The thing that gets me is that it was simultaneously way too long while also finding a way to be too short. Obviously years of history have to be compressed to fit into three hours of cinema, but they distilled what was originally months worth of conversation down to one or two lines of dialog in some cases. It’s more off-putting to me than a two-hour film would have been if they had just skipped some of the details.
I wish they had just taken some creative license and done what the writers of the miniseries Chernobyl did with the fictional Ulana character:
The more I thought about Oppenheimer the less I understood why people liked it so I 100% relate
The thing that gets me is that it was simultaneously way too long while also finding a way to be too short. Obviously years of history have to be compressed to fit into three hours of cinema, but they distilled what was originally months worth of conversation down to one or two lines of dialog in some cases. It’s more off-putting to me than a two-hour film would have been if they had just skipped some of the details.
I wish they had just taken some creative license and done what the writers of the miniseries Chernobyl did with the fictional Ulana character: