@filmenthusiast: 3 years ago today, two people walked into the same multiplex to watch a man build the atomic bomb and a doll come to life, back to back, on purpose. Nobody planned Barbenheimer. Warner Bros. picked July 21 for Barbie years earlier, Universal locked Oppenheimer into the same date not long after, and neither studio blinked. What should've been a scheduling disaster turned into the biggest shared moviegoing event of the decade. Pink outfits at 10am screenings, black ties for the 1pm, people bragging about which order they watched them in like it actually mattered. Barbie closed at $1.4 billion and finished as the highest grossing film of 2023. Oppenheimer hit $975 million and briefly held the record for highest grossing biopic ever, before Michael quietly took that crown earlier this year. Still sits at number two all time, which for a three hour R rated film about nuclear physics is genuinely insane. Nothing since has come close to that specific kind of chaos. Feels less like a coincidence now and more like the last time the whole internet agreed on something at the same time.

JIMMY 🍉 :

7 Oscars vs 0 Oscars ☠️

vernell_vermont :

the last good movie uncle nolan ever made, fym the odyssey? more like 'odd to see'

poindexter :

a lot of people making barbenheimer references still didn't get why the gimmick existed in the first place, they released in the same day, not in the same month or 2 weeks, in the same exact day

⚚𝔗𝔬𝔨𝔬⚚ :

Both of them are peak.

Rawan :

I still can’t believe I haven’t watched Oppenheimer yet !

giada :

two amazing movies, i miss that era

fleurpetalsforarmor :

So today we'll have.... Spiderssey? Odyssman?

whitaout🐾 :

Hasta el día de hoy no me he visto Oppenheimer

Uvea :

oh barbenheimer era, how i miss you so much... (i didn't see both of this movie on cinemas)

Natasha♥️ :

Barbie fue una sátira hacia la sociedad, que desgraciadamente se hizo realidad. Y Oppenheimer es la última película grabada con cariño. El cine está muriendo

pa-tro-clus :

both great, phenomenal

8 kadrów :

Barbenheimer ❤️

TitaniumX5 :

barbie did $1.45B? no wonder.

The Pilau Factory :

Dunesday will be epic

raidenrori :

Barbenheimer era was peak🔥

紫陽花( Hydrangea) :

already three years

Moksha :

хз у них обоих ппц проникновенный взгляд

ELSM :

I saw both. I liked them both for very different reasons.

Rebeca :

3 AÑOS YA ???!

holdon :

Barbie is better than that so far

Fahmi.risfai :