I mean, after Independence Day I don’t think anyone would blame you. 
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Now Independence day…
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… every year on July 4 there should be a new movie where they blow up the White House again 
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What I’d like to see is a version whittled down to 45 to 60 minutes that concentrates on the project management aspect. Which must have been amazing.
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I watched Oppenheimer and can recommend it, but I haven’t seen Barbie yet. I’d advise against seeing them back to back. Oppenheimer is long, and a bit of a downer, and leaves you with stuff to think about. If you’d watch Barbie before, Oppie is bound to kill a light-hearted mood, and if you’d watch it after you’re probably not in a state to really enjoy it. I’d say they both deserve giving your mind room to breath around them.
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I find the scale of the Calutron astonishing. It is a shame that it only produced death.
Of course, the device did have the strange side effect of shrinking its operators down to the size of children.
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I’ve always hated when the news reports “who won the box office” as though it were a boxing match. I hope talented people make good movies, whether other people see them us not important to me. If it’s two movies, like Barbenheimer, that I want to eventually see, why is it a conflict? The last Indiana Jones movie was fun, my dad and I enjoyed it as a matinee. Why do the financial parameters of the movie always become the story?
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The fictional lead character’s name would be Gantt Chart. Played by Tom Hanks, of course.
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Barbie is funny, but not that light hearted at all, not at all. It recognises that patriarchy and Barbie (as it is presented in the movie: ersatz corporate empowerment feminism) are part of the same hegemonic structure. It starts with a Barbie arguing in front of the Barbie Supreme Court that corporate money is not free speech, and met with universal acclamation, and ends up with the messiness, sadness, inevitability of death, and uncertainty of being human, and how that project is unfinishable.
It’s a timely riposte to TESCREAL bollix in some ways.
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Oppenheimer was very good but very intense. I’m glad we didn’t see a double feature. Every thing I’ve read so far on Barbie jives with what @robertmckenna said. I suspect Barbie will be fun but also intense in a different way.
Hoping to see Barbie next weekend.
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I saw a kid outside Barbie earlier on and the cinema worker on the phone as they were 11 and it’s PG12 here. As in anyone under 12 needs an adult with them which I actually get with this. You often get some blink and you’ll miss it dirty jokes in kids films but there’s more here.
Apart from the inevitable blink and you’ll miss them dirty jokes.
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Those poor deer. But you gotta raise brand awareness with the prepper recluse demographic somehow. If you’ve got a better idea, Sony Pictures would like to hear it. 
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Okay that’s cool, sounds like I should watch it. I feel like my main point remains intact, though.
Well I wouldn’t dream of watching them in a double bill. I like food for a start. I do like immersive experiences and in that context I might get something from the juxtaposition that other commentators have not. But the three hours of Oppenheimer acts against that. Barbie took 2 1/4 hours from the listed start time to leaving cinema.
It had Barbie themed ads for the Mutant Ninja Turtles movie before it even. This is a movie that looks amazing and which has an admitted higher spend on marketing than on production. I guess Oppenheimer has less room for product tie ins. While I think there may be a significant uptick in fedora / pork pie hat hybrid sales I feel that is something of a niche market at best.
I expect to see a fair amount of Barbie cosplay at my next con in a couple of weeks, Oppenheimer cosplay is attractive for parents as a low effort play!
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TIL what this means.
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I really wish these movie theaters would come up with a way to stream this stuff to us people still not ready to go to crowded movie theaters to see these movies.
I’m not talking about waiting for Indiana Jones to end up on Disney+ or these other new movies too end up on thier streaming services but the big chains like AMC.
I would pay good money to watch at home, enough money to make up for the concession sales they’d be missing out on when I stay home.
I would pay a subscription fee to watch first run movies opening weekend.
Seems they could make some money marketing to us liberals still hiding under our beds.
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I agree with this. I did, in fact, end up doing Barbenheimer and I don’t regret it (I hadn’t planned on it; was only supposed to be seeing O but a friend offered me a ticket to B.)
But I will also say that whilst I am still thinking about both of them, I will be going back to see Barbie…
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For each films inevitable sequel, the Barbie sequel should use the cast of Oppenheimer and the Oppenheimer sequel should use the Barbie cast
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