Oppenheimer

“Can you hear the music, Robert?” This has been a movie on my watchlist for a while that was just kinda intimidating — a 3-hour-long biopic that everyone talks about like it’s the second coming of Christ. What if I hated it? What if I thought it was boring? Did I really want to go against everyone’s opinions?> Luckily, this movie was exactly what everyone said it was. This movie may be perfect.> I had no plans on watching this film today. Matter of fact, I had a whole different movie turned on, then I looked at the runtime of that movie and it was 2 hours and 45 minutes, so I said, “Fuck it, I’m watching Oppenheimer. What’s 15 more minutes?”> Today is August 6th, 2025. Coincidentally, the first ever atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima August 6th, 1945… Ain’t that just fuckin’ wild? By complete and utter coincidence, 80 years later, I watch it on the exact same day the bomb was dropped.> Now, talking about the movie — this may be Nolan’s magnum opus. With such a star-studded cast, and such a perfect score, and the most gorgeous cinematography, with arguably the best director of our generation — some say all time — could this movie ever fail?> This movie being 3 hours is kinda a scary thing to turn on, but you don’t feel that runtime in the least. You are in it the entire time, and you can feel the story ramping up as time goes on. You really feel the pressure these people have to race against the Nazis.> I think this movie may be perfect. The reason I say may is I do believe they should have shown the bomb go off in Hiroshima. I do believe it was a moral cop-out not to show it. But I do need to sit with this movie longer to have an entire opinion on that. So, as of right now, it may be perfect. Even if I do find myself with that opinion after letting it sit, it would by no means drop this movie’s star rating. This movie is the most deserving 5/5 I’ve seen.I could talk about this movie for hours.  Well done, Nolan.