Barbie - A More Successful Movie than You'd Think

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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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2 bombs weren't enough. The whole fucking nip island should have been bombed to the ground.
 
Not gonna lie, I really enjoyed Barbie as a "switch your brain off" kitschy comedy that went all over the place. Filled to the brim with child logic to get from one scene to another and whatever. The soundtrack was fun (yeah, I like girlpop, fight me). the costume and set design was great, Ken was fantastic in every single scene he was in etc. Honestly a 9/10 film for all the family that certainly beats most capeshit or goyslop.

Watching it again deliberately trying to take the perspective of Ken was interesting though and I'm starting to agree with a lot of you that while on the surface it's a 'don't think too much movie about hard topics' it's unintentionally created some contradictory viewpoints that make Ken not just someone to sympathise with a little, but someone who legit has a point at times.

It's wild because I genuinely don't know whether any of this is intentional or not. The quip at the end of "One day, the Kens will get as much power in Barbieland as they do in the real world" is such a tongue in cheek point that if it was anyone else directing it other than Greta Feminism I'd have taken the whole thing as a contrarian middle ground movie, but with Greta directing it it just seems like 90% of the Ken sympathy / Barbie's blissful unawareness that men have feelings is unintentional.
 
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My mom saw this today with one of her gal pals

She said other than nostalgia and a few moments she thought were funny, it was pretty blah. She said the '"Pregnant Barbie" getting discontinued' joke came off as cruel to her. Ryan Gosling carried the movie in her opinion, he had all the funny moments she mentioned
 
The only proper way to interpret a Barbie movie is just shouting NIGGER loudly. Then if anyone is upset by it, shouting DOUBLE NIGGER.
 
I thought the movie was good overall. I expected it to present some of the messages it did and some of them weren't even wrong. I think that speech about how women never feel good enough was pretty genuine. I liked that it explored how Barbie's world doesn't match reality either. The patriarchy shit is whatever, but I think the way Ken viewed it made a lot of sense.

The thing that really ruined the movie for me was how they ended the battle of the sexes. Every time a piece of media does that, I always have much higher expectations than what they end up giving. From the beginning, the Kens are clearly the second class in Barbie Land and are pushed to compete with each other in order to win the Barbies' favor. They hold no positions of power and there's no concern for them whatsoever, even down to where they sleep. Then when Ken is exposed to change and leads a revolt, the Barbies learn how it feels first-hand and then they lead a revolt of their own. You'd think that'd be the point where they'd apologize to each other and decide to grow together. But instead you get some starving children in Africa bullshit where the Kens continue to be subjugated because women outside of their world aren't like Barbies. There's no real message and no resolution there. I think it just fails to see why it all happened in the first place.

At the same time though it's weird because I almost feel like the writers got it and then decided not to go there. It's wank bait for low self-esteem women that believe shitting on men makes them more valuable, so I wonder if they preferred that angle over a feel good ending that'd wrap up that plot line. Based on the headlines from the usual suspects and how conservative media is responding, it'd make sense.
 
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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and some very very uh spicy ones too.
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Omen_Sulk said:
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This is the best trainwreck I have ever seen, holy fucking shit
it began with the worst premise for a movie (and one of the worst executions of said premise) i've ever seen
then it became a smash hit
now there's
  • a one-sided feud between the americans and japanese over barbenheimer memes in which the japanese try very very hard to offend americans the way they were offended by the memes and fail spectacularly
  • an entire subculture of hyperborea memes dedicated to Ken from the Barbie movie who spent his time within it creating an extremely gay patriarchy while dressing like a pimp and having dance-offs
  • a "new" aesthetic subculture based on Barbie that's literally just kitsch but migraine pink instead of puke green and piss yellow called Barbiecore
  • b a r b i e - t h e m e d c o f f i n s
 
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Well at least the movie was only five bucks and I got to bring a sub sandwich in. I go to movies because it makes my significant other happy and we get to enjoy a nice evening.
 
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