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The Super Mario Bros. Movie was *this* close to being the highest-grossing film of last year. THIS. FUCKING. CLOSE. And then came this movie and people would rather see this sorry excuse of a Barbie movie (STOP HATING THIS VIDEO AND DEFENDING THIS MOVIE, YOU DISNEY SHILLS WHO THINK “WHITE FEMINISM” IS BETTER THAN REAL FEMINISM WHERE REGARDLESS OF THE COLOUR AND GENDER, EVERYONE IS TREATED LIKE EQUALS INSTEAD OF SOLELY WHITE WOMEN!!!!!!!!!) so that they could make fun of TSMBM losing to… THIS!!!!!! (and a few other movies for that matter, even one or a couple animated movies. It lost to at least one of the Frozen movies (TSMBM on its own, for as amazing as its success is, is only this much more successful than Frozen 1, yet opening weekends aside, more people would rather see another Frozen movie and anticipate more Frozen sequels than Illumination’s Mario movie sequels, but what if TSMBM2 is the highest-grossing animated… or general… movie in the late 2020s and Frozen 3 & 4 surprise the world by making less than, say, half a billion on a 2 hundred million dollar or more budget?) and The Lion King, which wouldn’t be so bad if it weren’t the 2019 version (and its upcoming prequel that will lose to Sonic 3) because I’m sick and tired of people talking shit about the Disney Renaissance films just to make the remakes look better despite having all the more political (in)correctness, visuals that replace beautiful and lively hand-drawn with CGI that is supposed to look more realistic but also looks faker and less originality, but I just know that making failure after failure after failure, because of the sheer likeliness of Mufasa: The Lion King making under three hundred million dollars at the box office, if the Lion King remake were made in the 2020s, it would also make this little money or less)
Nutsa if you ever need someone to eat you like an ice cream cone, i know the man for the job. It might be Ryam Gosling. But if it isn't, don't be disappointed 😥
@kieranstark7213 also wtf are you talking about dude? The Lion King Remake and Frozen have literally nothing to do with last year's movies. TSMB is dogshit btw. Also it is the second highest grossing animated film of all time. Frozen anf Frozen 2 never came close to TSMB and none of the films you mentioned EVEN CAME OUT IN THE LAST4 YEARS LET ALONE 2023
This video is different than your previous ones. Not sure what specifically changed, but something did. It's still good, but I think I prefered your earlier work.
Reminds me of what Mr. Incredible said in the first incredibles movie: "They keep creating new ways to celebrate mediocrity but if somebody's genuinely special-"
also in the first Incredibles movie, his son responds to “Everyone’s special in their own way” with “that’s just another way to say nobody is”, one of my favorite lines
@@thtswutshesaid if every movie made fails to meet your supposed ''minimum standards'', then it's probably not minimum standards. That is exactly how it works.
The movie itself was fine, but the fact that people are arguing that it was snuffed from any Oscar aside from set design is kinda telling how low our standards have gotten.
Did you fall asleep during it? IT WAS NOT FINE!! sheesh. I was so angry leaving the theatre. "THIS is what I just spent an obscene amount of money on? AND MY TIME??" I kept waiting for it to be better at some point, and it never was. The cringe levels were on red since the beginning of the movie and then I got also very angry as it ran it's time. And WTF was the ending about?!?! Calling it mediocre or fine is being very nice.
@@ThatWeirdFinn Good point in the video is that a lot of audience reaction is dependent on expectation. I'm kinda there with op, I went in with very low expectations and came out with little by way of disappointment >w< But I didn't watch it in theaters, it wasn't playing yet in my theater and I only really see movies with friends
I agree. I told one of my friends that I didn't care much for it, and he told me I'd missed the point. I said I understand existential crises (I have them every ten minutes). I understand the often contradictory expectations placed on a woman and how you can't really meet them. I understand that the Barbie world, where the Kens were essentially treated as accessories (like women are, especially to wealthy men, in the real world) was not a "better" version of the real world. I understand the need to find yourself. And with all that content, the movie managed to make me feel absolutely nothing about any of it lol. The execution was very meh. They had a lot to say and didn't say any of it well. But if I say that, I'm a "woman-hater." Correction: I hate everyone equally.
I was 100% fooled by the marketing, by all the promotionial stunts. On opening day I wore pink, dragged everyone I knew in theaters to watch what I thought was gonna be the new mean girls, the new legally blonde. I was excited for all the quotes, all the costumes, everything. The intro with the gigantic barbie was great and it got me so excited, but thats where the film peaks for me. The first scene at the beach I was in my seat thinking how the dialogue is just off, everything seemed forced, and the "jokes" just weren't funny. Afterwards I came home and my mom asked me "Did you like it" and all I could say was "No" and I sat in my room to process all my disappointment
I really wanted them to stop trying to make beach a thing, it wasn't going to be a thing. When Ken started his song I got up to waz and buy a whole nother drink and returned to my seat for him to still be singing the same song. Jokes aside, there were lots of moments where this movie felt like the directors clocked in and went "I know what this movie is- it's the lego movie!" and the next day "I know what this movie is! It's Mean Girls!" I've lost track of the plots it accidentally "ripped off" when I got to Tinker Bell and a Twice song. I'm very sad that the movie was so scared to have an identity it hid behind an aesthetic. I know that "(blank) That Built America" show is propagandist and sensational, and it's very much something I guilty-pleasure watch with my laptop out in case I need to fact check them, but it's SO much easier to root for Barbie in the episode about her product development going head to head against GI Goe than it is with the Barbie Movie. Here's to the amazing outfits everyone wore to Barbie and to the real humans in the clothing, and once we clink our glasses let me dump my drink on this films DVD box set lol
i liked the part where they obsess over there not being any women in charge of Mattel MEANWHILE IN THE REAL WORLD there are 5 women on the board of directors of Mattel (just about half) so their satire doesn't even work and actively lies to gullible feminists.
There could have been so much potential with its aesthetic. It could have been comedic with romance and room for another sequel even. It honestly is a dark movie with some weird agenda behind it. It really let me down for everything it could have been and even the training of the actors where meant to look at movies that where totally different then the whole “message” of this movie… like why did they waste their time…
It's more so the investors and studios want a recognisable IP rather than something original. The writers would love to create original works, but to get the funding they basically have to do an in name only adaptation of an IP because that's all that gets greenlit. Like the Velma series was originally just a passion project Mindy Kahling wanted to make but it had to get tied to the Scooby Doo brand to get off the ground
Or the 4th season of True Detective. It should not have been a 4th season but a stand alone series about 2 women detectives in Alaska. Like "the frontier" or any Norwegian detective.
I don't remember who said it but I read once that this movie is the epitome of "Plastic Feminism". Any societal issues this movie attempts to explore is just superficial and the portrayal of feminist values are glossed over as to not risk damaging the brand.
That was "verilybitchie", saw the same video you did (The Plastic Feminism of Barbie) And yea the movie more than anything.... _aestheticizes_ feminism if we're bein generous haha. Only bothers to have the most surface level resemblance to actual feminism _or_ how it relates to barbie
@@ExpertContrarian Honestly there was as much unintentional misogyny as there was parodical misandry, but I may be steppin on ur toes given ur username >w
I feel like Pirates of the Caribbean is the gold standard for making a fun and engaging script with basically zero source material. Nobody really had high expectations going in and had those expectations shattered at the theater. What's notable is the development for that script began in the early 90s and was a passion project. You can't just say "we're gonna make a movie about X property, write me a script" and expect gold, and that's exactly what Mattel did. Disney executives had to be convinced by their writers to make the pirates movie.
Didn't it start as a "Curse of Monkey Island" adaption? A cult classic "point and click" adventure game series for the PC about silly pirates. But the licensing fell through so they just grabbed something else pirate-themed, a freaking Disneyland ride, and rolled with it. And struck absolute gold. Still, it's not as though there was no source material... at the very least, the basic inspiration was an amazingly charming game that didn't get a quarter of the recognition it deserved, but I'm not sure how much of that original inspiration made it into the final movie. I can easily see a morph from the "Zombie Pirate LeChuck" to the cursed ghost crew of the Black Pearl, but Johnny Depp takes all the credit for the zanny charisma of Captain Jack Sparrow: it was entirely his idea to channel Keith Richards for the role. Still, the "spirit" of the movie very much had a source beyond just a theme park attraction.
@@KarolOfGutovo Not supposedly, factually and provably. You really didnt know that? Unusal, I thought that was basically common knowledge. Well, now we both know more i guess ey?^^
Barbie as a character was underwritten. It was like the movie tried everything in its power to NOT make this a movie about Barbie. They added dozens of extra "Barbies" and a variety of Kens and other side characters to take the focus off of Barbie being the main character. She was supposed to be "Stereotypical Barbie", but this wan't really explained or explored. Why was she "stereotypical"? Where was her backstory? The whole thing was too focused on having a message of some sort and having pretty sets and costumes, while neglecting to actually have a story with some kind of substance or character development.
She was stereotypical Barbie because she wasn’t the President, she wasn’t a scientist, she wasn’t part of the Supreme Court justice, she can’t fly a plane, she doesn’t even have a job, she’s just the Pretty Barbie, hence why she told Ruth Handler she wanted to be apart of the world that makes things and not the thing that’s made. All of this was explained in the movie when Stereotypical Barbie had her breakdown 🙄
I had that problem too Margot Robbie’s character basically disappears from the movie in like the third quarter and is mostly replaced by America Ferreras character. I know she’s Stereotypical Barbie’s former owner but it’s confusing particularly due to the world building that went into the film(or lack thereof)
They didnt want to mke her flawed or incomplete, as that would make her 'look bad' So instead she is perfect and flawless, and now can't learn or improve from her experiences. Which is typically what makes us love n relate to characters! This is pride n arrogance. To display their hero as less than perfect hurts their egos, because really they are writing about themselves. Look at Tony Stark. He was flawed n damaged at the beginning of the story and couldnt empathize with others, and went on a journey to change n transform into someone who sacrifices himself for others. We loved him at both stages. This is basic character design. 😂😂
It drives me nuts how worshipped this movie is. And I 100% believe it was thanks to the marketing and memes. People think this movie is a cultural milestone empowering women thanks to the marketing and it's popularity. But it really is badly written, and people just can't see it? It really could've been a good, fun movie. It had potential to be a lot lighthearted and funny. I think it could've been improved a lot if they added 1-2 more songs and pushed the comedy further, because those parts of the movie had sooo much potential. Kens were funny, Barbieland was great, and the dancing was fantastic. The problem was the fact that they decided to make it preachy, instead of trying to make a traditional story with a concrete idea. Instead of embracing the FUN of Barbie. I honestly think the early 2000's content for girls had it right. They knew back then how to make good shows/movies for girls that were feminist, relatable, wholesome, and just simply fun. Series that come to mind are Totally Spies, Winx, H2O Just Add Water, or WITCH for example. Barbie could've been something like that, but the director clearly did not have that intention. It was ruined by online activism, bad writing, and cynicism.
Yeah I hate the amount of credit this movie gets, kinda feels like endgame again where people think it’s a masterpiece when literally plot was rushed, I hope more people will be critical of this movie bc this film is defo not a masterpiece
@@Femmeaesthetic I really didn't like it when I saw it in theatres, but I watched it the second time with my mom while we were decorating our apartment for Christmas and I liked it a bit more. Perhaps its not a bad background movie, and if you don't fully pay attention to it lol.
People dont think this is a cultural milestone empowering women at all... Most people simply thought it was very amusing. And if others don't think it is bad, it doesn't mean they ''can't see it''. That sounds like a fairly self-centered view. Totally spies and winx (and maybe the other stuff too) are for young children... This movie clearly is not.
THIS SO MUCH! And when I voiced this, people looked at ME like I was crazy. I know good movies. This was not it. I will be in my dungeon watching Shawshank Redemption, The Fifth Element, Demolition Man, Tango and Cash and others if anyone needs me....
@@squirrel490-n1p Well if it's a good background movie then it's not a good movie. I want to engage with the content. If I want to do something else, I'll put some no-brain music on and do the thing. Movies should be seen, felt and heard.
This film feels like Greta trying to be a copycat of Rian Johnson: wants to have this preachy story about X social issue, but then simultaneously attempt to evade criticism by having several characters say "shut up and don't think about it".
