Barbie (Greta Gerwig, July 21, 2023) Movie • Page 15

I liked this and thought it was a lot of fun, but the ending, specifically with where the Kens were left, feels weird to me. The entire movie is about taking down the patriarchy, but then now that Barbie is back in power, they’re going to do the same thing to Ken? I really thought the Ken’s were going to get a small portion of Barbieland as their Ken-dom with their Dojo Casas and have the Barbie’s be an example of how to treat people fairly and give them freedom/autonomy. It just feels like the movie going against its own message.

 

He was

 

I thought he was fine. He was doing the Will Ferrell thing and that’s probably all he was asked to do.

I do think that’s the one part of the story that didn’t really go anywhere. Him and the rest of the Mattel suits didn’t really do anything once they got to Barbieland.

 

I loved this I love da movies

 

the whole I want to be a real girl thing was lame though. Just saying. I mean, what an uncreative way to go… but again, overall I liked the movie.[/spoiler/]

 

Nah, it's basically the whole point of the movie. Its scary and hard being alive but it's worth it.

 

I loved the whole Mattel executive team. For a good 20 minutes Barbie is in normal earth treating her as weird and so you except Mattel to be the same and just cynical villains trying to rain on Barbie’s parade, but then they end up being just as zany

 

Yeah I’m not sure what is supposedly uncreative about that. She doesn’t want to be a real girl! She spends literally the whole movie fighting against it!

 

The executive team was worth it for me to see the tandem bicycle gag honestly. I think they worked well as a red herring for the actual antagonist/conflict

 

I think Will Ferrell in general has struggled to be funny in anything in the past decade.

 

He’s very funny in this

 

Saw this last night and wow I love it so much. Can’t stop thinking about it. That Snyder Cut line…I knew there was going to be a joke about it somewhere in here because Greg mentioned it, but didn’t know the context so when it happened I snort laughed so hard and I don’t think the person sitting next to me understood why because they were staring at me like “I don’t get it, what’s that?” Just a hilarious, empowering, genuinely moving film about identity and what it means to be alive. My god, I would have never expected all of this from a Barbie movie a year ago but I’m so glad it exists.

 

Maybe I missed something, but was putting her back in the box a nefarious plan? Felt like it was filmed as such. Or did it really just send her back to Barbieland?

 

Was wondering about that myself. Would it have sent her back to Barbieland as like a brain wipe reset and she’d be disconnected from Gloria or something?

 

Thought Ferrell was great in this personally and enjoyed the exec team stuff more than not. If I've got any complaints about them, they kind of have minimal resolution at the end. In general, I felt like the last 10-15 min were a bit loose in wrapping things up and they're kind of the most front and center example of that. I've seen some actual good faith criticism that there's uncertainty in the messaging of the outcomes for basically everyone but Robbie's Barbie and America Ferrera's character that I don't think is completely off base.

That said, even if I'd shave ten minutes and wish for a slightly tighter wrapup I honestly think this is pretty much an instant classic. It was legitimately hilarious (I can't believe how many of the jokes felt like they were written for me), perfectly executed its social commentary, and was really poignant at more than a couple moments. And it will make the short list of the best roles of Gosling's HOF career.

 

The executive stuff was necessary because Jamie Demetriou is hot

 

saw it last night, it rules. Gosling was incredible.

 

Not enough talk in this thread about depression barbie
Prob my favorite joke in the movie

 

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/m...cb95ba466b94b8eee6995e3e72502e2a62b11944257f1

“Filmmaker Greta Gerwig’s female-fueled Barbie opened to a historic $155 million-plus opening domestically, a threshold usually reserved for male-driven superhero fare or marquee IP such as the final Harry Potter movie. It came in well ahead of an expected $90 million to $110 million, and helped fuel one of the biggest weekends in history.

Barbie — which brings to life Mattel’s iconic fashion doll — is also strutting to big numbers in certain overseas markets for a projected international debut as high as $120 million.”


Damnnnn

 

Anxiety, panic attacks, and OCD sold separately!!!

 

I watched this with my sister and she's going through a rough time right now and this section was absolutely BITING for her (and for me knowing what she's been going through)