Well, not the ending I expected. I can't imagine how much that would suck.
"Crystal I would looove to have the sex with you."
Haha, gets me every time!
oppenheimer's life and involvement with the manhattan project are too interesting for this movie to be so boring.
cillian murphy and robert downey jr. have both shown amazing performances in this movie, no surprise there. the videography is great and edited to mute any bright colors. it helps carry the undercurrent of despondency through the film in a visual way and that added a lot of impact to the dialogue and acting in general.
i admire nolan's attempts to tackle a movie written in first person. his choice to show the subjective in color and objective in greyscale was genius and i think this is probably one of his better movies.
however, the complete lack of continuity is very frustrating. i like how one of the reviewers put it: "it makes the common biopic mistake of treating its subject matter like a Wikipedia entry." i couldn't have said it better. this movie feels messy and all over the place. it's incredibly slow-paced while also being choppy and inconsistent. it's hard to pin down oppenheimer's emotions and convictions when the film feels like a mashed up series of webisodes.
my largest complaint about this movie, though, is that it's boring as heck. there's no action, there's no drama, and there's very little emotion. cillian murphy did a standup job of trying to inject as much emotion as he could, but this is really christopher nolan's failure as a screenwriter. if he wanted to write a documentary, he should have just written a documentary.
a large part of this movie deals with oppenheimer's conflicting feelings around the project and use of the bomb, but it's shown in a very subtle way. there are so many moments where he's questioned about his opinions and concerns on the bomb. he's displayed as weak, a traitor, and someone attempting to prevent the progression of building a hydrogen bomb for selfish reasons. through all of this, not once did slotin come up. he's not even in the movie and i can't figure out why.
slotin was a physicist who worked with oppenheimer on the manhattan project. he was the person who built the trinity device for the test explosion (the big tower with the bomb on top of it.) his contributions to the project were crucial to its success, so he was by no means a minor or unimportant person. he died just months before the testing of the bomb from radiation sickness after an experiment went wrong and he was exposed to lethal doses of radiation. it took nearly a month for him to die in a hospital at los alamos.
maybe this is a bit ranty of me, but i don't understand why nolan would choose not to include the gruesome death of a colleague in this movie. i'm sure this strongly influenced oppenheimer's opinions on the project, and it certainly impacted the entire town. seeing the effects of radiation poisoning and how awful of a death it can be is an important factor when deciding if you wanna inflict that suffering on hundreds of thousands of people.
the film is from oppenheimer's pov, and he wasn't present at the accident, but a funeral was held in los alamos and oppenheimer gave speeches about slotin after the fact. there were many times oppenheimer's hesitation about the bomb was interpreted as disloyalty. he was accused of being a soviet spy and of being sympathetic to the japanese during the war. slotin's death was a pivotal moment in the quest to build the bomb and it's dumbfounding to me that this was excluded from the movie despite the emphasis on how oppenheimer's opinions evolved while working on the project.
there were so many other ways to display how and why his opinions changed, but all that's shown is 2-3 seconds of cillian's face while viewing photos from the aftermath. nolan was attempting to be subjective with this film but instead he made oppenheimer seem stale and emotionless.
all that being said, i did still enjoy the film. it was worth going to see, it was worth buying, and i'll probably watch it again. it was good, but it wasn't as great as i had hoped it would be.
i just had high expectations and nolan let me down.
I'm going to be the odd one out here. I actually prefer Aliens over Alien. Where Alien is a scifi horror movie, a little slower paced, very focused on the eerie horrifying factor, Aliens is full on action-horror. Some think the action is over-the-top, and I'd say that's a fair assessment.
But I also really like that. I like seeing them fight back against the aliens. I'm a huge fan of action-horror and really enjoy how fast-paced this movie is. The plot of Alien is vastly superior, but there's something really satisfying about Aliens that makes it one of my favorites in the Alien franchise.
Blade and Blade II are some of the best vampire movies ever made. Blade: Trinity isn't quite as good, and I think that can be chocked up to pulling Blade to the background of his own movie, but I don't think it's as awful as some make it out to be.
Wesley Snipes, of course, makes this movie what it is. IMO, it's worth watching for that alone. The loss of Whistler is perhaps the first mistake this movie makes. They try to make up for it by bringing in Whistler's surprise daughter, but it just doesn't work.
Abby (Jessica Biel) tries too hard to fill the role. She's basically a watered down Blade. There are many scenes throughout this movie where she's mirroring Blade, almost like they're setting it up for her to take over the franchise, but her character just doesn't have the same presence Wesley Snipes brings to Blade. Purposeful or not, that makes the movie feel disappointing. I don't think that would've been the case if she'd been brought in as her own character.
Hannibal King (Ryan Reynolds) kicks ass. I've always loved his particular brand of deadpan humor. At this point he's been typecast to hell, but he brings something different to the movie and that at least makes it entertaining.
