Oppenheimer (2023) First Time Watching! Movie Reaction! 

7 Oscars!

I loved when somebody on the internet asked "Is there a post-credit scene?" And the answer was: "You are living in it.". Crazy.

"Is it possible they were talking about something more.... important?" is such a savage roast

32:02 - I like how he said the joke about bombs and then after realized it was an accidental pun with the look up. haha

When you asked Profeesor Feynman "Where are your glasses?" (about 30 minutes in, just before the blast), he would have said (as he explained many years later) that he knew the car windscreen would block all harmful UV rays and, as long as he closed his eyes for the flash, he'd be fine. He was an exceptionally clever man - when asked to help with the investigation into the Challenger shuttle disaster, he let the 'experts' argue amongst themslves for a while and then dropped a small version of the O ring seal whose failure had caused the disaster into a jug of ice and water, shutting everyone up when the seal cracked immediately. It was a "I rest my case" moment.

At 17:20 "What the hell is that?" Well, that was the first nuclear reactor which Enrico Fermi built under the grandstands at the football field at the University of Chicago of course.

“When you invent the ship, you invent the shipwreck…” - Paul Virilio. Brilliant movie! Glad you enjoyed it. 2nd watch helps flesh out more of the concepts.

"This guy is just droppin' bombs" - (sideways look to confirm irony of that statement)

That ending scene is so damn effective. Cillian Murphy portrayed a million emotions with his eyes while doing absolutely nothing. That stare alone should get him an Oscar today. Also, the use of the feet stamping to represent horror and anxiety is a masterstroke. The scene in the auditorium is unbelievably effective at conveying such a complex mixture of negative emotions.

32:09 - This is the greatest moment in your entire library of reaction videos.

Robert Downey, Jr. just won his first Academy Award for portraying Lewis Strauss.

The gym celebration scene really shows how he felt at that moment. How no one was safe from what they created. I love the silence and the over exposure effect.

"Damn, this guy is just dropping bombs!" "... wait, what?" 🤣🤣👍👍

I was fortunate enough to catch a screening of this in 70mm IMAX while on a work trip in Nashville. The countdown to the detonation was so indescribably tense in the theater. To me, it was more about the death of the old world, the birth of the nuclear world, and all the sobering horror that came with it.

That scene in the auditorium with everyone clapping, the odd sound design paired with that imagery is etched into my mind to this day. In that moment you can really see how haunted he is by what's happened. It left most in the theatre pretty speechless

"I believe we did" maybe not today, not tomorrow, but possibly anytime in the future. and now we are going through the cold war again, is a scary messege this movie.

I don't know why, but one of my favourite scene in the movie is when Oppenheimer is teaching is first class in Berkeley and you see it grow and grow. The concept of literally bringing to life a field of studies to an university is crazy to think about...what would be physics without quantum mechanics today ? Seeing it evolve in your class must be exciting !!

During the Pacific testing during the Cold War sailors accounted seeing the bones in their hands while covering their eyes, which were closed; seeing the Xray of their own bodies in real time while not looking.

I saw Oppenheimer in theaters. I didn't expect it to be as compelling as it was.

I asked my son if he wanted to come with me to a 70mm screening letting him know that the movie is dialogue heavy. I'm so glad he said yes and tagged along with me. He liked the movie and was in awe of how a movie with only dialogue can be good.

32:05 LOL your face after realizing the pun 😅

This is the best movie I have ever seen. I saw it 5 times in the movies and the best IMAX moment I have ever been apart of is the Nuke scene. Greatest Film and one of the most important films ever made.

32:06 I loved it when you realized what you said. 😂

Winner of 7 Oscars: Best Picture Best Director, Christopher Nolan Best Actor, Cillian Murphy Best Supporting Actor, Robert Downey Jr Best Film Editing Best Cinematography Best Original Score.

"I'm not sure, I think The Bomb was used in WWII at some point..." -- Yes. The last part.

