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What the hell is this episode gonna be about I'm not gonna lie not much happened this week
But I did finally get to see Oppenheimer
So I mentioned in the previous episode that I was either gonna watch that or Barbie
I want to watch Barbie now, but I did watch Oppenheimer
And I don't know how to feel about it. Maybe this review is not gonna be for you, or maybe it will anyway
I'm not
Look
Shit happens okay throughout the week and sometimes you're in a good mood, or you're in a bad mood I
Don't know how to put this. I'm not in the best mood right now, but it's not because of the movie
It's not because Oppenheimer nothing like that
This thing on the other hand is very private. I'm gonna mention maybe on the patreon. I don't know yet
But I'm gonna say one thing
Came up the other day not night the other day. I think it was today I
I
Won't give a specific date anyway. Let's jump to it overwatch 2 was released on Steam right?
everyone fucking hated it like it finally came out in a platform where it could be reviewed and
the
the steam marketplace says it is the most overwhelmingly negative reception for any game ever like
People fucking hate it okay, and it's not just because the game isn't bad per se but it's just overwatch
The original game with a coat of paint. That's it. It's nothing different really
It's just the same shit over and over again, but what do you expect from video games man video games are just the same shit
All this it's all the same now except for that new game. I've heard such high praise about
but
Yeah, it is what it is listen Oppenheimer was okay. I'm not gonna lie, but there's a lot of stuff
You got to know about me specifically. I like the movie. I fucking loved it in fact
but
It was one of those movies where you have to know going in what's going on okay?
Because Oppenheimer is a interesting character on his own like I'm saying character like he's fake
No, no real guy the history of Oppenheimer is
Absolutely, I
Don't know it's just he's a weird guy okay, and in the movie they portray it very well. He's very strange
the mannerisms and everything
Killian Murphy just Mike he killian that role
Why do I do this to myself
Huh why?
You know I think everyone also talks about one thing when it comes to the reviews a lot of people jump to the ending
Which they really shouldn't because the thing is the ending is supposed to be a mixture of the beginning
I'll I'll put it this way the creation of the bomb the entire way for like two hours right is just
Amazing like I should probably say this first obviously. It's it's a historic movie, but spoilers okay spoiler warning
the movie is
Fast-paced for three hours for three hours. It's very fast-paced. There's no dead moments. There's no calm moments. It's
Always throwing something new at you, and I love that about a movie and in this particular movie
What I liked about it wasn't even the fact that it was fast-paced
It was the fact that it was I don't know about a character that I knew so much about I knew I studied Oppenheimer
You know I learned a lot about him from
Documentaries and stuff I watched a lot of documentaries
I'm that guy and I learned about how he was always a strange kid
You know always hiding himself in books and math and the sciences and everything and in the movie the beginning actually portrays that very well
In fact they're all like this guy's a strange man
He can't do this he can't do that and then the other scientists look at some of the theories he has and it's like oh
He's actually quite intelligent. I like that and
There's that quote that people keep bringing up where it's like theory will only get you so far like
It's not that deep of a quote. Okay. It's not that big of a quote
We got a quote it every five minutes since you know they do that in the movie at some point
Where it's like every three minutes like theory will only get you so far and I was like, okay stop fuck
and
The sex scenes are interesting right? There's that famous Oppenheimer quote now. I have become death the destroyer of worlds
Why did he say it while cooking his wife? I?
Mean just big tits on the screen right really in your face
He reads it and he reads it from a book the Bhagavad Gita where it's um, I
Thought it was funny, I don't know I couldn't laugh in the theater
It was like a serious moment, but I thought it was funny as shit, right? Cuz this guy is
Being asked by this this communist woman, by the way
To read something in a Sanskrit
which is a you know a language that's long gone, but he can read it and
She's asking him. Can you read it for me while her tits are right right behind the book and they were like mid fuck
okay, they were mid sex and
And she gets off of him it opens a random book like
What the fuck was that scene? You know, I'm the greatest fucking movie review of all time. If you don't believe me just don't
Anyway this this
After he meets the communists for a few minutes and immediately cheats on his wife who's not his wife yet
Yeah, that's a that's a part of the movie, right?
