Oppenheimer | First Time Watching | REACTION - LiteWeight Reacting 

Saw it in theaters twice. Still got such a rush of emotions during the Trinity scene even though I knew from history what would happen. That’s a sign of a great director.

Nolan somehow managed to make a 3 hour drama that’s so jam packed that there isn’t a SINGLE good moment to take a pee-break and that reminds you of the very real ever-present dread that atomic weapons exist in our world.

The shot of the V2 rocket teased earlier in the movie, then shown again at the end, but then this time it pans to reveal it’s not just one, but many… man, that’s gotta be one of my favorite things that Nolan has put to the big screen. Such a chilling ending.

Your commentary and insight is so much more literate and analytical than many other reactors, really enjoyed this reaction! And honestly you might be the first reactor I've watched who picked up on the reason for the color and B&W. Bravo haha

Winner of 7 Oscars: Best Picture, Charles Roven, Emma Thomas and Christopher Nolan Best Director, Christopher Nolan Best Actor, Cillian Murphy Best Supporting Actor, Robert Downey Jr Best Film Editing, Jennifer Lame Best Original Score, Ludwig Gorranson Best Cinematography, Hoyte Van Hoytema.

ENORMOUS props to Ludwig Gorannson for his incredible score for this film. It's been a pretty regular repeat since I came out of the theater after watching the film for the first time lol.

“Is it possible they talked about something more important” And what are they actually talking about?? The possible end of the world… Such a great film and awesome reaction thank you.

A single mom, a history teacher, a gamer and a youtuber. Wow lite im amazed at your hardwork.

The last line and the way Cillian delivers it, truly is a gut punch. And yes, the guy who plays Neils Bohr, aka Kenneth Branagh, is in 'Murder on the Orient Express' and if you're going to watch all of Nolan's films you'll see him again, in 'Tenet' and 'Dunkirk.' He somewhat of a protagonist in one and the antagonist in the other.

The scene's that are in Colour are in Oppenheimer's perspective, the scene's in black and white are in Lewis Strauss perspective.

What is worse than biting into an apple and seeing a worm? Biting into an apple and seeing half a worm. 🤣

From an inflation Calculator in 1945, $2,000,000,000 adjusted for inflation to 2024 equals $34,480,666,666.67 a 1624% increase.

I saw it in Theater with my wife and loved it so much I had to go back with my daughter and watch it in IMAX. What a movie. Truly a masterpiece from Christopher Nolan.

Dang I never realized Kitty might have had postpartum depression. That definitely needs to be represented more. All your reactions are so insightful! Hate having to wait two weeks between uploads!

Well I am a scientist and I can tell you the sound thing at the bomb testing was accurate. From where they were watching the explosion, there would have been about a minute delay between seeing the light and hearing the sound/experiencing the shockwave. One thing I found really funny is that the actor who played Werner Heisenberg (Matthias Schweighöfer) is a German actor who’s mostly known for doing cheesy rom coms. Also I don‘t know if you already know this or not, since you have a history degree but a poisoned apple ties Oppenheimer to another brilliant man of his time called Allen Turing. He was a British mathematician who built the first “computer” ever to decrypt the enigma a German encryption machine. Sadly he later took his own life by eating an apple that he poisoned with cyanide. There is an incredible movie about him and his work during world war 2 called The Imitation Game, I highly recommend you watch it

Really great film and both Cillian Murphy and Robert Downey, Jr. definitely earned their praise and awards. I didn't really like that Robert Oppenheimer practically abandoned his family, tho. The toll that the Manhattan Project took on him was overbearing.

This is Nolan's crowning achievement in what is already a long career of hit films. This film's editing and storytelling style, the way it rapidly jumps between time periods, this is a style that Nolan has been experimenting with since The Prestige (2007). Not all of his films are like this, but you can see shades of this style in The Prestige, Inception, Tenet, and Dunkirk. He perfected the technique for Oppenheimer, and I think the results were spectacular!

I was thrilled by your reaction. Your passion and your genuine understanding of the subject matter and its implications were genuinely moving.

