What Film (Movie) Have You Just Watched?

[Palatkik]

Sympathy for the Devil [2023]

After being forced to drive a mysterious passenger at gunpoint, a man finds himself in a high-stakes game of cat and mouse where it becomes clear that not everything is as it seems. A cheap popcorn flick tailor made for the wild mannerisms of the lead, but with little sympathy for any of the characters this movie fails to leave an impression.

[Palatkik]

Sisu [2022]

When an ex-soldier who discovers gold in the Lapland wilderness tries to take the loot into the city, Nazi soldiers led by a brutal SS officer battle him. A Finnish movie about Nazis all in English with a Tarantino style is an entertaining over the top popcorn gore-fest, nothing else. Worth seeing when the mood suits for something ridiculous.

[Palatkik]

The Sixth Commandment [2023 TV Limited Series]

Follows the deaths of Peter Farquhar and Ann Moore-Martin in the village of Maids Moreton, Buckinghamshire, and what unfolded in the following years. Based on extraordinary awful real events, this is one near perfect TV crime drama miniseries with strong performances. Hitchcockian, compelling, creepy, evil and yet full of humanity. Not to be missed.

[Palatkik]

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry [2023]

An ordinary man has passed through life, living on the side lines, until he goes to post a letter one day...and just keeps walking -  from South Devon to Berwick On Tweed. A wonderfully unassuming feelgood road movie with a fine cast.

[Old Hippie]

I just saw Oppenheimer. Interesting movie and a sad commentary on how the US looked at things back then, shaping how we look at things now…

 

[Palatkik]

Pearl [2022]

In 1918, a young woman on the brink of madness pursues stardom in a desperate attempt to escape the drudgery, isolation and loveless life on her parents' farm in the rural US. This Judy Garland style horror show is an absolute blast with the lead stealing every moment on the screen through the incredible closing credits. Prequel to the X-slasher movie of the same year.

[My Penis is hungry]

Oppenheimer leaves out how Marc Oliphant had to repeatidly kick the Americans to get the Atomic program going

 

Olipant also invented the microwave radar, which right up till the bomb was dropped was declared the most significant miliatary weapon of WW2

[Mekong]

I am surprised that Christopher Nolan missed out not only Oliphant, but also Rutherford, Cavendish (Cambridge) the MAUD committee etc.

Being a Brit himself I can’t believe he forgot about them, but Hollywood being Hollywood was probably told to gloss over the facts so the Good ‘Ol US of A appears to be a knight in shining armour. You know like other Hollywood films where they captured and cracked the Enigma machine or single handedly saved Europe from the Nazis. 

[Coss]

I remember when Ben Affleck saved the world in "Pearl Harbour" the movie

[My Penis is hungry]

20 hours ago, Mekong said:

I am surprised that Christopher Nolan missed out not only Oliphant, but also Rutherford, Cavendish (Cambridge) the MAUD committee etc.

Being a Brit himself I can’t believe he forgot about them, but Hollywood being Hollywood was probably told to gloss over the facts so the Good ‘Ol US of A appears to be a knight in shining armour. You know like other Hollywood films where they captured and cracked the Enigma machine or single handedly saved Europe from the Nazis. 

You need to remember according to history, sorry, hollywood, USA invented Colossus, RADAR, The bomb etc etc

 

What's interesting is that because he'd rescued German physists Frisch and Peierls from the Nazis he couldn't have them help on the development of RADAR, so instead had them spend their time while they waited to become "ënglish" on doing their usual nuclear work.

 

Which is when they worked out that if you removed U235 from U238 an atomic bomb was possible, and small enough to be delivered by plane. Previously opinion was it would weigh tonnes and not be effective.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frisch–Peierls_memorandum

That was groundbreaking and again becuase they had no clearance, Oliphant took that first note to the UK people, making MAUD happen, and then when the USA did nothing, Oliphant was sent over to wake them up. 

 

The USA had been locking up the MAUD reports in a safe as they had been classified as "Top Secret" and not shared with theUSA team responsible for investigating the possible development of a nuclear bomb, 

 

DUH

 

The choice of the name of the MAUD committee is quite funny

 

MAUD was assumed by many to be an acronym, however it is not. The name MAUD came to be in an unusual way. On 9 April 1940, the day Germany invaded Denmark, Niels Bohr had sent a telegram to Frisch. The telegram ended with a strange line "Tell Cockcroft and Maud Ray Kent".^[32][34] At first it was thought to be code regarding radium or other vital atomic-weapons-related information, hidden in an anagram. One suggestion was to replace the "y" with an "i", producing 'radium taken'. When Bohr returned to England in 1943, it was discovered that the message was addressed to John Cockcroft and Bohr's housekeeper Maud Ray, who was from Kent. Thus the committee was named the MAUD Committee.