It's funny because later on she does come back up. They do it like three times on screen. I don't know every time it's
It's uncomfortable
For some reason this character he's cheating on with
I keep burping. Sorry the person that Oppenheimer is cheating on his wife with every time she's on screen
there's a 50-50 chance her tits are gonna be out like
That's just so much more common. You know like
I mean, it's a rated-R movie I get it
But it's such an outlier in the movie and at some point randomly
He admits to cheating on his wife in front of his wife to a congressional hearing and his wife just pictures him
Butt-ass naked and the woman bouncing on him just going to town on his dick, right? Just
While locking eyes with her by the way, it's like yeah, fuck your man. What do you do about it?
Like I
Mean
Cinematically speaking it really did fit
Okay, like from a from a cinema perspective from a storyline perspective it fit well
It was like anger. It's like you're visualizing and doing it and it just pisses you off
But like he did it and he admits to it in front of everybody
It fit with the movie, but it was fucking weird. Okay
It's just it's one of those things in a movie that in the movie it makes sense
When you take it out of the context of the movie, it is strange. I put that way. Okay. It's very simple that way
If you get it, then you get it
If you don't watch the movie and sit through three hours of it
If you're gonna do it do what I did me and my girlfriend who had the genius idea, right?
We went to a movie theater and they had these pretzels
Garlic and cheese pretzels, right? But we didn't know how big they were
It's theater food so it costs a lot and we didn't we didn't anticipate getting a whole pizza box with a giant pretzel in it, right?
Oh
My god, I was more focused on the pretzel than the fucking movie at some point
I was like dipping in the cheese licking my fingers just going at it while Oppenheimer's fucking someone else who isn't his wife on the screen
over and over again
Because his wife's an alcoholic
His life's a mess. Okay, Oppenheimer's life is a fucking mess from start to finish
and
Killian Murphy was like the perfect actor for it, too
One thing okay
One thing when it comes to cinema that they always get wrong is like panic attacks, right?
I feel like the panic attacks that Oppenheimer had on screen were very accurate
They were overwhelming. There was a lot of buzzing in his ears. The world kept moving
It was very accurate to a panic attack. How do I know I used to have them?
I know I have not always been sound of mind. Hell some people call me crazy now, and they're right
But I'm just crazy about podcasting. I don't know I
Pushed a button my accident. I hope I didn't come up. There was a there's a fun thing when it comes to the
The movie they mentioned the red scare and a lot of how how they were scared of communism at the time
The thing is at some point they were in a university and they were talking about communism behind closed doors and
The FBI was looking at your license plates and stuff. I read into it. Yeah, that happened Oppenheimer
But I often forget that was the case, you know, why do they call it the land of the free if we're not really free?
I never understood that I doubt it, you know, they're all like well land of the free, but if you have a slightly
different
Opinion on things will fucking ruin your life
That's my two cents, although I only had two pennies so please give them back a
Homeless guy asked me for change today. I
Know for a lot of you living in big cities. That's a common thing. I live in an incredibly small rural town
Me and my brother were surprised to see a homeless guy there
But I don't know that's besides the point. I don't know why I mentioned that
anyway
The movie Oppenheimer has this scene right where they start finally understanding this
theory, you know
nuclear fission and stuff stuff of the sort
They mentioned at some point that a nuke
Can theoretically destroy the world?
However, they bring up more and more numbers and it says the chances are near zero but not zero and they keep saying that right?
but
They have a point, you know
Nukes could a single one if done correctly can absolutely destroy, you know the atmosphere with the chain reaction
That's how it works. But I don't want to go into it
I don't want to go into the science because I know a lot of people are gonna ask me for more information
I'm not a scientist. I used to be but you know
Well a farm tech another counts different science different ballpark. Look when it comes to science, I'm not the best
Okay, this is me being as honest and blunt as possible
But there's one thing that I do know one thing that I'm a big fan of and that is cinematography
Okay visuals camera angles the coloring the lighting all of it matters
Let me tell you something right now
There was a scene the scene where they're finally
they have the prototype of a nuclear bomb a very small one scaled down like
90% like a 110 model of it and it's an incredibly small bomb but even that packed a punch and
This is a Christopher Nolan movie they said they wanted to make it without CGI and I gotta be fucking
like
Let me let me put this way if you don't watch the movie in theaters at the very least
You got to see the scene where the bomb goes off
Christopher Nolan, how the fuck did you do that?
