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Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome back to movie Mike's movie podcast. I

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Speaker 1: am your host Movie Mike, and in honor of Barbie

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Speaker 1: Oppenheimer Weekend aka Barbenheimer, I want to share with you

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Speaker 1: iconic movies that came out on the same day and

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Speaker 1: which one of them made the most money. In the

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Speaker 1: movie review. It is a double movie review because we're

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Speaker 1: gonna have to talk about both Barbie and Oppenheimer, which

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Speaker 1: I saw in seventy millimeter Imax, and I want to

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Speaker 1: tell you just about that experience alone and how that

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Speaker 1: made the movie so much better. So thank you for

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Speaker 1: being here, thank you for being subscribed and listening every

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Speaker 1: single week. Shout out to the Monday Morning Movie crew.

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Speaker 1: And now let's talk movies.

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Speaker 2: In a world where everyone and their mother has a podcast,

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Speaker 2: one man stands to infiltrate the ears of listeners like

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Speaker 2: never before in a movie podcast.

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Speaker 1: A man with so much movie knowledge.

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Speaker 2: He's basically like a walking IMTB with glasses.

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Speaker 1: From the Nashville Podcast Network. This is movie Mike's Movie Podcast.

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Speaker 1: I love everything going into Barbenheimer Weekend. It felt like

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Speaker 1: an event to me, and maybe you got annoyed with

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Speaker 1: all of the promotion leading up to Barbie and Oppenheimer together.

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Speaker 1: But I loved it. I think this is the pop

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Speaker 1: culture moment we needed in movies, and probably since the

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Speaker 1: start of this podcast in twenty nineteen, I really haven't

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Speaker 1: seen anything like that where everybody knew that Barbie was

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Speaker 1: coming out this past weekend and Oppenheimer really just rode

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Speaker 1: linked into it. And why is that, Well, both movies

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Speaker 1: though Christopher Nolan wanted to see the release date shifted

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Speaker 1: I think it was the best thing for both of

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Speaker 1: these movies because they are so polar opposites, and that

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Speaker 1: the discussion began. Because you have Pink on one side,

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Speaker 1: all the bright and colorful things that go along with Barbie,

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Speaker 1: and then on the completely other end of the spectrum

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Speaker 1: you have Oppenheimer, which is associated with the all black

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Speaker 1: attire because it's a much more serious movie about a

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Speaker 1: And what it ended up being the perfect example of

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Speaker 1: is counter programming at its finest. What is counter programming?

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Speaker 1: It's really a term used more in television. Think of

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Speaker 1: other channels they counterprogram it with putting on the Puppy

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Speaker 1: and that's what we're going to cover on this week's episode.

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Speaker 1: I'm going to give you two movies that came out

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Speaker 1: when these movies are both going up against each other.

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Speaker 1: which are two very completely different movies, and Not at

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Speaker 1: the Cabin is the one I ended up seeing in

433
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Speaker 1: theaters that weekend. And also on June second of this year,

434
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Speaker 1: both Spider Man Across the Spider Verse and Past Lives

435
00:23:58,359 --> 00:24:01,000
Speaker 1: both came out on that day, which are now in

436
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Speaker 1: the running for my favorite movies of twenty twenty three.

437
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Speaker 1: So someday I'll look back and think man both of

438
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Speaker 1: those movies came out on that exact same day, looking

439
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Speaker 1: at some future nostalgia there. So we'll come back and

440
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Speaker 1: do a double movie review of Barbie and then Oppenheimer.

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Speaker 1: After this, let's get into our first spoiler free movie

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Speaker 1: review of the episode. I want to start first with Barbie.

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Speaker 1: This was one of my top ten most anticipated movies

444
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Speaker 1: of the summer. I think the reason is because it's

445
00:24:34,560 --> 00:24:36,880
Speaker 1: from one of my favorite directors right now, Greta Gerwick.

446
00:24:37,000 --> 00:24:39,560
Speaker 1: And really, there are only a handful of directors that,

447
00:24:39,640 --> 00:24:43,040
Speaker 1: in their first few films know exactly what they want

448
00:24:43,080 --> 00:24:45,280
Speaker 1: to say and how they want to say it, and

449
00:24:45,359 --> 00:24:48,359
Speaker 1: are perfectly able to execute all the elements when it

450
00:24:48,359 --> 00:24:51,840
Speaker 1: comes to just filmmaking at its finest, and Greta Gerwick

451
00:24:51,960 --> 00:24:53,359
Speaker 1: is one of them. So I just knew that this

452
00:24:53,520 --> 00:24:55,720
Speaker 1: was going to be a movie that we weren't expecting,

453
00:24:55,800 --> 00:24:58,040
Speaker 1: and that's exactly what it is, because all I really

454
00:24:58,119 --> 00:25:00,520
Speaker 1: knew going into this movie is that it's gonna be

455
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Speaker 1: about Barbie having an existential crisis forcing her to leave

456
00:25:03,960 --> 00:25:06,879
Speaker 1: Barbie World and go into the real world. And I

457
00:25:06,920 --> 00:25:09,560
Speaker 1: am glad that is all I knew, because somehow this

458
00:25:09,640 --> 00:25:12,720
Speaker 1: movie was nothing what I was expecting, but yet everything

459
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Speaker 1: I wanted. And I want to start first with my

460
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Speaker 1: theater experience going into Barbie, because there was so much

461
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Speaker 1: promotion going into this movie, which I feel really added

462
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Speaker 1: to the level of anticipation for me, and unlike any

463
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Speaker 1: movie I've seen in the entire time I've been going

464
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Speaker 1: to movies since I was a kid, I haven't really

465
00:25:33,920 --> 00:25:37,600
Speaker 1: experienced anything like this before. The lobby was a sea

466
00:25:37,640 --> 00:25:41,600
Speaker 1: of pink and you could feel the electricity. Even myself

467
00:25:41,640 --> 00:25:44,119
Speaker 1: and my wife Kelsey, we got all dressed up, like

468
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Speaker 1: I wore pink, this pink shirt I'm wearing now, I

469
00:25:46,520 --> 00:25:49,280
Speaker 1: wore pink shoes, my wife wore her pink blazer, and

470
00:25:49,320 --> 00:25:51,280
Speaker 1: I thought to myself as we were eating dinner before

471
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Speaker 1: the movie, are we gonna look like, you know, losers

472
00:25:54,560 --> 00:25:56,640
Speaker 1: going to watch this movie because we get so excited

473
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Speaker 1: that we wanted to dress up. But almost everybody in

474
00:26:00,440 --> 00:26:03,720
Speaker 1: the theater was dressed in some form of pink, and that

475
00:26:03,800 --> 00:26:05,560
Speaker 1: just made it feel like much more of an event

476
00:26:05,640 --> 00:26:08,960
Speaker 1: and like a bonding experience, one that I haven't experienced

477
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Speaker 1: in all of my years of going to movies, not

478
00:26:10,960 --> 00:26:13,480
Speaker 1: in a Marvel movie, not in a DC movie, not

479
00:26:13,560 --> 00:26:17,440
Speaker 1: in any legacy action movie. This was something truly unique.

480
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Speaker 1: So I think, aside from the movie, this is gonna

481
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Speaker 1: be a moment that we remember in cinema forever. I'm

482
00:26:23,680 --> 00:26:26,360
Speaker 1: always gonna remember the day I went to see Barbie,

483
00:26:26,480 --> 00:26:30,320
Speaker 1: and this entire weekend, Barbie Oppenheimer Weekend is something we

484
00:26:30,400 --> 00:26:33,560
Speaker 1: needed in film, and Barbie is what we needed right now.

485
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Speaker 1: So I was all in and invested in this movie.

