So this movie is 3 hours long. You know how Director's Cuts include stuff that was edited out of the theatrical version? In this case the Director's Cut needs to remove an hour.
Just for background I studied both Astro and Sub-Nuclear Physics in college, and even I was bored to tears. I looked over at my girlfriend, whose excited idea it was to go and even insisted on paying for the tickets. Yep, she was fast asleep for at least half the movie, and this was the 6pm to 9pm showing, not the past her bed time timeslot.
So much of this movie is just plain unnecessary, like the director was trying to vamp and pad for time, when instead he should've gone crazy w/the digital snips and dumped about half of it. The side thread w/the Commie gf was so inane, it was obvious her only role in the film was as a pair of b**bs, her character was otherwise 98% irrelevant. I think even the director knew there'd have to be some T&A to keep the audience from sleeping all the way through.
Another example of unnecessary padding. Special effects meant to convey how Oppenheimer thought about quantum mechanics and the universe. References to String Theory and other nerd science stuff I'm sure would be lost on 99 out of 100 people watching it. Worse, they don't do this just once, for 30 long seconds, but 3 or 4 times. To quote Cinema Sins. "Movie has time for this?"
RDJ and Cillian Murphy were perfectly cast, as were the myriad of famous Physicists of the early 20th century. Otherwise though this is a story about a man whose one lifetime achievement, incredible as it was, took up 3 years of his life, and what we got was a biopic of that plus 33 more years of his life that's only mildly interesting.
Just for background I studied both Astro and Sub-Nuclear Physics in college, and even I was bored to tears. I looked over at my girlfriend, whose excited idea it was to go and even insisted on paying for the tickets. Yep, she was fast asleep for at least half the movie, and this was the 6pm to 9pm showing, not the past her bed time timeslot.
So much of this movie is just plain unnecessary, like the director was trying to vamp and pad for time, when instead he should've gone crazy w/the digital snips and dumped about half of it. The side thread w/the Commie gf was so inane, it was obvious her only role in the film was as a pair of b**bs, her character was otherwise 98% irrelevant. I think even the director knew there'd have to be some T&A to keep the audience from sleeping all the way through.
Another example of unnecessary padding. Special effects meant to convey how Oppenheimer thought about quantum mechanics and the universe. References to String Theory and other nerd science stuff I'm sure would be lost on 99 out of 100 people watching it. Worse, they don't do this just once, for 30 long seconds, but 3 or 4 times. To quote Cinema Sins. "Movie has time for this?"
RDJ and Cillian Murphy were perfectly cast, as were the myriad of famous Physicists of the early 20th century. Otherwise though this is a story about a man whose one lifetime achievement, incredible as it was, took up 3 years of his life, and what we got was a biopic of that plus 33 more years of his life that's only mildly interesting.
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