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Message: [QUOTE="Palatine, post: 4702990, member: 974"] Oppenheimer, agree the sound was a little overcooked. Very good movie but I thought Nolan's decision to ignore CGI had some negative effects on the film. Los Alamos had 8,000 inhabitants during the Manhattan project. In the film it looks it it was one or two buildings and a checkpoint. CGI could have given the audience some sense of the size and scale of the New Mexico facility. The project was immense. Obviously, not using CGI for the atomic blast also cost Nolan some spectacular scale shots. One of the most memorable parts of the Trinity test to the folks who were actually there, was the fireball lighting up the entire valley and making it suddenly seem very small. That could have been a breathtaking moment. Lastly, I thought the animosity between Murphy and Downey Jr should have been set up more fully and with more passion. That would have allowed the ending to be a bit more satisfying. That said. I enjoyed it very much. The time went quickly and Nolan gave us an in depth character piece. The pace of the film was brilliant. The period was portrayed beautifully, physically, stylistically and psychologically. Nolan was once described to me by someone at Warner Brothers as "our Steven Spielberg." I understand the reference, but to me the two film makers could be more different in their approach to material. [/QUOTE]