Anonymous wrote:Apparently there are tons of threads on Reddit along with countless legit movie reviews calling Oppenheimer overhyped and overrated.

One review called it a chaotic assortment of vignettes, noting the Florence Pugh bit was unnecessary.

Anonymous wrote:It was a solid movie, but too long, surprised editing got an award actually. And it was so political and a bit dry.

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Anonymous wrote:Definitely not. There are other movies that are way more overhyped than Oppenheimer. Hell look at some past best picture winners- some are terrible. Oppenheimer is not terrible at all.

Overhyped and overrated doesn’t mean terrible.

Rather, it means it received so much attention/publicity it didn’t deserve thanks to immediate (even prerelease) acclaim that wasn’t deserved.

Hollywood is really good at making fetch happen.

Think of all the not so handsome actors who were forced upon us as leading men.

But what’s the anti-Oppenheimer case? The consensus, with which I happen to agree, is that it was very well acted, beautifully shot, etc. Did you not like Downey’s performance, which seemed to me excellent after years of Tony Stark? Emily Blount didn’t do it for you? I thought she was amazing. There are certainly legitimate critiques: it is a bit talky in places, and the choice to focus on the administrative process about his security clearance later in the film was surely not everyone’s cup of tea. Although it’s pretty impressive that this kind of movie was such a commercial success as well. Perfectly reasonable to not like it or to think that there were better films this year, but the praise Oppenheimer got was reasonably well deserved and hardly a pathological example of overhype IMO.

That’s the point: it was a commercial success because of the hype. The media was hyping it before it was released. But many/most people left the theater thinking it was way too long and had roughly an hour of unnecessary content. Hence, overrated.

The media was hyping Barbie in the exact same way. Also overrated?

Absolutely!

Barbie was a campy movie that was a bit too long and preachy. By the end of the movie, I thought Barbie was a self-centered jerk who treated Ken like trash. And I’m feminist.

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Anonymous wrote:Definitely not. There are other movies that are way more overhyped than Oppenheimer. Hell look at some past best picture winners- some are terrible. Oppenheimer is not terrible at all.

Overhyped and overrated doesn’t mean terrible.

Rather, it means it received so much attention/publicity it didn’t deserve thanks to immediate (even prerelease) acclaim that wasn’t deserved.

Hollywood is really good at making fetch happen.

Think of all the not so handsome actors who were forced upon us as leading men.

But what’s the anti-Oppenheimer case? The consensus, with which I happen to agree, is that it was very well acted, beautifully shot, etc. Did you not like Downey’s performance, which seemed to me excellent after years of Tony Stark? Emily Blount didn’t do it for you? I thought she was amazing. There are certainly legitimate critiques: it is a bit talky in places, and the choice to focus on the administrative process about his security clearance later in the film was surely not everyone’s cup of tea. Although it’s pretty impressive that this kind of movie was such a commercial success as well. Perfectly reasonable to not like it or to think that there were better films this year, but the praise Oppenheimer got was reasonably well deserved and hardly a pathological example of overhype IMO.

That’s the point: it was a commercial success because of the hype. The media was hyping it before it was released. But many/most people left the theater thinking it was way too long and had roughly an hour of unnecessary content. Hence, overrated.

The media was hyping Barbie in the exact same way. Also overrated?

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Anonymous wrote:Definitely not. There are other movies that are way more overhyped than Oppenheimer. Hell look at some past best picture winners- some are terrible. Oppenheimer is not terrible at all.

Overhyped and overrated doesn’t mean terrible.

Rather, it means it received so much attention/publicity it didn’t deserve thanks to immediate (even prerelease) acclaim that wasn’t deserved.

Hollywood is really good at making fetch happen.

Think of all the not so handsome actors who were forced upon us as leading men.

But what’s the anti-Oppenheimer case? The consensus, with which I happen to agree, is that it was very well acted, beautifully shot, etc. Did you not like Downey’s performance, which seemed to me excellent after years of Tony Stark? Emily Blount didn’t do it for you? I thought she was amazing. There are certainly legitimate critiques: it is a bit talky in places, and the choice to focus on the administrative process about his security clearance later in the film was surely not everyone’s cup of tea. Although it’s pretty impressive that this kind of movie was such a commercial success as well. Perfectly reasonable to not like it or to think that there were better films this year, but the praise Oppenheimer got was reasonably well deserved and hardly a pathological example of overhype IMO.

