Barbie - A More Successful Movie than You'd Think

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XYZpdq Jr. said:
seriously why do they keep trying to make Narnia movies a thing?
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I dunno, since I consider the definitive version to have been made by the BBC in the Eighties:


Yeah, the special effects are 80's Doctor Who-level, but the story has a quintessential British-ness to it that no Hollywood version will ever capture. The Aslan costume is also really really good for a low budget production like this.

The BBC went on to produce sequels of this series up to The Silver Chair, which is pretty respectable. Even more so because they were faithful to the original plot and intent of the books. Sadly, we live in Current Year, so now it's Narnia's turn to get skinned by Clown World and worn like a suit.
 
Ishtar said:
So...from what I've heard this bodes very ill for any future Narnia adaptations Gerwig will do.

As for the movie itself, I haven't seen it. I'm not surprised it was a feminist soapbox.
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Ooo... Gerwig is going to do to C.S Lewis what feminists did to Star Wars, She-Hulk, Lord of the Rings, Marvel, DC, Indiana Jones, The Witcher, Doctor Who, and I can literally go on about the list of properties destroyed by feminist iconoclasts. I don't know what it is but woke feminist activists feel the need to destroy a property made by a man and reclaim it as their own. It really does speak of the penis envy that they all have.

As for Barbie, I outgrew Barbie when I was 8. When things like Pokemon, Harry Potter and the N64 came out I learned that Barbie was pretty lame and gay. It didn't help that when I got older I learned that Barbie's creator, Ruth Handler, stole the concept of Barbie from a German toy company O&M Hausser and the doll that Mattel and Handler stole was their Lilli doll. There was a lawsuit over this and of course Mattel paid off the judge to take their side. It took Hausser 20 years to pay off his debt, his company that his father founded went bankrupt and to this day Mattel continues to desecrates Hausser's memory by calling him a sex pervert who made sex dolls for kids and claim they and Handler were the true and honest creators of Barbie. Mattel is an evil company run by a bunch of pit fiends and I refuse to purchase any of their products for my nieces due to this.
 
XYZpdq Jr. said:
seriously why do they keep trying to make Narnia movies a thing?
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Disney started the trend with the only reasoning being that Narnia will be the next Harry Potter. I am guessing shit never changes, and everyone desperately retries as Narnia will be Harry Potter, some day, I am sure?

Loomer the Bully said:
I don't know about you guys, but I'm curious about how they're going to spin mothefucking Hot Wheels into a political satire.
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Climate change, oil bad, electric cars good. Just steal the plot of Cars 2.
 
Basic Blond Boy said:
Disney started the trend with the only reasoning being that Narnia will be the next Harry Potter. I am guessing shit never changes, and everyone desperately retries as Narnia will be Harry Potter, some day, I am sure?
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The problem with modern day Pedowood trying to make Narnia be this next big thing is that they constantly try to take out the religious allegories that C.S Lewis had in the books. Christianity and Christian themes play a big part of the Narnia series. It is woven into the soul of the series. You remove Christianity from the series you remove a large chunk of its soul. Pedowood and hacks like Gerwig think they can replace the Christian themes and allegories with feminism and progressive secularism. They are going to learn the hard way and I can't wait to see them get backlash over it.
 
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The Japanese are fucking furious about all of the Barbenheimer memes that have been spreading since the films' release, especially because the official movie account was replying to Barbenheimer memes.
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#NoBarbenheimer trended and got so much traction that the official Japanese Twitter account for the movie had to release a statement from Warner Bros. Japan demanding that the US account's tweets be taken down and an apology issued.

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About SNS posting of the movie "Barbie"
Currently, it is recommended to watch both the movie “Barbie” (distributor: Warner Bros.) and the movie “OPPENHEIMER (original title)” (distributor: Universal Pictures) released in the United States on July 21st. There is a fan movement (#Barbenheimer) going on, but this movement is not official.

