Barbie - A More Successful Movie than You'd Think

[mlanguishi]

I've questioned from the start why so many dudes are interested in this movie

But honestly, what the fuck did people expect from a film that originally was meant to star Amy Schumer?

Oppenheimer is sold out all this week and I hope it does well. Then again, I'm more interested in nuclear physics than girl plastic toys.

 

[pork and beans]

I have bad news for you

just finished watching. My disappointment is unmesurable and my day is ruined. I hate tranny barbie. Not even ryan gosling could save this.

Openheimer was ok, way better than i expected. Cillian murphy did a great job.

 

[Rick's Beef Wellington]

Heck, if Barbie was directed by Wes Anderson I wouldn't care about the script or writing or even the message.

You see, this is my dilemma. Noah Baumbach's been my favorite writer/director since his first movie, and I didn't know he wrote this until I clicked on this thread. Fuck. "White Noise" was terrible but I watched it, this will probably be the first non-animated film of his I totally skip.

Greta Gerwig, such a Feminist icon that she had to get her husband to write the script for her misandrist Barbie movie. I just can't with any of these people anymore. It'll be fun to see what she says when Baumbach kicks her to the curb for being too old like he did with Jennifer Jason Leigh.

 

[Raging Capybara]

Summary:
>Biopic (think Bohemian Rhapsody)
>Nuclear Bomb le bad

Just watch Dead Reckoning or Sound of Freedom. Trust me, an hour or two would be spared.

But why do you like a film about showing kids being saved from human traffickers, but are mad about one that suggests killing children with a bomb is a terrible thing to do?

 

[Basic Blond Boy]

I've questioned from the start why so many dudes are interested in this movie

It looked like a meme film and since movie standards have dropped to -100, especially this summer, it was something to see. Helps that Margot is still attractive and can beat out the grand majority of the new female leads in men's movies.

 

[Celebrate Nite]

Helps that Margot is still attractive and can beat out the grand majority of the new female leads in men's movies.

Examples? I haven't been to a theater in fucking forever, so idk which female leads are trying to compete with one another.

 

[Basic Blond Boy]

Examples? I haven't been to a theater in fucking forever, so idk which female leads are trying to compete with one another.

This is Indiana Jones new female lead:

 

[Pissmaster]

I've questioned from the start why so many dudes are interested in this movie

The first promo images released were of the two leads rollerblading in very vivid 80s/90s clothing:


And then the trailers made it look like a silly 90s comedy, which got all the millenials chugging memberberries. They didn't release shit about the story being a bait-and-switch feminist thing in any of the marketing. Hell, even I'd like to see a dorky innocent movie about Barbie ditzing around in the real world.

 

[xXx: State of the Union]

And then the trailers made it look like a silly 90s comedy, which got all the millenials chugging memberberries. They didn't release shit about the story being a bait-and-switch feminist thing in any of the marketing. Hell, even I'd like to see a dorky innocent movie about Barbie ditzing around in the real world.

*shrug*

I don't mean to judge, but it looks pretty girly/gay to me.

Then again, I've grown to absolutely despise theaters since I saw The Many Saints of Newark so maybe I just don't get the uncontrollable urge to go see a movie anymore.

Will this be the great bait and switch that finally convinces people to stop trusting Hollywood?

 

[Basic Blond Boy]

I don't mean to judge, but it looks pretty girly/gay to me.

I think we were expecting the film to take the piss out of Barbie sort of like what Toy Story did by having Ken and Barbie be pretty hilarious characters. It was pretty obvious the joke of the film was to pull an Enchanted and look at how dumb thing would be in real world.

 

[George Floyd Sneed]

I've questioned from the start why so many dudes are interested in this movie

But honestly, what the fuck did people expect from a film that originally was meant to star Amy Schumer?

It’s a traditionally wholesome and feminine intellectual property in a world where the current gold standard of femininity is a five o’clock shadow and an eight inch cock. Since it stars a conventionally attractive woman with a bonus hole, I think there’s a lot of curiosity to see what the bait and switch will be. It being a wymynyst take on the IP is as basic as it will get but it’s still going to cause a lot of chapped asses nevertheless.

 

[Michael Wade]

I knew this was going to suck from the first trailer and was baffled at the good vibes from everybody.

 

[SteelPlatedHeart]

Ryan Gosling sold a lot of people on it based on how he was promoting the film. It’s just too bad it ended up being the typical “men bad” thing.

 

[FatalTater]

I don't plan on going out of my way to see Barbie because when I watched the trailer I didn't see anyone who looked exactly like me.
Sorry Hollywood, you blew it.

 

[Omen_Sulk]

She’s the millennial Sharon Stone: a vapid whore who doesn’t want to be known as a vapid whore but doesn’t have the talent to be known as anything other than a vapid whore.

Hey I thought The Quick and Dead was good. Although the script was like a novel with a Female author. There's always that sense the female lead was written in as an avatar for the Female audience. Which seems to be the formula for female-targetted films.

Since someone said Lego found out in their research on how boys and girls play with toys differently. Boys want to become Batman. Girls want Batman to become them.

You can see this in Bella from Twilight or Rey from Star Wars. They are purposefully ambiguous. So the girls have an "in"

Which is why perhaps adventure games or mysteries are popular with Women, they are not so much acting upon the world as much as discovering and investigating the world.

 

[Pissmaster]

Then again, I've grown to absolutely despise theaters since I saw The Many Saints of Newark so maybe I just don't get the uncontrollable urge to go see a movie anymore.

I haven't been to a theater in over five years. I'm living in a Twilight Zone situation where I can see every single new movie for free, but they're all such fucking shit that I hardly ever watch movies anymore.

Will this be the great bait and switch that finally convinces people to stop trusting Hollywood?

Not likely, though the Dylan Mullaveiny thing happened out of the blue, so... hopefully?

 

[The Fair Lady]

Can't say I'm surprised that it's shit.

 

[UnKillFill]

But why do you like a film about showing kids being saved from human traffickers, but are mad about one that suggests killing children with a bomb is a terrible thing to do?

Nukes are bad, because you can't illegally traffic kids if they get blown up by nukes.

 

[SteelPlatedHeart]

Only hate I’ve seen online for Oppenheimer is “bad because sad white man movie”.

 

[White Devil]

Anyway, the movie not having Barbie Girl by Aqua is lunacy.

Aqua didn't want to license it because Mattel tried to sue the shit out of them in the 90s over it.