I mean I saw it last night on IMAX (actually the first time in years that I've actually watched a movie in IMAX). You'd be surprised to find out that I don't really see any preachy moments.
Barbie - A More Successful Movie than You'd Think
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This isn’t limited to just comedies. Look at House of the Dragon. Despite the girl-boss of the show as the head, the most interesting character is Daemon.
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I was thinking something along the lines of Only God Forgives. Give a refreshing new spin to the Barbie franchise.
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I have a feeling this won't bomb since you'll have families, the nostalgia crowd, and the idpol crowd all watching it.
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Going to see this with a female friend over the weekend. I expect that we will have the exact opposite reactions to parts of the movie.
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Well, at least we have the Mainframe Barbie movies (actual kino from childhood) Fuck the Mattel jews for greenlighting this post-modern shit. At least with Schumer there'd be more memes.
I'm still going to see it because of Ryan Gosling. If it does end up being shit, then at least I can be happy to find out that Ryan Gosling's in it.
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He might actually be the only good part of the film. Hell, him being in the film is it's ultimate selling point.
Which is why I'm seeing it this afternoon. Ryan Gosling will always be premiere kino to me
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that’s the core demographic
this type of political thought is most popular amongst emasculated males and women
many of which are middle-aged millennials subsisting solely off of SSRIs, cats, and memberberries in place of raising a family
My question is, instead, why did they go for an older demographic for a fucking Barbie movie? I get that the aforementioned middle-aged bitches have disposable income, but they don’t have nearly as much as the parents of kids who can afford to buy their children Barbie dolls and bring them to a Barbie movie. And if they kept the feminist ranting in then they’d be fulfilling their party’s legally-mandated harassment of children.
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I think Hollywood has lost all ability to relate to young people or really reach them in any significant way. They have been competing with YouTube for a good part of 10 years now and have been losing, so making movies for older folks, mainly X and Millennials, was the way to go to keep the dying industry afloat. Zoomers don't have a unified culture to base blockbusters on their sensibilities and have it be successful, alpha probably even less so. Now, do they lack this because Hollywood is shit, very much yes, but it is sort of a cycle they cannot break out of.
There is also the problem of ESG bringing in the "writers" of today, which are thinly-veiled Twitter activists and Tumblr fanfic writers given full reign because Boomertard in charge can't be bothered to actually look into how the company is being run/ got a nice blowy and now has to give cushy positions to these people.
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I'd love to know what they were thinking with making Ryan Gosling, out of all the male actors out there, the villian.
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No doubt this is headed for a huge opening weekend. Heck, it’s on track to even beat the Mario Movie’s opening weekend.
The real question is how will it fare in the long run.
The real question is how will it fare in the long run.
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Bro, you could just watch Drive or The Nice Guys to see Ryan Gosling. You don't have to subject yourself to this slop.
I'm surprised by how many people claim to have been misled by the trailers. Just knowing what year this was being made and looking at how the shots in the trailer were framed, I was 100% certain this movie would be ham-fisted lefty propaganda shitting on men and whining about the patriarchy. Even if you think the trailers played it close to the vest, you know there was zero chance a Barbie movie made after 2016 was going to be lighthearted, apolitical escapism.
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So how did the Kens even brainwash the barbies? it looked more like the Kens just decided to just found the Kendom; the girls just followed naturally and were feeling happy about it.
It seemed Barbie and the spics were doing the brainwashing by subverting the newly found Kendom.
It seemed Barbie and the spics were doing the brainwashing by subverting the newly found Kendom.
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God. Fucking. Dammit.
So after Barbies retake Barmieland with the power of feminism or whatever, they decide they need to run things better, and a character ask does that mean the Kens are going to get more rights this time around.
And I shit you not, the answer is “until women have equal rights in the real world, the Kens will continue to be treated like shit.”
This movie as ASS.
So after Barbies retake Barmieland with the power of feminism or whatever, they decide they need to run things better, and a character ask does that mean the Kens are going to get more rights this time around.
And I shit you not, the answer is “until women have equal rights in the real world, the Kens will continue to be treated like shit.”
This movie as ASS.
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The movie will make millions upon millions, some people will complain about it and the only thing anyone will remember from it a month from now is Ken.
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A straight feminist approach is just enough steps behind the zeitgeist's cutting edge to be quaint, given today's rate of ideological churn. Sounds like something that'd be produced by the culture war of 10 years ago. I wasn't going to see this anyways so I ain't even mad.
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well ryan gosling is literally me and tbh i cant beat that
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Totally true. Kelly Sheridan will always be Barbie to me.