I feel like she is more concerned with feeling a personal emotional catharsis, primarily for herself but also for the audience, than actually exploring the complexity of the themes that matter to barbie. i want to know why she has to abandon pink and look like a 2013 buzzfeed employee at the end. i felt so offended lol
Or the two of them just really want to do something ambitious but they don’t know what They seemingly end up making up the movies plot as they are filming the damn thing. I dont dislike either of them as filmmakers generally but I’m basically describing Barbie and The Last Jedi It’s obvious as a mushroom cloud they want to do something ambitious but don’t know what, as I mentioned before. They are given the task of a modern installment of a classic franchise and they feel the need to do something unexpected with the main character but not only are they confused but they’re not considering how it effects these characters in the long run. Why would Luke Skywalker toss the same lightsaber his father wielded, the same object he lost with his right hand seconds before discovering his fathers identity.
@@something-from-elsewhereyou know a director I think is quite a feminist but gets no credit for it? Tim Burton, his whole career he’s been making movies where he gave tortured introverted female characters the spotlight and a decent development and turned them into girlbosses by the end, Lydia from “BeatleJuice”, Selina/CatWoman from “BatMan Returns”, Sally from “The Nightmare Before Christmas”, Alice from “Alice in Wonderland”, Angelique from “Dark Shadows”, Margaret from “Big Eyes”, etc
Barbie is such a strange experience. I can't say in good faith that I didn't enjoy it, because I did, it was a wild ride in the theater and a very entertaining investment of both time and money, although not the kind of entertainment I expected with everyone praising the movie. To its credit, it has a very unique aesthetic that helps tremendously with landing jokes, I genuinely laughed more than once during screentime. That being said, it's the kind of movie I won't see twice, it's a very effective flashbang but once the flash subsides, you get to see what was hidden behind... and the more you think about it, the more it falls apart, Mattel being the most egregious example. It serves no purpose other than making slapstick jokes at the expense of world consistency, that entire section was just awful really.
Upon retrospect I realized that I loved the first half of the movie in Barbieland, the scene with the old lady, I'm just Ken and the soundtrack overall. That's about it. I still belt out "what was I made for" it's a gorgeous song, and the montage it plays over COULD have been really powerful if literally ANYTHING in this movie prior to it lead up to it. But in reality, Barbie's decision to become human comes right out of nowhere. She had maybe one or two nice moments in the real world. If we're being generous. A shame really. I still love Barbie dolls, though.
When I left the theater I felt so off about this movie. It just... was so unsatisfying but I couldn't put my finger on it. Thank you for putting that feeling into words
Same here! I felt like it didn’t impact me as it should’ve and I walked out feeling like…”huh…?” Like, what was the main message again? The takeaway? The story? What happened to Barbie? I REALLY wanted a Legally Blonde-esque movie, just lighthearted with a kind message of embracing femininity and empowerment as well as unity between both genders. But….it just felt very superficial and most of the “feminist dialogues” just made me cringe. When that girl said “fascist..” I cringed inside, this felt more like a twitter argument then a genuine, fun movie of the year about Barbie.
Yeah, the way the film ended was weird, so basically she leaves Barbieland, has a heart to heart with her creator, decides to stay in the real world with the girl and the mom, and the first thing she does is...go to a gynaecologist? And then BOOM! The end! Barbie Girl remix plays! And images of Barbie and Ken dolls (and Alan) flash across the screen while credits roll. I was like "What? That's it? That's how the movie ends? Well, that felt rather anti-climatic!" I guess maybe it's supposed to be anti-climatic, because it's funny, but...i don't know, dudes.
Writers reward fake Barbie fans by having Barbie take her creator's surname when she already has a full name in lore- BARBARA MILLICENT ROBERTS. Broke my immersion. Horrid, squalid, insulting.
The way they ignored the lore really irked me. Not only did they ignore her name, but all her friends and family over the years: Stacy, Kelly/Chelsea, her parents, Teresa, Christie, Raquelle, Kira, Becky etc. The movie should have been a love letter to Barbie as a pop culture icon, and they just didn't do that
that speech given by the mother at the end pissed me off. like putting aside my thoughts on the contents of the speech, if you're going to have a character give a speech like that.... it is basic storytelling logic to have shown them experiencing/dealing with these issues beforehand. otherwise it comes across like they're extremely privileged and complaining about problems they don't have. it would have 100% made more sense for barbie (the only one we see actually experience sexism in the story) to have made that speech right before she decides she definitely doesn't want to go and be a human. adios. humanity sucks.
that speech was awful. i've seen it be praised as groundbreaking so many times but america literally says pretty much the same thing word for word in a throw-away scene in her show superstore eight years prior. it just felt cheap and recycled.
@@promisemochi the speech really didn’t work for me (especially bc even tho im a woman i couldnt actually relate to it-i know a lot of women will, but not me). it’s definitely not groundbreaking to say any of the things she said. thats a message that has been said by a billion different people in a billion different stories and all of those were better written than this one. like you said, it’s recycled. and a feminist speech does not make for a good film or good characters. those are infinitely more important to me than any political message
@@shhimreading906I think the reason why women relate to the speech is bc it validates there feelings about some struggle they go through even though it wouldn’t really be a big deal since people have shitty lives in general, feminists love to push this idea of “invisible women” when male disposability existed for many years where a woman’s life has more value, men struggle being bread winners providing for there family etc but hey it’s a chick flick movie with cringe monologue
@@Femmeaesthetic i do understand why people relate to it. it lists a lot of things a lot of women go through (not me personally, but ik plenty of women who have). it’s a speech that’s supposed to invoke a superficial feeling of relation without doing the narrative or character work to back itself up or make any genuinely insightful social commentary. it doesn’t seek to do anything but appeal to people who already agree with that point of view. the entire film feels like it has such a surface-level understanding of gender inequality. the whole film it felt like i was being lectured with the same points over and over again in the least subtle way possible “all men bad, do assault, oppress. women best in world.” which is just a lie because there are positives and negatives that come with being either gender.
The fact that this is nominated for best original screenplay, let alone best picture is a fuckin travesty. Thank God Oppenheimer seems to be completely sweeping the award shows.
I wouldn't say thank god. Oppenheimer is just by comparison the best. I wouldn't serve it oscars on a silver platter either. But I guess my opinion is just double the unpopular
@@gabrielaaraujo4124 Yeah, but it's practically the one good movie being nominated. If you're familiar with the recent Oscars, good movies don't tend to win the awards they deserve.
@@zero-pl3tt Sure, if you can call a very stale, horribly paced slog a Best Picture. Sidney Lumet and Otto Preminger could have directed that in their fucking sleep.
My ex friends said I was acting like i was better than them and that I was a snob because I didn't like barbie and prefered oppenheimer. They proceeded to call me a misogynist 🤡
There was a trend on, I think, Instagram where people judged ones romantic interest based on whether they like the Barbie movie To be honest I was disappointed with both movies, Oppenheimer particularly. It just lacked an encompassing theme/focus but it kept setting so many different ones up and then abandoning them
Now it makes more sense why they released it at the same time as Oppenheimer. It wasn’t simply because they wanted to punish the director, but rather the dichotomy of both films releasing at the same time was the only way they could get their money back! lol
2:41 This happens with games, and I find the time is about 4-6 months. It’s enough time beyond the “hype bubble” that people can levy critiques without backlash. Because it’s not just “hope” for a good product on its own that the hype bubble brings. It’s that it becomes a “water cooler moment” filled with “positivity” for people that have nothing else to talk about. So they get way too attached to these types of media to talk with people. They have nothing going on with themselves.
@@mrshmuga9from what I can tell, SM2 is to SM1 what OW2 is to OW1. Nothing too innovative, all the movesets feel samey, so a continuation of the first. So if you liked the first, you'd like a continuation of it, but a lot of people wanted new and innovative stuff, considering it's a flagship first party title exclusively on the PS5 and not available for the PS4, people wanted innovation that comes with ditching the last generation console.
@@wilhua3083 Okay so they’re bothered for typical reasons, barebones sequel. I didn’t care for Miles’ powers but it seems like that was a poor choice to have a side game when it would’ve made the sequel stand out better.
Greta to her daughter: hey darling, here is a speech I’ve prepared so you understand how the world works for you as a female. Daughter Greta: but mummy, you are a very successful director and story writer, who forced daddy to work on a project he didn’t want to
Oh, could you imagine the convo to sons. That’d be awful. “Darling boy, you are a product of the patriarchy, your defining characteristics are dominate and oppress, …….. “ “but mummy, why does daddy seem to brow beaten?” 😂 @@lmahu6627
It's also important to note that the Barbie movie push the narrative that Barbie was the first ever fashion doll to exist which is bullcrap. Madam Alexander has existed since the 1920's and her company made the first America fashion doll, Cissy, 5 years before Barbie debuted.
@@FrenkieWest32Opening line talked about how they were only baby dolls and girls could only be mothers. Which yes could be a joke, but the company itself says this too, saying that girls only had no dolls they could dress up in fashionable clothes only paper dolls or baby dolls. There's a really good vidoe M.J. Tanner that talks about the matter and shares a few more companies, founded by women, who made fashion dolls.
@@norabeth1951 yes, in a story where barbieland is an alternate dimension with barbies that are linked spiritually to humans playing with barbie dolls... It's fiction, not a documentary on the history of dolls.
"Barbie had such rich storytelling potential. But NO... MEN." 🤣🤣 Nutsa and Critical Drinker are the only film critics I watch. I think I've disagreed with them on a film maybe one time. This channel deserves 100x the attention.
I would just like to say as a male (who is not overly attached to Barbie as a brand) Barbie and the Nutcracker is GOATed and I won’t accept any slander of it.
What the film proposes as an answer to modern male/female relations is that the two sexes should just be atomized from each other, and that's no surprise when he whole film is a visualization of the feminist argument against the Genesis story. Many hate the fact that Eve was made out of Adam's side (not his rib), as if that meant she was lesser than him because her creation was dependent on his', but that's not the point. The reason Eve is made out of Adam's side is to show how we as human beings are relational creatures by nature--both of us (but women especially). We are both interdependent of each other. You can literally not explain one sex without the other. That's the point. But in a society that values autonomy and hyper-individuality above anything else, interdependence seems like a threat. Hence, there's no Barbie and Ken working together to solve their world's problems. There's no Barbie and Ken, period. The film could only propose "it's Barbie and it's Ken." Its answer is that men and women have to learn to separate themselves from one another to reach self-actualization, which is such a bummer. It could have actually been so much more.
this idea of "you have to find yourself" pretty much came from feminists, it's very obvious they hate Adam and Eve working togather since these radicals intention is to segregate the opposite sex, ken didn't need to "find himself" the only thing he wanted was a basic level of respect from Barbie, the same people who say "ken is just an accessory" are the same people who say "Ken needs to find himself to get out of Barbie's shadows" people defending this movie just gets worse and worse. Ken is meant to be a supporting character for barbie & barbie has that appreciation from him which this movie destroys the healthy relationship between these two characters. *not to mention ken dolls did have occupation*
Well, yes. Both men and women relate to each other. It is impossible to look at the male body or the female body and try to understand it by itself. It is only in relation to the other that it becomes clear. And that says something really beautiful about humanity as a whole: there is no "default" human body. There is no default human. Instead, there are two kinds who are made for relationship by nature. No human can withstand social isolation for long periods of time. It is just the case that women are especially relational. We can see an example of this clearly in a woman's reproductive system. Unlike a man who (biologically) has a very minimal and detached role in procreation (He only offers his sperm. The rest of the process takes place entirely within the woman), the woman is involved in the creation and her relationship with the child intimately at every step. Many women who have given birth describe feelings of this relationship being so deep that they cannot visualize themselves apart from their child. They feel like their lives are intrinsically connected to them, even after gestation.
Honestly I feel like Margot Robbie never really wanted to be the focus of this movie, especially with her move towards production. It felt like most people did it for the paycheck and nothing more, but Ryan had a certain passion about his role that made him stand out.
She wanted someone else to do it apparently, like Gal Gadot (😒). But it's a hard role to cast and she was probably the most obvious choice in Hollywood (which is ironic as she still doesn't look *that* much like Barbie lol).