486
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Speaker 1: And from the very beginning, this movie just grabbed me

487
00:26:40,160 --> 00:26:44,439
Speaker 1: in a way that I wasn't expecting. And very few

488
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Speaker 1: times now when I go watch a movie do I

489
00:26:46,960 --> 00:26:50,760
Speaker 1: get fully immersed in every aspect of it and allow

490
00:26:50,800 --> 00:26:53,800
Speaker 1: myself to just lose myself in the movie going experience.

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Speaker 1: This was one of them. Once we were in Barbie world,

492
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Speaker 1: I was fully transformed and living in that world. And

493
00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:03,560
Speaker 1: I loved it because Greta Gerwig did such a great

494
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Speaker 1: job nailing every single aspect from the fashion, the music,

495
00:27:07,800 --> 00:27:11,560
Speaker 1: the set design. This movie is gonna win all the

496
00:27:11,600 --> 00:27:13,960
Speaker 1: Oscars when it comes to set design and fashion, like

497
00:27:14,280 --> 00:27:16,120
Speaker 1: that's just a given. I don't think that's me going

498
00:27:16,119 --> 00:27:18,800
Speaker 1: out on a limb saying that. There's just so much

499
00:27:18,880 --> 00:27:22,919
Speaker 1: attention to detail that is just mind blowing to me.

500
00:27:23,119 --> 00:27:25,600
Speaker 1: And also, and I experienced something in this movie that

501
00:27:25,880 --> 00:27:28,920
Speaker 1: doesn't really happen to me very often, because I didn't

502
00:27:28,920 --> 00:27:31,199
Speaker 1: get all the references to all the Barbies, and I

503
00:27:31,240 --> 00:27:32,920
Speaker 1: had to look over to my wife who was laughing

504
00:27:32,960 --> 00:27:34,640
Speaker 1: at things that I didn't fully get because I didn't

505
00:27:34,640 --> 00:27:37,159
Speaker 1: grow up playing with Barbies, But after watching this movie,

506
00:27:37,240 --> 00:27:39,920
Speaker 1: I wish I would have. So I think there were

507
00:27:39,960 --> 00:27:42,840
Speaker 1: things in this movie that were so much geared towards

508
00:27:43,119 --> 00:27:45,560
Speaker 1: true Barbie fans who played with him as a kid.

509
00:27:46,080 --> 00:27:47,800
Speaker 1: I felt like when we went to go watch the

510
00:27:47,840 --> 00:27:50,399
Speaker 1: Super Mario Brothers movie and I was laughing at some

511
00:27:50,440 --> 00:27:52,960
Speaker 1: of the references to all these video games and looking

512
00:27:53,000 --> 00:27:54,879
Speaker 1: over to my wife and it wasn't really doing anything

513
00:27:54,880 --> 00:27:57,080
Speaker 1: for her because she didn't grow up playing Super Mario

514
00:27:57,160 --> 00:28:00,879
Speaker 1: like I did. The script was turned here, So aside

515
00:28:00,920 --> 00:28:03,800
Speaker 1: from that of not getting some of the references, this

516
00:28:03,840 --> 00:28:07,000
Speaker 1: movie was really funny. It's very smart comedy, and I

517
00:28:07,040 --> 00:28:09,520
Speaker 1: feel like it takes a little bit of time to

518
00:28:09,520 --> 00:28:12,919
Speaker 1: get used to it and realize that the movie is

519
00:28:12,960 --> 00:28:14,760
Speaker 1: in on the joke. And I think people just have

520
00:28:14,880 --> 00:28:17,639
Speaker 1: different tastes when it comes to comedy. You listening to

521
00:28:17,680 --> 00:28:20,600
Speaker 1: this now are gonna find something funny that I probably

522
00:28:20,600 --> 00:28:22,560
Speaker 1: don't find funny. So I think it's so hard to

523
00:28:22,600 --> 00:28:25,919
Speaker 1: make a comedy right now that you don't really go

524
00:28:25,960 --> 00:28:30,399
Speaker 1: into comedies anymore and just ah, laugh like crazy. That

525
00:28:30,440 --> 00:28:33,920
Speaker 1: doesn't happen anymore. And I really think that only happens

526
00:28:33,920 --> 00:28:37,040
Speaker 1: when you're a teenager or a kid. So I think

527
00:28:37,720 --> 00:28:40,840
Speaker 1: adults who have expectations of going to a movie and

528
00:28:40,920 --> 00:28:43,640
Speaker 1: just laughing NonStop like that's not gonna happen, you have

529
00:28:43,640 --> 00:28:45,640
Speaker 1: to go see some stand up comedy for that. What

530
00:28:45,720 --> 00:28:49,320
Speaker 1: comedies have to do now is have a unique perspective

531
00:28:50,000 --> 00:28:53,160
Speaker 1: and be so good at the writing and have actors

532
00:28:53,160 --> 00:28:56,960
Speaker 1: who can deliver it effortlessly and you almost have to

533
00:28:57,000 --> 00:28:58,560
Speaker 1: be in on it a little bit. So this is

534
00:28:58,600 --> 00:29:02,160
Speaker 1: a meta comedy. It's very aware of itself. So for

535
00:29:02,280 --> 00:29:05,680
Speaker 1: those reasons, once you allow yourself to get into the

536
00:29:05,720 --> 00:29:08,080
Speaker 1: style of it, you have to fully immerse yourself and

537
00:29:08,160 --> 00:29:09,960
Speaker 1: want to be a part of it for it to

538
00:29:09,960 --> 00:29:12,479
Speaker 1: be funny to you. But in our theater people were

539
00:29:12,560 --> 00:29:16,840
Speaker 1: laughing NonStop, and I think that also helped for me

540
00:29:16,960 --> 00:29:18,920
Speaker 1: to find it more funny, because when you go see

541
00:29:18,920 --> 00:29:22,360
Speaker 1: a comedy like this and experience it with other people

542
00:29:22,840 --> 00:29:25,480
Speaker 1: and hear what other people are laughing at, sometimes it

543
00:29:25,560 --> 00:29:27,760
Speaker 1: heightens it a little bit. So if you wait to

544
00:29:27,760 --> 00:29:31,200
Speaker 1: watch this movie streaming, you may think, what exactly is this?

545
00:29:31,320 --> 00:29:34,240
Speaker 1: What did people see in this movie? You got to

546
00:29:34,280 --> 00:29:36,280
Speaker 1: experience it with people. I think that is the same

547
00:29:36,360 --> 00:29:39,440
Speaker 1: with comedies and also with horror movies. Sometimes you can

548
00:29:39,480 --> 00:29:41,720
Speaker 1: watch a good horror movie at home and still be scared.

549
00:29:41,800 --> 00:29:43,680
Speaker 1: But there's something about going to see a comedy and

550
00:29:43,720 --> 00:29:45,760
Speaker 1: a horror movie in theaters that just adds to the

551
00:29:45,840 --> 00:29:49,239
Speaker 1: experience and makes maybe things that aren't as funny a

552
00:29:49,240 --> 00:29:52,760
Speaker 1: little bit more funny, makes things that are actually funny hilarious.

553
00:29:52,800 --> 00:29:55,920
Speaker 1: So same thing with horror, same thing with comedy. Go

554
00:29:55,960 --> 00:29:58,280
Speaker 1: watch it in the theater and get the full experience.

