“…and now back to my soulless, utterly mid Avatar films that I’ve decided to end my career on.”
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Oppenheimer was already really long, and I feel like it portrayed the complexity of the moral struggle Oppenheimer faced pretty well, as well as showing him as the very fallible human being he was. You can't make a movie that talks about every aspect of such an historical event as the development and use of the first atomic bombs. There's just too much. It would have to be a documentary, and even then it would be days long. Just because it wasn't the story James Cameron considers the most compelling/important about the development of the atomic bomb doesn't mean it's not a compelling/important story.
Nolan’s film tells the story of one man’s experience. Cameron is criticizing it for not telling a different story, one that focuses on the horror of the violence. It’s not a cop out to tell a different story. Cameron, while well meaning, is just full of shit here. I hope he makes his own movie exploring these subjects instead of more blue people fantasy cartoons.
Cameron ain’t well-meaning, he’s just a jackass
Most of the movie was about the man himself, but it did end with a very clear defense of the bombings. It was a compelling defense, and I don't know if it was based on Oppenheimer's own reasoning, but it did digress from the biopic format.
makes me wonder why the marines on pandora don’t just nuke the entire planet from orbit. free access unobtanium.
I think there are parts of history where you have to tell the larger story and not just focus on one man's experience.
I mean, it's Cameron. Great director, but an absolute asshole. As others have already said, you don't have to go for the throat to make a good biopic or semi-biographical movie like Oppenheimer. You don't have to always tell the exact same kind of story.
This is just Cameron being his usual dickish self.
Curious to see how he works nearly drowning his actors into this one.
My immediate thought is that I don't really care. Why?
Feels like it’s a cop out to just go straight for that ‘third rail’, as he puts it. Directors portraying characters and scenarios from WW2 Nazi Germany have to use restraint in depicting atrocities, in order to leave room for nuanced stories (see The Zone of Interest - 2023). Is Cameron just trying to drum up anticipation for his film? And will it be a Hiroshima action piece?
From the guy who glossed over real historical/social issues in Titanic? ~~Who ignored many of the moral issues of Bruce Wayne preferring to play dress up instead of working to fix Gotham?~~ [Edit: I'm an idiot] Or who ripped off storylines from better movies, slapped Papyrus font on the title, and made an overly indulgent series of movies that are more pretty screensaver than cinema? He can fuck off.
Nolan directed the Batman movies, not Cameron.
You can tell my brain already left for the long weekend - no idea where that brain fart came from.