Barbie trailer

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Full Disclosure: I did not read any of the 22 pages of this thread. Just came here to say my family and a group of friends saw the movie last night. There were 18 of us ranging from 80 to 10. We all loved the movie and thought it was hysterical. Afterwards we gathered in one or our houses backyard for dinner and drinks and inevitabley talked about the movie, its themes, the actors, etc. One person said, "just wait for the anti-woke lobby to start screaming about this movie". LOLOLOL I woke up today and saw a few stories about the opening day and guess what? Shockingly, all the outrage and derision was on full display . God, the far right is SO predictable. Even my teen was like, "what IS their problem?"

It must be so weird to go through life convinced that anyone who doesn’t share your exact same opinions on everything is part of an extremist political faction. Your paranoia is quite something to see. It’s sad you are passing that on to your children, though.

I’m a registered Democrat who campaigned for Biden who also thought the movie humorless garbage.

You are a truly miserable person. Stop opening this thread and posting about a movie you don’t even like. It’s totally fine not to enjoy a movie but move on already. It’s sad that you’re probably passing this behavior on to your children.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I thought the movie was okay. There were some fun parts but most of the best parts were already in the trailers. It was derivative. Similar to Lego movie or Toy Story with a more knowing sense of humor. It was fine. The marketing campaign and merch around the movie is maybe more fun than the movie itself.

My 15 yo daughter and her friends didn’t love it and they were pumped to go. Lacked the magic and fun of the Barbie movies and had “too many messages” and parts “were random.” Again they didn’t hate it but didn’t think it was that good.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am seeing the movie tomorrow night. I am a GenXer, and I was never allowed Barbies when growing up. I was also a tom boy — super athletic — and I loved hot pink, but had to hide it. I am looking forward to the movie.

Same here. My mother projected a lot of her own frustration of being a woman in her era on me and didn’t allow me Barbie’s/dolls/scarfs in general, I never owned a dress, wasn’t allowed to grow my hair past my shoulders. She really raised me like a boy.

I am 40 and just ordered another over the board loveshackfancy dress in lilac haha!

Haha thanks for sharing that with me ❤️

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Full Disclosure: I did not read any of the 22 pages of this thread. Just came here to say my family and a group of friends saw the movie last night. There were 18 of us ranging from 80 to 10. We all loved the movie and thought it was hysterical. Afterwards we gathered in one or our houses backyard for dinner and drinks and inevitabley talked about the movie, its themes, the actors, etc. One person said, "just wait for the anti-woke lobby to start screaming about this movie". LOLOLOL I woke up today and saw a few stories about the opening day and guess what? Shockingly, all the outrage and derision was on full display . God, the far right is SO predictable. Even my teen was like, "what IS their problem?"

It must be so weird to go through life convinced that anyone who doesn’t share your exact same opinions on everything is part of an extremist political faction. Your paranoia is quite something to see. It’s sad you are passing that on to your children, though.

I’m a registered Democrat who campaigned for Biden who also thought the movie humorless garbage.

You are a truly miserable person. Stop opening this thread and posting about a movie you don’t even like. It’s totally fine not to enjoy a movie but move on already. It’s sad that you’re probably passing this behavior on to your children.

This isn’t the Barbie praise thread, my different-opinion-adverse friend.

I genuinely wonder how you get through your days.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Full Disclosure: I did not read any of the 22 pages of this thread. Just came here to say my family and a group of friends saw the movie last night. There were 18 of us ranging from 80 to 10. We all loved the movie and thought it was hysterical. Afterwards we gathered in one or our houses backyard for dinner and drinks and inevitabley talked about the movie, its themes, the actors, etc. One person said, "just wait for the anti-woke lobby to start screaming about this movie". LOLOLOL I woke up today and saw a few stories about the opening day and guess what? Shockingly, all the outrage and derision was on full display . God, the far right is SO predictable. Even my teen was like, "what IS their problem?"

It must be so weird to go through life convinced that anyone who doesn’t share your exact same opinions on everything is part of an extremist political faction. Your paranoia is quite something to see. It’s sad you are passing that on to your children, though.