I'm I wouldn't be surprised if he built a scale model of a nuclear bomb
Just to set it off for that scene where it blows up because the camera doesn't shy away
It doesn't like it's not just a single scene where it blows up from a distance. No, no, no, no, no
The camera is up and close
Really really close to the explosion. You can see the little details in the fire the shockwave
The bits of debris flying in there. It is an absolutely beautiful scene and
When it goes off, there is no sound. It's just silence. It's just a beautiful scene. No
flaming chaos and
Absolute destruction and it is my favorite scene in the movie this year
I've seen a few movies right that is by far my favorite scene out of all of them. Holy shit. That was an
Astronomically good scene and I want to watch I wish that I could go back in time and watch it for the first time again
I have chills describing it every single hair on my on my hairy ass arms is standing
beautiful
cinema 10 out of 10 9
100 out of 10. Holy shit. It was a good scene
Seriously if you're not gonna watch the movie just watch that one scene and
Then of course, Christopher Nolan fucking out of left field always always the charmer
He knows the quote. Okay, I'm a fucking history buff when it comes to Oppenheimer
I learned a lot about the nuclear bomb the creation of it before watching the movie
This was years ago, but I still remembered it all because it was such an interesting topic
We the creation of the most powerful weapon in the universe. Okay, how could you not be interested?
And then there was the czar bomba, but that was just really cool
How could you not be interested and then there was a czar bomba, but that was just Russia going too far
Damn but yeah, and put this way after the explosion after that amazing scene
There's no sound right completely silent and everyone's in shock like seeing the bright colors
They all have their glasses on so no one goes blind and
Then out of nowhere the shockwave hits and they're all just blown away
They were close enough to be hit with it at full force, right?
and
Afterwards it cuts to the explosion again the giant fireball and you just hear Oppenheimer like
This is the part that I kind of thought was funny. He says it again, right now. I have become death the destroyer of worlds
Which is what he said in one of those old documentaries
He admitted that he said that when they when he saw the explosion, but for the specific scene in the movie
They used the audio from when the girls tits were on the book
Just the audio not the visual okay, but I know you're picturing in your mind and
It's just that like it's just now. I am become death the destroyer of worlds because he read it earlier
But it's the exact same audio clip and for some reason like I know everyone in the theater noticed
But I specifically noticed that and I thought it's a cool quote, but why did you have to use that one?
Part of me thought what if he used the original?
the original thing that Oppenheimer did because Oppenheimer did a
He did an interview where he said it live on television
That's the recording that I know but for the movie they used Killian Murphy
It was so funny to me seeing that or hearing that anyway because
That's all I could think about was the tits on the book. Um
That lady loved to show her cooter in the movie like
If you want action, that's how you're getting
That in a single explosion. I must reiterate that within the entire movie
It's about the birth of the nuclear bomb, but you only see it go off once
You don't see it multiple times and I don't blame that because that looked expensive as fuck to do
like
It looked like an actual bomb. Okay, because I'm pretty sure it was a much further scaled down one
But I don't know
Seeing it in theaters really fucking hit different because on the big screen
All the detail is gonna be seen every single bit of it and I'm I'm here for it
Okay, I went off for like almost six minutes talking about the fucking bomb. You better watch the damn movie and now
Here's the thing right
Why do I always say that?
I guess since we're half way through the podcast
There's how it there's a similar structure to a movie storyline, right? Where there's a progression. There's the peak and then there's the downfall
We are at the downfall
After the explosion
It is an hour of fucking bureaucracy. That is it
At some point the bombs are going to be in the air
That is it at some point the bombs are used in World War two because the historic piece it has to be used
and
Oppenheimer there's a scene right where he has a panic attack, but he can't show it right
They're talking he's talking in front of a podium of all of his peers and he says I only wish it was built a few years
Um a few months prior so we could have used it on the Germans and then at that point
It cuts and it's just like Oppenheimer alone in that giant podium and it's as if the nuke went off
The only difference is people who are looking at him their skin is like peeling off and like it's the effects of a nuke
Everyone's crying in devastation screaming their heads off
Oppenheimer is essentially picturing what his bomb did to an entire city
However, instead of random people it is the colleagues that he grew
And was working alongside with for years
It was intense absolutely intense
And I don't know how to explain the ending
It's really fucking annoying to me. Okay, and I mean this in
It with the brightest intentions right after this it's a downfall because it's just oh
His paper was this it's a lot of legal stuff at the end, right? Here's the thing I
I openly looked at my girlfriend and I whispered I am so fucking confused right now
I don't remember
The ending right they had him on trial because he was a they thought he was a communist
But it wasn't a trial. It doesn't make any fucking sense
But then again it happened, you know
They put him in front of a bunch of really important people and they're like did you do this on this state?
