Oppenheimer | Canadian First Time Watching | Movie Reaction | Movie Review | Movie Commentary 

Fun fact: the girl with the melting face is Nolan actual daughter. He said having her made that scene that much more emotional resonant for him that the film already was.

I saw this movie in theaters and it was a magical experience. The room was full, not a single seat was empty. The Trinity test scene was incredible, the entire room went silent, there was no sound of people chewing, drinking, breathing, coughing, nothing, pure silence and it stayed that way throughout the entire scene. The movie didn't feel like 3 hours at all. Loved your reaction

I like how they trick us into thinking Strauss is a friend at the beginning of the movie. Then, by the time the movie progresses, you realize he's the villain pulling all the strings.

Los Alamos is actually still a working community. I live near the area, and pass through regularly, and it's a huge deal. It's actually the inspiration for Black Mesa from half life, and is similarly a giant underground facility full of weird shit that's very very classified 😂 You can actually, technically, drive through the area, because it has a road that passes through it, but there are quite a few people with large weaponry to make sure you're not tempted to stop.

As far as I'm aware "Break a leg" started in show business, and was usually said to someone going for an audition where it meant "I hope to see you in a cast soon", but as it effectively means "good luck", that is what it's meaning has morphed into.

Watching this on IMAX was insane. It was louder than life, the tension before the explosion was one of the most intense things I've experienced in a movie theater ever

that "i believe we did.." line at the end is SO haunting. glad i saw this in theaters. absolute master piece. i predict A LOT of Oscars

Simone & George - No apologies are necessary for the quiet you displayed in this reaction. From the immeasurable weight of the subject itself, to the amazingly crafted script, to the undaunted and unflinching delivery of the actors; this movie was an experience to behold in nothing less than stunned silence. Theaters should have had ushers outside to help people pick up their dropped jaws as they exited. Great reaction, you two!

The explosion was silent because the speed of light through air is MUCH faster than the speed of sound. A few movies have shown explosions and delayed sound properly (Tenet and The Hurt Locker come to mind) on far distant chemical explosions, but for an atomic explosion, its so big, you are VERY VERY far away when viewing, and can still see it very well, hence the sound comes several seconds later.

The Trinity test using silence was genius, not just because it was effectively dramatic. From the moment of the on screen explosion until the shockwave hits, is the actual amount of time it took to reach the scientists at the real Trinity test. Nolan incorporated that moment of silence to give us the feeling that the scientists and other observers would have felt. As much of that feeling as you can put into a movie, anyway. That quiet moment of just taking it in, and realizing you succeeded, and experiencing the visuals of the strangely beautiful explosion you spent months trying to create. Then BAM oh yeah it's violent and terrifying as fuck. I saw that in theaters and it made me jump harder than any horror movie I've ever watched. Nolan is all timer of a filmmaker. Absolutely perfect creative decisions for that scene alone

I saw this in theaters and it melted my mind. The score, the sound design, the visuals…. It did not feel like a 3 hour movie at all!

When George mentioned the fence story I thought "that sounds like something Richard Feynman would do", and sure enough when I looked it up it was a story told by Feynman himself. About the only difference is the direction he was going... Feynman said he would go out through the gate and back in through the fence hole 😂

This movie was one of the most jaw dropping experiences I’ve ever had in a movie theatre. I don’t think I’ve ever left a screening before where the audience was in absolute stunned silence.

Don't be sorry for a quiet reaction. My reaction in the theatre was exactly the same as so was everyone else's. My theatre was dead silent throughout the entire movie. The only noise I heard was a few people at the end of the movie who said "wow". The ending left me in silence for a solid 20 minutes after it ended. The sheer weight and gravity that we could feel through the screen is just a testament to Cillian's amazing performance and Nolan's elite filmmaking

As a lover of history, the fact that movie still made me incredibly nervous during the Trinity Test scene, despite already knowing what happened, says so much about Nolan's talent as a film maker. This is by far the best movie of the year, if not decade.