I’m a registered Democrat who campaigned for Biden who also thought the movie humorless garbage.

You are a truly miserable person. Stop opening this thread and posting about a movie you don’t even like. It’s totally fine not to enjoy a movie but move on already. It’s sad that you’re probably passing this behavior on to your children.

Is this the new thing on the internet, telling people to "move on" when you don't want to hear their thoughts anymore? As if you have the power!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This is the first time I’ve seen anyone say the film was cynical. In fact, pretty much ever critic has said the opposite - it works because Greta Gerwig is so very not cynical.

This is actually part of a trend with critics I’ve noticed in other contexts. I think movie critics themselves are so seeped in cynicism that they can’t actually recognize a deliberately cynical movie when they encounter one. Movie criticism used to be done mostly by people who truly loved movies, but a lot of those critics have retired or moved on. The critics these days don’t seem to be able to actually enjoy a movie. Even if they give a good review, there is no joy in the experience. I think many critics are somehow afraid to show any happiness in the experience of cinema, and the pure joy of movies has been crushed out of a lot of reviewers. I used to read a lot of reviews. I didn’t always agree with them but what I felt I shared with the critics was a love of movies. But that’s been missing from reviews for awhile; I stopped reading.

Barbie is both cynical and manipulative, but if you make your living being profoundly cynical yourself, you can’t recognize it. In fact, packaged and cynical “joy” like Barbie provides is probably very appealing to most current critics.

Right. Greta Gerwig, the filmmaker behind Frances Ha, LadyBird, Little Women, and this film, is just a cynic. Film critics can’t recognize this, but you, a random DCUM poster, are smarter than everyone else. That is so DC

What is so DC is how much you are freaking out at the idea that someone, somewhere doesn’t agree with what you clearly believe is the only acceptable Official Opinion on the movie.

So someone on the internet doesn’t like a movie. Get a grip.

+100

Have the people who don't like it actually seen it? The conversation suddenly shifted from people not going to be sucked into the hype and definitely not going to see it to suddenly saying it sucked and they hated it and arguing about the critics opinions. I thought some of you had no intention of seeing it at all?

You speak as if no more than 5 people use this website.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Full Disclosure: I did not read any of the 22 pages of this thread. Just came here to say my family and a group of friends saw the movie last night. There were 18 of us ranging from 80 to 10. We all loved the movie and thought it was hysterical. Afterwards we gathered in one or our houses backyard for dinner and drinks and inevitabley talked about the movie, its themes, the actors, etc. One person said, "just wait for the anti-woke lobby to start screaming about this movie". LOLOLOL I woke up today and saw a few stories about the opening day and guess what? Shockingly, all the outrage and derision was on full display . God, the far right is SO predictable. Even my teen was like, "what IS their problem?"

It must be so weird to go through life convinced that anyone who doesn’t share your exact same opinions on everything is part of an extremist political faction. Your paranoia is quite something to see. It’s sad you are passing that on to your children, though.

I’m a registered Democrat who campaigned for Biden who also thought the movie humorless garbage.

You are a truly miserable person. Stop opening this thread and posting about a movie you don’t even like. It’s totally fine not to enjoy a movie but move on already. It’s sad that you’re probably passing this behavior on to your children.

Is this the new thing on the internet, telling people to "move on" when you don't want to hear their thoughts anymore? As if you have the power!

I think this is the modus operandi of political extremists on both ends these days. They have a lot in common. They try to shut down and suppress any opinion that isn’t within their very narrow world view. PP is on the left, but she shares a lot in common with the extreme right-wingers who are doing things like trying to ban poetry by Amanda Gorman. In her view, Barbie is a political statement, so you must agree with her that it is an amazing movie or you have to be an extreme right-winger. She just can’t account for a worldview where it’s just a crappy movie.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Full Disclosure: I did not read any of the 22 pages of this thread. Just came here to say my family and a group of friends saw the movie last night. There were 18 of us ranging from 80 to 10. We all loved the movie and thought it was hysterical. Afterwards we gathered in one or our houses backyard for dinner and drinks and inevitabley talked about the movie, its themes, the actors, etc. One person said, "just wait for the anti-woke lobby to start screaming about this movie". LOLOLOL I woke up today and saw a few stories about the opening day and guess what? Shockingly, all the outrage and derision was on full display . God, the far right is SO predictable. Even my teen was like, "what IS their problem?"

