• portuga@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    No I don’t get it. But I would like to. Is this one of those scenarios where three physicists walk into a bar, each one tells a joke but none of it are funny so no one gets it?

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      1 month ago

      The moment I wrote it, I was hearing it in the voice of Benny Safdie in his first scene as weirdo Edward Teller, in “Oppenheimer”.

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        1 month ago

        Didn’t watch the movie, probably why it went over my head. Sorry 🤷‍♂️

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          1 month ago

          No Oppenheimer?!!
          Your geek credentials are hereby revoked until further notice!
          Or until you atone!

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            Subject matter doesn’t appeal to me much, and I’m also not very fond of the lead actor (no particular reason, he’s a great actor) If it serves as consolation I only watched like 15min of barbie, either

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              I didn’t make it through 5min of Barbie lol

              Oppenheimer was good and had nice music too.

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              It’s a movie about physics, with characters like Niels Bohr featured prominently, which just so happened to be made for general audiences and it was a hit, by a director whose other historical film was about Dunkirk.

              Before these movies were made, the subjects were pretty much obscure to the mainstream. Films like these are regarded as risky for large studios, and it’s widely acknowledged that Christopher Nolan is on the very short list of directors with the blessing to do absolutely whatever they want at large studio scale and budget and that is not part of a franchise. And by “very short list” I mean people like Stanley Kubrick.

              The “mainstream” label on Oppenheimer is incidental, after the fact.

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                I would watch an edit of the movie that only featured the physics part of it. It’s the boring part I don’t have time for