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Fighting In The War Room: A Movies And Pop Culture Podcast

437 – Nolan Movies, Oppenheimer

Fighting In The War Room: A Movies And Pop Culture Podcast

Katey, Matt, Da7e and David

Tv & Film, Film Reviews, Tv Reviews

4.6 β€’ 992 Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 20 July 2023

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Summary






This week, Katey, David, and Patches jump into the War Room to talk about the trajectory of director Christopher Nolan’s films before jumping into a lengthy review of Oppenheimer, which includes “The Oppenheimer Game” where your hosts go round robin attempting to remember the stacked cast. Also, more info on Katey’s Marvel Snap deck!



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FORMAT



00:00 – Lightning Round: BOOM!



2:13- Intro – Welcome to Episode 437! NO REVIEWS? MARVEL SNAP!



11:36- Tidbit – The films of Christopher Nolan



35:23 – Segment 3 – Oppenheimer



1:34:11 – Outro

Transcript

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0:00.0

In honor of Oppenheimer, what is the best cinematic explosion?

0:07.0

I'm Katie Rich and this is not cinema technically, but Jay Abrams playing the keyboard during cool guys don't look at explosions at the

0:14.8

2009 MTV movie awards with Annie Sandberg and Will Farrell means a lot to me.

0:19.4

I like that you started you you picked this question and then didn't take cinema

0:24.6

I just couldn't get it out of my head and that was where I decided to go to my heart

0:28.2

I'm mad Patches and I guess I'm gonna go with the Crystal Sculls nuking the fridge scene.

0:36.8

It just has a very picturesque mushroom cloud that we'll talk about Oppenheimer later,

0:42.2

but not necessarily

0:43.6

fetishizing in that way. I'm David Erlich and I add this for lack of

0:51.6

having an indexical memory of all the great movie explosions ready to go.

0:55.0

I'm just going to stick with the J.J. Abrams theme.

0:58.0

Gotta'er, I pay the man, our respects, and I guess it's not really an explosion I don't know whatever the

1:04.5

fuck's happening on that bridge and Mission Impossible 3 when the jet flies by

1:08.3

and Tom Cruz yeah a little explosion there's a mess on the. There's a little explosion.

1:13.0

Yeah.

1:14.0

Yeah, fly sideways into the car.

1:15.0

Why not?

1:16.0

That's cool.

1:17.0

You're safe.

1:18.0

Does he look at the explosion?

1:19.0

Oh, he's been thrown into a car.

1:21.0

No, he's like, yeah, he's like kind of running away from it, and then it knocks him into a car. No, he's like, yeah, he's like kind of running away from it and then it knocks him into a car.

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