That’s the point: it was a commercial success because of the hype. The media was hyping it before it was released. But many/most people left the theater thinking it was way too long and had roughly an hour of unnecessary content. Hence, overrated.

Also, pre-release hype is insufficient to create commercial success. Many such movies are rejected by the audience and bomb.

Anonymous wrote:Title says it all.

I’ve heard several people say this. Is it true?

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Anonymous wrote:Definitely not. There are other movies that are way more overhyped than Oppenheimer. Hell look at some past best picture winners- some are terrible. Oppenheimer is not terrible at all.

Overhyped and overrated doesn’t mean terrible.

Rather, it means it received so much attention/publicity it didn’t deserve thanks to immediate (even prerelease) acclaim that wasn’t deserved.

Hollywood is really good at making fetch happen.

Think of all the not so handsome actors who were forced upon us as leading men.

But what’s the anti-Oppenheimer case? The consensus, with which I happen to agree, is that it was very well acted, beautifully shot, etc. Did you not like Downey’s performance, which seemed to me excellent after years of Tony Stark? Emily Blount didn’t do it for you? I thought she was amazing. There are certainly legitimate critiques: it is a bit talky in places, and the choice to focus on the administrative process about his security clearance later in the film was surely not everyone’s cup of tea. Although it’s pretty impressive that this kind of movie was such a commercial success as well. Perfectly reasonable to not like it or to think that there were better films this year, but the praise Oppenheimer got was reasonably well deserved and hardly a pathological example of overhype IMO.

That’s the point: it was a commercial success because of the hype. The media was hyping it before it was released. But many/most people left the theater thinking it was way too long and had roughly an hour of unnecessary content. Hence, overrated.

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Anonymous wrote:Definitely not. There are other movies that are way more overhyped than Oppenheimer. Hell look at some past best picture winners- some are terrible. Oppenheimer is not terrible at all.

Overhyped and overrated doesn’t mean terrible.

Rather, it means it received so much attention/publicity it didn’t deserve thanks to immediate (even prerelease) acclaim that wasn’t deserved.

Hollywood is really good at making fetch happen.

Think of all the not so handsome actors who were forced upon us as leading men.

But what’s the anti-Oppenheimer case? The consensus, with which I happen to agree, is that it was very well acted, beautifully shot, etc. Did you not like Downey’s performance, which seemed to me excellent after years of Tony Stark? Emily Blount didn’t do it for you? I thought she was amazing. There are certainly legitimate critiques: it is a bit talky in places, and the choice to focus on the administrative process about his security clearance later in the film was surely not everyone’s cup of tea. Although it’s pretty impressive that this kind of movie was such a commercial success as well. Perfectly reasonable to not like it or to think that there were better films this year, but the praise Oppenheimer got was reasonably well deserved and hardly a pathological example of overhype IMO.

That’s the point: it was a commercial success because of the hype. The media was hyping it before it was released. But many/most people left the theater thinking it was way too long and had roughly an hour of unnecessary content. Hence, overrated.

Anonymous wrote:I feel that way about Barbie.

Anonymous wrote:it was ok. I'm sour on it because the movie set in a war made for men that came out at the same time as the movie made for women and somehow underperformed the movie made for women swept the oscars while the movie made for women by women was almost shut out

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Anonymous wrote:Definitely not. There are other movies that are way more overhyped than Oppenheimer. Hell look at some past best picture winners- some are terrible. Oppenheimer is not terrible at all.

Overhyped and overrated doesn’t mean terrible.

Rather, it means it received so much attention/publicity it didn’t deserve thanks to immediate (even prerelease) acclaim that wasn’t deserved.

Hollywood is really good at making fetch happen.

Think of all the not so handsome actors who were forced upon us as leading men.

But what’s the anti-Oppenheimer case? The consensus, with which I happen to agree, is that it was very well acted, beautifully shot, etc. Did you not like Downey’s performance, which seemed to me excellent after years of Tony Stark? Emily Blount didn’t do it for you? I thought she was amazing. There are certainly legitimate critiques: it is a bit talky in places, and the choice to focus on the administrative process about his security clearance later in the film was surely not everyone’s cup of tea. Although it’s pretty impressive that this kind of movie was such a commercial success as well. Perfectly reasonable to not like it or to think that there were better films this year, but the praise Oppenheimer got was reasonably well deserved and hardly a pathological example of overhype IMO.