smittyjjensin558]

​@@Knightowl1980i feel like a Christopher Nolan cuban missile crisis movie would be pretty entertaining

[@williambrackin]

Took my Dad to Oppenheimer in IMAX. He’s always trying to find something in modern movies to be critical of, possibly because he’s aware it can get on my nerves. After this one, he was genuinely impressed and said he had “no notes”. I then took my Mom to Barbie in the theater. She laughed throughout and cried at the end. I’m glad I got to participate in “Barbenheimer” at the theater. They were both outstanding for very different reasons and I wish both of these movies great luck during awards season. If I had to pick one to win Best Picture out of the two, I’d give the edge to Oppenheimer, simply for making a 3 hour biopic which is mostly just people in rooms talking, a thrilling and thought provoking film.

[@cristobaltaiba5031]

Man, if anyone doubted that Ludwig Göransson was one of the best, if not the best composer of recent years, then I think this movie is a perfect cherry on the cake, what a Monster, he has in his work: Mandalorian, Boba Fett, Black Panther, Tenet, Creed and Oppenheimer, the Goat

[@swiftlymurmurs]

And lest we forget, his greatest and most notable work, all 110 episodes of Community

[@HectorTWE]

@@swiftlymurmursthank you

[@MyMainMan90]

I noticed him first in Black Panther. He does deserve a pedestal in the world of film production like Hans Zimmer

[@jschnepp12]

The GOAT seems like a stretch. Although ludwigs been incredible, Zimmer still takes the cake in my book

[@techmaster9123]

I love "the goat" movie, didn't know he was the composer of that

[@keeganbate8935]

I love the scene where you have Einstein handing Oppenheimer back his notes on the chain reaction saying "This is yours", not only because it's literally his property but because Einstein doesn't want to be involved in this sort of project.

[@nicolaslabra2225]

he did kinda wash his hands from it, in the end when Oppenheimer tells him he really believes they destroyed the world i think Einstein knows he cant fully dodge responsability anymore

[@ReelRai]

Cillian absolutely killed this movie, he could say so much without any words, with just his eyes. Also the soundtrack is phenomenal, my two favorite parts of the movie.

[@MoreIrrelevantTwaddle]

One thing I love about this movie is the buildup to the bomb's detonation, even though we all know it goes off successfully everyone is leaning forward intense looks on their faces. That is how a movie can just suck you right in. Great reaction!

[@serial92989]

The way the Trinity sequence was made was fantastic

[@Zedd0z]

The buildup was perfectly done, but i have to say that i felt a bit disappointed in the explosion itself. It doesn't take away anything from the film, i just wished for a more "shock and awe" imagery while i was in the IMAX seat.

[@system0fadowner251]

​@Zedd0z I'm sure if Nolan could've he would've detonated a real bomb for the movie 😂 all in all tho, for a practical effect I think it looked pretty good

[@Zedd0z]

@@system0fadowner251 That is the issue in my opinion, he used a real and practical explosion, so it looked more like a big fireball rather than a nuclear bomb.

[@SanctusPaulus1962]

​@@Zedd0z A nuclear bomb literally *is* a big fireball

[@jp1170]

The almost zero chance of setting the atmosphere on fire was based solely on the very first ever ignition of that kind. Once it was proven that it wouldn't happen, it then became zero. It wasnt a per explosion kind of thing

[@Totecc]

yea, no one thought otherwise

[@jp1170]

@@Totecc They literally discuss it at the end of the video bozo

[@Totecc]

@@jp1170 why are you mad? Im saying that, no duh, it was the initial one. In terms of the conversación with oppenheimer and einstein, he believes it as a chain reaction, pandoras box open. Calm down, you have no enemies.

[@jp1170]

@@Totecc Then why comment in the first place? I was answering their post reaction question on the topic of atmospheric ignition. I gave them the information they were debating and the answer they were looking for so I dont know what you’re on about.

[@Totecc]

@@jp1170 shhh

[@be2933]

This is Christopher Nolan’s magnum opus and it’s 100% my film of the year for 2023. This is why cinema exists.

[@basicallyweeb]

I think it may be the best designed Christopher Nolan film but it isn't his Magnum Opus. It probably isn't even in his top 3 movies. Now that is just because , imo, he is the best directed on an average film basis in history but Oppenheimer is fantastic and designed perfectly from the sound, to cast, to tension but you also have to realize working with a true story that can have experts brought in to help and is already a fascinating thing to just read a biography about isn't as impressive a film feat as something like Interstellar which takes an out of left field wild story and putting it together so beautifully or something like The Dark Knight which is a stand out of Super Hero films for its almost perfect design as a Superhero movie. Oppenheimer is almost made perfectly but the jumping off point and final product were very high floor and a relatively low ceiling(when talking in respect of masterpieces not movies as a whole).

