I don’t even understand this matchup. They’re not even similar movies, but it’s been hyped like they’re competing against each other since they were announced. It’s weird.
I think it is because they are so different. The contrast is amusing so people are having fun with it. It’s like the Matrix vs Momma Mia release or Doom vs Animal Crossing game release.
If anything, it’s been really refreshing to see. Twenty years ago, your average film bro would be calling Barbie dumb, girly, and gay, and now it’s being widely acknowledged that a female-directed movie with explicitly feminine aesthetics can absolutely be quality legitimate Cinema™ and go toe-to-toe with a literal Christopher Nolan biopic about a scientist making a bomb during WWII.
It’s just a meme, since they’re both highly anticipated movies with very different vibes releasing on the same day. I don’t think most people are actually expecting them to compete (if anything, most of the jokes I see are about watching a Barbie/Oppenheimer double feature). It’s the same as the Doom Eternal/Animal Crossing jokes a few years back
I’m not kidding, in the US at least there is growing divide between the genders and anything that “represents them.” We saw it first with review bombing of movies like Joker and then Ms Marvel. It was a tit for tat with incels and femcels going at it. I try to ignore it, but it’s so toxic and ruins nice things for everyone else.
I don’t even understand this matchup. They’re not even similar movies, but it’s been hyped like they’re competing against each other since they were announced. It’s weird.
It’s because they’re releasing the same week. They literally are competing.
I think it is because they are so different. The contrast is amusing so people are having fun with it. It’s like the Matrix vs Momma Mia release or Doom vs Animal Crossing game release.
If anything, it’s been really refreshing to see. Twenty years ago, your average film bro would be calling Barbie dumb, girly, and gay, and now it’s being widely acknowledged that a female-directed movie with explicitly feminine aesthetics can absolutely be quality legitimate Cinema™ and go toe-to-toe with a literal Christopher Nolan biopic about a scientist making a bomb during WWII.
It’s just a meme, since they’re both highly anticipated movies with very different vibes releasing on the same day. I don’t think most people are actually expecting them to compete (if anything, most of the jokes I see are about watching a Barbie/Oppenheimer double feature). It’s the same as the Doom Eternal/Animal Crossing jokes a few years back
It’s basically a new front on the culture wars - feminine vs masculine. So tiresome. They’re both good films.
dude, what
I’m not kidding, in the US at least there is growing divide between the genders and anything that “represents them.” We saw it first with review bombing of movies like Joker and then Ms Marvel. It was a tit for tat with incels and femcels going at it. I try to ignore it, but it’s so toxic and ruins nice things for everyone else.