Ken understands the intrincacies of "freedom" and grows as a person, the Barbie World under "masculine rule" prospers before the Kens are psychologically manipulated into fighting each other by entitled women (Barbies) and the status quo is restored and finally Barbie and Ken recognize they need each other to actually thrive (nuclear family). I said it before and I'll say it again: Barbie may be the most hilarious (unintentional) parody I've ever seen.
Interpreting them as prospering under Ken is a stretch, in my opinion. It was just the other extreme. Following another status quo without actually knowing why or if it is actually what they want.
Right for all but the last point. Hollywood could never. Ken and Barbie don't realize that they need each other, but that they can only thrive atomized from each other. In other words, "It's Barbie and it's Ken." She point blank tells him he needs to be Ken without her.
The thing about her not feeling like Barbie anymore and wanting to live in the human world is handled so poorly. Especially considering the point was that her issues start because of the mother's feelings. Instead of romanticising the real world and have her wish to be there for no reason when she knows nothing about it and they didn't even explore it, they could've made a point of her not being able to stay as just Barbie now that she's seen the real world. Maybe she would need to find someone else to play with her but even if she tries to stay and enjoy her ideal doll world she's conscious now, she knows how things are not as perfect in the real world and more importantly she's learned the own damage her doll has made too (taking the point about the physical image you mentioned which was such a wasted opportunity). She could've used THAT as her motivation. Yes, she doesn't KNOW anything about the real world but she wants to, because she would rather come back to Barbieland to make it better but that's why first she needs to go and experience the real world and learn about it.
Your part on how people collectively turn on initially well liked movies over time is similar to how we all look back at objectively bad fashions we wore, but don't know why. This video essay is good. I haven't watched the whole Barbie or any Lego movie, but just seeing a comparison of how each franchise is handled from a world building perspective makes me sad. Barbie could of been so much more meaningful to Barbie fans.
I don't know how empowering a story about Barbie's creator would be since, yes, she was the first woman on Mattel's board but she was also fired and was guilty of conspiracy and mail fraud to manipulate Mattel's stock price.
I enjoyed Barbie but it wasn't the "best movie ever made" like people kept saying it was. The real spectacle of the movie was the marketing for it and like honestly cultural reset, pink was everywhere, never seen so many people so excited to dress up for a movie in all pink!! And the premier outfits that Margot wore were amazing, the all girls Mariachi band in pink for the Mexico premier made me tear up, it was real sweet. But the movie itself was just a movie. Not the worst movie ever but no where near the best. It also felt like a slap in the face to all the women who went all out in pink ready to see Barbie show that being cute a feminine doesn't make you any less intelligent, only for her to become a sad beige Barbie at the end. If you wanna watch a better version of the Barbie movie, just watch Enchanted and Legally Blonde back to back.
@txwtw I think it is a better portrayal of the fish out of water story where Giselle really gets to explore the real world and fall in love with it, the good, the bad. She learns new emotions that she never had before and concepts she hasn't heard of and we actually really understand why she wants to change worlds. Barbie was fun but the real world seems to be told to her rather than experienced by her. She gets told how women feel and how men act. She's only in the real world for a little while before she has to go back to Barbieland to reset everything and in that short time it's hard to imagine she was given a genuine valid reason to want to go back. Giselle truly falls in love with the new world while Barbie seems to want to leave just because she can
I will never get over your editing style the level of work that probably goes into it I can’t i even to think about it paired with your commentary is just everything
THANK YOU NUTSA for fuck sakes, I’ve been saying ever since this movie came out that the speech was lazy and over played simple. Barbie discovering for herself what woman have to go through rather than somebody informing her would have been a way more satisfying payoff.
One of my main issues with the movie is that it’s so focused on career Barbies that it forgets to elaborate on the imaginative play type Barbies. It takes away creative juices from the worldbuilding and makes it so bland….like a plastic matriarchy instead of a fantasyland. Where are the fairy and princess Barbies? We see like three mermaid background Barbies. What about wizard and witch Barbies? What about super spy Barbie?
What most people miss about 'Barbie' the character, is that she is not a real human, nobody can be her cause she is not real, she is a doll. She really isn't a feminist icon but a female icon She is not here to command a girl power break of molds movement and all that jazz, she is here to sell an escapism, cause she is a toy, a girly toy! Like guys?? Let's not forget she is still the very spoiled daughter of a multimillionaire company! she is not a relatable girl with everyday problems, she is not. But that doesn't mean she is something bad. 'Barbie is everything you want to be' yeah! Cause she is a doll! She is a toy! She is an entreteniner, a medium you can escape to a perfect little pink fantasy A piece of plastic is NOT responsable to educate your children. Barbie has little to no voice on telling your daughter or son how a woman should be or act or even dress. And that same multimillionaire company is not either! Can we agree on that?? (I'm pretty sure they care more about sales!) Barbie is a nice, pretty, talented, and forever young woman. Likes to have fun with her friends and family and put on cute clothes. She is rich and popular but also kind and smart! She can trully be anything she wants cause she is just that cool! And like, thats it! There is no further depht to her character cause it doesn't have to be! As a toy she is a blank canvas you can fill any way you want! So just have fun with her! That's all In conclusion, just go watch Barbie life in the Dreamhouse. (Also I just found hilarious how the movie states a 'normal down to earth Barbie' would be a great idea when a doll like that literally got produced once and it was a total faliure. Girls want fairy mermaid princesses in sparkly shiny gownds guys, stop saying they don't)
the barbie thats horrified by a bit of cellulite finds an old shrivelled up woman beautiful, yea right. it definitely did not feel deserved considering she barely arrived in reality
I get the impression that that scene was made when they had already shot the majority of film and mistakenly barely any of it is relevant to Barbie’s midlife crisis They needed to bs the notion that Barbie’s arc is maintaining some level of focus This is why you can’t just make up a film as you go: great moments of improvisation on set is not the norm but the exception
That mom speech near the end of the movie was handled with all the subtlety of a 2014 tumblr post. It's the worst part of the movie, and it comes immediately after the best part, which is the mom comforting barbie and talking to her about her insecurities. "It breaks my heart that you think youre not good enough" really touched my heart because my parents have said similar things to me. But then it immediately delves into incessant whining instead of adressing where these issues come from-inside. It's crazy how the end of the movie is about Barbie wanting to become human, but the movie explores NOTHING about the human experience other than that one 40-second montage 30 minutes in. Nothing about actual feelings of grief, loss, the joys of motherhood or connection, growing up, etc. Barbie has the exact same attitude at the end of the movie as the beginning, except now she has to visit the gynecologist. Woop de doo such a satisfying ending.
Does anyone else think it's weird that the Barbie movie doesn't even have Kelly, Stacy, or Skipper (not grow-up Skipper) in it? There is so much Barbie lore they could have added, like the Happy Family line having the first elderly Barbie couple, the grandparents! That could have gone with their aging gracefully message. It feels like they just looked at Wikipedia while writing the script and that's it. I also don't like how everyone is just "Barbie and Ken" when the toy-line has a whole cast of characters. Edit: I just finished the video and you brought up the Wikipedia script writing too. Glad others picked up on that. 😅 How can they say Barbie has no story when she has a webseries, movies, books, and video games about her!
Honestly kens version of Barbie land seemed less unfair??? At least they wanted to hang out with the Barbie’s and have them around vs how the Barbie’s completely ignored the kens and didn’t even know where they slept??? Idk man lol like the kens were homeless and had no rights. Just watch Life Size, it was a better doll movie lol
i know you're a bit late to the party as far as talking about barbie, but i'm once again blown away by how much effort was put into the editing. i love your editing style. please take your time and i'll be excited whenever you're next project is ready to release!
Great Analysis. This might be ny favorite essay on this channel.Thanks for critizcizing the whole movie without using the word "WOKE", wichtends to be cheap and doesn't adresses the deep problems the movie and the script really have.
I hate telling people that I didn't really like this movie that much. Happy that from now on I can just link them to this video. Hoping that RUclips will leave you alone with no claims 🙌
I think That Star Wars girl channel pointed out something that most channels who criticized this movie aren’t pointing out (probs bc they don’t know). This movie is portraying this idea that kens are homeless & don’t have jobs but in actual reality of Barbie universe when look at ads, toys, animated movies/tv shows kens did have occupation. I remember Ken being a groomer, merman, cowboy, surfer etc but obviously this would destroy the narrative of the story. If Mattel really wanted a film director coming from “female perspective” they could’ve hired any female director who knew the source material because Greta herself admitted she didn’t know & did not grew up with Barbie but she was obviously hired because she’s a feminist filmmaker who’s well known for indie films like lady bird and little women, now she’s going to be a screen writer for Snow White remake. In actual reality Mattel had 40% of CEO’s but again it would destroy the narrative of the story. The moms monologue was all over the place, I could not relate to this speech, never in my life I felt embarrassed in the theaters!!! But overall the only thing good coming out of Barbie is the aesthetics, costume, setting, some background music and obviously Ken
@@worthybutter2004bc she’s a feminist filmmaker famously known for indie movies, that’s all you need to know. Hollywood is a huge industry, could’ve hired any female director who knew the source material
I remember being interested in this movie after the first few trailers, I thought it would be like a fusion of the LEGO Movie and Legally Blonde. A lighthearted comedy with some delightful character development and a positive uplifting message... But of course, this is current year, and that's just not good enough. It had to be struggle session about how hard it is to be a woman. So people champion the film just because it preaches their ideology, It could have been something special, but had to shoot for the low hanging fruit instead of the stars.
this is what happens when ppl who aren't barbie fans make a movie about barbie LMAO Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie admitted that they weren't really that into barbie growing up
I’m saying this all as a young woman. But this movie was honestly so bland and childishly written-and no, not in a fun Barbie doll way. It was like the creators of this movie have never experienced true sexism a day in their lives because every “issue” they tackled was extremely surface-level and something you’d find with a quick Google search. That honestly offends me more than any of the sexism in the movie. There were some moments I liked-notably the part about “men and women hate you” because it is like that as a girl-but overall I spent the whole movie waiting to cry or see it as life altering like everyone said. But I just left feeling disappointed that this is what we consider a masterpiece now.
Something that would've been clever for the movie, would be the mother and daughter seeing all the Barbies at their houses then ask the obviously "where do the Kens live", and have that slow dawning haunting realization...that all the Ken's are second class citizens with basically no rights, throwing the whole girl boss women rule everything message upside down, being this huge awakening moment for the daughter that no, women and only women in charge isn't the right step for humanity, it's just sexism and privilege for her, and that maybe that can lead for compelling character growth for her to rethink her entire beliefs...oh wait Barbie is supposed to be the main character uuuuuhhh...yeah sorry I got thinking for the piece of plastic, heyo!
I was obssed with this movie for 2 weeks after seeing it because I shared almost ALL of your thoughts on it, AND NO ONE ELSE WAS BRINGING THEM UP. EVERYONE WAS ACTUALLY PRAISING THE MOVIE. I have no connection to the Barbie brand, but the way people and reviews were talking about made me excited for a funny SMART movie like the Lego Movie as well. It was excrutiating to feel so strongly about the movie everyone was loving, but I was sure that with time people would re-examine it and see all I have seen. I remembered your channel and was incredibly excited to hear your take on it, and you delivered. It feels so satisfying to be validated like this lol. And also seeing someone who doesnt start assuming I am a misoginist because I hated the movie.
I’m so glad people are finally voicing their dissatisfaction for this movie. I was so excited for this film. I thought it was going to be like a live action Life in the Dreamhouse. I watched it at home as soon as it came out and I couldn’t even sit through it all. This was not a Barbie movie, this was not even a family movie. I just wanted to have a fun time not be lectured on how the patriarchy has oppressed women. The internet’s reaction to this movie actually gaslit me into thinking we watched different movies. I’m so glad I’m not actually going insane and that I’m not the only one who thinks this. (Also the film feels so hostile towards the Barbie brand itself. Even the fact that they call her “Stereotypical Barbie” instead of like “Classic Barbie” that feels is so mean spirited.)
If you watched any trailer or interview about it, you would have known it was not a ''barbie movie'' and not a family movie in the traditional sense...