This movie utilized sound in ways I'd never experienced before. In the ARQ theater, it was absolutely incredible. The other thing that got me was we all know the test succeeded - but the tension they were able to build prior to the bomb going off was... amazing. EDIT: I'm also wondering if the drowning of her, that the hands are Oppenheimer's signifying he feels responsible for her death. That he killed her.

Seeing this in IMAX three times, I was mesmerized every single time. This movie literally made me go home and start to study physics. Life changing experience.

I saw it twice in IMAX. During the lead up to the bomb being detonated. My heart was beating out of my chest. Also, I knew Gary Oldman was in the movie. But I didn't know who he was playing, so when I saw him as President Truman. My face lit up!

The Imax experience of this film was insane. When the test was going on, I felt like it wasn't going to work because of the suspense

I've seen three theories on the origin of 'break a leg', the first by far the most likely. Theatrical folk were superstitious, and it was thought that wishing someone 'good luck' on their upcoming performance would actually bring bad luck. So bidding a person to break a leg, a bad outcome, would be a 'safe' way to wish them good luck, while presumably appeasing the gods of perversity. The second possible origin of the phrase dates back to Elizabethan times, when audiences reportedly showed their appreciation by banging their chairs on the floor. The greater the appreciation, the harder the banging. Any broken chair legs would therefore signify a real _tour de force._ The third theory is that the phrase refers to the leg line on a stage, a line on the floor in the wings, beyond which the person is considered to be on stage and visible to the audience. Performers who made it on stage, i.e., 'broke' the leg line, would actually get paid, while those who remained in the wings and behind the leg line would not.

I saw this in 70mm IMAX twice and it was possibly the best movie-going experience I've ever had. The opening scene with the fireball sent chills through my body. Incredible filmmaking.

I just found out a while back from my Dad, that my Grandfather's unit was doing some work about 50 miles from the test area at Los Alamos. They didn't know the test was happening. He said it looked like the sun was starting rise, then it immediately set. Didn't find out until much later what it was. Pretty cool thing for him to have witnessed.

I was mainly excited to see Richard Feynman. They did show him not using the welding glass to view the explosion, as he knew glass blocks the harmful UV light from the blast. But there were other stories of him breaking into safes using logic and making people think he was a genius locksmith. He was a joker and pretty unique. Not a saint by any means but listening to his lectures are always entertaining and help you think differently about the world around you. The man won 2 Noble Prizes in Physics and neither were related to his relatively small work on the Manhattan Project. And yes he loved playing the bongos.

One thing I've noticed about Nolan is how well he can make a sequence tense, even kind of horrifying.

Just wanted to say, I'm a therapist watching this on my lunch break and Simone's "Sit down for a session with Cinebinge" made me laugh. Well done, lads!

I saw this opening weekend in IMAX at the Chinese Theatre in Hollywood at a 7am screening. The IMAX film reel was so big - 11 miles long and 600 pounds - that the theatre, along with many others, had to build an extension to the projection booth to have room for it. The sound was insanely great and those amazing IMAX shots made it well worth getting up early for. Beautiful film and performances. Cillian and RDJ damn well deserve nominations at all the awards coming up.

40:57 Speaking of that name-drop, another epic historical drama w/ a stacked cast and masterful editing is Oliver Stone's JFK (1991) starring Kevin Costner, Tommy Lee Jones, Gary Oldman, Joe Pesci, Donald Sutherland, John Candy, Kevin Bacon, Michael Rooker, Vincent D'Onofrio, Jack Lemmon, etc...

One of the two movies in my life so far that I've gone to the cinema 4 times for. Even just to experience the audio of it on big speakers makes it worth it every time.

My favourite scene is where Oppenheimer jumps on the table and screams "Its Oppen time!" and then the nuke goes off. In all seriousness, its a fantastic movie, Cillian Murphy deserves an Oscar.

There's a lot of symbolism (Shoutout to Just Trust Ash) in this film. One of my favourite is the first scene with Einstein and Oppenheimer we get one short cut to Albert throwing one stone in the pond, creating a single ripple symbolising the atomic bomb as a unique single theory. In their last scene it shows the light rain creating multiple ripples now that the entire world has been introduced to it while he points out we destroyed the world. Truly a great film!

