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Hopefully the Metal Gear Solid 2-style marketing of this film will get people to treat movies like video games and wait to see if the quality is worth going to theatres to watch.
Barbie - A More Successful Movie than You'd Think
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Interesting Trivia about Monster High is that they commissioned an American Animation studio to do hand drawn animation for its first ads. It's the only reason I found out Monster High existed. Because hand drawn animation done commerically is now so rare.
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I honestly can't tell if that's meant to be taken at face value or satire. The way she shushes the girl that likes Barbie then buzzwords Barbie to death... that seems like a jab at modern feminism.
I feel like we've hit some sort of self-awarness singularity. Where these people have become so over the top it's impossible to tell if they're serious or not.
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I think a sequel to Barbie would benefit with a pre Code era aesthetic on female empowerment. There's too much pink and plastic with this one.
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I like how everyone acts like women wore hot pink, showed off their cleavage, and dressed in skintight clothes before feminism. They act like this is how they want to dress, some day, in the future, after feminism has won:
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I feel for the asian girl, she liked barbie but the collective shot her down.
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God bless J.J. Longbone for having to suffer through the movie for us.
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I watched the movie and I think this is a lot like Dee Snider telling Nancy Reagan she went looking for BDSM and found it in a song about surgery. As in, if you went in looking for all the feminism and expecting it to be a certain way, you could find it.
But if you're not looking for it, I saw it more as commentary on the millennial experience in particular. It wasn't about 1960s Barbie - it was Barbie from the 80s and 90s, in spite of Margot wearing classic outfits to promote the movie. It speaks to what was probably the last generation Barbie resonated with before Bratz took over for the next one. I don't think people realize that millennials had the last real Barbie experience. A lot of the jokes and humor was very millennial and this generation is obsessed with politics and identity.
If you actually played with Barbie, you'd know that Ken truly is nothing. Many girls didn't even own a Ken doll. Ken was Barbie's First Lady and his job truly may as well have been Beach like Michelle Obama cares about fat kids. He did not get a real job or character or background story. He was Ken, he had different outfits for different occasions and that was it. So to see Ken acknowledged for the first time as a real full person instead of Barbie's simp was very interesting. If anyone actually watches the movie, Barbie encourages Ken to find himself because she does not and has never loved Ken even though Mattel declared that and made it Ken's purpose to simp for Barbie.
In the end, they don't go back to how things were. Barbie decides she wants to become a real woman and leaves Barbieland behind after the encouragement for Ken to be more than "Barbie & Ken".
Overall, I found the movie to be fun and had some jokes I actually laughed out loud at. It was a bit too long but I loved Ken's musical number. For some reason it kind of reminded me of The Dude's acid flashbacks.
I did, however, immediately clock the tranny. I've head drag queens sound more feminine, but the whole image was off.
On the other hand, I turned off Oppenheimer because I hate the idea that we need to know this guy fucks. He helped make a fucking atomic bomb, shaped how we look at war today - I don't need confirmation that this guy fucks. It neither tells the actual biography of this man or the events of the Manhattan Project and just mashed it altogether in one long Hollywood blockbuster. I actually would prefer no women in his story because there was mostly no women around. I don't need the insert to feel involved in a story women had little major part in.
So I'm sure Barbie will be hated, as she has been since she was invented, but it's not for those people as those people probably didn't play with Barbie. I did, so I could connect with it more and appreciate some of the nuances they put in.
I thought the ambulance in Barbieland folding out like the toy was one of those small little things that does bring a bit of joy. Or the dog being plastic. Or "Weird Barbie", who was "played with too hard" and now looks like Tank Girl.
Eta: actually need to add Rhea Pearlmen makes the perfect grandma now and I never would've thought that watching her on Cheers.
But if you're not looking for it, I saw it more as commentary on the millennial experience in particular. It wasn't about 1960s Barbie - it was Barbie from the 80s and 90s, in spite of Margot wearing classic outfits to promote the movie. It speaks to what was probably the last generation Barbie resonated with before Bratz took over for the next one. I don't think people realize that millennials had the last real Barbie experience. A lot of the jokes and humor was very millennial and this generation is obsessed with politics and identity.
If you actually played with Barbie, you'd know that Ken truly is nothing. Many girls didn't even own a Ken doll. Ken was Barbie's First Lady and his job truly may as well have been Beach like Michelle Obama cares about fat kids. He did not get a real job or character or background story. He was Ken, he had different outfits for different occasions and that was it. So to see Ken acknowledged for the first time as a real full person instead of Barbie's simp was very interesting. If anyone actually watches the movie, Barbie encourages Ken to find himself because she does not and has never loved Ken even though Mattel declared that and made it Ken's purpose to simp for Barbie.
In the end, they don't go back to how things were. Barbie decides she wants to become a real woman and leaves Barbieland behind after the encouragement for Ken to be more than "Barbie & Ken".
