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

@imagine_enigami

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.

@imagine_enigami @TheAbbotTrithemius
Disagree

@MelissaHDavis

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.

@imagine_enigami

@TheAbbotTrithemius @MelissaHDavis @imagine_enigami

The most confounding to me is why these movies are paired. They are the polar opposite of each other.

@LnzyHou

It was no accident. There was a concerted effort by both studios to promote their respective films in context with and aware of the other name-checking each other. I think there were even events with Cillian Murphy and Margot Robbie together...

@MelissaHDavis @imagine_enigami