Oppenheimer II

I titled this "Oppenheimer II", because its following my last week's blog. I thought about calling it "Son of Oppenheimer" which also make a good sci-fi movie title.

I read the book and seen the movie a couple times, though I slept through some of that. The movie was very accurate, at least if the book was correct. I assume the book is correct because it would seem the author spent several lifetimes researching it. Some movies that are supposedly true stories are about as factual as one of the Toy Story movies.

I'm probably missing several movies, but I remember "W." being especially bad - A movie that seemed to have been made just to ridicule George W. Bush.  "JFK" was ridiculously wrong. "Express" was about the football player Ernie Davis. He was a great college athlete who died young. I read a biography of him that showed him to be a nice, polite young man. He was one of those "No sir / Yes ma'am" kind of southern guys. We could use more of them north and south.  

I got smart and googled "most historically inaccurate" movies. Several of those on the list I've never seen, but it had some I hadn't thought of - 300, Alexander, Braveheart, Pearl Harbor, Pocahontas. I agreed with all those. The list would be a lot shorter if only Oliver Stone had decided to do something other than make movies for a living.

There should be some kind of rating system for movies who claim to be based on historical events. JFK were indeed Kennedy's initials, so I'll give it a 2 out of 10. I'll give Oppenheimer at least a 9 out of 10.