#matt damon!

[knightofleo]

Implicit storytelling in two tweets:

#lmfao #cw: corporate bootlickers #wga strike #sag strike #matt damon #somebody got a phonecall somewhere for sure

[sloshed-cinema]

Oppenheimer (2023)

For all of the hype built up over the leadup to its release, Oppenheimer is a very ordinary movie about an ostensibly extraordinary figure. That this is for much of its three-hour runtime a series of conversations public and private, men and women meeting in Senate hearings or secretive kangaroo court tribunals, laboratories or house parties, is not a bad thing in the least. But that this is getting such a rhapsodic popular reception for a film which, for all of its pomp and self-important bluster still has all of Christopher Nolan's usual flaws and shortcomings as a screenwriter, is disappointing. Nolan is best leaving the writing to someone else. His typical mode as a screenwriter is to crystallize what he determines to be his thesis into one repeated phrase. In Interstellar, it's Michael Caine reciting Dylan Thomas poetry, in The Dark Knight, it's Morgan Freeman musing that one man shouldn't be able to universally surveil, and in Dunkirk, it's Kenneth Branagh wistfully saying 'home'. In Oppenheimer, there are twofold statements to cover the disparate arms of the narrative: scientists remind or admonish that theory can only get you so far, and Strauss speaks of controlling the political narrative to get ahead. That these phrases exist aren't so bad in and of themselves, but the issue comes more in the frequency with which they are used. It becomes a relentless sledgehammer that slowly beats away all subtlety and nuance, creating the impression once again that Nolan doesn't trust the audience to "get" it if he doesn't drive home the point time and again.

Jumping between the Manhattan Project and hearings which sought to bring the Father of the Atomic Bomb to his knees, Oppenheimer considers the man and the legend. The man isn't given as much attention as far as his emotional interiority is considered: for being so long, the opening act rushes through character beats like flash cards. Key players introduced and dismissed in bullet point scenes while Oppenheimer accumulates trauma. Oppenheimer's greater existential concerns vis à vis the Bomb are more important. This inert atmosphere pervades much of the film, feeling cold rather than cerebreal as it might have hoped to be. The political angle of the film was dull, barely more than a typical Red Scare playbook which has been hashed through a million times before: fear of Communism created an ironically repressive attitude toward free thought. This is commonly dealt with in the form of public humiliation by hypocritically un-American Kafkaesque show trials and rah-rah conformism. I wish this had dug more into the gnarly, knotty scientific conversations taking place in the Manhattan Project, laying bare the human error potential in such conversations as Great Minds meet. This is more of a long trailer for a concept rather than a sincere and honest dissection of it, but he shot it on IMAX so let's all laud it!

THE RULES

SIP

Someone says 'bomb'.

Oppenheimer looks like a pet in one of those Sarah McLachlan SPCA videos.

The film shifts to or from black and white.

BIG DRINK

tHeOrY cAn OnLy GeT YoU sO fAr

Black dress moment.

ANXIETY SOUND DESIGN

#drinking games #oppenheimer #christopher nolan #cillian murphy #emily blunt #robert downey jr #florence pugh #matt damon! #drama #biopic #barbenheimer #theory can only get you so far

[animentality]

I bet he also thinks coolsville sucks.

#twitter #matt damon #wga strike #actors strike #sag aftra

[arcanespillo]

also please tag the person you're thinking about while voting this? it's not useful to the poll i just wanna know.

#this is a yes or no question i'm afraid #poll #i don't know how to tag this i'm gonna put my actor crushes bye #domenico cuomo #nicolas maupas #jared padalecki #river phoenix #james duval #joseph gordon levitt #sam winchester #rick grimes #jdm #alessandro gassman #eddie brock #andrew garfield's spiderman #bradley James #ben barnes in narnia specifically #matt damon in some movies #tim roth in some movies #takeshi kaneshiro #ethan hawke in before sunrise #damon albarn #victor tsoi #james dean #james franco #yuki kura #the wolf from beastars guys what's his name #legoshi #he's cute #carmine recano

[couldbeanastronaut]

#matt damon #ben affleck

[paradise-yuna]

When Cillian can’t handle with compliments 😅

#cillian murphy #oppenheimer 2023 #Oppenheimer #emily blunt #matt damon

[bucky-bucky-bucky-bucky]

The Oppenheimer cast walking out on their own event to stand in solidarity with the SAG / WGA strike was dope as hell I am obsessed

#oppenheimer #Oppenheimer cast #wga solidarity #support the wga #wga strong #wga strike 2023 #writers strike #sag strike #sag solidarity #RDJ #Cillian murphy #robert downey jr #florence pugh #emily blunt #matt damon #Christopher nolan

[st4rswrld]

sarcastic sassy men are going to do it for me every single fucking time.

#starspeaks! #sturniolo triplets #matt sturniolo #matthew sturniolo #stiles stilinski #four #tobias eaton #bellamy blake #damon salvatore #teen wolf #the vampire diaries #the 100 #divergent #percy jackson #harry potter #logan lerman #daniel radcliffe

[mediademon]

"You give me the creeps." - The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)

"You make my fucking blood run cold." - Saltburn (2023)

#is this anything? idk #the talented mr. ripley #saltburn #the talented mr ripley #saltburn 2023 #*mygifs #filmgifs #filmedit #movieedit #barry keoghan #matt damon #tom ripley #oliver quick #film parallels

[ziggyplayedguitar96]

The way the “Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds” quote was introduced in Oppenheimer during a sex scene is fucking hilarious. Christopher Nolan was so wild for choosing to do it like that.

#oppenheimer #christopher nolan #cillian murphy #robert downy jr #florence pugh #emily blunt #matt damon #david krumholtz #rami malek #atomic bomb #oppenheimer movie #I fucking love christopher nolan #oppenheimer spoilers

[batfleckgifs]

Ben Affleck wearing a gray shirt with the famed Photobooth picture of a younger him and Matt Damon with the text 'DAY ONES' underneath while carrying the weight of the world (aka dunkins).

#someone change it to gay ones #ben affleck #matt damon #OKAY REALLY LAST ONE #mine. #misc: candids.

[henricavyll]

See where the math takes us.

OPPENHEIMER (2023) dir. Christopher Nolan

#oppenheimer #oppenheimeredit #nolanedit #filmedit #perioddramaedit #christopher nolan #cillian murphy #matt damon #userlenie #yep another set lol #leftover gifs #*oppenheimer #~

[asianrabbit]

Oppenheimer (2023) Cillian Murphy

#oppenheimer #christopher nolan #cillian murphy #j robert oppenheimer #filmedit #2020s #robert downey jr #emily blunt #florence pugh #matt damon #nolanedit

[nathan-fielder]

Robert Downey Jr.: 'By the way, Matt Damon is generally included in the homies, but I think he's shooting a Dunkin' Donuts commercial right now.' [Emily and Cillian laugh]

Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt and Robert Downey Jr. on 'Oppenhomies'

#cillian murphy #cmurphyedit #emily blunt #robert downey jr. #vanity fair #cilliangifs #usershelby #userrobin #dilfgifs #mancandykings #matt damon #* #500

[nicolethered]

Oh Pedrito…

#pedro pascal #matt damon

[filmreveries]

The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999) dir. Anthony Minghella

#the talented mr. ripley #anthony minghella #matt damon #jude law #gwyneth paltrow #cate blanchett #philip seymour hoffman #jack davenport #film screencaps #film stills #films #screencaps #cinematography