Nolan Says Buy Oppenheimer on Blu-ray So No Evil Streaming Service Can Steal It

I have issue both outright with the material of Oppenheimer, and his handling of it, but on release I waited an extra 3 weeks to get a reasonably positioned seat in one of the imax 70mm showings.

And it made me realize something.

Even if people like Nolan or pta or Tarantino swear by film, and even if they’re right!, what matters is if the theater owners care about film, because the presentation was terrible.

There were flies on the lens obstructing the image with little furry dust balls crawling all over the picture.

There was roughly 5 minutes worth of a red line down the picture, just to the left of center, in various 20 second chunks throughout the film.

Also just culture shocked by imax 70mm because it frames the film in essentially 4:3.

Growing up in the states in the 90s has me associating 4:3 with sitcom tv.

So is the 4:3 framing the “intended” framing?

Are home media viewers encouraged to drop the majority of their screen real estate when watching this?

Does the home release have a 16:9 cut? Did Nolan reframe it? (These questions likely have answers for anyone who really wants to know but this article was light on actionable details other than “it is cause he said it is”)

At a similar special showing I thought hateful 8 used theatrical 70mm to great effect.

I liked the first fifth of Oppenheimer. Mostly the imaginative practical effect asides of seeing into the mind of someone laboring over matter at this scale.

It lost me right around the time Nolan cruelly mangled this absolutely chilling moment into a “get it up” punchline.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=lb13ynu3Iac

I'm pretty sure that any streaming service now will offer much better quality than DVD by default.

Unless you use a projector or something to watch your movies, in which case the details are sufficiently lost to not observe any real difference?

For those prices I'd wonder if you're getting the counterfeit versions?

Yes, some discs have something that does something with the network, but I can't imagine it's worthwhile (but maybe if I knew what it was, it could be?)

One of my blu-ray players had a bunch of streaming clients, but they pretty much all expired.

It might be nice if you could use a blu-ray player to play discs copied to your network, but I think DRM makes that a no, and anyway, 4k blu-ray can exceed 100mbps at peaks, and I don't think 1g ethernet has made it to 4k blu-ray players yet. But it has for some models of Apple TV, and some android TV products, including the well regarded Nvidia Shield.

I still have some spinning disks large hdd as a secondary backup and it's so much more satisfying. I could listen to them work all day! Probably rooted in my brain from childhood.

Instead you'll stream a version that meets the restrictions of the day. Perhaps the soundtrack has been changed due to licensing issues, or entire scenes have been deleted for being politically incorrect (according to whichever politics are in power when you watch the film)