The first time I watched "Oppenheimer" in theaters I had to take a quick bathroom break, but knew enough about the history of it to know where to break from. I also knew I would see it in the theater again anyway because the writing is so intricate and cohesive that you really can't miss a second of it or it feels like you've missed a quarter of a standard feature-length movie. It is like a feat of engineering where damn near every performance, major or supporting, were integral and/or significant.

The color/B&W switch indicates who is telling the story. Full color is Oppenheimer telling his story, B&W is Strauss telling his side of it.

It's honestly really hard to describe how it felt watching the Trinity test for the first time. It's a masterclass in building and releasing tension. Even though I'm not as big a fan of the movie as others, that 5-6 minutes is just undeniable.

I'm an actor and as far as I know the phrase "Break a leg" has a number of possible origins but all of them stem from the superstition you shouldn't wish someone good luck in the theatre. "The leg" can refer to the lever that opened an closed the curtains at the front of the stage, it can also refer to the side of a stage and in both cases back in the days of vaudeville you'd only get paid if you actually appeared on stage. So by wishing someone "Break a leg" you are wishing them success and that they get paid because they've actually appeared and done the work.

I cannot recommend rewatching this enough, now that you know what to be on the lookout for and who everyone is and how they all fit together it flows even better

"Break a leg" comes from ye olde English theatre tradition / superstition. Wishing someone good luck before going on stage was considered bad luck, so naturally it became custom to wish *bad* luck on someone in order to bring them good. There were all sorts of inventive things you could ask to befall someone, but being short and simple, "break a leg" is what's stuck around into everyday use.

"Near zero" in physics means zero. Unless you repeat the experiment "near infinite" times.

The bespectacled and handsome actor is Josh Harnett, star of Black Hawk Down and Pearl Harbor. About 20 years ago he didn't appear in major studio films because he wanted to lower his profile, so he turned to independent films and television.

Christopher Nolan is one of the few directors working today who can make a three-hour biopic largely comprised of people talking in hushed tones and make it so absolutely riveting. But he's able to convey the grave stakes and consequences of these hushed conversations. These were serious people talking seriously, and their choices changed the course of human history. Some complained that they never showed Hiroshima and Nagasaki. But the movie seems to intentionally choose not to, not just because Oppie was the focus of the film, but because we all have seen the cataclysmic damage they caused. The real footage is out there for any of us to find. Nolan simply chooses to imply the damage and the aftermath. We see Oppie's anguished reaction to the news reel. He's so distracted by what he caused that he doesn't even hear the cheers during his speech in the barn. He sees a woman's face peeling off and the burned-out husk of a human body at his feet. The man is clearly haunted, and we are haunted through him. The stomping in the barn is also some great sound design. It's the horrible sound of a raucous crowd applauding mass destruction, but it also sounds like the engine of a steam train as it rolls into motion. Like Oppenheimer's atomic research and everything it wrought, it's an unstoppable train chugging forward faster and faster, at risk of getting so out of control that it will annihilate everything in its path.

A pretty good anecdote is one I've seen posted around. Someone in the theater asking out loud, if there was any post-credits scenes. Someone else simply replying, "Yeah. You're living in it."

I saw this at the IMAX (proper 15perf 70mm film projection) and it was just an otherworldly experience. Some parts of the film felt like a fever dream. The closeups of Cillian (pronounced Killian, not Sillian) Murphy when the world was shaking around him were stunning. Learning they were done fully in camera was just icing on the Nolan cake. Nolan has made some seriously good films before, but this is his masterpiece - his career peak to date. I expect/demand nominations all around, and I'll be quite upset if Nolan, Murphy and Downey don't win at least a few statues for this.

I think it’s very easy to be critical of Harry Truman here, but even if their meeting played out exactly such, I have a different perspective. If I was wrestling with the idea that my name would live forever as the person that dropped those bombs, I might resent someone coming into my office and expecting me to commiserate with their feelings of guilt.

It's nice seeing Josh Hartnett back in Hollywood's good grace. He's always been such an underrated actor, even back when he had success.