And then it'll be like, yeah. Yeah, I did
like
The fuck man, and I get that he boinked a communist, but who has it? Okay?
You go to a university you boink a communist shill and then you leave and then you don't talk to her anymore
She kills herself. That's just college man
I'm sorry. I just boiled a bit of the movie. But yeah, there's a scene where
He admits to the communist woman while she's got her tits out again
He's like, I can't see you anymore. By the way, Oppenheimer's not a saint in this one, right?
In that specific scene, he's butt-ass naked. Killian Murphy's got like no muscle mass, by the way
But he's a hell of a good actor. I'm just saying
And she's gorgeous. By the way, the actress. I don't know her name. Let me look it up
You know what? I don't want to you look it up. You do it. You do some fucking research, huh?
Cuz I got a comment saying oh you don't do any research for your podcast episodes. You're goddamn right. Everything is improvised
You know why? Because I'm tired of pausing the recording
To google something or googling it while live. I don't like doing that. Okay, it's a shot in the dark
No one fucking listens anyway. Well, not enough people to subscribe to the patreon. There was that one guy though who gave us
$2,000 by the way, huge. Thank you to that guy. I love that guy
Absolutely love him
Christopher Harris. Thank you. I didn't forget your name. Okay. I'm just a little uh, I'm a little tired
12 hour shift today. You know how it is. Okay. I wa- ow
While I was recording I did have to I paused at the perfect moment
Okay, I know I said I didn't like pausing but sometimes I have to I paused because I don't know what I was doing
That I popped my thumb almost out of its socket and it really fucking hurt like
Okay, I got it back in but it it just it's
Ah
Okay, good enough. That's fine
My thumb still works guys. I could still hitchhike
Anyway back to the movie. I don't like the last hour. I will admit that
in
A lot of people loved it. I noticed it in the theaters. A lot of people were watching it
I didn't get it. You know why because when it comes to some of the history of Oppenheimer
There were the scenes at the end where they have him in front of a pier of his uh,
I don't know what it was. It wasn't a jury
is because they thought he was a communist, but also they were trying to diminish his
reputation within the community.
That's what I remember.
The problem is, there was a scene where he has another panic attack.
Again, they portray it very well.
Kudos to them.
They really nailed it every fucking time.
But I don't know.
It was just strange to me.
They even allude to it in the beginning of the movie.
I get Christopher Nolan's going to do that thing where he's like, hey, this is going
to happen at the end of the movie.
We're just kind of making our way into it.
But at the end, they're just asking him a bunch of questions.
It's like a flashback type of movie.
You know what I mean?
Good for them.
The movie is great.
I like it.
It's just that ending I don't get.
Because they just, I feel bad.
Because poor Oppenheimer, right?
Made the bomb, essentially was one of the main reasons that World War II ended.
Of course, they like to say that, right?
When it comes to, oh, let me explain this part, okay?
If you guys are listening from across the seas, anywhere not the United States, American
children are heavily taught that because of the creation of the nuclear bombs and because
of us dropping them on Japan, that is the sole reason that Japan surrendered.
However, we know there's a lot more subtlety and nuances to it.
The thing is, let's say high school, stuff like that, right?
That's what we're taught.
It's only when we go to college or university and we start learning stuff on our own that
we realize that there was a lot more to it, right?
That's the thing.
I wanted to bring that up because there's, again, a lot of stuff to it.
Japan was going to surrender anyway, according to a lot of people.
Of course, we know from various sources that Japan didn't plan on surrendering, but they
would have fought to the last man.
