#i did not enjoy the barbie movie at all

[thelibrarybat]

This music video created by a teenager says more about gender roles in four minutes than the Barbie movie does in two hours.

[a-so-called-person]

Jayvik is my barbenheimer

[amarguerite]

The Barbie movie’s got me digging back into Roland Barthes

[gouinisme]

stem misogyny really got me defending the barbie movie

[the-coffee-fandom]

I just watched Barbie and you should too

[softgrungeprophet]

real talk if anyone on here ever wants to like... buy me a DVD i will totally draw a real quick bust or whatever in exchange, i have a target wishlist registry thing and everything 😂

Like it says in the note thing on the page, DVD or DVD/Blu-Ray are both fine, regular (not 4k) Blu-Ray is probably fine since my PS4 should be able to play those, but I only have a regular-ass PS4, not a PS5, I cannot play UHD, so if something is 4K UHD please make sure it has either a DVD or a regular Blu-Ray as well...

Anyway it should be set up so you can buy stuff off my registry without me having to blast my address to the world (lol) so if you do this, send me an ask or something off anon (so I can like, contact you) (that or like, send me a message on discord if we're friends, or w/e) and I will def draw you a little drawing as thanks 👍

[zozoubbb]

real footage of me when i found out that patriarchy isnt about horses or cowboys and it is actually about opressing women and minority groups: 😰 😰 😰 😰 😰 😰 😧 😧 😢 😥 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 🥺 🥺 🥺 🥺 😫 😫

[rabbits-of-negative-euphoria]

ok so I went to see Barbie, got lunch, came home, and promptly rented Lady Bird

my initial thoughts run thusly:

Michael Knowles is much more right about Barbie than all the other conservative reviewers are. But not entirely right.

If I’m looking at the intention behind it, I would say it is an anti- radical feminist movie, but not an anti-feminist movie. (Sure, there’s little difference in the grand scheme of things, but in the minds of people like Greta Gerwig, there’s a big difference.)

I think moviegoers who came out of the theater having interpreted the message as “tear down the patriarchy!!” completely missed the point

which is a shame because those people were the target audience.

I’ve now seen 3 Greta Gerwig films, and my conclusion is that she tells stories about mothers and daughters. But she wants to have her cake and eat it, too. Certainly, the messages of Lady Bird, Little Women, and Barbie go deeper than their climaxes would suggest, and yet:

The highlight of Lady Bird’s journey is that she does get to go to New York after all.

The highlight of Jo’s journey is that her book gets published.

The highlight of Barbie’s journey is that the Barbies win victory over the Kens.

So yes, in Barbie, we get speeches about how it’s okay to only be a mom, and how the Patriarchy is just as made-up as Barbieland (see: Kendom). But even though the Barbies make positive changes after the coup d’état, we’re never really told why the matriarchy of Barbieland is more to be desired than the patriarchy of Kendom, apart from sanitation. The Kens were just as brainwashed and decorative in Barbieland as the Barbies were in Kendom. Yet pulling off this coup is undoubtedly the climax of the film.

This and other factors lead me to disagree with Knowles that it’s fully coherent and internally consistent, but that’s because the anti-radfem-feminist worldview itself is internally inconsistent and incoherent.

It’s the worldview that says, “Yes, Jo’s journey is more than her career success, but if we sideline it like Alcott did, it’ll be ultimately unsatisfying.” ~ “Yes, Lady Bird’s journey is about more than leaving Sacramento and going East, but if she never gets to do that, it’ll be ultimately unsatisfying.”

Although she may see the pitfalls of narrow exceptionalism, hyperindividualism, and equity better than most in Hollywood, Greta Gerwig still fears the ordinary, elevates the individual, and placates the radicals to the degree that they’ve missed the whole point of her movie.

[3416]

what film are you hoping wins?

it's hard bc i've liked all 6 that i've seen. barbie is def a charity nomination kfljsdklfs... i'd be happy if it were anatomy of a fall, past lives, or oppenheimer tbh. all of those were more captivating than they had any right to be, lol.

[vigilantejustice]

my body and head hurty to the point of puking whenever i’m at like. the movies or a concert are best friends

[jungleboy-cruise]

Bad news lads.... i didn't like the Barbie movie.

I'm gonna rant about my take in the tags please don't send me messages for why I'm wrong this was my personal take away if you don't like it and it makes you mad please just block me.

[toytulini]

I saw Barbie last night, I dont think i have a long film review of it for yall but idk I'll put some thoughts under a readmore I guess?

-Right off the bat, I enjoyed it, it was fun. It was a fun pink poppy romp. Thats about what I expected of it, and thats pretty much what I got

-Its not particularly radical in its gender/feminism takes, its very basic, which, I saw a number of ppl mention that before I saw it so I wasnt expecting anything radical. It couldve done better. it was. fine. im shrug about it i guess.