@@FrenkieWest32 well not everyone is gonna have the time to watch every single interview or trailer on it, plus most of the trailers did make it look like a family movie with some of the childish jokes (like the foot joke etc)
@@txwtw not true. And if you just go to a 2 hour movie but you don't have the time for 2 minutes of trailer (which does not even make sense), then don't be surprised if it is an unexpected movie...
I saw a comment on another video about this saying how the strong reaction to this movie really showed where most of the public still is in their understanding of feminism, and it's largely the introductory stage. I can see how this story, and that speech (which gave me zero feels) would be revelatory to someone raised within very rigid traditional Western gender roles and isolated from most modern discourse. I do know people like that and have watched them have some of these first realizations. But this movie still isn't the amazing experience it was hyped to be. Its message was muddy, it's writing bland, and it treated the audience like we're dumber than the average cow.
If they didn't do such a good job on the Barbieland set, people would have seen through this movie more. And don't get me started on the evil Mattel sub-plot that was completely unnecessary and was only there to reinforce the patriarchy ideology of the director.
Oh em goodness, someone FINALLY addresses that the movie directly states it takes both a doll and a human playing with said doll to change things. Every other review I've seen just ignores that very important line.
As a Barbie lover, I felt like *I* was the oddball for not being completely on board with this movie. I was damn disappointed because I waited much longer than the general public acknowledging its near existence; 2015 to be exact 🙃 I bought the dvd because FOMO I guess but I have not had the guts to watch it again. It’s just sitting there, taunting me for what could’ve been a great & fun movie… Legally Blonde is my LA Barbie movie tbh at least the Ken is treated decently by “Barbie” without taking total control of her character arc. Also, what Greta said about Barbie having no personality and no story to work with prior to this movie absolutely made me annoyed to a ridiculous degree. That officially made Greta on my petty list lmao 😭 I’m not qualified for ANYTHING and I promise I could’ve made a much better movie driven by passion and RESPECT for the brand. Not just “oh look remember that one barbie doll buzzfeed would say over and over was discontinued due to scandal that really wasn’t a big deal but we’re gonna make a big deal anyway????? Ha ha ha” yep, I hate it.
Yeah, I was tricked by the trailers too. But at least I never actually went to see it. Ive always loved barbie, and how she canonically has had every job ever. But never at the expense of the men in her universe. They were her friends, not a stepping stone or a worm under her foot. The real barbie would never treat anyone that way. Because to her, EVERYONE matters.
Wow. I initially thought the movie was mediocre and overhyped when I watched it, but your analysis made me realize it was actually just straight up bad😂😂
it fell so flat to me. america's monologue that was so highly praised as "ground breaking" is almost word for word a throw-away scene she had in superstore like 8 years ago. the whole thing felt recycled and cheap. nothing groundbreaking about it.
When I watched this with my mum, at the end when they did the "debrainwashing" scene, she said "men experience more than half of this, too". So not only did this have non-Bechdel feminism because everything was stated relative to men's experiences, it also didn't do it in a way that even acknowledged or understood men's experiences.
There’s a video Alteori made about this movie and she talked about it as well, she observed that this movie glorifies everything considered “feminine” but it antagonizes everything considered “masculine”, she even made another version of Gloria’s speech but about men’s struggles
found out about you through EFAP, as one of the best guests, and now I get exited whenever you upload. Great work. The editing, script, jokes make these videos so enjoyable and well made. Thank you Nutsa for the great content
Barbie is nowhere near as good as a film, and yet is nominated for best picture? Truman Show was not. Let that sink in. The hilarious part is, if we are being totally honest, Truman Show was not even close to being the best film that year. There is a very obvious, depressing, objective answer as to why Barbie is being touted as soms revolutionary great masterpiece.
This whole video was great! I’m so glad you didn’t give us a long history lesson on what Barbie is, her influence, etc and just jumped into your problems with the movies. Despite the lengths you had to edit the video so you didn’t get struck by the (unfair) copyright stuff, it was hilarious, had me laughing! Thank you for this gem of pink covered shit of a movie! Hopefully, you can cover some other movies or media in the future that being you more joy than pain. Cheers to you!
At the beginning of the movie I was really enjoying myself. I love pink, glitter and pop music. It was fun! But then with every scene I was becoming more and more bored and the closer to the end, the more often I was rolling my eyes. I think it could have been a good film if it were aimed at kids. But no, it was for adults and as an adult feminist I felt like I was being treated as a child who needs everything explained and won't notice how many things don't make sense.
I don’t know what’s with movies and them taking a property aimed at kids and trying to make it all edgy and adult. Also yeah I agree I enjoyed the movie at the beginning too but a lot of the political stuff later on was really handled poorly and just came off as obnoxious but that’s just me
I'm just disappointed Barbie didn't win for production design. Other than that I thought the movie was fun, had a few good emotional beats, a little trite, and disorganized. I enjoyed Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling. 10/10 for design, 4/10 for plot, 8/10 casting.
Nutsa you absolute gem. It feels refreshing to hear your takes on popular media from a true feminist point of view. I've watched a LOT of your content already and I feel so glad you're bringing up all these issues via a critical and as-objective-as-possible point of view, not at the expense of men. You preaching women AND men alike should strive to be better and not putting any gender above the other is a strong message that needs to be heard everywhere because it feels like a lot of "feminist" rhetoric is about the rise of women at the expense of men. Keep up the good work.
I was bothered that the Barbie movie centered Ken's feelings much more than Barbie's. He is ignored by her, finds the patriarchy, becomes and incel, becomes a leader of a patriarchal movement, has a huge song and dance number (Barbie does not), is apologised to by Barbie, and becomes (I guess) nice again as she leaves Barbieland to go to the "real" world and he finds another Barbie -- maybe that one played by Kate McKinnon? -- or gets together with Alan, I don't know. I would like a little more Barbie in the Barbie movie. Not necessarily Stereotypical Barbie (why couldn't a Barbie of Color been the lead? Or even "Weird" Barbie?), but a Barbie.
I did enjoy the Barbie movie enough, but I honestly would have preferred they remade one of the animated movies or just have a fantastical plotline throughout. I'm getting tired of every movie trying to be serious or comment on something.
Yeah, I just want pure silliness to come back in film like Rat Race and stuff. We don’t really get films like that anymore & even when we do they are always still gonna have something serious or try to comment on something like what you said
I still won't watch that movie, but I'll gladly Watch Nutsa's take on it, especially if it's a Long boi like that ! It's not MauLer long yet, but we're getting closer xD. Congratz, Long Good
I think being fooled by marketing is only part of the issue. When movies tackle certain themes, you can be seen as a bigot for being against said movie, even if the themes aren't good or well implemented. I remember trying to warn my friends about barbie, saying something along the lines of "when big companies take an animated property that has good lessons and morals, and try to condense it into a live action film, they usually do a bad job." And i got accused of 'hating like a man' and 'not being a girls girl.'
So for me it was like this, I watched some of Gerwig's other stuff like 'Frances Ha' or 'Lady Bird' in order to get a picture of what I was getting myself into with this film. And while I definitely did like those allot I didn't think they were like perfection or anything like that. But the bar was set high at that point so I thought this might be a pretty enjoyable ride. But the thing that confused me so much about Barbie after I was done seeing it was that, I didn't get at all who it was even made for. Like you more or less said in the video, it felt less like an actual film and more like I was just getting a political message being shoved down my throat instead of actually caring about what this all meant to me on a emotional level. And I don't think it has anything to do with hyperfocusing on these political issues as a viewer since thats what the film is doing all by itself already. Overall it feels to me like the film doesn't know what it wants to be in the first place. If they really wanted to say something new or extraordinary then they should have went way further and more nuanced with some of the themes they were dealing with. But then ofc people will go "but kids wouldn't enjoy that type of stuff", I mean duhh. What kind of kid would watch this normal version in the first place? I can't picture any children enjoying a film this dense with scenes that are only working if you as a viewer know what types of ethics and cliches they are talking about. Anyways great Video! Really summed up allot of the feelings I had towards it.
tbh i love jo and Amy’s speeches in little woman, because they fit in their time and context. Amy was expected to quit art one she gets married because that was the most common thing for the status she was being “raised in” by her aunt/grandma I don’t remember what relative was, sorry. and jo’s was also really good, I mean how manny woman published mystery, horror books with a made up name in those years. but in Barbie, 2023 it just doesn’t make that much sense to me, imo women are the ones that push this stereotypes and beauty standards. because we looove to bring others down for “not fitting in”. we love to feel special and ideal. its a “we” problem most of the time. obviously there are A LOT of things males do that are freaking disgusting and problematic concerning woman spaces, ideas, etc etc but at least in the U.S. it’s the minimum. I would love to see Greta in Mexico or Latin America so she and all this American “feminists” can actually see what patriarchy and gender inequality is like.
i wanted to like barbie so much ....i have seen almost every animated barbie movie since childhood but this movie completely sidelines all and every plotline ,charachter etc to show some surface level ...undeveloped points on femiznism which arent presented by story but rather throgh roughly stitched goofy scenes and monologues
It's funny you should mention the potential story arc for Barbie. Since that's basically the story I'm writing. Except the main character is more like a Bratz doll than a Barbie and her story arc is basically the reverse of this. She starts off believing her base doll is more harmful than helpful and that she needs to over compensate for that to truly make a difference and empower her human companion and others. Over the course of the story she meets people who were inspired by her doll in one way or another and she realizes it's not so black and white. Resulting in her ending up a healthier well balanced individual by the end. She even befriends a Barbie-like doll. It's still very much a work in progress, but that's the general idea.
the thing is, i hear all the complaints from feminists, and all i get from it is your life is a lot easier than mine, but you seem to think my life is a lot easier than yours. the difference is i am not shoving my shitty life in your face for sympathy, but i would gladly trade places with you in a heart beat. ladies, your struggles are real, so are men's struggles. everyone struggles, life sucks for 99% of us. maybe stop complaining at us for some hypothetical life you think we have, and actually pay attention and have some empathy for your fellow human being. its not a gender issue, its a "life sucks then you die" issue.
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I feel physically nauseous from the thought that this might get claimed again but...this essay just needed to get out man, I can not wait around any longer for abstract potential threats. Hope u guys enjoyy
The Super Mario Bros. Movie was *this* close to being the highest-grossing film of last year.
THIS.
FUCKING.
CLOSE.
And then came this movie and people would rather see this sorry excuse of a Barbie movie (STOP HATING THIS VIDEO AND DEFENDING THIS MOVIE, YOU DISNEY SHILLS WHO THINK “WHITE FEMINISM” IS BETTER THAN REAL FEMINISM WHERE REGARDLESS OF THE COLOUR AND GENDER, EVERYONE IS TREATED LIKE EQUALS INSTEAD OF SOLELY WHITE WOMEN!!!!!!!!!) so that they could make fun of TSMBM losing to… THIS!!!!!! (and a few other movies for that matter, even one or a couple animated movies. It lost to at least one of the Frozen movies (TSMBM on its own, for as amazing as its success is, is only this much more successful than Frozen 1, yet opening weekends aside, more people would rather see another Frozen movie and anticipate more Frozen sequels than Illumination’s Mario movie sequels, but what if TSMBM2 is the highest-grossing animated… or general… movie in the late 2020s and Frozen 3 & 4 surprise the world by making less than, say, half a billion on a 2 hundred million dollar or more budget?) and The Lion King, which wouldn’t be so bad if it weren’t the 2019 version (and its upcoming prequel that will lose to Sonic 3) because I’m sick and tired of people talking shit about the Disney Renaissance films just to make the remakes look better despite having all the more political (in)correctness, visuals that replace beautiful and lively hand-drawn with CGI that is supposed to look more realistic but also looks faker and less originality, but I just know that making failure after failure after failure, because of the sheer likeliness of Mufasa: The Lion King making under three hundred million dollars at the box office, if the Lion King remake were made in the 2020s, it would also make this little money or less)
Missed you!
Nutsa if you ever need someone to eat you like an ice cream cone, i know the man for the job. It might be Ryam Gosling. But if it isn't, don't be disappointed 😥
@kieranstark7213 also wtf are you talking about dude? The Lion King Remake and Frozen have literally nothing to do with last year's movies. TSMB is dogshit btw. Also it is the second highest grossing animated film of all time. Frozen anf Frozen 2 never came close to TSMB and none of the films you mentioned EVEN CAME OUT IN THE LAST4 YEARS LET ALONE 2023
This video is different than your previous ones. Not sure what specifically changed, but something did. It's still good, but I think I prefered your earlier work.
