This movie critic went looking for the biggest, best way to see ‘Oppenheimer.’ Here’s the result
CHICAGO — We’re beginning week three of “Oppenheimer” bombarding audiences with writer-director Christopher Nolan’s dramatization of how theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer led the Manhattan Project’s nuclear bomb test at Los Alamos, New Mexico, in 1945. The planet has white-knuckled it ever since.
For Chicago and its environs, the “Oppenheimer” success — already it has outgrossed Nolan’s own “Batman Begins” with a global box office take of more than $400 million — comes with a bewildering and wholly subjective question.
Where should you see the thing?
Well, I’m going to see it at an IMAX theater, you say. But this can mean different things and different theatrical experiences.
There’s 2D digital projection IMAX in several theaters in the area.
OK. Is that “real IMAX”?
Funny word, “real.” It can mean different things to different eyes. To you,
