Here is what critics are saying about the movie showdown of the summer. Which half of "Barbenheimer" ended up on top?
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‘Barbie’ vs ‘Oppenheimer’: Which Movie Got Better Reviews
Submitted 11 months ago by realcaseyrollins@kbin.projectsegfau.lt to moviesandtv@lemmy.film
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/barbie-vs-oppenheimer-reviews-1235539643/
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rikudou@lemmings.world 11 months ago
bstix@feddit.dk 11 months ago
Tl;Dr: One of the movies has Margot Robbie and the other has a 3 more rotten tomatoes.
MargotRobbie@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Note to self: Order three tomatoes from grocery store today.
hrimfaxi_work@midwest.social 11 months ago
My biggest hope for Oppenheimer is that it makes high waisted men’s dress pants broadly fashionable for a while.
victron@lemmy.world 11 months ago
What’s next, tying an onion to my belt?
jivetrky@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Which was the style at the time.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 11 months ago
I don’t even understand this matchup. They’re not even similar movies.
BoneheadedTwizzle@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I think it is because they are so different. The contrast is amusing so people are having fun with it. It’s like the Matrix vs Momma Mia release or Doom vs Animal Crossing game release.
BraveSirZaphod@kbin.social 11 months ago
If anything, it's been really refreshing to see. Twenty years ago, your average film bro would be calling Barbie dumb, girly, and gay, and now it's being widely acknowledged that a female-directed movie with explicitly feminine aesthetics can absolutely be quality legitimate Cinema™ and go toe-to-toe with a literal Christopher Nolan biopic about a scientist making a bomb during WWII.
ClarkDoom@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It’s because they’re releasing the same week. They literally are competing.
antaymonkey@lemmy.world 11 months ago
They’re entirely different demographics with arguably close to zero overlap. Where is the competition?
ax28@beehaw.org 11 months ago
It’s just a meme, since they’re both highly anticipated movies with very different vibes releasing on the same day. I don’t think most people are actually expecting them to compete (if anything, most of the jokes I see are about watching a Barbie/Oppenheimer double feature). It’s the same as the Doom Eternal/Animal Crossing jokes a few years back
hydro033@kbin.social 11 months ago
It's basically a new front on the culture wars - feminine vs masculine. So tiresome. They're both good films.
newcolour@reddthat.com 11 months ago
The great thing is that one can see both movies. Everything is becoming a competition. It’s like Beatles vs RS all over again. Why decide who’s better when you can have both??
MajorTom@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It’s just marketing. They want these movies to dominate everyone’s attention, and the juxtaposition between these two is ludicrous enough to get people talking
NewEnglandRedshirt@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Right? I’m a history teacher. I will almost definitely be seeing Oppenheimer in the theaters and buying it on Blu-Ray later. I might watch Barbie if it’s on a streaming service I subscribe to.I have zero nostalgia towards Barbie and don’t really care about the movie, but ive heard good things, so… maybe I’ll watch it someday. To say that they are competing for the same audience is ludicrous at best.
bron@kbin.social 11 months ago
Agreed. They're not even the same genre!
soycapitan451@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Part of me wonders what a Greta Gerwig - Oppenhiemer and/or Christipher Nolan’s - Barbie would look like.
Nath@aussie.zone 11 months ago
Chris Nolan Barbie sounds fun! I’m not certain that pink is in his colour palette, though.
I haven’t seen any of Great Gerwig’s stuff, though.
SparkleWagon@lemmy.world 11 months ago
The Great Gerwig sounds like the rarely spoken of sequel to Fitzgerald’s classic.
Lumidaub@feddit.de 11 months ago
“Hmm, Oppenheimer or Barbie… Let’s check the reviews… Okay, I see. Oppenheimer it is, kids!”
MedicPigBabySaver@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Screw Barbie what a stupid ass movie.
girl@lemm.ee 11 months ago
damn why are you so angry about barbie
SomeoneElse@lemmy.world 11 months ago
kakes@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Barbie murdered his parents. Tragic story, really.
MargotRobbie@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Who hurt you?
MedicPigBabySaver@lemm.ee 11 months ago
A stupid fucking doll called Barbie.
moobythegoldensock@geddit.social 11 months ago
TL;DR: “They both got good reviews. Please spend money on movies again!”
ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Lol I went to see Mission Impossible in theatres recently and it starts with Tom Cruise thanking you for watching movies in the theater and suggesting it’s the best way to watch movies.
The people behind me talked through the whole thing and on the other side of the theatre two people got into an argument because the one person was on their phone the whole time. Ushers had to come in and tell them to be quiet or leave. So yeah, Tom Cruise thinks that’s the best way to watch movies.
moobythegoldensock@geddit.social 11 months ago
Pretty much every studio is making their actors do these terrible promos. The D&D movie had it, too.
It’s just a commercial for Tom Cruise: whether he personally believes it or not is irrelevant.
fidodo@lemmy.world 11 months ago
One pre movie ad I saw had Charlize Theron enjoying a movie to show how good movies are in theaters, but… She was in a private theater entirely alone. So sure, ultra millionaire celebs with private movie theaters in their homes think that movie theaters are the best.
CloverSi@lemmy.comfysnug.space 11 months ago
Yeah the last time I watched a movie in a theater was Top Gun Maverick which had a Tom Cruise intro. There was a teenager sitting near that was trying to make jokes throughout the entire movie; they were as unfunny as they were loud. The theater’s great sound system doesn’t really matter when you can’t hear it over obnoxious audience members.
I wonder what the future of theaters looks like. I hope they realize that home is just a better way to watch movies, and start pivoting into the ‘experience’ aspect; start serving quality food, or add a live host, or regularly have themed events. Imagine if there was one next to a convention center - if there was e.g. an anime convention they could show a bunch of anime films to tie into it.
Those aren’t the best examples, but something along those lines is the only way I see myself watching a movie at a theater again. If they give me a reason to go I’ll go, but right now, there just isn’t one.
eek2121@lemmy.world 11 months ago
83” LG OLED + decent sound system > theater IMO. The nasty theaters, high prices, rude people, etc aren’t worth it.
aDuckk@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I’m going to be seeing Dune and if that ends with me wanting to throw things at people I will just stream or download movies for the foreseeable future. I love the theater experience as intended but apparently my expectations are way off from the reality now.
IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world 11 months ago
The AMC theaters around me have been running a similar “movie theaters are great” promo featuring Nicole Kidman pretty much since they reopened after the pandemic.
It’s such an annoying promo that frankly it turns me off from going to theaters. I’m happy to wait for most movies to get to streaming (and/or piracy) for the convenience of watching when I want and to skip all their self-aggrandized promoting of themselves.
MostlyBirds@lemmy.world 11 months ago
That’s not the theater experience he gets, though. When people like him go to the theater, they’re surrounded by their colleagues jerking themselves and each other off to their performances, not a gaggle of commoners.