I believe Legally Blonde is a much more Barbie movie than this one
No fr fr it so is
Even films like Legally Blonde
Soul Surfer(2011)
Suzume(2022)
Puss in boots 2 are way more Barbie than that trash
@@김성운-x1nagreed 💅 my mind always makes me forget soul surfer. I just remember a lot of Christian mission group stuff. And Carrie underwood lol.
@user-sv9we5bx2n not really barbie as they have completely different aesthetics to barbie a more barbie film from recent would probably be do revenge
The Life-Size (with Lindsay Lohan and Tyra) is a better Barbie movie than the Barbie movie.
Reminds me of what Mr. Incredible said in the first incredibles movie: "They keep creating new ways to celebrate mediocrity but if somebody's genuinely special-"
This is not about you, Bob - it’s about Greta
also in the first Incredibles movie, his son responds to “Everyone’s special in their own way” with “that’s just another way to say nobody is”, one of my favorite lines
@@L-xd6eu
Especially since it parallels Syndome’s “And when everyone’s super… no one will be.”
like which movie is genuinely special that was not appreciated?
if everyone is special then no one is
In a world of bad movies - mediocrity is seen as "good".
What happens when you stopped watching the MCU lol
And good is seen as equal.
The problem is everyone keep saying "well nothing is perfect" when you want the most minimum standards lol
@@thtswutshesaid if every movie made fails to meet your supposed ''minimum standards'', then it's probably not minimum standards. That is exactly how it works.
@@FrenkieWest32 You say this as if nobody with standards has reasonable ones. Some movies are actually shit, _THAT_ is exactly how it works~
The movie itself was fine, but the fact that people are arguing that it was snuffed from any Oscar aside from set design is kinda telling how low our standards have gotten.
Did you fall asleep during it? IT WAS NOT FINE!! sheesh. I was so angry leaving the theatre. "THIS is what I just spent an obscene amount of money on? AND MY TIME??"
I kept waiting for it to be better at some point, and it never was. The cringe levels were on red since the beginning of the movie and then I got also very angry as it ran it's time. And WTF was the ending about?!?! Calling it mediocre or fine is being very nice.
@@ThatWeirdFinn Good point in the video is that a lot of audience reaction is dependent on expectation. I'm kinda there with op, I went in with very low expectations and came out with little by way of disappointment >w<
But I didn't watch it in theaters, it wasn't playing yet in my theater and I only really see movies with friends
@ ThatWeirdFinn sheesh a little self center much
@@ThatWeirdFinn holy shit, please just respect opinions
I agree. I told one of my friends that I didn't care much for it, and he told me I'd missed the point. I said I understand existential crises (I have them every ten minutes). I understand the often contradictory expectations placed on a woman and how you can't really meet them. I understand that the Barbie world, where the Kens were essentially treated as accessories (like women are, especially to wealthy men, in the real world) was not a "better" version of the real world. I understand the need to find yourself. And with all that content, the movie managed to make me feel absolutely nothing about any of it lol. The execution was very meh. They had a lot to say and didn't say any of it well. But if I say that, I'm a "woman-hater." Correction: I hate everyone equally.
Barbie Life in the Dreamhouse stands as the best representation of Barbie
That show needs more credit than the movie
The continuation, Barbie: Dreamhouse Adventures, is also pretty good stuff. Puts this movie's writing to shame on every level I can think of.
I love that show, I wish there was more honestly
I wish they still continued that show :( one of my fav series ever
This
I was 100% fooled by the marketing, by all the promotionial stunts. On opening day I wore pink, dragged everyone I knew in theaters to watch what I thought was gonna be the new mean girls, the new legally blonde. I was excited for all the quotes, all the costumes, everything. The intro with the gigantic barbie was great and it got me so excited, but thats where the film peaks for me. The first scene at the beach I was in my seat thinking how the dialogue is just off, everything seemed forced, and the "jokes" just weren't funny. Afterwards I came home and my mom asked me "Did you like it" and all I could say was "No" and I sat in my room to process all my disappointment
that is really unfortunate
I imagine the Mom couldn’t have felt good about it, either.
Yea
I thought the same thing about Oppenheimer.
I really wanted them to stop trying to make beach a thing, it wasn't going to be a thing. When Ken started his song I got up to waz and buy a whole nother drink and returned to my seat for him to still be singing the same song.
Jokes aside, there were lots of moments where this movie felt like the directors clocked in and went "I know what this movie is- it's the lego movie!" and the next day "I know what this movie is! It's Mean Girls!" I've lost track of the plots it accidentally "ripped off" when I got to Tinker Bell and a Twice song. I'm very sad that the movie was so scared to have an identity it hid behind an aesthetic. I know that "(blank) That Built America" show is propagandist and sensational, and it's very much something I guilty-pleasure watch with my laptop out in case I need to fact check them, but it's SO much easier to root for Barbie in the episode about her product development going head to head against GI Goe than it is with the Barbie Movie.
Here's to the amazing outfits everyone wore to Barbie and to the real humans in the clothing, and once we clink our glasses let me dump my drink on this films DVD box set lol
i liked the part where they obsess over there not being any women in charge of Mattel MEANWHILE IN THE REAL WORLD there are 5 women on the board of directors of Mattel (just about half) so their satire doesn't even work and actively lies to gullible feminists.
You missed the part where it is fiction? The fact there is a barbieland might clue you in.
@@FrenkieWest32 wait are you being serious? They literally call it the real world so it’s obviously trying to represent the real world
@@MarcAlcatraz yes, and Jurassic park is a documentary...
Ever present troll in the comments you are I see... Don't be an intentional blockhead. @@FrenkieWest32
@@cutekitty4862 you must be very fragile is everything that you don't like is "troll".
This wasn’t a good movie, it was an aesthetically pleasing movie. It grabs your attention but barely keeps it.
It’s Kenough
There could have been so much potential with its aesthetic. It could have been comedic with romance and room for another sequel even. It honestly is a dark movie with some weird agenda behind it. It really let me down for everything it could have been and even the training of the actors where meant to look at movies that where totally different then the whole “message” of this movie… like why did they waste their time…
I only cared about Ken. I loved him so much. I hated how it infantilzied women while also trying to say they are girl bosses. Like wtf??
@@Loch1210it’s kinda Kenough
I made the mistake of watching it back to back with Oppenheimer: I took the BarbenHeimer Challenge
I don't even know why writers want source material anyway when half the time it's like they don't even check it out lmao.
It’s so they can claim that they came up with certain ideas when it succeeds
It's more so the investors and studios want a recognisable IP rather than something original. The writers would love to create original works, but to get the funding they basically have to do an in name only adaptation of an IP because that's all that gets greenlit. Like the Velma series was originally just a passion project Mindy Kahling wanted to make but it had to get tied to the Scooby Doo brand to get off the ground
Or the 4th season of True Detective. It should not have been a 4th season but a stand alone series about 2 women detectives in Alaska. Like "the frontier" or any Norwegian detective.
Because they need to exploit the name of the brand to attract audience
They _don't_ want source materials, they want IP and a preexisting audience/fanbase
I don't remember who said it but I read once that this movie is the epitome of "Plastic Feminism". Any societal issues this movie attempts to explore is just superficial and the portrayal of feminist values are glossed over as to not risk damaging the brand.
That was "verilybitchie", saw the same video you did (The Plastic Feminism of Barbie)
And yea the movie more than anything.... _aestheticizes_ feminism if we're bein generous haha. Only bothers to have the most surface level resemblance to actual feminism _or_ how it relates to barbie
@@ExpertContrarian Honestly there was as much unintentional misogyny as there was parodical misandry, but I may be steppin on ur toes given ur username >w
@@ExpertContrarian You really fuckin think I agree with the barbie movie's gender politics? That's fuckin hilarious
@@ExpertContrarian Nope. Couldn't be more wrong lmao
@@ExpertContrarian I'm a feminist who recognizes the movie as a twisted mockery of feminism that conforms to the perceptions of the simple-minded
I feel like Pirates of the Caribbean is the gold standard for making a fun and engaging script with basically zero source material. Nobody really had high expectations going in and had those expectations shattered at the theater. What's notable is the development for that script began in the early 90s and was a passion project. You can't just say "we're gonna make a movie about X property, write me a script" and expect gold, and that's exactly what Mattel did. Disney executives had to be convinced by their writers to make the pirates movie.
Didn't it start as a "Curse of Monkey Island" adaption? A cult classic "point and click" adventure game series for the PC about silly pirates. But the licensing fell through so they just grabbed something else pirate-themed, a freaking Disneyland ride, and rolled with it.
And struck absolute gold. Still, it's not as though there was no source material... at the very least, the basic inspiration was an amazingly charming game that didn't get a quarter of the recognition it deserved, but I'm not sure how much of that original inspiration made it into the final movie. I can easily see a morph from the "Zombie Pirate LeChuck" to the cursed ghost crew of the Black Pearl, but Johnny Depp takes all the credit for the zanny charisma of Captain Jack Sparrow: it was entirely his idea to channel Keith Richards for the role.
Still, the "spirit" of the movie very much had a source beyond just a theme park attraction.
@@duncanlutz3698 wait, the movie is supposedly based on a disneyland ride? I never knew it, that's ridiculous.
@@KarolOfGutovo Not supposedly, factually and provably. You really didnt know that? Unusal, I thought that was basically common knowledge. Well, now we both know more i guess ey?^^
@@datzfatz2368 I mean, the movie came out two years before I was born so I didn't get to experience any media stuff around its release.
@@KarolOfGutovo ah alright, that makes sense then. Sorry, i tend to forget that how long ago my childhood was at this point^^
15 seconds of remembering how good Truman show was invoked in me more emotions than the whole Barbie movie by a mile
!!!
That goes for most of the movies coming out in recent years!
Barbie as a character was underwritten. It was like the movie tried everything in its power to NOT make this a movie about Barbie. They added dozens of extra "Barbies" and a variety of Kens and other side characters to take the focus off of Barbie being the main character. She was supposed to be "Stereotypical Barbie", but this wan't really explained or explored. Why was she "stereotypical"? Where was her backstory? The whole thing was too focused on having a message of some sort and having pretty sets and costumes, while neglecting to actually have a story with some kind of substance or character development.
She was stereotypical Barbie because she wasn’t the President, she wasn’t a scientist, she wasn’t part of the Supreme Court justice, she can’t fly a plane, she doesn’t even have a job, she’s just the Pretty Barbie, hence why she told Ruth Handler she wanted to be apart of the world that makes things and not the thing that’s made. All of this was explained in the movie when Stereotypical Barbie had her breakdown 🙄
I had that problem too
Margot Robbie’s character basically disappears from the movie in like the third quarter and is mostly replaced by America Ferreras character. I know she’s Stereotypical Barbie’s former owner but it’s confusing particularly due to the world building that went into the film(or lack thereof)
They didnt want to mke her flawed or incomplete, as that would make her 'look bad' So instead she is perfect and flawless, and now can't learn or improve from her experiences. Which is typically what makes us love n relate to characters!
This is pride n arrogance. To display their hero as less than perfect hurts their egos, because really they are writing about themselves.
Look at Tony Stark. He was flawed n damaged at the beginning of the story and couldnt empathize with others, and went on a journey to change n transform into someone who sacrifices himself for others. We loved him at both stages. This is basic character design. 😂😂
It drives me nuts how worshipped this movie is. And I 100% believe it was thanks to the marketing and memes. People think this movie is a cultural milestone empowering women thanks to the marketing and it's popularity. But it really is badly written, and people just can't see it? It really could've been a good, fun movie. It had potential to be a lot lighthearted and funny. I think it could've been improved a lot if they added 1-2 more songs and pushed the comedy further, because those parts of the movie had sooo much potential. Kens were funny, Barbieland was great, and the dancing was fantastic. The problem was the fact that they decided to make it preachy, instead of trying to make a traditional story with a concrete idea. Instead of embracing the FUN of Barbie.