I feel like everytime I watch a reaction from you I am gaining new perspectives on movies I have already seen and thought about and it is just wonderful! Also, Cillian Murphy's acting was out of this world, the way he could portray so much emotions without saying a word or moving a muscle

Saw it on release day and in a full screening, during the silence when the bomb does off, nobody made a sound. Not a cough, no rustling through a packet of sweets, no scratching at the bottom of the popcorn box.. nothing. Everybody just soaked in every second. I've never been prouder of an audience of strangers.

It's so awesome and refreshing watching a reaction to this with someone who knows the background and the history. Loving this 🥰

I like your videos a lot! Your reactions are genuine. Thanks for being real

The black and white is just how Lewis Strauss sees the world

The silence in the theater when the bomb went off was pretty loud, then the sound of the Shockwave literally freaked everyone out even though some where anticipating it it was great

Soooooo enjoyed your reaction and post watch discussion. Your analysis was deep and well done. Much moreso than other reactors. Thanks!!!!

Really enjoyed this! Normally do not watch reactions but this was really well done!

Bless your sweet heart. Once again you show us your sensibility. I thourougly enjoyed this. I agree with your views on Nolan. I think you can see him developping his skills over his movies, over the years. To me, this feels like his Magnum Opus (so far). The scenario, the chronology in which he told the story, the cast, the cinematography, the music has all come together to fit perfectly in this magnificient work. It's just brilliant. I didn't know you were a mother. Congratulations. I didn't know you were an history teacher too. Well done there too. I really enjoyed getting into full teacher mode!

The fact that Nolan shot this on actual film with practical effects is mind blowing

Saw this in theaters 6 times 😂 I literally love this movie. It’s one of my favorite films ever without a doubt. It deserved every award it got this past award season. Enjoying your reaction so far!

Loved the outro!!

I think Emily Blunt said it best about the film. That Nolan had Trojan Horse'd a biopic into a thriller. I love how Nolan crafts a series of small "detonations" of emotions, to all go off at the end. Much like the pulling/demolition of a building. Nolan does this in most of his films, e.g. Oppenheimer, Dunkirk, Interstellar, Inception, Dark Knight Rises, The Dark Knight. *boom boom boom boom BOOM!!!* Oh, and how about the music??? Especially that small scene near the start of the film, after "Can you hear the music, Robert?" Is that not phenomenal? Probably one of the big scenes that contributed to Goransson winning an Oscar. Loved your reaction, I would have liked this video a bunch more times if it would let me!

Thanks for the brief history lesson by the way to go with your movie reaction, f**king well done!

Perfect timing! I'm just waiting for the stream to start so this is a great way to pass the time😄

Haven't seen this movie yet but holly crap what Iv'e seen watching along side of you looked incredible! Thanks so much LW🥰Love world history as well, so this will be awesome!🙂

I love watching your channel because I learn something new each time. I’ve seen this movie 5 times in IMAX and this is the first time it occurred to me that Kitty could’ve been acting the way she did due to post partum depression. So thank you once again for your valuable insight.

Really glad to see someone who knows that our motivation for dropping the bombs on Japan was to posture against Russia, knowing that Truman and the US govt was set on making them our territorial adversaries after FDR passed away

One of the few movies I've seen in my life where at the end there was stunned silence with peoples mouths open, sitting in aghast, shock in their eyes. Probably took at least a minute for people to snap out of it and there was still silence as everyone walked out. Seeing this in IMAX was beyond spectacular. The visuals, the sound, the acting, feeling everything sitting on your chest..... Had to experience it again the very next day. This was made for IMAX.

