Ε, αυτά είναι καλό να μη γίνονται. Αν περιμέναμε ένα πράγμα φέτος το καλοκαίρι, αυτό σίγουρα δεν ήταν οι διακοπές, γιατί μεταξύ άλλων τυχαίνει να μην είμαστε ζάμπλουτοι. Αυτό που περιμέναμε λοιπόν ήταν η ταυτόχρονη πρεμιέρα του Barbie της Greta Gerwig και του Oppenheimer του Christopher Nolan, αυτό δηλαδή που τα κουλ παιδιά στον κόσμο του ίντερνετ ονομάζουν Barbenheimer.

Περισσότερο από απλώς ένα meme για τον απόλυτο boy/girl συνδυασμό των δύο ταινιών, η ταυτόχρονη πρεμιέρα (που στην Βόρεια Αμερική έρχεται στις 21 Ιουλίου) θα ήταν επίσης μια εξαιρετικά ενδιαφέρουσα kino έξοδος, αλλά δυστυχώς η ελληνική διανομή δε θα μας κάνει τη χάρη. Το γραφείο διανομής (που παρεμπιπτόντως έχει στην διάθεσή του και τις δύο ταινίες για την ελληνική αγορά) αποφάσισε να βγάλει την Barbie τώρα, στις 20 Ιουλίου, σε μια περίοδο ψιλονεκρή κινηματογραφικά, και το Oppenheimer στις 24 Αυγούστου που ο κόσμος σιγά σιγά επιστρέφει από τις διακοπές και η κίνηση στα σινεμά αρχίζει να ξαναπαίρνει τα πάνω της.

Σε κάθε περίπτωση, μιλάμε για μεγάλο κρίμα και τεράστια χαμένη ευκαιρία για ζωντανά memes κατά τα οποία θα πήγαινες στον γκισέ του σινεμά και θα έλεγες “δύο εισιτήρια για Barbie και Oppenheimer παρακαλώ”. Στο μεταξύ, μιας και οι δύο ταινίες έκαναν πρόσφατα αμφότερες την επίσημη πρεμιέρα τους στην Αμερική, πάμε να δούμε τις πρώτες αντιδράσεις όσων ανθρώπων τις είδαν, χωρίς spoilers προφανώς.

Ξεκινάμε με Barbie:

#Barbie caught me off guard & I mean that in the best way possible. It’s funny, bombastic, & very smart. Greta Gerwig aims for the fences & hits a home-run. Margot Robbie’s performance is great & @RyanGosling & @SimuLiu are pure entertainment! The whole cast is brilliant! pic.twitter.com/oXH965aUIF

— Joseph Deckelmeier (@joedeckelmeier) July 10, 2023

I have seen #Barbie! The craftsmanship is incredible. In particular the costume & production design includes next-level work that heavily contributes to creating the feeling that these truly are Barbies, their dream houses, and their worlds come to life.

As for the story, that’s… pic.twitter.com/97r3sSodcw

— Perri Nemiroff (@PNemiroff) July 10, 2023

I can't officially quit Twitter before telling you all that #Barbie is currently my favorite film of the year. Greta Gerwig somehow exceeded my expectations. She tackles the positives and negatives of Barbie so beautifully. Give Ryan Gosling an Oscar nomination, I'm dead serious!

— Jamie Jirak (@JamieCinematics) July 10, 2023

#BarbieTheMovie is witty, heartfelt, and downright fun at times. Ryan Gosling is a scene stealer delivering most of the laughs while Margot Robbie’s heartfelt performance will tug at your heartstrings. While I enjoyed most of the film the screenplay feels bloated at times pic.twitter.com/lepggZKZIX

— Sharronda Williams (@payorwait) July 10, 2023

#Barbie is perfection. Greta Gerwig delivers a nuanced commentary on what it means to be a woman in a whimsical, wonderful and laugh-out-loud funny romp. The entire cast shines, especially Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling in roles they were clearly born to play. 🎀

— Katcy Stephan (@katcystephan) July 10, 2023

Further BARBIE thoughts to come but the number one is I can’t believe Greta Gerwig got away with it! (said admiringly)

— Kyle Buchanan (@kylebuchanan) July 10, 2023

A lot of us strive to be “perfect” like Barbie, but the film will show you don’t always have to be so perfect, because even in a “perfect world,” we still have flaws and that’s okay. It’s for teens and an adult crowd who grew up with the franchise. #BarbieTheMovie / #BarbieMovie https://t.co/7zKttIdhyx pic.twitter.com/P51xEEyIXR

— Boss & CEO ✨ (@iamtycole) July 10, 2023

I saw #BarbieTheMovie and Greta Gerwig left me all in my feelings as did the production design, costumes, Hair and makeup! I was living for the dance numbers led by Simu Liu ! It’s overblown fun with a feminist twist😜💗 #BarbieMovie pic.twitter.com/tL7vaUsqT4

— Carla Renata (@TheCurvyCritic) July 10, 2023

Και πάμε και στο Oppenheimer:

#Oppenheimer left me stunned: a character study on the grandest scale, with a sublime central performance by Cillian Murphy. An epic historical drama but with a distinctly Nolan sensibility: the tension, structure, sense of scale, startling sound design, remarkable visuals. Wow

— Matt Maytum (@mattmaytum) July 11, 2023

Christopher Nolan’s #Oppenheimer is truly a spectacular achievement, in its truthful, concise adaptation, inventive storytelling and nuanced performances from Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Robert Downey Jr., Matt Damon and the many, many others involved —- some just for a scene.

— Lindsey Bahr (@ldbahr) July 11, 2023

Totally absorbed in OPPENHEIMER, a dense, talkie, tense film partly about the bomb, mostly about how doomed we are. Happy summer! Murphy is good, but the support essential: Damon, Downey Jr & Ehrenreich even bring gags. An audacious, inventive, complex film to rattle its audience

— Jonathan Dean (@JonathanDean_) July 11, 2023

I was skeptical, but Oppenheimer has stuck with me since seeing it last week. Yes, it's 3 hours, but in a dense-Scorsese way and the last 20 minutes (why Emily Blunt clearly took the role) bring its three narrative threads to a moving conclusion. (1) pic.twitter.com/dEC4hLlYiF

— Gregory Ellwood – The Playlist 🎬 (@TheGregoryE) July 11, 2023

Am torn between being all coy and mysterious about Oppenheimer and just coming out and saying it’s a total knockout that split my brain open like a twitchy plutonium nucleus and left me sobbing through the end credits like I can’t even remember what else.

— Robbie Collin (@robbiereviews) July 11, 2023

OPPENHEIMER is…incredible. The word that keeps coming to mind is "fearsome." A relentlessly paced, insanely detailed, intricate historical drama that builds and builds and builds until Nolan brings the hammer down in the most astonishing, shattering way.

— Bilge Ebiri (@BilgeEbiri) July 11, 2023

A sign that French audiences loved #Oppenheimer is that they stayed in front of the Grand Rex theater long after the film ended to debate about it!

— Elsa Keslassy (@ElsaKeslassy) July 11, 2023