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Jesus Jim has done a lot of that himself, going on Fox and saying Donald Trump is Moses, etc.

But a lot of people are seeing it. A. Lot. It beat Mission Impossible Thursday. And those two movies share more of a similar audience that the latter movie would like to admit.

 

Barbie did 22 million Thursday, which generally foretells 115-135 over the weekend. We'll see. To do that business, people gotta wanna take their kids to it, and I'm not sure the movie has been pitched quite that way. Thursday numbers may have been driven by the Gen Y/Z "this is the one movie I'll see in a theater this summer/year" phenomenon. Still, encouraging. Gerwig/Baumbach as a team have 3-5 more movies in them, potentially good ones that have little to do with a toy brand, and this'll help them make those movies. (I expect Barbie to be pretty good.)

Mission Impossible 7 is slow to start, a little convoluted in the middle, and a whopper in the last hour. Cruise picked the right dance partner, so to speak, in Hayley Atwell. Her character kind of saves it; the familiar cast assembled, minus Cruise, has darn near worn out its welcome.

 

As someone with a wife who wants to see Barbie, I looked at the times tonight in my little burg -- there are 11 showings for the rest of the day from 3:55 to 11 and each one is at least 90 percent full with the only two seats together in the absolute front row, if any are available at all.

 

Yes. I think the opening night wave goes through Friday.

Anything over $100 million is huge for the weekend.

And, again, Gerwig is a filmmaker you want to keep working, so the more money she makes, the better that is for her and the industry.

I'll see it next week. Oppenheimer too. I'm usually (on purpose) a week behind. Saw Indiana Jones 5 10 days ago, Mission Impossible two days ago.

 

Fucking Brilliant

 

Seeing Oppenheimer at the end of the month. Wanted to go sooner but couldn't work it out. Tough ticket in Imax around here.

 

Oppenheimer is incredible. Two nights ago I spent 20 minutes trying to get a ticket to the IMAX on the Upper West Side, biggest in the country. Four screenings a day and each one sold out other than some seats in very front row here and there. Finally got an okay seat for Aug. 9, just a few days before it leaves IMAX theaters. But saw it today on a regular screen. The number of big names in the cast is amazing but certainly Murphy and Downey steal the show. Might see it again on regular screen before the IMAX showing. Only bad thing was lost sound for about 30 seconds today during crucial dialogue. Figure it's THE MAN trying to keep us truth tellers and patriots from learning about atomic bombs. Look for my angry TikTok video from a parking lot to appear soon.

 

Don't know whether to put this on the "movie news thread" or here - but whatever. There is a book - or at least a New Yorker article to be written about how the Barbie movie seemed to become the darling of the left. I heard at least two "hits" on the movie today on NPR, which rarely discusses movies with a greater than $10m box office potential unless it is a source of great controversy. Even more, that this movie is a rampant commercial for a toy, and features an overly sexualized white woman as the lead character - I'm stunned how much my progressive friends are geeking out over it. It might be the whitest movie since Titanic to break $100m. Transformers was trashed, Battleship was trashed, the GI Joes movies were trashed and nobody was lobbying the academy on behalf of American Girls, Jem and the Holograms and Bratz either.

 

Well, I explained what I thought about his quote about him being Jesus and Trump being Moses in the Biden thread, in response to a post by Inky_Wretch. And, Caviezel doesn't politicize the issue at all in the film, playing his character in an understated, quietly affecting way.

Then, in a post-film message, he reiterated the importance of the issue/cause itself, not his particular place in it, or even his character's accomplishments, as he attempted to put the spotlight squarely on the victims and encourage others to see the film, and, hopefully, act and become interested and involved in combating the problem as a result.

 

It's a darling of the cultural left. Like Taylor Swift and Legally Blonde.

 

Barbie does 70 million Th-Fri.

Weekend multiplier is prolly 2.1-2.3

So, around 150.

Oppenheimer did 33. Which, for a hard R about a scientist, is a remarkable number.

Neither moved their release date from the other - and both won at the box office.

The BO loser is Mission Impossible and to a lesser degree Indiana Jones. Mostly MI. It smartly opened two days early to get clear of what folks must have figured was a Barbenheimer wave. But it'll be lucky to get to 175.

late X, Y and Z gens will see Barbie.

Early X and Boomers will see Oppenheimer

Hard right of two oldest demos seeing Sound of Freedom.

 

Transformers was so trashed they just opened the seventh movie in a span dating back to 2007 and has made more than $5 billion and counting. Battleship was trashed because it was/is a terrible movie that is so loosely connected to the game that if you didn't know by the name or word of mouth what it was based on most people wouldn't have known. I thought the first GI Joe was "good" in regards to what you were going to get from a GI Joe movie.