2023: A Barbie Odyssey
The kids have kept us busy with a well-planned schedule of L.A. (and vicinity) highlights.
Still, we've managed to squeeze in a half-dozen home movies so far, including "Oppenheimer", "Maestro", "American Fiction" and a notable oldie - "The Killing" (Stanley Kubrick's 1956 heist movie, which takes place at San Anita race track, where we had been that very day).
Speaking of Kubrick, we also watched "Barbie". Sharon had delayed her gratification all this time so that she could "experience" the movie with Caitlin. I was along for the ride.
So, what does Kubrick have to do with the Greta Gerwig movie? The opening scene in "Barbie" (a highly engaging sequence) is, of course, an homage to the opening of Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey."
As for "Barbie" ... I found to be clever and original, with some good laughs.
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Oppenheimer - Movie Review
Epic-maker movie “Oppenheimer”, directed by Christopher Nolan tells the story leading up to atom bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki towards the end of World War II that changed the course of history forever. The film is based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning book “American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer” by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin.
Deeply heartrending…
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the barbenheimer experience i had was so funny i saw oppenheimer first and in a quiet scene we could literally hear ken singing in the theater next to us and then during barbie it when was quiet we could hear a fucking explosion coming from the oppenheimer screening
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The Barbie movie reminded me about how when I was little my parents were upset that I kept making my Barbie dolls kiss, so they bought me a Ken doll. The next day they found me having a funeral for poor Ken in the garden, he had died of tuberculosis. All the Barbies were in attendance and I buried him under our rose bush. The Barbies were too poor to afford a headstone (it was 1875) so I didn’t mark where the grave was and I never could find him again. He’s probably still there.
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i think they should be friends
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Criminal, op turned off reblogs
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Don’t forget the first victims when you go see Oppenheimer this opening weekend. Unforgivable not to include them in the narrative.
We love us some Nolan and Cillian but this is also a story that should never have taken place.
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This is what happens when the US government goes nuclear-crazy during the Cold War and mines a shit ton of uranium. Lambs born with three legs and no eyes, and human stillbirths and agonizing deformities for those that survive. For decades it was referred to as a Navajo-specific hereditary illness. No one made the link to the mines and the drinking water.
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