555
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Speaker 1: And I think the reason this movie was so so

556
00:30:00,240 --> 00:30:03,280
Speaker 1: important for me to see as a guy is it

557
00:30:03,360 --> 00:30:06,080
Speaker 1: was a great commentary on what women have to go

558
00:30:06,160 --> 00:30:09,240
Speaker 1: through and face every single day. The different things that

559
00:30:09,280 --> 00:30:12,080
Speaker 1: apply to women that don't apply to men, that things

560
00:30:12,160 --> 00:30:14,360
Speaker 1: men are able to get away with that women aren't,

561
00:30:14,640 --> 00:30:17,480
Speaker 1: and all of the battles and things that women have

562
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Speaker 1: to go through. There's such a great monologue from America

563
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Speaker 1: Ferreira in this, one of the best monologues in the

564
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Speaker 1: last ten years. I would say you don't really get

565
00:30:27,240 --> 00:30:30,560
Speaker 1: monologues in movies anymore, but this one was so impactful

566
00:30:30,600 --> 00:30:33,840
Speaker 1: that every single line in her monologue hit it all

567
00:30:33,840 --> 00:30:36,280
Speaker 1: made a really great statement. So again, the writing in

568
00:30:36,320 --> 00:30:39,840
Speaker 1: this was just excellent, So I think that scene alone

569
00:30:39,840 --> 00:30:42,479
Speaker 1: needs to win an award. And really the movie is

570
00:30:42,600 --> 00:30:46,800
Speaker 1: all about finding your purpose and questioning things around you

571
00:30:46,880 --> 00:30:50,880
Speaker 1: because Margot Robbie's Barbie lives in Barbie world where everything

572
00:30:50,920 --> 00:30:53,560
Speaker 1: is just perfect every single day. That is what you

573
00:30:53,640 --> 00:30:55,880
Speaker 1: see in the opening scene. She does the same thing

574
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Speaker 1: over and over again and nothing ever changes because in

575
00:31:00,360 --> 00:31:03,200
Speaker 1: this world of Barbie world. All of the issues that

576
00:31:03,280 --> 00:31:05,920
Speaker 1: women have had to face have been solved. They are

577
00:31:06,040 --> 00:31:08,240
Speaker 1: in the highest power. Do you have a women president,

578
00:31:08,280 --> 00:31:11,840
Speaker 1: a women's Supreme Court? And it's the kens aka the dudes,

579
00:31:12,520 --> 00:31:15,760
Speaker 1: just there serving the Barbies, and deep in the back

580
00:31:15,800 --> 00:31:18,320
Speaker 1: of her mind she just starts thinking about death and

581
00:31:18,440 --> 00:31:21,520
Speaker 1: dread and all of these things that are the complete

582
00:31:21,520 --> 00:31:24,480
Speaker 1: opposite of what a Barbie is supposed to feel. There

583
00:31:24,560 --> 00:31:27,200
Speaker 1: is a line in this movie I related with so much,

584
00:31:27,560 --> 00:31:30,360
Speaker 1: Barbie just saying, you, guys, ever think about death, which

585
00:31:30,440 --> 00:31:32,200
Speaker 1: just comes out of nowhere, because she is such a

586
00:31:32,280 --> 00:31:36,160
Speaker 1: bright and positive person, but yet she's struggling with the

587
00:31:36,200 --> 00:31:38,600
Speaker 1: idea of death and us as humans, I feel like

588
00:31:38,640 --> 00:31:42,040
Speaker 1: sometimes we mask those things we are actually feeling. It's

589
00:31:42,080 --> 00:31:44,800
Speaker 1: easier to just smile and fake it until you make it,

590
00:31:44,840 --> 00:31:47,800
Speaker 1: but deep down inside you could be feeling like the worst.

591
00:31:48,440 --> 00:31:51,040
Speaker 1: And when she said that line and how everybody reacted

592
00:31:51,640 --> 00:31:53,800
Speaker 1: is sometimes how I feel like. Sometimes I just have

593
00:31:53,960 --> 00:31:56,080
Speaker 1: those dark thoughts that you don't know what is going on,

594
00:31:56,840 --> 00:31:59,680
Speaker 1: and it's so easy to just kind of fake a smile,

595
00:32:00,080 --> 00:32:02,280
Speaker 1: you know, move on with your life, and that ends

596
00:32:02,400 --> 00:32:05,520
Speaker 1: up being what forces Barbie to leave Barbie Land and

597
00:32:05,560 --> 00:32:08,240
Speaker 1: go figure out why this is happening to her, which

598
00:32:08,240 --> 00:32:10,240
Speaker 1: I have to say, I love the way the movie

599
00:32:10,280 --> 00:32:14,600
Speaker 1: handled transitioning from Barbie World into the real world and

600
00:32:14,640 --> 00:32:17,560
Speaker 1: how you go from a place where everything is perfect

601
00:32:18,080 --> 00:32:20,720
Speaker 1: and nothing ever bad happens and then going into the

602
00:32:20,760 --> 00:32:23,600
Speaker 1: real world and realizing, oh man, that's not how it

603
00:32:23,640 --> 00:32:25,800
Speaker 1: is at all. And I think it's a true testiment

604
00:32:25,880 --> 00:32:29,080
Speaker 1: of how great of an actor Margot Robbie is. You

605
00:32:29,120 --> 00:32:32,080
Speaker 1: think maybe playing Barbie is easy, it is not. You

606
00:32:32,160 --> 00:32:35,000
Speaker 1: see the evolution of her character throughout this entire movie,

607
00:32:35,160 --> 00:32:38,200
Speaker 1: and it's almost like what we all experience growing up

608
00:32:38,200 --> 00:32:41,320
Speaker 1: as adults. How when you're a kid, everything is great

609
00:32:41,400 --> 00:32:44,360
Speaker 1: and awesome, and then when you learn more about life,

610
00:32:44,400 --> 00:32:47,000
Speaker 1: you just kind of get jaded a little bit more

611
00:32:47,040 --> 00:32:49,280
Speaker 1: and more, until life just kind of wears on you

612
00:32:49,520 --> 00:32:51,520
Speaker 1: and you see it on your face that you're a

613
00:32:51,560 --> 00:32:55,080
Speaker 1: little bit more tired, you're a little bit more dejected.

614
00:32:55,240 --> 00:32:58,040
Speaker 1: You see that evolution. And Margot Robbie, so the way

615
00:32:58,120 --> 00:33:01,240
Speaker 1: she was able to handle that and showed that evolution

616
00:33:01,360 --> 00:33:04,440
Speaker 1: throughout the entire movie was amazing. So it's on her,

617
00:33:04,520 --> 00:33:06,800
Speaker 1: It's on Greta Gerwig. This movie to me felt like

618
00:33:06,840 --> 00:33:09,920
Speaker 1: a mix of life size with Tyra Banks and The

619
00:33:09,920 --> 00:33:14,360
Speaker 1: Truman Show throwing in these very outrageous moments, but also

620
00:33:14,400 --> 00:33:18,000
Speaker 1: these moments of gentleness and clarity. There are some very

621
00:33:18,040 --> 00:33:21,440
Speaker 1: beautiful moments in this movie that allow you as the

622
00:33:21,520 --> 00:33:25,280
Speaker 1: viewer to really feel what Barbie is experiencing and to

623
00:33:25,320 --> 00:33:27,840
Speaker 1: see these emotions actually come out of her because she

624
00:33:27,920 --> 00:33:30,680
Speaker 1: hasn't really felt anything like this before. The other thing

625
00:33:30,920 --> 00:33:33,000
Speaker 1: by the end of this movie I was really into

626
00:33:33,720 --> 00:33:36,880
Speaker 1: was the music. And I always say, I've probably said

627
00:33:36,880 --> 00:33:39,760
Speaker 1: it earlier on this episode how I'm not entirely into musicals,

628
00:33:40,520 --> 00:33:43,560
Speaker 1: but the soundtrack on this was amazing, and also just

629
00:33:43,640 --> 00:33:47,160
Speaker 1: all the singing moments really added to the big, over

630
00:33:47,200 --> 00:33:50,280
Speaker 1: the top nature of this entire movie that I was seeing.

