I’m curious why this article is being written about Oppenheimer when Barbie is the one making money hand over fist, has audiences showing up in full costume, and has people so jazzed they’re willing to buy a ticket to both Barbie and Oppenheimer back-to-back.

[Kotaku writers room]

Good.

They don’t get in to specifics but they do reference how Ruth Handler made her money and joke “that’s another movie.”

I dunno man, Barbie sorta turns in to an existential crisis as well.

I wonder if theaters have the breakdown of how many tickets were bought AS Barbenheimer. Like, purchases for both showings on a single transaction kinda thing.

The point is if you’re gonna do a “redband” style trailer in terms of violence the swears aren’t you biggest concern.

Shorter Disney: “What the fuck is this?”

A bunch of people got sold on digital ownership as a means to “permanently” store their favorite things without having to clog up their home libraries.

What’s funny is Thomas approved it thinking they were making fun of him, and then the film doesn’t really poke fun at him but rather that 90s angsty teen style of music that it embodies.

It was masterful.

I wonder how many people remembered who sang the song, not just the song itself.

The final line in that movie perfectly captures everything it was about, so yeah. Huge laughs in the theater.

all art is political.

It angers me to no end that there was a coup attempt at the capitol and the perps were allowed to simply walk out alive.

“They let a black woman be vice president. CAN YOU BELIEVE THIS?!”

He knows what he’s doing.

Gotta love how shitty people writing hateful shit get a pass and the blame goes to the people calling out shitty people writing hateful shit.

Are you talking about country music or are you talking about bro-country?

Every Barbie had a Ken, but even during the deprogramming scene the Kens are bouncing around to the different Barbies without “their” Barbie seeming to care all that much.