When they say there is a "non-zero" chance of setting the atmosphere on fire, they are dramatizing it for the movie. The actual chance it would happen is so unlikely, it's like the chance of every wave function of every atom in your body perfectly syncing to let you walk through a solid wall. Basically impossible, but still non-zero.

Nicely edited! Actually appreciated you left longer parts without comment - seen it twice in the cinema myself, and yeah, you can’t help but just sit there. Some notes 3:14 Niels Bohr, Danish physicist and “father” of quantum mechanics. Mentor of Werner Heisenberg, among many others (Bohr’s son won a Nobel prize too). The play “Copenhagen”, which I highly recommend, is a great companion piece to this movie, as it deals with Heisenberg - Germany’s Oppenheimer - and his visit to Bohr in 1942, during the occupation. Bohr was in a precarious situation then, being Jewish in Nazi-occupied Denmark, but was smuggled out (along with the vast majority Danish Jews, incredibly enough) and made it to neutral Sweden, and then, as we see, to the US. Bohr is played here by Kenneth Branagh who does a _terrible_ job at a Danish accent :D 8:28 George: yeah, using that quote in that context is a bit much, even for Nolan. Sex and death, la petite mort and all that but still. 9:15 Simone: Yup, black holes are a relatively new discovery. Heck, the fact that there are other galaxies - let alone billions of them - is relatively recent. 11:42 Applause for Emily Blunt’s accent. 12:16 Mentioned in passing here is perhaps Einstein’s most direct contribution to the bomb: the letter that he and Szilard wrote to the president, warning him that the Nazis might be working on it or, at any rate, that the US should be. 12:56 George: Please watch “Good Night, and Good Luck” (David Straithairn, George Clooney - Clooney also directed) for another look at the McCarthy era. Incredible movie! 16:09 Teller, introduced here, did end up becoming the inventor of the hydrogen bomb (along with Stanislav Ulam), but besides his contribution to human precarity, he was also just a truly unlikable piece of crap his whole life. Unlike Oppenheimer’s mixed feelongs about his creation, Teller was just “how can we make make boom big enough to destroy all of communism?!” 16:23 Not in the edit, and barely in the movie, but Einstein is having a stroll with Kurt freakin Gödel - the man who, in a sense, broke mathematics. Look him up. 17:22 The film’s in color when it’s from Oppenheimer’s perspective. It’s black and white when it’s not. … thats probably enough notes :)

"Maybe they were talking about something more... important" has to be the biggest roast I have ever heard.

27:41 The idea break a leg came from the early days of theatre, it was a way of saying "I hope you make the cast," because if you break a leg you get a cast, but also if you get the part you are made a part of the cast. So by telling them to break a leg you're telling them you hope they get cast

Just watched it the other day; fantastic film. I was not expecting that final 40 or so minutes to get so particularly intense.

5:31 I’ve been trying to place that actor for weeks, and finally realized it’s “Mr. Universe,” from “Serenity”! 🤗

If you want to watch a pretty good flick about the McCarthy era, and various other important topics that still resonate today, check out 'Good Night, and Good Luck'.

“Break a leg” is theatre term. A lot of people think it means “good luck,” but that’s actually wrong. What it actually means is: “earn your pay.” Back in the day; actors only got paid for the time they spent on stage performing. If you’re not performing; you’re backstage. Well, in an amphitheater performance; there usually isn’t much of a backstage. Actors typically stand off to the side; past the stage area. The point where the stage and the side meet is known as a Leg-line. So; in order to earn your pay; you had to step across that line; or “Break the leg,” and start performing.

One of the best movies and reactions you've done on the channel, your absorption into it reflects what happened to the theatre audience and is a perfect testament to the gravity and drama of this moment in history. I think you two handled it well and I would be interested in seeing other reactions to movies with this kind of dynamic, awe inspiring story and portrayal. At this moment I'm drawing blanks on any that are comparable but perhaps the comments section will help out with that. Regardless very well done with both your words and silences!

This was a surreal experience to watch this in an imax theater, especially the trinity tests. The vibrations could be felt for minutes after the explosion

The black and white isn't for future sequences. It's for anything that was Strauss' pov. Oppie's was full colour.