[@thethirdworld1829]

Oppenheimer is one of those rare movies where in the end, you can do nothing more than stare at the credits in stunned silence.

[@Aforgamon]

Calvin, the Tsar Bomba WAS an H-bomb (AKA thermonuclear bomb). They can be scaled practically infinitely to make bigger explosions. Any nuclear armed country could make one bigger.

[@Jack7.]

Theoretically yes but practically no 😂imagine trying to drop a bomb the size of a house. At that point you gotta deliver it by boat lmao

[@Aforgamon]

@@Jack7. I mean yeah, obviously at some point it gets impractical, both in delivery and in the size of the explosion.

[@Mihawk-Hawk-eye]

How many conutries have nukes

[@TheWiseGrif]

​@@Mihawk-Hawk-eye too many...

[@mr.stuffdoer8483]

@@Jack7.they’d make a bigger plane. With how much spending is given to militaries, they could make one that big if they wanted

[@lisaleyendekker8305]

This movie did a great job in encapsulating this one part of WW2: the moral quandary. Most war movies are just suffering but you can identify and/or root for a side no matter which perspective is being shown, on both sides. But to see scientists, who never picked up a rifle, never rushed into battle, never had to be face to face with the enemy, feel the immense guilt over the devastation they have wrought was gripping.

[@Knightowl1980]

I’m dying at Calvin’s disappointment when Aaron heard Heisenberg and said we gonna cook meth. A low grumble “nooo”

[@brandonl.garcia2737]

Me while watching every reaction video on youtube.

[@maryhillary5940]

31:11 - I noticed in Jean’s death scene that in one shot she is being held under the water by someone, as a hand with a black glove emerges from the water, indicating that she was murdered. It’s hard to see, as I missed it at first. Brilliantly filmed to keep you questioning

[@Jack7.]

I don’t think they are saying she was murdered. I feel like the scenes of her getting murdered and committing was from the perspective of Oppenheimer. We are seeing what he imagines in his mind. This is supported by the choice to show her doing it herself AND someone murdering her. Because there was a different unknown chemical in her bloodstream Oppenheimer felt that murder could have happened, which would have been indirectly caused by his presence in her life. Or she just committed which is just as bad. Either way he had. Panic attack about it and those images of her were probably racing through his mind.

[@SuperRavensfan101]

Also from reading the book the movie was based off of, It was made clear that Jean's cause of actual death was never confirmed or determined. She very well could have un-alived herself just as much as she was murdered as she was too close to Robert as a communist. And as you mentioned the uncertainty probably always ate away at Robert's conscious as well. @@Jack7.

[@willem1212]

@@Jack7. That's also my interpretation. Plus: it may also be that Oppenheimer is imagining the gloved hands to be his own, he feels that he is responsible for her death.

[@sweetnasty2423]

@@Jack7.I don’t think her being murdered was from Robert’s thoughts. From all evidence given, he never supported the idea that she was murdered.

[@jrob18mvp]

They showed her dying as suicide and murder because Oppenheimer isn't sure what happened.

[@tylernix9854]

This movie was epic. I saw it twice in theaters, and halfway through for a third time currently at home on 4K. Oppenheimer isn’t just a film, this is an experience to go through how one man and his group made a device so deadly, it can destroy anything.

[@TimothyCribb]

Saw this on the biggest IMAX screen in Florida. Absolutely worth it. The sound and scale was incredible.

[@LemontheWeeb]

That last scene was so good! The way Killian Murphy’s face looked was perfect and the way he said “I think we did” is haunting! Idk the right word for it but it was great, sad, and scary!

[@hermafrodit3017]

It's great thing, when a movie about real events is so engaging that makes you want to learn more about the events. When I came from the movie theatre I immediately started googling and reading articles about strauss and others, trying to find out if the movie got everything right:)

[@trevorkelley4611]

within the first 5 minutes of this, I knew I was watching something special. what a great film. probably Christopher Nolan's best work to date

[@cruzefx3652]

I unfortunately waited to watch Oppenheimer at home, but man what a movie, I've watched three times by now, and even in this reaction, the trinity scene still hooked me, it's one of those movies that stuck with me, the craft involved in making it, all departments are firing all cylinders. Oppenheimer is now my favorite Nolan movie, and favorite movie of the year probably.

