Barbenheimer
It's a lot.Seeing Oppenheimer (three hours) followed twenty minutes later by Barbie (two hours) is quite an experience. Too much of an experience, some might say.
Each movie is bleak in its own way, and surprisingly, each is about an extremely serious subject. Oppenheimer's bleakness is self-explanatory, but Barbie deals with the consequences of the patriarchy in a very personal, uncomfortable way, despite its broad level of satire and comedy. It's surprisingly dark in an entirely subversive way, while Oppenheimer is dark in a surprisingly conventional way.
Eli 22.0 liked Oppenheimer more than I did, while I liked Barbie more than he did. We even had some of the same objections, but to the opposite movie.
Both films are absolutely worth seeing, but not consecutively. It's great fun, in concept, but much less fun actually doing it that way.
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