So I just now did something I don't do very often these days. I decided to watch a major new film without distractions, all the way through without interruptions. So I set up to watch Oppenheimer on a decent big screen in 4K HDR with a reasonable sound system. I got 45 minutes in and gave up a few minutes ago. Very disappointing after all the hype and awards. No wonder Leela fell asleep watching it.
Problems:
Typical modern film where making out the dialogue is a continuous struggle without running back sections and/or turning on captions (and I hate watching English-language films with captions, and yes I know that people of all ages are now enabling captions due to the way films and television dialogue and scores are being mixed these days).
Unnecessarily non-linear. Color sections, black and white sections, bouncing around in time in ways that are utterly unnecessary and simply make the story more work to follow than it needs to be. Arty? Oh yeah, arty. No thanks.
Melodramatic. Dripping with sappy melodrama. So much melodrama that I frequently knew what was going to be said or done before they said it or did it, just by applying soap opera dialogue standards, rather than historical knowledge. I'm not clairvoyant, but if I watched this film all the way through I'd probably finish it thinking I was the most clairvoyant person on this planet.
If I'd been trapped in a theater after paying theater prices to watch this bomb I'd have felt significantly cheated.
And yes, the pun is intended.
L
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