[@samson6801]

Where to watch it i only saw it at cinema

[@cruzefx3652]

The blu-ray is out, that's the right way to watch it, as I do not support piracy such as Stremio, 1377x or YIFI@@samson6801

[@jackson857]

19:18 Everybody always assumes that. Which I think Ludwig Goransson should take as a huge compliment because the score is excellent. If it doesn't win best original score @ the Oscars there is something wrong.

[@MeyaRoseGirl]

I fully admit that I don't know the whole history of this that well, and I don't really understand the science behind the atomic bomb. But the movie did a relatively good job of dumbing it down for us laymen. From my perspective, as a physicist's daughter, it really resonated with me that despite the fact that it was classified, EVERYONE in the scientific academic community knew that there was a race to develop atomic weaponry. To the people who understood the science and the new breakthroughs, it was obvious. (13:10 "Every physicist around the world [is thinking] a bomb." 15:24 "They won't even let me tell you what the project is." "Oh, I know what the project is.") To the general public, not so much. That reminds me of things my dad has told me over the years that there is no proof, that to my non-scientific stupid brain sounds like far-fetched conspiracy theory, but to him is exceedingly obvious. A not-so-serious example: we were watching a countdown list of greatest cinema twists ever, and on that list was "Planet of the Apes." My dad thought it was the dumbest movie ever because the twist was so obvious. "He wasn't in space long enough to reach anywhere that WASN'T Earth!" But plenty of people didn't understand that, which is why it was considered such a great cinematic twist. So, yeah, when you're talking about the greatest minds who can comprehend the latest seriously complicated scientific advancements, they are able to deduce what is happening. Einstein wasn't involved in the Manhattan Project, and I have no idea if Oppenheimer consulted him as he did in this movie, but you can bet he absolutely knew it was happening.

[@phoenixrising8231]

Einstein was involved in the Manhattan project before it was named that. But bowed out because he could foresee the proliferation of nuclear arms.

[@JNB0723]

The Atomic Bomb works by using Nuclear Fission- a process in which a nucleus of a Uranium atom is cut in half. The energy released is very high. We are currently working, in modern times today, on Nuclear Fusion... smashing hydrogen at such large speeds that we can gain energy (that is how the sun burns its fuel); of course the problem is that the sun has millions of times the gravity and pressure and the energy it would take to fuse particles here on Earth would cost more money than the energy released is worth.

[@nicoladc89]

Well, Nolan simplified the story. First of all the first man to understand what could happened was Leo Szilard an Hungarian physicist. He discovered the chain reaction in 1932, patented it and handed it over to the British Admiralty for secret. Anyway the fission of the atom was discovered only 7 years later. After that Szilard contacted Einstein and together they wrote to the US president to convince him to create a program to make an atomic bomb and at the same time acted to ensure that the Belgian king did not sell uranium to the Germans, the Belgian Congo had the biggest uranium mines at that time. Anyway the Nazis probably never thought that an Atomic bomb was possible, the work on the chain reaction by Szilard was classified, so the Nazis didn't know it. All what the Nazis did was trying to build a reactor. And Heisenberg clearly told Bohr that the Nazis would never have built the bomb. It is not known why, probably linguistic misunderstandings since they couldn't speak openly, but Bohr understood the exact opposite. Heisenberg gave to Bohr the documents of design of a nuclear reactor. And Bohr believed it was the design of a bomb. In the movie there is a scene where Bohr show a paper to the Manhattan project scientists and they started to laugh, saying that is a reactor. That scene refers to this episode. So, in few words, the Manhattan project scientists won a race in which they were the only ones to participate. Since 1943/1944 the Allies started to bomb German civilians, with no real military purpose other than to demoralize them (All those bombings were violations of the Hague Convention, essentially war crimes and so were Hiroshima and Nagasaki). In february 1945 the Allies bombed Dresden a city with no militar installation, around 1500 planes dropped 3k tons of bombs on a city with only civilians, many of them war refugees who took refuge in a city of art without military installations to stay safe. Allies did it in two raids waiting 3 hours between raids. The three hours were used to convince the population that the bombing was over, so they would get out of the bunkers and die better. After 3 hours thousands of tons of incendiary bombs were dropped on the city, tens of thousands of civilians died, many of them totally burned by the bombs. The atomic bomb fitted perfectly into that idea of war. This - I believe - is the real reason why the American government invested so much in nuclear weapons, knowing that there was no competition against the Nazis: trying to kill as many civilians as possible in one blow. And that's how they used it, they chose Hiroshima for 2 reasons: 1. it was one of the few cities that had not already been destroyed by bombing (in Tokyo the allies bombings killed more people than in Hiroshima), Hiroshima was spared precisely in anticipation of using the atomic bomb. 2. it had almost only wooden buildings; one of the few concrete buildings of the city is today the Hiroshima Peace Memorial, it was just below the epicenter but it wasn't totally destroy as what happened to the rest of the city.