I honestly think the early 2000's content for girls had it right. They knew back then how to make good shows/movies for girls that were feminist, relatable, wholesome, and just simply fun. Series that come to mind are Totally Spies, Winx, H2O Just Add Water, or WITCH for example. Barbie could've been something like that, but the director clearly did not have that intention. It was ruined by online activism, bad writing, and cynicism.
Yeah I hate the amount of credit this movie gets, kinda feels like endgame again where people think it’s a masterpiece when literally plot was rushed, I hope more people will be critical of this movie bc this film is defo not a masterpiece
@@Femmeaesthetic I really didn't like it when I saw it in theatres, but I watched it the second time with my mom while we were decorating our apartment for Christmas and I liked it a bit more. Perhaps its not a bad background movie, and if you don't fully pay attention to it lol.
People dont think this is a cultural milestone empowering women at all... Most people simply thought it was very amusing. And if others don't think it is bad, it doesn't mean they ''can't see it''. That sounds like a fairly self-centered view.
Totally spies and winx (and maybe the other stuff too) are for young children... This movie clearly is not.
THIS SO MUCH! And when I voiced this, people looked at ME like I was crazy. I know good movies. This was not it.
I will be in my dungeon watching Shawshank Redemption, The Fifth Element, Demolition Man, Tango and Cash and others if anyone needs me....
@@squirrel490-n1p Well if it's a good background movie then it's not a good movie. I want to engage with the content. If I want to do something else, I'll put some no-brain music on and do the thing. Movies should be seen, felt and heard.
This film feels like Greta trying to be a copycat of Rian Johnson: wants to have this preachy story about X social issue, but then simultaneously attempt to evade criticism by having several characters say "shut up and don't think about it".
I mean also like as a feminist.... Greta doesn't understand feminism lol
I feel like she is more concerned with feeling a personal emotional catharsis, primarily for herself but also for the audience, than actually exploring the complexity of the themes that matter to barbie. i want to know why she has to abandon pink and look like a 2013 buzzfeed employee at the end. i felt so offended lol
Or the two of them just really want to do something ambitious but they don’t know what
They seemingly end up making up the movies plot as they are filming the damn thing.
I dont dislike either of them as filmmakers generally but I’m basically describing Barbie and The Last Jedi
It’s obvious as a mushroom cloud they want to do something ambitious but don’t know what, as I mentioned before. They are given the task of a modern installment of a classic franchise and they feel the need to do something unexpected with the main character but not only are they confused but they’re not considering how it effects these characters in the long run.
Why would Luke Skywalker toss the same lightsaber his father wielded, the same object he lost with his right hand seconds before discovering his fathers identity.
@@something-from-elsewhereyou know a director I think is quite a feminist but gets no credit for it? Tim Burton, his whole career he’s been making movies where he gave tortured introverted female characters the spotlight and a decent development and turned them into girlbosses by the end, Lydia from “BeatleJuice”, Selina/CatWoman from “BatMan Returns”, Sally from “The Nightmare Before Christmas”, Alice from “Alice in Wonderland”, Angelique from “Dark Shadows”, Margaret from “Big Eyes”, etc
Barbie is such a strange experience. I can't say in good faith that I didn't enjoy it, because I did, it was a wild ride in the theater and a very entertaining investment of both time and money, although not the kind of entertainment I expected with everyone praising the movie. To its credit, it has a very unique aesthetic that helps tremendously with landing jokes, I genuinely laughed more than once during screentime.
That being said, it's the kind of movie I won't see twice, it's a very effective flashbang but once the flash subsides, you get to see what was hidden behind... and the more you think about it, the more it falls apart, Mattel being the most egregious example. It serves no purpose other than making slapstick jokes at the expense of world consistency, that entire section was just awful really.
Upon retrospect I realized that I loved the first half of the movie in Barbieland, the scene with the old lady, I'm just Ken and the soundtrack overall. That's about it. I still belt out "what was I made for" it's a gorgeous song, and the montage it plays over COULD have been really powerful if literally ANYTHING in this movie prior to it lead up to it. But in reality, Barbie's decision to become human comes right out of nowhere. She had maybe one or two nice moments in the real world. If we're being generous. A shame really. I still love Barbie dolls, though.
@@marcellacassab4331 Yeah, what made her want to leave Barbieland? What did she want to stay in the real world for? It made no sense!
When I left the theater I felt so off about this movie. It just... was so unsatisfying but I couldn't put my finger on it. Thank you for putting that feeling into words
The only thing this film had going for it is i wanna put my finger IN it definitely not on it though
My sentiments exactly.
I thought it would be more about Barbie with himbo Ken but it was more about Ken and it bothered me
Same here! I felt like it didn’t impact me as it should’ve and I walked out feeling like…”huh…?” Like, what was the main message again? The takeaway? The story? What happened to Barbie? I REALLY wanted a Legally Blonde-esque movie, just lighthearted with a kind message of embracing femininity and empowerment as well as unity between both genders. But….it just felt very superficial and most of the “feminist dialogues” just made me cringe. When that girl said “fascist..” I cringed inside, this felt more like a twitter argument then a genuine, fun movie of the year about Barbie.
Yeah, the way the film ended was weird, so basically she leaves Barbieland, has a heart to heart with her creator, decides to stay in the real world with the girl and the mom, and the first thing she does is...go to a gynaecologist?
And then BOOM! The end! Barbie Girl remix plays! And images of Barbie and Ken dolls (and Alan) flash across the screen while credits roll.
I was like "What? That's it? That's how the movie ends? Well, that felt rather anti-climatic!"
I guess maybe it's supposed to be anti-climatic, because it's funny, but...i don't know, dudes.
Writers reward fake Barbie fans by having Barbie take her creator's surname when she already has a full name in lore- BARBARA MILLICENT ROBERTS. Broke my immersion. Horrid, squalid, insulting.
The way they ignored the lore really irked me. Not only did they ignore her name, but all her friends and family over the years: Stacy, Kelly/Chelsea, her parents, Teresa, Christie, Raquelle, Kira, Becky etc.
The movie should have been a love letter to Barbie as a pop culture icon, and they just didn't do that
@@PlaystationSimmer they especially did my girl Midge dirty ... and her man Allan.
i'm not even that big of a barbie fan and even i know this. it's such an easy thing to get right but they refused to do so
I screamed!
@@PlaystationSimmer Bro...Raquelle's absence hurt me deeply.
that speech given by the mother at the end pissed me off. like putting aside my thoughts on the contents of the speech, if you're going to have a character give a speech like that.... it is basic storytelling logic to have shown them experiencing/dealing with these issues beforehand. otherwise it comes across like they're extremely privileged and complaining about problems they don't have. it would have 100% made more sense for barbie (the only one we see actually experience sexism in the story) to have made that speech right before she decides she definitely doesn't want to go and be a human. adios. humanity sucks.
that speech was awful. i've seen it be praised as groundbreaking so many times but america literally says pretty much the same thing word for word in a throw-away scene in her show superstore eight years prior. it just felt cheap and recycled.
@@promisemochi the speech really didn’t work for me (especially bc even tho im a woman i couldnt actually relate to it-i know a lot of women will, but not me). it’s definitely not groundbreaking to say any of the things she said. thats a message that has been said by a billion different people in a billion different stories and all of those were better written than this one. like you said, it’s recycled. and a feminist speech does not make for a good film or good characters. those are infinitely more important to me than any political message
@@shhimreading906I think the reason why women relate to the speech is bc it validates there feelings about some struggle they go through even though it wouldn’t really be a big deal since people have shitty lives in general, feminists love to push this idea of “invisible women” when male disposability existed for many years where a woman’s life has more value, men struggle being bread winners providing for there family etc but hey it’s a chick flick movie with cringe monologue
@@Femmeaesthetic i do understand why people relate to it. it lists a lot of things a lot of women go through (not me personally, but ik plenty of women who have). it’s a speech that’s supposed to invoke a superficial feeling of relation without doing the narrative or character work to back itself up or make any genuinely insightful social commentary. it doesn’t seek to do anything but appeal to people who already agree with that point of view. the entire film feels like it has such a surface-level understanding of gender inequality. the whole film it felt like i was being lectured with the same points over and over again in the least subtle way possible “all men bad, do assault, oppress. women best in world.”
which is just a lie because there are positives and negatives that come with being either gender.
@shhimreading906 Why can't you ait that you probably can't relate to that speech because your behind is privilege.
The fact that this is nominated for best original screenplay, let alone best picture is a fuckin travesty. Thank God Oppenheimer seems to be completely sweeping the award shows.
I wouldn't say thank god. Oppenheimer is just by comparison the best. I wouldn't serve it oscars on a silver platter either. But I guess my opinion is just double the unpopular
@@gabrielaaraujo4124 Yeah, but it's practically the one good movie being nominated. If you're familiar with the recent Oscars, good movies don't tend to win the awards they deserve.
Oppenheimer>Barbie
@@Segadrome Anatomy of a fall was pretty good.
@@zero-pl3tt Sure, if you can call a very stale, horribly paced slog a Best Picture. Sidney Lumet and Otto Preminger could have directed that in their fucking sleep.
Longer than the film itself!
And unlike the film, Nutsa's video is worth watching. 😁
@@charlesws7825This needs more likes!
I wired you a like, bro!!
Longwoman BAD!
when i spread misinformation on the internet
It's actually 9 minutes shorter, but still feature-length and Oscar-worthy (:
My ex friends said I was acting like i was better than them and that I was a snob because I didn't like barbie and prefered oppenheimer. They proceeded to call me a misogynist 🤡
There was a trend on, I think, Instagram where people judged ones romantic interest based on whether they like the Barbie movie
To be honest I was disappointed with both movies, Oppenheimer particularly. It just lacked an encompassing theme/focus but it kept setting so many different ones up and then abandoning them
Absolute clown behaviour tbh
Utter cult like behavior smh. Glad to hear they’re now “ex-friends”.
What. The. F*.
It's kind of funny that the best part of a feminist propaganda cash-grab movie....is the male lead actor
Feminist? Lmao. Maybe liberal feminism at best. Intersectionality could never.
"feminist propaganda" 💀💀
feminist propaganda is wild
It's kinda funny that you understand feminism even worse than Greta Gerwig
What exactly about the movie is propaganda?
Barbie: crossed 1 billon dollar mark
Wb: flirts with bankruptcy
And I laughed to myself at the men and the ladies
Who never conceived of us billion dollar babies(la da da da da…)
Now it makes more sense why they released it at the same time as Oppenheimer. It wasn’t simply because they wanted to punish the director, but rather the dichotomy of both films releasing at the same time was the only way they could get their money back!
lol
This video articulated every fibre of hatred I had for this movie perfectly. ESPECIALLY THE "OUR LIVES ARE SO DIFFICULT SPEECH"
2:41 This happens with games, and I find the time is about 4-6 months. It’s enough time beyond the “hype bubble” that people can levy critiques without backlash. Because it’s not just “hope” for a good product on its own that the hype bubble brings. It’s that it becomes a “water cooler moment” filled with “positivity” for people that have nothing else to talk about. So they get way too attached to these types of media to talk with people. They have nothing going on with themselves.
Spoodus-man Dos
@@tomjames9681 A ton of AAA games to be honest. Although (without spoilers) what are the normies saying about Spider-Man 2 now?
@@mrshmuga9from what I can tell, SM2 is to SM1 what OW2 is to OW1. Nothing too innovative, all the movesets feel samey, so a continuation of the first. So if you liked the first, you'd like a continuation of it, but a lot of people wanted new and innovative stuff, considering it's a flagship first party title exclusively on the PS5 and not available for the PS4, people wanted innovation that comes with ditching the last generation console.
@@wilhua3083 Okay so they’re bothered for typical reasons, barebones sequel. I didn’t care for Miles’ powers but it seems like that was a poor choice to have a side game when it would’ve made the sequel stand out better.
Greta to her daughter: hey darling, here is a speech I’ve prepared so you understand how the world works for you as a female.
Daughter Greta: but mummy, you are a very successful director and story writer, who forced daddy to work on a project he didn’t want to
Feminist Mommy issues 😅
She actually has two sons, but this conversation would probably stay the same (lol).
