🎬 When I read sometime next week about how Barbie is ‘out performing’ Oppenheimer at the box office, I will point people to this image. I admit it is but one theatre in the nation - but I bet the proportions of screens are about right.
🔗 I survived the Barbie-Oppenheimer double-bill and I don’t recommend it.
Over three hours for one of them. The double bill is out for me …
Reader, do not attempt Barbenheimer. Or at least, if you do decide to do Barbenheimer, please don’t do it in the order I went to see it. If you take anything from this, it’s that you should really go and see Barbie first. Because otherwise, and I’m talking from very recent first-hand experience, the effect is a little like having your mother’s funeral invaded by a flashmob of parking circus clowns. Which, you know, isn’t exactly ideal.
🎬 I think I’m going to go watch Barbie 10 times.
🎬 It would be around 1,315 days - cant be more exact, because I am not sure of the first date, since I last went to a Theater to watch a movie.
The movie back in late 2019 was Knives Out, yesterday’s was Asteroid City. (I only reviewed 🖇️ Knives Out 2) - 3 stars and flagged as better than 1 if that gives you a clue.
Both coincidentally featured an ‘ensemble cast’. (I don’t make a habit of those kinds of movies.)
But the funny thing is that we saw last night’s movie with the same couple that we saw Knives Out. That is the only time we have been to the movies with those friends and the only time we have been to that particular Theater.
Like pandemic bookends.
🎬 There’s a movie out there just released called the 🔗 Sound of Freedom
Good reviews on IMDB … serious subject … but it seems to this observer that it is being artificially promoted. I’ve also had some back chatter that all is not what it seems.
Any thoughts from those that read this post?
Not to be confused with other films called Mother’s Day … I’ve not seen all of them, but none can be as bad as this one.
As @drewcastillo and I recently riffed - he really is very good. Sure he’s got some duds - don’t we all? Off the top of my head - some of my favorites (alphabetical - to avoid …
BIGGEST RIG I’VE EVER SEEN : Diaries of Note
Is this possibly a back story to 🎬 The Banger Sisters?