631
00:33:50,400 --> 00:33:52,040
Speaker 1: I am just a Ken by the end of it.

632
00:33:52,240 --> 00:33:54,840
Speaker 1: Other standouts from the cast, of course, you have Ryan

633
00:33:54,880 --> 00:33:58,480
Speaker 1: Gosling as Ken, who you kind of forget or maybe

634
00:33:58,520 --> 00:34:00,959
Speaker 1: don't really know how funny of an actor he is

635
00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:04,240
Speaker 1: because he normally does a lot of more serious roles,

636
00:34:04,560 --> 00:34:06,480
Speaker 1: but every now and then you get a glimpse of

637
00:34:06,560 --> 00:34:10,680
Speaker 1: him being funny. I thought he played that character incredibly well.

638
00:34:10,760 --> 00:34:13,759
Speaker 1: But I have to say, aside from Margot Robbie. Kate

639
00:34:13,880 --> 00:34:17,680
Speaker 1: McKinnon was my favorite as weird Barbie. I feel like

640
00:34:17,719 --> 00:34:20,640
Speaker 1: this was the role that she was meant to play,

641
00:34:20,680 --> 00:34:23,000
Speaker 1: because she gets thrown into movies as you know, the

642
00:34:23,080 --> 00:34:26,319
Speaker 1: quirky character, the off the wall character, and she did

643
00:34:26,320 --> 00:34:29,719
Speaker 1: that so well on Saturday Night Live. But seeing her

644
00:34:29,840 --> 00:34:33,680
Speaker 1: as weird Barbie thing everything she has done now completely

645
00:34:33,680 --> 00:34:35,920
Speaker 1: makes sense. This is the character she was meant to be,

646
00:34:36,440 --> 00:34:39,040
Speaker 1: so I'm glad they cast her as Weird Barbie. No

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Speaker 1: one else could have done that role. So, like I said,

648
00:34:41,400 --> 00:34:44,200
Speaker 1: I was fully immersed in the Barbie world and by

649
00:34:44,200 --> 00:34:46,640
Speaker 1: the end of the movie I didn't want to leave it.

650
00:34:46,760 --> 00:34:49,960
Speaker 1: So not only did it meet every single one of

651
00:34:49,960 --> 00:34:53,880
Speaker 1: my expectations, but it set the bar for movies for

652
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Speaker 1: the rest of the year. For me, I'm not gonna

653
00:34:56,760 --> 00:35:00,719
Speaker 1: soon forget this movie. So for Barbie, I give it

654
00:35:01,640 --> 00:35:04,800
Speaker 1: a rare perfect score. It is five out of five

655
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Speaker 1: Barbie Dreamhouses. Next up in our movie reviews in Barbenheimer Weekend,

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Speaker 1: It's time to talk about Oppenheimer and I feel like

657
00:35:18,000 --> 00:35:21,279
Speaker 1: my demeanor needs to change because unlike after I went

658
00:35:21,320 --> 00:35:24,719
Speaker 1: to go see Barbie, I had this really happy and

659
00:35:24,800 --> 00:35:27,560
Speaker 1: positive outlook on life, like I could take on the world.

660
00:35:28,239 --> 00:35:31,920
Speaker 1: After watching Oppenheimer and walking out of the theater, I

661
00:35:31,960 --> 00:35:35,520
Speaker 1: felt the complete opposite way. I had, like this feeling

662
00:35:35,600 --> 00:35:39,120
Speaker 1: of dread inside of me, this icky feeling after learning

663
00:35:39,120 --> 00:35:44,040
Speaker 1: about Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb, and really

664
00:35:44,160 --> 00:35:48,759
Speaker 1: the weight of what that creation had on him, the

665
00:35:48,800 --> 00:35:52,560
Speaker 1: effects it had on history and all the moral dilemmas,

666
00:35:52,960 --> 00:35:56,280
Speaker 1: and really the way it changed how the entire world

667
00:35:56,880 --> 00:36:00,919
Speaker 1: goes to war. It was very unsetting and the way

668
00:36:01,000 --> 00:36:04,799
Speaker 1: the entire movie unfolded, even from the very beginning, the

669
00:36:04,800 --> 00:36:06,840
Speaker 1: opening scene, it was just like, oh, man, this is

670
00:36:06,920 --> 00:36:09,120
Speaker 1: going to be something different. And I really didn't know

671
00:36:09,239 --> 00:36:12,200
Speaker 1: how Christopher Nolan was going to take on a full

672
00:36:12,239 --> 00:36:16,160
Speaker 1: on historical drama because a lot of his movies really

673
00:36:16,200 --> 00:36:19,600
Speaker 1: pushed the envelope on filmmaking and some piece of technology,

674
00:36:20,080 --> 00:36:22,880
Speaker 1: whether it be tenant. Even though that didn't really land

675
00:36:22,920 --> 00:36:27,520
Speaker 1: with me completely, I appreciated him trying to make something

676
00:36:27,560 --> 00:36:30,080
Speaker 1: completely different. I just didn't really think it worked. I

677
00:36:30,120 --> 00:36:32,360
Speaker 1: didn't really think that entire movie made sense. But you

678
00:36:32,440 --> 00:36:35,799
Speaker 1: look at movies like Inception, Interstellar, even what he did

679
00:36:35,800 --> 00:36:39,600
Speaker 1: with the entire Dark Knight franchise, even with Dunkirk, a

680
00:36:39,719 --> 00:36:42,640
Speaker 1: much more straight ahead war film. There was always an

681
00:36:42,640 --> 00:36:46,319
Speaker 1: element of action. So I wondered how taking away all

682
00:36:46,400 --> 00:36:49,239
Speaker 1: those elements and just making a movie with a lot

683
00:36:49,280 --> 00:36:53,440
Speaker 1: of dialogue and being such a deep character study, exactly

684
00:36:53,480 --> 00:36:56,280
Speaker 1: how that was going to feel like a Christopher Nolan movie.

685
00:36:56,960 --> 00:36:59,960
Speaker 1: And he showed me pretty soon on in the movie

686
00:37:00,120 --> 00:37:03,080
Speaker 1: exactly what that meant. So, like I said, the entire

687
00:37:03,200 --> 00:37:05,960
Speaker 1: movie is about Oppenheimer and his role in the creation

688
00:37:06,080 --> 00:37:09,160
Speaker 1: of the atomic bomb. So you go back to World

689
00:37:09,239 --> 00:37:12,880
Speaker 1: War two and everything that was unfolding with the war

690
00:37:13,000 --> 00:37:15,960
Speaker 1: with Hitler and how the United States was trying to

691
00:37:16,600 --> 00:37:20,000
Speaker 1: essentially end the war. So they looked to JD. Oppenheimer,

692
00:37:20,000 --> 00:37:23,600
Speaker 1: who is this mad, crazy scientist, and they come up

693
00:37:23,600 --> 00:37:27,879
Speaker 1: with the idea for him to build this town, bring

694
00:37:27,920 --> 00:37:30,920
Speaker 1: in all the best scientists from around the world, and

695
00:37:31,040 --> 00:37:34,000
Speaker 1: have them work for years on this project of developing

696
00:37:34,040 --> 00:37:37,120
Speaker 1: the atomic bomb. So before I get into more details

697
00:37:37,120 --> 00:37:40,400
Speaker 1: about the movie without really spoiling it, even though it

698
00:37:40,440 --> 00:37:43,240
Speaker 1: is based on history, so if you are fully versed

699
00:37:43,280 --> 00:37:45,799
Speaker 1: in World War two, you may know a lot about this.

