Half in the Bag: Oppenheimer and The Hollywood Implosion



Happy Barbenheimer everyone! Watch as these two elderly losers stall for half the video before finally discussing what some are calling the best movie of the year: Oppenheimer! In addition to that, Mike and Jay discuss the ongoing writer and actor strikes as well as itโ€™s consequences on movies, theaters, streamers, audiences, and most importantly what effect it will have on David Zaslav. Wonโ€™t someone please think of poor David Zaslav?!

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37 thoughts on “Half in the Bag: Oppenheimer and The Hollywood Implosion”

  1. Jay, Instead of buying into the inaccurate media "narrative" of Sound of Freedom being a "Qanon, political film" maybe you should stop listening to them and actually watch it, you might enjoy a powerful independant film with a good message.

    You mock critics of a silly misandrist movie about a toy that includes almost every favored ideological message proudly pushed by one political party, yet you consider a film based on a true story about rescuing trafficked children "political", then I dunno what to tell you.

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  2. Sounds of Freedom is selling out because at the end of the movie it encourages the audience to buy tickets for proselytizing, so other people can see it despite the mainstream's efforts to suppress getting the word out. They're expecting people to walk up and be given paid for tickets. However the ticket person is just going to say it's sold out and turn them away. Since a lot of movie theaters are being run on shoestring maintenance budgets, they look toward the AC breaking down as the great suppression tactic.

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  3. It's not unlikely that if the picture was fucked up the sound would be too – I saw it at Regal in one of their RPX screens and the mix was really balanced.

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  4. I think my biggest problem has to be that in a 2-3 minute scene Nolan managed to portray President Truman, an educated man and experienced military officer, as little more than an incompetent moron.

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  5. I saw Chernobyl, it was good. HOWEVER, my opinion doesn't really matter on this because me and my friend were talking over the whole series. We had captions and we did pay attention, but every time we were back into the immersion, one of us would be like "We really could've been dead before we even existed, huh…" And another conversation would start. I don't regret watching though as I know the plot, but mainly visibly, and the conversations were great so the show was spent pretty well.

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  6. Sound Of Freedom is a true story about Tim Ballard. Hes a real man with a documentary who has really been interviewed and praised in the past by all the same news networks calling SOF a Q conspiracy. Mike, why would you and Jay feed into that horseshit? Are you two p3d0s?

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  7. Incredibly well made film, so many eye rolling Nolanisms throughout, kind of hard to follow on a massive IMAX screen and being a biopic it's quite weighted in Oppies favour, but without doubt a "good" film. Will be sure to watch again on a streaming platform.

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  8. The movie reminded me a lot of There Will Be Blood in the sense that itโ€™s very focused on the main character and how their invention becomes their identity. And after thinking of TWBB, I definitely think Oppenheimer could have benefited from the style of score in TWBB. Most of the TWBB score is quiet and intimate but other pieces are intense but it still allows the movie to breathe

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  9. About residuals- friend said as a writer on a show they got 20k yearly checks on TRU TV. Show went to Netflix and they got 500 yearly checks. Big difference trying to live on those different numbers.

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