I finally decided to watch "Oppenheimer", and ...
So I just now did something I don't do very often these days. I
decided to watch a major new film without distractions, all the way
through without interruptions. So I set up to watch Oppenheimer on a
decent TV with a reasonable sound system. I got 45 minutes in and gave
up a few minutes ago. Very disappointing after all the hype and awards.
Problems:
Typical modern film where making out the dialogue is a continuous
struggle without running back sections and/or turning on captions (and
I hate watching English-language films with captions, and yes I know
that people of all ages are now enabling captions due to the way films
and television dialogue and scores are being mixed these days).
Unnecessarily non-linear. Color sections, black and white sections,
bouncing around in time in ways that are utterly unnecessary and
simply make the story more work to follow than it needs to be. Arty?
Oh yeah, arty. No thanks.
Melodramatic. Dripping with sappy melodrama. So much melodrama that I
frequently knew what was going to be said or done before they said it
or did it, just by applying soap opera dialogue standards, rather than
historical knowledge. I'm not clairvoyant, but if I watched this film
all the way through I'd probably finish it thinking I was the most
clairvoyant person on this planet.
If I'd been trapped in a theater after paying theater prices to watch
this bomb I'd have felt significantly cheated.
And yes, the pun is intended.
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--Lauren--
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