I think it probably depends on what they do.

It feels like this is more preparation vs. method acting. If he was method, he’d be staying in characters refusing to go antiquing because Oppenheimer would never go antiquing. And his food intake wasn’t to stay in character, it was to stay thin. His food wasn’t driven by being as much like Oppenheimer as possible.

Rey sells a lot of toys and Halloween costumes to young kids.

And just like GRRM decided to singlehandedly stop the strikes to ensure he doesn’t have to finish Winds of Winter.

It was a bit weird. I can see where you would see it as needling. I feel like I would understand it if Oppenheimer was an exceptionally well-reviewed movie that was struggling to gain traction, but the reporting for the past three weeks has been that the projections were just growing and growing and not we know it…

Shooting for imax probably contributed a bit as well.

Of big studio releases this summer, it’s one of the lowest. It’s still a ton of money, but looking at the actual releases for this summer, it’s on the low end.

Yep, that’s why I’m like $145 mil is a ton of money, but it’s not that...

And for them to lose so much money that their corporate stranglehold on cinema breaks, and the medium thus becomes more diverse, egalitarian, and interesting?

Without jumping into spoilers for the film (as opposed to just history), it is structured and paced in an interesting way. It’s a very well made movie that deserves the praise it’s getting and it certainly feels like everyone involved in the film really cared about getting it right.

Period dramas are always deceptively expensive on the costumes, hair, production design etc. side of things including needing to CGI out things from the background and sets, but I do think Oppenheimer also has a fair amount of effects in the sense of the bomb itself.

Even Barbie is only budgeted at $145 million.

I get that this article was probably written weeks ago to be released with opening day, but we already know that at least as far as opening weekend goes, it looks like Oppenheimer is about to overperform coming in at $50 million and 2nd place when just a week ago it was being predicted it would do $20 - $40 million…

I mean that’s all great and I’m not disagreeing with it. That’s why I explicitly said he was critical of the bombing of Nagasaki - the part you ignored til your edit. While he did not regret his work in general, he was critical of the bombing of two cities instead of one. He was critical of the arms race that…

I mean it has been reported for months that Oppenheimer was apt to come in 2nd or 3rd at the box office because of the type of movie it is with an expectation that it will have legs and Nolan’s guaranteed 45 day theatrical release will be how the money comes in. If Nolan is surprised, he’s bad at the movie business.

He was critical of bombing Nagasaki, feeling that it was more than was unnecessary.

If you know anything about Oppenheimer, it seems very likely that it will. He and most of the project staff at the time were extremely critical of the decision to bomb Nagasaki.

She absolutely does get to decide, but as someone in the public eye - who already gets a lot of unwarranted garbage from fans and from the country music industry because of her ex-husband - she does have to weigh how things work.

Internationally, I’m less surprised just because the international market was very different back then. But I also seem to remember expectations being low for Die Hard so the idea that it was a huge match up that people were anticipating...maybe not.

I forgot for a second what some of my recent comments had been and seeing this in my notifications I was like “wait a second?” hahah