Sorry, but this Barbie movie looks ridiculous

I can’t believe people are making it sound like a work of art and deep etc. I agree with Diablo Cody about them making it a feminist movie, it doesn’t work. Barbie was never a feminist nor was anything about her.

They just released the “I’m Just Ken” song and it’s stupid. Not even witty.

it's probably fun to see after an edible

Agree. It's dumb, cartoonish.

Yep it will be a woke disaster.

Is the target audience children or adults?

Looks like crap either way. But I suppose it’s better to have some crap geared towards girls and gaylings than another stupid comic book film.

The early reviews are extremely positive

This is such an original take, OP. Bravo. 👏👏👏 I haven't heard a single person utter a single negative thing this movie yet in the past 10 seconds. Thank you for giving voice to the already heard from ad nauseam.

I will bet that there are no guns in it so that's a positive thing.

There's Oscar buzz. There is!

Ken needs to be DP'd by Big Josh and Big Jim.

R5: You think Warner Brothers hasn't done this before? Gigantic pre-release campaign and early glowing reviews is how you sell a big studio summer film.

^^^posts the same dumb reply in every thread

Because it’s aimed at today’s dumb youth.

Ryan was so miscast. He looks like someone in his late 30s to 40s. Shouldn’t he be youthful looking?

Hey, OP! Don’t fucking see it!

You’re welcome.

[quote]Diablo Cody

Wow, there's a name I haven't heard in a long time. What ever happened to her?

R17 the last movie she wrote was Tully in 2018. She’s very wealthy. I don’t think she works unless she’s passionate about it.

She was writing the Madonna movie originally before Madonna fired her.

She was originally asked to write and direct Barbie but refused to make it a feminist story so they dropped her and hired Gerwig.

R17 she was originally the writer of Barbie but she didn’t agree with adding a feminist twist to the movie because Barbie has never been a feminist figure. And she’s right. Historically feminism was always anti-Barbie since she debuted.

HOW MANY FUCKING THREADS AND POSTS ARE YOU GOING TO MAKE ABOUT THIS GODDAMNED FILM OP?!?

We get it. You hate it already. Apparently it makes you triggered. Okay, cool. Let it the fuck go already or keep your trolling to one thread, you psycho cum for brains.

That is one homely Ken. And yeah too old. Also the closest anyone has ever looked like Barbie is Vera Ellen especially when she wore a pony tail.

How is Barbie not a feminist when she was a working career driven woman in the various dolls. In fact Barbie worked more than Ken. Feminism and being feminine are not mutually exclusive.

R22 thinks working = feminism.

Ok.

Anyway, r21 agreed. Sorry but Gosling is so miscast. He looks so old.

2nd wave feminists scoffed at Barbie, seeing her as a sexualized plaything meant to keep girls docile and focused on boys and hairstyles and clothes.

But third wave feminists grew up with her and understood the empowerment of a doll that could be anything she wanted; flight attendant, astronaut, glamorous fashion model, doctor, President. All that plus a pink car, a Malibu mansion, tons of equally fabulous friends, and a cute boyfriend.

I mean your assertion is incredulous: how can a doll be a feminist to begin with. The point I’m making is there is nothing about Barbie that is anti-feminist that a film inspired from it cannot contain active feminist themes. I hate simple minded folk.

R24 those third wave feminists also believe showing the inside of your vagina to the world is somehow empowering. So I take their beliefs with a grain of salt.

R25 maybe not "anti" feminist but I certainly think it could be debated if she has anything to do with feminism. Like you said, it's a doll. A doll modelled after a German sex doll. Her job history really doesn't say much either, just look at MTG & that other troll LB with butts in Congress seats.

If the film is a hit DL will be shooketh.

I guess it’s been out for months since the OP and some others have expressed such a well-informed critical analysis. That has to be it. No one could possibly be so worked up over a trailer without having seen the actual film.

R30 right. Right. That is my entire sentiment. Not that I’m so stoked to see this film. I just don’t get why it so hated to such a degree when none of these cunts have seen it. And there is a thread a day about it.

R31 Lmao child please. It’s been shoved down our throats so hard over the last few months. It’s inescapable. Of course people are gonna have opinions already with all the clips and bits and never ending shoving this film has done on viewers.

Yes it looks like Greta has put her usual feminist touch on it and yes I doubt it will be in the Oscar conversation next year but it looks like a nice, fun escape so I'm going to go see it.

