The film is actually really bad but they're using a combo of meme marketing and woke themes to get hordes of npcs to defend it. Let's look at some of the reactions to this movie from people who aren't complete shills.
From the Time Magazine article that was supposed to promote the film.
https://www.worldofreel.com/blog/2023/6/2hj5nf7pnyzqfa1kl58bzyog2y8fe6
> I can share that it’s a fun yet self-aware romp with shades of Clueless and Legally Blonde.It’s also stuffed full of ideas, and occasionally overwhelmed by them.
Another reaction from an influencer screening.
> I have seen the final cut of the film; it will be profitable for WB. If you love/hate the trailer, then the film won’t change your mind. If you are like me, and have no interest in Barbie but are curious how much intellect Gerwig and Baumbach can inject into a commercial blockbuster, you will be entertained. The first 25 minutes feel like fan service, and then the real film begins. Most people in the audience are just looking for a fun movie to see with their friends, and this one will satisfy them. If you are a film student or like to type long reviews on Letterboxd, there is plenty to discuss (fascism, gender power dynamics, corporate greed, existentialism, patriarchy, self-worth, genitals, psychological manipulation within a relationship, inclusion/exclusion). That being said, the film only scratches the surface of these topics—it’s not a deep dive. I don’t expect any major awards, but Ryan Gosling gives a great performance and gave me the biggest laugh of the film.
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Pic related is the only non-shill reaction you have.
So what do we have here? A movie that non-shills outright hate while even the shills only give it faint praise. Yet, the marketing has made this movie outsell Mission Impossible in pre-sales. Make no mistake, you're getting scammed.
That's actually a scathing reaction. Damn.
That's unsurprising. Only one extremely shallow view is allowed to be expressed.
>When it ended, there was respectful applause
I thought the Americlaps thing was a meme this whole time
No you didn’t homosexual
i dont get this take when during canne there were constant posts about how a 5 minute standing ovation was the minimum and if it wasnt over 10 minutes it didnt count.
sounded like americans talking about tipping.
The difference is that the filmmakers are usually actually present at Cannes screenings
>undercooked, uninteresting perspective on gender politics
Now understanding that review is from a lefty zoomer it means the movie is actually amazing.
You're moronic because it appeals to the exact sensibilities of a lefty zoomer but the execution is so bad that not even the target audience justify this slop.
This, the new Spider-Man movie was a travesty of storytelling and filmmaking but zoomers ate it up because muh memes muh diversity
The best thing about Barbie is how mad it makes you chuds. Every one of these posts about how it's woke garbage just makes me want to see it more.
>Every one of these posts about how it's woke garbage just makes me want to see it more.
Care to explain?
>Watching Barbie as a political statement
Powerful
I'm going to watch it because it looks good. You are going out of your way to write multiple paragraph posts about how bad you think it will be as a political statement though. And that makes me even more interested in what it does have to say.
Why?
I’m excited too, do you think they’ll have an uncomfortable discussion about race somewhere in the film? Gee I hope so, I’d like to have it explained to me why being blonde and beautiful is actually unfair to black people, that would be so kino. Hey did you see someone built the Barbie dream house for real in Malibu.. so cool. I can’t wait to go see this movie
>one ticket to Barbie please
Kek.
This is one of those movies that will have lots of buzzwords on the dialogue, but won’t actually say anything about those topics.
Because the writers weren’t educated in college; they were indoctrinated.
This. It's one of those movies that only Twitter brained morons will understand because Hollywood thinks normal people are obsessed with the same things they are. Rich people care about hair splitting minutiae in social issue because they don't have to worry about money. Only rich people have time to follow whatever the new "discourse" is.
You type like you write long reviews on Letterboxd
Who's gonna watch this movie? Who is meant for? Robots?
It's not "meant" for anyone. Or rather, it's meant for the studio. They got the rights to Barbie and they want to make a Barbie movie, dammit. What that movie was supposed to be, they never thought about until later. Call it Star Wars Sequel Syndrome.
They cast an ugly troony who had to show up on set and sit next to Margot Robbie.
I’m surprised the troony hasn’t killed himself yet for realizing how he’ll never look like Margot Robbie.
And they cast Kate McKinnon as Ugly Barbie, and she’s so dumb she still promotes the film.
That girl probably has a better sense of self-worth than you incel.
Kek, screenshotting this for when the troony kills himself.
Hope the image of this girl being happy flashes before your eyes when you blow your brains out 🙂
Kek, the tolerant left, ladies and gentlemen
(yes there’s only two genders. Trannies will never be real men or women)
And there's only one your life ends. Staring down a barrel of a gun as you weep for your failures.
