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Post by MagdaFR on Jul 20, 2023 20:00:18 GMT
Free The Day After Trinity on the Criterion Channel. From wikipedia
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Post by MagdaFR on Jul 20, 2023 20:06:22 GMT
Oppenheimer (Nolan)
Metacritic: 90% (57)
Rotten Tomatoes: All (189): 93% Top critics(60): 95% Average: 8.8 & 8.9
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Post by sgev1977 on Jul 28, 2023 15:03:15 GMT
I'm not a fan of Nolan. I like his early stuff but then he kinda takes himself too serious.
Anyway, I just discovered a bunch of his and Cillian Murphy fans attacking BC! From nowhere! Apparently, he should be jealous of Murphy because that's the kind of role he always plays and he wasn't cast when it apparently finally make it in a successful film? Lol
I think Murphy is a great actor and I'm glad he is FINALLY getting recognizion has a lead actor in Hollywood but I wouldn't want BC in that role at all! Again, not a fan of Nolan and, I know these idiots doesn't really follow BC's career, but thank God, he isn't playing those kind of roles anymore since ages! (But again, the only good 'bio" ever is by their fave Batman director because, you know, it's gloomy Batman!) Also, we will see what happens with Murphy after this role but until now, sorry but BC still the bigger star.
Also why they always have to attack the more successful actors to highlight their "faves"? Be more secure about your taste on actors!
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Post by mllemass on Jul 28, 2023 15:37:49 GMT
I’ve never heard of Cillian Murphy. With all the talk about him, I thought he would look familiar, but he doesn’t. So I suppose he’s never been in anything that I’ve seen. Why would Benedict ever be jealous of him??
I guess the comparison comes from Benedict having played Turing and Edison, but we know that he likes variety and likely wouldn’t agree to being typecast and playing yet another science genius.
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Post by sgev1977 on Jul 28, 2023 15:58:54 GMT
Murphy is a great Irish actor. He kinda looks like BC but, you know, he is Irish so no posh! Lol He has worked for "auteur" Ken Loach (in a very patriotic kinda pro-IRA movie or at least early IRA) and was acclaimed for playing a trans character in a very entertaining Neil Jordan movie called Breakfast at Pluto. He would be strongly criticized nowadays!
He is the lead in Peaky Blinders which it's kinda popular. His fans were very angry at Ben Wishaw for winning the BAFTA (for the series directed by BC's new series director) instead of him early this year. And BC was also recently cast in the movie's role he origined in theater, Grief is the Thing with Feathers (maybe some of the pseudo "rivalry" comes from it?)
In the USA, he mostly has played the European villain. A lot of the time in Nolan's movies so this is his first major lead in a big American "serious" movie.
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Post by roverpup on Jul 28, 2023 15:59:03 GMT
So obviously you've never watched Peaky Blinders mllemass! 😄
He's excellent in it.
I don't understand fans berating another's actor just to pump up their fave, either. That's not saying you can't dislike certain actors or like one actor over another. Of course everyone has preferences! But I wouldn't dream of going to twitter threads and invading them just to say "Oh, I HATE that fellow!!" Or using your admiration for an actor as a cudgel to beat another actor over the head! It's just so childish!
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Post by sgev1977 on Jul 28, 2023 16:05:28 GMT
TBF the few tweets I read (the first one liked by a lot of accounts!) seemed to be by Nolan fanboys, no Murphy's but his fans certainly were very nasty to Wishaw when he won that BAFTA instead of him.
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Post by ellie on Jul 28, 2023 17:18:10 GMT
Murphy is a great Irish actor. He kinda looks like BC but, you know, he is Irish so no posh! Lol He has worked for "auteur" Ken Loach (in a very patriotic kinda pro-IRA movie or at least early IRA) and was acclaimed for playing a trans character in a very entertaining Neil Jordan movie called Breakfast at Pluto. He would be strongly criticized nowadays! He is the lead in Peaky Blinders which it's kinda popular. His fans were very angry at Ben Wishaw for winning the BAFTA (for the series directed by BC's new series director) instead of him early this year. And BC was also recently cast in the movie's role he origined in theater, Grief is the Thing with Feathers (maybe some of the pseudo "rivalry" comes from it?) In the USA, he mostly has played the European villain. A lot of the time in Nolan's movies so this is his first major lead in a big American "serious" movie. Actually Murphy comes from an academic family and went to a fee paying school so he’s kind of posh! One of the advantages of being Irish is that UK and US people can’t place your accent the way they can with British people so they don’t know know who is and isn’t posh unless they bother to look up their background. Also a lot of people wrongly assume there are no posh people in Ireland! As for comparisons, Murphy is an excellent actor. So is BC. There is room for more than one excellent actor in Hollywood. No need to be trashing others to promote your fave.
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Post by sgev1977 on Jul 28, 2023 17:56:19 GMT
I was thinking about how people not just in the USA but also in the UK, see like natural to cast him or even Tom Hardy in working class or even just "rough" roles even when both he came from academic families.
I didn't knew about Murphy but he physically resembles BC. At least in the kinda sexually ambiguous mysterious aura and he played a trans role but it was a "working class" role. Apart of that, he famously plays a gang member alongside Tom Hardy. Both pseudo "rough" actors. It's in America were he was mostly cast as you typical foreign villain and now a "genius" but even there, he mostly works for the "masculine" films directed by Chris Nolan.
Of course, female is better! 😉 So I much prefer BC working for Jane Campion than Nolan but I kinda see a predjuice there with people kinda ignoring the "poshness" of people like Hardy and Murphy and considering them "rough" or "working class" while always portraying BC as super "posh". I mean The Daily Mail usually make fun of people claiming that straight actors shouldn't play gay roles but they actually published a piece saying BC shouldn't play Wat Taylor because he is "posh"! Lol And yeah, BC went to posh schools but his parents are jobbing actors. They have to go centuries in the past to "really" attack him!
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Post by roverpup on Aug 26, 2023 20:52:12 GMT
Well we finally got to the cinema to see Oppenheimer and both of us really enjoyed it.
Dan thought it dragged a bit in the beginning but once it got started it rolled along so well that it didn't seem like a 3 hour film.
I didn't find it that it dragged at all and I really liked how they switched between the different time periods.
Both of us thought Nolan did a magnificent job of depicting the explosion of the test bomb.
I have to also say that RDJ's performance is the strongest I've ever seen of him. And I usually don't like him as an actor. In fact I wasn't aware he was in this film and had to look up who was in his role because I didn't recognize him!
Murphy was great in the titular role. Flawless.
Loved the photography and it music. The whole atmosphere of the film was was without any flaws.
Highly recommend it!
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