If Barbie was a human I don’t think she’d look like Margot Robbie at all. Also, Margot doesn’t have the right height or body for Barbie. Barbie should be very tall, long and slender with very long legs. Margot is not that despite Hollywood trying to tell us otherwise.

Looks more entertaining than the latest gloomy, Oscar bait offerings. For those other than OP, check out the Architecture Digest Barbie Dreamhouse tour. They embraced the whole Barbie aesthetic, stickers in the fridge instead of food props, no water in the pool, no staircases ‘cause Barbie just floats from floor to floor.

R35 She’s 5’6 and beautiful. Not talk tall but she never looks short in film. What more do you want.

5’6 is fine but not tall at all. Barbie should be statuesque, and Margot isn’t that.

Gigi Hadid could have played her. She has the right body.

GiGi doesn’t nor would she be right to play All American blonde blue eyed Anglo Barbie

If it she were too tall it would be more international model and less pretty chipper All-American girl next door.

Barbie is a model who is also girl next door.

Nicole Kidman could have played a decent Barbie back in the 90s if she had died her hair blonde.

R43 No. She has always looked like a regular schmegular homely white woman dolled up nice.

I always come to Datalounge for all of my feminist cultural criticism.

Jeffree Star would make a more realistic Barbie.

Queen Bey would have been perfect for the role in her mid 2000s era. She just would have to get white girl thin like she did for Dreamgirls.

R48 are you ok? She would be ideal black Barbie for sure. But no to everything else you said.

R49 are you suggesting that casting Barbie as black would be a deal breaker?

Thanks, definitely not paying to see this now...whatever type of sense of humor you have to have to have laughed at this, I aint got it

Whitney in the 80s was a living black Barbie!

I would've only seen it if there was a gay romance storyline between Ken and Max Steel.

Jesus, it looks like it was filmed in Palm Springs.

This movie would be WILD on shrooms!!

Have you read feminist cultural criticism. It is no better than what you read on DL. And with no sense of humor.

It looks so ridiculous. Omg. And Margot Robbie isn’t Barbie.

Omg. Ridiculous. A movie about a doll. I can't. I just can't.

My guess all this pre publicity hype is for a big opening. It has to make all it's money fast because word of mouth is going to kill it.

I cahn’t. I just cahn’t.

Promoting a movie? Shocking, R60. It must mean it's bad!

This movie is pure camp. It will win a Razzie.

They should have played Barbie's parents, and had a statuesque teen play the lead.

Ok this clip looked kinda funny lol. Poor Allan. So forgotten.

But not as forgotten as some of Ken’s other friends over the heads. Allan has the notoriety of being Ken’s very first best friend.

I can’t believe Scott Evans, Chris’ infinitely less attractive gay brother, got a role in this.

Does Chris have a producer credit or something?

The trailer looked terrible and you can only assume that contains all the “best” bits. The cast isn’t very attractive. I’ll be giving it a miss but then I was never the target audience.

R66 it’s not what you know, it’s who you know. Nepotism isn’t limited to people in the industries children.

R66 Luke Macfarlane was originally cast in the role but turned it down when it came into conflict with another program he was committed to

I saw one of these types of movies recently. I hadn’t seen anything like a comic book film in years. I couldn’t believe how dumbed down they are. It’s almost embarrassing. Adults sit through these things?!

It's a f****** Barbie movie! What do you expect? Bergman? Fellini? Antonioni? Yeah, I know - the whole Oscar talk before anyone have even seen it. That's why I don't read these so called "critic" reviews anymore.

They better keep the movie true to the doll and make sure Ken is dickless.

R72 They asked ne to play Ken but I refused to go on Ozempic.

Oops meant Chaz. I fucked up the joke.

So I finally watched the video clip of OP’s posting. I’m a black Mary I know. I want to see this lol.

Who calls themselves a black Mary?

[quote] Who calls themselves a black Mary?

Well.

R77 that has nothing to do with what I asked.

[quote]Who calls themselves a black Mary?

One of my former back-up singers. The deceased one.

Barbie will drop 70% the second week. Also, I think it will gross between $50-70 million in its opening weekend and not $80-100 million as some are claiming.

The movie is getting good reviews because it’s directed by Greta and it’s “cool” to like her

No critic is going to risk cancellation by giving this woman-helmed project anything less than stellar reviews. Eventually the people who didn't like the movie will shit all over it on Twitter.

