Midnight Mass and Oppenheimer

If you like talking, these are the shows for you.

Midnight Mass

This seven episode series focuses on a small religious (Catholic) community living on an island, and what happens when they are visited by "miracles" unexplainable by science (but super obvious for any viewer who plays D&D). Worth pointing out now that this is actually a supernatural horror series but the scares for most of the early episodes are just brief glimpses of something with a sudden burst of violin discord to unsettle you. Mostly, its just people talking and the priest (played by Hamish Linklater) in particular is fantastic in his role. Decent watch but its slooooowww. And that's already watching at 1.5x the speed.

Oppenheimer

This three hour film focuses on the life of the titular J. Robert Oppenheimer (played by Cillian Murphy) but told in non-linear fashion as to produce more drama. It also makes it a bit messy to follow as some cuts seem very quick, and doing it for this duration does make it a tad tiring to watch - we actually had to stop 1 hour in as we started falling asleep. Is that the sign of a bad movie? Possibly, but it won awards and stuff and other than my minor gripe above there's nothing really wrong with the film. But is it a sign of a movie where "nothing happens"? Definitely. Compared to say, Damsel, which had us stuck watching it, this one ended up becoming something playing in the background. I'm not going to watch it again that's for sure. If I had to choose between this and the slooooow Midnight Mass, I'd pick Midnight Mass each time as at least something happens there!