I just watched it last night on Peacock with my headphones on blast and when it ended, I was gasping for a long time. WHOA!!!

The quietness was appropriate and amazing. A wonderful experience and reaction

The only issue with the movie is that so many people are getting from it the impression that there would be no bomb without Oppenheimer, and that is just not true. If he had not been involved, it would likely have taken longer, but it was always going to happen.

Wow, you really upped your game with this one. In my country, this film is not even on streaming yet 😄 I know it's long, but i think this is the kind of film you have to watch more than once to truly appreciate it. In my second viewing i caught a lot of things that flew over my head the first time, specially Emily Blunt's role which is far more than just an angry wife. Anyway, this is a great film, love your reactions 💟

The sound for this movie was peak, it made my heart jump up into my throat, like waiting for a jump scare

Great job, guys! In my 61 years of movie watching i don't know if one has ever had a more profound effect on me. It's a true masterpiece.

1: Ernest Lawrence is played by Josh Hartnett. 2: Los Alamos became an open city in 1957 and has a population of around 13 000 citizens

I was in Phoenix, AZ for a week and was able to see this film in one of 19 US theaters that offered a showing in IMAX 70 mm print and it was glorious! This is definitely a film that benefits from a second or even third viewing.

Several theories about where 27:50 comes from: - There's a good chance it comes from German, in which case it could simply just be a pun that doesn't translate to English well. - In the early 1900s there was this superstitious idea that if you say something the opposite would happen, so wishing someone good luck may bring them bad luck, so instead you wished they would break a leg... - There's also two great ways it relates to theatre, where it's used most. Firstly, that if you are not a payed actor you had to stay behind the "leg line" (so breaking the leg would make you successful), and that also if you break a leg you would be in a cast, or THE cast.

Oppie was (also) the guy who intuited that the dual answers produced by Dirac's equations, one positive and one negative, implied the existence of antimatter.

Love love love your little song in the intro George!!! 😂😂

Two interesting trivia bits: 1. For Olivia Newton-John fans: When Oppenheimer went to study in Germany, the teacher he studied under was Max Born, also known as Olivia Newton-John's grandfather. 2. For Leave It To Beaver fans: Before she became an actress, Madge Blake (a.k.a. Mrs. Mondello - - she also played Aunt Harriet on the original Batman series) - and her husband worked on the Manhattan Project, specifically in the testing department.

12:12 "Everybody Out, NOW!" 15:45 "Goes This [__] This Head." 18:06 "Jacket" Or "Gadjet"? 24:50 "Germany Is About To Surrender." 24:53 "With The Japanese Fightart." 30:01 "These Things Are Hard In Your Heart." 39:24 "I Left My Country That Never Return." 40:57 "Kennedy, Jonh F. Kennedy."

I actually loved the beginning "visualizations" that they put in as what Oppenheimer sees. I've taken a lot of courses in highschool and further reading just out of personal interest and you can name them all in regards to what it's referencing. Visualizations of string theory, black holes, the chain reaction of the bomb (but not contextualized yet in terms of destruction), the double slit experiment etc... Just a cool and fun way for people who know about this stuff to see so bombastically displayed on screen. Also Casey Affleck is so damn creepy in this and it's literally just a boardroom talk.

Your reaction was perfect - it's an overwhelming character and subject. I worked with Los Alamos (LANL) for a year around the turn of the century and was fascinated by the cognitive dissonance exhibited by the scientists there. I think it was showcased in the (then) Atomic Museum, now named the Bradbury Museum. At the beginning of the exhibits is the famous letter from Einstein to Pres. Roosevelt about the possibility of creating an atomic bomb. At the end of the exhibits is a lesser known letter from Einstein to Pres. Truman begging him to stop Hydrogen bomb research and testing. LANL is still responsible for ensuring that our nuclear arsenal is working properly yet the scientists there never want to see it used.

Cool reaction as always Simone & George, you both take care and have a great weekend

I still remember when the credits rolled and I all I felt was this impending doom......a kind of fear that Oppie must have felt back then. I kept seated for a while, I let Ludwig Gorranson make my skin crawl with that closing music. Only Chris Nolan can make a movie of a real life account feel so thrilling.