Overall, I found the movie to be fun and had some jokes I actually laughed out loud at. It was a bit too long but I loved Ken's musical number. For some reason it kind of reminded me of The Dude's acid flashbacks.
I did, however, immediately clock the tranny. I've head drag queens sound more feminine, but the whole image was off.
On the other hand, I turned off Oppenheimer because I hate the idea that we need to know this guy fucks. He helped make a fucking atomic bomb, shaped how we look at war today - I don't need confirmation that this guy fucks. It neither tells the actual biography of this man or the events of the Manhattan Project and just mashed it altogether in one long Hollywood blockbuster. I actually would prefer no women in his story because there was mostly no women around. I don't need the insert to feel involved in a story women had little major part in.
So I'm sure Barbie will be hated, as she has been since she was invented, but it's not for those people as those people probably didn't play with Barbie. I did, so I could connect with it more and appreciate some of the nuances they put in.
I thought the ambulance in Barbieland folding out like the toy was one of those small little things that does bring a bit of joy. Or the dog being plastic. Or "Weird Barbie", who was "played with too hard" and now looks like Tank Girl.
Eta: actually need to add Rhea Pearlmen makes the perfect grandma now and I never would've thought that watching her on Cheers.
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my head canon is that Ken in his broken state decided to become a stunt driver in LA while moonlighting as a getaway driver for thugs.
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I think people (maybe mostly dudes) are realizing for the first time that Ken is the air head. Ken enjoyed simping for Barbie and wanted to marry her and his only purpose was Barbie.
Then he went to the Real World and discovered that yeah, the patriarchy exists, but he's still too stupid to succeed in RW since he cockily attempts to become a doctor with the credentials of "being a man". He tells a lifeguard he can only stand and watch people from the beach. Ken, realizing he cannot make it even as a lifeguard, chooses to return to Barbieland to inform the other Ken's of how things actually are in the "Real World" but mistakenly believed that men and horses were in charge and created a Mount Rushmore of horses to honor the new patriarchy. Eventually he himself says he realizes that horses are just an extension of the man and models himself after Sylvester Stallone (meets early 00s Ed Hardy) and attempts to hold a vote to change the constitution. The Barbies "manipulate" what are already very stupid men by they themselves playing dumb and distracting them until they forget to actually vote for the change.
At this point, Ken becomes very upset and the group of Ken's stand off until Ryan's Ken breaks down sobbing and hides in his room where Barbie comforts him and suggests he finds himself.
So quoted head canon is not far fetched from what Ken might actually do considering how utterly stupid and gullible he is. A real world woman asked him the time and he was so enamored by any attention he wore four watches.
I found Ken's story to be apart of that millennial identity crisis and I think it would be relatable to some men (and women) who have lost themselves to a partner or had an unrequited love that became an obsession.
Ryan Gosling said he decided to take the part after seeing his kid having shoved Ken into a toilet or something and sent a photo to the director saying he wanted Ken's story to be heard.
(Just giving some further explanation since I doubt many here will actually watch the movie themselves.)
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@Totallyunknown I can't quote your post, but holy shit. Nigger, what movie did you watched?
So because god hates me, I had to take my niece to the movies and watch Barbie. The summary posted a page back was mostly an accurate summary of the plot, but I want to point out a few things that the summary didn't touch on and a few observation on my "experience"
Tldr: It's just as vapid and bad as everyone is saying. Oppenheimer can't be that much worse.
So because god hates me, I had to take my niece to the movies and watch Barbie. The summary posted a page back was mostly an accurate summary of the plot, but I want to point out a few things that the summary didn't touch on and a few observation on my "experience"
- Many fat white hambeasts on opening weekend, all of them either wearing pink dresses that don't fit them nicely or pink tank tops, all wearing short shorts. Few children and many gay guys wearing pink polo shirts.
- It was packed. I bought the last tickets for a 5:30 pm showing.
- Everyone in the movie looks visibly older than they should. Margot Robbie is apparently 33, but she looks like she's 50.
- Ryan Gosling looks like a corpse. He's more lifeless than in Blade Runner.
- Absolutely EVERY man in the movie is an absolute retard. The moment Barbie steps out of the fantasy world or whatever, every guy wants to smack her ass and treat her "like a piece of meat". It's all about "exercise, bro", "drink beers, bro", "chicks ass, bro".
- Despite Barbie believing that she is some sort of paragon for female empowerment and not a sex symbol, there are many ass shots of Margot. Even after the empowerment preaching bullshit.
- Barbie gets cat called, complete silence, then Ken gets cat called by two faggots, everyone in the audience laughs.
- For some reason, they had a valid motive for Ken to take over Barbieland, which was that he was sick of being nothing but an accessory and for the other Ken's existence to matter. There's even a moment where the office lady with menopause is asking Barbie about the Ken's and where do they sleep, Barbie just responds with "I really don't know". But, they back track on it and make it about Gosling Ken being spiteful because Barbie didn't loved him back.