That's essentially the Japan that was around back then.
It's not like nowadays where you got anime and you got all that fun stuff.
By the way, I saw a TikTok where they mentioned World War II to a Japanese weeb.
My God.
I used to be really into anime, right?
I watch these things now and cringe is not the word.
I physically recoil.
Cringe is not strong enough.
This is more like I look at it and I have cramps in my face that just want to cover
my eyes.
You don't understand the level of embarrassment I felt secondhand.
Anyway, if you like anime, there's nothing wrong with it.
If your entire life revolves around anime, reconsider.
Unless you shower and you have a job and you have a stable, you know, be a well-rounded
human being is all I'm saying.
If you heard a buzz, my fucking flight trap just killed something.
I'm a fucking dumbass.
I had to refresh my memory on something.
The thing at the end of the movie was not a court hearing.
It was a security breach hearing.
Hang on.
Let me look it up exactly.
Security hearing.
That's what it was.
Because they kept denying his clearance, which is, I don't know how to explain it.
It's a very America-centered movie.
You know what I mean?
Like you have to be American to understand it more, like more clearly and more in depth.
And if you're not, it is quite difficult, admittedly, because a lot of the stuff there
is just what happened in America at the time.
Also, I want to bring up something, but this is just something that's my personal opinion.
Which you know, you're listening to my podcast, so you know, whatever.
I love the way the nuclear bomb looks.
The funny thing is, right, I noticed the promotional pictures.
I noticed that a lot of the pictures are doctored.
Like they don't want to spoil it in the movie.
But in the movie, the nukes look different.
You actually see Fat Man and Little Boy, you know the bombs that they drop on Japan?
You see them carted off by the military.
And I don't know, it hits different.
And now for one thing.
There is a major spoiler.
I will spoil something right now, and I'm telling you right now, if you plan on watching
the movie, don't listen to this part.
Skip ahead about one minute as soon as it reaches the 26 minute mark, okay?
I'm actually stalling a bit just so I can time it right.
But this is going to be a big spoiler because it has to do with the end of the movie up
to the last minute.
The last minute of the movie, okay?
Because I gotta admit, it did excite me.
It excited me quite a bit.
Okay?
So those who are going to watch the movie, don't listen to minute 26 through 27, okay?
I'm serious.
You have three seconds.
Two.
One.
Okay.
Now that you skipped ahead of time, I can tell you about the ending.
There's a scene where he's talking to Einstein.
Einstein does come up a lot in the movie, right?
It's not just the beginning or the end.
The end specifically, when they're talking, Einstein is just listening to him, hearing
him out.
And at some point Oppenheimer, through tears, tries to keep a straight face, telling Einstein,
there was a chance that we were going to destroy the earth when we launched the nuke.
And then quietly, Einstein is just looking at him and Oppenheimer goes, I believe we
have.
That scene got to me, dude.
Holy shit.
Because then it cuts to a bunch of nukes flying everywhere and it's like, he could see it,
you know?
Mutually assured destruction.
That is absolutely bonkers.
That scene, I liked it.
I really liked it because I thought, yes, that's exactly what happened.
Anyway, spoiler over.
Yeah, that was, I don't know, man.
Watch the movie.
Also, I, what am I saying also for the fuck?
Last week and the week prior, I mentioned that I was on, I was fasting and I was done
with it.
I'm going to start eating less carbs.
Apparently I've been doing, you know, I've been counting everything I eat.
This has nothing to do with the movie, by the way.
She probably mentioned that.
It's just, I've noticed that I eat a lot of rice, bread and sugar.
Those specific things.
I'm going to cut them out of my diet.
You got to understand, I was born with the food pyramid, which was later described as
the biggest hoax in American diet.
It was not good.
It's one of the reasons I'm fat.
That's what I'm going to blame.
Anyway, Oppenheimer was a good movie.
I recommend it.
Barbie's up next.
But I don't know if I'm going to do a review about it.
I just don't want to spoil it, okay?
There's a lot of stuff when it comes to this movie.
A lot of spoilers and everything.
Spoilers I didn't want to give, but alas I did.
Anyway, that's going to do it for this episode of the Meatweed Podcast.
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researched, well documented, you know, cites credible sources, you're at the wrong fucking
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