700
00:37:46,320 --> 00:37:49,640
Speaker 1: But for me, it was almost like relearning things that

701
00:37:49,719 --> 00:37:52,200
Speaker 1: I learned in high school and college. But before I

702
00:37:52,239 --> 00:37:54,040
Speaker 1: get into more of that, I want to talk about

703
00:37:54,080 --> 00:37:57,040
Speaker 1: the theater experience, because I actually got to see this

704
00:37:57,200 --> 00:38:01,839
Speaker 1: movie in seventy millimeter. I'm at so this is the

705
00:38:01,880 --> 00:38:05,920
Speaker 1: best quality you can see, Oppenheimer. It's how Christopher Nolan

706
00:38:06,000 --> 00:38:08,719
Speaker 1: would really want anybody to see the movie. And if

707
00:38:08,719 --> 00:38:10,839
Speaker 1: you don't know what that means exactly, So when you

708
00:38:10,920 --> 00:38:13,720
Speaker 1: just go watch a normal movie at the movie theater,

709
00:38:14,200 --> 00:38:17,360
Speaker 1: it is shown digitally. There isn't anybody there running the

710
00:38:17,400 --> 00:38:20,880
Speaker 1: projector having the film on a reel and hitting play.

711
00:38:21,000 --> 00:38:24,920
Speaker 1: They just all run digitally. And there is also Imax

712
00:38:25,000 --> 00:38:28,400
Speaker 1: where even though you see more information on the screen,

713
00:38:28,480 --> 00:38:30,880
Speaker 1: it takes up more space. You go see it in

714
00:38:31,000 --> 00:38:35,160
Speaker 1: Imax theater. A lot of those movies are still digital.

715
00:38:35,360 --> 00:38:38,280
Speaker 1: There is also thirty five millimeter, which is another format

716
00:38:38,320 --> 00:38:41,400
Speaker 1: that I love. But the millimeters is in reference to

717
00:38:41,600 --> 00:38:45,760
Speaker 1: how big the actual film is. So you have thirty

718
00:38:45,800 --> 00:38:49,440
Speaker 1: five millimeters and then you have seventy millimeters, which, if

719
00:38:49,480 --> 00:38:52,040
Speaker 1: you do the math, is double that. So you go

720
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Speaker 1: from having this much amount of information on the film

721
00:38:55,719 --> 00:38:58,880
Speaker 1: to double that. What that means is when you go

722
00:38:58,960 --> 00:39:02,960
Speaker 1: watch this movie, you are fully immersed in the world

723
00:39:03,160 --> 00:39:07,200
Speaker 1: of Oppenheimer. So normally when you watch things on your TV,

724
00:39:07,440 --> 00:39:09,439
Speaker 1: or even if you go to the movies, it takes

725
00:39:09,560 --> 00:39:13,719
Speaker 1: up the entire screen, your entire TV. What seventy millimeter

726
00:39:13,880 --> 00:39:18,000
Speaker 1: imax does is not only extended a little bit from

727
00:39:18,120 --> 00:39:21,400
Speaker 1: left to right, but also from top to bottom, so

728
00:39:21,520 --> 00:39:24,640
Speaker 1: it kind of just stretches the entire thing out. So

729
00:39:24,719 --> 00:39:28,120
Speaker 1: while watching this movie, you are fully immersed. When it

730
00:39:28,160 --> 00:39:31,080
Speaker 1: goes to a close up of Killean Murphy's face, you

731
00:39:31,160 --> 00:39:36,120
Speaker 1: see their entire face and it's unlike anything I've really experienced.

732
00:39:36,280 --> 00:39:39,600
Speaker 1: And when you see it projected on seventy millimeters, this

733
00:39:39,760 --> 00:39:44,160
Speaker 1: film weighs six hundred pounds and is eleven miles long,

734
00:39:44,280 --> 00:39:46,759
Speaker 1: so that is a lot of information on the film Reeal.

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00:39:47,160 --> 00:39:49,799
Speaker 1: You can actually hear it spinning in the theater. During

736
00:39:49,840 --> 00:39:53,960
Speaker 1: Quiet Park, you hear that little ticking of a projector,

737
00:39:54,000 --> 00:39:56,800
Speaker 1: which as a movie fan I enjoyed. I would elbow

738
00:39:56,920 --> 00:39:59,040
Speaker 1: kelsey when you could hear that sound because it felt

739
00:39:59,120 --> 00:40:01,760
Speaker 1: so cool to see it the way it was intended

740
00:40:01,800 --> 00:40:04,480
Speaker 1: to be seen. And you can tell the difference between

741
00:40:04,480 --> 00:40:08,400
Speaker 1: something being shown digitally and being shown on actual film

742
00:40:08,520 --> 00:40:10,480
Speaker 1: and how I would describe it. When you see a

743
00:40:10,520 --> 00:40:15,560
Speaker 1: movie in seventy milimeter, it appears that every single scene

744
00:40:15,960 --> 00:40:19,319
Speaker 1: could be its own photograph print. So it was as

745
00:40:19,360 --> 00:40:22,719
Speaker 1: if they took a camera in the highest quality and

746
00:40:22,840 --> 00:40:25,920
Speaker 1: just took individual pictures of every scene, and if you

747
00:40:25,960 --> 00:40:28,080
Speaker 1: were to pull one of those, you could print it

748
00:40:28,120 --> 00:40:29,759
Speaker 1: and put it on your wall and it would look

749
00:40:29,840 --> 00:40:32,440
Speaker 1: like a piece of art. Like every shot was so

750
00:40:32,719 --> 00:40:37,240
Speaker 1: perfectly orchestrated, and there was also a level of warmth

751
00:40:37,320 --> 00:40:40,800
Speaker 1: and depths to it seeing it in seventy milimeter IMEX.

752
00:40:40,880 --> 00:40:43,600
Speaker 1: So this was the first movie I've ever seen like this.

753
00:40:43,880 --> 00:40:46,360
Speaker 1: And the reason it also makes so much a difference

754
00:40:46,440 --> 00:40:48,920
Speaker 1: is because this is how this movie was shot with

755
00:40:48,960 --> 00:40:53,239
Speaker 1: Imax cameras with films, so this is as close as

756
00:40:53,239 --> 00:40:56,600
Speaker 1: it gets to seeing something in three D without three

757
00:40:56,640 --> 00:40:59,600
Speaker 1: D glasses. I don't really like three D movies. I

758
00:40:59,600 --> 00:41:01,640
Speaker 1: don't really think it adds the level of depth that

759
00:41:01,719 --> 00:41:05,040
Speaker 1: they say it does. This is the way more people

760
00:41:05,080 --> 00:41:08,400
Speaker 1: should be making movies at this scale. Christopher Nolan is

761
00:41:08,440 --> 00:41:11,120
Speaker 1: one director that I fully trust to do it. So

762
00:41:11,360 --> 00:41:17,040
Speaker 1: he actually paid to have this IMAX projector fixed in

763
00:41:17,200 --> 00:41:21,640
Speaker 1: Nashville because there are only I believe nineteen maybe twenty

764
00:41:21,719 --> 00:41:25,360
Speaker 1: theaters in the United States who are showing it this

765
00:41:25,400 --> 00:41:28,040
Speaker 1: way because it is so expensive because it takes up

766
00:41:28,040 --> 00:41:31,759
Speaker 1: so much room, and the theater here in Nashville had

767
00:41:31,800 --> 00:41:34,920
Speaker 1: the capabilities of it, but it was broken. So Christopher

768
00:41:34,960 --> 00:41:37,600
Speaker 1: Nolan paid out of his own pocket to have it

769
00:41:37,920 --> 00:41:42,520
Speaker 1: fixed so that Oppenheimer could be seen how he intended

770
00:41:42,520 --> 00:41:45,520
Speaker 1: it to be. So it adds depth and it adds clarity.

