Barbie trailer

[Anonymous]

Just saw it. Absolutely loved it! 47 year old former Barbie hater (4 teen girls who convinced me to take them also loved it).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It was so much better than I expected! The whole cast was great, but Ryan Gosling was exceptional and exceptionally funny.

For those who saw it….Please tell me you laughed at the depression barbie and the Pride and Prejudice rewatch. I was crying with laughter.

I’m one of the ones who didn’t like it (sadly, I was really hoping to love it), and those bits just made me roll my eyes. But to be fair, right around then I was debating whether I should just leave and cut my losses or not. So, by then I’d pretty much written the entire thing off.

I didn’t end up leaving, but in hindsight I probably should have.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It was so much better than I expected! The whole cast was great, but Ryan Gosling was exceptional and exceptionally funny.

For those who saw it….Please tell me you laughed at the depression barbie and the Pride and Prejudice rewatch. I was crying with laughter.

I’m one of the ones who didn’t like it (sadly, I was really hoping to love it), and those bits just made me roll my eyes. But to be fair, right around then I was debating whether I should just leave and cut my losses or not. So, by then I’d pretty much written the entire thing off.

I didn’t end up leaving, but in hindsight I probably should have.

I felt this way about the last Hunger Games movie I saw in a theatre. What didn't you like about the movie?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://www.reddit.com/r/boxoffice/comments/156owl5/updated_exit_scores_and_diversity_demos_for/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1

A+ from women under 25.

According to that same source, kids under 12 also rated it favorably.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It was so much better than I expected! The whole cast was great, but Ryan Gosling was exceptional and exceptionally funny.

For those who saw it….Please tell me you laughed at the depression barbie and the Pride and Prejudice rewatch. I was crying with laughter.

I’m one of the ones who didn’t like it (sadly, I was really hoping to love it), and those bits just made me roll my eyes. But to be fair, right around then I was debating whether I should just leave and cut my losses or not. So, by then I’d pretty much written the entire thing off.

I didn’t end up leaving, but in hindsight I probably should have.

I felt this way about the last Hunger Games movie I saw in a theatre. What didn't you like about the movie?

Where to start? It was cynical and heavy-handed. The forced inclusivity was painful and manipulative. There are so many examples of performative and tokenized diversity that were just awful. For instance, Mattel has never and would never make a truly fat Barbie like in the movie (their 2016 “curvy” Barbie is maybe a size 6 and they barely advertise it); in reality, the company probably contributed to the eating disorders of thousands of particularly Gen X girls, yet they put fat Barbie in the movie — who still gets no good lines, just in as the tokenized fat friend. Body diversity that is just there for the sake of driving more profits to the corporation that probably did more than most others to suppress bodily diversity is just profoundly cynical. I don’t need to pay Mattel to lightly diversity-wash itself and then go back to its piles of cash built on selling body image disorders to girls. I didn’t go to the movie intending to pay Mattel to be part of its own advertising campaign that above all else is design to cleanse its own image (but of course, not change what they actually sell and do). Yet that’s what I did, what all of us who bought tickets did.

Moving on: the movie trailer was funny. The movie itself was drained of nearly all humor, even managing to make the clips in the trailer fall flat. Even Ryan Gosling couldn’t save the movie from the endemic tedium. I almost could have dealt with what I wrote in the paragraph above if it had been funny. But it was profoundly unfunny.

The plot was barely existent. I realize it is a movie about Barbie but still, I like a movie that assumes its audience isn’t completely devoid of functional brain cells.

I will say this: the costumes and set design were very good. Towards the end, I stopped trying to listen to anything and just watched the sets and costumes. (although I couldn’t avoid the awful ending because that dominated the screen). I enjoyed it more when I stopped listening and just looked at the visual design.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:the barbie movie boosters have curiously dissappeared, they are no longer jumping in to stamp out any attempt to criticize the movie--I gues they see that their job is done, they suckered peole into spending their money to watch the money, doesn't matter if the people are satisfied or not after the fact

This is literally the purpose of all movie advertising. I haven’t seen Barbie yet but seriously everyone who makes a movie wants people to see it and I’m sure hopes people will like it but their primary motivation is to make money.