- The tranny barbie is a doctor. Not only that, but he gets to wear short skirts, a scene where he wears a maid outfit and sits on the chinky Ken's lap and a scene where he gets wooed by Ryan Gosling. The camera even shoots part of his ass because the dresses he wears are really short. It's just as gross as it sounds. I let an audible "gross" when those scenes came on.
- Despite Ken trying to make a utopia in which patriarchy rules, nothing about their society is manly. Everything is literally gay. John Cena is a mermaid, everyone is wearing booty shorts, short tank tops or shirtless, they're constantly touching each other and for some reason horses are everywhere. I didn't knew horses where a symbolism for masculinity but whatever.
- Ironically enough, the Barbies win by pitting the Kens against each other, they way they did this was by manipulating them into hating each other. They even have a really dumb battle in the barbieland beach.
That's the point when I just walked out, my nice was falling asleep and it was getting way too stupid.
- It was packed. I bought the last tickets for a 5:30 pm showing.
- Everyone in the movie looks visibly older than they should. Margot Robbie is apparently 33, but she looks like she's 50.
- Ryan Gosling looks like a corpse. He's more lifeless than in Blade Runner.
- Absolutely EVERY man in the movie is an absolute retard. The moment Barbie steps out of the fantasy world or whatever, every guy wants to smack her ass and treat her "like a piece of meat". It's all about "exercise, bro", "drink beers, bro", "chicks ass, bro".
- Despite Barbie believing that she is some sort of paragon for female empowerment and not a sex symbol, there are many ass shots of Margot. Even after the empowerment preaching bullshit.
- Barbie gets cat called, complete silence, then Ken gets cat called by two faggots, everyone in the audience laughs.
- For some reason, they had a valid motive for Ken to take over Barbieland, which was that he was sick of being nothing but an accessory and for the other Ken's existence to matter. There's even a moment where the office lady with menopause is asking Barbie about the Ken's and where do they sleep, Barbie just responds with "I really don't know". But, they back track on it and make it about Gosling Ken being spiteful because Barbie didn't loved him back.
- The tranny barbie is a doctor. Not only that, but he gets to wear short skirts, a scene where he wears a maid outfit and sits on the chinky Ken's lap and a scene where he gets wooed by Ryan Gosling. The camera even shoots part of his ass because the dresses he wears are really short. It's just as gross as it sounds. I let an audible "gross" when those scenes came on.
- Despite Ken trying to make a utopia in which patriarchy rules, nothing about their society is manly. Everything is literally gay. John Cena is a mermaid, everyone is wearing booty shorts, short tank tops or shirtless, they're constantly touching each other and for some reason horses are everywhere. I didn't knew horses where a symbolism for masculinity but whatever.
- Ironically enough, the Barbies win by pitting the Kens against each other, they way they did this was by manipulating them into hating each other. They even have a really dumb battle in the barbieland beach.
That's the point when I just walked out, my nice was falling asleep and it was getting way too stupid.
Tldr: It's just as vapid and bad as everyone is saying. Oppenheimer can't be that much worse.
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THat is the part that felt weird and unrealistic. especially the part where a guy tells ken "We just hide Patriarchy better" in my mind I thought the real world was just another fake reality like the Matrix or something.
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“Literally the movie about a guy who made a bomb in WW2 might be less political than this.” -Doug Walker
If that don’t say it all…
If that don’t say it all…
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One of the few instances when uncle Walker is right.
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You described what I did, but you went in looking for a reason to dislike it where as I looked at it objectively.
Ken is the equivalent of many, many, many women in other movies. It's a role-reversal and it's hilarious to defend his story arc when there are hundreds of movies where women play the exact same character and no one says anything about it.
I think he embodied the fragility of modern men pretty well but we will agree to disagree.
Ken is the equivalent of many, many, many women in other movies. It's a role-reversal and it's hilarious to defend his story arc when there are hundreds of movies where women play the exact same character and no one says anything about it.
I think he embodied the fragility of modern men pretty well but we will agree to disagree.
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It’s really hard to take the message of the film seriously when they make the “real world” more cartoonish than Barbieland.
Well, if you’re curious…
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I never understood why people would want to see either movie. Margot Robbie seems like a massive cunt and I’ve never enjoyed her in a movie.
The Irish Guy in Oppenheimer is basically just a sign that whatever you are watching is going to be fart huffing shit. I’ve never understood why people like him, he seems like someone who’s more suited in being a secondary character.
The Irish Guy in Oppenheimer is basically just a sign that whatever you are watching is going to be fart huffing shit. I’ve never understood why people like him, he seems like someone who’s more suited in being a secondary character.
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lmao and I doubt that's what the director wanted to convey but that's exactly what she did,
Gosling is a very good actor who saves this movie from being 0/10 to a 4/10.
This is a 2006 Barbie-French Maid Barbie-and its not for little girls. Of course the tranny is a maid because that's exactly who this overpriced plastic is marketed to.