771
00:41:45,840 --> 00:41:49,000
Speaker 1: That's how I would describe it. Now, another issue people

772
00:41:49,040 --> 00:41:52,200
Speaker 1: are going to have going into watching Oppenheimer is the

773
00:41:52,320 --> 00:41:57,719
Speaker 1: three hour runtime. I feel like directors of his caliber

774
00:41:58,400 --> 00:42:01,600
Speaker 1: have a vision. And I saw this a little bit

775
00:42:01,680 --> 00:42:05,600
Speaker 1: with Avatar and James Cameron, and I realized the format

776
00:42:05,640 --> 00:42:09,279
Speaker 1: they are using is they are making each act an

777
00:42:09,280 --> 00:42:12,279
Speaker 1: hour long, So that is exactly what this movie is.

778
00:42:12,400 --> 00:42:15,359
Speaker 1: In that first hour, you really get to know about Oppenheimer,

779
00:42:15,440 --> 00:42:18,640
Speaker 1: how really he's not even the best person. He is

780
00:42:18,680 --> 00:42:22,280
Speaker 1: a womanizer. He is so just obsessed with his work

781
00:42:22,360 --> 00:42:24,719
Speaker 1: and neglects the other parts of his lives. So you

782
00:42:24,800 --> 00:42:27,560
Speaker 1: really get a deep dive into his character in that

783
00:42:27,600 --> 00:42:30,759
Speaker 1: first hour. And the second hour is all about the

784
00:42:30,840 --> 00:42:34,760
Speaker 1: development of the Adam Baum and all of the trials

785
00:42:34,800 --> 00:42:37,799
Speaker 1: and tribulations that go into that and essentially leading up

786
00:42:37,840 --> 00:42:41,239
Speaker 1: to the moment of detonation, and then the third hour,

787
00:42:41,400 --> 00:42:45,240
Speaker 1: the third act is really all all the falling action

788
00:42:45,480 --> 00:42:49,680
Speaker 1: and the repercussions of what they just created, what they

789
00:42:49,800 --> 00:42:53,520
Speaker 1: just unleashed on the world, and how it affects Oppenheimer.

790
00:42:53,719 --> 00:42:56,000
Speaker 1: And the way Christopher Nolan was able to make this

791
00:42:56,120 --> 00:43:00,640
Speaker 1: story his own was one with the cinematographer, with all

792
00:43:00,680 --> 00:43:03,400
Speaker 1: the aspects of it, having that real film look and

793
00:43:03,440 --> 00:43:07,759
Speaker 1: these beautiful scenes. There is one scene in particular. I

794
00:43:07,880 --> 00:43:10,480
Speaker 1: love it when movies have a scene that take place

795
00:43:10,600 --> 00:43:13,960
Speaker 1: at dawn in a landscape where there's mountains and just

796
00:43:14,000 --> 00:43:17,440
Speaker 1: that like blue color and that sun coming up just

797
00:43:17,480 --> 00:43:19,400
Speaker 1: a little bit that you really can't tell if it's

798
00:43:19,480 --> 00:43:23,560
Speaker 1: dawn or dusk. That looks so beautiful on cameras and

799
00:43:23,600 --> 00:43:27,120
Speaker 1: really capturing the essence of all these characters. And the

800
00:43:27,200 --> 00:43:29,799
Speaker 1: other thing that he is kind of known for and

801
00:43:29,920 --> 00:43:32,840
Speaker 1: is able to do is build a lot of tension.

802
00:43:33,480 --> 00:43:35,680
Speaker 1: And this movie has a lot of dialogue, so you're

803
00:43:35,680 --> 00:43:38,719
Speaker 1: gonna be listening and paying attention throughout this entire movie.

804
00:43:39,120 --> 00:43:42,879
Speaker 1: And how he adds that tension in Oppenheimer is through

805
00:43:42,920 --> 00:43:46,240
Speaker 1: the use of the score where it's all just chugging along,

806
00:43:47,040 --> 00:43:50,960
Speaker 1: chugging along, and making it feel very dramatic, like it

807
00:43:51,000 --> 00:43:53,319
Speaker 1: is building towards something, because really that is what this

808
00:43:53,360 --> 00:43:56,799
Speaker 1: movie is doing the entire time. It is building and

809
00:43:56,920 --> 00:44:00,440
Speaker 1: building on that moment, and through the use of the score,

810
00:44:00,800 --> 00:44:03,560
Speaker 1: it just gives it that feeling that something really impactful

811
00:44:03,640 --> 00:44:06,480
Speaker 1: is happening. It also just kind of builds this feeling

812
00:44:06,520 --> 00:44:09,759
Speaker 1: of dread, and it reminded me a lot of the

813
00:44:09,800 --> 00:44:12,680
Speaker 1: score in the Dark Night, where it just so chugging

814
00:44:12,719 --> 00:44:16,120
Speaker 1: along throughout the entire movie that you think, oh man,

815
00:44:16,200 --> 00:44:18,760
Speaker 1: this is not gonna end well, and it really doesn't.

816
00:44:19,000 --> 00:44:21,799
Speaker 1: And there were just so many beautiful scenes and just

817
00:44:22,000 --> 00:44:25,880
Speaker 1: rushes of sound that were very big and jarring because

818
00:44:26,000 --> 00:44:28,719
Speaker 1: characters would just be having this conversation and all of

819
00:44:28,760 --> 00:44:31,799
Speaker 1: a sudden, the entire screen is just flames and there's

820
00:44:31,800 --> 00:44:35,080
Speaker 1: a big whoosh that happens that really just kind of

821
00:44:35,120 --> 00:44:38,680
Speaker 1: catches you off guard. But one of the most beautiful

822
00:44:38,760 --> 00:44:42,120
Speaker 1: scenes I have ever seen in a movie is once

823
00:44:42,200 --> 00:44:46,360
Speaker 1: they actually test the atom bomb, and how that scene

824
00:44:46,480 --> 00:44:51,000
Speaker 1: was handled was so beautifully done, and I don't want

825
00:44:51,040 --> 00:44:53,160
Speaker 1: to spoil it if you haven't seen it, but I

826
00:44:53,280 --> 00:44:55,920
Speaker 1: felt something during that scene and there was just kind

827
00:44:55,960 --> 00:44:58,800
Speaker 1: of this chilling moment that I was in a sold

828
00:44:58,840 --> 00:45:04,160
Speaker 1: out Imax theater and the entire theater went silent. You

829
00:45:04,160 --> 00:45:06,719
Speaker 1: could hear a pin drop, which is amazing because you

830
00:45:06,719 --> 00:45:08,880
Speaker 1: have all these adults that probably just want to be

831
00:45:08,920 --> 00:45:11,600
Speaker 1: on their cell phones. But in that moment, it was

832
00:45:11,719 --> 00:45:15,600
Speaker 1: so quiet and it was so peaceful that I felt

833
00:45:15,640 --> 00:45:19,640
Speaker 1: this moment of serenity while watching a movie. And if

834
00:45:19,680 --> 00:45:23,439
Speaker 1: I could experience one moment in filmmaking again, it would

835
00:45:23,480 --> 00:45:26,120
Speaker 1: be that moment, because after you watch it for the

836
00:45:26,160 --> 00:45:28,480
Speaker 1: first time, it's not going to have that same impact.

