see, i both love grappling hooks in games and get really tired of minecraft's lack of mobility options
so I figured I'd add yyon's Grappling hook mod (downloadable here) to a fun lil' modpack I made for myself. The grappling hook itself is fun! it's not too crazy, and you can really go places with it. Some additional items can get a little too crazy, like the Ender Staff, but it's nothing too game-breaking since the Ender Staff doesn't do too well in certain spaces.
The other half of this comes from a venerable talent who takes another crack at a historic period and sees the talent one man possesses and changed things.
J Robert Oppenheimer was known for his work with physics and his concept of seeing matter.
One aspect he would come to use that for as one of the leading minds with the Manhattan Project was the development of a nuclear weapon. The ones that would be used within a 72 hour period on Japan to bring an end to World War II.
What Christopher Nolan and Cillan Murphy do here is give gravitas around how his impact on the world was not what he had started out intending but would change it more than he’d come to realize.
His actions getting the ire of Lewis Strauss, member of the atomic energy commission who uses his influence and Oppenheimers ties to communist ideals to discredit him in the early 50s.
As mentioned Murphy owns this but equal to this is Robert Downey Jr as Strauss along with Emily Blunt as Kitty Oppenheimer.
Along with a surprising number of support players you couldn’t fathom playing these parts.
One in particular is the trigger man in the famed trinity test.
More stunning is the practical effects and sound used especially in the way Nolan continues to build the tension until the flash in Los Almos brightens the night sky. Along with his immortal words followed up with the boom.
When unexpectedly paired with a film concerning another one’s influence who would also change things going forward, this certainly made its impact.
Portmanteaus really do make magic happen.
SUM 22: Cillian Murphy brings the I Am Become Death persona of Oppenheimer to life within Christopher Nolan’s stunning and beautifully shot 180 Minutes.