Nolan has really fallen off in his ability to deliver compelling films.
Perhaps the last legitimately good film he made was Inception, with his best being The Prestige, Memento and The Dark Knight.
Yes people like Interstellar, but even that strays into Shyamalan silliness territory, and also relies heavily on its overbearing booming soundtrack just like Oppenheimer.
Oppenheimer requires subtitles even for native English speakers, as most of the dialogue is so mumbled and inaudible without it, and even more-so with the intense music laid over the top of it, music which is used to try to keep the movie afloat due to it being so boring as it is.
The film isn't bad up until they explode the bomb, but everything after that point (over half of the runtime) had me falling asleep and needing to go back and listen to the dialogue multiple times.
The film is by far Nolan's most pompous and self-aggrandising, like Nolan has come to enjoy the smell of his own farts way too much. But also that the movie feels barely stitched together, and the overbearing non-stop intense music throughout is used as an attempted cure-all for the movie just being very boring, and without even one definitive story beat.
For more compelling movies about the bomb and WW2, watch Barefoot Gen, Dr. Strangelove, Grave of the Fireflies, Letters From Iwo Jima.
Perhaps the last legitimately good film he made was Inception, with his best being The Prestige, Memento and The Dark Knight.
Yes people like Interstellar, but even that strays into Shyamalan silliness territory, and also relies heavily on its overbearing booming soundtrack just like Oppenheimer.
Oppenheimer requires subtitles even for native English speakers, as most of the dialogue is so mumbled and inaudible without it, and even more-so with the intense music laid over the top of it, music which is used to try to keep the movie afloat due to it being so boring as it is.
The film isn't bad up until they explode the bomb, but everything after that point (over half of the runtime) had me falling asleep and needing to go back and listen to the dialogue multiple times.
The film is by far Nolan's most pompous and self-aggrandising, like Nolan has come to enjoy the smell of his own farts way too much. But also that the movie feels barely stitched together, and the overbearing non-stop intense music throughout is used as an attempted cure-all for the movie just being very boring, and without even one definitive story beat.
For more compelling movies about the bomb and WW2, watch Barefoot Gen, Dr. Strangelove, Grave of the Fireflies, Letters From Iwo Jima.