-My mom enjoyed it and was apparently not expecting any sort of emotional depth or story at all so it caught her off guard. I heard her crying. she cries easy at movies. I'm glad my mom liked it. Maybe she'll absorb some of the very basic feminism it drops idk.

-I knew the Kens adopted patriarchy and introduced it to Barbieland but it felt lile that happened very fast, idk.

-The ending....I. is her going to a gynecologist supposed to be like. shes gotten a vagina by deciding to be human?? or is she trying to schedule a surgery or something? that felt pretty weird to me if im honest, i thought it was gonna be a job interview or smth... Especially with how everyone was like "Barbie is ace (heheeh i agree) cos she has no genitals! (sorry what. excuse me. wanna run that by me again?)" like okay that makes that headcanon reasoning even more dewply uncomfortable that it already was?

-I enjoyed weird Barbie. i wish theyd cast someone else cos iirc ka/te mckin/non was a transmisogynist? unless she apologized or said she changed her mind on the topic since like 2017?? but i havent seen anything? idk. just. annoying to keep platforming these ppl. i guess theres probably other actors involved that have shit views of trans ppl. whatever i guess.

-I did dress up a little. i feel like my outfit had Weird Barbie Vibes. maybe ill post a pic.

-I did enjoy it and it had a number of shots and or transitions i liked, i think the one with the disco ball to the moon or whatever was enjoyable.

-god we really are so weird about barbie

-it just feels factually incorrect that all dolls pre barbie were baby dolls? idk. im sure it was the most common kind. but idk. not to be weird about The History Of Dolls but like. the porcelain dolls from the Victorian era. idk if those count as baby dolls. iirc those were to help young girls practice prepping dead bodies of loved ones for funerals or smth??? but i guess porcelain dolls have a sort of babyish look about them. and are fragile so you cant play rough with them.

-Like i Know its a 2hr long toy commercial for mattel but also god that cant be right. even if they werent filling the same niche as barbie as idk basically a fashion doll? there had to be other dolls right?

-I know the flat foot thing is Supposed to be over the top and silly for them all to get upset about but also tbh. as a bitch with falling arches the way some of yall make jokes about flat feet still is uh. well. rude. but also lmao man. the day my arches started hurting for no reason while i was barefoot did sorta feel emotionally like her feet falling to the ground lol.

-i want to introduce barbie to margot robbie's harley quinn owo. i think that would be Fun :3

-i want Ken's job. how do i do Beach as an occupation.

-I actually liked how they handled Ken and Barbie's rship til the end. i feel weird about that ending overall and also it feels weak wrt her dynamic as Ken. they make him grapple w her not reciprocating his feelings the same way but then she just leaves barbieland anyway?? and ig they dont get to explore a friendship or qpr dynamic. ok. its fine i guess.

-her saying she has no genitalia felt so transgender in a way im not sure it was intended to. ken saying he has all of the genitalia felt even more transgender. headcanoning them both as extremely transgender in fun weird new ways and no one can stop me.

-Allan is my favorite character i think. bro me too

-bibbleless movie. add bibble.

[gibbearish]

saw the barbie movie

[poetlcs]

Someone on Twitter suggested we don’t need to buy new clothes to watch barbie as we should be mindful of consumption and everyone responded like she told them they had to shoot their dog so I fear society is doomed

[flickrrposts]

Thank you everyone for all the notes and kind words!!

Happy Barbie Day everybody!

[todayisafridaynight]

YIPPEEEEEE I'M SOSOSOSO EXCITED FOR THE FIC I'm glad it sounds like you've had a pretty good day, it's well-deserved! :] I love Barbie aesthetically... I love Meta Knight...

OH BUT YEAH this was actually my third time watching The Deer King but it is JUST as good as the first... As I've Said I really love Tsutsumi's character and his little daughter and how their relationship progresses [Top Ten Most Doting Fathers Every Other Scene Makes Me Violently Clutch Whatever I Can Get My Hands On], BUT ASIDE FROM THAT the cast as a whole is very enjoyable!

Although it's a novel adaptation, it's also really intuitive to understand the setting and lore thanks to its decision to put personal conflicts in the foreground while the politics and major themes develop in the background, on top of some pretty well-utilized exposition and the movie's strong visual storytelling/direction/editing.

Visually It's Stunning, there isn't a single frame that's not SEAMLESS, but what stands out to me consistently throughout every scene is definitely how much weight there is to every movement [like The Physics Are Off The Charts, but it's also exaggerated to emphasize things in the way only animation can], and how strong the character "acting" is.

OVERALL. MAGNIFIQUE. I do Highly Recommend checking it out if you were interested :] Tsutsumi's character isn't the type to talk much but y'know... proud of him...

DON'T BE EXCITED YOU'RE SETTING YOURSELF UP FOR DISAPPOINTMENT but if i release it any time soon.. i hope you find some enjoyment from it.. but omg meta knight :)

THREE TIMES WATCHING well now i have to watch it if you've watched it three times: it MUST be worth its salt then.. 👁️👁️