“Barbieheimer: Across the Dead Reckoning” by Zvi

SPOILER WARNING: This post, after a brief spoiler-free review section, will contain full spoilers for Oppenheimer, Barbie and Mission: Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part One, and some for Across the Spiderverse.

Movies are so back. While they are having their Barbieheimer moment, it seems worthwhile to gather thoughts of myself and others on both movies, and also mention two other recent pictures.

First, I’ll offer various levels of spoiler-free review of all four movies, then get into the weeds.

Spoiler-Free Reviews

Full Spoiler-Free (1-bit reviews, only yes or no):

See all four movies.

Almost Fully Spoiler-Free (several-bit reviews):

You should definitely see Spiderverse, Barbie and Oppenheimer. Mission Impossible is good, but optional.

Pro tip, as it turns out: Do not see Barbie and Oppenheimer on the same day.

Ranked by how pure quality: Across the Spiderverse, Barbie, Oppenheimer, Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning.

Ranked [...]

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Outline:

(00:34) Spoiler-Free Reviews

(00:38) Full Spoiler-Free (1-bit reviews, only yes or no):

(00:47) Almost Fully Spoiler-Free (several-bit reviews):

(01:31) Traditional-Level Spoiler-Free Review: Oppenheimer

(03:02) Traditional-Level Spoiler-Free Review: Barbie

(03:57) Traditional-Level Spoiler-Free Review: Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning

(05:35) Traditional-Level Spoiler-Free Review: Across the Spiderverse

(06:14) Note on Ticket Pricing

(08:50) From Here On In, There Be Spoilers After the White Space

(09:33) Thoughts About Movie Length and Editing

(10:19) Barbie is the Correct Length and Very Well Edited

(10:28) Mission Impossible is Too Long

(13:17) Across the Spiderverse is Expansive For a Good Reason

(15:16) Oppenheimer Understandably Tried to Do Too Much

(20:52) Takeaways and Reactions

(20:56) Oppenheimer Reactions

(31:36) Oppenheimer Takeaways

(38:39) Barbie

(55:26) Mission Impossible Takeaways

(01:02:48) Across the Spiderverse Takeaways

(01:03:44) Movies Generally

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First published:
August 1st, 2023

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/6yoehDfWJAgnRHpWo/barbieheimer-across-the-dead-reckoning

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.