I saw this in both IMAX and regular cinema. Best movie I've ever watched.

I have full confidence that Christopher Nolan will win the Oscar for "Best Director" next year. It's the right film at the right time in his career. Essentially, it's Nolan's "Schindler's List". I'd like to recommend that you see "Thirteen Days" starring Kevin Costner. It's about the Cuban missile crisis.

I love the thumbnail. George really is the bomb. 😂

I am fortunate enough to live near one of the IMAX auditoriums that showed this in 70mm IMAX. I made sure to see it several times because it’s impossible to recreate that experience. I wouldn’t call it the best movie of the year, but every time I saw it I got more out of it. I’m glad to see people finally reacting to it

That physicist guy with the familiar face that you don’t remember where he’s from. That’s Josh Harnett from Black Hawk Down, Pearl Harbor. He was a heartthrob back in the early 2000s then totally disappeared and popped up again on the silver screen in Oppenheimer. Looking like just an aged Josh Harnett. His voice even grew deeper.

I worked at White Sands Missile Range up north at Stallion Range Camp and nearby is the test site and the McDonald ranch house & buildings, confiscated from them and other ranches during the war, and never returned to them. Tours are made twice yearly or by special arrangement, but we were able to drive over every so often since we already had access on the range. The site is behind a fence but the house is accessible. They’ve kept it up and even have markings such as “Clean Room - keep door shut” where final assembly was done. Amazingly, the house and outbuildings are just a couple miles from ground zero but had no damage. I do have some great pictures of both sites though. It’s crazy that the trigger mechanism parts were driven down the mountain from the lab the 210 miles in a sedan over some bad roads for final assembly. Los Alamos was so secret it had no mail service. A box in Santa Fe was the address and someone had to carry the mail up and back daily. And now Los Alamos and the National Laboratory is a very well-kept and nice “government” town. I love it and its’ beauty but would rather live down the hill in Santa Fe. And Groves built the Pentagon in 16 months, not the 48 the planners insisted it would take. He was a #%$& but it got results. The project included far-flung locations at Oak Ridge, Hanford as well as Los Alamos. All heavily compartmentalization and Top Secret.

The first time I watched it was on a full-size IMAX in SF. Like other people have said, the theater was completely packed-not a single empty seat-and when the bomb goes off, the theater was almost completely silent and still, as if everyone was holding their breath. But there was an older woman who was sitting two seats away who suddenly began sobbing spontaneously and uncontrollably. After the movie had ended and the lights came up, I saw that she was easily in her 80s. She had come to see the movie by herself, as there was no one else with her as we all got up to leave the theater. And then it occurred to me-just a flash of intuition-but I suddenly had this intense feeling that she had been one of the many children who were also sequestered at Los Alamos with their parents. In one scene in the movie, you see some of the children and in particular, there was a scene where there is a small girl sitting on the should of one of the scientist as Oppenheimer is speaking to them. The fact that many of the Manhattan Project scientists had been recruited from UC Berkeley make this more than a remote possibility, as many of the scientists probably returned to their previous homes. For some reason, I just had this unshakable feeling that the scene of the Trinity test had unearthed a long-buried memory of a little girl who had been at Los Alamos that night, a girl who didn't know why she had to live in a desolate desert away from her friend, a little girl who had been woken in the middle of her sleep by a sudden flash of light as bright as the sun, followed many seconds later by the sound of fury and thunder as the wooden house around her shuddered. When I watched the movie a few days later a second time and the scene of the bomb played on the screen again, I couldn't help but think of that old silver-haired woman sobbing by herself as the light of the atomic bomb filled the screen, in a theater where everyone else had been stunned into silence.

Highly recommend the book American Prometheus, which was Nolan’s primary source of information when making the film. The reality of Oppenheimer’s life is even more complex and astounding than the movie conveys.

"Break a leg," if it hasn't already been covered, is a term of encouragement that is a clever variation of telling someone, "Good luck! I hope you get in the cast."

