The first image for Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer is here

[MikeR]

I just want to watch one of his movies and hear the dialogue - but apparently that’s too much to ask.

Are Nolan Movies Too Loud? A Look Back at the Director’s Defense of His Sound...

God only knows how loud his Trinity explosion will be - but I suspect it’ll be even noisier than the original.

[MikeR]

Oppenheimer was a chain smoker and Cillian Murphy is a perfectionist, so yep, lots of cigarettes. You’ll probably get a smoker’s cough just watching it.

[Mindysan33]

Twin Peaks Atomic Explosion

[Tamsin_Bailey]

That’s very Metal.

[Mindysan33]

That was the single best episode of the whole Twin Peaks sequel series. Just all around strange and weird, and I still don’t understand what happened, but I’m not sure I care.

[Tamsin_Bailey]

Sounds like Tenet

[Mindysan33]

It was kind of inexplicable, wasn’t it…

[Tamsin_Bailey]

I think I enjoyed it? It seems like a cerebral movie that you’re not supposed to think about as it makes no sense if you do. Maybe Nolan made the story with the old cut-out and shuffle routine like William Burroughs

[Mindysan33]

@Tamsin_Bailey

Maybe Nolan made the story with the old cut-out and shuffle routine like William Burroughs

That makes far more sense than it should…

[Grey_Devil]

I recall Dunkirk being pretty good on that front but i have only seen it the one time in theaters but yes, Nolan absolutely has an issue with balancing the overall sound of his movies against character dialogue.

[euansmith]

Thank you for that

@anon78706664 Dr Benway, I presume?

[Otherbrother]

@dnealy

Robert Downey Jr,

I can only assume that’s because his dad was involved with the project.

Obadiah Stane (to Tony Stark): When I ordered the hit on you, I was worried that I was killing the golden goose. But, you see, it was just fate that you survived it, leaving one last golden egg to give. You really think that just because you have an idea, it belongs to you? Your father, he helped give us the atomic bomb. Now what kind of world would it be today if he was as selfish as you?

[Otherbrother]

@Grey_Devil

Interstellar was sort of the beginning of the end for my interest in him, there were a lot of bits to the movie that were interesting but it seemed pretentious and the story wasn’t developed all that well.

I couldn’t believe it received an academy award nomination for “best sound editing,” of all things. There were several key moments when that damn organ music was so loud you couldn’t hear the dialogue. Nolan says that was intentional but that definitely doesn’t make it less annoying.

https://www.cnn.com/2014/11/18/showbiz/movies/interstellar-sound-nolan/index.html

And yeah, some of the physics stuff was interesting (like a relatively realistic depiction of what a wormhole would look like) but there were plenty of plot points that didn’t make any sense.

[DukeTrout]

@hecep

It’s beginning to sound like I was one of the few who enjoyed Tenet and its ‘layered’ action and storyline.

I also enjoyed the nonlinearity of Tenet and Interstellar. I was prepared for both by Memento. Ever unlock the DVD Easter egg for Momento and watch it chronologically? It’s boring.

[Grey_Devil]

Dunkirk is also non-linear, though for that movie i’m not 100% the non-linear editing was necessary but i did like the movie so there’s that. But as i mentioned in a previous comment, i would be hard pressed to recommend the movie to a friend that just wanted to watch a movie vs one that is a film geek.

[hecep]

@DukeTrout

Ever unlock the DVD Easter egg for Momento and watch it chronologically?

Nope… but only because I had been warned beforehand… and now again!

[GulliverFoyle]

Friends don’t let friends watch Memento chronologically.

[hecep]

[anon78706664]

[smulder]

This seems to be the historical reference