[@hands_0n543]

I like how Chris, instead of trying to get the audience to remember characters and faces, he cast famous actors so that you could easily attach names to faces making the story hundreds of times easier to follow. Also the way he focuses on certain mysteries and goals throughout I thought was amazing at keeping me attentive and engaged

[@LS13.]

The absolute scale of the sound in the theater made EVERYONE jump- even though I was expecting a sound boom coming in post that explosion as a second wave- JUMPED in my chair.

[@JNB0723]

Those final lines are so chilling. "I believe we did." And the threat of nuclear war still looms over us all.

[@basicallyweeb]

thats a crude misunderstanding. Nuclear war isn't looming and has almost never been a "true" threat since its invention. Yes a couple times during the Cold War things got dicey but never was hugely threatening. I understand your point and Oppenheimer's reasoning for saying this, in the movie at least(don't know if it's a true line), but nuclear weapons have led to improvements in the history of how war is waged.

[@randomaussie8498]

Oppenheimer is easily the best movie so far of the decade, maybe my favourite ever. Such an awe-inspiring feat. 10/10 writing, acting, visuals, editing, score, everything.

[@VVoude]

This movie was a must see in cinemas. Best movie that came last year by far.

[@Depth217]

Just saw it today in IMAX and man that was a movie

[@prathapkutty7407]

Eric looks like he's going to flash someone at the parking lot. 😂

[@ketchup016]

Rude! 😂

[@prathapkutty7407]

@@ketchup016 😂

[@LJE1821]

Thank you for highlighting Kitty’s testimony, that scene is my favorite. I get excited and hype because of that scene 😆

[@basiliskr3946]

I just felt so overwhelmed with emotion when they were discussing which city to bomb, especially when Kyoto was mentioned. The very idea of Kyoto, such an important historical city, being the target instead of Hiroshima is horrifying. The cities that were affected have left an impression on history already, even if they weren't as "important" or "beautiful". I can't even begin to imagine how history would have been shaped if it was Kyoto. I don't know how it was discussed historically but the callous way those men in that small room were discussing the mass genocide of an entire city really got to me.

[@thekinginthenorth7274]

Absolutely agree. As too why they were very callous about it, I feel like it has too do with the fact they it's something that has too get done period. They cannot show any compassion because at the end of the day if they don't do it, someone else will. They just want too get it over with.

[@username.exenotfound2943]

invading japan would have killed hundreds of thousands of americans and millions of japanese at least from the information they had at hand just look at okinawa and scale that up more than 10 times

[@dr.linova2319]

The apple incident did indeed happen yet it played out extremely differently. so he did poison the teacher’s apple but it wasn’t something deathly and would’ve just made the teacher sick

[@sombrashadow0013]

I dont know why Im surprised. I should've known that Barbie and Oppenheimer were gonna be back to back weekly movie reactions😂😂😂😂😂

[@JustArry]

The best experience I’ve ever had in a cinema. This on IMAX was not just a movies but an experience truly amazing

[@MrPhbahia]

this is the best movie of the year by far and perhaps the best new film i’ve seen in years, it floored me and left me speechless, forcing me to watch it twice in the theaters, which I never do! WE SHALL NEVER SEE CHRIS NOLAN’s like again! so glad they react to it!

[@102Jonjon]

The guy beside RDJ at 45:11 is Scott Grimes he played T Sgt. Malarkey in Band of Brothers. He was also in the first two Critters films lol.

[@jp3813]

54:10 Speaking of that name-drop, another epic historical drama w/ a stacked cast and masterful editing is Oliver Stone's JFK (1991) starring Kevin Costner, Tommy Lee Jones, Gary Oldman, Joe Pesci, Donald Sutherland, John Candy, Kevin Bacon, Michael Rooker, Vincent D'Onofrio, Jack Lemmon, etc...

[@lestatdelc]

JFK is a great movie. SHit history, but great filmmaking.

[@Surfboarder4]

One of my favourite movie endings ever. I was SHOOK, couldn't stop thinking about it for days, maybe weeks. The Score is incredible too.

