![]() ![]() But it could have been a brain-dead corporate sellout cash grab. To be clear however, I'm not saying this movie ISN'T a vehicle for merchandising. However, this movie is deceptively much more than a soulless vehicle for merchandising in that it has solid writing, solid acting, solid production values, great practical set design, good cinematography, and good directing. After all, I'm not little girl that plays with dolls. Whether the movies message resonates with you, or makes you vomit, is another thing entirely, but I can't deny that this movie is comprised of all the core components I want to see in movies, even if I may not necessarily vibe with the overall theme. When other brand owners like Hasbro churn out CGI-shitfest after shitfest like Transformers with hardly any meaningful character development or dimensionality, and a contrived plot that revolves around a stupid McGuffin fetch quest that ends in a cliche skybeam with explosions all over the screen, Barbie is by comparison a breath of fresh air wrapped in real practical sets/effects that actually speaks to the tragedy and frailty of the human condition. If you were to ask me if I thought that megacorp Mattel would greenlight a Barbie movie about their doll escaping The Matrix and having an existential crisis about the nature of her reality and what it is to be an emotionally multi-dimensional human tainted with negative feelings about death and sadness, I wouldn't have believed you. I saw the movie this morning, and here are some of my thoughts before I read other reviews and taint my experience with the opinions of others. And yes, often men are the common denominator in those movies because most every girl or woman has had SOME experience dealing with a scummy guy. Girl macho is no about physically overpowering the enemy, its about proving them wrong, being morally superior, or outsmarting them, or defying them something. Girl power trips are not like male power trips. You csn draw a direct line to stuff like working girl or Thelma and Louise. Audiences didnt turn up.īarbie on the other hand is not a new type of movie either. Hercules, that live action tarzan, that Conan reboot movie with mamoa. And they've tried bringing those back many times. That has its place too but frankly those were on their way out way before the modern era. You're describing power fantasies and feats of physical strength suppressing of all emotions that aren't rage, and general might as a virtue type storytelling. You're not describing masculine, you're describing macho. Its way, way more successful than I expected and probably more than it has any right to be. I've not seen Barbie yet but it's success proves that its marketing did its job, and in spades. You can almost predict to the letter what films he'll like and won't like before they come out, thats part of the selling point. He makes money making entertaining videos with a political angle that is disguised as film criticism. Its way past time to realize the guy is an entertainer, not a critic. When one of his buddies gave a positive review of Eternals from the mcu a couple years ago, it splintered his base who expect them all to agree with them pretty much all the time. ![]() He literally cant make a positive Barbie movie review. TCD doesn't understand the difference, but hes playing a character anyway. "Hypermasucline" films haven't gone away, there's just been in increase in variety from JUST being that over andexpendable, and again, variety is good. ![]() You cant say stuff like this and pretend like John Wick, mission impossible, top gun maverick', tenet, fast and furious, bourne, creed, expendables, extraction, etc dont exist. Those things aren't mutually exclusive, and both continue to exist and THRIVE to this day. ![]()
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