Barbenheimer-Hype: American culture on display

[Jayhawker Soule]

Yet, it's true: you too can own your very own Barbenheimer T-shirt. Meanwhile we can all anticipate "breaking news" on who's winning this apparently epic blockbuster battle.

So, is Barbenheimer-Hype:

• exciting?
• underwhelming?
• depressing?

 

[Revoltingest]

Had to search to see WTF you're talking about.

Meh.....

 

[beenherebeforeagain]

I may eventually watch Oppenheimer. I am at least interested the historical events and the characters who took part.

I am unlikely to watch Barbie. The commercials and previews I've seen do not seem to be entertaining to my senses. I haven't heard anyone say anything positive about the development of the characters...it is, after all, just a cartoon...based on a toy...

 

[Revoltingest]

I recall watching this miniseries....

Manhattan (TV Series 2014–2015) ⭐ 7.7 | Drama, History, War

| TV-14

www.imdb.com

 

[sun rise]

My answer is not one of the choices: "Perfect for owning the cons" (if the cons can own the libs, then the cons being owned by libs is good for them according to Florida.

 

[Mock Turtle]

Had to search to see WTF you're talking about.

Meh.....

Meh should be a fourth option.

 

[ADigitalArtist]

I think it's amusing. A very serious historical film that largely ignored the input of the many women both involved in the project as scientists and those in Oppenheimer's life, stationing them as mere windowdressing and emotional impact vectors than actual people. Pretty typical for Nolan, who is notoriously terrible at writing women characters.

The movie is still quite good, otherwise, but when juxtaposed against the Barbie movie as a different type of commentary...

Barbie a satire, with commentary about societal pressures of gender conformity dressed up in hyper consumerism where conformity pressures are at their greatest, including of course movie consumerism.

But your milage may vary.

 

[YmirGF]

Yet, it's true: you too can own your very own Barbenheimer T-shirt. Meanwhile we can all anticipate "breaking news" on who's winning this apparently epic blockbuster battle.

So, is Barbenheimer-Hype:

• exciting?
• underwhelming?
• depressing?

Depressing that we are wasting precious time talking about such embarrassing drivel. Others mileage may vary... I suppose.

 

[ADigitalArtist]

Depressing that we are wasting precious time talking about such embarrassing drivel. Others mileage may vary... I suppose.

Being an embarrassment to the generation before us is my favorite thing we have in common. <3

 

[Jayhawker Soule]

Meh should be a fourth option.

But only for those who imagine there to be a substantive difference between "meh" and "underwhelming."

emotional impact vectors

Emotional Impact Vector

America's New Female Superhero​

 

[sayak83]

Depressing that we are wasting precious time talking about such embarrassing drivel. Others mileage may vary... I suppose.

As opposed to trying to disprove the vault of the sky?

 

[Secret Chief]

As opposed to trying to disprove the vault of the sky?

At least the films actually exist.

 

[Mock Turtle]

But only for those who imagine there to be a substantive difference between "meh" and "underwhelming."

Emotional Impact Vector

America's New Female Superhero​

I've tended to go with this - but obviously not of the generation that generated it:

Urban Dictionary: Meh

Indifference; to be used when one simply does not care.

www.urbandictionary.com

 

[YmirGF]

As opposed to trying to disprove the vault of the sky?

Sorry, I don't get where you are going with this. What vault of the sky?

 

[LuisDantas]

I assume both movies are good enough on their own terms.

But comparing the two of them is, very clearly, just an artifact of their shared release date.

There isn't really a lot else to say IMO. Other than I keep remembering this "prophetical" line...

 

[Revoltingest]

Depressing that we are wasting precious time talking about such embarrassing drivel. Others mileage may vary... I suppose.

You're easily depressed.
Lower your expectations.
This keeps me happy.

 

[Jayhawker Soule]

I assume both movies are good enough on their own terms.

I guess I'm less of a Barbie fan. The interplay of pop culture and "Too Much Pink Energy" is about as inviting as a picture of Norman Rockwell awash in Pepto Bismol.

 

[anna.]

I love that its big opening weekend is sucking oxygen from conservatives’ room of doom and outrage.

 

[sayak83]

Sorry, I don't get where you are going with this. What vault of the sky?

Ah. There are some new posters here with interesting thread claims going on here.

 

[YmirGF]

Ah. There are some new posters here with interesting thread claims going on here.

Oh right, I gave the flat earth fellow a tip to check out the Qur'an for several bona fide flat earth examples.

You do understand that I don't support that line of thinking, in the slightest, right? It'a almost like the flat earthers have never sat at the top of a tall mountain or riden on a plane to witness the Earth's curvature, first hand.