Today i am starting this cinema club review. Its 30 Jun at 19:01pm, its a Friday & its 21 days away from me going to see my most anticipated movie of the year. Oppenheimer.
& the reason i am starting this cinema club review right now, is because i have just booked my tickets for the 6pm showing at cineworld on the opening day. I am now so excited, its madness.
All i was doing was looking at the local cinema on line to see if they had any classic films this week, as Indi has taken over, & on there you could prebook your Mission Impossible & Barbie, which you have been able to do for a while now, but also as of today Oppenheimer, so i went straight to my cineworld login & here is am sitting here blissfully excited, & a little bit giddy.

A Nolan film is always the film i am most hyped for when they come out. Its my jam, hes my director & its Cillian being the lead & i am so ready to be tortures & emotionally ruined through 3h & 11secs of exposition. Its going to be crazy & i seriously cant wait. Hence i am writing this very very long intro now well in advance, because im sure it will take me a while to write something coherent when ive finished watching it.

This hasnt hit the best start either… Today 19 July (2 days to go) Cineworld have cancelled my 6pm showing with no real reason as to why, so ive had to hurriedly find the 8pm showing. Thank god for empty 1 chairs. Im sorry Cineworld, thats not good enough. I never moan about you but that, thats not called for at all. Livid isnt even the word. so were now seeing the 8pm showing…

So i get to my 8pm showing okay. Remember that 8pm showing. Its completely sold out so much so theres a sign by the ticket booth going all Oppenheimer tickets for the 8pm showing are gone please book for limited availability tomorrow. It the foyer is packed. People are getting their barbie photo booth selfies, all the tils are opening selling food drink ice cream coffee people are waiting to pick up their bits down the other end its a good system. Its working. So remember the film is advertised for 8pm lets add 15min of adverts to that & then 10mins of trails to that so lets say the film starts at 8:25pm (it didnt it was actually 8:29pm) so that is 25mins after the advertised start. There were still people walking into my screening hunting for their seats at 8:40… WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK! IM SORRY YOU DONT DESERVE YOUR SEAT FOR OPENING DAY. YOU ARE SO FUCKING LASTE TO A MOVIE PISS OFF! & YOU DO IT TO A NOLAN FILM! NEXT TIME PAY & DONT BOTHER FUCKIGN COMING OKAY! URGH! Sorry that pissed me off mainly because the group of 8 who arrived were in the row in front of my & were chatting about who was going to sit where. SIT THE FUCK DOWN YOUR NOT HER TO CHAT! Sorry Rant Over

Trailers…Killers of the Flower moon, The new Emma Stone film, Stray, & Dune 2… thats the first time ive seen Dune 2 as a trailer in the cinema & when it finished the whole room went ooooooooohhhhhhhhh Go Timothee Go Go Go…

& then the film started… I got home at 11:59pm tonight… its now 00:49am & im typing… if that doesnt say im wired & on a high i dont know what does.

In case you are new here & youve not worked this out… Im Nolan Biased im sorry i am so please bear that in mind as i type.

GIVE ROBERT DOWNEY JUNIOR AN OSCAR RIGHT NOW!

& thats my review…
Im joking
but seriously… If that man isnt minimum nominated for his performance in this movie, then there is something very very wrong with the academy, because he owned it. He nailed it. He made me feel so,so,so many things. Which considering you know hes not know for doing this, he just bossed it. & i wanted to hug him at point or ask why or even slap him. When people in years to come discus Oppenheimer, part of the conversation need to go oh RDJ Damn, he actually was a fucking good actor.

Paid up Cillian Murphy Fan Club Member here. So i always say hes fucking phenomenal in what he does but oh my does he just boss it. He so good at inner trauma & demons. & hes just ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh I always run out of words for Cillian, just spectacular. Why did no one notice this potential when i did nearly 20 years ago? Where were you people then… seriously…

The score was so Nolan, but then also so was the lack of score at point. I actually got a bit emotional at that point & i think that was the point, because this moment just built & built & then suddenly there was nothing &the world had changed & it was like oh damn. Yea it was so good. Goosebumps everywhere. Wow.

It was beautiful & thought provoking & terrifying & made you question the world then & now, especially with whats going on at the moment. It really made you think, & then also the lack of humanity at points to & how it was just to get the job done. & then certain reasons for certain things. Especial with the way the bomb going off would effect people & the end of their lives &what would happen to them. That was dark & traumatic but needed, because guess what, that did happen to people.

I dont think ive ever dealt with so much exposition, back stabbing & politics in a film in all my life. There was a lot to take it. The second murphy started writing on a chalk board i was like ahh is he going to explain this like how Nolan does memento. & then the simple use of marbles & glasses to simplify what was going on. Nolan expects you to be clever before hand & so some research especially with history & the fact weve had a long time knowing this is happening, but he also does like to break it down a little bit for you.

When Nolan went for it you knew about it. I jumped a few times. I was like fuck i wasnt expecting that & went back in my chair a bit going wooo, but most of the screening did to. Nolan always gets the jump scare just right.

When the names kept coming 18 months ago as to who was in this film, i stopped reading it i was like nope stop girl, you’ll get too invested in all these big names, but damn i forgot about a couple along the way & was like omg they are in this & so are they ahhhhhhh. I mean to quote Matt Damon (who ive not even mentioned {brilliant as always}) when Nolan calls you dont say no. & all these people went yes please i want in your film, id like to do this please & it just worked. There was never too many big names or guest people on the screen at the same time. Its not like some films where they get an all star cast & dont know how to use them all or bring them back for one moment. I mean Remi Malik for a good part of the film, i thought was just there to drop a clipboard, & then bang he turns up & you go oh yea he is a fucking good actor isnt he.

The political mind games were insane & i love how Nolan wrote it so it was a dual narrative but often the black & white could be seen from the colours point of view & its so well written you dont even really notice it. Although there was one point half way through act 3 where i was like hang on why is RDJ in colour & then i remember & i was like oh okay i get that.

The era of the story telling was so good. It just worked & felt right & yes i didnt live during the war oh no but it felt right. & it got it right & the importance of it. It never dumbed down. This may have been a film about science but it was also a film about internal battle & the horrors of what world war 2 & the world might have looked like if this bomb hadnt been built.

3hs flew by it really did. I mean when it was done & i stood up my bum was very numb, but oh boy it was worth it. Please consider going to a more expensive screening just for the comfortable chairs because the idea of seeing that at screen 1 in the dome, well my lower back is just like never consider that babes, you struggled with magic mike…

We had some classic Nolan call back & moments too in this film, & i sat there at one point & almost pointed DiCaprio style at it feeling like omg he did the thing, yea they were good.

As i said at the start i have Nolan Bias… I do… but this was even better than i expected. It gave me Goosebumps. It made me proud of what people during the war did &how now as humanity we cant be trusted with these burdens because of the world we live in. IT was so well written & acted & scored & set & i just had a Hugh sigh when the film ended & the words Oppenheimer (Directed by Christopher Nolan) appeared on the screen. And yes i did whisper my traditional Nolan you bastard under my breath. It was stunning, phenomenal, scary & mesmerising. I could not take my eyes off the screen or my ears from the assault they had on them.

We have another Buzzer Contender people we really do…
Memento Ran so Oppenheimer could explode…
In Nolan We Still Trust.