Barbie

[Shadow Wolf]

Greatest line ever?
Nah.
It's utterly forgettable.

The greatest ever is....
May the force be with you when I'll be back
with a bigger boat that she's having like a box
of chocolates with fava beans & a nice chianti.

No, it's this, for now, and for now only as I expect the Venture Broths movie to have the greatest movie lines ever.

Voilà! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of Fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a bygone vexation stands vivified and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin vanguarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition! The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. [laughs] Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose, so let me simply add that it’s my very good honor to meet you and you may call me “V”.

 

[Quagmire]

Can't remember who posted this, but I saved it for future pearl clutching.

When I first read an African-American actor was playing The Little mermaid I was like, *shrug* "Okay, but isn't Halle Berry a little old for the part now"?

Then I learned to read:

Halle Bailey

 

[PoetPhilosopher]

When I first read an African-American actor was playing The Little mermaid I was like, *shrug* "Okay, but isn't Halle Berry a little old for the part now"?

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Then I learned to read:

Halle Bailey
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I'd still watch a Halle Berry version. Representation of older women has to be worth something...

 

[Stevicus]

Looks like Barbie has joined the Revolution

 

[Debater Slayer]

Oh, you need to watch Sex In The City.

In the city? Did the actors get charged with indecent exposure?

 

[Debater Slayer]

Looks like Barbie has joined the Revolution

I guess that's one way to take the word "pinko" literally.

 

[Subduction Zone]

When I first read an African-American actor was playing The Little mermaid I was like, *shrug* "Okay, but isn't Halle Berry a little old for the part now"?

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Then I learned to read:

Halle Bailey
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I have to confess to making the same error.

 

[Viker]

Greatest line ever?
Nah.
It's utterly forgettable.

The greatest ever is....
May the force be with you when I'll be back
with a bigger boat that she's having like a box
of chocolates with fava beans & a nice chianti.

You forgot, I'm all of bubble gum.

 

[F1fan]

In the city? Did the actors get charged with indecent exposure?

They banned me from the set.

 

[PoetPhilosopher]

@Revoltingest : Here's an article detailing the reactions that have happened so far: 'Barbie' slammed as 'woke' and 'man-hating' by conservatives

 

[Revoltingest]

You forgot, I'm all of bubble gum.

I might've gotten some mixed up.

 

[Revoltingest]

@Revoltingest : Here's an article detailing the reactions that have happened so far: 'Barbie' slammed as 'woke' and 'man-hating' by conservatives

What an odd thing to care about.

 

[SomeRandom]

When I first read an African-American actor was playing The Little mermaid I was like, *shrug* "Okay, but isn't Halle Berry a little old for the part now"?

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Then I learned to read:

Halle Bailey
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Lmao! My exact reaction too!!
I was like, well maybe they will cgi her to make her look younger.

As we joke here
“Should have gone to spec savers”

 

[Viker]

Until all the conservative butthurt, I wasn't going to see the Barbie movie, now I have to.

It's like the 80s Satanic Panic/Metal Panic all over again. Conservatives and the like seem to be some of the best marketers for the things they claim to be against. Just ask Ozzy, this kind of stuff boosted his fan base by millions.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

Fight Club comes to mind, a

Fight Club is a philosophical orgy, primarily driven by Foucault, that lambasts those who would idolize the nameless character and his alter ego, and shows them trapped and enslaved by the very thing they claimed set them free, with the their alpha being the source of their abuse.
It's more like that "beloved" and "cherished" pop hit that hardly anybody actually used to. Every Breath You Take, I think is a good comparison. It's not romance, it's a creepy stalker song. Fight Club has fists, but it's when a violently psychotic man adopts an odd sort of Stalinist-Maoist caricature that over dosed on testosterone and begins recruiting for a terrorist group. And even though it's clearly fascist, the great leader screams it's freedom and liberation.

 

[sun rise]

Until all the conservative butthurt, I wasn't going to see the Barbie movie, now I have to.

It's like the 80s Satanic Panic/Metal Panic all over again. Conservatives and the like seem to be some of the best marketers for the things they claim to be against. Just ask Ozzy, this kind of stuff boosted his fan base by millions.

We've also seen it more recently with banned books in Florida.

 

[Mock Turtle]

Perhaps the film is retaliation for this - but a bit late - and loathed by many it seems (not me though ):

 

[Revoltingest]

I'll just watch the Simpsons episode
about Barbie Malibu Stacy instead.

 

[Brickjectivity]

By the way, this thread isn't complete until @lewisnotmiller arrives and says, "Barbie? Isn't that the thing you put shrimp on?"

Whatever country you make fun of is the one you'll reincarnate in. That's why Texans are starting increasingly to sound like New Yorkers. Its a scientifically proven paranormal phenomenon.

 

[exchemist]

Barbie was a relentless attack on men with pro abortion imagery showing all men to be patriarchal, misogynistic, low intelligence, easily manipulated, greedy and violent. I cannot tell you how relentless it was, you have to see it to understand. If I was not at the drive in I would have walked out. My wife was appalled as well. We both felt sick when we left.

Here is a summary: It starts in Barbieland where the Barbies are in charge and the Kens are submissive. Stereotypical Barbie and White Ken go to the real world from Barbieland to find a girl that needs help. They depict the real world as a patriarchal misogynistic world where men rule everything and women are subjugated. White Ken sees this and learns from this "real" society. He goes back to Barbieland without Barbie and brainwashes the Barbies and institutes a patriarchal, misogynistic society that oppresses women. Barbie goes back to find this and manipulates the men into fighting a violent war between themselves so the Barbies can take over again. When this is done, everything is back to the way it should be. The Kens are submissive again and the Barbies are in charge.

Key Takeaways:

1. First scene bashed motherhood and literally had little girls bashing baby dolls heads on strollers, cribs and rocks to destroy them
2. Heard the word patriarchy at least 40 times.
3. All men acted like it was 1950.
4. The only "good" male in the movie was shown as meek and powerless.
5. Showed the Mattel board of directors as all misogynistic men when in actuality Mattel has 5 of the 11 board members as women.
6. All men were shown to be dumb.
7. The white Ken was shown to be a moron and the leader of the rebellion that brainwashed the Barbies into complying with an oppressive patriarchal society.
8. Long monologues of how women are oppressed and how hard it is to be a woman in a patriarchal society with no talk at all of any real issues men have.
9. Ken was "reformed" at the end of the movie depicting him as meek, submissive and powerless.

I wanted to like this movie hoping it was a fun movie with a good message for women and girls. It was worse than anything I could have imagined and a bait and switch. No trailer showed what the movie was really about. My 12 yo son will not be watching this movie. He would come out of it thinking that he is terrible just for being a boy. Instead of cleverly bringing up issues men and women have and have them work together to resolve or at least understand each other, they used hate and bigotry to get their view across.

Before you write this off as some kind of male fragility or something, take time to understand the movie or watch it. It was unfair and divisive

Well, what can one say, but: "Diddums".

My son warned me the US Right is having a real hissy fit over this (girls') film. Seems Ben Shapiro has done his nut, teehee.