As the title says; I watched both Oppenheimer and Barbie back to back with my friends today, so if you’re interested in what the experience was like or what happened in each movie or any questions really please ask away!
this post was submitted on 08 Aug 2023
56 points (95.2% liked)
Comradeship // Freechat
2161 readers
68 users here now
Talk about whatever, respecting the rules established by Lemmygrad. Failing to comply with the rules will grant you a few warnings, insisting on breaking them will grant you a beautiful shiny banwall.
A community for comrades to chat and talk about whatever doesn't fit other communities
founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Why the hell is there so much attention diverted to Barbie and Oppenheimer? Were they pushed this heavily as some counter-intelligence operation?
Call me naive but I don’t really think this was some elaborate scheme. From what I can tell, the hype and whatnot came from the hilarious fact that both Barbie and Oppenheimer were released on the same day and both were anticipated to be the movies of the summer, naturally putting them in competition. Two very big films with vastly differing aesthetics is the perfect pairing for such a phenomenon. Thus the memes came out in full force and definitely contributed to the further marketing of these films.
Fair point. I was just overthinking things.
It may have not been intentional the first time but they sure as hell will try to do it again.
They already did. Look at what they're trying to do with the upcoming Saw and Paw Patrol movie. Its laughable and everyone can blatantly see what they're doing.
Saw Patrol definitely feels manufactured after the Barbenheimer hype. Not many people are raving about it and seem to see it as is.
There definitely went many millions in the advertising of both. The generated hype will probably die down in one or two months, I suppose.
I was just scratching my head as I haven't really seen a movie that generated this much hype; although, that may be, in part, because I haven't touched grass in a while.