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Unconvincing 'lead' actor, confusing montages and boring


Outside of academia, this was just dull, dull, dull for a general cinema audience. We needed a lead actor with gravitas to carry the role.

What could have been a fantastic biopic was a bland series of underplayed scenes. many more were out of synch, or baffling.

Not even the famous Oppenheimer speech was dramatically done.

Why couldn't the general audience have had the story explained briefly at the beginning, as with the beginning of A Bridge Too Far and other, better films?

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You sound like a 13 year old TikTok addict.

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honestly I think it depends what you expect from a film

if it was called "The Bomb", you'd be expecting a lot more effects and noises

I watched a film called 10,000BC the other day. I wasn't expecting Roland Emmerich (because I didn't know it was directed by him), I was expecting some sort of fantasy film, I really enjoyed it (if you could get past the grunts which weren't really any more racist than Avatars blue people). if I'd been expecting Emmerich I'd have been disappointed because I would have been expecting Independence Day style cinematics. as it was (for an Emmerich film) the epic pan-out sequences were fairly sparse

I guess since the film is the guys name, it suggests that it's mainly about discussion and politics

have to admit I don't know why C Murphy's chosen image is a close up with a cig hanging out of his mouth but I haven't seen Peaky Blinders

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I like Murphy but even I was surprised to see him chosen for a lead role such as this. He’s good in certain things in certain situations. He was great as “Scarecrow” in Batman. He’s someone that needs to find his particular vehicle & sadly I don’t think this is it.

Since this is directed by Christopher Nolan who worked with Cillian in the Batman movies he was in then maybe we shouldn’t be all that surprised that Nolan put him in this.

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It was indeed a boring piece of shit, only pretentious assholes pretend it is not.

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