R81 The climate activist? Is she grown already?

This Barbie movie looks like a real dog like Altman's Popeye. There have got to be a thousand young actors in Hollywood who not only look like Ken but have a good sly sense of humor. And will this feminist Barbie have a fireman's outfit and have a firehouse playset complete with fire engine?

I cannot fathom why any self-respecting person would lower their standards so far as to see such common, low-brow fare. Unbelievable. Never in all my life.

Well we now know who can't wait for it and will even buy the 4k.

There’s nothing much for tweens, teens, and young adults to see at the movies, so it will do OK.

A wholesome film for the youngsters to enjoy. I hope it has a positive message and avoids vulgarities. I'll ask my pastor for guidance.

Shut it, [R84]. Altman’s Popeye was a masterpiece. The music lives on.

[quote] I cannot fathom why any self-respecting person would lower their standards so far as to see such common, low-brow fare. Unbelievable.

For the same reason people watch the Kardashians, the Housewives of Whatever, and all of the other mindless trash . Just like pigs rolling in their own dirt and enjoying it.

What has happened to those Oscar predictions? Just a week ago they were all over the web ...

Oh I'm sorry I'd forgotten what a smash Popeye was.

"Sorry, but this Barbie movie looks ridiculous."

It's a movie about a doll.

You were expecting Masterpiece Theater?

They're hoping for a blockbuster opening weekend because ticket sales will dwindle quickly once word gets out.

I saw a few clips, Ryan Gosling is funny.

R94: Even though the review embargo lifts tomorrow, people will still go on opening weekend because they've seen this movie in the news everyday for the past two months. The moviegoers who hated the girl boss theme will go on Twitter and then the negative word of mouth will spread like a virus.

I'm gonna go out on a limb: I think Oppenheimer will pull off an upset and beat Barbie for the number one spot.

I think I wanna see this high AF.

I demand my movies about Barbie dolls be historically and anatomically accurate, and this film is NOT that!

It looks silly but in a way, it's refreshing. For at least the last 10 years, the vast majority big budget summer movies were action-based or superhero garbage. The last thing we as a society need is more violence. Guns are not entertainment. Something light, colorful and funny is something the world needs after the gloom of the past few years.

I am shocked they have done Oppenheimer and Napoleon. Though Oppenheimer sounds depressing as hell. Maybe if it had a score by Rodgers and Hammerstein.

I think giving that Great could have had her choice of movies this one must at least have a smart script

Also agree we need alternatives to action movies

Noah and Greta should have just starred in it, too,

Honestly, I’m old enough to remember what disasters XANADU and CAN’T STOP THE MUSIC were at the box office. They set musicals back for a decade. And the BARBIE trailer looked as bad, as campily embarrassing and as badly judged as those did.

BARBIE’s long silky legs are going to snap off after the first week. OPPENHEIMER to go the distance (and get the Oscar nominations).

Rhea Perlman is playing Ruth Handler, the creator of Barbie. She and her husband had to resign from Mattel after falsifying financial documents. I wonder if that little fact will be explored in this movie.

I must admit I wondered at the beginning what in the world Ryan Gosling was thinking when he booked this schlock. Even if it turns out to be a big hit, many people are going to always remember he did this garbage.

It's a movie for little girls, you fags. You probably like playing with Barbies like a little faggot, too. Just stop. There's a Red Sox game that day, we're not seeing some dumb movie for girls.

I cannot believe any actor would debase themselves playing a child's toy. Especially a respected thespian like Ryan Gosling. Please just take me into your embrace now, sweet Death.

R109: You lost me at respected thespian.

"debase themselves" = paid $12.5 million dollars to star.

R109 is a parody you moron. A CB parody of f a humorless, perpetually offended DLer so naturally it sailed right over your clueless head.

R106, Ruth Handler's husband created Hot Wheels. They done good.

Well, I’ll never get THAT 30 seconds of my life back . . .

DL's favorite movie critic and gossip monger, Grace Randolph, offered this initial reaction to the film. (Full reviews are not allowed to be published until today at 7 pm EST.)

[quote] #Barbie was one of the greatest films I’ve ever seen. 😍🥹 It is super fun, super feminist and I could watch it on a loop. To see so much of what I think and feel captured in a movie was incredible.