It must be so weird to go through life convinced that anyone who doesn’t share your exact same opinions on everything is part of an extremist political faction. Your paranoia is quite something to see. It’s sad you are passing that on to your children, though.

I’m a registered Democrat who campaigned for Biden who also thought the movie humorless garbage.

You are a truly miserable person. Stop opening this thread and posting about a movie you don’t even like. It’s totally fine not to enjoy a movie but move on already. It’s sad that you’re probably passing this behavior on to your children.

Is this the new thing on the internet, telling people to "move on" when you don't want to hear their thoughts anymore? As if you have the power!

My bad, you’re right. Let’s hear those thoughts for the 11th time! The first 10 weren’t enough. I eagerly await the next post about tokenism.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Full Disclosure: I did not read any of the 22 pages of this thread. Just came here to say my family and a group of friends saw the movie last night. There were 18 of us ranging from 80 to 10. We all loved the movie and thought it was hysterical. Afterwards we gathered in one or our houses backyard for dinner and drinks and inevitabley talked about the movie, its themes, the actors, etc. One person said, "just wait for the anti-woke lobby to start screaming about this movie". LOLOLOL I woke up today and saw a few stories about the opening day and guess what? Shockingly, all the outrage and derision was on full display . God, the far right is SO predictable. Even my teen was like, "what IS their problem?"

It must be so weird to go through life convinced that anyone who doesn’t share your exact same opinions on everything is part of an extremist political faction. Your paranoia is quite something to see. It’s sad you are passing that on to your children, though.

I’m a registered Democrat who campaigned for Biden who also thought the movie humorless garbage.

You are a truly miserable person. Stop opening this thread and posting about a movie you don’t even like. It’s totally fine not to enjoy a movie but move on already. It’s sad that you’re probably passing this behavior on to your children.

Is this the new thing on the internet, telling people to "move on" when you don't want to hear their thoughts anymore? As if you have the power!

I think this is the modus operandi of political extremists on both ends these days. They have a lot in common. They try to shut down and suppress any opinion that isn’t within their very narrow world view. PP is on the left, but she shares a lot in common with the extreme right-wingers who are doing things like trying to ban poetry by Amanda Gorman. In her view, Barbie is a political statement, so you must agree with her that it is an amazing movie or you have to be an extreme right-winger. She just can’t account for a worldview where it’s just a crappy movie.

+1
And crazy enough, a corporation artfully made people see the movie as a political statement--very FOX News like, I am seeing the similarities (fierce adherence to party line, resistance to hearing info and thoughts from other parties)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is the first time I’ve seen anyone say the film was cynical. In fact, pretty much ever critic has said the opposite - it works because Greta Gerwig is so very not cynical.

This is actually part of a trend with critics I’ve noticed in other contexts. I think movie critics themselves are so seeped in cynicism that they can’t actually recognize a deliberately cynical movie when they encounter one. Movie criticism used to be done mostly by people who truly loved movies, but a lot of those critics have retired or moved on. The critics these days don’t seem to be able to actually enjoy a movie. Even if they give a good review, there is no joy in the experience. I think many critics are somehow afraid to show any happiness in the experience of cinema, and the pure joy of movies has been crushed out of a lot of reviewers. I used to read a lot of reviews. I didn’t always agree with them but what I felt I shared with the critics was a love of movies. But that’s been missing from reviews for awhile; I stopped reading.

Barbie is both cynical and manipulative, but if you make your living being profoundly cynical yourself, you can’t recognize it. In fact, packaged and cynical “joy” like Barbie provides is probably very appealing to most current critics.

Right. Greta Gerwig, the filmmaker behind Frances Ha, LadyBird, Little Women, and this film, is just a cynic. Film critics can’t recognize this, but you, a random DCUM poster, are smarter than everyone else. That is so DC

What is so DC is how much you are freaking out at the idea that someone, somewhere doesn’t agree with what you clearly believe is the only acceptable Official Opinion on the movie.

