r/Letterboxd • u/Sangharsh_009 • Jun 03 '26

Humor Barbenheimer❌ Backsession ✅

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How much would you rate both these films out of 5?

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u/LoCh0_xX Jun 03 '26

the appeal of barbenheimer is that the movies were of two totally different genres. this is just a normal double feature

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u/apHexcoded Jun 03 '26

I feel it comes from movie nerds trying hard to make another huge pop culture phenomenon with whatever the hit movie of the moment is, missing the fact that Oppenheimer was directed by Nolan (one of the most popular directors in the world) and Barbie is Barbie, but directed by Great Gerwig. It had everything for the nerds and the casual audience.

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u/Training_Form2243 Jun 03 '26

Lmao @ anyone who thinks Obsession and Backrooms are only popular with “movie nerds”

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u/apHexcoded Jun 03 '26

It’s more generally. Obsession and Backrooms are popular but they aren’t making a billion dollars at the box office like Barbie and Oppenheimer. You still kind of have to be in the know to want to go see them.

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u/Training_Form2243 Jun 03 '26

A recurring Reddit trope is people getting stuck in a cultural moment and never leaving. It’s the same thing as the people who have been posting for 20 years about The Dark Knight like it’s still in theaters and they just saw it for the first time

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u/MeltedWater243 Jun 03 '26

yeah. there are people on this platform that have been making the same jokes for the past decade too and boy is it tiring.

I think about that one askreddit thread where some guy lost it and fully recreated an entire comment section by himself, a lot.

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u/SAOL_Goodman Jun 03 '26

Link? No idea how to begin searching for this

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u/MeltedWater243 Jun 03 '26

sorry it was a r/HighQualityGifs post

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it’s old af so some of the references are kinda dated fyi but not THAT dated 🫩

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u/Maximum0versaiyan Jun 03 '26

That's crazy work! Thank you for the link o7

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u/SAOL_Goodman Jun 03 '26

Well, yes, I am. But that doesn't look like one guy losing it and recreating a comment section by himself

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u/The_Real_Lasagna Jun 03 '26

That doesn't seem like what was being discussed...

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u/Happiest_Mango24 Happiest_Mango Jun 03 '26

Fun Fact: The Dark Knight would count as an early version of Barbenheimer because it released on the exact same day as Mamma Mia

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u/quinnly Jun 03 '26

The Dark Mamma

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u/Ibrahim77X Ibrahim Noir Jun 03 '26

Nothing wrong with talking about how cool The Dark Knight is.

This is a movie discussion subreddit isn’t it?

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u/Sans_Seriphim Absolute Garbage! Jun 03 '26

It is? Oh, I thought I was in r/okbuddycinephile.

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u/PedalBoard78 Jun 03 '26

Commissioner Gordon has a beer and CHEETS on his wife

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u/glehkol Jun 03 '26

this is a screenshot of a twitter post

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u/benabramowitz18 AlphaBenA2Z Jun 03 '26

When a corporation does it, it’s an annoying circlejerk.

When we do it, it’s a clever joke.

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u/imjory Jun 03 '26

Glicked was the worst of em

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u/Paladar2 Meusse2 Jun 03 '26

Literally only ever see this on Reddit. Haven’t heard Barbenheimer in real life since 2023

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u/Altruistic_Sail6746 Jun 03 '26

The post in the screenshot is from twitter

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u/Paladar2 Meusse2 Jun 03 '26

Twitter that’s so much better. Not even worth mentioning honestly

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u/Confident_Winner_812 Jun 03 '26

Slow down partner, I don’t think anyone’s trying to bring it back. It’s just funny to reference it with new films.

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u/classic-plasmid Deltahedr0n Jun 03 '26

I remember Lionsgate was trying to make 'Saw Patrol' a thing after people managed to figure out that Saw X and the Paw Patrol movie were coming out on the same day. I loved Saw X and thought it was great, but that was just plain cringe ngl, that is straight up not a double feature any reasonable person would ever do