Barbie (2023)

[Blue Jam]

I have seen that "Oppenbarbie" and "Barbenheimer" are now A Thing thanks to large numbers of people booking tickets for both films at once, and I now hate myself for having planned to do exactly the same thing. Nrrgghh.

[Midas]

no offence but why would anyone above the age of 6 want to see a barbie film

[PlanktonSideburns]

no offence but why would anyone above the age of 6 want to see a barbie film

Something to do inni

[phantom_power]

no offence but why would anyone above the age of 6 want to see a barbie film

You could say the same about The Lego Movie and that was great

[PlanktonSideburns]

Let's not pretend that our desires are significantly more sophisticated than a child's, no one is fooled

[MoreauVasz]

Let's not pretend that our desires are significantly more sophisticated than a child's, no one is fooled

Yeah... Significant and sophisticated desires for children. Seems plausible to me.

[Icehaven]

I have seen that "Oppenbarbie" and "Barbenheimer" are now A Thing thanks to large numbers of people booking tickets for both films at once, and I now hate myself for having planned to do exactly the same thing. Nrrgghh.

Doesn't even sound like much fun, you'd have to keep running between the screens and you'd miss half of both films.

[dead-ced-dead]

Doesn't even sound like much fun, you'd have to keep running between the screens and you'd miss half of both films.

So long as you're back for "I am become death", you should be okay.

[dontpaintyourteeth]

That is the best bit in Barbie by all accounts

[Blue Jam]

[Funcrusher]

Chuck a few more Hiroshimans on the Barbie.

[beanheadmcginty]

Every single week there are several films released on the same day at the cinema. More often than not those films will have wildly different subject matters and aesthetics. So why is everyone shitting, pissing and spunking their pants about Barbie and Oppenheimer coming out on the same day in particular?

[Blue Jam]

Every single week there are several films released on the same day at the cinema. More often than not those films will have wildly different subject matters and aesthetics. So why is everyone shitting, pissing and spunking their pants about Barbie and Oppenheimer coming out on the same day in particular?

...because it's unusual to see two blockbusters released on the same day when neither of them are superhero films?

^{I dunno}

[PlanktonSideburns]

Every single week there are several films released on the same day at the cinema. More often than not those films will have wildly different subject matters and aesthetics. So why is everyone shitting, pissing and spunking their pants about Barbie and Oppenheimer coming out on the same day in particular?

Because it's the last one before we all die

[centristmelt]

Oppenheimer before Barbie rather than the other way round, though right? You don't want to eat your pudding first.

[Blue Jam]

Oppenheimer before Barbie rather than the other way round, though right? You don't want to eat your pudding first.

Chocolate bombe for dessert

[PlanktonSideburns]

Oppenheimer before Barbie rather than the other way round, though right? You don't want to eat your pudding first.

Split screen, wizard of oz/pink floyd style

[phantom_power]

Every single week there are several films released on the same day at the cinema. More often than not those films will have wildly different subject matters and aesthetics. So why is everyone shitting, pissing and spunking their pants about Barbie and Oppenheimer coming out on the same day in particular?

It is very rarely such big films and such diverse subject matters and tones. It isn't really that hard to see why it is "a thing" is it. It's just a bit of fun. There is no shitting, pissing or spunking from most people

[beanheadmcginty]

Tens of millions of people. Pants full of spunk, shit and piss. Already queueing for the cinemas.

[Goldentony]

luckily there's a 6 and a half hour documentary about the Cardiacs opening on the same day

[Mister Six]

Every single week there are several films released on the same day at the cinema. More often than not those films will have wildly different subject matters and aesthetics. So why is everyone shitting, pissing and spunking their pants about Barbie and Oppenheimer coming out on the same day in particular?

Because they're rarely as wildly different as a female-directed, woman-focused, colourful comedy film about a child's toy and a male-directed, man-focused, intensely lit and near-monochromatic drama biopic about a guy who helped create the atomic bomb. Obviously. And comparing these mononymic, proper-noun-titled films with one another is a fun thing to do.

Why the wet blanketry?

[beanheadmcginty]

I bet I could find countless examples of this happening over the years if I could be bothered. Just strikes me as one of those situations where people get excited about something because the internet has hyped them up, when in the past no one would've even batted an eyelid because it is an entirely unremarkable occurrence.

[Mister Six]

I bet you couldn't.

[beanheadmcginty]

The Dark Knight and Mamma Mia?

[C_Larence]

I bet I could find countless examples of this happening over the years if I could be bothered. Just strikes me as one of those situations where people get excited about something because the internet has hyped them up, when in the past no one would've even batted an eyelid because it is an entirely unremarkable occurrence.

Yeah it's part of the marketing. Reminds me of the console wars.

[convulsivespace]

A lot of the original meme-worthy buzz around Barbie also had to do with the fact that it is a facially absurd concept (a movie inspired by Barbie?) that is being directed by Greta Gerwig, whose last two films were critically acclaimed Oscar nominees. If it was a journeyman director far fewer if any people would care.

[Mister Six]

The Dark Knight and Mamma Mia?

Their titles and types of film are too dissimilar. Like I said, the title and focus on a singular figure is part of the entertaining contrast. It's not just that the films are very different - to ludicrous extremes - but also that they have superficial similarities.

Yeah it's part of the marketing. Reminds me of the console wars.

Totally different; the two are being presented as an amusing contrast, not rivals for the same market, and much of the (hnngh) discourse around them is about watching them both in a double-bill.

All of this has emerged quite organically on social media; I've been watching it since the beginning.

As usual, some people are having fun on the internet, and CaBbers feel the need to pour scorn in order to prove how much smarter and more unique they are than the herd.

[C_Larence]

All of this has emerged quite organically on social media

I have a hard time believing anything about it is organic. Barbie's marketing campaign has been extremely heavy handed.

[13 schoolyards]

The rivalry might be organic in other parts of the world, but here in Australia they're both being released by the same distributor - if they thought there was the slightest chance that one might hurt the box office of the other they'd have found a way to stagger the release dates.

Clearly the future of cinema is months and months of no new releases at all then six months worth of new releases all out on the same day while we're being told that unless we see them one directly after the other we won't understand any of them and our brains will also possibly explode

[Blue Jam]

Their titles and types of film are too dissimilar. Like I said, the title and focus on a singular figure is part of the entertaining contrast. It's not just that the films are very different - to ludicrous extremes - but also that they have superficial similarities.

What's the age gap between Barbie and Ken?

^{Yeah, I was being a bit sneery before, sorry.}