[@glitch164]

“I believe we did.” In that moment we finally understood his despair and regret

[@ladrac198]

The best way to describe this movie is that I was entranced for 3 hours. I watched it with a friend who had seen it before at his house and normally we comment a lot: I said maybe 3-4 sentences during the 3 hours and he just let me experience it.

[@Melonrevenge77]

''theyre gonna go to a room and wiggle'' lmao im using that

[@leisastalnaker3790]

I loved this movie. I saw it on opening day with a packed IMAX theater in 98 degree heat. So hot outside and hot inside but no one…no one, moved for 3 hours. Riveting film. Just riveting

[@JohnDAmico-ci2hz]

Seeing a movie hit perfection on all levels was incredible. Seeing it in IMAX was beyond words. I sat there along with the whole theater in stunned silence when it ended. People tend to hurry out of a movie when it ends, but this is one of a handful where it took a minute or two.... Had to experience it 2 more times in IMAX to fully realize what I saw....

[@MrGuy2121]

5:54 Can you hear the music blaring over the IMAX speakers instantly made me weep. Such incredible music. Bravo, Ludwig!

[@hurricanegames1155]

As much as I appreciate the reaction, this was a must see in theaters, that was the best way to watch this movie

[@tomtudorweaver1078]

42:45 probably the single most unsettling moment of the movie for me, the sound design in that entire sequence is phenomenal.

[@bengarofano6186]

Man I wish Rick was here, his opinion on movies is so different to the others. I would have liked to see it.

[@tygerjohnston7019]

he's also the only educated one it seems. Sadly stuck with the insufferable know it all Calvin. a true tragedy

[@spicysnowman8886]

​@tygerjohnston7019 to be fair it can be hard to contain yourself when you think you know something cool and want to share it.

[@TheBigAngryHobo]

I drove almost 6 hours to see this movie in 70mm IMAX and it was 100% worth it. The theatrical experience was something of a miracle almost. Absolutely amazing

[@ChiknTikka]

This is the only movie I've watched multiple times in IMAX. Watched it 4 times and I can't get enough of it. Captivating and beautiful.

[@MiaBuchmann]

The “have you ever considered they could’ve talked about something more important?” part never fails to give me chills

[@leonardfeuerstein]

That intro was priceless... Thx for bringing me joy every Single day.

[@dylanshields7106]

I ended up watching this in theatres twice, in the span of about a week. First in IMAX, which was an experience, then second in a normal theatre and was amazing.

[@willem1212]

Another brilliant detail in my opinion are the droplets of water we see throughout the film. The first scene depicts Oppenheimer staring into a puddle, watching the ripples expand. If we pay attention, we see the droplets of water in multiple important moments throughout. They appear on the map of Moscow, when they're discussing the H-bomb. We see them falling into the bath next to Jean - Robert feels he's responsible for her death. Then finally, we see them in the final scene by the lake; Oppenheimer watches the ripples expand, mirrorring the expanding Nuclear explosions all over the world in the next shot. It's a film about consequences of actions; Oppenheimer being the droplet of water - action - the ripples being the consequences.

[@hazri8758]

Caset Affleck was so intimidating

[@benlowe1701]

I studied Physics at University. Some of us became PhDs and researchers. Some of became professional scientists in healthcare, engineering, and other fields. Some of us didn't work in physics professionally for the rest of out lives. But there is a moment at 9:50 that stood out to me. Oppenheimer tells his student something maddening: "It cannot be a wave and particle. It is paradoxical. And yet it works." And the student, stares intently, smiles softly, and tries to understanding something so insane and yet so core to the universe at the same time. Every single physics student that made it to the end of that course (and there was a huge attrition rate) shared one quality: that same reaction.

[@hoshinoutaite]

There is an after-credits scene. You're living in it.

[@captprice0079]

This is going to be the most important movie of this decade, maybe even century.

[@404-AnimationYT]

I am so glad I saw this in theaters; it is one of the best movies I have ever watched.

[@Macapta]

The build up to the Bomb going off in the cinema was incredible, i can only describe the atmosphere in the room as electric. You could feel the expectation of the audience climb.

[@tonyilias2561]

The scene in the auditorium with everyone cheering and then showing what the effects of the bomb would be where people's skins are melting, they turn to dust, etc. is 1 of the most visceral and emotional scenes I've ever seen in a movie. It was both horrifying and insanely depressing at the same time, contrasted with the American people cheering, celebrating, stomping their feet. Christopher Nolan has continued to prove himself as 1 of, if not THE best filmmaker of all time

[@theFILMaDDICT16]

Definitely need to react to Killers of the Flower Moon next. One of the best movies of the year as well. So many from 2023 that are reaction worthy in my opinion. Now that I look back, it was surprisingly a great year for movies apart from all the superhero fatigue except for Across the Superverse.

