Uggh... Barbie looks awful (and Oppenheimer is too long)
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‘Barbie,’ and why conservatives keep losing the culture war
by Derek Hunter, a former staffer for Sen. Conrad Burns (R-Mont.)
I’m not proud of the fact that I’ve seen the Barbie movie, but I’ve seen the Barbie movie.
I have two daughters, ages six and four. They wanted to see “Barbie” because, well…Barbie. I was hoping they’d forget about it long enough for it to come onto cable and spare me the humiliation, but no such luck.
That left me with the prospect of disappointing my children or sucking it up and going to see what I was reasonably certain, based on reviews, would be two hours of obnoxious left-wing indoctrination. Naturally, I chose the latter.
If I was going to be forced to watch this, I was going to do it on my terms. I live in a rural area that turns out to have several drive-in theaters within reasonable distance, and Barbie was playing at almost all of them. So we loaded up the family trickster and set out for the drive-in.
It was some comfort that the tickets were only $10, as opposed to the usual $25 and up (depending on which theater you go to), and an added bonus that the youngest got in free. If Hollywood is going to get my money for this, I thought, I’ll make it as little as possible.
We got there and got set up. I don’t know when you last went to the drive-in, but you should see if there are any near you, because the experience was fun. I’d gone a lot growing up — our house was 2 miles from a drive-in — and it was always a blast, even when the movies left something to be desired. I wanted my kids to experience it at least once. (As it turns out, they loved it too, so we will likely return.)
After setting up our chairs and raiding the concession, we turned on the portable radio and tuned to the correct FM station as the movie started.
My eyes were ready to roll.
Only they didn’t.
The movie was no masterpiece, but I found it to be good. Margot Robbie is an excellent actress and easy on ready-to-roll eyes. Ryan Gosling was actually hilarious as Ken. I’m not a laugh-out-loud kind of guy — a chuckle is the most you’ll usually get from me — but this movie made me laugh out loud more than once. My girls were all-in from the start, laughing at goofy things and loving the clothes and life-size dream houses.
There was, of course, the left-wing whining about “the patriarchy” that many right-leaning reviewers have noted. Fortunately, young kids do not know what any of that is, and they are also smart enough not to wonder or ask about it. The Barbie World, to them, is about Barbie.
The only question I got was from my six-year-old, about the one obvious obscenity that the movie bleeps out for comedic effect. (There is no swearing in the movie.) She didn’t like that. She does not like “bad words,” even if she had no idea which bad word it was or what it was about.
And that was it. The plot of the movie didn’t matter — it never does to young kids. Teens might understand it and need a little discussion afterward.
The only person who didn’t enjoy the experience was my wife. She grew up with Barbie as, I imagine, most women today have. The movie’s left-wing message upset her. When asked by the kids why she didn’t like it, she replied, “It was a movie about Barbie made by someone who hates Barbie.”
I didn’t see it that way, but perhaps that’s because Barbie doesn’t mean anything to me. If they make a movie about transgender G.I. Joe and how the bad guy COBRAs are trying to prevent people from becoming their “true selves,” I might have a different reaction.
As far as the movie goes overall, I see no reason to tell people to keep children away from it. Of course it is liberal. Of course it makes clumsy efforts at propagandizing. But so what? So does almost everything in the entertainment business.
You can’t take kids to see a movie about the horrors of human trafficking — and why would you? Culture happens around and to you, whether you participate in it or not. Pretending you can close your eyes andNOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Quote:Apparently Greta Gerwig the writer/director of Barbie knows what sells tickets:
Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:Quote:Well, at least he pointed out that his wife is the one who wears the pants in the family. I would have loved to have seen her elaboration on this point of view. What sort of Barbie were they expecting to see, if they didn't know it was Greta Gerwig Divorce movie?
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‘Barbie,’ and why conservatives keep losing the culture war
The only person who didn’t enjoy the experience was my wife. She grew up with Barbie as, I imagine, most women today have. The movie’s left-wing message upset her. When asked by the kids why she didn’t like it, she replied, “It was a movie about Barbie made by someone who hates Barbie.”
