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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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. [/quote]

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. [/quote]

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

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. [/quote]

Are you not up on Mattel and Barbie and the way they evolved the product? Not aware of any of the backstory to the film’s making? Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie are in the driver’s seat here, not Mattel.[/quote]

How has Mattel "evolved" the product? Isn't she still a stick with boobs?

Mattel doesn't care about having a negative impact on girls.  Look what they've done to the American Girl brand! AG used to be driven by works created by women specifically to educate and inspire girls, and Mattel has turned it into the Barbie Lite Parade of Tokenism.[/quote]

Are you the same person who didn’t like the movie because it included a fat barbie? I’m sorry not every actress in the movie was a thin white woman and that not all dolls are thin and white. This must be very difficult for you. Mattel and the filmmakers are in the business of making money and appealing to only thin white women—a declining segment of the population—is not in their best interests. [/quote]

Dear God. You didn’t understand the point about the fat Barbie at all. Wow. And I am not the person you are responding to, I’m just blown away by your lack of reading comprehension. [/quote]

A PP said they didn’t like the movie because a Barbie was fat. They felt it wasn’t canon. Was there some deeper point? [/quote]

Wow. Massive inability to read?

Go read that post again, slowly and out loud, if you can. Hint: It has nothing to do with canon.

Reading is fundamental   [/quote]

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