[@brainfragrances]

I'd argue Killers Of The Flower Moon is potentially better than Oppenheimer. Both amazing

[@joshuabarnett88]

Possibly one of the best movies I've ever seen. Not necessarily my favorite but in terms of quality, holy hell is it great.

[@suvijii841]

Exactly my thoughts!

[@EclipseEH]

"i believe we did" will sit with me for the rest of my life. Absolute perfection 🔥

[@thedarkknight2221]

One review said this is the most important film of the 21st century, and they were right. We are still in the exact same situation as we were in the Cold War in terms of the threat of nuclear war. And seeing from Oppenheimer’s perspective throughout this movie was brilliant because you see how tormented that he was that he and the other scientists of the Manhattan Project tried to make a weapon that would essentially end all world wars, instead they gave humankind the power to not just destroy itself but the world as well. And sadly, as much as I absolutely love this movie and how it’s almost entirely from Oppenheimer‘a perspective, it didn’t show the other horrors the US government did when making the bomb. They forced out all of the Native American citizens who were living at the Los Alamos without even compensating them, and while they had protective equipment for the scientists and higher-ups, they did not have that same protection, for the Latino immigrant workers who handled the nuclear material, and most of them died from cancer and other radiation related illnesses.

[@kassiogomes8498]

Even though they didn't show every horrible aspect of this whole situation. It makes me very happy that american movies aren't portraying the american government as a savior anymore. During the 90s, there were this wave of films that painted the US as this benevolent nation saving all the other nations from evil, but they never addressed how greed and perverse the government of the US is.

[@Sif3r]

​@JohnJohnson27-cs6ix21th 😂

[@malsnakamoto]

The scene where he gives his speech to the staff after the bombings and they show was happens during a nuclear bombing while the crowd was cheering him on???? Nolan is brilliant. I started crying when it went completely silent and suddenly you heard a child screaming.

[@jayhawk_v1]

Gotta say.. appreciate y’all sacrificing your first watch in a theater to be able to record your reaction for us!

[@irishgamerkerrielouise]

I saw this opening weekend on one of our biggest screens here in Ireland. And the moment of the Trinity countdown and blast the room was tense and the silence was just amazing. The ending gave me a tear for how amazing it was. And that final score! WOW.

[@JimmieRayGiboney]

18:12 Mark! Fans of "Star Trek: The Next Generation" should recognize Heisenburg's surname in association with the principles that help explain how the "Transporter Beam System" functions! 🖖 Edit: The device is called a "Heisenburg Compensater"!

[@thunder_wolf23]

This movie left me with a feeling i wasn't familiar with until I had a peculiar dream. In this dream, I was in an apocalyptic scenario that ended with a thermonuclear warhead detonating a few miles away. Me and a massive crowd of people saw it happen and we all just . . . sat down and watched the shockwave approach, talking to and supporting each other. The feeling this movie gave me was the feeling of facing death and knowing nothing can be done. There is no sadness. There is no fear. Just a strange, horrible, melancholy peace.

[@clq15]

I think the guy that honeymooned in Kyoto was actually true. There's a small clock tower in or around Kyoto dedicated to him for taking Kyoto off the list to be bombed or because of his relationship he had with that city. Something like that, please don't quote me on it!

[@bubbaxmv]

21:08 This is the moment Oppenheimer becomes Heisenberg

[@afrancis1582]

Eric’s comment on why aliens have contacted us: “Have you seen what these people are doing with atomic energy”. 1951 film The Day The Earth Stood Still (one of the great sci-fi movies) addresses that question.

[@Parthuhax]

god i remember seeing the can you hear the music scene for the first time i knew these 3 hours were gonna fly by its my favorite scene in the movie

[@jd8184]

I assume others realized this immediately but I just realized that the ripples in the pond at the end of the movie are similar to the ripples of the nuclear bomb explosions covering the surface of the Earth.

[@j.r.b7661]

Finally a react channel to just witness that final scene in silence. Everyone talking over it, but when I watched it I could barely breathe lmao

[@samjo8602]

Just 2 things after watching this: 1. I still start crying at that incredible last scene of the movie with those words and that look from Murphy. 2. I'm immensely grateful Nolan never used and will use CGI. Pretty sure "going that easy way" would never has been as impactful as the pure art of visualization we got to witness here.