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Anonymous wrote:the barbie movie boosters have curiously dissappeared, they are no longer jumping in to stamp out any attempt to criticize the movie--I gues they see that their job is done, they suckered peole into spending their money to watch the money, doesn't matter if the people are satisfied or not after the fact

my husband and i tried to get tix today but every screening at our two local mega-plexes were sold out. people are going to see this movie, and people are enjoying it. i think the reason people "are no longer jumping in to stamp out any attempt to criticize the movie" is that it's the weekend, so most people are out doing things, and also it's been a huge hit - so this is no longer some theoretical thing where it's you prognosticating that it's going to tank while the rest of us predict that actually it's going to be both good and popular.

you were wrong. it's ok! it happens to all of us.

[Anonymous]

I think it's okay for Mattel to have a public mea culpa in the movie. I like the idea of having a diverse cast of Barbies, including more body positivity.

How does the film handle issues about gender, such as homosexuality?

I'll wait until the movie is streaming for free or under $4 to see it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:the barbie movie boosters have curiously dissappeared, they are no longer jumping in to stamp out any attempt to criticize the movie--I gues they see that their job is done, they suckered peole into spending their money to watch the money, doesn't matter if the people are satisfied or not after the fact

+1 I noticed that too

[Anonymous]

I mean, it's pretty much a giant mega-hit, so I'm not sure people feel the need to massively defend it any more: https://people.com/barbie-makes-history-for-female-director-oppenheimer-surpasses-expectations-7564179

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think it's okay for Mattel to have a public mea culpa in the movie. I like the idea of having a diverse cast of Barbies, including more body positivity.

How does the film handle issues about gender, such as homosexuality?

I'll wait until the movie is streaming for free or under $4 to see it.

Mattel didn’t have a public mea culpa at all. They are not remotely sorry for anything, that much is clear. They did, however, pull off a brilliantly cynical bit of diversity marketing without changing their core sales tactics at all. I do have to hand it to their marketing team. That was some very clever marketing.

They have a trans Barbie. Like the fat Barbie, she is tokenized.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It was so much better than I expected! The whole cast was great, but Ryan Gosling was exceptional and exceptionally funny.

For those who saw it….Please tell me you laughed at the depression barbie and the Pride and Prejudice rewatch. I was crying with laughter.

I’m one of the ones who didn’t like it (sadly, I was really hoping to love it), and those bits just made me roll my eyes. But to be fair, right around then I was debating whether I should just leave and cut my losses or not. So, by then I’d pretty much written the entire thing off.

I didn’t end up leaving, but in hindsight I probably should have.

I saw it this morning and loved it. Expected to hate it or be angry at it - but I thought it was just very well done. And yes, I was crying with laughter during the Pride & Prejudice moment and depression Barbie. Cant' wait to watch it again when it hits Netflix.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I mean, it's pretty much a giant mega-hit, so I'm not sure people feel the need to massively defend it any more: https://people.com/barbie-makes-history-for-female-director-oppenheimer-surpasses-expectations-7564179

Right? Mostly people were telling the doubters they were wrong. And now the facts speak for themselves. What else is there to say?

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Anonymous wrote:The London Eye was lit up pink for the London premiere. Kate McKinnon wore a custom “Gay Barbie” suit to the premiere. And a nutjob anti-LGBT preacher is “cursing” the movie.

I think it’s going to be a pop-culture phenomenon and I love it.

Yes regular people who are not publicist use this kind of language

This type of post didn’t age well. It’s a hit. Why was PP so clueless?

[Anonymous]

Ken's music video:

I haven't been to a movie theatre since before the pandemic. This movie will not get me to sit in a theatre in a seat (even those cushy ones) when I can wait to see it in the comfort of my own home.