On the other hand, we consider it extremely regrettable that the official account of the movie "Barbie" American headquarters reacted to social media posts by fans caused by this movement, and we take this situation very seriously.

We are asking the US headquarters to take appropriate action. We apologize to those who were offended by this series of inconsiderate reactions. Warner Bros. Japan G.K.
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In retaliation, angry Japanese Twitter users have been making the funniest 9/11 edits I've ever seen in an attempt to "hurt" America's feelings.
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and some very very uh spicy ones too.
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A lot of the angry tweets reveal a lot of stereotypes Japanese internet users think about Americans. Like that we're all bleeding heart patriotic Christians who would take offense at image edits or people saying anything even remotely blasphemous.

A lot of tweets mentioning the Christian church that was destroyed in the bombing.
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The specific offending tweets here are:
A DiscussingFilm tweet that reposted a meme edit of Barbie and Oppenheimer.: https://twitter.com/DiscussingFilm/status/1678809610218504208 (Archive)
A Tweet reposting some lego blender art by some 14 year old kid who worked on Spiderverse 2: https://twitter.com/DiscussingFilm/status/1682884439620177922 (Archive)
And a slew of replies that the Barbie official account made but deleted at Warner Bros. JP's request.

The quote retweets are full of angry messages from Japanese users.

There were a few funny ones (One went "Hi, I'm Barbie! I come from a country of demons/brutes that love killing children!") that I can't find now because Twitter sucks at loading anything.
 
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Neil said:
In retaliation, angry Japanese Twitter users have been making the funniest 9/11 edits I've ever seen in an attempt to "hurt" America's feelings.
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Bitches we were making 9/11 memes on 9/12.
 
AnOminous said:
Bitches we were making 9/11 memes on 9/12.
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Morning of 9/11 I was doing "Drop The Bomb" at the mall DDR and I got some serious shit irl for crashing a flaming paper airplane into the prop wall of the Frankenstein Place during "There's A Light" at the local Rocky Horror the Saturday after
but yeah sorta reminds me of that South Park about NOW WE WILL UNLEASH OUR RESPONSE and it was W and Jesus in a dumb cartoon eating poop
 
Betonhaus said:
probably not. 22 years ago memes came through dialup
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I remember during the mid 2000s people were creating dial up hell threads that were filled with high resolution images. I totally joined in once we got broadband, but for a year, I was on the receiving end of those.
 
PaladinBoo said:
Ooo... Gerwig is going to do to C.S Lewis what feminists did to Star Wars, She-Hulk, Lord of the Rings, Marvel, DC, Indiana Jones, The Witcher, Doctor Who, and I can literally go on about the list of properties destroyed by feminist iconoclasts. I don't know what it is but woke feminist activists feel the need to destroy a property made by a man and reclaim it as their own. It really does speak of the penis envy that they all have.

As for Barbie, I outgrew Barbie when I was 8. When things like Pokemon, Harry Potter and the N64 came out I learned that Barbie was pretty lame and gay. It didn't help that when I got older I learned that Barbie's creator, Ruth Handler, stole the concept of Barbie from a German toy company O&M Hausser and the doll that Mattel and Handler stole was their Lilli doll. There was a lawsuit over this and of course Mattel paid off the judge to take their side. It took Hausser 20 years to pay off his debt, his company that his father founded went bankrupt and to this day Mattel continues to desecrates Hausser's memory by calling him a sex pervert who made sex dolls for kids and claim they and Handler were the true and honest creators of Barbie. Mattel is an evil company run by a bunch of pit fiends and I refuse to purchase any of their products for my nieces due to this.
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Its much easier with SW or Marvel given they don't have Narnia's explicit Christian(and some would argue misogynist) themes and motifs.

Somehow that doesn't surprise me.
 
I'm not going to go see the Barbie movie.

In fact I'm thinking of not leaving the house from now on.


