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"I know the hype is artificially manufactured but it just feels cute to see people excited for a movie, dressing up for it etc. It feels like tv show before the streaming era, everyone watching the same two shows, discussing the weekly episodes, everyone being in on the inside joke."
"Even Barbie has something going between her legs, if only the slightest suggestion of a pubic bump. Additionally it's possible to spread Barbie's legs and many have. LEGO (men and women) lack any excitement within the reproductive region because their boxy legs simply pop off horizontally if you att"
"she is OBSESSED with the color pink and fairy/princess/barbie decor, covering her entire cubicle in our shared office space with obnoxious pink everything"
"Is it because of the Barbieheimer hype and they want to be part of it?"
"I expected Paradise Lost with Barbie as Adam and Ken as Eve. I expected Kens doing a Lord of the Flies thing."
"Ryan Gosling's response to Robbie and Gerwig getting snubbed"
"the post Roe v Wade, Ukraine War, red pill, barbieheimer, podcast verse, gender war world that would come after"
"it's like they heard the term genocide barbie when gal gadot was being called it"
"Barbie was a good movie and it meant a lot to girls and that's great. But Margot Robbie outside of the movie already looks like a Barbie she shouldn't get an Oscar nomination for her looks."
"People booed at the end because their favorite actress, Dasha Nekrasova, was nowhere to be seen!!!!!"
"I really do feel like quite a bit of the Barbie hate on the sub came from people briefly fucking with it for a bit and then changing their mind around the 'America Ferrera does a speech about feminism' portion of the movie."
"All this barbie campaigning reminds is giving me some Freudian nostalgia. Did anyone else have a life size Barbie as a child?"
"I can't get over how bizarre it is that I can't even point out how there were no lesbians in Barbieland without sheeple working themselves up"
"There were enough women in roles that weren't based on eating-disorder-inspiring, male-gaze-conforming dolls that Margot didn't make the cut."
"Is the fact that Barbie Girl by Aqua was not in the film. I was 100% convinced that it was going to be in the movie and all we got was the awful Ice Spice Nicki version as a credit song. Apparently Margot Robbie tried very hard to get Greta to put it in the film in some way and the best she could ge"
"Even Barbie has something going between her legs, if only the slightest suggestion of a pubic bump. Additionally it's possible to spread Barbie's legs and many have."
"Why is there a completely nonsensical culture-war being created between a Barbie movie and a Christopher Nolan movie?"
"*Barbiehemer*, *Capeshit 2023*, *Capeshit but the animation is soooo good and black people are in it*, *I'm Gay, I'm Gay, I'm Gay*, *I'm Gay and Chinese)*, *Bottoms*, *Critically acclaimed movie from 4 years ago*."
"Combine that with Barbenheimer and the Taylor Swift Eras tour movie and cinema is back in full swing"
"Okay let's even say I'm in a Barbie world. Right, so in this scenario, I would obviously know from my personal experience that, life in plastic is fantastic."
"women commit violence through the social and emotional manipulation of men to act violently on their behalf. Based and Amy Dunne-pilled."
"I saw the movie and got the impression that all of the bits were ironic and thought the movie was hilarious. My friends are telling me the movie was genuine but on the nose."
"Well, ain't that poster love? Well, it ain't that Barbie doll Her heart's have been broken just like you and"
"Is there some mass AI powered astroturf campaign to promote these two movies (you know which ones) on social media?"
"Plus, the Barbie movie; perhaps the perfect capstone to that era, a movie with warmed-over talking points which were really just a front to get you to buy a Chevy Equinox."
"I guess the moral of Barbie is that it's okay to flatten a displaced people if it gets you back into the dream house listening to Dua Lipa. Greta Gerwig is like a lib Sergei Eisenstein and Barbie is her Battleship Potemkin."
"is everyone here posting about barbie or Oppenheimer getting paid?"
"Yeah, should've seen it coming, but still shocking and SO INFURIATING that 6 YEARS LATER so many films and television shows continue to re-litigate the 2016 election. This movie sounds like it was written in January 2017."
"Barbie is a fun movie but the feminist politics make zero sense"
"barbie with her 10000 jobs and supernatural species"
"If they weren't cowards, Mattel would've been the villain and it could have had commentary on companies co-opting feminism for financial gain. But that would never happen in the movie that has a car commercial in the middle."
"feels worse than the barbie movie"
"It's far better than capeshit or starshit slop because it actually gets the ol' noggin joggin and encourages filmgoers to reflect on the human condition. Most populist blockbusters don't dare to be this subversive and artsy. The 'Barbie' brand is just a Trojan horse for the weightiest themes at the "
"Apparently it's going to be Margot Robbie in the lead role who is too old, Barbie looking, and athletic."
"I'm seeing Oppenheimer and Barbie as a double feature"
"Hopefully Barbie will be better."
"All the Kens completely marginalized, going back to being ignored ornaments that serve as flavour at best in the lives of the Barbies. Also the material situation of Barbieland is very telling- a President who never has to engage in argument with an opposition, a Supreme Court that I would gather wo"
"grown men are complaining that the barbie movie has too much feminism"
"all the normie people I went to high school with who take poli sci and gender studies are reposting this like Barbie is the new Jordan Peterson"
"They are flabbergasted at the success of Barbie."
"i think the Barbie movie is going to suck because, where's the little girl who relates to the dolls and gives them life? the story of Barbie should include the little girl, Barbie's real bestfriend"
"I love shopping! Let's have a tea party. Which food do you like best? Let's dance! Party dresses are fun! I'll always be here to help you! Do you have a crush on anyone? Wanna have a pizza party?"
"The only two parts that got people cackling were Helen Mirren's sudden 'note to the filmmakers' in Weird Barbie's house and Issa Rae's mouth being bleeped out by the Mattel logo. I was surprised by how stone-faced the audience was."
"I expected a ham-fisted social commentary in which comedy served only to reiterate a trite feminism. Surprisingly, Barbie did not commit to consistently representing anything."
"The marketing campaign was clever because it dared you to make a fool of yourself by mistaking it for _just_ a Barbie movie, while making clear it was going to be a satire."
"What was the last (non capeshit) movie to reach Barbenheimer's level of hype?"
"Its almost weird to me how easily most threads of feminism have incorporated Victoria Secret (like Barbie) into its ethos..."
"I don't know if I entirely understood the message of this film. I felt like the social commentary, and 'Satire' was a bit on the nose at times. This something intended for mass audiences, that Mattel probably really,really work shopped."
"hi all, so I just done watching the barbie movie. it reminded me about a severely underaddressed issue in this subreddit: male bpd."
"If you shave off you eyebrows and make a tote bag out of see through plastic with glitter and barbie dolls inside, what am I supposed to do, not look?"
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