Top 2023 Movies at the Worldwide Box Office
Rank Movie Worldwide Box Office
1 The Super Mario Bros. Movie $1,356,699,911
2 Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3 $845,303,497
3 Barbie $816,822,894
4 Fast X $719,379,825
https://www.the-numbers.com/box-office-records/worldwide/all-movies/cu
mulative/released-in-2023
Movie Comparison: Barbie (2023) vs. The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023)
shows that Barbie could surpass the #1 movie Super Mario Bros.
https://www.the-numbers.com/movies/custom-comparisons/Barbie-(2023)/Su
per-Mario-Bros-Movie-The-(2022)#tab=day_by_day_comparison
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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The man-hating harpy finally cracked the code and figured out how to get normies to pay for their brainwashing.
Good for her. Fuck those kids up, groomer.
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‘Oppenheimer’ depicts a man becoming powerful—and irrelevant
https://thebulletin.org/2023/08/oppenheimer-depicts-a-man-becoming-pow
erful-and-irrelevant/
Oppenheimer did not have the temperament and skills to confront the US political and military leadership
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Quote:Trump has always connected his claims of pervasive electoral fraud to the widespread anxiety among white, Christian conservatives that they are losing control of the country and especially movies to a racially diverse, secular, and LGBTQ-friendly Democratic coalition centered in the nation’s largest cities. As Trump put it during one 2020 rally before a predominantly white, rural audience in Georgia: “This is our country. (And our movies.) And you know this, and you see it, but they are trying to take it from us through rigging, fraud, deception, and deceit.” Voters who accept that argument will remain the most powerful force in the GOP coalition. And they will continue to demand leaders who will fight the changes that they believe threaten their position in American society. A majoritarian democracy cannot be tolerated under any circumstances if the outcome is not what they want it to be, including at the movies.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
The man-hating harpy finally cracked the code and figured out how to get normies to pay for their brainwashing.
Good for her. Fuck those kids up, groomer.
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How you do anything is how you do everything.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Trump has always connected his claims of pervasive electoral fraud to the widespread anxiety among white, Christian conservatives that they are losing control of the country and especially movies to a racially diverse, secular, and LGBTQ-friendly Democratic coalition centered in the nation’s largest cities. As Trump put it during one 2020 rally before a predominantly white, rural audience in Georgia: “This is our country. (And our movies.) And you know this, and you see it, but they are trying to take it from us through rigging, fraud, deception, and deceit.” Voters who accept that argument will remain the most powerful force in the GOP coalition. And they will continue to demand leaders who will fight the changes that they believe threaten their position in American society. A majoritarian democracy cannot be tolerated under any circumstances if the outcome is not what they want it to be, including at the movies.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
The man-hating harpy finally cracked the code and figured out how to get normies to pay for their brainwashing.
Good for her. Fuck those kids up, groomer.
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How you do anything is how you do everything.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
What?
You think that copying stories behind a paywall at the Atlantic is going to keep me from knowing you copied stories and blasted them out here as your own?
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Trump may constitute a unique threat to America’s democratic traditions. But he has always connected his claims of pervasive electoral fraud to the widespread anxiety among white, Christian conservatives that they are losing control of the country to a racially diverse, secular, and LGBTQ-friendly Democratic coalition centered in the nation’s largest cities. As Trump put it during one 2020 rally before a predominantly white, rural audience in Georgia: “This is our country. And you know this, and you see it, but they are trying to take it from us through rigging, fraud, deception, and deceit.” Whether Trump is convicted for trying to overturn the 2020 election or not, voters who accept that argument will remain the most powerful force in the GOP coalition. And they will continue to demand leaders who will fight the changes that they believe threaten their position in American society.
Those other Republican leaders may not attempt to overturn an election as brazenly as Trump did with the conduct Smith catalogs in his indictment. But, as Wilentz told me, for the foreseeable future, they are likely to pursue other means “toward the same end: that majoritarian democracy cannot be tolerated under any circumstances if the outcome is not what you wanted it to be.”
