Won’t let them write fuck on their airplanes. Is at the same time representative of his wife, and also the sad, sorta snarling end to his own judgment.
Talk to Me is a new modern horror classic with easy franchise potential for a number of good and bad sequels.
I looked away at several parts. Holy shit that violence. Some of it is quite graphic, but it’s not graphic torture porn. More disturbingly effective.
I’m really glad I listened to a critic and didn’t spoil the ending. What a fun and scary ride.
I’d watch it gladly as a double feature with It Follows.
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Seriously? Does that mean the Ben Affleck and John Krasinki versions aren’t as bad as I assumed? (I don’t know wtf the Chris Pine version is)
Ben Affleck wasn’t in the best Jack Ryan movie, but he DID star in the Jack Ryan movie with the best scene in the entire franchise.
I just like to remember why Jack Ryan was so big at the time. Tom Clancy gave us a spy who wasn’t James Bond. He was a pencil pusher. He didn’t ask to be an action star. The books were beyond acclaimed, and though these adaptations haven’t really held up at a script level, it’s easy to see why they were celebrated adaptations at the time. They took the books deathly seriously.
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That’s Casper!!
He was dead the whole time??? 
Yeah, I remember they changed the underlying text for this one to make it a secret cabal of Nazis instead of Muslims so as to not stoke any additional anti-Muslim sentiment in the wake of 9/11. I thought it was pretty unrealistic when I saw it. How could there possibly be a secret group of Nazis in the upper echelons of power in America?!
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Absolutely loved Oppenheimer. Strong chance I’ll give it a second theater viewing. Snap-reaction is that it’s Nolan’s finest work to date. I will never ever give a 10/10 to something on the same day that I’ve seen it, but I can imagine myself giving it that eventually. Definitely feel like it’s a 9+.
You must have seen it in a theater with closed captions, because I missed about 20% of the dialogue where I saw it.
Boy that is not promising to hear, I assumed I experienced an aberration or a theater problem of some sort. There was definitely a bunch of muffled dialogue where I was left to suss out the gist of what was said. It was mostly the first 20 minutes or so where it was a real problem, and then it mostly got sorted after that with occasional ambiguous sentences. All the same, I was gripped. But if there’s actually an underlying sound mixing problem with the film? Woof.
When I referenced going back to the theater, I was indeed actually going to look for a showing with subtitles the next time. This was an IMAX showing.
It’s a choice by Nolan. He refuses to do ADR so whatever audio he picks up shooting on location is what he goes with:
In a recent interview with Insider, Nolan explained that one reason it may be hard to hear the dialogue in “Oppenheimer” is because he refuses to re-record his actors in post-production.
Nolan refuses to record ADR, so whatever vocal takes he gets on the day of filming are what go into the film’s theatrical cut. That can be a risk in a movie like “Oppenheimer” considering the IMAX cameras used to shoot the film are incredibly loud on set, although Nolan said they are getting better.
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That’s interesting. On that alone I’ll probably never see this as a 10/10. Seems like a ridiculously hubristic stance by Nolan. Still an excellent movie.
I’m withholding judgement until I can rewatch it at home with captions.
Nolan has always been like this. Tenet is by far the craziest one. The train scene in the very beginning is almost unintelligible. I respect it honestly, it’s very accurate that you wouldn’t be able to hear very well in a lot of these scenes. Does make it difficult to approach though.
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It must be tough to work as a Re-Recording Mixer in a sound environment without ADR
Lol now I remember the scandal around Dark Knight Rises. I think he still denies he remixed the audio after the disastrous preview screening of the opening plane scene with Bane. No one could understand ANYTHING.
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I really liked Oppenheimer, but think it’s still near the bottom of Nolan films I’ve seen in theaters.
So below Dunkirk, Inception and Interstellar which is just incredibly underrated.