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by api4 hours ago |
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upvoteby dralley4 hours ago|
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Because that's exactly what it was. I agree with you, the puritanism around special effects doesn't make sense when there's plenty of high quality archival footage out there, and instead of using that or CGI to look similar, you do something that looks completely wrong.
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upvoteby chasd004 hours ago|
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I felt the same, my thinking at the time was they didn’t want the bomb to steal the show. The movie was about the man not the machine.

/hah very articulate of me for this early in the morning

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upvoteby Cthulhu_2 hours ago|
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I suppose that's true, but it's still positioned as the focal point or climax of the film I think.

But Nolan intentionally hamstrung himself by eschewing CGI in favor of practical effects. I mean in theory you could do a practical effect of a nuke but that requires detonating a nuke; the west hasn't done that since 1992, the last nuclear detonation was done by North Korea in 2017.

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upvoteby butlike46 minutes ago|
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I'm never watching this movie again. The dead silence to 100dB boom was unreasonable, dangerous, and amateurish filmmaking. And not the least of which Atomic bombs aren't that loud.
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upvoteby ceejayoz2 hours ago|
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Yeah, Nolan's well known for practical effects - to the extent of actually driving a 747 into a warehouse! - but this is one spot where that approach failed hard.
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upvoteby rpastuszak4 hours ago|
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I’m of a similar opinion, Lynch created a better depiction of it in twin peaks season 3.
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upvoteby nateburke4 hours ago|
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Penderecki did most of the heavy lifting there
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upvoteby small_model4 hours ago|
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With the films budget they could have sourced a small nuclear bomb the size of the original Trinity test and detonated it just for the movie. Just make sure the camera is rolling as it's a one take shot.
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upvoteby vjvjvjvjghv2 hours ago|
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It’s pretty morbid but I think I would go watch if there ever was a public nuclear above surface test again. I hope it will never happen.
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upvoteby dylan6041 hours ago|
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This is something that happened[0]. Not sure about that site, but a search returned a bunch of similar sites with no domains I was familiar.

[0] https://www.storyhunt.io/en/articles/the-atomic-parties

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upvoteby thrownthatway2 hours ago|
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I would too, and I think it should happen.

I’m in Australia, so it’s only a (relatively) short drive to Woomera.

We should make sure our (the West’s) nuclear deterrent still actually works, and put the fear of God back in to everyone.

And also demonstrate how relatively benign the fallout from a thermonuclear weapon is, ie. relatively little radioactive material is generated from modern nuke.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_nuclear_tests_at_Maral...

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