When asked about his time at Oppenheimer, Logan Paul stated, “I walked out of Oppenheimer,” on a recent edition of his podcast, Impaulsive. Just a bunch of people chatting. There will be 90 minutes of conversation. This whole section is just setting the stage. There was zero action.
Sure, you may have guessed such a response from Logan Paul. He isn’t exactly well-known for his wit or wisdom.
He has been called out before for expressing things that aren’t widely held beliefs, such as calling Nope “one of the worst movies I’ve seen in a long time.”
It would be even more unexpected if he enjoyed Oppenheimer, a three-hour historical movie about an astronomer. People dunked on his review, yet his statements nonetheless sparked a lot of backlash online.
Guy watching his first talkie https://t.co/nL82AGRoQF
— Annabel Goldsmith (@Moderns88) August 20, 2023
Podcasters, other comments joked, had no right to complain if a film had too much dialogue. Some others thought Paul was experiencing drama for the first time.
Some commenters took a darker turn, recalling a controversy that broke in 2018 when Paul shared a video from a “suicide forest” in Japan. One person wrote, “brother don’t you think you’ve seen enough japanese people’s suffering?
” For example, one commentator said, “As a man who has shown dead Japanese bodies on camera, he couldn’t believe Nolan decided not to.
logan paul got so many bad movie takes i need every theater to put up wanted posters of this man and keep him out at all costs https://t.co/voMBGcGKYo
— Nathan Zed (@NathanZed) August 20, 2023
Fans were unimpressed even on the canonical Impaulsive TikTok channel. One commenter poked fun of Paul’s attention span by saying, “People who use tiktok too much can’t watch Oppenheimer.”
In agreement, other commentators said things like, “Bro needs a cgi fight scene every 5 seconds not to be bored.”
Some commenters, however, took a more forgiving stance toward Logan Paul’s Oppenheimer analysis. One X user quipped, “we’re all getting mad at him but imagine if he meant that the audience was talking during the movie and that’s why he walked out?” What if?