Editing Oppenheimer and The Hollywood Implosion


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|release_date={{Start date|2023|07|23}}
|image = Half in the Bag Episode 225 thumbnail.png
|cast=* [[Mike Stoklasa]]
* [[Jay Bauman]]
|editor=[[Jay Bauman]]
|link={{URL|1=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3irn5SxXLA}}
|couch_gag=Ken (from Barbie) "Come on Barbie, let's go party."
|prev=[[Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny]]
|next=[[The Kyle Gallner Triple Feature Spectacular!]]
}}

{{Quote|…and I’m just like “I can’t hear them! I can’t hear what they’re saying! I can’t let what they’re saying resonate,” and really absorb it and kinda listen. And I’m imagining those scenes with the music plucked out… and the 95% of the audience that will get up and leave because it’s too boring[…]|[[Mike]]}}<!-- TODO: better quote? -->

The 225th episode of ''[[Half in the Bag]]'' is an overview on the state of Hollywood and blockbuster films, centered around the release of the biopic '''''Oppenheimer'''''.

Topics include [[wikipedia:2023 SAG-AFTRA strike|the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike]], the [[wikipedia:Barbenheimer|Barbenheimer experience]], and the saturation of streaming services. Generally, the episode features [[disdain for the modern theater system]].

[[Mike]] provides a miniature [[Trivia]] interlude, titled ''Is the review for Barbie or Oppenheimer?'' [[Jay]] briefly derides Christopher Nolan’s previous film, ''Tenet''.

== Description ==

<blockquote>Happy Barbenheimer everyone! Watch as these two elderly losers stall for half the video before finally discussing what some are calling the best movie of the year: Oppenheimer! In addition to that, Mike and Jay discuss the ongoing writer and actor strikes as well as it’s consequences on movies, theaters, streamers, audiences, and most importantly what effect it will have on David Zaslav. Won’t someone please think of poor David Zaslav?!
</blockquote>
David Zaslav is the CEO of Warner Bros. Discovery, who is pictured on the thumbnail for this episode.

== Themes ==

Jay refers to ''Oppenheimer'' as [[declaring something The Last|“the last” movie]].

This is another instance of [[Mike reading internet reviews]].

Mike [[Mike reading from a paper|reads his trivia questions from a paper]].
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== Christopher Nolan’s 12 Angry Men ==

{{Infobox episode
|title=Christopher Nolan's 12 Angry Men
|image=Christopher Nolans 12 Angry Men.png
|link={{URL|1=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhqbILnmJ-Q}}
|release_date={{Start date|2023|07|25}}
|editor=[[Jay Bauman]]
}}

An excerpt of the ''12 Angry Men'' re-edit from this video was uploaded as '''''Christopher Nolan’s 12 Angry Men'''''.

=== Description ===

<blockquote>An excerpt from our recent Half in the Bag review of Oppenheimer.
</blockquote>