I knew you were a teacher but didn't know it was history you taught. As someone who once considered becoming a history teacher that's awesome to find out. You should definitely react to more history films

Man, I watched this at the theater with my wife… the Trinity test scene… I really considered walking out of the theater… my anxiety was just way out of control and… you already know what’s gonna happen! This film deserved every award it won👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Great reaction like always, This movie is another masterpiece from Nolan. What he has put before our eyes definitively deserves to be seen, as does Cillian Murphy's performance in the role of Oppenheimer and the irreconcilable but fantastic, but Robert Downey Jr. in the role of Lewis Strauss is in another level what a great performance truly amazing. The Trinity Test recreation was filmed without special effects, Nolan is no stranger to recreating dramatic events on the big screen but in perhaps his most ambitious move yet, the director decided to film the atomic bomb test without using any CGI or visual effects. That means what you see on screen really did take place - although on a smaller scale. The movie opens with an ominous opening caption, which reads: “Prometheus stole fire from the gods and gave it to man. For this he was chained to a rock and tortured for eternity.” The film is based on Kai Bird’s 2005 Oppenheimer biography American Prometheus and explaining the comparison, Kai writes in his book: “Like that rebellious Greek god Prometheus who stole fire from Zeus and bestowed it upon humankind, Oppenheimer gave us atomic fire. The cast lived together during filming, Nolan moved his cast and crew into digs together. Emily Blunt likened the situation to ‘summer camp’ and told People: “We were all in the same hotel in the middle of the New Mexican desert. We only had each other.” in another unusual move, Nolan wrote the script in first person in order to reflect how most of the film is being told from Oppenheimer’s perspective and using his memories. Matt Damon told in an interview: “I’ve never seen that done before. Instead of ‘Oppenheimer walks across the room,’ it’s ‘I walk across the room.’ This was a way for him to signal that, Okay, this is what the movie’s going to feel like. It’s going to feel immediate.” I have to say if you love Nolan movies and the storytelling like he does you should watch "Tenet" it also has some kind of conection with this movie it touches the subject of Oppenheimer. you really should watch that. Keep up the good work.

Nolan keeps making masterpieces even now, this guy is insane

I like your reaction because you are emotive and seems to sincerely enjoy it, very good.

Such a powerful last line. Brings me to tears...

Im just getting started and I'm already impressed. Great insight. 😊

I kept expecting Cillian Murphy to break into a Talking Heads song. He looked just like David Byrne.

Liteweight my queen she's back with the reactions and I love her laugh she has a very powerful laugh

you're going to love this upon second rewatch. Second time around you should pay attention to how brilliant the score is. Great reaction

14:20 Roderick out here messing with nukes, guess loaded diaper didn’t pan out😂😂

Nolan winning the Oscar for Oppenheimer reminds me of Julianne Moore winning for Still Alice. You have an artist who has consistently been a trendsetter in their previous works yet continuously ignored until they make, what is essentially, A Regular Movie. Oppenheimer is good but it’s a very straightforward biopic elevated with the frenetic editing of The Dark Knight.

The Trinity test scene is one of the best sequences in a movie I’ve seen in years. Pure cinema.

1. Awesome on-point concise historical perspective and history teacher lens! I had commented before somewhere that this film, on top of sober thoughtful CBS archive interviews with Oppy in the 50's, shifted my dismissive perspective of the famous quote by one I presumed to be just a madman glowing about his work but the seconds longer clip reveals his pause and what the Project wrought in his eyes and the weight of that creation of destruction, in that historical footage. 2. Should be first said, I so appreciate your attentiveness and reaction to the scenes both in their conveyance and just being in the moment! 🎉🎬🎙 🎧 3. Having finally gotten to see the film on stream after the Oscars, I'm thrilled your channel is doing its Nolan journey straight through while the proverbial iron is still hot versus having to field insistent recommendations for weeks or months in comments of "when will you see this or that Nolan film next ????" Do it all straightaway! A rare thing! 4. I recall now finding your gaming channel from the LA Noire game playthrough! 5. I love that "wormhole" line when he grabs that Newtonian apple! 🍏 🌌 and the imagery and sound and subtle timely accents! I hadn't fully realized until now in this reaction that it was post-partum depression!

It's always a pleasure when I get your upload notifications! Thank you for putting the time into your content and channel, even with a toddler on your hands.

I saw this in IMAX three times, once while sitting in the front row, and it was an exhilarating experience. The music especially really carried the mood for me. And it was So loud. I’m really glad you focused on the ending because I think it was delivered so perfectly. It’s an event that has literally changed the course of time and history forever; the threat of nuclear war.

