Oppenheimer Review

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You get more out of life when
you go out to a movie. I

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know. I'm with Patrol. Hello
everybody, and welcome back to the box

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office. I'm Jeff Johnson. David
Burns is on assignment joining me in his

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place. Dayton Johnson from the Docking
Base seventy seven podcast. Hello and hello

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in that thanks for having me on. I appreciate it, man, absolutely,

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Man, it is the biggest box
office weekend we've had, probably since

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the last Avengers movie. Talking about
the probably talking about the Barbenheimer event and

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Dayton, let's uh, if you're
ready, I don't think we need to

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countdown. Let's discuss Oppenheimer, the
atomic bomb. We can end this war.

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To my start a chain reaction.
It's full ignite atmosphere from Christopher Nolan

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everything. There's a chance that when
we push that button we destroy the world.

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Blot Robert Downey, Junior, Matt
Damon, Emily Blunt, Florence Pugh,

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and Phillian Murphy is open Nheimer in
theaters July twenty first, Ready to

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r Okay, let's get into this. We just heard that that promo mentioned

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just several names of this all star
cast. Let's talk. Let's talk about

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this cast a little bit, Dadon, sure. I mean, you know

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with in the movies like this,
with the cast, I mean, you

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have so many big names you have
you know, Matt Damon, of course,

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you have Killian Murphy, Emily Blunt, and it's a massive cast.

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It's huge, I mean, and
it's not just a bunch of extras.

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There's a lot of speaking parts and
you know it, and there's some surprises,

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especially towards the end. I won't
I won't drop the name because you

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know, I mean, they can
find out IMDb. But it was we

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had to see it, and I'm
for us, right, Yeah, it

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was a nice surprise. Yeah,
I'll tell you what. Let's we know.

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Let let's talk about Killey Murphy for
a second. Yes, hauntingly similar

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in appearance to the actual Jay Robert
Oppenheimer. Would you not? Would you

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not agree? Yeah, they did
a really good job making him, you

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know, doing They didn't have to
do a lot because he does have some

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similar features. But yeah, he
really uh not only looks apart, but

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embraced that part and it comes across
very well on the screen. He looks

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amazing and he does a fantastic job. Yeah. Oh yeah, and I

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believe he lost a significant amount of
weight to play the role. Right.

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I heard Emily Blunt on an interview
saying that he lived off of cigarettes and

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almonds for a couple couple of months. But that doesn't sound healthy to me.

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No, but hey, you know, you suffer for your work,

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right. Uh, He's he's amazing
in this movie. I mean, every

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time he speaks, you can't take
your eyes off him. Oh yeah,

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Oh yeah, I mean and then, uh, you know, we have

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a private Ryan is now a colonel. You know, Matt Damon shows up,

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you know, looking looking a little
older, but definitely looking the part

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of aging colonel for sure. But
yeah, he was great too. He

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definitely brought it. I gotta tell
you. I don't know if you've seen

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it. Nineteen eighty nine, a
movie called Fat Man and Little Boy.

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No, it's basically so basically,
Oppenheimer is like the expanded director's a cut

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edition of that movie. It's it's
a fantastic movie. It's all about making

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it's all about the Manhattan Project.
Paul Newman plays the role that Matt Damon

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plays in this in this movie,
and I love Matt Damon in it.

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I mean, I couldn't get it
off of his character, and maybe that's

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I went into I watched Fatman a
Little Boy for the first time a couple

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couple a couple weeks ago, so
that character is like, oh, I

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can't wait to see that character in
Christopher Nolan's movie. And uh, yeah,

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loved him, loved him. He
brought some a little bit of comedic

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levity here and there, which I
wouldn't say Paul Newman does but probably not.

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Probably not. Yeah, and well, this is a kind of topic

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you definitely need a little bit of
levity, you know. And yeah,

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sometimes because it's a it's such a
serious subject and when you're looking at I

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mean, you know, Christopher Nolan's
always known for his casts. I mean,

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he's a fantastic film filmmaker, but
he always seems to get some great

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people in the movie and gets great
performances out of all of them. You

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know, it's not like just you
know, a couple of standouts, but

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man, you know, Emily Blunt
and Florence Pugh showing up, uh you

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know, And it took me until
the credits I realized that was Tom Conti

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playing Albert Einstein. Though every time
you's gonna wait, I know, that

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face. Who the hell is that
Emily Blunt? I gotta be honest,

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And this is not a This is
nothing against her performance, because her performance

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is incredible. Her care there,
you know, you know, she plays

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Kitty Oppenheimer, his wife, highly
unlikable for I would say a majority of

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the movie for me. But man, does she have She's got a moment

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where she shines and just oh yeah, you just cheer for her, you

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love it. Yeah, I don't
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feel like, I mean, I
know the movie is not really obviously it's

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not about her, but it is
about his family, and I don't I

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don't think we got enough for her. You know, she makes the most

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of her of her scenes, but
yeah, I kind of feel like a

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little bit more, you know,
a little bit more would have been nice.