I saw this in IMAX 5 times and it was an amazing experience

I haven't seen many movies in theaters, since 2020 but I saw this. It was one of the best movies I've seen in a long time

Los Alamos is worth the visit. I went there about three years ago after having only previously been there around 1980. There is still creepy secret stuff going on there, but it is finally beginning to tell its story - even the National Park Service is involved.

Cillian Murphy's first name is a HARD c sound, like Killian's Irish Red Beer - for years I also thought it was a soft c (cause if hard, use a K like the beer?) - however I've heard many interviewers and even himself, pronounce it with a HARD c sound.

That was awesome of you guys to say Happy Birthday to EOM!

Usually imax theaters in my country was either half filled or just almost empty because most movies wasnt really worth the money or effort to go to an imax theater. But oh boy was it full when this movie was screened. All imax theaters in my city was FILLED. I couldnt watch it in imax for the first month of the release. It was always full. When i finally got to see it, it was an experience. The sounds, the clarity, and the explosion shockwave felt real. The theater was rumbling and you feel it through your whole body.

Good analysis by you guys. I've only seen this movie halfway through so far and I already know I'm going to have to watch this movie a few times over. Just to pickup on the things that I missed the first time around. With good movies I usually end up doing this anyway.

Thank you so much for you know who’s birthday video!!!

The Strauss and Oppenheimer relationship is inspired by the one in Amadeus between Salitare and Mozart. Oppenheimer told Robert Downey Jr to study it

The Robert Batinbatinson thing is from The Weekly Planet Podcast and Mr. Sunday Movies RU-vid channel one of the best movie/comic podcasts/pages out there! It’s what James and Mason started calling Robert Pattinson after they learned he was playing Batman for some reason and thats just now his name to them lol

28:50 /// The atomic bomb was not the most expensive project the Americans developed during World War II. More expensive was the aircraft to carry it over the target. It cost $3 billion to develop the B-29. So the entire cost of dropping the atomic bomb was more than $5 billion, or nearly $86 billion today.

"Break a leg" is a term from the stage. Legend claims it originated with Shakespeare's plays being so well-liked that the audience instead of clapping banged their chars onto the floor of the theater, to the point of them breaking a leg on said chair. Or, it may simply refer to the "leg line" of the stage where the curtain hangs, meaning that the actor manages to carry the performance out to his or her audience. The expression can't be confirmed older than 19th century vaudeville.

Also I saw this at the science museum in London with my son for my birthday in imax and it was phenomenal

Long film but riveting. The subject is very important and I liked how weird Oppenheimer was. A hit movie with just talking; amazing.

“Unmounted, I can never unhear that” - Simone 🤣🤣🤣 The look on her face, fucking priceless 😂 God Damn it George 🤣 Always love these reactions!

I like the running "OMG" counter for Simone. lol

The movie "Trumbo" is one of the best movies to learn the insanity of the McCarthy witch-hunts! Hollywood blacklisted screenwriters, so many turned in scripts under ghost names, Trumbo being one of them. He wrote the script for "Spartacus" and others and won Oscars, but could not accept them , cuz of ghost names! The great actor Bryan Cranston plays Trumbo...and I highly recommend Cinebinge give this movie some ❤

"Break a leg" started because theatre has always had a lot of superstitions in it. It's a medium where, as much as you rehearse, anything can always go wrong. So "It's bad luck to wish an actor 'Good luck'" became a superstition, and instead you say "Break a leg," which is the opposite. Similar to this is how it became considered bad luck or cursed to put on MACBETH or even to say the play's title inside a theatre, hence people call it "The Scottish play." These things aren't meant to be taken too seriously, but after centuries, they've become tradition.

The close ups on Cillian Murphy’s face reveal everything Oppenheimer’s feeling without having to say a word, and it’s haunting every time. Seeing this movie in IMAX really made the Trinity test a transcendent experience. I don’t think I’ve ever been that affected by a movie explosion quite like that. Shook me to my fucking core.

In the early days of theater, this is where ensemble actors were queued to perform. If actors were not performing, they had to stay behind the “leg line,” which also meant they wouldn't get paid. If you were to tell the actor to “break a leg,” you were wishing them the opportunity to perform and get paid.