Posted on 01/23/2024 8:24:33 AM PST by sphinx
Best Picture
American Fiction Ben LeClair, Nikos Karamigios, Cord Jefferson and Jermaine Johnson, Producers
Anatomy of a Fall Marie-Ange Luciani and David Thion, Producers
Barbie David Heyman, Margot Robbie, Tom Ackerley and Robbie Brenner, Producers
The Holdovers Mark Johnson, Producer
Killers of the Flower Moon Dan Friedkin, Bradley Thomas, Martin Scorsese and Daniel Lupi, Producers
Maestro Bradley Cooper, Steven Spielberg, Fred Berner, Amy Durning and Kristie Macosko Krieger, Producers
Oppenheimer Emma Thomas, Charles Roven and Christopher Nolan, Producers
Past Lives David Hinojosa, Christine Vachon and Pamela Koffler, Producers
Poor Things Ed Guiney, Andrew Lowe, Yorgos Lanthimos and Emma Stone, Producers
The Zone of Interest James Wilson, Producer
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Yes, really.
Hubby and I watched this movie (he is 72 and I will be 70 at the end of August), and we both enjoyed it thoroughly. It was fun and the acting was very good. Because, you really believed that they were Barbie and Ken. I enjoyed that movie a lot more than I expected to enjoy it. It was well made. And, that Margot Robbie did NOT get a nomination for Best Actress is almost impossible to believe. Whether you like the movie or not, Robbie was impressive as Barbie. She WAS Barbie, thoroughly convincing. I am shaking my head that she was not nominated.
I am not a fan of Oppenheimer. He was a necessary evil that Gen. Groves made the correct decision to employ, but only because he probably figured Oppenheimer wouldn’t be able to give data to the Soviets, because it would be easy to trace back to him.
He was a Communist who associated with Communists and had to “go dark” when he took the government jobs.
And someone I do trust on this aspect, Richard Feynman (who would be considered a Libertarian but not a Conservative) said that all the handwringing about the bomb within the Los Alamos scientific team back then that we talk about today is completely overblown. He said there was almost none of that at the time.
Everybody had a job to do, and they did it. We were at war, and even the egghead scientists knew it.
Heh, I didn’t like it, but...there were quirky aspects, I saw what they were trying to do and appreciated that, but it was like eating something really, really rich, where you can eat a small amount, but more than that tends to make you lose your appetite.
That was how that movie was for me.
Thanks for posting, but “Frankly Scarlet, I don’t give a damn!”
I agree with Feynman on that. The hand wringing is a form of virtue signaling and self loathing guilt liberals are good at.
Isn’t that the truth. A lot of them engaged in the handwringing AFTER the fact, but if they had reservations, even those they kept to themselves, they should have had integrity and not worked on the project.
You either decide to destroy your enemies who are trying to destroy you, and accept the moral dilemma, or you...get 21st Century Western Culture that refuses to defend itself.
If I am going to make a choice, it will be to destroy enemies who are trying to destroy me. I may not grin and cheer as I am doing it, but I will recognize the necessity.
I think we have lost that gene.
Last night, my wife and I just finished watching the “World at War” British series released in 1975, and I thought it was well done right up until the “The Bomb” episode. (I was surprised, but my wife found it very interesting and wanted to watch it with me...I had checked it out of the Library, and had to renew it multiple times)
The “handwringing” found in the 1975 filming was evident and was bad enough, but putting a scumbag Son of A Bitch like Alger Hiss in there and treating him as anything less than a treasonous Soviet Stooge made my damn blood boil.
So, my views on this have had the bandage of irritation with virtue signaling anti-war Leftists freshly ripped off.
Was that always the case?
Probably for the last 20-30 years.
“ was a unintended ridicule of Wokeism “
That’s the impression I got, too. Like “Don’t Look Up”.
The scenes where Oppenheimer's psychiatrist girlfriend is turned on by quantum physics talk was a little out there.
Then again, she was quite neurotic and later committed suicide (supposedly).
Other than Scarlett Jo getting naked I thought it was a total waste of time. And I usually really like Wes Anderson.
That's fine, but this is always a two track discussion.
First is the movie buff track. Some of us still like movies, want to watch something other than golden oldies we've seen 101 times, and are happy to get tips on good new movies. Others have moved beyond or aged out of interest in movies. That's fine; each to his own.
The second track, however, is the culture war track. For better or worse (mostly for worse), the upcoming generations are glued to their screens. If and when limb transplants become possible, they will go in to get two additional arms so that they can carry a third smartphone and a tablet all at the same time. Most of them don't read anything, and most of the schools went over to the enemy long ago.
Politics is downstream of culture. Culture matters. Pop culture matters. Movies matter. A movie like Oppenheimer -- or any movie on any historical topic -- will (unfortunately) become the basic briefing on the events depicted. If it is a pack of lies, the propagandists will have won. Pop the truth down the memory hole, rewrite as needed, and the young people will never see a dissenting word. That is exactly where the left wants to take us: total information control. Similarly, movies that normalize and celebrate bad conduct matter; most of the kids sure aren't getting good messages from their churches or schools, and many don't get them from their parents. They will take their bearings from peers, movies, tv, and social media. Etc., etc., etc.
We are in a culture war. We are losing. And we can't fight something with nothing. You may not care about movies anymore, but it is important that good movies that speak truth about important questions remain part of the ecosystem. It's not enough to denounce the trash. We need to be able to point to some good alternatives. It's important for conservatives to stay in the game. Yes, we're badly outnumbered in the film industry. That makes it even more important to recognize the saving remnant.
I read the book and saw the movie and thought the movie was pretty true to Oppenheimer's biography. Strauss was a vindictive man and he never forgave Oppenheier for publicly belittling him. Strauss was a self-made man and I believe he resented Oppenheimer as being both born with a silver spoon in his mouth and for being a genius. Yes there is some gratuitous sex, but maybe Nolan thought that was necessary as the majority of the flick is so talky. I really enjoyed it.
Eccentric for the sake of being eccentric. And a waste of a terrific cast.
I loved it! The only flick I saw in a theater the past year.
I have watched that documentary a couple of times - it's available for free on youtube now too. And I always found it curious that of all the people they interviewed for that segment (other than McGeorge Bundy who found later infamy re Viet Nam) they featured ... Alger Hiss! Then again the Roosevelt administration was riddled with Soviet sympathizers and his VP Wallace (prior to Truman) was just about an out-and-out communist. Thank Gawd Roosevelt dumped him in 1944.
As Andrew Breitbart said, politics is downstream of culture.
LOL! I should have read your entire comment sorry!
Great minds think alike ....
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