Movies we are looking forward to seeing

[Túrin Turambar]

The big day is almost here. Choose your fighter.

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[narya]

Coincidentally, American Prometheus (Oppenheimer's biography) is in my book queue.

[Túrin Turambar]

Barbie is off to a strong start with 90% on RT from early reviews. Still waiting for the reviews for Oppenheimer - I've got my ticket for Sunday.

[Frelga]

My son and his friends are doing the Barbieheimer. I don't think they'd have gone to see either movie if not for the joint marketing and memes.

[Voronwë the Faithful]

Forgive me for not being up on popular culture, but what possible reason could there be for those two movies to be marketed together?

[Frelga]

Because it's funny, basically. They are opening on the same day, and while I am still not clear on what the Barbie movie is actually like, Oppenheimer is going to be dark, probably ominously tortured, and a complete opposite of Barbie's bright, sparkling pink esthetic.

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[Voronwë the Faithful]

Sorry, I still don't get it. But I often don't.

[Túrin Turambar]

Sorry, I still don't get it. But I often don't.

There wasn't (as far I know) any intentional plan to release and market the movies together. It just happened that their respective studios picked the same release date and the Internet found the juxtaposition funny.

In all seriousness, though, this will be a huge boost for a struggling industry that didn't recover from COVID. Some fairly well-regarded films have performed poorly at the box office over the last couple of years, and audiences really seem to need an actual reason to go and see something in a theatre. Barbenheimer seems to have created such a reason.

[Voronwë the Faithful]

I often wonder whether I am completely different species.

[Túrin Turambar]

Stumbled on this interesting video essay, which breaks down Barbenheimer in far more detail than I expected was possible. I have to say it might work for me - I'm strongly considering seeing Barbie in the cinema, which I'd be unlikely to do otherwise. And I was intrigued by the 2001: A Space Odyssey-themed trailer (which this essay touches on).

[Frelga]

People who've seen Barbie are coming out with Oscar predictions. John Scalzi among them.

There may not have been a planned joint promotion by the studios but the theaters know a good thing when they see it. This is supposedly a real poster in Vegas.

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