Oppenheimer would have been better if it had just been Murphy, Damon and Downey Jr in one room, with Safdie, Pugh, Blunt, Conti and a few others coming and going. And just dramatising key conversations that might have taken place in that setting.
Apart from one or two nice shots of New Mexico, I though the production was largely redundant. They literally could have gotten away with an establishing shot of a few wooden temporary buildings and would have had the same impact, story wise.
I'm not trashing Oppenheimer. It's still a good film. While it was all absolutely necessary for it to be Nolan's film, it's mostly unnecessary for what the film actually achieves, in my view.
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