I saw a review call the divisive and box office bomb Babylon "The kind of original big-budget hard-R period epic that we desperately need to see much more of in the current Hollywood landscape".
Oppenheimer will fit all those categories aside from hard R and original since it is based on a true story and will definitely get a PG-13 rating (if Dunkirk managed to get a PG-13 rating this will easily get one). Plus Nolan isn't the kind of director who I'd associate with generic prestige Oscar Bait cinema and from what I've seen of the marketing it won't be your standard checklist of events biopic. Hopefully it's closer to The Social Network or First Man than anything.
But hopefully it's a standout of it's genre and it encourages ambition rather than playing it safe.
P.S. I was checking the screens at the cinema I work at and I saw the opening of I Wanna Dance With Somebody which literally begins with Whitney about to give an onstage performance to a crowd of people just like Bohemian Rhapsody and Walk the Line, before jumping back in time to earlier in their life just like BoRap and Elvis and so many other films in the genre. They clearly haven't listened to people who are so beyond tired of this formula.
Oppenheimer will fit all those categories aside from hard R and original since it is based on a true story and will definitely get a PG-13 rating (if Dunkirk managed to get a PG-13 rating this will easily get one). Plus Nolan isn't the kind of director who I'd associate with generic prestige Oscar Bait cinema and from what I've seen of the marketing it won't be your standard checklist of events biopic. Hopefully it's closer to The Social Network or First Man than anything.
But hopefully it's a standout of it's genre and it encourages ambition rather than playing it safe.
P.S. I was checking the screens at the cinema I work at and I saw the opening of I Wanna Dance With Somebody which literally begins with Whitney about to give an onstage performance to a crowd of people just like Bohemian Rhapsody and Walk the Line, before jumping back in time to earlier in their life just like BoRap and Elvis and so many other films in the genre. They clearly haven't listened to people who are so beyond tired of this formula.