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Researchette's avatar

I was never a big Barbie fan growing up (more of a Strawberry Shortcake gal - now there's a matriarchy) but I put on my one pink dress and went on Saturday. And when I tell you I cried like baby at that final montage...I really really did. After decades of movies based on male-coded properties, all then ultimately reboot and reimagined, I finally had something for me. It was very similar for me to EEAAO last year, a boring middle aged wife and mother is the savior of the universe. Also something you really don't see a lot. One movie a year.

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Jess Whitehead's avatar

This movie is surprisingly didactic and naked in its messaging. Oftentimes I find that a turnoff, but what I liked about it here is that the movie’s financial success really demolishes the whole “go woke, go broke” argument. With a movie like Barbie, the Ben Shapiros of the world can’t just dismiss its success as “audiences didn’t pick up on the subtle messaging”.

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Clebo's avatar

It's the ONLY woke success, so it doesn't demolish that argument. At least 85% of woke movies flop tremendously. The Marvels came out 4 months after and it was a disaster.

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DR Darke's avatar

I tried to get my friends in NYC to go with me to see BARBIE, but they were both like, "It's been pushed in our faces and it's too girlie!" 🤷

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Clebo's avatar

The movie was DOGSHIT, and this article OOZES soylent. Patriarchy doesn't exist in America.

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Nathan Rabin's avatar

That’s so cute that you think anyone cares.

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Clebo's avatar

Awwwwww you literally cared enough to respond back. Awwwww

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Not Merritt Stone's avatar

Okay, but why put things in the movie to make it PG-13? I've read what the jokes are that probably pushed it to that rating, and I don't understand why they were necessary to a movie about toys largely if not exclusively made for children and Waylon Smithers. I don't think the themes and ideas I've read are in the movie are too much for little kids, but I do think it's weird to make that movie not G or PG.

I am sure this movie is great, but I did not care for The Lego Movie. I do not enjoy things that make being meta their whole identity. I was touched by the scenes with Will Farrell and his son in the real world, but the parts in Legoland were smug and full of themselves. Barbie does not sound anywhere near that annoying, but I guess we'll see.

Also, I'm not a fan of Matchbox 20, but I don't think of them as being a part of The Brotocracy. Maybe they took a big turn on their recent albums, but they're certainly not Joe Rogan or Andrew Tate.

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James Amaz's avatar

Yeah, I don't get what Matchbox 20 is doing on that list.

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