[@dezm0n679]

Nolan does use CGI of course, but only when something is impossible without it, i guess. I highly doubt he filmed real black hole for Interstellar, etc. 😅

[@cbmcpecentral]

Absolutely amazing sound design of the feet stomping. I had originally thought it was a train engine building up speed when they used it in the trailers. Boy was I wrong

[@MrGuy2121]

Pretty shocked they didn’t mention the music until over 20 minutes into the reaction! I was blown away by the score within the first 5 minutes of the movie. Absolute master class by Ludwig and an Oscar award unquestionably earned!

[@rafasandoval]

It hasn't ended all war, but so far it's deterred nuclear war.

[@andreasfroby]

Yeah and made us not try even bigger bombs in wars

[@Connor8609]

It has an almost 80-year track record of preventing an actual world war though.

[@mikeyevans5014]

I saw this with my 80+ year old Dad in a 4D theater, we were hanging on with every word, best film I’ve seen in years, better the second time

[@odycey]

I remember the sound effects were CRAZY immersive in theater, also Emily Blunt killed it as Kitty her acting was so good

[@ellen_127]

watching this movie on theater on imax was a life changing experience

[@HopeiThis]

I just noticed that their voices are panned opposite to how they are positioned 🤭 Eric's voice comes from my right ear and Aaron my left! Also this was one hell of a movie to see in theaters, though I found myself wishing I had brought my concert earplugs because the audio was mixed sooooo loud.

[@lovelyyecats]

The scene with Truman is one of my favorites in this entire film, and for 1 line only-Oppenheimer is agonizing over his guilt, and Truman (in his brusque way) says, essentially, “you didn’t make the decision. I did. The buck stops with me, I’m the one who’s ultimately responsible for Hiroshima and Nagasaki.” And he’s right! But even in his guilt, Oppenheimer has an ego. He can’t get over the idea that he was solely responsible, when, in the end, you could point fingers at hundreds of people (including Einstein for writing that letter to FDR), but the one who actually has ultimate culpability for it is Truman.

[@mfgrobin9657]

i doubt there is much point to answer this anymore but still. A question. Do you put a loaded Gun into a childs hand just to see how well it can handle it ? Of course you wouldnt. Ego i think is more then less irrelevant to this moment. Maybe it made the guilt feel heavier sure, but, Humanity just gained a new tool outclassing anything they did before it ever. Truman was right but just as callous as the man who spoke about crossing kyoto of the list of superficial reasons more then anything else. How would you not 'feel' and i mean 'Feel' this burden making your legs buckle ? It doesnt matter if truman or else. Oppenheimer put that gun in his hand in the first place. He had the charisma wisdom social power and knowledge to pull the right man at the right place and time together. It is hard to say if not him , somebody else could have made it happen. Heisenberg run out of time but most physicists understood what was happening anyways top secret or not. What is certain is that Truman did far worse like fire bombing cuba under the nose of congress ,lowering the requirements for military service to put more people in a meat grinder each killing more people but it doesnt summarize what a Fool he was. No matter how much he felt himself when he told Oppenheimer off... I never saw a Man or Leader here. Just a Petulant Callous Spoiled Child who thinks he knows better and is in the position to believe himself right no matter the nuance of the Subject. Being granted a Torch with fire never known to man before Warned by somebody far wiser yet powerless before what i can only describe as grand Idiocy of someone far out of his depth. pretending not to be.Just like most children would be after you show them a tool like a Gun but not knowing any of it.

[@manuelmascarenhas7203]

1:03:10 I agree 100% that the intended takeaway was that evil, dispassionate bias due to being "honeymoon location". However, I can also see it under a positive light in the sense that all the hatred, racism, and despise had against japanese (or any people that are being considered as sub human) cannot surpass the beauty and wonder of humanity and its doings when you experience it first hand. Almost like an antidote to prejudice. Almost begs the question: "Would the bomb have ever been dropped, if prior to the war, the president had visited and experienced all those other cities and connected with the people in them?" Would they have waited the 3 months until the soviets declared war and started their invasion of Japan? And would the japanese would have surrendered when being attacked by both super powers? Or could they have used the bomb in a remote location in japanese territory just as a demonstration of power?

