I full on sobbed in seat F12 of the IMAX theater at AMC Lincoln Square this morning.
This movie is an absolute masterwork in every sense, and the 70mm IMAX format made this a once-in-a-lifetime audio/visual experience that’s right up there with seeing U2 at Sphere.
I never feel more alive than when art is able to move me the way this does.
Chris Nolan undefeated.
Dr. Oppenheimer or How I Learned to Start Worrying and Hate The Bomb and Also Myself
Need to watch again to fully process but holy shit.
Masterpiece.
"It's a door closing."
I haven't been able to get that small, throwaway line from Florence Pugh's character out of my head, because the brilliance of this film is in that inversion.
Perhaps the thing I love most about Oppenheimer is how Nolan spends so much of the film opening doors.
Doors that lead into and out of Oppenheimer's mind, forcing the audience to reckon with what he reckons with, compartmentalize what he has to compartmentalize, and due to…
✅ Godfather reference
✅ Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy reference
✅ Made by a real director of sight and sound with narrative focus to the story and not a million set ups for movies being pre-vis’d to death 3 years before a single crew member is hired.
The narrative might not have the payoffs Reeves thinks it does, but literally everything else about The Batman is done to perfection, unrivaled in this subgenre since the caped crusader’s spiritual predecessor of Bale…
Seeing this and 2001 back-to-back was...... something.
This movie still slaps hard. Seeing it in what I assume was a true IMAX format was one hell of an experience.
I'm still amazed at how anyone could say this isn't the best capekino by a country mile.
NOLAN PLEASE ANNOUNCE YOUR NEXT MOVIE SOON I NEED IT VERY MUCH.
Grade: 11/10
If I have the time and means to see this movie in 70mm IMAX again, how am I supposed to to resist the urge to do so?
Pretty good film IMO.
Grade: 11/10
I have to admit I liked but didn't love the first half (an inverse of my experience with Dune) and then Austin Butler came on-screen and took part in a monochrome gladiator match to destroy the remains of a rival house under a dying black star and from there...... it had me. I would do so many crimes for Denis if he asked me to.
The guy is on the heater of all heaters with Dune: Part Two and as…
Oh my god. Oh. My. God.
Cinemá is alive and well, folks, and it will be as long as people give guys like this $185 million dollars and no restraints.
I don't think any director in history has had a more meteoric rise than Denis Villeneuve. He has nothing left to prove, but a hell of a lot more to say.
With regards to the movie, I'm at a bit of a loss for words atm (just like I was…
I for one would like to thank Mr. Tom Cruise for his commitment to making the sickest, most visceral and rad action movies purely for our enjoyment.
In a few years after we’ve been gifted two more “Mission” movies and a trip to space, he should then be added to Mt. Rushmore.
All else I can say movie-wise is that the planes go real fast in this one, there are a lot of big booms, and one of the great montages (set to The Who, great choice) in the history of film is put to the screen.
Movies!