So someone on the internet doesn’t like a movie. Get a grip.

+100

Have the people who don't like it actually seen it? The conversation suddenly shifted from people not going to be sucked into the hype and definitely not going to see it to suddenly saying it sucked and they hated it and arguing about the critics opinions. I thought some of you had no intention of seeing it at all?

You speak as if no more than 5 people use this website.

Well it’s weird that the person complaining about the marketing campaign has left and now its just the “i hated it and walked out after 20 minutes” people. Who aren’t really credible.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Full Disclosure: I did not read any of the 22 pages of this thread. Just came here to say my family and a group of friends saw the movie last night. There were 18 of us ranging from 80 to 10. We all loved the movie and thought it was hysterical. Afterwards we gathered in one or our houses backyard for dinner and drinks and inevitabley talked about the movie, its themes, the actors, etc. One person said, "just wait for the anti-woke lobby to start screaming about this movie". LOLOLOL I woke up today and saw a few stories about the opening day and guess what? Shockingly, all the outrage and derision was on full display . God, the far right is SO predictable. Even my teen was like, "what IS their problem?"

It must be so weird to go through life convinced that anyone who doesn’t share your exact same opinions on everything is part of an extremist political faction. Your paranoia is quite something to see. It’s sad you are passing that on to your children, though.

I’m a registered Democrat who campaigned for Biden who also thought the movie humorless garbage.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Full Disclosure: I did not read any of the 22 pages of this thread. Just came here to say my family and a group of friends saw the movie last night. There were 18 of us ranging from 80 to 10. We all loved the movie and thought it was hysterical. Afterwards we gathered in one or our houses backyard for dinner and drinks and inevitabley talked about the movie, its themes, the actors, etc. One person said, "just wait for the anti-woke lobby to start screaming about this movie". LOLOLOL I woke up today and saw a few stories about the opening day and guess what? Shockingly, all the outrage and derision was on full display . God, the far right is SO predictable. Even my teen was like, "what IS their problem?"

It must be so weird to go through life convinced that anyone who doesn’t share your exact same opinions on everything is part of an extremist political faction. Your paranoia is quite something to see. It’s sad you are passing that on to your children, though.

I’m a registered Democrat who campaigned for Biden who also thought the movie humorless garbage.

You are a truly miserable person. Stop opening this thread and posting about a movie you don’t even like. It’s totally fine not to enjoy a movie but move on already. It’s sad that you’re probably passing this behavior on to your children.

This isn’t the Barbie praise thread, my different-opinion-adverse friend.

I genuinely wonder how you get through your days.

+1 it makes total sense considering how much they “love” the movie. Lol

[Anonymous]

I just went to watch it today with my family and I was excited to do it because it seemed fun. Forty five minutes in I had to take my 9y old to the bathroom and took the opportunity to google “how long is the Barbie movie.”

It had fun moments but overall, I found it a bit boring and the message tiresome. While I agree with the core of the message, I found the deliver too much in your face and too radical- for lack of a better word. Not all of it, but parts of it (a lot of parts).

But then, I never liked Barbie dolls. I got one once but rarely played with it. I have nothing against them though and have gifted many to my daughter throughout the years, it was just not my cup of tea growing up.

[Anonymous]

I still want to see it, but I was not about to go on opening weekend with people dressed up in pink etc. That’s not my thing. Negative reviews won’t deter me because I’m not expecting anything deep out of it?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I just went to watch it today with my family and I was excited to do it because it seemed fun. Forty five minutes in I had to take my 9y old to the bathroom and took the opportunity to google “how long is the Barbie movie.”

It had fun moments but overall, I found it a bit boring and the message tiresome. While I agree with the core of the message, I found the deliver too much in your face and too radical- for lack of a better word. Not all of it, but parts of it (a lot of parts).

But then, I never liked Barbie dolls. I got one once but rarely played with it. I have nothing against them though and have gifted many to my daughter throughout the years, it was just not my cup of tea growing up.

Why would you bring a 9 year old to this movie? It’s PG-13.