 Editor in Chief Bill   | 16 Sep 2021 8:38 a.m. PST |
Christopher Nolan, best known for directing the Batman "Dark Knight" trilogy and the classic World War II movie "Dunkirk," is planning to make his next movie about scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer and the race to develop the atomic bomb during World War II… Military: link |
| John the OFM | 16 Sep 2021 9:54 a.m. PST |
I can't think of a more politically incorrect subject for a movie. I'll probably enjoy it.
"Smart nerds doing good work" is a rare theme for a movie. I can only think of Apollo 13 and The Martian. |
| Stryderg | 16 Sep 2021 10:58 a.m. PST |
What was the movie about Allen Turing and cracking the Enigma machine? |
 Mister Tibbles  | 16 Sep 2021 12:15 p.m. PST |
It will preach how evil the US is for developing and using the weapons. Many will cheer. I can't wait to see how woke it will be. :( |
 ColCampbell | 16 Sep 2021 2:23 p.m. PST |
I hope you are incorrect Mister Tibbles but can't count on it. We'll just have to see. Jim |
| mildbill | 16 Sep 2021 5:06 p.m. PST |
those two bombs possibly saved the Japanese race. Without them there was no face saving way to end the war and between starvation and the IJA plans to defend the home islands the USA would have had to kill them all. |
| Griefbringer | 17 Sep 2021 11:40 a.m. PST |
A line with high probability of appearing on a dramatic moment in the movie: "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." |
| forper23 | 18 Sep 2021 3:37 a.m. PST |
Werd Mildbill, and I probably wouldn't have ever existed had the nukes not been dropped. My Grandfather would have been in the invasion force. He was deployed late war to Bougainville, a mopping up operation, but characteristically brutally resisted by the Japanese costing many allied lives. His next stop would have probably been mainland Japan and almost certain death. And I like me. I'm glad I exist. |
| Porthos | 18 Sep 2021 9:12 a.m. PST |
Stryderg: that is (not surprising ;-)) Enigma, based on the book of Robert Harris:
link |
| Griefbringer | 18 Sep 2021 10:37 a.m. PST |
I haven't seen the Enigma (2001) movie, but based on descriptions I have read it seems to be highly fictionalised (including the characters, who do not make a mention of Alan Turing) story set in the historical Bletchley Park setting. As for the real Alan Turing, I just got reminded that five years ago, while visiting Manchester (where Turing did a lot of his work) I accidentally came by a small, quiet park dedicated to him. It featured a life-sized statue of him sitting on a bench, and there was also on show some information about his life (including his tragic treatment in the 50's). |
| Tango01 | 27 Sep 2021 4:39 p.m. PST |
This Russian Officer Saved The World From Nuclear War 38 Years Ago Today link
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