Classic Movies Live – Season 4, Episode 27: Oppenheimer
July 26, 2023
If you’ve been paying attention to movies in 2023, you already know there’s not a single event more important this year than Barbenheimer Weekend!
The simultaneous release of Barbie and Oppenheimer produced one of the biggest box-office weekends of all time, with both movies already garnering commercial and critical acclaim! It’s official: Audiences love Bobby Oppenheimer!
In the first of two Barbenheimer episodes, Pierre and Jeff address the implications of such a massive cinematic event. Is this just the shot in the arm the movie industry needs? Will it ever be replicated again? What about Saw Patrol?
Then, our hosts break down Nolan’s three-hour epic biopic. Nolan-regular Cillian Murphy stars in the title role alongside Robert Downey, Jr., Emily Blunt, Florence Pugh, Alden Ehrenreich and Josh Hartnett, as well as dozens of massive names! Deeply personal and politically poignant, Oppenheimer is a movie that sticks with you long after the credits roll. So what did our hosts think of it? Tune in to find out!
For more Oppenheimer content, you can check out Jeff’s review over on Letterboxd.
This Episode was produced during the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Without the labour of the writers and actors currently on strike, the films being discussed in this show wouldn’t exist. To learn more about the ongoing strikes, go to https://www.sagaftrastrike.org/ and https://www.wgacontract2023.org/strike-hub
