I’ve been sick of the marketing push about this for months by now. Just let it be over 
fraid i’m going to force you to read my opinions on it once i get round to seeing it
Extremely obvious attempt at viral marketing that people have nevertheless fallen for and will continue to fall for when the even more obvious attempt at viral marketing happens again.
Marketing works. All modern cultural events are the result of marketing
I think people have just accepted that they have to participate in viral marketing stuff now because it’s the only way to relate to half their friends, families, and coworkers. Like, did anyone believe for a second all these zoomers were that into Grimmace?
Idk. At a certain point, complaining about this stuff feels on par with the scalds who were angry over jokes about the Titanic Sub.
Yeah, a lot of the shit in the news is a marketing gimmick. But what else is new? Getting worked up because people made Grimace memes for a few weeks after some McDs ad guy spent too much money to force the subject to trend gets us what, exactly?
People like movies. Both these movies appear to be well received. So people are piling on a thing that looks fun.
Nothing wrong with that.
Complaining about a thing
Complaining about the complaining about a thing
Complaining about the complaining about the complaining about a thing
Complaining about complaining about complaining about complaining about complaining about complaining about complaining about complaining like a JoJo Stand battle
Ah forgive me comrade I didn’t realize I wasn’t allowed to express my frustration about being saturated with astroturf marketing, and that I especially couldn’t do it on a communist website
I will promptly return to the pod and eat the bugs
Libs: the 2 hour toy commercial is based because it recuperates and co-opts feminism
Conservatives: the 2 hour toy commercial is cringe because it hates men
Everyone else: I’mma smoke some weed and go laugh at the 2 hour toy commercial with my friends
It looks vaguely like a movie long Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt episode and it has Will Ferrel doing funny villain things. I’ll still eat that garbage!
my snout descends
Let’s say, hypothetically, I’m a Barbie girl
mattel is working on fourty fucking five movies about their toys. the slop is never going to end.
surely this includes Disney, right?
right?
If I see one more politician talk about Barbenhimer or about how Barbie is woke propaganda while the country is burning I’m going to lose it
Hexbear Challenge: stop being mad about popular culture and just go see a movie for fun
I enjoyed the Barbie movie for the slop it was
That said, I totally understand and do not blame anyone for being tired of the hype wave and being annoyed at hype in general.
get real, being a contrarian is at least 50% of my personality. if i enjoy things i will basically dissolve into nothing!
and just go see a movie for fun
no (it’s expensive and to go alone is kinda pointless)
wrong. matinees exist for a reason and, for example the AMC theater by my house does 30% off IMAX and Digital showings from 9am-4pm Monday - Wednesday.
going alone is worth it. there is nothing better than sitting by yourself with a film YOU are interested in seeing and becoming immersed for the next 90-180 minutes in a dark theater. I dunno about you but I certainly don’t have a 20x20m screen and surround system set up anywhere in my apartment - David Lynch was right that you can do yourself a disservice by watching some films on a monitor, tablet, or even a 60" TV.
I do agree that most movies aren’t really worth paying to see when you can just pirate them in 2-3 months - slop like Cocaine Bear or the 3rd reboot of Haunted Mansion don’t need a large screen or surround sound to be enjoyed - but I wouldn’t have wanted to see Dune, Avatar 2, or Asteroid City (just to name a few recent examples) for the first time on my monitor even if it is 4k. I said it in another post the other day - some films are meant to be spectacles and part of the spectacle is seeing it on a huge ass screen and feeling the sound.
This is only enhanced by going alone - especially when you’re sitting in a theater 20 seats across from the only other person attending the showing (literally my Asteroid City experience a few weeks ago at 4pm on a Friday. 10/10 we both enjoyed the movie).
FWIW, I do agree that the theater experience can be expensive if you’re going to non-matinee showings - even I weep at an $18 IMAX ticket price. But I’ve always reasoned that I wind up spending more than that whenever I grab drinks at a bar for an hour or when I go out to eat with someone.
BARBENHEIMER BARBENHEIMER BARBENHEIMER BARBENHEIMER
Let me enjoy the slop before Mattel creates their own cinematic universe that I end up hating as well.
big agree. 70% of memes are ads now and it’s exhausting
I hope they keep expanding the Barbie Cinematic Universe (BCU) and it completely takes over and it’s just Barbie movies and shows and fandom everywhere for a decade
Oh, it’ll end just in time for Barbie 2.
Barbie meets her grandmother, Lilli the Nazi Sex Doll
My lib sibling literally called Oppenheimer an anti-communist propaganda piece, so I guess you should be thankful Barbie gets pushed more.
Nolan stans here already tried to defend the latest BWAAAAAAAAAAAAM but I feel vindicated that it’s been identified as yet more reactionary shit from a reactionary shithead.
A 2 hour toy commercial about an Aryan children’s toy with blonde hair and blue eyes that was created to give little girls body dysmorphia so they would grow up to be obedient housewives
versus
a movie about a famous scientist with friends in the CPUSA who gave money to leftist causes and helped defeat fascism and was suspected of communist sympathies himself.
But Chris Nolan made the second one so it’s reactionary. Forget about death of the author
an Aryan children’s toy with blonde hair and blue eyes that was created to give little girls body dysmorphia so they would grow up to be obedient housewives
There’s a scene where a middle schooler virtually quotes this to Barbies face and calls her a fascist which makes her cry
You’re blissfully ignoring the Nolan spin on the story. It isn’t some magically nonpolitical presentation; it is yet another Nolan spin, this time on Oppenheimer, complete with anticommunist bullshit mixed in which downright warps the biographical story. Clearly you’re stanning for Nolan movies and made an entire alt account just to reactively rage at me to defend the good name of your favorite cryptofascist movie treat man, so I don’t know what else to tell you except better get your next alt account made soon, you silly superfan.
Forget about death of the author
Yes, I rather would because it’s used by
types like yourself as a thought terminating cliche to excuse your own failures of literary comprehension.EDIT: I may have been mistaken about how this particular Nolan film plays out compared to all the ones I saw before and disliked for similar reasons, and I am willing to believe the testimony of one person replying who explained how the film plays out. That’s nice, and I’m glad. On the other hand, the standard issue
toxic fan that showed up in the below comment chain (and made another alt account specifically to go at me as of only ~30 minutes ago) reinforces why I like to steer clear of Nolan movies and especially their fandoms in general.