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/08/donald-trump-indictm
ent-gop-jan-6/674895/
Full text without a paywall found here: https://syfeed.com/en-us/news-details/trumps-threat-to-democracy-is-no
w-systemic_79784080.html
Your problem here, Second, is that you are a very stupid person with less than mediocre writing ability. Try to hide it any way you'd like, but it's very easy to spot when you're ripping off other people's fiction.
I'm sure you've got a little bit of Kevin Drum in there to fill in the spots that weren't in the article, but I'm not trolling that fat useless fuck's board of lies to find it.
Get fucked, you unoriginal, brain dead retard.
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And besides...
What can you do about it? People want to watch shit, they're going to watch shit. Barbie is an objectively average movie. Disney forced people into watching something, anything, that was different than the crap they've been spewing out for the last 4 years.
It looks like Kevin Feige finally got the memo, as it sounds like he plans on rebooting the MCU that nobody is watching anymore.
I don't know about making Fantastic 4's Sue Storm the center of your new universe though, Kevin. You might want to mull that one over a bit more. Are you absolutely sure you want to make Sue Storm your new Captain Marvel when nobody has ever figured out how to put out a Fantastic 4 movie that anybody cares about?
And don't believe all the hype coming from the haters. It's not just the horrible stories you're telling that were penned by awful writers and filmed by inexperienced directors with an agenda that are turning people away. People ARE sick of super hero movies as well.
My advice would be to let the genre go the way of the Western and spend whatever little time and resources you have left to figure out a new way to make money before the only option you have left is selling all of your possessions at an auction and getting a job at WalMart.
EDITED TO ADD:
Vanessa Kirby, though easy on the eyes, is already 35 years old. Are you sure that you want to make a 35 year old woman the center of your rebooted Marvel Universe as well?
Jessica Alba who was 10 times as easy on the eyes (as almost anybody else ever was) was only 24 when the first FF4 movie she starred in was released, and was also the definition of a household name at the time.
Even Kate Mara, a solid 6/10 was 32 when her FF4 movie came out.
Robert Downey Jr.'s Tony Stark, the center of the MCU that people watched, did that role for 11 years. Vanessa Kirby is going to be 46 years old 11 years from now, and possibly 48 years old if it takes two years to put out the first new movie and it goes another 11 years. You'd better hope she ages like Jennifer Connolly or Kate Beckinsale.
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How well did Oppenheimer capture the U.S. decision to drop the bomb?
Here’s the funny thing about the decision to drop the bomb: there was no decision. What do I mean by that? It’s not like a bunch of men sat in a room and they said, “Are we going to drop the bomb or not?” That’s not the way it worked. There was a huge amount of momentum to drop that bomb no matter what. [The U.S.] spent $2 billion on it. In Oppenheimer’s case, he was torn because he worked so hard on it, [and] wanted to know that we could do it. There’s pride involved. There’s ambition. The movie captures that. But it’s not like they’re sitting in a room debating whether to do this. They’re going to do it. There’s a glancing impression that we could have gotten away with not dropping these bombs. That’s not true.
How did the U.S. go from dropping the atomic bombs to calling Japan one of its biggest allies?
The great thing about this country—and it’s not true of every country—is that we are magnanimous in victory. We wanted to create a strong and democratic Japan and working with the Japanese, we succeeded. It was messy. We helped them jumpstart their own economy, and they became our ally pretty quickly against Soviet communism. I’m not saying this was a perfect process. But, by and large, as conquests go, the American conquest of Japan was magnanimous and constructive.
https://time.com/6297240/atomic-bomb-expert-oppenheimer-interview/
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'Barbie' has now grossed $1 billion world wide, 'Indy 5' has not.
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'Barbie' has now grossed $1 billion world wide, 'Indy 5' has not.
Yeah. Mentioned that in the SoF thread a few hours ago. It put up the international numbers I predicted... a little on the low-to-middle end of my predictions. I was thinking more like $128 Million, but it was only $118 Million.
Probably should have put it here.
Glad I didn't call this the Barbie Failure Thread, or I'd be eating a ton of crow right now.
Billion dollars or not, it still looks objectively awful though.
Indy 5? LOL. Can that even make $400 Million at this point? I doubt it.
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