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Christopher Nolan recreated the Trinity nuclear bomb test without CG for Oppenheimer

LordPezix

Member
Movies I saw in Theaters more than 9 times

The Assassination of Jesse James by The Coward Robert Ford

The Dark Knight

Hellboy

Hellboy The Golden Army

Spider-Man Into The Spiderverse

Logan

Avengers Infinity War/Endgame

Doctor Strange

Doctor Strange Into The Multiverse of Madness

Captain America Civil War

Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind

The Batman

Perks of Being a Wallflower

Whiplash

Coco

Up

Annihilation

Dune

The Green Knight

Brightburn

Children of Men

Avatar

District 9

Dawn of The Planet Of The Apes

Inglorious Bastards

Django Unchained

Once Upon A Time In Hollywood

It’s A Wonderful Day In The Neighborhood

Kong Skull Island

Life of Pi

Lord of War

Me, Earl and The Dying Girl

Magnolia

Midsommer

Moon

Minority Report

Princess Mononoke

Pleasantville

Pan's Labyrinth

Pacific Rim

School of Rock

Stranger Than Fiction

Saving Private Ryan

Sin City

Star Wars Rogue One

Sleepy Hollow

Silver Lining Playbook


Seeking A Friend For The End Of World

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

The Big Sick

The Raid

The Raid 2

There Will Be Blood

The Lego Movie

Wreck-It Ralph

Trick R Treat

American Psycho

Since you asked lol
Damn. That is impressive.
 
Movies I saw in Theaters more than 9 times

The Assassination of Jesse James by The Coward Robert Ford

The Dark Knight

Hellboy

Hellboy The Golden Army

Spider-Man Into The Spiderverse

Logan

Avengers Infinity War/Endgame

Doctor Strange

Doctor Strange Into The Multiverse of Madness

Captain America Civil War

Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind

The Batman

Perks of Being a Wallflower

Whiplash

Coco

Up

Annihilation

Dune

The Green Knight

Brightburn

Children of Men

Avatar

District 9

Dawn of The Planet Of The Apes

Inglorious Bastards

Django Unchained

Once Upon A Time In Hollywood

It’s A Wonderful Day In The Neighborhood

Kong Skull Island

Life of Pi

Lord of War

Me, Earl and The Dying Girl

Magnolia

Midsommer

Moon

Minority Report

Princess Mononoke

Pleasantville

Pan's Labyrinth

Pacific Rim

School of Rock

Stranger Than Fiction

Saving Private Ryan

Sin City

Star Wars Rogue One

Sleepy Hollow

Silver Lining Playbook


Seeking A Friend For The End Of World

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

The Big Sick

The Raid

The Raid 2

There Will Be Blood

The Lego Movie

Wreck-It Ralph

Trick R Treat

American Psycho

Since you asked lol
Ah so you work the projector at a movie theater. I see.
 

nkarafo

Member
Interstellar pretentious trash lmao the fuck are you smoking.

He is right. I was expecting space and science. Not this sappy bullshit

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Don Carlo

Member
Movies I saw in Theaters more than 9 times

The Assassination of Jesse James by The Coward Robert Ford

The Dark Knight

Hellboy

Hellboy The Golden Army

Spider-Man Into The Spiderverse

Logan

Avengers Infinity War/Endgame

Doctor Strange

Doctor Strange Into The Multiverse of Madness

Captain America Civil War

Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind

The Batman

Perks of Being a Wallflower

Whiplash

Coco

Up

Annihilation

Dune

The Green Knight

Brightburn

Children of Men

Avatar

District 9

Dawn of The Planet Of The Apes

Inglorious Bastards

Django Unchained

Once Upon A Time In Hollywood

It’s A Wonderful Day In The Neighborhood

Kong Skull Island

Life of Pi

Lord of War

Me, Earl and The Dying Girl

Magnolia

Midsommer

Moon

Minority Report

Princess Mononoke

Pleasantville

Pan's Labyrinth

Pacific Rim

School of Rock

Stranger Than Fiction

Saving Private Ryan

Sin City

Star Wars Rogue One

Sleepy Hollow

Silver Lining Playbook


Seeking A Friend For The End Of World

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

The Big Sick

The Raid

The Raid 2

There Will Be Blood

The Lego Movie

Wreck-It Ralph

Trick R Treat

American Psycho

Since you asked lol
Great List, I missed some of these
 

nocsi

Member
You can do it with sulfuric acid and potassium permanganate to get that nuclear plume effect. Just need to have a high fps camera and it’ll look very similar
 

dr_octagon

Banned
Did you knowfor Interstellar, Christophor Nolamb actually created a balck whole without CGI?

The drector wanted to make it look as real as possibel and spent over $5 to create a scale model of our galaxy.
 

G-Bus

Banned
Not enough explosions in here. I might be more interested in how he went about all of this without cgi than the movie itself.

 

Shubh_C63

Member
Prestige is his best movie.
Tenet is his worst movie.
And Interstellar is my favorite movie of his.

I love that Nolan refuses to direct movie in 3d format. 2D-IMAX will always be supreme. I have yet to watch Avatar 2 though.
 
Believe you me there will be some part of the bomb that would be CG. Unless they figured out how to do a mushroom cloud on a smaller scale and then just add CG to make it appear larger than it actually is.

Kinda like this scene in Titanic:
The whole room is actually a really small practical scale model and they added the actors in post. I'm kinda expecting something like this for trinity bomb in Oppenheimer.

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This is the actual size of that whole engine room:

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That engine room scene will always and forever remind me of Wing Commander 3.
 

SJRB

Gold Member
Going to the movies when Tenet came out was like visiting a maximum security prison.

Tenet really isn't a good movie, let's get real here. It has a handful of legit good moments and the concept of course is amazing but the execution is overwhelmingly mediocre in almost every way.

You can practically hear Nolan sniff his own farts during every bit of ridiculously long exposition.

"Tenet, Sator, get it??? Algorithms, timeflow, entropy, science words. Man I am smart"

The worst movies are movies that think they're smart but are dumb as fuck.
 

EviLore

Expansive Ellipses
Staff Member
Tenet really isn't a good movie, let's get real here. It has a handful of legit good moments and the concept of course is amazing but the execution is overwhelmingly mediocre in almost every way.

You can practically hear Nolan sniff his own farts during every bit of ridiculously long exposition.

"Tenet, Sator, get it??? Algorithms, timeflow, entropy, science words. Man I am smart"

The worst movies are movies that think they're smart but are dumb as fuck.
Hard disagree
 
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