 
Betonhaus said:
probably not. 22 years ago memes came through dialup
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SA Goons were making memes FADS as it happened. Maybe some Ex-SA Goon's here can get the archive of that thread (if archives were ever fixed)?
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Japanese users when the American's show them the 9/11 memes they made as the towers burned.
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Neil said:
The Japanese are fucking furious about all of the Barbenheimer memes that have been spreading since the films' release, especially because the official movie account was replying to Barbenheimer memes.
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'I am a bisexual individual born and living in Japan...' Yeah, this user is a full of shit gaijin.
 
Basic Blond Boy said:
Disney started the trend with the only reasoning being that Narnia will be the next Harry Potter. I am guessing shit never changes, and everyone desperately retries as Narnia will be Harry Potter, some day, I am sure?
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Sure, just like Rings of Power was the next Game of Thrones. What Hollywood doesn't realize is that Harry Potter and Game of Thrones weren't popular because they were fantasy knockoffs of C.S. Lewis and Tolkien, they were popular because they were a bullied nerd power fantasy and an intrigue-filled soap opera brimming over with violence, dragons, and tits. The same people who like that kind of thing probably won't be as hot for seriess based on the earlier, less modernistic properties. And the people that do like Lewis and Tolkien's work won't be hot for Woke, value-inverted Pedowood remakes of those properties.

The problem with modern day Pedowood trying to make Narnia be this next big thing is that they constantly try to take out the religious allegories that C.S Lewis had in the books. Christianity and Christian themes play a big part of the Narnia series.
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Christianity was also a big part of A Wrinkle in Time, although not as overtly as it is in C.S. Lewis' works. It's safe to say that WiT will be a template of what Woke Hollywood will do to the Narnia series, and in the very least, half of the cast will be blackified even though there were very few black people living in England during all of WW2 (not counting American troops). They'll cram blackness in somehow, and they won't keep it to just the fantasy creatures living in Narnia.

A lot of the angry tweets reveal a lot of stereotypes Japanese internet users think about Americans. Like that we're all bleeding heart patriotic Christians who would take offense at image edits or people saying anything even remotely blasphemous.
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If this were true, we would have nuked the country during the first run of Evangelion, or during the Hellsing OVA. Japan has appropriated sacred Christian symbolism in many of its works without regard to its meaning, and even in blasphemous contexts involving rape and fornication (No, I'm not going to link to any examples.) Hell, half of Japanese RPGs involve the heroes killing final villains resembling the Christian God. In contrast, Nintendo tried using a Muslim chant in a level of a Legend of Zelda game and got so much heat for it, they had to censor it in future versions of the game. They had to replace a Muslim moon symbol with a placeholder symbol as well.

I'm not going to go see the Barbie movie.

In fact I'm thinking of not leaving the house from now on.
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Think of the Barbie Movie as being a litmus test of women you should never date.
 
I just saw the first promotional stills of the upcoming new BBC adaptation of Enid Blyton's Famous Five. From the costumes, it will be set in the 1940s (when the books were published), just like most of the Narnia books. The BBC being as woke as Hollywood these days, they cast very dark skinned black actresses as Aunt Fanny (daughter of a very old and formerly rich as fuck family) and George, while Julian, Dick and Anne are still white. I am pretty sure they will do something to the Pevensies in the upcoming Narnia rape. There is no way they will have a fantasy kingdom ruled by four white Anglo-Saxon siblings.
 
Neil said:
The Japanese are fucking furious about all of the Barbenheimer memes that have been spreading since the films' release, especially because the official movie account was replying to Barbenheimer memes.
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#NoBarbenheimer trended and got so much traction that the official Japanese Twitter account for the movie had to release a statement from Warner Bros. Japan demanding that the US account's tweets be taken down and an apology issued.

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https://twitter.com/BarbieMovie_jp/status/1685944607539159040 https://archive.is/JBYmG
In retaliation, angry Japanese Twitter users have been making the funniest 9/11 edits I've ever seen in an attempt to "hurt" America's feelings.
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I doubt Barbie will do well in Japan anyway, given they already have their own Barbie.
 
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