As expected, Barbie won the box office battle between these two juggernauts. It helps that Barbie is an hour shorter and is, well, Barbie. But Oppenheimer, who I now think of as Barbie’s more serious older brother, is doing just fine, raking in over a quarter of a billion dollars in the U.S. and $649M worldwide. Critically, Oppenheimer has been a little better than Barbie, with Rotten Tomatoes showing that 94% of its reviews are positive. So Christopher Nolan and Universal have done pretty great with making a summer blockbuster out of a three-hour movie that’s mostly just men sitting in rooms talking about science.
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“Air” is a Breezy Good Time
Confession time: I wasn’t a fan of Michael Jordan during his playing career. I was a fan of the late 80s-early 90s “Bad Boys” Pistons and Jordan and the Bulls were the hated rivals. I never quite got over that. So, naturally, I never had any interest in obtaining a pair of Air Jordans. So, a few decades later, could I find a movie about the creation of the Air Jordan to be a worthwhile watch? Thanks to a great cast, a streamlined script, and an “air” of not taking itself too seriously, the answer is, “Absolutely.” For a movie about product marketing, Air is a lot of fun.
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