Oh, could you imagine the convo to sons. That’d be awful. “Darling boy, you are a product of the patriarchy, your defining characteristics are dominate and oppress, …….. “ “but mummy, why does daddy seem to brow beaten?” 😂 @@lmahu6627
"And didn't you steal Daddy away from Jennifer Jason Leigh?"
@@NJGuy1973they aren’t ready for that conversation 🫢
It's also important to note that the Barbie movie push the narrative that Barbie was the first ever fashion doll to exist which is bullcrap. Madam Alexander has existed since the 1920's and her company made the first America fashion doll, Cissy, 5 years before Barbie debuted.
Well. It’s a mattel ad at the end of the day so is that really surprising
@@lpsloveandgame6046 Not at all, I just think it's ironic for a "feminist" brand/movie to ignore history and other women's accomplishments.
where did the movie push that narattive? Sounds like you just made that up.
@@FrenkieWest32Opening line talked about how they were only baby dolls and girls could only be mothers. Which yes could be a joke, but the company itself says this too, saying that girls only had no dolls they could dress up in fashionable clothes only paper dolls or baby dolls. There's a really good vidoe M.J. Tanner that talks about the matter and shares a few more companies, founded by women, who made fashion dolls.
@@norabeth1951 yes, in a story where barbieland is an alternate dimension with barbies that are linked spiritually to humans playing with barbie dolls... It's fiction, not a documentary on the history of dolls.
"Barbie had such rich storytelling potential. But NO... MEN." 🤣🤣
Nutsa and Critical Drinker are the only film critics I watch. I think I've disagreed with them on a film maybe one time. This channel deserves 100x the attention.
I recommend JesterBell too
DUDE SAME
I love their takes and they are usually completely spot on with all their analysis
this is the comment that convinced me to unsubscribe to nutsa lol
Critical drinker? Really? The right wing chud? You need to reflect.
Not the critical drinker
Mom wake up! Nutsa just dropped a video
Yes, dear.
Nut
I would just like to say as a male (who is not overly attached to Barbie as a brand) Barbie and the Nutcracker is GOATed and I won’t accept any slander of it.
Ur absolutely right
Nutcracker, Swan Lake, Rapunzel, Magic of Pegasus and 12 Dancing Princesses are my favs 🩷
those early 2000s barbie movies are a thousand times better than this live-action one lmao. also, the nutcracker one is my favorite too
@@PlaystationSimmer Princess and the Pauper is objectively the best because it has Preminger in it^^ But they are all a delight/feverdream to watch
What the film proposes as an answer to modern male/female relations is that the two sexes should just be atomized from each other, and that's no surprise when he whole film is a visualization of the feminist argument against the Genesis story.
Many hate the fact that Eve was made out of Adam's side (not his rib), as if that meant she was lesser than him because her creation was dependent on his', but that's not the point. The reason Eve is made out of Adam's side is to show how we as human beings are relational creatures by nature--both of us (but women especially). We are both interdependent of each other. You can literally not explain one sex without the other. That's the point. But in a society that values autonomy and hyper-individuality above anything else, interdependence seems like a threat.
Hence, there's no Barbie and Ken working together to solve their world's problems. There's no Barbie and Ken, period. The film could only propose "it's Barbie and it's Ken." Its answer is that men and women have to learn to separate themselves from one another to reach self-actualization, which is such a bummer. It could have actually been so much more.
this idea of "you have to find yourself" pretty much came from feminists, it's very obvious they hate Adam and Eve working togather since these radicals intention is to segregate the opposite sex, ken didn't need to "find himself" the only thing he wanted was a basic level of respect from Barbie, the same people who say "ken is just an accessory" are the same people who say "Ken needs to find himself to get out of Barbie's shadows" people defending this movie just gets worse and worse. Ken is meant to be a supporting character for barbie & barbie has that appreciation from him which this movie destroys the healthy relationship between these two characters. *not to mention ken dolls did have occupation*
Why would women be more relational than men if we are supposed to relate with each other?
Well, yes. Both men and women relate to each other. It is impossible to look at the male body or the female body and try to understand it by itself. It is only in relation to the other that it becomes clear. And that says something really beautiful about humanity as a whole: there is no "default" human body. There is no default human. Instead, there are two kinds who are made for relationship by nature. No human can withstand social isolation for long periods of time. It is just the case that women are especially relational. We can see an example of this clearly in a woman's reproductive system. Unlike a man who (biologically) has a very minimal and detached role in procreation (He only offers his sperm. The rest of the process takes place entirely within the woman), the woman is involved in the creation and her relationship with the child intimately at every step. Many women who have given birth describe feelings of this relationship being so deep that they cannot visualize themselves apart from their child. They feel like their lives are intrinsically connected to them, even after gestation.
Honestly I feel like Margot Robbie never really wanted to be the focus of this movie, especially with her move towards production. It felt like most people did it for the paycheck and nothing more, but Ryan had a certain passion about his role that made him stand out.
She wanted someone else to do it apparently, like Gal Gadot (😒). But it's a hard role to cast and she was probably the most obvious choice in Hollywood (which is ironic as she still doesn't look *that* much like Barbie lol).
"I've been looking forward to this."
- Count Dooku Baggins
My video length has doubled since the last time we've watched
Ken understands the intrincacies of "freedom" and grows as a person, the Barbie World under "masculine rule" prospers before the Kens are psychologically manipulated into fighting each other by entitled women (Barbies) and the status quo is restored and finally Barbie and Ken recognize they need each other to actually thrive (nuclear family).
I said it before and I'll say it again: Barbie may be the most hilarious (unintentional) parody I've ever seen.
Interpreting them as prospering under Ken is a stretch, in my opinion. It was just the other extreme. Following another status quo without actually knowing why or if it is actually what they want.
Right for all but the last point. Hollywood could never. Ken and Barbie don't realize that they need each other, but that they can only thrive atomized from each other. In other words, "It's Barbie and it's Ken." She point blank tells him he needs to be Ken without her.
This reeks of bad faith man you didn’t even try
I bet that comment would do really well on an incel forum
@@sina3602 Who's takin bets that it's ripped from one?
The thing about her not feeling like Barbie anymore and wanting to live in the human world is handled so poorly. Especially considering the point was that her issues start because of the mother's feelings. Instead of romanticising the real world and have her wish to be there for no reason when she knows nothing about it and they didn't even explore it, they could've made a point of her not being able to stay as just Barbie now that she's seen the real world. Maybe she would need to find someone else to play with her but even if she tries to stay and enjoy her ideal doll world she's conscious now, she knows how things are not as perfect in the real world and more importantly she's learned the own damage her doll has made too (taking the point about the physical image you mentioned which was such a wasted opportunity). She could've used THAT as her motivation. Yes, she doesn't KNOW anything about the real world but she wants to, because she would rather come back to Barbieland to make it better but that's why first she needs to go and experience the real world and learn about it.
Your part on how people collectively turn on initially well liked movies over time is similar to how we all look back at objectively bad fashions we wore, but don't know why.
This video essay is good. I haven't watched the whole Barbie or any Lego movie, but just seeing a comparison of how each franchise is handled from a world building perspective makes me sad. Barbie could of been so much more meaningful to Barbie fans.
Did you watch it?
@@fralanasko2900 watch what? The you tube video, Barbie, or Lego movie? Did you read my whole comment?
Is the babrie movie made for ''barbie fans''? Aren't barbie fans 4 years old?
@@FrenkieWest32 dont be that guy
@@something-from-elsewhere and what guy would that be?
I don't know how empowering a story about Barbie's creator would be since, yes, she was the first woman on Mattel's board but she was also fired and was guilty of conspiracy and mail fraud to manipulate Mattel's stock price.
Someone would find a way to see that as a 'girl boss' moment
@@SLIKZRKKshe Gatekeeping and girbossing and gaslighting
Well nobody is perfect, it's a story that should still be told
@@SLIKZRKK I mean, men had the Wolf of Wall Street and Leo gave them many girl boss moments, us girlies would like to stan an iconic criminal as well.
I enjoyed Barbie but it wasn't the "best movie ever made" like people kept saying it was. The real spectacle of the movie was the marketing for it and like honestly cultural reset, pink was everywhere, never seen so many people so excited to dress up for a movie in all pink!! And the premier outfits that Margot wore were amazing, the all girls Mariachi band in pink for the Mexico premier made me tear up, it was real sweet. But the movie itself was just a movie. Not the worst movie ever but no where near the best. It also felt like a slap in the face to all the women who went all out in pink ready to see Barbie show that being cute a feminine doesn't make you any less intelligent, only for her to become a sad beige Barbie at the end.
If you wanna watch a better version of the Barbie movie, just watch Enchanted and Legally Blonde back to back.
God, Enchanted was bloody excellent. What aspects about Enchanted do you think are better than the Barbie Movie?/genq
@txwtw I think it is a better portrayal of the fish out of water story where Giselle really gets to explore the real world and fall in love with it, the good, the bad. She learns new emotions that she never had before and concepts she hasn't heard of and we actually really understand why she wants to change worlds.
Barbie was fun but the real world seems to be told to her rather than experienced by her. She gets told how women feel and how men act. She's only in the real world for a little while before she has to go back to Barbieland to reset everything and in that short time it's hard to imagine she was given a genuine valid reason to want to go back.
Giselle truly falls in love with the new world while Barbie seems to want to leave just because she can
I am sooo looking forward to this. No one does controlled demolition like Nutsa.
Wouldn't mind controlled demolishing Nutsa's best picture ammirite
I will never get over your editing style the level of work that probably goes into it I can’t i even to think about it paired with your commentary is just everything
Am I really going to spend 1 hour and 45 minutes watching a new Nutsa video about Barbie at 1:00 AM?
OF COURSE I AM!
Thanks for coming back, Nutsa.
Instead of the title of this film called “Barbie”, should’ve been called kenough
THANK YOU NUTSA for fuck sakes, I’ve been saying ever since this movie came out that the speech was lazy and over played simple.
Barbie discovering for herself what woman have to go through rather than somebody informing her would have been a way more satisfying payoff.
Yeah, the classic film technique of 'show don't tell'!
I’ve heard people interpret the speech being simple as a way for the barbie to understand as the barbie don’t know about feminism
@@txwtw yes I get that. Still though Barbie identifying that problem before she even knew it was a problem would’ve made ppl feel seen.
One of my main issues with the movie is that it’s so focused on career Barbies that it forgets to elaborate on the imaginative play type Barbies. It takes away creative juices from the worldbuilding and makes it so bland….like a plastic matriarchy instead of a fantasyland. Where are the fairy and princess Barbies? We see like three mermaid background Barbies. What about wizard and witch Barbies? What about super spy Barbie?
What most people miss about 'Barbie' the character, is that she is not a real human, nobody can be her cause she is not real, she is a doll. She really isn't a feminist icon but a female icon
She is not here to command a girl power break of molds movement and all that jazz, she is here to sell an escapism, cause she is a toy, a girly toy! Like guys?? Let's not forget she is still the very spoiled daughter of a multimillionaire company! she is not a relatable girl with everyday problems, she is not. But that doesn't mean she is something bad.
'Barbie is everything you want to be' yeah! Cause she is a doll! She is a toy!
She is an entreteniner, a medium you can escape to a perfect little pink fantasy
A piece of plastic is NOT responsable to educate your children.
Barbie has little to no voice on telling your daughter or son how a woman should be or act or even dress. And that same multimillionaire company is not either! Can we agree on that?? (I'm pretty sure they care more about sales!)
Barbie is a nice, pretty, talented, and forever young woman. Likes to have fun with her friends and family and put on cute clothes.
She is rich and popular but also kind and smart! She can trully be anything she wants cause she is just that cool! And like, thats it!
There is no further depht to her character cause it doesn't have to be! As a toy she is a blank canvas you can fill any way you want! So just have fun with her!
That's all
In conclusion, just go watch Barbie life in the Dreamhouse.
