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    Oppenheimer | 2024 Academy Award Winner for Best Picture and Best Director

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    15 minutes ago, Avatree said:

    without spoilers, as dont want to get suspended - what scene do you think Emily would get awards nod for? She didnt have much to do in the whole film imo, other than her face reacting to things Oppenheimer says. didn't seem like a real character.

    I thought the movie was an out-and-out masterpiece, but I actually agree that she's on the cusp for a supporting actress nod at best. Murphy and RDJ are the clear standouts, with Damon, Blunt, Ehrenreich, and Hartnett comprising my favorite runner-up performances.

     

    EDIT: Damn, Jason Clarke was great too.

    Oppenheimer | 2024 Academy Award Winner for Best Picture and Best Director

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    3 minutes ago, The Dark Alfred said:

    Disagree. Jean had a small role, but that's because she had a short episode in Oppenheimer's life, albeit very important one. Kitty has hands down the best scene in the film and might land Emily an Oscar nod.

    Yeah, imo there's a big difference between OPPENHEIMER'S treatment of women in the context of its greater narrative and something like TENET

    C’MON BARBIE LET'S GO PARTY...AT LOS ALAMOS | BARBENHEIMER WEEKEND THREAD | We’re Thriving in our Plastic Fantastic Era | Mother Mothered with 162M | Daddy Exploded with 82.4M

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    58 minutes ago, ringedmortality said:

    The best film of the decade is easily West Side Story

    From a filmmaking perspective, it's way up there. DeBose, Moreno, and Faist are terrific. Zegler is really good. I gave it a 9/10 but Elgort really bungled the big moment imo, singlehandedly lost a point for me there and removed it from my "decade" consideration

    C’MON BARBIE LET'S GO PARTY...AT LOS ALAMOS | BARBENHEIMER WEEKEND THREAD | We’re Thriving in our Plastic Fantastic Era | Mother Mothered with 162M | Daddy Exploded with 82.4M

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    Oppenheimer is probably the best film of the decade so far. I know saying this seems like recency bias, but I never really assess or overhype movies that way. The only other contenders for me off the top of my head are The Father, Minari, Pig, and The Worst Person in the World. EEAAO is fantastic but a runner-up to these 5, imo.

    Oppenheimer | 2024 Academy Award Winner for Best Picture and Best Director

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    2 hours ago, IronJimbo & Sheldon's Son said:

    Just finished watching it in IMAX, incredible visuals (that speech scene... holy), incredible soundtrack, but altogether it kinda falls flat because it's hard to decipher what the characters are saying. And this is kinda important in a 3-hour biopic. Watch with open-captions if you can.

    Damn, sorry to hear this. For once, it seems like I got lucky with the sound mixing in my IMAX auditorium

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    C’MON BARBIE LET'S GO PARTY...AT LOS ALAMOS | BARBENHEIMER WEEKEND THREAD | We’re Thriving in our Plastic Fantastic Era | Mother Mothered with 162M | Daddy Exploded with 82.4M

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    2023 theater viewings (best to worst)

    1. Past Lives

    2. Across the Spider Verse

    3. MI: Dead Reckoning

    4. Air

    5. Blackberry

    6. Beau is Afraid

    7. John Wick 4

    8. Scream VI

    9. Evil Dead Rise

    10. Knock at the Cabin

    11. GotG Vol 3

    12. Creed III

    13. Missing

    14. How to Blow up a Pipeline

    15. You Hurt My Feelings

    16. The Flash

    17. The Blackening

    18. Plane

    19. Super Mario Bros.

    20. Skinamarink

    21. M3gan

    22. D&D

    23. Indy 5

    24. Shazam: Fury of the Gods

    25. Infinity Pool

    26. Cocaine Bear

    27. The Boogeyman

     

    At-home watch: 

    22. Sick (better than D&D, worse than M3gan)

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    C’MON BARBIE LET'S GO PARTY...AT LOS ALAMOS | BARBENHEIMER WEEKEND THREAD | We’re Thriving in our Plastic Fantastic Era | Mother Mothered with 162M | Daddy Exploded with 82.4M

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    2 hours ago, Spidey Freak said:

    Yeah, retire the term 'box office poison'. Robbie led I, Tonya to big numbers based on her performance alone and has starred in smashes like WoWS, Suicide Squad and Tarzan. Granted those films had other things going for them but true BO poison should repulse audiences regardless.

     

    Gosling has had The Notebook, Crazy, Stupid, Love and a respectable opening for Blade Runner. His less commercially appealing ventures open consistently around 11M, much more than most other actors can open films to.

    Even if box office poison is hyperbolic, nobody ever expected this film to open to even half of what it's going to do as a result of the leads, which is part of why this soon-to-be runaway hit is so surprising 

    C’MON BARBIE LET'S GO PARTY...AT LOS ALAMOS | BARBENHEIMER WEEKEND THREAD | We’re Thriving in our Plastic Fantastic Era | Mother Mothered with 162M | Daddy Exploded with 82.4M

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    4 minutes ago, upriser7 said:

    huh ? Weren't both Lady Bird & Little Women Boxoffice hits ?? Lady Bird's budget was $10M and it collected $80M. Little Women's budget was $40M and it collected $220M

    Shit, thanks for the correction on Little Women especially! That really legged out over Christmas. I think they're both incredible films fwiw, so I'm glad my memory was faulty there.

     

    I absolutely stand by the idea that Gosling and Robbie are not active BO draws at all, though. Doubly impressive for this movie!

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