I just saw 2 huge blockbusters from last year back to back.
First I watched Killers of the flower moon. I hated it. One of the worst movies I ever saw. All the characters (other than may dinero's character and the FBI) were incredibly stupid. They portrayed the Osage indians as total idiots. So they come into money. Suddenly white men start "falling in love with them" when they didn't before they came into money. Then right at the same time white men start falling in love with them, they all start dying (like 63 of them iirc) and the white men inherit the money. I mean one white dude married an indian, she dies soon after, then only 2 weeks later he married her sister! Of course she dies soon after too. And they just keep marrying more white men and continue to die.
Dicaprio's wife doesn't realize that her own husband is involved in a bunch of murders of her family. Plus, she has diabetes and so Leo starts giving her insulin..... with some kind of poison in it that is killing her. He says things like "you need to get worse before you get better". The kicker though is that leo gets arrested for murder so now he cant administer the insulin with the poison in it anymore and bada bing bada boom she instantly starts getting better now that doctors are administering the non poisoned insulin. And she still doesn't put it together that her husband was killing her like all the other white men were killing all these indian people.
And the white men were all stupid too. They would kill in super sloppy ways often. the killers would just kill people because they were asked to. No other reason. They all sounded like country bumpkin dumbasses. Dicaprio always had a super stupid look on his face.
I hated it bad.
Then I watched Oppenheimer. Masterpiece. Robert Downey Jr was amazing. Cillian murphy was amazing. Josh hartnett was great. Florence pugh was fantastic. Oppenheimers wife was fierce and amazing. Matt damon was solid. All the supporting actors were great. I loved the musical score. Really like how when they finally detonated the Trinity bomb the director chose to use silence rather than a loud explosive sound. Somehow made the bomb feel even more powerful. Loved the use of black and white. Loved the use of Einsten. Loved the little blurb at the end about JFK. Loved all the scientific mumbo jumbo by all the brilliant scientists who worked on the bomb. Loved the scene with Oppenheimer and president Harrry Truman (truman was a total douche). Robert downey Jr made for a really good villain. Interesting to see all the bureaucracy and politics involved. 3 years, 4,000 people and 2 billion dollars to build the bomb. Crazy.
I liked it so much that i went to google and youtube afterwards to learn more about it. I had no idea that between 1942 and 1965 the US detonated 210 atomic bombs. The bomb dropped in hiroshima killed 70,000 instantly (iirc). the one dropped in nagasaki killed another 40,000 instantly. Then after radiation exposure 220,000 ended up dead. The japanese surrendered quickly and the war was over..... as the new cold war between us and russia began. I also found that only one Hydrogen bomb (1,000 times more powerful than an atomic bomb) has ever been detonated. I was by far the most powerful bomb ever detonated and was done by russia. Apparently windows in building were blown out 3,000 miles away.
Highly recommend oppenheimer. Hated killers of the flower moon.