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The Barbie-Oppenheimer Double Feature Is Happening, Data Shows
- vuln 3y agoHopefully they AMC locations that had Air Conditioning issues got it sorted out.
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- ggambetta 3y agoI fully intend to watch both! Together with Indy V and Mission Impossible 7, it makes for a fantastic July for movies :D
- adhesive_wombat 3y agoBack when most movies weren't sequels and reboots, this comment would have been satire.
- ggambetta 3y agoI'm entirely serious. Indy V was ok (went in with low expectations, and the movie exceeded them). But MI7 I'm really looking forward to. Best franchise currently out there, the RottenTomatoes scores for the last few ones (and the new one) are all 90%+ from critics and audience alike!
- JohnClark1337 3y ago[dead]
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- JKCalhoun 3y agoIf there's a better metaphor for 2023 I don't know what it would be. Something involving submersibles... Yeah, no, I'm going to go with Barbenheimer.
- dylan604 3y agoWas there a Barbie submersible bath tub toy? If not, they should make one. They can make it a companion to the Barbie yacht. You can even put a back story that she bought it from an auction from a sanctioned russian oligarch
- starkparker 3y agoClose: https://oldgamesdownload.com/adventures-with-barbie-ocean-discovery/ https://oldgamesdownload.com/adventures-with-barbie-ocean-di... > Join Barbie on the ultimate underwater adventure as she snorkels through three unexplored marine environments on a hunt for priceless treasures of the deep. Along the way, she’ll visit colorful coral reefs and mysterious sunken cities. As Barbie explores the undersea world, she’ll uncover nine unique mini-games that test her puzzle-solving and memory skills. One game will test Barbie’s navigation skills as she helps Sandy the dolphin through a perplexing maze. Another game offers the brain-twisting task of finding matching items under clam shells. When Barbie beats a challenge, she’ll receive part of a key that, when complete, opens a new undersea landscape to explore.
- bears-n-beets 3y agoI doubt this is what you meant but what came to mind was Super Slide Kelly! Barbie wasn’t necessarily my first choice toy (I usually defaulted to LEGO), but I vividly remember Kelly because my mom bought her for me when I was six years old and sick with the chicken pox. She was my one bright spot from that awful week. She had a bitchin slide that (I think?) suction-cupped to the wall and you could make her slide into the tub.
- jamesgreenleaf 3y agoThe real question is - in which order will you watch them?
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- onlyrealcuzzo 3y agoClearly Barbie second.
- kelseyfrog 3y agoChronologically.
- a_wild_dandan 3y agoTo save y'all a search: bomb launch '45, barb launch '59. I assumed Barbie was from like the '80s, but hey, now we know.
- izzydata 3y agoSo clearly Oppenheimer and then Barbie right? I'm assuming Barbie is some kind of post-apocalypse hypnosis coping method of a society.
- tnecniv 3y agoThere’s a Philip K Dick novel where the decay of Earth has led to the colonization of the solar system, but most people on the colonies are barely surviving in hostile living conditions. Their main form of entertainment is to do drugs that allow them to group hallucinate and insert themselves into their Barbie play sets.
- starkparker 3y agoLynda Carter: https://nitter.net/RealLyndaCarter/status/1678541614195589122 https://nitter.net/RealLyndaCarter/status/167854161419558912... > You have to see Oppenheimer first. This is because Barbie lives in the world that Oppenheimer built.
- kaikeru 3y agoReminds me of the Studio Ghibli double feature back in 1988, "My Neighbor Totoro" and "Grave of the Fireflies". https://www.tor.com/2017/06/07/studio-ghibli-shows-their-range-my-neighbor-totoro-and-grave-of-the-fireflies/ https://www.tor.com/2017/06/07/studio-ghibli-shows-their-ran...
- Arrath 3y agoGod, talk about emotional whiplash.
- dvh 3y agoI have this policy of never watching two different animes on the same day (to gave it time for it to "settle") but I broke this rule after watching Angel's egg. The atmosphere in that movie was so dark I decided I need to watch something colorful and light so I watched Ponyo, but I was still under the influence of the Angel's egg and I came up with alternative explanation of Ponyo where everybody dies (sea fish dies when it is put in a bucket of fresh water, kids dies in flood and go through the "tunnel" to the "other side" where everybody else is already waiting)
- Der_Einzige 3y agoAngels egg was extremely overrated. I watched it all and felt like my time was wasted. Was recommended to me cus my favorite anime is serial experiments lain. They aren't even comparable.
- spicymapotofu 3y agoTexhnolyze, paranoia agent, mind game, shinsekai yori... I'd recommend many anime to someone who likes lain, but probably not angel's egg. I don't agree that it's bad, but it's far more arthouse and understated than most anime, which is meaningful compared to the era it emerged from.
- Tostino 3y agoAt least Totoro was the latter movie in the pair so you didn't go home feeling terrible.