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I mean, look, you know, more of Emily Blunt is always

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nice. More of Florence Pugh,
especially in this movie, would have been

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would have been really nice. Yeah, she's one of the hottest young actors

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out there right now, does a
fantastic job. But man, at what

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three hours and fifteen minutes, I
don't know how much more you can you

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can fit in this movie? Yeah, and and yeah there was. Like

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I said, it's a huge cast. I mean, and as we're watching

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it, people are popping on the
screen. I'm like, wait, I

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know who that is. I mean
first, you know, when Josh Hartneck

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come on the screen, I was
like, um, wait, is that

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who I think that is. I'm
thinking, I haven't seen this guy in

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like what feels like twenty years Hardness, Hardness back Man. And he looks

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he looks fantastic. Yeah he does. I mean he read had a great

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job. You know, he's not
really known for being a strong actor,

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but he did a great job.
You think back to like the late nineties

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when the rumors, you know,
there's like he was gonna be our next

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Superman Man. You could have had
ten Superman movies at this point with him

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because he still looks incredible. Yeah, yeah, moving, I don't know,

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there's so many people, like you
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screen. Matthew Modine, Kenneth Brandon, everyone is in this movie. It's

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it's a you know, Alden,
Aaron Reich. You know, we didn't

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even talk about Ardie j I mean
playing Lewis Strass. Yes, Like I

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said, so many big names and
then the ones I like I enjoyed were

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the names the little people in like, wait a minute, I know who

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that is, so I would just
want to call it a couple of them

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because they're because of the magnitude of
the of the cast. It was fun

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to see some of these people in
here, because you have Alex Wolfe,

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known very well for Hereditary, who
was also recently an old and of course

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got it started in The Naked Brothers
Band on Nickelodeon, which is just hilarious.

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Olivia Thurbley from Juno and of course
one of my favorite comic book adaptations,

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Dread. She was in that Michael
I always messed up his name,

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Michael and Gerano from Sky High,
he played young William and almost famous.

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He plays Jackson and will and Grace. And he's also in Kevin Smith's a

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very dark movie Red State. So
you got you know, some not so

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big names but faces you kind of
recognize. And of course Josh Peck shows

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up, you know, best known
for playing Josh and Drake and Josh from

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Nickelodeon. It was just kind of
like, hey, wait, I know

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that a lot of people pop up
in this movie that you're their faces are

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familiar, and they all do a
great job. You know. No,

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there's no lines wasted, there's no
you know, there's no timewast in this

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movie. It's fantastic. Not a
bad performance. And I'll cut us both

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off right there, because if we
continue to talk about this cast, this

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this quick review will turn into a
right an an hour long thing. So

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h not a bad performance in the
bunch though, but the film itself,

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I daton. I feel like everyone
you're going to this movie, you're expecting

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this big epic action event. This
is a very slow paced, hard boiled

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drama. You know, almost like
a mystery, you know, kind of

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reminded me of like if you if
you like um, if you like Stone,

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Oliver Stone's JFK, something along those
lines where it's it just really it's

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like an onion, just you're peeling
back layers and you're learning more and more.

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It feels more like that, what
do you think? I think you're

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right. But what I noticed very
much so was that you have a very

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dry topic. It's a historical film. You're talking about time in our country,

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and the subject matter isn't exactly quote
unquote exciting. But how Nolan shoots

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it and how he paces the editing. It's almost like he put together an

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action movie style into a drama.
The camera's always moving, whether it's just

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a little subtle thing here or there. There's no stagnant shots. The editing

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is very quick, quick you move
from a scene to scene, and there's

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some sections just where they use the
sound to set the moment and really punctuate

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so and sometimes lack of sound does
the same thing. This movie, for

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as long as it is, never
feels that long, and he just he

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puts together. It's just it moves
so well. And it's not an action

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movie. It's not a it's not
a thriller so to speak. It's not

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a science fiction epic. It's not
you know, we're not in Gotham City.

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We're talking about an historical you know, time in this country and the

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people around it. But it moves. It's fun, fun to watch,

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it's beautiful to watch, and it's
interesting and he keeps it moving so you're

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never bored. And I think that's
incredibly impressive considering the subject matter. It

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was great, so well put together. I agree, And this is a

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this is I feel this is a
fresh step for Christopher Nolan because we're so

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used to these big epic event films
for him where he kind of pulls the

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rug from under your feet at the
end. You know, he's got like

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a Shamalan thing happening. This is
this is more like you said, it's

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a biography. It's it's a it's
a slow burn, it's it's very informative.

