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Why is Barbie so anticipated? It seems like this whole meme was planted by the industry.
I fully intend to watch both! Together with Indy V and Mission Impossible 7, it makes for a fantastic July for movies :D
Back when most movies weren't sequels and reboots, this comment would have been satire.
I went to see "Past Lives" (highly recommend) and of all the previews Barbie and Oppenheimer were the two I resolved to see. On separate days, though, I can't imagine doubling these two up. Do people do this to save money?
Why is Barbie so anticipated? It seems like this whole meme was planted by the industry.
Why is Barbie so anticipated? It seems like this whole meme was planted by the industry.
Greta Gerwig was an indie darling for a decade before she went on to make two highly praised, award-winning films back-to-back.
Noah Baumbach is known for mumblecore indie dramedies like The Squid and the Whale and recently got an Oscar nomination for Marriage Story. The irony of him working on a Barbie movie is intriguing enough.
Margot Robbie has brilliant charisma on screen and this role seems tailor-made for her.
And if you've seen The Nice Guys, you know how hilarious Ryan Gosling can be.
Why is Barbie so anticipated? It seems like this whole meme was planted by the industry.
Because it looks like a good comedy from a bunch of good comedy writers and actors? We've drowned in comic book superhero sequels for over a decade now. People are tired of watching the exact same movies with different armor paints
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God, talk about emotional whiplash.
At least Totoro was the latter movie in the pair so you didn't go home feeling terrible.
“The response was different depending on which film was shown first. My Neighbor Totoro would make them happy, then this Grave of the Fireflies… Those who saw Totoro first didn’t want to see Fireflies to the end. Those who saw Fireflies first didn’t have that problem, and stayed to the end. The double featuring was a problem, I’d say.”
Why is Barbie so anticipated? It seems like this whole meme was planted by the industry.
Everyone involved seem to be able to walk that line and have the comedic skill necessary to come across as sincere in absurd situations.
As to the meme. That's just from the hilarity of this and Oppenheimer opening the same weekend. Similar openings happen all the time. Because it's a way for studios to not fight for the same dollar. At first people were laughing at the idea of Barbie crushing Oppenheimer at the box office, but that slowly morphed into the idea of just seeing both.
And since no company is never going to say no to more money, of course they got behind the idea.
Why is Barbie so anticipated? It seems like this whole meme was planted by the industry.