#2019 barbie

[possession]

Frances Ha (2012) Lady Bird (2017) Little Women (2019) Barbie (2023)

WRITTEN BY GRETA GERWIG

[zegalba]

'Martin Margiela: In His Own Words' (2019)

Margiela fondly shows the Barbies he had already subconsciously dressed as 'Margiela models' as Many of Margiela's later collections (such as Autumn-Winter 1994-95 and Spring-Summer 1995) were inspired by the wardrobes of Ken, Barbie and G.I. Joe.

[super-oddity]

Barbie (2023) dir. Greta Gerwig

[saltseashark]

space airport show :-)

[plutonicbees]

core four 😁

(4 tickets 2 the barbie movie plz)

[pintsofguinnesmakeyoustrong]

a handful of my favourite letterboxd reviews

bonus: the iconic, the legendary, the sensational ~

[itsdappleagain]

fine i'll do it

reblogs are really appreciated

[frankidacre]

>Insists that he’s buying a ticket to see Oppenheimer

>Sneaks off to watch Barbie instead

[count-horror-xx]

"7 tickets to Barbie please"

[periprose]

maybe a controversial opinion, but I didn't really like Barbie. It's not because I didn't get what it was going for, it just felt very selling-a-message while being just shocking enough to keep people talking about it. I do like the stuff about barbie as an idea (feminist vs not, what it means to be a woman, gender roles, etc) but that doesn't really make it a good movie with a cohesive plot that I'm interested in watching again. it felt like I was getting preached at, and I'm sure tumblr adores analyzing everything about it but it just wasn't for me. The ending also just feels like they didn't know how to end it.

Side note, I think greta gerwig is a terrible director who's getting way too much acclaim for being contemporary and having strong feminist themes, when everything feels super on the nose. It doesn't feel like good directing to me, it never feels like I'm watching a movie I can truly get lost in. I also didn't like her version of little women because again the themes were so on the nose, nothing felt organic about it, and she added a lot of modern feminism to what should've been very tied to the historical context of the source material. It was very jarring. I also hated the ending and what she did to Jo- Jo is her own character and is not Louisa May Alcott, and just because you do a bunch of on-the-nose critique of the book in the movie, doesn't make it suddenly a good, thematically strong scene to watch.

I think she just benefits from actors giving great performances in her movies and that's why the ratings are always so high, because if an actor can sell it, if it's well shot, more people will like it. It could also just not be for me but idk.

And there are good ideas, again, I would just prefer if there was a stronger plot and more cohesion between ideas. Feels like everything was written for a bunch of people online to talk about how deep it was. I support that, I support the feminist takes, but where is the meat of the movie? Where are Barbie's sisters? Where is the feeling that I'm watching a story rather than a bunch of ideas?

I also have a million thoughts about how Greta made barbie x ken a somehow bad thing but I will save that for another post.

[possession]

BOMBSHELL (2019) dir. Jay Roach

[fresh-and-funky]

Feeling silly rn

[kittykillsposts]

How have theyve been not arrested yet theyre literally the police

[icouldbeaduck]

greta gerwig don’t make me cry with a super sad monologue about being a woman during a beautifully directed masterpiece of a film challenge (IMPOSSIBLE)

[athenaskiddo]

Barbie (2023) has wlw references. Bombshell (2019) existed before Barbie (2023). And I'm seeing people linking Bombshell with Barbie just to say that Kate McKinnon predicted Margot Robbie as Barbie, BUT in BOMBSHELL there is a scene where they sleep together. So, Weirdo Barbie slept with Stereotypical Barbie.

[vivziepoparchives]

A background illustration of Blitz, Barbie, and Tilla from the Helluva Boss Pilot before Tilla was removed as a sister to be used as their mother. Art by Vivziepop.