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But yet the camera's always moving,
so ye can't it can't. Can't

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disagree with you on that. Um
one thing that you get in Nolan's films,

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you always get amazing You always get
amazing music to go along with it.

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Yes, uh Ludwig Ludwig Gordson's score
for this Man. At times it's

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a lullaby and at times it's scary. Yeah, I looked. I wasn't

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one hundred percent familiar with with him, so I looked up other uf he's

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done. Of course he's worked with
uh Nolan quite a bit, but of

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course he's also done uh Black Panther
and stuff like that. So I'm like,

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wow, you know, I could
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Like, you know, he did
a great job on this one. It

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definitely it does its job. It
doesn't overpower any scenes. It compliments everything

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that it needs to be. It
doesn't tell you what to think, it

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doesn't tell you how to feel.
It just works well with what's going on

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on the screen. And that's,
you know, not always an easy thing

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to do. You mentioned like the
silence, how important to silence is sometimes

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in this movie. I wouldn't change
a thing on that. I love the

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pacing, love the editing. Um. I think this is a home run

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for for for Christopher Nolan. Do
you absolutely it? I mean, I'm

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a I'm a Nolan fan. I
have not seen Tenant, but that's pretty

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much the only one of his movies
I haven't seen, and I really enjoy

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the fact that it's it's just a
you know, it's just a story.

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There's no spies involved, there's no
we're not you know, traveling from other

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planet to planet. We're not you
know, we're not bending people's minds and

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going through their dreams. This is
it's a it's a straightforward story from the

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most part, you know, Like
you mentioned, we're appealing layers were trying

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to get gather information. But I
love the fact that he has said,

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you know what, I'm just gonna
tell a story without all the you know,

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all without all the tricks and he
did a such a great job.

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If if I would like, I'll
bet this movie it's every Oscar nomination that

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possibly can and I will be It
will probably get the most uh this year.

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You know, it'll have the most
dominations because everything, there's nothing in

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this movie that I can complain about. It's amazing. Well i'll tell you,

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I'll tell you what else is amazing. Get yourself a four K Blu

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ray copy of Tenant, because you
are missing out, my friend, I

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know, back to back to this
film. I think we'd be remiss if

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we didn't, If we didn't,
uh send a thank you to uh the

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current Batman himself, Robert Pattinson.
This movie doesn't even happen. It was.

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It was kind of put on no
one's radar, you know, just

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based off of the idea that you
know, hey, you haven't done a

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biography of biography before. But uh, it's actually at the rap party for

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Tenant when Robert Pattinson gives him a
book of Oppenheimer quotes and speaks so yeah,

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so he kind of went down the
rabbit hole and said, yep,

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this is my next this is my
next picture. So, uh, Dayton,

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we saw it in a sold out
Imax crowd. Yes, um,

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I love it. Yeah, all
weekend long this movie. Uh so far

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this weekend we're talking about the the
Barbenheimer event. You know, this went

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head to head with Barbie. Uh, let's just talk about Oppenheimer for a

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second. It's Nolan's third highest grossing
opening weekend ever, the biggest thing for

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Imax for Nolan that he's ever done. And uh, as of this point,

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Oppenheimer is headed for just over eighty
million dollars domestic ninety three point seven

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million dollars overseas. It has literally
and figuratively exploded that. So I ask

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you, well played, well play
it? Yeah, So I ask you,

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Uh, Dayton, what do you
got for our listeners? Do they

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see it? Do they stream it? Or do they skip it? I

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could tell it. So. I
mean people are flocking to it, and

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there might be some people to go. I'll I'll wait because of the subject

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matter. I'll watch it at home. But I think you're doing yourself a

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terrible injustice. If you sit at
home and watch this, it will not

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look the same, will not feel
the same. This is definitely a see

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it, definitely a see it.
My controversial take would be I don't necessarily

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think you need you need to see
it in Imax. No, I don't

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think you do either. There's one
there's one scene, and we all know

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the scene, the Trinity Test,
which looks fantastic on the Imax screen.

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But I feel like, you know, you don't need an Imax screen to

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tell a very dark, moody,
compelling drama. Uh, you know of

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American history. So I say,
I say see it. Dayton says,

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see it if you can get into
the box office. I know we tried

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several days and you know for sold
out shows, and we got lucky on

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a ten thirty. We didn't even
sit together, that's how packed it was,

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right, But yeah, definitely see
this one. Uh. And as

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always, I'll buy the tickets and
if you went, Dayton, he'll buy

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the popcorn. That's right, We'll
see