837
00:45:28,560 --> 00:45:31,719
Speaker 1: So that was something beautiful. That was something that can't

838
00:45:31,760 --> 00:45:34,240
Speaker 1: be taken away from me. And I'm glad that the

839
00:45:34,400 --> 00:45:37,879
Speaker 1: entire story up to that point was so well done

840
00:45:38,000 --> 00:45:42,440
Speaker 1: that that moment was so significant and so beautiful and

841
00:45:42,640 --> 00:45:45,040
Speaker 1: just made me think, oh man, this is the reason

842
00:45:45,640 --> 00:45:48,360
Speaker 1: that I love movies. So it had one of the

843
00:45:48,400 --> 00:45:52,880
Speaker 1: best payoffs out of any movie, and it also had

844
00:45:53,080 --> 00:45:56,920
Speaker 1: one of the most impressive casts, not only in a

845
00:45:57,000 --> 00:45:59,960
Speaker 1: Christopher Nolan movie it's by far his most impressive case,

846
00:46:00,719 --> 00:46:03,200
Speaker 1: but really in any movie that I have to pull

847
00:46:03,239 --> 00:46:05,440
Speaker 1: up my letter box just to see the entire cast,

848
00:46:05,440 --> 00:46:07,040
Speaker 1: because I don't want to forget a bunch of people,

849
00:46:07,400 --> 00:46:10,840
Speaker 1: which I'm going to anyway. But you have Killy and

850
00:46:10,960 --> 00:46:14,799
Speaker 1: Murphy for the first time having the lead role in

851
00:46:14,840 --> 00:46:17,279
Speaker 1: a Christopher Nolan movie, which he has been one of

852
00:46:17,280 --> 00:46:21,200
Speaker 1: his go tos throughout his entire history of filmmaking. And

853
00:46:21,239 --> 00:46:23,520
Speaker 1: that's also what I love about Christopher Nolan, And it's

854
00:46:23,600 --> 00:46:27,400
Speaker 1: kind of like an artist having this palette of colors

855
00:46:27,400 --> 00:46:30,200
Speaker 1: he likes going to that he feels comfortable with. That

856
00:46:30,360 --> 00:46:36,000
Speaker 1: is how I feel that directors really show their tone

857
00:46:36,080 --> 00:46:38,920
Speaker 1: and their style that they go back to this color

858
00:46:38,960 --> 00:46:41,799
Speaker 1: palette and use it over and over again to make

859
00:46:41,840 --> 00:46:44,400
Speaker 1: their art because he knows that these are the actors

860
00:46:44,400 --> 00:46:47,840
Speaker 1: who can do his vision justice and he trusts them.

861
00:46:48,200 --> 00:46:51,799
Speaker 1: So seeing Killy and Murphy get that starring role and

862
00:46:51,840 --> 00:46:54,200
Speaker 1: be able to show us just how great of an

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Speaker 1: actor he is what's truly amazing. But I would say

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Speaker 1: there are probably twenty actors in this movie that could

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Speaker 1: easily star in a movie and carry their own like

866
00:47:04,200 --> 00:47:07,240
Speaker 1: they could be the A list actor of any movie.

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Speaker 1: But yet you have this ensemble cast that works together

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Speaker 1: so well that it makes the experience fun because you think,

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Speaker 1: oh man, how are they going to use this person.

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Speaker 1: How are they going to use that person? You have

871
00:47:18,160 --> 00:47:21,000
Speaker 1: major stars in I don't want to call them minor

872
00:47:21,080 --> 00:47:23,600
Speaker 1: roles because in movies there are no small parts that

873
00:47:23,680 --> 00:47:27,080
Speaker 1: are only small actors. But you have really a list

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Speaker 1: actors having one or two scenes. It's like going to

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Speaker 1: a restaurant and asking them to take their finest food

876
00:47:33,760 --> 00:47:36,120
Speaker 1: and stuff it with their second finest food. It's just

877
00:47:36,239 --> 00:47:39,800
Speaker 1: layers and layers of great acting. So Aside from Kelly

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00:47:39,840 --> 00:47:43,520
Speaker 1: and Murphy, you have Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, who was

879
00:47:43,680 --> 00:47:46,000
Speaker 1: amazing in this movie. He's really not one of my

880
00:47:46,080 --> 00:47:50,640
Speaker 1: favorite actors, but he continues to surprise me again and again.

881
00:47:51,040 --> 00:47:53,040
Speaker 1: I don't think he'll ever make it into I love

882
00:47:53,080 --> 00:47:55,640
Speaker 1: Matt Damon, but was really good in this movie, maybe

883
00:47:55,760 --> 00:47:58,960
Speaker 1: because it was a little bit unexpected. But Robert Downey

884
00:47:59,000 --> 00:48:01,560
Speaker 1: Junior the entire time, I wanted to see him as

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Speaker 1: iron Man, but he totally eclipsed that. And he says

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00:48:05,480 --> 00:48:08,120
Speaker 1: this is the best movie he's ever done. Like I said,

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00:48:08,120 --> 00:48:10,719
Speaker 1: as an Ironman fan, as a fan of The Avengers,

888
00:48:11,320 --> 00:48:15,960
Speaker 1: I found that insulting but exciting going into this movie,

889
00:48:16,160 --> 00:48:19,760
Speaker 1: and he truly delivered. Florence Pugh was amazing. In this movie.

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Speaker 1: You had a safty brother, Josh Hartnett, who is kind

891
00:48:22,400 --> 00:48:25,080
Speaker 1: of having a comeback. I just see him as his

892
00:48:25,200 --> 00:48:29,200
Speaker 1: character in Halloween h two. Oh, Michael Myers is dead,

893
00:48:29,320 --> 00:48:31,680
Speaker 1: but now seeing him in this and in Black Mirror

894
00:48:31,680 --> 00:48:34,839
Speaker 1: earlier this year, I guess he's coming back. But even

895
00:48:34,960 --> 00:48:37,960
Speaker 1: moving further down this cast, like Rommy Mallick has a

896
00:48:38,000 --> 00:48:42,440
Speaker 1: pretty minor role in this movie. An Academy Award winner

897
00:48:42,520 --> 00:48:45,279
Speaker 1: is not a main character in this movie. Then you

898
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Speaker 1: have Josh Peck, who the entire time he was on screen,

899
00:48:48,200 --> 00:48:52,160
Speaker 1: I just wanted him to go Megan. It's spher recal Spheruco.

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00:48:52,600 --> 00:48:55,520
Speaker 1: You also have the guy who was the star of

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00:48:55,640 --> 00:48:59,880
Speaker 1: Sky High. There are just so many actors in this movie,

902
00:49:00,400 --> 00:49:03,880
Speaker 1: even even one of the best character actors, Gary Oldman,

903
00:49:04,000 --> 00:49:08,160
Speaker 1: who I didn't even realize he was President Truman until afterwards,

904
00:49:08,160 --> 00:49:10,719
Speaker 1: because you put makeup on that guy and he can

905
00:49:10,800 --> 00:49:15,680
Speaker 1: easily transform into any character. He's very underappreciated. But the

906
00:49:15,800 --> 00:49:20,120
Speaker 1: list goes on and on and on with talent, and

907
00:49:20,239 --> 00:49:23,400
Speaker 1: Christopher Nolan did a great job at managing all of

908
00:49:23,440 --> 00:49:26,480
Speaker 1: their characters and getting the performances out of him that

909
00:49:26,520 --> 00:49:28,840
Speaker 1: he needed to carry this movie along. There are some

910
00:49:29,000 --> 00:49:31,319
Speaker 1: movies that get an ensemble cast like that and you