Oppenheimer was unfortunately VERY incorrect with his stance against the H-Bomb. By keeping ONLY fission weapons (measured in Kilo tons), you would create an arms race, and unless you had hundreds of thousands of weapons, could you only achieve global destruction. You therefore create a situation where an atomic conflict could be deemed winnable by one side (which is what the late 40s, 50s, and early 60s were like, which was hell). However, once FUSION weapons like the H-Bomb were developed and deployed en masse (measured in Mega tons), by the late 60s, both sides had enough weapons to not only destroy the other side, but it would render the entire planet uninhabitable. MUTUAL ASSURED DESTRUCTION (MAD), is what brought the peace. Now, living under MAD during the cold war wasn't fun (I grew up next to Barksdale AFB, home of Strategic Air Command, 5th target, after washington, norad, NY, and LA). But until we have true global peace, we will have to continue living with MAD against Russia and China. However, this has indeed kept the peace believe it or not. The huge advances in EVERY global measurement of population, education, infrastructure, everything...is due to nuclear weapons keeping the peace since WW2. Yes there have been hundreds of thousands of deaths of militants in 70 years since WW2, but that pales in comparison of WW2 where 30-40 million soldiers died globally. And then there is WW1, and the 19th century had dozens of huge wars (very destructive based on population at the time), starting off with Napoleon who for all intents started the first true world war. Nuclear weapons make all out war between superpowers and their allies unthinkable, therefore they wont happen.

During the cold War there were 2 major TV movies about nuclear war. In the USA we had "The Day After," which you can find on RU-vid. The UK had "Threads" which is currently streaming on Shudder. Strongly recommend both if you want an idea of the fear we lived in. We went about our lives, sure, but in the back of out minds the threat was there.

thats the joy. he isnt a hard bargainer. He just wants to have fun with the life he has.

Murphy/Oppenheimers final words in the movie "I believe we did" are SOOOOO Haunting in the context of history... what they created and the fear it put on the whole planet, lingering still today and probably never stopping.

It Has Won 7 Oscars Including Best Picture!

I first read about Bohr and Heisenberg in the Broadway play "Copenhagen." Bohr and Heisenberg are known as pioneers in quantum physics, more of mentor-student relationship (Bohr being the mentor), but their relationship was severed after a meeting in Copenhagen, where Bohr lived, in 1941. What has been said has been fiercely debated, but many say that they had the same arguments as Oppenheimer did in this movie. But many just are not sure what those arguments were.

32:04 hahaha probably my FAVORITE reaction moment EVER on this channel!!! on par with Sams moment in BLAST FROM THE PAST when Frasers Character sees his first black person.

Samantha's hair is everything in this video.

Some years back the TV series "Manhattan” did an excellent job covering this history. Well worth watching.

Schmitt, Mrs. Schmitt, I saw this movie in the theater, those 60-90 seconds of silence and seeing the fire from the explosion, was probably the scariest part of the scene for me.

To some extent, the existence of atomic weapons has created peace. It used to be normal for the major powers to invade neighbors and start wars just because they were stronger and ambitious. Large nations don't do that much any more just because of the fear of a major conflict going nuclear.

I've seen a lot of couples on this site react to movies, music, comedy etc... You two are among the most intelligent. And you have a healthy marriage, so obviously. You lean into each other physically while watching.... You listen to each other.... And make each other think, and above all, smile and laugh. It is a great combination. I've watched many of your reactions... And they are all the same that way. A truly lucky couple to have found true love like that. And I watched your Q&A vid.... Found true love in the 8th Grade? WTF? I know you didn't know it at the time, but it still counts! Some people are just luckier than others.... Just sayin', ha ha ha! Keep up the good work!

You know it when i watch to many of your reviews. I forgot my pc was on Mute but still heard the Intro Music going thru my mind like it was playing ..

