Barbenheimer - Blog Posts

HAPPY BARBENHEIMER DAY LOSERS!!! I’m currently out of town, so I will not be checking this site until after I see these two movies (I’m gonna be theatre hopping someday soon so don’t worry I’ll be able to rave about it soon ;) ) SO EVERYONE GO SEE BARBIE AND OPPENHEIMER IN THEATERS OKAY SEE YALL ON THE FLIP!!!!!

Ranking the Kens in Barbie based on overall ‘kenergy’

1. Ken

- little cowboy hat

- doctor who

- just misses his best friend barbie 🥹

8.5 out of Ken

2. Ken

- less fun lil cowboy hat

- gets to be douche bro president Ken

- related to Chris evans maybe?

- gives Ryan gosling a lil kiss

5 out of Ken

3. Ken

- back flipping Ken

- excellent dancer

- gives serious steal ur girl energy

- possibly the most sexually aggressive of all the Kens (I am referencing his interactions with Ryan Gosling Ken exclusively, the energy was palpable)

- served some mad cunt

9 out of Ken

4. Ken

- possibly my favourite Ken

- always has Ken’s back

- very goofy dancer 💜

- played drums when all the other Ken’s played guitar

- recipient of the holy pimp coat

- almost certainly in love with his best friend Ken

10 out of Ken

5. Ken

- THE Ken

- he’s kenough 🥲

- lost interest in the patriarchy when he found out it wasn’t about horses

- instigated the greatest out of nowhere dance number in a film I’ve ever seen

- buuuuuuuut also enslaved a bunch of women so…

-10 out of Ken (still love him tho)

They. Fucking. Would.

They’re going to Barbenheimer :)

“Six tickets to Barbie, please!” 💕

Barbenheimer reference?

Barbenheimer walked so that robinhill could run. I rest my case.

"We NeEd MoRe CoMpLeX fEmaLe ChAraCteRs"

You guys couldn't even handle Barbie.

(ps: I finally watched the Barbie movie)

Ok so recently i got a summer job at the cinema and before that i was happy with just silently hype over whatever tumblr tumblered but i now have experienced the barbie movie before any of my friends and family and i feel cursed with the miracle of an existence without posts to silently agree and give hearts to and Aaaaaaaaaaaaa.

Also im changing my pronouns to ken/they/them.

Because what Ryan Gosling did on the screen was way too much for me he has wronged every cell of my being and im grateful for that.

Kinda feel bad for not following the meme and watch oppenheimer first but oh well.

Also i just moved to California from Mexico so my English is as my manager says lovingly "una reberenda mierda."

Okay I've watched Barbie (yes I'm late but shhh).

This movie had me in TEARS. I went to the cinema with my mother and my little brother, and when I tell you that I cried, it's not like was teary, I really cried like a baby. And I hugged my mom so tight after the movie.

Its just and fucking masterpiece and everything about it was beautiful. The speech of Sacha's mother was powerful, and I do not regret going to the movie with my mom.

The fact that Barbie felt uncomfortable while rollerskating when Ken felt admired was the most relatable thing ever.

I just loved it from the beginning to the end.

(And my brother just said it sucked, so we told him that he didn't understand the movie at all) (he is 13 btw)

i posted last week about how i went to watch oppenheimer as part of barbenheimer & then ended up writing a 900 word essay about it. three people asked to see the essay so here it is:

a three hour anxiety attack

i watched oppenheimer; had dinner, watched barbie and then showered. i cant stop thinking about this movie. the thing about christopher nolan movies is that there’s always a part of them that makes me remember why i love movies, a part of me that is reminded of their power in the way that they make me feel things. most succinctly, yes, this movie is a three hour anxiety attack because i spent the entirety of the movie anxious, knowing little about this film other than that an atomic bomb is going to be made and dropped on hiroshima and nagasaki.

