heebie! You forgot to vet this with me. I'm going to see Barbie on Monday. We can discuss Oppenheimer now if you want.
https://twitter.com/popelizbet/status/1684422380565811200?s=46
This was an interesting analysis.
1: I almost thought that I should ask if people are ready yet, or if they want another weekend to see it first. :(
My take is it's a "mom movie" in the sense of a "dad movie." It's good but kinda cheesy and not challenging, and makes you feel good about yourself if you're an older millennial mom. Visually wonderful though and excellent acting. Certainly have it dead last among Greta Gerwig's three films, but had a great time.
4: it was very challenging for my conservative SIL who inadvertently took her sons, who naively thought it was great. She was locked in a stoic grimace when the lights came on, and I suspect there was some reprogramming in their car on the way home.
I think it's a bit of a trojan horse in terms of reaching audiences who have potentially never thought critically about the patriarchy.
As long as the focus is on how the patriarchy hurts men too.
7: I was curious about this because I have no memory of the patriarchy from when I was young. It turns out the patriarchy just started to take off in 1972.
"Tin Soldiers and Nixon Coming" would be a great title for Chuck Tingle.
I liked the movie and agree with the analysis here, but is it really a kid's movie? I assume my eight-year-old wouldn't get most of the jokes. The dividing line might be puberty.
Maybe a teenage movie? I can't quite call it an adult movie, and I don't think you're supposed to hesitate before you see it with your kid. I think my 8 year old enjoyed it, but yes, missed a lot of the jokes.
I tried to see Oppenheimer last night but when I got to the theater, which is literally in the same building we're staying in, it was sold out, even though when I left the apartment the theater site said I could buy a ticket. I might go see it in Berlin which would be interesting, although do they dub English movies in Germany? Where I am now they just show films in the original English.
13: Maybe it's a YA movie? That could be a new category.
4 and 11 are both wonderful and hilarious, though not in the same way.
14 They do dub and they also show movies in their original language (OV) and in their original language with subtitles (OmU).
There should be lots of showings of Oppenheimer in OV. Cubix at Alexanderplatz and Cinemaxx at Potsdamer Platz are both likely cinemas, though I have not checked the listings for either. Maybe also the Imax at Sony Center, which I think is still going even though everything else right there is under renovation.
Er, 6 is the hilarious comment. Must have had my head still halfway in Barbieworld.
Managed to catch it our last night in Norway, and Norway turned out to play a minor part which was (spoilers!) more positive than the role Germany played.
But we'll probably go see Barbie there so the OV tip is useful.
1: I saw Barbie! It's a hoot! It sold out on a Monday night in its second week in my neighborhood movie theater. The crowd was groups of teen girls, groups of women, some moms and daughters, some gay and some heterosexual couples, and me. I may also have been in the minority in that I was seeing it for the first time.