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I felt the same, my thinking at the time was they didn’t want the bomb to steal the show. The movie was about the man not the machine. /hah very articulate of
by chasd00 5mo ago
I felt the same, my thinking at the time was they didn’t want the bomb to steal the show. The movie was about the man not the machine.
/hah very articulate of me for this early in the morning
- Cthulhu_ 5mo agoI suppose that's true, but it's still positioned as the focal point or climax of the film I think. But Nolan intentionally hamstrung himself by eschewing CGI in favor of practical effects. I mean in theory you could do a practical effect of a nuke but that requires detonating a nuke; the west hasn't done that since 1992, the last nuclear detonation was done by North Korea in 2017.
- tencentshill 5mo agoDont worry, the US will be doing it soon too https://www.realcleardefense.com/articles/2026/05/21/why_president_trump_ordered_the_resumption_of_us_nuclear_testing_1183976.html https://www.realcleardefense.com/articles/2026/05/21/why_pre...