>”girl”
Sup you fat homosexual troony. You looked like shit in the trailer and will never be what you force others to pretend you are. Kys.
>That girl probably has a better sense of self-worth than you ince-ACKK!
I've lived long enough to see a live action Barbie movie with troon casting.
Humans aren't meant to be alive for this long.
surrrrrrrrrre your going to watch a movie you bullied litter homosexuals for years ago.
Will Ferrell doesn’t look very funny in this movie.
He’s not. He’s there to be a strawman in a heavy-handed feminist lecture. They just cast Will Ferrell because he was funny in other things and to rape the success of Lego movie.
That influencer sounds like a pompous pseud. Just tell me about the musical numbers and production design, GAWD!
>The actor said the term is at least partially a joke, while noting that "underneath" the term "doll" is "the shape of a woman who is not quite a woman — recognizable as such, but still a fake."
>Nef reiterates the point by saying, "‘Doll’ is fraught, glamorous; she is, and she isn't," adding, "We call ourselves ‘the dolls’ in the face of everything we know we are, never will be, hope to be. We yell the word because the word matters. And no doll matters more than Barbie."
A fake woman discussing how dolls are “fake women” is the kind of logic that only indoctrination can produce.
Sending your kid to college for a non-STEM degree is like sending them to a death camp, lmfao.
i'm just here for the chaos
>The film is actually really bad but they're using a combo of meme marketing and woke themes to get hordes of NPCs to defend it.
That isn't really a new thing.
Gosling and Robbie look like shit to me, maybe I am just a jealous incel
It's the cinematography, it makes them look like robots
The trailers barely feature Gosling at all. Like no one is excited to see him in this.
I doubt gay guys will even watch this in the theaters, it’s too embarrassing for even them to sit through.
This movie will fail and ply here will be a severe backlash from parents who watch it with their kids.
Robbie looked great, better than she had in years, whilst Gosling looked like an elderly man.
he looks like leslie neilsen with type 2 diabetes
Goose is way too old for the role. Shit, Robbie looks alright, but it certainly should've been made like ten years earlier.
https://twitter.com/margotsprostitute/status/1673491754237186049
They cute
It has Ryan Gosling and Margot Robbie in it, the king and queen of flop.
This movie will flop.
Does anybody know if there are any Large Bodied (preferably bald) Black or Indigenous Women Of Color in this movie? I’d quite like to watch it but I won’t be able to understand what’s happening unless there’s a character that looks just like me so I can pretend that it’s me. Thanks in advance
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at least the movie is bright enough to see what the frick is going on unlike 90% of today's dark digital shit
True, especially compared to The Little Mermaid which is chasing a similar audience. For some reason studios decided kids these days love looking at murk.
If everything is dark its harder to tell who is white and pretty
>If you are like me, and have no interest in Barbie but are curious how much intellect Gerwig and Baumbach can inject into a commercial blockbuster, you will be entertained
Im sure that gloombporgwig and blaumblupfbachs unrivaled pvre intellect will be OOZING out of this cinematic masterpiece, i will definitely sprint to watch it with a sardonic smile and look of pure analyzing.
You're not funny.
You’re kinda funny, don't listen to that other homosexual
You have the comedic sensibilities of a 12 year old.
t. The Funniest Man Alive
>Hollywood making terrible movies is somehow a conspiracy worth arguing about
Black person, just watch some good old movie instead of wasting your time on modern garbage and ruining your mood over worthless internet wars.
It's a strange concept for a movie. I don't expect that there are a lot of little girls out there playing with their Barbie and Ken dolls imagining they're both middle aged childless Peter Pan syndrome adults. There's definitely a mockery going on here of the demographic who will actually pay to watch the movie (presumably), at least on a visual level.
I doubt they'll really tackle any themes of female mid-life crisis because women wouldn't be able to handle that. The visual and aesthetic foundation is there and begging to be built upon, but it's pretty obvious they won't do anything provocative or thoughtful with it whatsoever. Shame.
They won’t tackle themes of female mid-life crisis, it’ll instead tackle themes of
>le patriarchy, men bad, Barbie dolls are evil and harmful to little girls
The actual Mattel execs (including the female ones) clearly hate the movie and are nervously running damage control.
>If you love/hate the trailer, then the film won’t change your mind.
still gonna hate the trailer? well then no point watching the film
The movie doesn't look great but since disney shills are spamming these threads I'm going to shill it and maybe even watch it, date night with the missus heheh
You will watch it, and you will shitpost about it in Oppenheimer threads together with us no matter how much you b***h about it.