[@NovusIgnis]

The Japanese were losing people in the hundreds of thousands. Their soldiers were trained to fight to *die* not to live. Like they showed in the movie, the fire bombings of Tokyo were estimated to have killed 100,000 people. That's more than either of the two bombs. And despite that, Japan *still* wasn't surrendering. There was a Japanese soldier engaging in guerilla warfare decades after the war ended, all because he was never told to stop fighting by his commanding officer. *That's* who our enemy was. Nothing but a complete and utterly overwhelming display of force or the complete annihilation of Japan was going to make them give up. And while all of this was going on, we also had to deal with the losses that we were incurring too. Also let's not act like the Japanese were some kind of saintlike culture or anything. These were the people that started Unit 731. They deliberately targeted medics and committed other war crimes. Let's stop acting like they were poor innocent victims just because they got stomped by a better enemy.

[@CDexie]

@@NovusIgnis The internal politics of Japan were on the verge of surrendering. The bureaucrats and statesmen were going against the worst of the imperial military's hawks. They're the ones who advocated for a hardline defense of the Home Islands, because they wanted to avoid unconditional surrender no matter what. They believed, if they surrendered unconditionally, the Americans would depose the Emperor. Even with that, after the bombs dropped, the Emperor himself broke the deadlock and announced unconditional surrender. It's hard to be accurate with "what ifs" but if assurances had been made that they could keep the Emperor (as the US decided, even after everything) at the diplomatic table, there's a very good chance the bureaucrat faction would've gained the edge and ended the war, especially with the marching Soviets. I'd at least acknowledge the bombs as necessary, if the US prosecuted the military to hell and back and abolished the institute of the Emperor during their occupation, but they didn't. This is all hindsight, to be fair. Who knows how it would've went. The atomic arms race is a disgrace though

[@manuelmascarenhas7203]

@@NovusIgnis I agree that only a complete show of force was going to make them surrender and yes a lot of factual evidence showed that they were not going to surrender. And I also agree that we should not make the japanese "victims" as they instigated the war and committed their share of attrocities (rape of nanking just to name one) But, what is a "complete and utterly show of force"? Why did they only surrender after 2 bombs and after the soviets declared invasion? Why was the first bomb not enough? It still begs the question: why did they surrender at all? Mainland Japan was not invaded. Even if it was, until the emperor was captured or killed, why would they surrender (if they hadnt done before) And if he was, as they were considered god like, would that make the japanese surrender or fight to the death even more? Its very easy to say in hindsight that, because they surrendered then it was a complete and utterly display of force. But to claim, without knowing the outcome, that would guarantee in some form their surrender is not correct and missing the point about the struggle the army and politicians were having: what can you do if an enemy never surrenders even when they have no shot of winning? (Given that the americans did not actually to wipe out and destroy their civilisation)

[@NovusIgnis]

@@manuelmascarenhas7203 Like they said in the movie, they were already planning on dropping 2 bombs. That was the display of force, with the display being in two parts: 1. We have the ability to do this 2. We have the ability to *keep* doing this In other words we don't need to worry about invading the mainland with ground forces and risk losing our troops' lives, we can just keep blowing major city and military facility one after another until there isn't much left or your own people/soldiers revolt and overthrow the government. The Japanese were fine with fighting and killing themselves as long as it killed the enemy too because it brought the empire closer to winning. Them dying in the tens of thousands with no casualty losses for the enemy is not something they were willing to do. That would literally be throwing their lives away.

[@alexass8987]

This is a great movie! The acting just captivated me. I wish the film victory at the Oscars. However, it is funny how another American film shows that it was they who won the war and the most important breakthrough was the bombing of Japan, and not the liberation movement of the Soviet Union in Europe, which is so inconvenient to talk about or even remember.

[@JimmieRayGiboney]

8.2K Thumbs Up + Mine! 👍 You're welcome, and thanks! ☺️ Notes: I enjoyed your reactions! But had I gone to the theater, I would have missed a lot by going to the restroom or by being asleep. I need to be able to pause and resume play as needed. The game of how many cast members have done "Star Trek", "Star Wars", "DC" or "Marvel" can be played with this movie, right? 🤔 Calvin's hat! You had me thinking of "Quaker Oats", the Earps, Civil War leaders, and the Amish, all at the same time!"😊

[@vihan3423]

Out of all the reactions to this masterpiece of a movie, this one is hands down the best edit I have come across. You captured all the best moments good job!

[@JesusTheRealOne]

I actually started to tear up when Jack Quad shook the other scientist's hand in reaction to hearing the news of Japan, his character looked like he was also tearing up knowing exactly what he helped do and the terror and pain of it all.

[@Liam-pl2nr]

Main thing missing from the wrap up review was taking a moment to discuss how incredible Cillian Murphy’s performance was. The range of emotions he was able to portray with just his eyes was amazing