There were lots and lots of very favorable initial reactions on Twitter from critics and others.

I found this less than happy reaction to feed the haters on DL (this from New Zealand-based filmmaker Doug Dilaman) :

[quote] If you take a tequila shot every time the word ‘patriarchy’ is mentioned, you will die.

When will Rhonda attack Woke Barbie?

It will be so much fun to bump this thread this weekend.

[quote] #Barbie was one of the greatest films I’ve ever seen. 😍🥹 It is super fun, super feminist and I could watch it on a loop. To see so much of what I think and feel captured in a movie was incredible.

Not to shit on somebody else’s opinion, but…how embarrassing for her.

Now I wanna watch the Ken dolls engage in a beach-off.

R120 agreed. And screams of paid review. The fact that they have a set date and time to release all the reviews is a sign that WB paid critics.

Everybody knew it was going to have a feminist theme but I don’t think it will be totally woke.

Will there be a “Billie” porn parody?

Stephanie Zacharek of Time magazine gives it a pan.

The reviews suggest that you will either love it or hate it.

Universal acclaim post embargo

Lmao I was scrolling Twitter and saw 3 reviews in a row use the same term “Epic-Fantasia”. But tell me they aren’t paid off.

Like it or not Barbie is an icon and the movie will do fine.

78 reviews so far.

89% rating on Rottentomatoes.

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It's going to be such a fun weekend on DL.

Can't wait. I'll enjoy the refreshing taste of trolltard tears.

Warner Bros. spent an extra $40 million to promote it last month. This is another $40 million on top of the many millions they spent to make it and promote it initially. I have no doubts part of that $40 million went into the top critics pockets.

You can feel every dollar of the 40M spent on publicity. I'm so sick of pink I could cry.

Lmaooooo have we really fallen this far down in quality that THIS has Oscars buzz?

R82 Oh fuck off. That has never been true. Some of y’all suffer from some type of inclusiveness derangement syndrome.

Hollywood always caters to women. They hold all of the power in the film industry. No one would dare criticize a woman in Hollywood. It's simply not done. The wokesters who everybody is terrified of would execute you on sight for that. Better to just over-praise any works by women to avoid an cruel and painful death at the hands of violent SJW mobs in Hollywood.

A just so-so review from The Guardian.

Dear 94 year old hate-filled transphobic, misogynist DLers, this movie is not for you. Stop crying your eyes out over it and go watch the other 99% of movies that cater to your elderly white male sensibilities.

91% on RT

With a Ken that looks like Moe Howard in a blonde wig?

Payola is alive and thriving in 2023.

[quote] Dear 94 year old hate-filled transphobic, misogynist DLers, this movie is not for you. Stop crying your eyes out over it and go watch the other 99% of movies that cater to your elderly white male sensibilities.

Calm down, MARY!

"We will NEVER stop shitting on everything that doesn't perfectly fit our narrow, regressive, conservative point of view!"

Well it's getting raves, up to 91 on RT. Margot & Ryan will be nominated for and likely win Golden Globes

[quote]I'm gonna go out on a limb: I think Oppenheimer will pull off an upset and beat Barbie for the number one spot.

Can't wait to bump this on Sunday.

[quote]Hollywood always caters to women. They hold all of the power in the film industry.

Congratulations! You've just won the prestigious [bold]The Dumbest Fucking Thing Posted To The Internet Today(TM)[/bold] award!

Your prize, a limited edition print of the private diaries of Margorie Taylor Greene, will be arriving in the mail shortly.

Many on DL are such phonies. Just don’t see the shit but come on be real. This shit didn’t get a 91% rotten 🍅 score to spite you. It’s a comedy. These things are not easy to be both funny and critically good. This isn’t generally favorable reviews it’s goddam critically acclaim.

R148 that post was a parody, hun.

The "politicals" don't do humour, R148.

[quote][R148] that post was a parody, hun.

Because the parody was....clear?

This is Datalounge, hun. Unmedicated psychotics smear all varieties of shit on the walls here 24/7.

Sounds like this movie puts down the patriarchy and the matriarchy. How can people in Hollywood be such assholes. Like having as well a movie a mom would want to bring their little girls to as PG13.

Big hit second weekend. Women want to show little girls what shits men can be. Which is true.

But we need a movie from Ken's perspective which shows how vain, neurotic and cruel women can be.

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