FINALLY, after several delays, got Barbie watched. I’d seen it, hubs had not. He LOVED it, and as per usual, it wrecked me.
Thus completes our at-home Barbenheimer. Two amazing movies. #movies
I just watched both for the first time almost back to back and I'm amazed to say I think Barbie was a better film and had more depth, more revelatory moments (and was obviously more fun) than Oppenheimer which struck me, other than the sobering subject matter as being a by the numbers biopic, although Cillian Murphy is pretty brilliant in it as he is in Peaky Blinders.
@TheAbbotTrithemius I’m a big-assed nuclear nerd so Oppenheimer was RIGHT up my alley, but Barbie is a better movie for sure.
Barbie in a perverse way feels like an original landmark cultural event. And a paradigm shift in the psychological / emotional / sexul understanding of “female” and “male” roles (in whatever shape they manifest even from an LGTBQ POV).
Oppenheimer is a worthwhile excellent film, but I felt like it was something between A Beautiful Mind and Good Night and Good Luck and a half dozen other biopics that deal with the years directly after WWII into the 60s.
@TheAbbotTrithemius @imagine_enigami
I work with extensive WWII collections, including Gen. Groves' Trinity scrapbook. Oppenheimer was a more appealing subject to me.
I liked how the various storylines complimented each other and the use of color and black and white.
@MelissaHDavis @TheAbbotTrithemius Don’t get me wrong. I loved them both. I just loved Barbie a teensy bit more.
That did not stop me from buying two books on Oppie today. 🤣