One thing that really helps to understand the movie's narrative is that the B&W scenes are the ones were the story is being told to Strauss's POV, i.e. his world is black and white, right and wrong, you are either on his team or his enemy. The color scenes are all associated with the ones where the story is being told from Oppenheimer's perspective.

As an anarcho-communist myself I loved that Oppenheimer tackles that fact that from prior to the start of the war, during the war, and after the war, the United States has always been far more willing to side with fascists than cooperate with anarchists/socialists/communist. In my experience, most films tackling the era, the topic of both the bomb, and the second world war always fail to address that fact. I do love that the “politics” within the film, as a device for the narrative, show how the security state of the United States is made up almost entirely of paranoid little boys playing soldier, and reducing what they see as their opposition-the conflation of “Russian” with “Communists”-into black & white. Would have been neat to hear more mention of the efforts to prevent the Nazis from acquiring the heavy water in Norway. And even more so about how we basically pushed the Japanese into a position where they wanted to surrender but could not because our demands were so overbearing and humiliating that they had to reject the initial offer-Creating the propaganda that “the Japanese will never surrender.” Speaking of propaganda, 🤔 lot of WWII films & shows, wonder why that is 🤨😂, (because most Americans can agree that the Nazis had to be defeated.) I love the portrayal of that piece of garbage Truman as well. I loved that Rami Malick didn’t seem to have any lines and then all of a sudden he delivers a whole testimony. I had to rewatch the film to realize Alex Wolff even had lines 😂 It’s crazy how many big actors were in the film. Anyway, I think the greatest element of the film absolutely was the acting. The only other WWII films I could/would recommend: (1) Downfall (2004) (2) Come And See (1985) (3) Jojo Rabbit (2019.) Also, Tenet was pretty good, I was surprised that I liked it more than I had expected.

"Until someone else builds a bigger bomb." Dr. Seuss wrote a book about this concept for kids, called "The Butter Battle Book", as a warning. We had a copy in my school library when I was a little kid, prior to the Berlin wall coming down and the Soviet Union collapse.

Congratulations to Oppenheimer for 7 Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Director and congratulations to Cillian Murphy for Best Actor. And Robert Downey Jr. for Best Supporting Actor.

It's nice to round this masterpiece off by listening to the song "Enola Gay" by OMD.: "Enola Gay, is mother proud of Little Boy today? Aha, this kiss you give, it's never ever gonna fade away"

Now Christopher Nolan AND Cillian Murphy are finally Oscar winners ❤

What I've caught in repeated viewings is the visions Oppenheimer was seeing in the beginning compared to the end. At the beginning, the were visions of the unknown, from black holes and stars to abstract scientific thought. At the end, the visions became the known: arms races, launching missiles, mushroom clouds and the end of the world. From wonder to terror. Excellent touch!

This film deserved every Academy Award it won. Nolan should have more than 2 Oscars, but at least he has finally won. Same as RDJ finally winning and it’s great Cillian Murphy won an Oscar as well. The cast is phenomenal, the writing and directing is impeccable as is the cinematography and score. Truly one of the best films of the century. I also loved Gary Oldman as Truman, he did an amazing job with such limited screen time. Also, Truman said to someone else regarding Oppenheimer’s quote of having blood on his hands as “I have more blood on my hands than he could imagine.” That seems to say that Truman also had mixed feelings about the situation, but being the president and knowing the bombings did in fact end WWII, he likely was able to process how the war ended a bit better than Oppenheimer as he had to give the go ahead after being informed what would happen once the bombs were dropped and what the effects would be for those who were alive afterwards and didn’t have an intimate involvement in the creation of the bombs. Great reactions guys, take care!

Please check out Cillian in SUNSHINE :)

Josh Hartnett's character is Ernest Lawrence, for whom the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is named. As of today, the LLNL is also the hottest place in the universe (edit: the hottest artificially created place) because it has the National Ignition Facility in it. 500 terawatts of light focused on a single point.