911
00:49:31,440 --> 00:49:33,000
Speaker 1: don't know what to do with it. You don't know

912
00:49:33,040 --> 00:49:34,520
Speaker 1: how to direct them. They just kind of get on

913
00:49:34,560 --> 00:49:37,920
Speaker 1: screen and do whatever they want. This movie, Christopher Nolan

914
00:49:37,960 --> 00:49:41,239
Speaker 1: had complete control on every aspect of the film, and

915
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Speaker 1: what the movie also did ultimately was give me a

916
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Speaker 1: refresher on history. And now I'm never gonna forget the

917
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Speaker 1: timeline of World War Two and the fact that Oppenheimer, Einstein, President, Truman,

918
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Speaker 1: Heisenberg all existed at the same time. It's a lot

919
00:49:57,560 --> 00:50:00,040
Speaker 1: easier for me to place it right now. So I

920
00:50:00,040 --> 00:50:01,759
Speaker 1: feel like this is one of those movies that I

921
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Speaker 1: not only learned a lot, but I felt a lot

922
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Speaker 1: after watching this movie. But Oppenheimer was so good and

923
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Speaker 1: it meant all of my expectations. I still don't want

924
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Speaker 1: to say it's a top five Nolan film for me,

925
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Speaker 1: because you have The Dark Knight, which is number one,

926
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Speaker 1: you have Interstellar, which is probably number two for me,

927
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Speaker 1: and then I would probably throw in I mean, I

928
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Speaker 1: love The Dark Knight rises. I know a lot of

929
00:50:27,239 --> 00:50:29,400
Speaker 1: people don't love that movie, but I felt like that

930
00:50:29,520 --> 00:50:32,680
Speaker 1: was such a great close on that story. I also

931
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Speaker 1: really love the prestige. I mean, there's so many movies

932
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Speaker 1: that have meant so much to me that it's probably

933
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Speaker 1: just right outside the top five. Maybe later, after I

934
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Speaker 1: think about it a little bit more, it'll earn its

935
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Speaker 1: way into the top five. I know some people were

936
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Speaker 1: saying this is his best movie of all time. I

937
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Speaker 1: don't think it is. It's really really good. But he's

938
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Speaker 1: made some amazing movie. I didn't even mentioned Inception. Inception

939
00:50:58,560 --> 00:51:00,880
Speaker 1: is up. Yeah, it's no way a top five movie

940
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Speaker 1: of Christopher Nolan, but it is so good. It's just

941
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Speaker 1: those Top five are so great and have meant so

942
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Speaker 1: much to me for so long. Now it's hard to

943
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Speaker 1: put it there. Even coming days off of seeing this movie.

944
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Speaker 1: It's not quite there. But I still think one of

945
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Speaker 1: the best movies of the year and one that will

946
00:51:19,400 --> 00:51:24,560
Speaker 1: live on for decades, for probably a lifetime. So for Oppenheimer,

947
00:51:24,640 --> 00:51:28,200
Speaker 1: I get five out of five Atomic bombs all right,

948
00:51:28,239 --> 00:51:30,600
Speaker 1: we did it movie cru closing out the episode now

949
00:51:30,640 --> 00:51:33,319
Speaker 1: and to keep the theme going in the Battle of

950
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Speaker 1: Barbie versus Oppenheimer, like we've been doing all episode long.

951
00:51:38,040 --> 00:51:41,640
Speaker 1: Who won Opening Day? Was it Barbie? Was it Oppenheimer?

952
00:51:41,880 --> 00:51:45,879
Speaker 1: With seventy point five million dollars on its first day.

953
00:51:46,680 --> 00:51:49,759
Speaker 1: It is Barbie coming in right behind It was Oppenheimer

954
00:51:49,840 --> 00:51:53,680
Speaker 1: with thirty three million. Who won the weekend? Will Barbie

955
00:51:53,680 --> 00:51:56,680
Speaker 1: brought in one hundred and fifty five million dollars and

956
00:51:56,880 --> 00:52:00,600
Speaker 1: Oppenheimer brought in eighty million dollars? But it is now

957
00:52:00,680 --> 00:52:05,240
Speaker 1: the fourth biggest weekend at the box office of all time.

958
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Speaker 1: But in the battle of Barbie versus Oppenheimer, Barbie wins.

959
00:52:09,760 --> 00:52:12,080
Speaker 1: But really we all win because man, it was such

960
00:52:12,120 --> 00:52:15,160
Speaker 1: a great weekend at the theater. And before I go,

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Speaker 1: I gotta get my listener shout out of the week.

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Speaker 1: This week, I'm going over to my Instagram dms and

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Speaker 1: the shout out is to Cee Trout, who sent me

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Speaker 1: a DM with this question that maybe more of you

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Speaker 1: have in regard to me seeing Oppenheimer in seventy milimeter imax?

966
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Speaker 1: Ce Trout wrote, was it worth seeing it that way?

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Speaker 1: We live four hours from Nashville and it's the only

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00:52:35,239 --> 00:52:38,480
Speaker 1: theater near us that has it. Would it be just

969
00:52:38,640 --> 00:52:40,759
Speaker 1: as good of an experience if we just saw it

970
00:52:40,800 --> 00:52:44,480
Speaker 1: in imax? After watching it in seventy milimeter I would

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Speaker 1: have to say, first of all, I got lucky in

972
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Speaker 1: the fact that there was one just down the road

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Speaker 1: showing it this way. Is it worth four hours? Four

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Speaker 1: hours is a long time to be in a car.

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Speaker 1: You're looking at eight hours there, I would have to say,

976
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Speaker 1: even as much as I love the movie and love

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Speaker 1: that experience, I don't think it's four hours worthy. Maybe

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Speaker 1: the two to see it in normal IMAX in digital,

979
00:53:11,480 --> 00:53:14,919
Speaker 1: but that's just a really big investment, and it does

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00:53:15,000 --> 00:53:17,200
Speaker 1: add a lot of depth and clarity, like I was saying,

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00:53:17,480 --> 00:53:20,799
Speaker 1: so it'll maybe make you like the movie fifteen to

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Speaker 1: twenty percent more. If fifteen to twenty percent more is

983
00:53:25,600 --> 00:53:28,239
Speaker 1: enough to drive four hours for you, then yes, I

984
00:53:28,239 --> 00:53:30,719
Speaker 1: would say it's worth it. But aside from that, I

985
00:53:30,760 --> 00:53:33,279
Speaker 1: think you can still get a similar experience if you

986
00:53:33,320 --> 00:53:36,680
Speaker 1: go see it in IMAX digitally. So I would say,

987
00:53:37,320 --> 00:53:39,920
Speaker 1: if you don't have one of the twenty showing it

988
00:53:39,960 --> 00:53:43,360
Speaker 1: in seventy milimeter Imax, try and see it at least

989
00:53:43,400 --> 00:53:45,880
Speaker 1: in IMAX. But if you don't have that and just

990
00:53:45,960 --> 00:53:49,000
Speaker 1: go to a normal two D showing, I still think

991
00:53:49,040 --> 00:53:51,160
Speaker 1: you'll love this movie. It just adds a little bit

992
00:53:51,280 --> 00:53:53,600
Speaker 1: more to see it in IMAX. To see it in

993
00:53:53,640 --> 00:53:57,720
Speaker 1: thirty five or seventy milimeter, but I could not endorse

994
00:53:57,880 --> 00:54:00,200
Speaker 1: you making a four hour trip just to see it

995
00:54:00,239 --> 00:54:02,799
Speaker 1: that way. But thank you for that question, thank you

996
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Speaker 1: all for listening this week, and until next time, go

997
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Speaker 1: out and watch good movies and I will talk to

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Speaker 1: you later