It struck me watching Christopher Nolan’s masterful three-hour epic telling of the story of J. Robert Oppenheimer, long labeled the Father of the Atomic Bomb, that this is a period piece with…

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    There’s certain snippets I hope I never see or hear again because they’ve been so overplayed. Here’s my top offenders; the snippet of the Kennedy speech about going to the moon before the end of the decade, the Armstrong quote first step upon the moon, the atomic explosions of WWII, the Bikini Atoll h-bomb test, and any portion of the hymn Amazing Grace. So what they’re doing is avoiding stuff people don’t want to see because it’s played out. I’d say that’s just good movie making.