>In an interview with Deadline, James Cameron, currently developing his own film centered on Hiroshima, doesn’t hold back when it comes to criticizing Nolan’s approach


>You say this could be your lowest-grossing film because of the subject matter. How surprised were you that Christopher Nolan’s movie Oppenheimer grossed almost $1 billion and won seven Oscars? Clearly people are interested in that whole splitting of the atom.

>Yeah, it’s interesting what he stayed away from. Look, I love the filmmaking, but I did feel that it was a bit of a moral cop-out. Because it’s not like Oppenheimer didn’t know the effects. He’s got one brief scene in the film where we see — and I don’t like to criticize another filmmaker’s film – but there’s only one brief moment where he sees some charred bodies in the audience, and then the film goes on to show how it deeply moved him. But I felt that it dodged the subject. I don’t know whether the studio or Chris felt that that was a third rail that they didn’t want to touch, but I want to go straight at the third rail. I’m just stupid that way.

https://deadline.com/2025/06/james-cameron-interview-ghosts-of-hiroshima-movie-a-bomb-japan-1236444510/

>>212103781 (OP)
I think it's more likely that Nolan chose to leave the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki out because he just didn't want to use CGI for it.

>>212103781 (OP)
Even if it was a moral cop out, it would feel so out of place in the movie since it was never about the bombings. Besides being a cheap way to get ethos in the story, the point of the story was to make Oppenheimer's morality seem as gray as possible and would ruin the other themes of the movie. I for one, do not stand with Cameron on this opinion.

> why didn't the director do what I did waaaaah

Maybe Cameron should try his hand at a biopic before casting stones from his glass house.

>>212103781 (OP)
Or you could balance it out by also including scenes of what the Japs were actually doing to people everywhere they went.

>>212103898
I can't respect any words you post when accompanied by that fucking frog. I hope you know you're being judged by that.
I see a bitter incel shut-in who doesn't participate in society. A lot of people see that. So rethink if you want to keep that as your identity.

>>212104045
Top kek

>>212103781 (OP)
Rather long winded way to say
>The bomb...they blew it up?!

When Cameron speaks, I kneel and listen.

>>212103781 (OP)
would have been pretty funny to cut to thousands of people evaporating

>>212103898
I feel like seeing people being nuked in a movie about building the first atomic bombs would have felt more in place in the film than seeing Oppenheimer fuck some woman on a chair.

>>212104584
Different anon, but the movie was about Oppenheimer first and foremost. The building of the atomic bomb wasn’t the ethos. The included because a story of his life would obviously include one of his biggest accomplishments, but the chair sex scene fit the movie just fine.

>>212103898
Your post is a cop-out. Don't mean to offend.

Now is a good time to remind Cameron and Nolan that Lynch Lynch'd them both. His atom bomb episode cannot be topped on moral or visceral grounds.

>>212103988
Cameron is the sole subject of at least three documentaries about his life, inventions, explorations. Nolan could maybe direct James' biopic in a decade. Maybe

>>212103898
Reddit tier shit. Watch more movies tranny

>>212105810
visceral grounds?

fuckin nonsense

>>212105850
Wow imagine being famous in Hollywood haha what a life.

Did Oppenheimer see the bombings? No? Then why would it be added to a film about Oppenheimer?
Do we need a battle scene since it takes place during ww2?

>>212105010
>but the movie was about Oppenheimer first and foremost
Which is why the movie sucks

The movie should have been about the bomb. Oppenheimer is the least compelling character in this whole sequence of events.Hes a glorified college administrator.

>>212103781 (OP)

Every single american movie about war, that pretends to be thoughtful and remorseful (it's not), is always about how the war criminals felt "sad" and never actually shows the victims.

"oh, look how sad this soldier is invading iraq. his girlfriend left him. aww"

I feel like this nigga just jelly cuz he ain't won best picture in a while

That's not what the movie was about though. There are plenty of films directly about the horrors of nuclear weapons, what new ground would Nolan have tread with his film? What new ground will Cameron?

>>212108882
Maybe if he didn't make blue space-cat movies he'd have a better shot.

>>212103781 (OP)
I've had enough of James Cameron. I want him dead.

>>212108882
Cameron spent half his career seething over Star Wars and trying to make blue cat movies to have his own Star Wars. He spent so long doing this Star Wars died in the meantime and he's not even near finished.

SHUT UP AND MAKE ALITA 2 YOU RETARD

>>212107371
This. What an absolute bore of a biography.

>>212109182
The stupid thing is as I mentioned elsewhere the avatar films are basically just mid-season star trek plots.

They're nothing special.

>>212103781 (OP)
The nuclear nightmare sequence of T2 is better than Nolan's entire filmography combined

>>212109624
No it isn't James now leave New Zealand already we don't want you

>>212109686
Cheer up Chris The Dark Knight was decent

>>212103781 (OP)
>I’m just stupid that way.
Yes Jimbo. We know.

>>212103781 (OP)
Very cool Jim, now lets talk about AI upscaling

>>212109624
lmao I though it was old Conan O'Brien and fat Norman Reedus

>>212103781 (OP)
Is Cameron the most boring normie ever? After a movie about Titanic, he does a movie about Hiroshima? What's next? 9/11?

>>212103781 (OP)
It's the one thing about Nolan and also his supremely-cowardly contemporary Villeneuve will be remembered for in about 20 years: supposed "genius auteurs" who leaned so hard into everything being SO minimalist, SO sanitized, SO inoffensive, etc. that it's just hours that are comparable to staring at a moving piece of beige drywall. No one in this time is willing to just nut up and accept that this is the kind of shit they produce, also most millennials PREFER it because, of course they do. Minimalist, beige, and inoffensive while tricking them into thinking they're watching something "high brow" (even when they're AWARE of said trick) is what the millennial mind is all about.

I daresay Villeneuve might be remembered with a fair chunk more respect than Nolan, because Nolan's films are so fucking impotent, 85% of the fucking things are literally carried by their musical score. Try watching Oppenheimer for example without its music, and good luck with that one