Why Are Oppenheimer and Barbie Released on the Same Day?

[Hit Girl]

Because "Nuclear Scientist Barbie" is going to be the big toy this Christmas.

[jm]

I'm about to go watch Oppenheimer in IMAX 70mm in Ontario, CA.

[ayumidah]

[Koda, Master Crunchyroller]

Saw Barbenheimer on Thursday(saw Oppenheimer first because I wanted the levity of Barbie afterwards). Both simply amazing. Immaculate example of counter programming. First time I’ve seen a double feature in theaters since the pandemic started. Me gusta.

[jm]

Oppenheimer just finished. And now I'm depressed.
I wish I was gonna watch Barbie right now.
Edit: Headsup to anyone who does this double feature - Watch Oppenheimer first then Barbie second.

[ace]

Yeah Oppenheimer lets off on a bit of a gut punch, doesn’t it?

[jm]

Jul 22, 2023 16:03:21 GMT -5 ace said:

Yeah Oppenheimer lets off on a bit of a gut punch, doesn’t it?

There's at least a couple gut punches even before the ending. The ending is akin to a One Winged Angel onto tacks.

[KingPooper]

Jul 22, 2023 0:00:51 GMT -5 ace said:

I just counted how many showings of Barbie and Oppenheimer there were today in theaters closer than I drove to to see Cobweb (about a half hour drive)

Barbie - 116
Oppenheimer- 68

I shared this in the Barbie thread makes sense to share it here as well.

They were limited on the amount of showtimes because it’s three freakin hours. But $30 million on a single day for three hour R rated biopic is pretty good. You find out in the first two minutes it jumps around between time periods (his life and two different hearings) and (spoiler alert: the bomb works) then your stuck with the less interesting hearings and there’s forty minutes left to go. It was a good film but it didn’t need to be that long.

It was well directed, acted, looked beautiful, but at the end of the day it’s a bio pic. Nolan is a fantastic director if not a little pretentious, but it was definitely missing the wow factor that make his films great (time travel, magic, space, dreams or freakin Batman, here we had a man with trench coat and hat.) the film will be nominated for a ton of a awards but just go see Barbie instead.

[Fade]

Jul 22, 2023 16:42:21 GMT -5 KingPooper said:

Jul 22, 2023 0:00:51 GMT -5 ace said:

I just counted how many showings of Barbie and Oppenheimer there were today in theaters closer than I drove to to see Cobweb (about a half hour drive)

Barbie - 116
Oppenheimer- 68

I shared this in the Barbie thread makes sense to share it here as well.

They were limited on the amount of showtimes because it’s three freakin hours. But $30 million on a single day for three hour R rated biopic is pretty good. You find out in the first two minutes it jumps around between time periods (his life and two different hearings) and (spoiler alert: the bomb works) then your stuck with the less interesting hearings and there’s forty minutes left to go. It was a good film but it didn’t need to be that long.

It was well directed, acted, looked beautiful, but at the end of the day it’s a bio pic. Nolan is a fantastic director if not a little pretentious, but it was definitely missing the wow factor that make his films great (time travel, magic, space, dreams or freakin Batman, here we had a man with trench coat and hat.) the film will be nominated for a ton of a awards but just go see Barbie instead.

I had very few criticisms, but it does feel it’s length shortly after the bomb, but the group I went with all agreed the movie entraps and engrosses you again near the finishing line. Completely disagree it’s missing a wow factor as Nolan does about as good of a job a director can do in amassing the weighty story of not only this man, not only the political BS (glad all that went away right), not only the bomb that changed everything and was one of the most pivotal moments in the history of mankind, but also laid out the trepidatious world in which we live in now. Just my opinion, completely respect yours.

Guess I shouldn’t be shocked ppl are bummed out by the film, but I’m still riding the high of watching it.

Jul 22, 2023 14:33:07 GMT -5 ayumidah said:

Give. People. New.

Kind of hilarious, RDJ just gave some interview clip circulating on YouTube going through his films and he makes an incredibly valid point that audiences are quick when it comes to changing tides in cinema and are getting quicker.

Especially with all the BS going on, if you want people in theaters, give them films they can’t deny. And give them new for crying out loud.

[discoelysium]

For their genre and budget both films have been a massive success opening weekend. Oppenheimer will have great legs I'm sure just judging by how hard it was to get decent IMAX tickets. Though that's based on my trying to get 70mm IMAX and I struggled. I'm be interesting to see the second week drop off for Barbie. But a final total over 500 mill for Barbie and 300 mill for Oppenheimer considering what a roll of the dice both films are would be a massive success.

Kinda feel sorry for Mission Impossible. It's a great film and did a reasonable opening weekend but worry it's gonna get obliterated second week by Barbieheimer.