March 9-10 1945 Operation Meetinghouse General Curtis LeMay had his B29’s (325 bombers) destroy roughly 16 square miles of eastern Tokyo using napalm Roughly 100,000-130,000 deaths Over 1 million displaced

Almost a decade ago there was a fairly good 2-season TV series about the Manhattan project called simply _Manhattan_ which is streaming on several platforms. It is more fictionalized in that most of the characters are composites of real people, and characters like Oppenheimer appear only briefly. But it dives deeper into the logistical difficulties, the conflicts over the approach to take, the paranoia over security, the fact that there were actually spies in Los Alamos, the role of women (both the female physicists and mathematicians, and the wives of the scientists, some of whom had professional qualifications in other fields they gave up to remain a family), etc. In terms of story arc _Oppenheimer_ reminds me of _The Imitation Game_ : a brilliant scientist leads an effort to make a critical breakthrough that helps win WWII, there are arguments over exactly how that breakthrough should be employed, and after the war the scientist ends up distrusted by the government he served because of his personal life. The big difference being that the code-breaking at Bletchley Park remained an Official Secret that was illegal to discuss for decades so the importance of the people who did the work wasn't really known until the 1970s and later.

One thing I love about the Ground Zero scene is the fact that, with the exception of Oppenheimer, no other character is the focus of the scene, it's solely fixed on the Gadget and the hands assembling it. With this and the soundtrack giving an ominous deep pulsing and faint electrical crackling, I think it's one of the best directed scenes of the entire film.

This has to be the absolute newest movie that’s ever been viewed on the channel. It also might be the longest. Its also a momentous film. This episode feels like “TBR SCHMITT: THE MOVIE.”

From the rush and joy of discovery to the absolute horror and dread of seeing what splitting an atom is capable of

Every award won for this movie was rightly deserved. This is one of the best piece of work by Christopher Nolan.

23:33 They weren't exposed too much radiation considering the engineering of the bombs core.When the radioactive material was incased it proved to not to be a radiation hazard unless breached through a hole, explosion, sudden drop (etc.). If they were exposed to plutonium or uranium at the levels they would have for the few minutes it would pose no effect.

29:07 Truman was a WWI veteran. An artillery commander. So he had seen and taken part in some incredibly brutal combat. He understood the human cost and significance of the decision he made when he made it. So it's not about "I get credit." It's more about having the conviction and fortitude to stand by the hard decisions made in such a war. Oppenheimer coming in moping about his sense of guilt when Truman shoulders the burden for what happened rubbed him the wrong way. In his own words: “Blood on his hands, dammit, he hasn’t half as much blood on his hands as I have. You just don’t go around bellyaching about it.” Truman was a hardass and also understood, quite intimately, the cost of war and the price of securing victory over such a determined enemy.

You guys have to see Tenet. And watch some Korean and Thai movies. There's a lot of hidden gems.

Very few young people realize how many lives dropping those bombs saved. It’s fascinating actually.

This movie alone was incredible but having seen it twice in IMAX was phenomenal..... The acting, the score, the story and of course the efx was almost to much for the senses. One of the few times there was complete silence at the end of a movie where everyone was astonished and raking in what they just saw. Happened again at the second showing. One of the best movies I've ever seen, experienced.....

Don't forget to watch one of the best "war" movies ever... Kelly's Hero's! With all kinds of actors, like Clint Eastwood, Donald Sutherland, Carroll O'Connor, Don Rickles, and more.

The 70mm IMAX print of this film was ELEVEN MILES long. For shipment to theatres, it had to be divided into sections and reassembled when it reached its destination. It was an incredibly labor-intensive process and it broke down on a few occasions.

