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 predicated on the book “American Prometheus,” stars Cillian Murphy as Robert Oppenheimber, the daddy of the atomic bomb, and it’s got an all-star supporting forged including Robert Downey Jr, Florence Pugh, Josh Hartnett, and Matt Damon, who broke a promise to his wife to be able to take the role.
It’s raked in over $700 million on the international box office to this point, and it’s already got Oscar buzz.
Paul, who recently got engaged to swimsuit model Nina Agdal, 31, has caused lots of controversy in his profession, including allegedly failing to refund fans who lost “hundreds of thousands” 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 in danger. 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 each caused controversy in Japan.
And now, he’s taking aim on the movie of the summer.
Since “Oppenheimer” opened in July, it will have been easy for Paul to look up reviews and see that the movie has lots of “talking” and is just not only a 3-hour explosion, before he selected to go see it.
It’s also unclear why he expected a biopic of a theoretical physicist to not have a lot “talking.” Paul, who has 23.6 million YouTube subscribers, 25.9 million followers on Instagram and 17.7 million followers on TikTok, has a large 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 within the 1954 security hearing.
“It’s all exposition. Nothing happened,” Paul slammed the movie.