Movies about Oppenheimer (there are at least two others I can think of) are “cosmic horror” stories about Mad Scientists messing with Things Man Was Not Meant To Know
There’s a market for that, but a limited one
I have family who worked with some of the historical figures in Oppenheimer, but I’m probably still not going to see it because
God damn, all that shit is depressing
It’s not likely to show us anything we didn’t see already in The Day After Trinity, except maybe Cillian Murphy’s butt
I wanted that double feature so badly but it didn’t work out because there wasn’t an official one and all the English-language screenings were around prime time. So I ended up watching just Barbie for now.
The most recent comparable improvised double feature I watched was ages ago: Perfume: The Story of a Murderer/Snakes on a Plane.
The list goes on: Avatar Waterwhatever , Mission Impossible IVX Indiana Jones and the McGuffin
Heck, even the D&D movie had more pervasive promotion.
And let’s not forget Top Gun Maverick. You couldn’t escape that movie’s promotion if you went into the wilderness with no electronics. They painted mini-billboards for it on elk and deer, it seemed like.
Buuuuut every single one of those was a tired retread. I literally tuned them all out posthaste.
I’ve seen plenty on all 3 - my primary news sources are NPR, The Guardian, here (whatever people post - which is a variety of places - BBC, Dame, Jezebel, AV Club, i09, the Mary Sue, Al Jazeera, DW, etc, etc). I’ve seen about the same on all 3.
No doubt, but that’s true of pretty much all big budget films.
It can be, when it’s pretty much a common tactic on marketing film, but the only one people complain about is the one directed by a woman, starring a woman, with themes likely to appeal to women. This is incredibly common in modern society. Films made by or starring women massive backlash (often directed at the stars, who have endure months of targeted harassment) and complaints along a similar line. You might not have meant it in a critical way, but considering the way women are targeted CONSTANTLY online and how women’s culture is CONSTANTLY being considered inferior and wanting, you can maybe see how some might have taken your comment in that light. This is especially true since (as many of us have noted), several big budgets have been constantly hyped and discussed in the media as much as this film.
That might be true, but it might also be a function of the outlets you read, and it seeming to be more heavily marketed than all the other heavily marketed films out this year.
