"woke shit"

"Please be civil"

I loled

Your comment of "woke shit" and "pls be civil" cancel each other out there.

But with not seeing either movie, I would say the big difference is Barbie is a family movie. Now is Oppenheimer a better movie from a technical standpoint? Absolutely, but parents can't really drop the kids off to go watch a rate R movie.

What am I missing?

The last 50 or so years of Mankind's history.

Hasn’t seen Barbie yet asserts that 1) Another movie is better and 2) the movie they’ve not seen is “woke shit”.

Yep, about the level of discourse I’d expect from someone who uses the word “woke” unironically.

Also, i strongly suspect you’re not getting your opinions from trailers, but rather from the typical brain dead right wing mouthpieces who completely missed the point of Barbie, because of course they did.

Barbie has a bigger audience target, and even kids can go see it and have fun. I wouldn't bring my toddlers to see Oppenheimer, I'd go watch it with only my wife but that requires finding someone to watch after them for at least 3 hours

Holy shit dude, learn to write before attempting to engage in written conversation. This reads like it was written by a 13 year old who barely pays attention in class. It's so clear you're not actually asking in good faith and just felt compelled to complain. To answer your "question", people are less likely to seek out art about privileged men destroying things than they are a fun summer movie.

The world is on fire. People want to relax. Barbie does that better than Oppenheimer, which mostly just reminds us of the fragility of our existence and that there are people out there trying to destroy the world for whatever reason they've gotten into their heads.

Are you seriously confused why a fun summer movie based on a property everyone has heard of is doing more business than a movie about nuclear physics?

"Why are apples more popular than oranges?"

I watched trailers and reviews of barbie and from what I know, it’s a woke shit that tells matriarchy is better than patriarchy, with a bit of comedy admittedly.

Bro what???

I watched both within a few days of each other and liked Barbie way more than Oppenheimer ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Barbie draws in families with children, who tend to make up a large percentage of movie-goers. Those families won't be going to see Oppenheimer. They're also inherently larger groups than, say, a couple with no kids. Meanwhile, people who go to see Oppenheimer might also go to see Barbie. I guess I'm just saying that Barbie has a larger potential pool of viewers.

You don't have enough kenergy to understand.

Movies are meant to entertain mostly. Barbie is fun, not that other movie. The end.

It's not more popular, oppenheimer has 2.5x more box office, imdb ratings...

I didn't watch the movies yet, but I'm sure both are good enough. Even barbie, Greta Gerwig didn't make a bad movie yet and her husband helping to cowrite is always a good result.

Nevertheless it's the same as it was always, movies get popular because of marketing, which is frustrating for me to confess. And they get popular, because they are already popular and they look kinda fun and popy.

Most people really don't care about other aspects of the filmmaking. And in my opinion your example is less frustrating, than Marvel dominating for the last decade.