Hollywood panicking because they realized they just put a lot of big movies next to each other in July

Let us all pray even if we don't believe in God that this loses Hollywood a gazillion dollars.

Oppenheimer is the only one of those movies that I would bother watching.

The rest of them are crap.

I might rent "Barbie" from the library in a couple months. The others hold no interest for me.

The publicity campaign for Barbie is making me sick of it already

I want to see Barbie. It’s total trash.

I hope Barbie flops so Ryan Gosling will be knocked down several pegs.

Oppenheimer is not Barbie??

Barbie is one of the dumbest movies Hollywood has come up with, in decades.

They're just doing this so that lots of people can make money off of promotion and marketing for the movie.

I've been seeing it promoted by Progressive Insurance, Summer Baking Challenge on Food Network, and lots of other places.

So the movie is making money from advertisers, before it's even released!!

That's not a movie. That's a marketing ploy.

Fuck Hollywood. Fucking whores.

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I doubt there's a lot of overlap between the audiences for Oppenheimer and Barbie.

R7 it is now

[quote] Oppenheimer is not Barbie??

Ryan Gosling easily could have played Oppenheimer.

And Cillian Murphy easily could have played Ken.

*mind blown like an atom bomb*

[quote] And Cillian Murphy easily could have played Ken

Only if you want to make the audience deeply uncomfortable for 90 minutes.

I look at it this way: 4 movies to stream when they come out in a few months. They’ll be comfortably viewed on my sofa, next to partner and pets, with my own popcorn and drinks!

I love that, R13!!!

He looks like a non-binary Ken!

Or maybe even F2M trans Ken.

Rofl.

Cillian Murphy was gender-indeterminate before it even became cool....

Here's what's weird.

Of ANY movie being made 2023, where Hollywood could change the original character for the better, this KEN character was the one.

Why did they have to go and make him exactly like the Ken prototype from the 1970's? (Or whenever the hell Ken first appeared)

They should have made 2023 Ken mixed race, or emo, or heteroflexible, or something interesting like that.

But, NO.

They made him boring and blond. Just like Barbie.

Personally, I would love to have seen 2023 Ken looking like a young Cillian Murphy.

R17 because the Barbie movie is third-wave feminist and Ken needs to be a stupid man

That’s literally the tagline

“She is everything. He’s just Ken.”

If they made stupid dolt Ken a person of color, it would be racist.

Anyhow the problem is not Barbie. Barbie will do fine. The problem will be Indiana Jones 5 and Mission Impossible 7.

MI7 will be the biggest casualty I think. It only has premium formats for one week.

Additionally, they don’t have a buzzy new costar. They got a ton of interest for the last movie because they cast Henry Cavill. For this film, it was supposed to be Nicolas Hoult who is on a career upswing. Unfortunately he had to drop out because The Great got renewed. They replaced him with Esai Morales, whom nobody knows who that is.

Also the film looks identical to the last film. Techno rave in Paris, techno rave in Venice. Street chase through Paris, street chase through Rome. Didn’t somebody point this out in the production meeting?

Also FWIW, I absolutely would have seen this movie in a theater if Nicolas Hoult was in it. He is so beautiful.

I still don’t know who Esai Morales is.

Did they think it was Thanksgiving?

The last Mission Impossible was great because of the explicit gay-sex-about-to-happen in the bathroom scene, plus the obvious sexual chemistry between Tom and Henry Cavill.

Gosling's face is so ugly, the only time I have thought he was somewhat attractive is when he had the beard covering it up in The Notebook.

I think Barbie will do surprisingly well. Mission Impossible will be huge. Oppenheimer isn't blockbuster material, regardless of what the marketing wants you to believe. Indiana Jones will be a flop.

Ryan Gosling looks good here, R23.

And his ass is totally edible!

Do not underestimate Oppenheimer. It’s beginning to sell out.

This is the biggest IMAX in South Florida, not exactly a hotbed of intellectualism.

Indiana Jones - opens this weekend - no sellouts

Mission Impossible 7 - three weekends out - one sellout

Oppenheimer - four weekends out - three sellouts