- paddw 3y agoIt seems plausible that this is just families going to the movies and then choosing to see different ones?
- ryanmcbride 3y agoI'm sure there's at least some but barbieheimer has been a meme since the first dates got announced so I think it's pretty safe to say that a lot of it is people seeing both. My local theater even has the posters right next to each other. My fiance and 10 of our friends already got tickets to both and can't wait. We're seeing Oppenheimer first, then a quick break for smoking weed, then back in for barbie
- giraffe_lady 3y agoAre you loading up pre-oppenheimer also, is the question this leaves me with.
- ryanmcbride 3y agoNope going into oppenheimer sober and then the weed and barbie is to recover
- Aaronstotle 3y agoMy girlfriend and housemates are also all going, Oppenheimer in the morning. Break, eating brunch, then seeing Barbie in the afternoon.
- fovc 3y agoWow, how did you get 12 people to commit for 5h simultaneously? Not facetious, genuinely curious. I don’t think I could do that even for a shorter birthday party
- ryanmcbride 3y agoMy friends and I just really love a themed activity
- Theizestooke 3y agoThe amount of marketing money that gets pumped into promotion for these two is impressive, apparently the movie industry is hurting more than I knew.
- odiroot 3y agoWhy is Barbie so anticipated? It seems like this whole meme was planted by the industry.
- kodt 3y agoWell respected director, big name actors. Directed at adults.
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- a_wild_dandan 3y agoGenerations of women grew up on Barbie. My partner is out-of-her-mind excited. Any giant franchise will have motivated fans (LEGO, a comic, etc).
- maverick2007 3y agoI assumed it was Greta Gerwig coming off of two very well received, award winning movies
- WeAreWhatWeEat 3y agoI’d say that’s almost giving the studios too much credit. No doubt once they saw the meme online they leaned into it, but there is genuine hype for both films, and Barbie esp. seems to be hitting the women demographic particularly strongly. I hadn’t thought of watching both the same day, but now I genuine would like to, just to say I did.
- mrguyorama 3y agoBecause it looks like a good comedy from a bunch of good comedy writers and actors? We've drowned in comic book superhero sequels for over a decade now. People are tired of watching the exact same movies with different armor paints
- chris37879 3y agoExactly! I need something hilarious and hot pink, and Barbie looks like it'll deliver both. And I say this as someone that once moderated a large community dedicated to superhero media...
- dylan604 3y agoThey already have merch: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=barbenheimer+merch&va=v&t=ha&iax=images&ia=images https://duckduckgo.com/?q=barbenheimer+merch&va=v&t=ha&iax=i...
- cad1 3y agoMaybe consumers are starved for anything that doesn't involve a super hero?
- astrobe_ 3y agoConfusing title for me. Oppenheimer is related to WW2, so I believed this was about Klaus Barbie [1] instead of the doll. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaus_Barbie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaus_Barbie
- annexrichmond 3y agoThat was my first instinct too as I was unaware of the Barbie movie. Reminds me of the "Barbie" museum in the movie Rat Race, which to the family's shock was actually a Nazi museum.
- zwieback 3y agoI went to see "Past Lives" (highly recommend) and of all the previews Barbie and Oppenheimer were the two I resolved to see. On separate days, though, I can't imagine doubling these two up. Do people do this to save money?
- hn8305823 3y agoI think it's as simple as "hey, there's a thing going around the Internet, lets do the thing"
- babypuncher 3y agoI'm not doing a "double feature", but I am seeing both opening weekend, which is something I haven't done in a long time. My local film society got a 35mm print of Oppenheimer, which I have tickets to see opening night. Barbie on the other hand I'm happy seeing on a digital screen closer to home.
- sC3DX 3y agoI don't think it's any cheaper. In the US (and I assume everywhere?) you need to buy separate tickets. Maybe you end up buying less snacks?
- zwieback 3y agoIn our multiplex (US) I could go from theater to theater since the seats aren't assigned but I've never done that, even though I complain about high ticket prices. It's not "legal", of course, but I doubt the bored teenagers would go around hunting down cheaters.
- thornewolf 3y agoThe reason to double them is specifically the stark contrast between the two. As the gen-zs would say, "for the meme."
- standardUser 3y agoThe Barbie movie had one of the best marketing campaigns I have ever seen dating back to the initial announcements. But I think they lost the plot with this contrived connection to Oppenheimer. It feels forced and kind of turns me off to both movies. I try to be a good sport and enjoy the whole marketing production for these kind of cultural events (meaning the Barbie movie), but then they come in hot with this absurd upsell and it just rubs me wrong.
- joker_minmax 3y agoI don't really see them as forcing it. I think people just enjoy the crossover idea of Barbie having constructed the atomic bomb, and they think that's funny.
- joker_minmax 3y agoDelightful news. So much better than it being pitched as a competition. People love strange combinations.