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I liked that in Oppenheimer, even though the plot of the movie was a similar sort of high stakes mystery heist movie, instead of the macguffin being a random pi
by awongh 1y ago
I liked that in Oppenheimer, even though the plot of the movie was a similar sort of high stakes mystery heist movie, instead of the macguffin being a random piece of metal like it was in tenet, its the literal atom bomb. For that reason I enjoyed it more than some of his other movies.
I would enjoy a Wes Anderson movie that just moved the whole aesthetic over to something new. It can still be a Wes Anderson movie but just different in one important new dimension.
- myth_drannon 1y agoThe Dark Knight Rises also had an atom bomb. Nolan has a thing for nuclear detonations.
- Barrin92 1y agoalso, timers. What absolutely killed Nolan for me was when someone pointed out that he's virtually unable to create tension without a literal timer, be that bombs, watches, countdowns, what have you. Ever single damn movie. There's even a tick-tock sound from Nolan's stopwatch in the soundtrack of Dunkirk.
- rkomorn 1y agoFor some reason, this made me think of the countdown timer in Galaxy Quest that counts down but stops before getting to zero because the ship's design is based on a TV show.
- rkomorn 1y ago"Spoiler alert", I guess, if you've not seen Galaxy Quest in the quarter century since it was released.
- magicalhippo 1y agoWhich, if you haven't, you absolutely should!
- masfuerte 1y agoYou can edit your comments. I didn't reply to your second one so you can delete it if you want.
- rkomorn 1y agoIt was sarcasm. 25 year old movies don't need spoiler alerts. But also, in a meta way, it wasn't a spoiler anyway because countdowns never reach zero anyway.
- awongh 1y agoExcept in Oppenheimer he was like, I'll just do the actual atom bomb instead. I'm glad that he knows himself well enough that he went right to the source.