>y-you shill
As I said, b***h all you want, the end result is already decided.
When I saw the new scene of her crying she's not good at anything, i knew this shit was a bait and switch
it's going to be some depressing nihilist movie
Is the goose the bad guy in the movie?
Yes. He turns into a chud after visiting the real world.
What's up with MI shills? Are they really so afraid of fricking Barbie?
Barbie is going to crush MI it seems.
Weird because I just saw the last few mission impossible and wow. It's actually a series where they only seem to get better, with the first 3 being shit and those thereafter improving in quality exponentially
the film is an allegory of white americans who live in the middle of bum frick nowhere in a gated community and how they receive a huge cultural shock the moment they decide to leave their safe-space and visit the "real world"
That shit happens more often the other way around. Some gayBlack person ventures out of the city and cries that there are no electric car charging stations or some shit.
Say no more, I'm sold. Me and my girlfriend will be seeing it on opening night.
I hope both you and your girlfriend are able to pass the theater's penis inspection
this movie is so clear to flop that it's like it already happened. i'm not even looking forward to seeing it happen because i've already gone through the feelings
The marketing will save it I think. I'm expecting a big opening weekend and a huge drop off.
It's beating Mission Impossible in presales though, you might be thinking about indiana jones 5 and you'd be right
>presales
u cant argue with wishful thinking anon
jej i wonder if among the "presales" jokers there's an anon who is serious
Everybody I know is interested in seeing it, plus it's probably got a relatively low budget. It'll make a good chunk of money.
grown """alt right""" men in 2023 claiming to be strong/stoic/conservative/adults are getting mad at: barbie, mario, flash and little mermaid movies instead of inflation and workers rights
lmao@you terminally online chud losers, unironically touch grass
>Why do you keep talking about movies on a forum dedicated to talking about movies? Why aren't you discussing my moronic marxoid ideology instead?
Gee I wonder shitlib.
>STOP NOTICING THINGS
Libtards are losing
Doesn't the graph show that libtards have been gaining ground for decades? How is that losing?
Why do they both look like theyre in their 40s?
>If you are a film student or like to type long reviews on Letterboxd, there is plenty to discuss (fascism, gender power dynamics, corporate greed, existentialism, patriarchy, self-worth, genitals, psychological manipulation within a relationship, inclusion/exclusion).
None of those things have anything to do with film craft. That's just a checklist of lefty political issues. Why would film students/fans give a frick about them?
Same thing at this point. Modern movies are just thinly-disguised soapboxes for leftoids propaganda.
>Ryan Gosling gives a great performance
i will now watch your movie
>Disney shl is telling me not to watch a Warner Bros movie
I don't even give a shit about this movie and now I'm considering paying good money to see it, you fricking Woke douchebag pieces of shit.
This movie is at least as woke as Yidsney’s wokedt goyslop.
tldr shit sounds fricking gay
Nobody important cares, it's Barbie. With that superstar casting duo, it's cool no matter what. Grow up
I don't care if it's woke or a shit movie. I'm paying tickets to see Margot Robbie's feet and you can't stop me.
Good coomer consoomer simp paypig goy cattle.
I don’t appreciate being called an NPC.
>MUH SHILLS
Why do schizophrenics think studios would try advertising Movies on a Norwegian Saturation Diving Board?
In fact what is with the sudden uptick in achizos on this site in general the last 4 years or so??
Cinemaphile is/was the first chain in the human centipede of internet culture. Trends here filter down to the mainstream like fashion shows trends filter to retail clothing brands. For a few thousand dollars you can reach a huge segment of internet using people.
>this is what anons unironically believe
wasted digits bloody shame
Alita was discussed to death on here and yet it flopped.
what the frick is your argument that if it's not a billie locked there could be no shilling?
every dogshit turd is supposed to be a success with a slight push?
Alita specifically appealed to Cinemaphile’s classic demographic (virginal shut-ins weebs).
People with unfulfilling lives like to imagine the whole world revolves around them.
I'm ambivalent. I might stream it if word of mouth is good but I wouldn't see it in the theater. Same with Oppenheimer
God Margot is so hot
>words words words
anti-barbie chuds cant meme
“A heartwarming if occasionally cliched tribute to girl power”
If Time thinks it’s “occasionally” cliched then it’s consistently, unfailingly generic shit.
I am just waiting for more foot shots to goon to
>the whitest film of the 2020s.
>marketing scam
It's going to make a billion.
>>meme marketing
What ever do you mean?