And I loved seeing all the flared jeans and old apple tech. It's hard to believe this movie is almost 20 years old.
Why is everyone acting like there aren't aliens running around? Playing music, lighting candles, laughing... in an evacuation zone. Feels like it's only a matter of time before these kids get killed.
I love Mitsuki, but uh... I'm gonna need her to stop poking the bear. How they can think this is a good idea is beyond me.
Really enjoyed this episode. I'm not too much of a fan of the kids. It's really gone downhill in my opinion since Caspar entered that coma, but I loved the new twist on the aliens. This is the first real bit of terror since season one and I'm hoping it will continue in that vein. I wanna see some aliens destroying shit.
I really love episodes with Mitsuki. I'm so intrigued by her storyline and her abilities to communicate with the aliens.
This was a pretty good premier for season 2. We're introduced to some new possibilities about the aliens and I have more questions than ever. I'm really hoping this season answers some of those questions and reveals how some of these storylines are connected.
i forgot how much i loved resident evil. this was always one of my favorite shows growing up. i had a crazy obsession with zombies and milla jovovich was such a badass.
is it great in a technical sense? no. the acting is dramatic and yet still emotionally flat. the plot is your average hero vs. undefeatable enemy. it's nothing exceptional.
but it does bring back so many great memories and for that it will always be one of my favorite zombie films.
lol pirate trainees? i need a spinoff with every single detail.
this show is so ridiculous you just have to love it.
man, the burden that was placed on dean at such a young age... the mindset of having to look after his brother and being responsible for him... he was basically forced to parent his younger brother while he was still a child himself. hunting and taking care of people is all he's ever known.
there are some iconic moments in this episode, like the spoon scene and the first meeting with the ghostfacers (who reappear again and again in future episodes,) but other than that everything about this episode was mediocre.
on the other hand, watching them take photos with old flip phones and sam's slightly more advanced blackberry brings back memories haha!
this is easily one of my favorite episodes of the show. there's something about the idea of magic and reapers that really makes this episode ominous. i have to be happy dean was healed but at the same time i'm firmly with the boys in wanting to stop this shenanery.
as a side note, i miss geeky research sam so much.
Ah, r-slurs and rape jokes. Classic.
The relationship between the Cleons has changed so much post-dna-scramble. I can’t help but feel some satisfaction watching everything fall apart around them.
This was a pretty good premier. A bit slow, but a strong set-up for the rest of the season.
What a tragedy. I loved Alex but this episode makes him out to be such an ass. How am I supposed to like this guy after what he's doing to Jo? Knowing what she's been through, basically divorcing her by letter, getting back with Izzie for the kids? He outright said if it was just about Izzie or Jo he'd choose Jo. That's not right for Izzie either! What a dick!
They could have made him exit in literally any other way without tossing the legacy of his character into a dumpster fire.
How are you gonna call it a shark movie when the sharks don't come in until 75% of the way through?
The acting and bad special effects ruined this one way before I saw a dorsal fin. I've been binge watching shark movies for the past week and this is by far one of the worst ones I've seen yet.
Pretty funny episode. A little disappointed though because the team with the ballerina wasn't shown on the bull. I went back 3-4 times on hulu to make sure but it wasn't there.
Really excited to see what the new team can do though. They must be pretty good to be joining this late in the season.
This episode has been one train wreck after another after another. Wow.
Such a great first episode. The filmography on this is really great. It's hard to talk about this as a drama series when it's based on such tragic real-life events. So many major disasters happening back to back to back, it's no wonder it caused so much damage.
Great episode. They deserved that win. The duck looked so good!
ok hold on... a few episodes ago they were all breaking up at the same time and now they're all proposing at the same time??? what is going on??
this medical drama needs more medical drama.
i'm starting to get a little bit confused with all the back and forth on these couples. i couldn't care less about meredith and derek but denny's death is possibly the biggest tragedy of this whole show. that one devastated me.
well... that was unnecessary.
this must've been the episode of breakups because it feels like everyone suffered. i can't believe they're going through with the iggy/martin split though. it's so refreshing to see a long-term queer married couple on tv who are still happy and in love with each other. i was prepared for them to mess with everyone else but them. they need to pull through.
the only person who made it to the end of this episode with some good news might be floyd.
i'm praying for the day they finally get rid of fuentes but at this point it better be pretty epic. her being walked out in cuffs would have been a fitting end.
Hell yeah Lauren, go get the girl!
I'm always a little wary of new medical dramas because they tend to be repeats of the same drama, but man his reaction to the nurses sh*t talking him gives me hope!
I think Princess might be one of my favorite characters in this show.
Ya know, as much as I hated Andrea for what she was involved in Re: the Governor, I kinda miss having her around. It was nice to see some flashbacks of when it was a simpler time (for me and for the show.)