I remember seeing this movie (Oppenheimer) in cinema (theaters) twice over the last summer, it was one of the most cinematic experiences I’ve ever seen, I’ve also been hoping for you guys to react to Oppenheimer, and now I’m always hoping you guys to watch Breaking Bad, Stranger Things, Schindler’s List, and Casablanca at some point

At the same time in 1945 the Japanese were killing 250,000 per month. EDIT: That's in China and Indonesia alone by the way, not including the rest of east Asia. 20 million Chinese (16 million civilians) and 4 million Indonesians (all civilians). Divide 24 million by an 8-year occupation and you get 250k per month. And they still occupied all that territory at the end of the war, unlike Germany which lost everything except Norway before they surrendered. (And speaking of Norway, watch "The Heroes of Telemark" with Kirk Douglas for the true story of the Norwegian commandos who blew up the German heavy water plant in Norway.)

32:04 tbr realizing he accidentally just killed it 🤣🤣

Definitely do Tenet

I’ve seen Tenet twice, once at home and then again in an IMAX reissue. It’s to me, one of his best works

John Jacob Oppenheimer Schmitt. His reaction is my reaction too. Whenever he posts a video, the people always comment, THERE GOES JOHN JACOB OPPENHEIMER SCHMITT! TA-DA-DA, DA, DA, DA-DA-DA, DA-DA, DA!

I love watching your movie reactions, you two have such great chemistry. You both seem very smart to follow this movie, I watched it once in the theatre and was somewhat confused with all the names of characters. Great movie review!

Have you watched Nolan’s Insomnia? Underrated.

Congrats Christopher Nolan on FINALLY hearing your name called.

That ending is so powerful, it really does underline everything about the movie and Oppenheimer himself, a man that like the bomb he created was set to detonate.

My favorite part of this reaction is at 32:05 into the reaction. I won't spoil why. However, anyone who goes back to 32:05 and watches it again will immediately know why it is my favorite part. So funny but subtle. Laughed out loud at that part.

Definitely one of the films of the decade, if not the century! I got the book it’s based upon “American Prometheus” for my Dad and his lent it to me, really keen to read and learn more about Oppenheimer’s life and scientific career!!

In regards to radiation exposure at Los Alamos, Kyle Hill here on YT has a few great videos about extreme radiation exposure accidents that happened during the existence of the town as a nuclear weapon research site

It is sometimes hard to remember that Einstein was born 'only' in 1879. His legacy in science is so massive and we have put him on a such a pedestal that it seems that he lived hundreds of years ago and still lives.

Here's what I understand about David Hill's testimony against Lewis Strauss (I'm not taking a dog in this fight, just going with what I have read): I think it goes back to Strauss' speech in 1949, where Strauss opposed shipping radioisotopes to Norway. That same year, the Soviets conducted their first hydrogen bomb test, which caught many off-guard, since many thought the Soviets needed more time. Strauss felt like the Soviets wouldn't be persuaded by moral arguments, and were determined to build their weapons no matter what. In 1953, Hill was the chairman of the FAS, Federation for American Scientists. He criticized Strauss' speech, after many in the scientific community considered shipping the radioisotopes to be beneficial. Hill cited this as well as a "personal vindictiveness" for Strauss as his reasons for testifying. He apparently knew about Oppenheimer's clearance hearing, although how much he knew and how he found out about Strauss' involvement, I still don't know. My guess is that the scientific community knew of their rivalry already, and pieced it together on their own. It wasn't just Hill that knew about the clearance revocation, but Hill was one who was willing to testify. Strauss didn't help his own case, to be fair: he claimed he had more involvement in the development of the H-bomb than he actually did, and claimed he convinced President Truman to support it. Truman was so outraged by this and sent a letter to Clinton Anderson, a Senator from New Mexico, who was on the voting committee, which basically discredited Strauss' argument. Anderson and Strauss had a long-running feud, so Anderson asked to be on the committee to try to undermine Strauss' nomination. Anderson found help from another Senator, Gale W. McGee (Wyoming), who had jurisdiction over the confirmation hearings. Strauss attempted to pacify Truman, but was unsuccessful, and remained bitter at this rebuffing. Strauss had a reputation for inflexibility. One of his colleagues on the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) said, "If you disagree with Lewis about anything, he assumes you're just a fool at first. But if you go on disagreeing with him, he concludes you must be a traitor." The AEC also upheld the ruling seen in the movie, 4-1, with Strauss writing the majority opinion, since he was chairman at the time. Public sentiment and the scientific community heavily criticized this. Therefore, I think that the public and scientific community already knew many parts of the story anyway, so Hill didn't necessarily need an inside source. I could be wrong, but that's my guess.

