It’s Barbenheimer weekend.
If you haven’t heard, the two most diametrically opposed blockbusters imaginable open this weekend, Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie” and Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer.” To mark the occasion, here’s a photo gallery that takes us back in time to the origins of both American “icons.”
Needs more Oppenheimer content. 
Barbie is da bomb.
I’d recommend this to anyone else observing Ayahuasca Friday.
Here we are facing the sixth Mass Extinction event, and Barbie offers a frilly escape. Both movies give us a clear narrative, offering us a false sense of control. We really are doomed.
To juxtapose Barbie and Oppenheimer/the atom bomb does a grave injustice to the people who lost their lives in Japan in WWII. This shouldn’t be camp/kitsch.
It is interesting how the frequency of Barbie references increases over time relative to those of Oppenheimer, presumably to reflect their social or historical importance.
They’re dead, so by definition, they don’t mind.
Isn’t that the point of it?
But their relatives might.
Great historical research and brings back childhood memories. I am leaning towards Oppenheimer in Imax but I haven’t been to a theater in a long time. I wonder if I would last the three hours.
Or they might think Barbenheimer is pretty hilarious. You don’t have to take offense on their behalf.
Last in-theater movie for me was the last Star Wars flick. Just purchased tickets for Barbie, aiming for IMAX Oppenheimer sometime next week.
The movie is a character study on Oppenheimer, an important historical figure for his work on the Bomb, but he did a lot more in addition to that, particularly on arms control after WW2. The movie is about his life, not about the Bomb per se.
I haven’t seen the movie but I read that the director did not include segments showing the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, maybe to avoid any hint of celebrating those events, and keeping the focus more on the effect it had on Oppenheimer.
I can recommend the biography American Prometheus by Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin. I don’t know if the film draws from the book, but my sense from what I have read about the film is that they cover common ground.
You mean Barbie’s sisters Skipper, Stacie, and Chelsea, and the siblings we haven’t heard from lately - the twins Tutti and Todd, and baby Krissie, or including her cousins and aunts and uncles who never showed up in actual dolls?
Don’t drink anything for several hours before seeing it.
Saturday morning matinees are a good way to avoid crowded theaters
