I don’t even know where to begin with the list, but here are the main reasons I suspect people, including myself, did not find Oppenheimer straightforwardly enjoyable.
I knew what was going to happen in advance because it’s historically accurate. That was probably the biggest one for me. Yes, the Bomb is going to work, it’s going to be dropped, Oppenheimer will survive, etc.
It’s three hours of mostly people talking inside rooms, mostly about things I already knew about.
The Scenes depicting his unhappy love-life, especially those including his wife, weren’t interesting to me.
It could have been more about the difficulty of making important moral judgements, but instead focused on political aspects of the project.
I don’t even know where to begin with the list, but here are the main reasons I suspect people, including myself, did not find Oppenheimer straightforwardly enjoyable.
I knew what was going to happen in advance because it’s historically accurate. That was probably the biggest one for me. Yes, the Bomb is going to work, it’s going to be dropped, Oppenheimer will survive, etc.
It’s three hours of mostly people talking inside rooms, mostly about things I already knew about.
The Scenes depicting his unhappy love-life, especially those including his wife, weren’t interesting to me.
It could have been more about the difficulty of making important moral judgements, but instead focused on political aspects of the project.