Wassup Liteweight how are you today really excited for this reaction always enjoy your videos 😊

. amazing reaction... I was left breathless and emotional

Awesome movie. I live a few hrs away from Los Alamos, and plan to go visit it within the next month or so.

Please complete all Nolan's filmography

Amazing reaction! You picked up everything on the first watch, not common in Nolan movies ;) I watched it a couple times more, especially to focus more on the sounds and music in this movie, it is a masterpiece! Also the comeback of Robert Downey jr. is just insane, he proves that he is and always will be one of the great actors of our time

Nolan pulls a multi ending again like Dark Knight, Inception, and Prestige. "We thought we might start a chain reaction that will destroy the world, I believe we did". This revelation is not just metaphorical for other countries to build bigger bombs that could potentially destroy the world, but also it starts the chain reaction of Lewis Strauss campaign to discredit and destroy Oppenheimer who was condescending to him, but ends up getting denied from the cabinet himself. The Atomic Bomb = Ego, I have one, someone has a bigger one, everyone loses.

Ok. So you went right into 'Oppenheimer' before 'Dunkirk' Thought that you would do it by chronology, both historically speaking and in terms of Nolan movies. Nevertheless, thank you for reacting to the Best Picture award winner for 2023. I like the approach the movie took in that it did not attempt to editorialize. It basically presented the events as they happened and let the viewers decide for themselves how they wish to perceive the totality of what they saw and its historical legacy. From a directorial, cinematography and casting standpoint, all of these elements are topnotch. Found an interesting tidbit about Christopher Nolan first becoming aware of Oppenheimer as a youth, after hearing the lyric "How can I save my little boy from Oppenheimer's deadly toy?" in the Sting song "Russians" from 1985.

26:46 I’m glad I’m not the only one who cried during this scene. I was sobbing in the theatre and people were looking at me like I was crazy.

Me and my wife have a two year old and 4 month old, I felt this intro in my soul!

Superb reaction to a superb film!

Fire! I watched this in theaters 6 times lol

Great you finally saw this one. One of the best films ever made imho. Great takes as always

All the awards were well deserved. It was a good oscars after a long time

Great reaction , thought i was the only one who sorta broke down at the Speech scene :,D

I had no idea RDJ was in this movie until he appeared on screen. Even then it took me a second. He's just that good.

As a history buff, you might like another *Cillian Murphy* film - *The Wind That Shakes The Barley* . It's set in Ireland during the Irish War for Independence and the Irish Civil War. Bring your tissues.

Hello lite, welcome back, new upload, yay❤

I'm glad I'm not the only one who cried at the audience scene. Him imagining his creation killing everyone in that room and him stepping in those ashes? My god, his eyes were saying more than his words.

Loved the reaction! This was an amazing watch in theaters - I don't think I've ever seen a movie that builds suspense for a solid two hours this well before haha. Keep being awesome! I'm going to go catch up on the latest episode of Bloodborne now :D

you’re one of the first people i’ve seen react to oppenheimer who show sympathy for kitty when she’s dealing with postpartum depression. so many ppl immediately jumped the gun to judgement and criticism of her and it was so frustrating lol. not to mention she had been watching their kid alone all day and didn’t even want to be a housewife in the first place

You talked about not turning the reaction into a history lesson. But I think that idea would make your content and channel so cool and unique. Loved the history perspective of your analysis. Thank you. 🎉

One thing I missed, but another video spotted was the scene where Oppenheimer was doing the celebratory speech, you get to see the effects of the bomb as if either Oppenheimer was at ground zero, or he was the bomb incarnate. Then radiating away the closest person still alive had her skin being peeled off. Then righ under him you see a burned husk. Further out you see people huddled in fear. And lastly, you see the guy puking. This duly can be just that he had drunk too much or in line with the symbolism, could also be the effects of radiation poisoning.

one of the greatest movies of all time

Cool movie, and that face... Made my day a tad brighter. ty, love.