I was a reservist and I spent one year at White Sands Missile Range. I got to visit the Trinity Site.

42:00 So many great scenes think Josh Hartnett stoles some scenes, Matt Damon and Kenneth Branagh. Loved when Oppenheimer was in a uniform. When he said "people won't understand what this can do until they see it" or fear it. That whole scene where they said Kyoto being so beautiful and it is like everything in Japan is beautiful

Well this was a Rare-&-Fun treat, Thank You!💝I had literally just finished one Premiere and walked right into another...✌

Feynman is so cool they named star systems after him in the Mass Effect and Starfield games ❤

Kyoto was also the Vatican of Japan. very significant spiritual local. this was why it was removed from the target list.

I often sit and ponder what happens inside the heart of a dying star.

_Thirteen Days_ (2000) seems like a good follow-up to this and _JFK_ .

You guys should also watch Killers of the flower moon.

I didn't notice until someone pointed it out to me: Bruce Banner and Tony Stark were competing for Best Supporting Actor this year!

Excellent reaction to a fantastic movie!!! Love the end discussion:) 🎥

Einstein traveled to Japan in 1923. He lectured in Kyoto, Tokyo… and Hiroshima.

Tenet is amazing! Definitely worth watching. The only issue is some minor sound balancing.

He's going to Germany to study under Olivia Newton-John's grandfather - - Max Born. So weird to think about that.

Tenet is an amazing film, one of Nolan's best. Some people just found it too complicated + it suffered from being the first big flick released during the pandemic. But it really is an amazing film, script, director, cinematography, cast included.

It took me awhile to get into how this movie was structured. I’ll probably appreciate it more on a re-watch.

F the Government! TBR is Based :)

The sound design and music are excellent. Ludwig Göransson will probably win the Oscar tonight for Best Score, and it will be a well-deserved win, but in regard to the sound design itself, that Oscar really ought to go to The Zone of Interest. I have never IN MY LIFE seen a film in which the sound alone carries such profound thematic weight, but that's what the sound in The Zone of Interest does. #IYKYK

"Big bang, took and shook the world!" All the best to Cillian Murphy this evening! (But I will also cry big fat tears if Paul Giamatti gets a surprise nod, love him!)

The scene with the breakdown of where should they drop the bomb on Japan was interesting. It seems hard to come by when you're digging for that part of the war history. The fact Oppenheimer said the government spots were too small to use it on was surprising. Depending on who you ask now in Japan there's still a majority of Japanese even the old generation who have no idea why the Japanese Empire had it coming and the full scope of war crimes committed on the Asian Pacific countries. Only "some" are aware of the Chinese massacre that happened. History always needs our historical responsibility.

7:31 the 1st Student of Oppenheimer playing actor did a 2008 raunchy comedy back in the day.

I thought the scene with Truman was Truman saying the blame and the guilt falls on the one who uses it. From what I've read about Truman, I don't believe it had anything to do with credit.

08:47 "Now I Am Become Death, The Destroyer Of Worlds."

I like how she was so anxious after hearing the atmosphere might catch fire & destroy the world. It didn't so we're here but that's the kind of feeling good movies can impart. I like the movie but it's probably a one & done, not high on my rewatchability scale.

you need to watch a making of of this! the effects really are all practical! its crazy and also super conviniet sometimes how they did some of them, like at 28:10 the vibrating background, they did with a photos of the background put on a projector, projected over the background itself so it matches perfectly and then vibrate the projector basically.... super creative! they also had invent a new type of negative film for the black and white scenes because there simply was no IMAX capable(and sized) black and white film.