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The Barbie-Oppenheimer Double Feature Is Happening, Data Shows

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Re: The Barbie-Oppenheimer Double Feature Is Happening, Data Shows

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Reminds me of the Studio Ghibli double feature back in 1988, "My Neighbor Totoro" and "Grave of the Fireflies". https://www.tor.com/2017/06/07/studio-ghibli-shows-their-ran...

God, talk about emotional whiplash.

At least Totoro was the latter movie in the pair so you didn't go home feeling terrible.

Re: The Barbie-Oppenheimer Double Feature Is Happening, Data Shows

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It seems plausible that this is just families going to the movies and then choosing to see different ones?

I'm sure there's at least some but barbieheimer has been a meme since the first dates got announced so I think it's pretty safe to say that a lot of it is people seeing both. My local theater even has the posters right next to each other. My fiance and 10 of our friends already got tickets to both and can't wait. We're seeing Oppenheimer first, then a quick break for smoking weed, then back in for barbie

Wow, how did you get 12 people to commit for 5h simultaneously? Not facetious, genuinely curious. I don’t think I could do that even for a shorter birthday party

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Reminds me of the Studio Ghibli double feature back in 1988, "My Neighbor Totoro" and "Grave of the Fireflies". https://www.tor.com/2017/06/07/studio-ghibli-shows-their-ran...

God, talk about emotional whiplash.

I can't imagine taking your kids to both of those. But maybe the way the 1980's explains Gen X behavior (read: trauma), that double feature explains something about 1990's Japan.

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

God, talk about emotional whiplash.

At least Totoro was the latter movie in the pair so you didn't go home feeling terrible.

If you just watched Grave of the Fireflies, would you trust the second movie?

Also the crises in Totoro would be a lot heavier if you just watched a whole family die piece by piece.

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Why is Barbie so anticipated? It seems like this whole meme was planted by the industry.

Generations of women grew up on Barbie. My partner is out-of-her-mind excited. Any giant franchise will have motivated fans (LEGO, a comic, etc).

Re: The Barbie-Oppenheimer Double Feature Is Happening, Data Shows

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Why is Barbie so anticipated? It seems like this whole meme was planted by the industry.

I’d say that’s almost giving the studios too much credit. No doubt once they saw the meme online they leaned into it, but there is genuine hype for both films, and Barbie esp. seems to be hitting the women demographic particularly strongly. I hadn’t thought of watching both the same day, but now I genuine would like to, just to say I did.
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