So many great performances in this one. Jason Clarke was one of the standouts for me. Dude was so good at playing a government prick 🤣 I’ve always been a fan of his and I’m glad he’s still getting work. Also Alden Ehrenreich had some funny ass moments towards the end. That glare he gives Strauss like “I’m done with this guy’s bullshit” was golden 🤣

Great movie, Great Reaction! Thank you, Lite! Also awesome to know you have a history degree! I just got mine last year with a concentration in Military History, so I really enjoyed seeing Nolan’s take here on this and Dunkirk. Have an awesome rest of the week!

Nolan is a master of our time it’s an honour to grow up with his movies ..

I am enjoying this reaction! (I keep rewinding it). One of the accounts I heard said... it was like a giant eye that winked in the sky. The 2nd one you see exploded in the air. Above a valley between two mountains which formed the bottom half of the eye... and the blinding flash was the center of the eye and presumably the cloud above formed the upper half of the eye. An account from Nagasaki... I had heard.

one of the best endings to a movie ive ever seen.

I loved two films from last year, Oppenheimer and Godzilla Minus One. The monster movie is a fantastic companion piece because it deals with the unstoppable horrors coming and how people found the courage to rise above it.

I remember reading last year when Oppenheimer was released. That 90% of the cost of developing the nuclear bomb was acquiring the fissionable materials. Now the world sits on a razor's edge.

There’s always a female suicide in Nolan’s movies: Mal, in Inception Sarah, in The Prestige Jean Tatlock, in Oppenheimer

Hi found your reaction channel. Love it and your gaming channel, hope you are having a great Thursday.

Kenneth Branagh is the name of the actor who portrayed Niels Bohr at the beginning.

I watched the movie twice and still didn't realize that was Gary Oldman as President Truman until someone pointed it out 🤦. The whole cast absolutely killed it, especially Robert Downey Jr during the 3rd act!

As a US history lover I definitely loved this movie, the horror of the creation of the bomb and his face! It brought tears to my eyes lol.

This was an unbelievable experience seeing in IMAX. Even watching it at home with good headphones it's still tremendous. While Oppenheimer isn't my favorite Nolan film (my favorite is Interstellar), it's still incredible watching a master filmmaker and storyteller at work. The ending of this film is seared into my mind and soul forever.

This is a great movie. I am always both horrified by and thankful for the atomic bomb. My Grandfather was going to be landing in mainland Japan had they not surrendered. Based on the casualty projections of Operation Downfall, I probably would not be here. I love military history and have studied the war in depth for two and a half decades and as terrible as it is, in my opinion, the bombings were necessary and lifesaving long-term. It was the less terrible of two horrific options. Hundreds of thousands dead or over ten million dead. I asked a veteran what he thought of the bombings. He said, "When you sucker punch someone, you can't complain when he flattens you." I had to edit some language in his response.

Before moving to New Mexico, I had no idea about Los Alamos. When I grew up in California, I had no idea about Livermore. Then we get a little movie called, Oppenheimer. I now know more about Los Alamos even though I have lived in Rio Rancho (skirt of Albuquerque) for half of my life. I now know the importance of a certain Lab in Livermore, named Lawrence Livermore Lab. It was likely told to me a long time ago about LLL, but I have since forgotten it or never really cared about the importance.

It's in colour when the scenes are from Oppie's direct thoughts or perspectives, black and white for when the scenes are speculative, i.e. Strauss' perspectives.

Excellent video, I loved it, I have seen Oppenheimer's film more than seven times and each time the ending leaves me speechless. I recommend the Madame Curie movie.

Alan Turing and J. Robert Oppenheimer - both discarded and destroyed by their countries after the war. The Japanese brass was already talking about surrender weeks before Hiroshima; but they had to move carefully because of fanatics in their own government.

great video! blessings!

At the Trinity test they were about 6 miles away from ground zero, so it took 25 seconds for the soudwave to hit them...💥☮️

Very nice! you’ll like memento and dunkirk for sure, I’m very exited what you thing about tenet 🤓

I’m later than usual. My apologies. The gravitas you bring to your reactions, especially in regards to this film, is essential and appreciated.

I really did love this movie. Glad it won a bunch of awards.