Jeff Danziger for July 26, 2023

Yeah, I first head Barbenheimer on the NPR Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me show (I’m pretty sure: I only got to hear a few minutes of it) on Sunday. Cute.

The bilge that Hollywood is churning out these days is appalling !!!!

I heard they both just ok

I thought the trailer for Barbie was hilarious.

Not going to be much hilarity in Oppenheimer. Good acting though.

FAKE NEWS! Kong rides the bomb. https://youtu.be/snTaSJk0n_Y

Reminds me of Slim Pickens whooping it up while riding a nuclear bomb in the final scenes of “Dr. Strangelove,” except that film was made in black and white.

The American mentality and interests….

(Opening Weekend)

Oppenheimer $174M

Barbie $337M

Hollywood in LA – same place as a mass lynching. Racist bigots need to be cancelled like Aldean.

Is Jeff saying that 2 movies combined total of half a billion in one weekend equals a bomb?

They are real moneymakers. Whatever floats your goat.

definitely a week-long summer story

You can thank those latent, repressed and angry right-wing homosexuals for making the Barbie movie $155 million in three days.

I’d love another Conan the Barbarian.

Maybe a mushup of Conan the Barbarian and Top Gun?

Any good ideas guys?

Hollywood finally puts out movies that people want to see that don’t have Tom Cruise in it.

Wondering how the strike is going to impact pay TV. People will pay to see reruns for only so long.

I think the real success of these two movies is how the advertising can sell.. anything.

um, maybe someone might have noticed – writers strike, actor’s strike. bollywood and asia ladies delight. sigh.

In his review, Shapiro called Barbie “one of the most woke movies” he’d ever seen, and complained that it was “explicitly designed to divide men from women.” Maybe if Shapiro had spent his time in the theater actually watching the film instead of, as he put it, taking “pages and pages” of notes, his comprehension would have improved.

“Women used to build society. Now they dress in pink and bring a bottle of wine to an air conditioned theater to cry in solidarity with an actress lecturing America about how hard it is to be a woman, then ragetweet at people who don’t like ‘Barbie,’” Shapiro tweeted on Monday. The thing is, Shapiro and others who consider a movie that critiques the toxicity assigned to gender roles — even from the age when we’re playing with dolls — as a personal attack couldn’t be more out of step with mainstream audiences. People don’t just like Barbie, they’re loving it.

The middling backlash to the film has even made it all the way to the halls of Congress. Before the premiere of the movie, Texas Senator Ted Cruz — who had also said he has not seen the film — accused Barbie of being secret pro-Chinese communist propaganda.

Ginger Gaetz, the wife of Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) criticized Barbie for neglecting “to address any notion of faith or family,” and “disappointingly low T” (testosterone) and “beta energy” from Ryan Gosling’s Ken. Her husband made several needlessly transphobic remarks to justify his creepy fixation on Margot Robbie, the film’s star.

I mentioned this in a response above, but it should be remembered that the term “blockbuster” originally referred to a type of bomb (one that could take out a whole row of buildings).

Not all “bombs” are bad for the box-office.

So much woke BS so little content