Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” is dominating the box office — but YouTuber and WWE star Logan Paul wasn’t impressed.
On the latest episode of his podcast, “ImPaulsive,” Paul, 28, revealed that he walked out of the buzzy summer flick.
“I didn’t know what they were trying [to do]. ‘What are you doing?’ Everyone’s just talking. It’s just an hour and a half, 90 minutes, of talking, just talking, talking,” he complained.
The biopic, which is based on the book “American Prometheus,” stars Cillian Murphy as Robert Oppenheimber, the father of the atomic bomb, and it’s got an all-star supporting cast including Robert Downey Jr, Florence Pugh, Josh Hartnett, and Matt Damon, who broke a promise to his wife in order to take the role.
It’s raked in over $700 million at the international box office so far, and it’s already got Oscar buzz.
Paul, who recently got engaged to swimsuit model Nina Agdal, 31, has caused a lot of controversy in his career, including allegedly failing to refund fans who lost “millions” on an animated NFT project that never materialized, and he promoted a caffeine-packed energy drink that the FDA is now investigating for allegedly putting kids’ hearts at risk. He also infamously once posted a video showing a dead body in Japan’s “suicide forest.” So, he’s got something in common with “Oppenheimer” since they’ve both caused controversy in Japan.
And now, he’s taking aim at the movie of the summer.
Since “Oppenheimer” opened in July, it would have been easy for Paul to look up reviews and see that the movie has a lot of “talking” and is not just a 3-hour explosion, before he chose to go see it.
It’s also unclear why he expected a biopic of a theoretical physicist to not have so much “talking.” Paul, who has 23.6 million YouTube subscribers, 25.9 million followers on Instagram and 17.7 million followers on TikTok, has a wide resume including YouTube, wrestling, podcasting, and being an alleged “crypto scam artist,” and now he’s adding “movie reviewer” to his credits.
The movie, which has also raised eyebrows for its sex scenes – which is a departure for Nolan – follows Oppenheimer from his university days to the inception of the Manhattan Project, to the detonation of the atomic bomb in World War II, to his fall from grace in the 1954 security hearing.
“It’s all exposition. Nothing happened,” Paul slammed the movie.
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