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anne25 said:
$337 million. That's how much Barbie earned at the box office worldwide, Deadline reported, and Oppenheimer earned $174.2 million across the globe.

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Here’s Where Barbie And Oppenheimer Broke Box Office Records This Weekend

Two diametrically opposed films dominated the global box office as Barbie broke opening weekend records in 18 countries and Oppenheimer far exceeded industry projections.
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Oppenheimer is rated "R" which means it's not a fair fight as fewer people are permitted to see it.
 
LeafOfFaith said:
By the way, it's as much about Margot Robie being smoking hot and Gosling having wide appeal than the subject matter of one besting the other.

I don't think a Cillian Murphy movie, especially one about such gloomy and dated subject matter, is going to drive people out to theaters. Also, the trailers looked like trash to me and I have no interest sitting through something like that for 3 hours straight.
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All you need to know is that it's a Christopher Nolan film. He hasn't made one yet that wasn't well worth the price of admission, going all the way back to "Following".
 
leafman101 said:
Barbie is one of the biggest brands in the world. Its the equivalent of a spider man movie. And it sounds like they did a good job with it. Of course its a massive commercial success. Its Barbie.
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Looks much like the Lego movie, which was also awesome.
 
JackBurton said:
At least in this version they got a good actor as Oppenheimer. In the 1989 Paul Newman film they inexplicably cast "Howling Mad" Murdoch from A-Team as Oppenheimer.
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You're talking about "Fat Man and Little Boy". Not the same movie at all. The focus of that movie was more on the politics and centered more around the General Leslie Groves character played by Paul Newman. Oppenheimer wasn't the centerpiece of that movie. And it was a good movie, well worth watching, but not the magnum opus that Oppenheimer is.
 
JackBurton said:
Lots of articles saying this weekend shows people are sick of superhero films. Just sayin...
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Meh, lots of people were saying the same thing during a 5 year run of box office dominance for super hero movies.

Eventually there was going to be an ebb and hollywood has been making bad/boring suoerhero content for most of the last 3 years now.
 
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WeHaveMoreCupsThanYou said:
You're talking about "Fat Man and Little Boy". Not the same movie at all. The focus of that movie was more on the politics and centered more around the General Leslie Groves character played by Paul Newman. Oppenheimer wasn't the centerpiece of that movie. And it was a good movie, well worth watching, but not the magnum opus that Oppenheimer is.
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But it was odd casting. I know he's not the "Lead" character in that, but still in it a lot.
And while title is accurate, Fat Man and Little Boy sounds too pedo in 2023
 
a lot of bad movies get made when a big part of the consumer base is duped into seeing everything in the universe because of easter eggs and "very important" intertextual scenes
 
MindzEye said:
Meh, lots of people were saying the same thing during a 5 year run of box office dominance for super hero movies.

Eventually there was going to be an ebb and hollywood has been making bad/boring suoerhero content for most of the last 3 years now.
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A "Bollywood" version of insipid dancing would be the perfect Viking Funeral for the whole genre
 
CH1 said:
a lot of bad movies get made when a big part of the consumer base is duped into seeing everything in the universe because of easter eggs and "very important" intertextual scenes
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The "cameos" in superhero movies and connecting stories are real old.
 
CH1 said:
a lot of bad movies get made when a big part of the consumer base is duped into seeing everything in the universe because of easter eggs and "very important" intertextual scenes
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Yup.

Its simple. They stopped giving us fun, enjoyable superhero characters/stories.

Flip the script, and give us a good FF or Xmen movie and the fans would come back. The fuck do I care about Shang chi?

Some of it is bad fortune, Chadwick Boseman could have carried the banner for long enough to help establish some of the new characters if they were well done) but mostly its just laziness from marvel (and continued ineptitude at DC/WB).
 
They story climaxed and there hasn't really been a vision since. The interconnectivity between all the movies in the MCU is actually what people liked. Same as comics.

Stand alone Thor movies aren't as appealing.
 
MindzEye said:
Yup.

Its simple. They stopped giving us fun, enjoyable superhero characters/stories.

Flip the script, and give us a good FF or Xmen movie and the fans would come back. The fuck do I care about Shang chi?

Some of it is bad fortune, Chadwick Boseman could have carried the banner for long enough to help establish some of the new characters if they were well done) but mostly its just laziness from marvel (and continued ineptitude at DC/WB).
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Chadwick dying fucked them over pretty hard, I think. Really seemed like everything was being all set up for him to be the new central character and leader for the next phase once Stark & Cap exited stage left after Endgame.

Since then they’ve been scrambling.
 
there was always going to be exhaustion at some point. And they really flooded the market with mediocrity.

It was two legit great flicks that kicked it all off - Iron Man and Batman Begins. They're still great flicks. And then they followed those up with some more good ones, but maybe one a year.

but now it's like 10 new superhero vehicles a year and most of them are mediocre. of course you're exhausted.

Same thing happened to westerns back in the day.
 
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