[jm]

Jul 22, 2023 17:59:27 GMT -5 discoelysium said:

For their genre and budget both films have been a massive success opening weekend. Oppenheimer will have great legs I'm sure just judging by how hard it was to get decent IMAX tickets. Though that's based on my trying to get 70mm IMAX and I struggled. I'm be interesting to see the second week drop off for Barbie. But a final total over 500 mill for Barbie and 300 mill for Oppenheimer considering what a roll of the dice both films are would be a massive success.

Kinda feel sorry for Mission Impossible. It's a great film and did a reasonable opening weekend but worry it's gonna get obliterated second week by Barbieheimer.

I got tickets Memorial Day weekend for Oppenheimer IMAX 70mm; I knew it was gonna be a hard ticket to get as it was approaching its relsease. Sure enough at the IMAX in Ontario here in SoCal, the entire weekend is sold out.

Hopefully MI: Dead Reckoning is re-released in IMAX at some point after Oppenheimer's run. Sucks it was only in IMAX for literally a week. Hopefully it's given a long release. I definitely want to see that in IMAX.

[discoelysium]

Jul 22, 2023 18:09:48 GMT -5 jm said:

Jul 22, 2023 17:59:27 GMT -5 discoelysium said:

For their genre and budget both films have been a massive success opening weekend. Oppenheimer will have great legs I'm sure just judging by how hard it was to get decent IMAX tickets. Though that's based on my trying to get 70mm IMAX and I struggled. I'm be interesting to see the second week drop off for Barbie. But a final total over 500 mill for Barbie and 300 mill for Oppenheimer considering what a roll of the dice both films are would be a massive success.

Kinda feel sorry for Mission Impossible. It's a great film and did a reasonable opening weekend but worry it's gonna get obliterated second week by Barbieheimer.

I got tickets Memorial Day weekend for Oppenheimer IMAX 70mm; I knew it was gonna be a hard ticket to get as it was approaching its relsease. Sure enough at the IMAX in Ontario here in SoCal, the entire weekend is sold out.

Hopefully MI: Dead Reckoning is re-released in IMAX at some point after Oppenheimer's run. Sucks it was only in IMAX for literally a week. Hopefully it's given a long release. I definitely want to see that in IMAX.

Definitely, didn't see MI on IMAX but it'd look and sound incredible up there.

[Bang Bang Bart]

Jul 22, 2023 16:03:21 GMT -5 ace said:

Yeah Oppenheimer lets off on a bit of a gut punch, doesn’t it?

A film about the guy who invented the atomic bomb was never gonna be a happy movie.

[Renslayer]

Jul 22, 2023 14:33:07 GMT -5 ayumidah said:

Holy crap

[Fade]

Jul 22, 2023 17:59:27 GMT -5 discoelysium said:

For their genre and budget both films have been a massive success opening weekend. Oppenheimer will have great legs I'm sure just judging by how hard it was to get decent IMAX tickets. Though that's based on my trying to get 70mm IMAX and I struggled. I'm be interesting to see the second week drop off for Barbie. But a final total over 500 mill for Barbie and 300 mill for Oppenheimer considering what a roll of the dice both films are would be a massive success.

Kinda feel sorry for Mission Impossible. It's a great film and did a reasonable opening weekend but worry it's gonna get obliterated second week by Barbieheimer.

MI gonna get f***ed for sure. I love the franchise and appreciate how the last few films have kind of elevated and upped the game.

But I absolutely agree with what I read someone online said: the fact it’s sort-of, sort-of-not a two parter with the next film , kind of killed my interest in seeing it in theaters.

[Alice Syndrome]

We're doing Oppenheimer then Barbie today.

I probably wasn't gonna watch Oppenheimer in theaters but I haven't actually watched a Nolan film in an actual cinema yet

[Banjo Is Broken]

I'm not going to go to the theaters until they have a double feature involving movies about Tressy Dolls and the guy who invented M-80 Firecrackers.

[Heartbreaker]

Is it actually true that some people watching Barbie could hear the atomic bomb going off next door?

[Feargus McReddit]

One thing that should be said, for all the bashing Warner Bros has taken, and rightfully so, the marketing of this movie has made it feel like an event in the same way big studio movies used to be. It was basically everywhere for a good few months which is what it should be.

Combined that with people making memes from a movie that’s completely different from it and people genuinely making it a double bill made people want to go to the cinema or feel like you should. And cinemas themselves are making it an event with how they’ve promoted both films releasing on the same day so I think it’ll be a real boon for them, especially independent ones screening both.

[bob loves the Hurt Syndicate]

watch them at the same time