Open the Pod Bay Doors, Barbie?

Doesn't that translate to a flop in Tinsel Town?

It went woke so clearly it went broke.

I am actually wondering if all the bullshit over the dashes on the map being some secret symbol about taiwan was just a way to stealth advertise to the right wing and chinese markets?

On one hand the right is a bunch of conspiracy goofballs looking for an issue to get all riled up about, on the other hand that was a great way to get ad penetration into those markets.

No. You have to make three to four times the budget, they made a profit, even taking marketing into account.

Honest Trailer.

https://x.com/variety/status/1705781358629360080?s=46&t=iYW3foyqIA6Tn8VWwn3nwQ

In a couple of weeks when it leaves the theaters we will have Tucker Carlson and Ben Shapiro telling us how they told us it was going to go broke because it was so woke.

In the mean time how are those conservative movie makers doing?

https://x.com/juliadavisnews/status/1708261686870741449?s=46&t=iYW3foyqIA6Tn8VWwn3nwQ

Finally saw it. Wasn't that great, although I found Allen (Michael Cera) to a be a definite highlight

HISHE

I now need adblockers that fast forward through the product placement ads. When will AI do something useful and remove that content for me?

I just mute them, like on TV.
You've got mute on the player, and then you've got emergency mute up in the tab.

Greta Gerwig Is Open to Doing a Ken Movie

Ehh...he got enough love in the Barbie one.

It's a shame GI Joe is Hasbro.
Boys with sisters always made Barbie Joe's "3 day pass" fling.

Eh, the Simpsons did it in the Malibu Stacy episode.

I finally got around to seeing this and I'm clearly not the target audience for it. I thought it was way too silly and way too meta and mostly unfunny. Kate McKinnon is her usual over the top self and Ryan Gosling is just terrible. Margot Robbie was fine, but I think they would have been better off if they had made a straight up animated movie with an actual plot. So yeah I'm glad I opted for Oppenheimer instead.

There are Barbie animated movies, and I am pretty sure you could never have gotten the attendance as most people would have blown it off as a purely kids movie if it was animated. The live action was what brought in the adult crowd and made it a blockbuster. Another animated barbie movie would just be straight to DVD or for a kids network sort of thing. Maybe it gets a limited time theatrical release, but it is not doing what this movie did.

Of course, this is not everyone's thing. You really should not be dragging people to see this who were turned off by the trailer unless you are a kid who needfs a parental escort. This should not be shown to a CHUD as punishment for being a CHUD, even though my sadistic side would surely do that if the social contract were revoked and I could go all clockwork orange mad scientist of captured CHUD soldiers. As for now I would recommend not forcing this on CHUDs. Just like we should not force American Sniper on anyone not in the CHUD category.

Well, there are masochist podcasters that do that for us.

Sometimes you have to have your own reaction to things like The Room, but you are correct that some things like that movie are best left to reaction videos for most of us. I would put Barbie in there also for the CHUD group, but then again hate does keep CHUDs alive so maybe they should force themselves to watch it because they need to torture themselves so they can be victims?

It is an odd human thing where someone warns you a fart smells awful and some people have to smell just to complain. Someone tells you something tastes like crap and the first thing they do is offer you some, and then some people eat it. My thought is thanks for taking one for the team, I will go on and remember your heroism in the face of disgusting. Then again, sometimes you just have to know what the fuck disgusting is.

Well, if Warner and Paramount merge, this suddenly becomes possible!

http://wordforge.net/index.php?threads/warner-paramount-merger.124505/

I got one would welcome Starfleet Barbie appearing on Lower Decks, but we all know that's gonna be the first show Zaslav kills if this merger goes through

Didn't Mariner already beat up starfleet barbie when she went to jen's sleepover with all the lesbians?

Those were Bratz dolls

Same creator, and I think Mattel sued the creastor because they made bratz on barbie time. With that logic MLP can just be called equestrian barbie, especially since they do have alternate universe human barbie forms.

Oscar nominations: Nothing for Greta Gerwig, nothing for Margot Robbie... One nomination for Ryan Gosling.

The patriarchy wins again!

I'll say this, the cinematography for Barbie was good, but the movie itself sucked.

https://bsky.app/profile/zackbudryk.bsky.social/post/3kjquap5z7c2o

Werner Herzog Watched 30 Minutes of ‘Barbie’ and Asked: ‘Could It Be That the World of Barbie Is Sheer Hell?’

Barbie can still win Best Picture if Mike Pence has the courage to do what's right.

The only way Oppenheimer could have beaten this is if they had RDJ and David Gilmour perform together.

I found out Ryan Gosling was in the Mickey Mouse Club in the 90s and all I gotta say is Justin better be damn glad he decided to pursue acting instead of singing or he'd been outta a job