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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by LibsEatPoop@hexbear.net to c/movies@hexbear.net

I saw Barbenheimer the weekend it came out. Oppie is overrated as shit. I liked it but Barbie was 3x better. It’s apparent in the way women are written and the fact that Greta, Margot and Barbie are being snubbed for Nolan is a disgrace.

Oppie isn’t even his best work and it sure as shit doesn’t deserve a dozen fucking Oscar noms.

Whatever criticisms you have of Barbie being white/pop feminism are absolutely tossed aside when fucking OPPENHEIMER is the one winning shit. Cmon.

They’re giving noms to Poor Things instead of it as the “feminist” film cuz they’re cowards scared of women succeeding behind the camera in addition to in front of it and in the box office, and they’re horny teens horned up by Emma Stone and enraged Margot didn’t do that.

Edit- And before you come at me, I saw Oppie on proper film. Don’t tell me I didn’t get it or didn’t have a good experience or whatever. I liked it. But Barbie was better.

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[-] zifnab25@hexbear.net 51 points 10 months ago

And before you come at me, I saw Oppie on proper film. Don’t tell me I didn’t get it or didn’t have a good experience or whatever. I liked it.

I am coming at you for liking it.

The movie was one hour of magical realism physics and wishy-washy centrist political bullshit, one hour of "Y'all know about how my boy Julie Bob O. got mad pussy?", and one hour of the worst West Wing episode you've ever seen. They could have cut that turd in half and it would have still been too long.

The acting was mid. The history was fictional. The cinematography was amateurish. The sound design just made my ears bleed.

Not only was Barbie better, but Barbie was actually a good fucking movie. Had I known what I was getting in for I'd have just gone back and watched the highlight reels from "A Beautiful Mind" and taken a refund on the balance of my time.

[-] oktherebuddy@hexbear.net 30 points 10 months ago

oppenheimer was dogshit that leaned into the idiotic "you don't need to learn stinky math to know physics, you just have to hear the music" bullshit in like three separate scenes and I was over it

[-] voight@hexbear.net 22 points 10 months ago

Nolan should be arrested unironically

[-] someone@hexbear.net 23 points 10 months ago

His job in the gulag should be sound editing. He stays there until he gets it right.

[-] carpoftruth@hexbear.net 19 points 10 months ago

The sound design just made my ears bleed.

I liked the sound design specifically for this - the soundscape really supported oppenheimer's moral conflict about his work by sounding conflicted and anxiety inducing.

[-] LibsEatPoop@hexbear.net 17 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Yeah that’s fair lol. I haven’t seen it since Barbenheimer and my opinion might be similar to yours if I rewatch it. It didn’t need to be 3hrs long and I felt like a fool falling for the “gotta see it in 70mm imax” bs. Half of it is in a small white room for fucks sake.

Barbie was genuinely a good time and then people i was with and i talked for hours after it ended. And the atmosphere at the cinema that entire weekend was magical. Everyone wearing pink, saying “hi Barbie”…that’s real movie magic.

[-] zifnab25@hexbear.net 11 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I felt like a fool falling for the “gotta see it in 70mm imax” bs.

In so far as they were going for this very immersive experience, I don't think it was BS on its face. Yes, sitting in that chair I practically vibrated with that opening scene. When they were launching the Trinity tests and he was hallucinating Hiroshima and they were doing the weird "Lets have Cillian Murphy nut in the middle of a board room" scene, it was much more pervasive an experience than if I was watching it on a 7" airplane screen with earbuds.

But the content of the movie itself was dogshit. They just kinda slapped me around with the aesthetics when there was nothing underneath.

I actually had the misfortune of doing the 5D movie experience to watch the Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves movie and I had the opposite experience. Amazing film, great acting, excellent screenplay, totally underrated action/comedy film. But the movie theater was ruining the experience because I felt like it was constantly trying to give me a concussion. Would have loved to see that in 70mm IMAX, on the condition that the seats stayed still and a nozzle wasn't randomly spraying shit at me during action sequences.

Barbie was genuinely a good time and then people i was with and i talked for hours after it ended. And the atmosphere at the cinema that entire weekend was magical. Everyone wearing pink, saying “hi Barbie”…that’s real movie magic.

They walked the tightrope between Oscar Bait historical setpiece and genuinely compelling dramady. Lots of good musical numbers, everyone left in a good mood, shameless excuse to cosplay. Literally everything a good movie should be.

I'm not even mad if the lesson the studios take from this is to do a dozen 80s-era action figure throw back films, so long as they get folks as talented as Gerwig, Robbie, and Gosling in it.

[-] LibsEatPoop@hexbear.net 13 points 10 months ago

D&D was so good! I didn’t see it in theatres because WoTC, the company behind D&D, made some terrible decisions in the months leading up to the movie and I didn’t want to support them. But I did see it later on and I absolutely loved it.

[-] WithoutFurtherBelay@hexbear.net 6 points 10 months ago

Did the nozzle activate during the nut scene?

[-] zifnab25@hexbear.net 5 points 10 months ago

It did not. Complete waste of $20.

[-] Cherufe@hexbear.net 2 points 10 months ago

Give me one hour of magic realism physics and one hour of "Y'all know about how my boy Julie Bob O. got mad pussy" anytime. Best 2 hours of movies last year.

The final hour didnt really do it for me to be fair.

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