while i was much too dumb to understand the timeline of events, christopher nolan still makes such a foreign experience feel personal and familiar. relatable even, even though the times have changed. people have always been people, flawed and trusting and selfish. there’s the case of the spy, a jewish man, much like oppenheimer, that oppenheimer initially trusts out of community in hard times. you can understand oppenheimer’s devotion to the war, as someone so personally affected by it. there’s something personal, in the orchestration of the betrayal by robert downey jr (i cannot remember his characters name, truly, he was not that memorable), and how oppenheimer goes from respected to blacklisted. people are petty and cruel. i don’t think i’ve ever seen a movie with a sex scene that i found added to the plot of characters, but there is something so powerful in jean’s death being the only one explicitly shown on screen: humans are selfish and will be our own demise because we, more often than not, cannot find the empathy to care for people who we don’t know. it’s the trolley problem - the death of a lover or the death of hundreds of thousands, or even, the very end of the world.

there’s one line of dialogue that hasn’t left my mind since i finished watching this movie, almost ten hours ago now. it’s the moment in which they’re discussing what cities to bomb, and one character goes ‘not kyoto. there’s too much culture. plus my wife and i honeymooned there’ or something of the sort. it’s the kind of moment that shocked me, how the lives of hundreds of thousands of civilians were held in the hands of a guy making decisions based on his honeymoon. it’s the most memorable example of the question ‘who had the right to power’, regarding people’s lives, that consumes this movie. who has the right to create and use a weapon of mass destruction? another that i think of, is the scene with truman. i think that christopher nolan has portrayed a president more accurately than any other piece of media in the past: the president is not just some boss man, he is a guy appointed to look over entire fields he could not possibly understand the weight of, not even if he tried. truman’s depiction in this movie - as does everyone’s, honestly - feels so real because every single person has flaws. everyone here is so deeply flawed and insufferable, even oppenheimer, who likely is only slightly better because he’s aware of it all.

in high school, i was forced to spend two entire years studying world war two and the cold war from every perspective - japan, germany, italy, the united states, the soviet union, china, france and england. so of course, the questions of the ethics and necessity of the dropping of the atomic bomb came up, and there are so many discussions to be had within that. and yet, there wasn’t enough in this film. maybe this is a good thing, given that would require the opinions and analysis of the work of many historians that would likely derail the vision of nolan’s film, it would’ve meant a lot to the little nerd in me specifically.

oppenheimer opposes the hydrogen bomb because if the united states has one; the soviet union, their enemies at the time, would be forced to make one too. on a side note, another moment in this film that made my gut wrench was when this claim is denied on the belief that russia does not have the resources, or knowledge to compete with the united states. and god what a fucking blessing and curse is hindsight, as underestimating russia and the soviet union during a war is just as relevant today. this makes an interesting biopic to me because everyone knows about the atomic bomb. everyone knows about chernobyl and nuclear power. in fact, in the very basic level science classes i took, the world nuclear power became synonymous with chernobyl. bad things happen, and we know it, and this movie helps to warn us a bit about it.

enough on the history nerd stuff i truly did forget how much of my life i spent studying history, even if i only stopped just over a year ago. the sound design of this movie was fucking insane. every piece of audio, the line delivery, everything, made me feel so much (besides rdj - i get what people say about people having faces that know what iphones are) the shots were fucking masterful and despite being a three hour film, there was not a single moment (beyond the sex scenes mayhaps) that i felt dragged on for longer than they needed to. once again, just to end this off, god i fucking loved the sound of this movie, the build up, the anxiety, everything. while i most certainly have not seen enough christopher nolan to say definitively that this is his best work, i can most certainly see why people would say it is so.

god, girlhood is just something so special. when i went to watch barbie yesterday i ran to the bathroom during previews and some mom turned to her daughter and said ‘look other people are wearing pink’, and all around the theatre people were commenting on each others outfits, and it was so nice to just have that sense of community and support with absolute strangers you would never see again

to everyone wanting to do barbenheimer double features i want to say please don’t think you can watch oppenheimer casually especially if you spent years of your life studying world war two and the cold war from the perspective of every country involved and completely forgot about it i just wrote a 900 word essay on oppenheimer. i have work later.

The Barbie movie has made me openly weep multiple times, and I'm all here for it. Greta Gerwig is an absolute genius.

guys I've just seen oppenheimer.

The film is gorgeous, watch it.

About to watch Barbie!!!