"See Also Barbie"? Really? Turtle Fan (talk) 21:02, 25 January 2024 (UTC)
- I appreciate the spirit in which it was created, but, much like "Leno the Barbarian", it's a joke with a limited shelf-life. TR (talk) 21:17, 25 January 2024 (UTC)
- Yeah, though I'm chuckling as I think back on it now. Late night talk shows ain't what they used to be. Turtle Fan (talk) 06:59, 26 January 2024 (UTC)
- Barbie's ref section on this wiki has "See Also Oppenheimer" for consistency. Get a load of who plays General Groves in Nolan's movie. I have found it odd that, for all that the Manhattan Project is in the plot of WW, Oppenheimer doesn't appear, but Barbie does!
- I've thought before that it's strange Oppenheimer didn't appear in Worldwar. I did not draw the Barbie connection, mainly because doing so would stretch a very small joke very far.
- While Oppenheimer was attached to the project in October 1941, it was really wasn't really "The Manhattan Project" until September 1942, and it was Groves who made Oppenheimer the head in October '42. We know what Groves was doing in Worldwar, and Oppenheimer had no direct connection to the University of Chicago when the Race arrived. And everyone opined on the risk of having so many irreplaceable geniuses (genii?) in Denver, so adding one more seems counter-productive. So his failure to appear has an internal logic to it. TR (talk) 16:11, 26 January 2024 (UTC)
- Perhaps but it seems odd that they'd have just left him on the bench. If he'd been in some undisclosed backup location he could at least have been checking the math enclosed in coded messages they sent him in the mail. I would think there would have been a name drop if so. Turtle Fan (talk) 19:36, 26 January 2024 (UTC)
- And I guess we've lived long enough that there's nothing unusual about thinking of Matt Damon playing men of a certain age. It was a pretty jarring thought when HB first came out. Turtle Fan (talk) 06:59, 26 January 2024 (UTC)
- Yeah, really. And hanging out on a website where I regularly stumble across comments I made when I was just out of college doesn't help. Turtle Fan (talk) 19:36, 26 January 2024 (UTC)
- Nolan's Oppenheimer was a confusing, convoluted mess. The only reason I was able to keep track of the characters was because half of them are in this wiki!Matthew Babe Stevenson (talk) 22:06, 25 January 2024 (UTC)
- Didn't see it. I watched a shit ton of movies last year, but neither half of this odd couple made the cut. But Worldwar did provide me with my introduction to every physicist at Los Alamos except Oppenheimer. And Einstein, of course: I'd heard of him before. Turtle Fan (talk) 06:59, 26 January 2024 (UTC)
- I wasn't all that interested in seeing either movie to begin with, but I think the cutesy marketing ploy flipped my brain's contrarian switch and left me firmly against going to see them. Turtle Fan (talk) 19:36, 26 January 2024 (UTC)
- I found Barbie overrated. I didn't hate it, but it wasn't especially great or groundbreaking. More thoughts here.Matthew Babe Stevenson (talk) 01:04, 27 January 2024 (UTC)