Barbenheimer: The inevitable poll

Barbie (which I have seen) is better than Oppenheimer (which I have not).

idk, need to see both again

write-in vote for Jumpin' Jack Flash

Barbie (which i have seen) is better than oppenheimer (which i have seen)

Barbie, easy.

and even if I had liked both equally, I probably would have still picked Barbie for not being three hours long

only one of them was directed and written by the leading auteur of american cinema

Seen both. Right now only open to rewatching Oppenheimer.

Barbie (which i have seen) is better than oppenheimer (which i have seen)

I will watch Barbie, will never watch another Nolan movie (unless it's the Peter Andre biopic)

Neither of them were directed by PT Anderson xp

barbie (which i have not seen) is better than oppenheimer (which i have not seen)

Having watched Oppenheimer last night, voting Barbie

Barbie (which i have not seen) is better than Oppenheimer (which i have seen)

Haven't seen either, will eventually see Barbie probably, will not see Oppenheimer.

if anyone from Japan, where funny barbenheimer memes are extremely not done (similar to holocaust jokes in the west) reads this: yes, we should have thought this through before memeing the hell out of it. :-/

I mean, the joke is that two diametrically opposite films premiered the same day and sound funny together, the memes aren't making light of the actual Hiroshima/Nagasaki bombings.

whereas a Holocaust joke is actually taking the piss out of the Holocaust

Just saw Oppenheimer last night. Might not get the chance to see Barbie before this poll closes, but it has to be better.

haven't seen oppenheimer yet, but i feel like it's probably better than barbie (which was good but overrated). seems unlikely that both movies are equally overrated

Have not seen Barbie, but refuse to believe it could be worse than Oppenheimer.

Both are too long tbh

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Which one do more things get blowed up in?

haven't seen Oppy yet, but i'm assuming 100% less beaching off in that one

Barbie (which i have not seen) is better than Oppenheimer (which i have seen)

― symsymsym, Thursday, August 3, 2023 8:23 AM (three weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink

now that I've seen Barbie, still true!

The poll is good

i finally saw oppenheimer and idk i actually liked it despite hating chris nolan and all he stands for. this poll for me is moments of boredom vs. an occasionally hamfisted script. i guess i also fundamentally see oppenheimer and barbie as less complex objects than each movie treats them, like i think oppenheimer did not want me to totally hate him even though he was presented accurately as the wishy-washiest dilettante, a perfect instrument, and i think barbie wanted me to connect the ostensible femmetopia of barbieland to the absence of any such thing in reality but could only do it through monologues that i did not enjoy the writing of. kind of a wash for me. glad i liked them both tho. first nolan i’ve enjoyed since interstellar

apparently i like nolan when he has no action scenes to block whatsoever, think he should get deeper into this

Oppenheimer had a lot wrong with it but I had a better time than with any other Nolan joint. Like Barbie, which I liked slightly better, I didn't think it particularly profound, and that's fine.

https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/film/2023/08/23/barbie-becomes-irelands-most-successful-box-office-film-ending-avatars-14-year-record/#:~:text=Greta%20Gerwig's%20smash%20hit%20has,continues%20to%20break%20records%20worldwide

ivy succinctly otm re what i disliked about barbie

Barbie dominated this poll and continues to do well in year-end polls despite the simple fact that nothing featuring Kate McKinnon could be good.

McKinnon doesnt have a monologue so im afraid even if shes not your thing shes about fifth in line for the problems with barbie

Slightly disingenuous in that Oppenheimer is far outpacing Barbie overall in the year-end praise derby. (It’s in the Oppy thread, but fgti’s single sentence assessment of that movie is all-time otm.)