(Also I just found hilarious how the movie states a 'normal down to earth Barbie' would be a great idea when a doll like that literally got produced once and it was a total faliure. Girls want fairy mermaid princesses in sparkly shiny gownds guys, stop saying they don't)
the barbie thats horrified by a bit of cellulite finds an old shrivelled up woman beautiful, yea right. it definitely did not feel deserved considering she barely arrived in reality
I get the impression that that scene was made when they had already shot the majority of film and mistakenly barely any of it is relevant to Barbie’s midlife crisis
They needed to bs the notion that Barbie’s arc is maintaining some level of focus
This is why you can’t just make up a film as you go: great moments of improvisation on set is not the norm but the exception
That mom speech near the end of the movie was handled with all the subtlety of a 2014 tumblr post. It's the worst part of the movie, and it comes immediately after the best part, which is the mom comforting barbie and talking to her about her insecurities. "It breaks my heart that you think youre not good enough" really touched my heart because my parents have said similar things to me. But then it immediately delves into incessant whining instead of adressing where these issues come from-inside.
It's crazy how the end of the movie is about Barbie wanting to become human, but the movie explores NOTHING about the human experience other than that one 40-second montage 30 minutes in.
Nothing about actual feelings of grief, loss, the joys of motherhood or connection, growing up, etc. Barbie has the exact same attitude at the end of the movie as the beginning, except now she has to visit the gynecologist. Woop de doo such a satisfying ending.
Does anyone else think it's weird that the Barbie movie doesn't even have Kelly, Stacy, or Skipper (not grow-up Skipper) in it? There is so much Barbie lore they could have added, like the Happy Family line having the first elderly Barbie couple, the grandparents! That could have gone with their aging gracefully message. It feels like they just looked at Wikipedia while writing the script and that's it. I also don't like how everyone is just "Barbie and Ken" when the toy-line has a whole cast of characters.
Edit: I just finished the video and you brought up the Wikipedia script writing too. Glad others picked up on that. 😅 How can they say Barbie has no story when she has a webseries, movies, books, and video games about her!
Honestly kens version of Barbie land seemed less unfair??? At least they wanted to hang out with the Barbie’s and have them around vs how the Barbie’s completely ignored the kens and didn’t even know where they slept??? Idk man lol like the kens were homeless and had no rights. Just watch Life Size, it was a better doll movie lol
i know you're a bit late to the party as far as talking about barbie, but i'm once again blown away by how much effort was put into the editing. i love your editing style. please take your time and i'll be excited whenever you're next project is ready to release!
RUclips snubbed this video harder than the oscars!
Seriously you deserve way more views here
Great Analysis. This might be ny favorite essay on this channel.Thanks for critizcizing the whole movie without using the word "WOKE", wichtends to be cheap and doesn't adresses the deep problems the movie and the script really have.
What a nutsa video wow what a great way to spend the weekend
I hate telling people that I didn't really like this movie that much. Happy that from now on I can just link them to this video.
Hoping that RUclips will leave you alone with no claims 🙌
I think That Star Wars girl channel pointed out something that most channels who criticized this movie aren’t pointing out (probs bc they don’t know). This movie is portraying this idea that kens are homeless & don’t have jobs but in actual reality of Barbie universe when look at ads, toys, animated movies/tv shows kens did have occupation. I remember Ken being a groomer, merman, cowboy, surfer etc but obviously this would destroy the narrative of the story. If Mattel really wanted a film director coming from “female perspective” they could’ve hired any female director who knew the source material because Greta herself admitted she didn’t know & did not grew up with Barbie but she was obviously hired because she’s a feminist filmmaker who’s well known for indie films like lady bird and little women, now she’s going to be a screen writer for Snow White remake. In actual reality Mattel had 40% of CEO’s but again it would destroy the narrative of the story. The moms monologue was all over the place, I could not relate to this speech, never in my life I felt embarrassed in the theaters!!! But overall the only thing good coming out of Barbie is the aesthetics, costume, setting, some background music and obviously Ken
Sorry I meant Mattel had 40% female CEOs
What?! She didn’t GROW UP with Barbie?!
Unbelievable!
Why did Mattel approach her to make this film in the first place, then?!
@@worthybutter2004bc she’s a feminist filmmaker famously known for indie movies, that’s all you need to know. Hollywood is a huge industry, could’ve hired any female director who knew the source material
She didn’t know or even grow up with barbie?? You gotta be kidding me rn 💀
@@worthybutter2004 ikr
I remember being interested in this movie after the first few trailers, I thought it would be like a fusion of the LEGO Movie and Legally Blonde. A lighthearted comedy with some delightful character development and a positive uplifting message... But of course, this is current year, and that's just not good enough. It had to be struggle session about how hard it is to be a woman. So people champion the film just because it preaches their ideology, It could have been something special, but had to shoot for the low hanging fruit instead of the stars.
Wait, one of the people in charge of this film made _Marriage Story?_ How-? What-? I-
I'm honestly shocked.
"Marriage Story" was based on Noah Baumbach's breakup with Jennifer Jason Leigh and leaving her for Greta Gerwig.
this is what happens when ppl who aren't barbie fans make a movie about barbie LMAO Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie admitted that they weren't really that into barbie growing up
I’m gonna watch this bit by bit during my breaks at work today.
Barbie getting Nutsa’d.
If i ever hear her voice within 2 miles of me, she's gettin nutsa'd
Imma be honest, I totally forgot for a sec who that was uploading, but was delighted when I realised! Great video and top notch editing!
ITS HERE. ITS FINALLY HERE!!!
Smart move to cast Ryan Gosling because he is so insanely loved
Without him the movie would have bombed
I’m saying this all as a young woman. But this movie was honestly so bland and childishly written-and no, not in a fun Barbie doll way. It was like the creators of this movie have never experienced true sexism a day in their lives because every “issue” they tackled was extremely surface-level and something you’d find with a quick Google search. That honestly offends me more than any of the sexism in the movie. There were some moments I liked-notably the part about “men and women hate you” because it is like that as a girl-but overall I spent the whole movie waiting to cry or see it as life altering like everyone said. But I just left feeling disappointed that this is what we consider a masterpiece now.
I said it before but it came off like they made up the story as they were filming the movie
im going to like this video. but watch it later. love your videos
I am doing same and comment for the algorithm
Something that would've been clever for the movie, would be the mother and daughter seeing all the Barbies at their houses then ask the obviously "where do the Kens live", and have that slow dawning haunting realization...that all the Ken's are second class citizens with basically no rights, throwing the whole girl boss women rule everything message upside down, being this huge awakening moment for the daughter that no, women and only women in charge isn't the right step for humanity, it's just sexism and privilege for her, and that maybe that can lead for compelling character growth for her to rethink her entire beliefs...oh wait Barbie is supposed to be the main character uuuuuhhh...yeah sorry I got thinking for the piece of plastic, heyo!
And just like that, random RUclips commenter comes up with better script idea than Oscar-nominated writers.
It's ironic that Ken is the most popular part of the film isn't it
I honestly thought that barbie was going to be the most popular part
I was obssed with this movie for 2 weeks after seeing it because I shared almost ALL of your thoughts on it, AND NO ONE ELSE WAS BRINGING THEM UP. EVERYONE WAS ACTUALLY PRAISING THE MOVIE.
I have no connection to the Barbie brand, but the way people and reviews were talking about made me excited for a funny SMART movie like the Lego Movie as well.
It was excrutiating to feel so strongly about the movie everyone was loving, but I was sure that with time people would re-examine it and see all I have seen.
I remembered your channel and was incredibly excited to hear your take on it, and you delivered.
It feels so satisfying to be validated like this lol. And also seeing someone who doesnt start assuming I am a misoginist because I hated the movie.
I’m so glad people are finally voicing their dissatisfaction for this movie. I was so excited for this film. I thought it was going to be like a live action Life in the Dreamhouse. I watched it at home as soon as it came out and I couldn’t even sit through it all. This was not a Barbie movie, this was not even a family movie. I just wanted to have a fun time not be lectured on how the patriarchy has oppressed women. The internet’s reaction to this movie actually gaslit me into thinking we watched different movies. I’m so glad I’m not actually going insane and that I’m not the only one who thinks this. (Also the film feels so hostile towards the Barbie brand itself. Even the fact that they call her “Stereotypical Barbie” instead of like “Classic Barbie” that feels is so mean spirited.)
If you watched any trailer or interview about it, you would have known it was not a ''barbie movie'' and not a family movie in the traditional sense...
@@FrenkieWest32 well not everyone is gonna have the time to watch every single interview or trailer on it, plus most of the trailers did make it look like a family movie with some of the childish jokes (like the foot joke etc)
@@txwtw not true. And if you just go to a 2 hour movie but you don't have the time for 2 minutes of trailer (which does not even make sense), then don't be surprised if it is an unexpected movie...
I'm a simple man. I see a smart woman ranting about a shitty movie - I hit the like button!
I saw a comment on another video about this saying how the strong reaction to this movie really showed where most of the public still is in their understanding of feminism, and it's largely the introductory stage. I can see how this story, and that speech (which gave me zero feels) would be revelatory to someone raised within very rigid traditional Western gender roles and isolated from most modern discourse. I do know people like that and have watched them have some of these first realizations.
But this movie still isn't the amazing experience it was hyped to be. Its message was muddy, it's writing bland, and it treated the audience like we're dumber than the average cow.
If they didn't do such a good job on the Barbieland set, people would have seen through this movie more. And don't get me started on the evil Mattel sub-plot that was completely unnecessary and was only there to reinforce the patriarchy ideology of the director.
Not just that, if they casted Amy Schummer people would’ve easily seen the flaws of this movie which includes the plot
Oh em goodness, someone FINALLY addresses that the movie directly states it takes both a doll and a human playing with said doll to change things. Every other review I've seen just ignores that very important line.
Hey Shady. True statement
As a Barbie lover, I felt like *I* was the oddball for not being completely on board with this movie. I was damn disappointed because I waited much longer than the general public acknowledging its near existence; 2015 to be exact 🙃 I bought the dvd because FOMO I guess but I have not had the guts to watch it again. It’s just sitting there, taunting me for what could’ve been a great & fun movie… Legally Blonde is my LA Barbie movie tbh at least the Ken is treated decently by “Barbie” without taking total control of her character arc.
Also, what Greta said about Barbie having no personality and no story to work with prior to this movie absolutely made me annoyed to a ridiculous degree. That officially made Greta on my petty list lmao 😭 I’m not qualified for ANYTHING and I promise I could’ve made a much better movie driven by passion and RESPECT for the brand. Not just “oh look remember that one barbie doll buzzfeed would say over and over was discontinued due to scandal that really wasn’t a big deal but we’re gonna make a big deal anyway????? Ha ha ha” yep, I hate it.
Yeah, I was tricked by the trailers too. But at least I never actually went to see it. Ive always loved barbie, and how she canonically has had every job ever. But never at the expense of the men in her universe. They were her friends, not a stepping stone or a worm under her foot. The real barbie would never treat anyone that way. Because to her, EVERYONE matters.
Wow. I initially thought the movie was mediocre and overhyped when I watched it, but your analysis made me realize it was actually just straight up bad😂😂
it fell so flat to me. america's monologue that was so highly praised as "ground breaking" is almost word for word a throw-away scene she had in superstore like 8 years ago. the whole thing felt recycled and cheap. nothing groundbreaking about it.
The monologue could have been delivered in 1983 and it wouldn't have raised any eyebrows.
When I watched this with my mum, at the end when they did the "debrainwashing" scene, she said "men experience more than half of this, too".
So not only did this have non-Bechdel feminism because everything was stated relative to men's experiences, it also didn't do it in a way that even acknowledged or understood men's experiences.
There’s a video Alteori made about this movie and she talked about it as well, she observed that this movie glorifies everything considered “feminine” but it antagonizes everything considered “masculine”, she even made another version of Gloria’s speech but about men’s struggles
Omg you're back !
found out about you through EFAP, as one of the best guests, and now I get exited whenever you upload. Great work. The editing, script, jokes make these videos so enjoyable and well made. Thank you Nutsa for the great content
Barbie is nowhere near as good as a film, and yet is nominated for best picture? Truman Show was not. Let that sink in. The hilarious part is, if we are being totally honest, Truman Show was not even close to being the best film that year. There is a very obvious, depressing, objective answer as to why Barbie is being touted as soms revolutionary great masterpiece.
And the short answer in regards to story telling... movie industry autopilot for cash. (Sometimes I'm compelled to state the obvious)
This whole video was great! I’m so glad you didn’t give us a long history lesson on what Barbie is, her influence, etc and just jumped into your problems with the movies.
Despite the lengths you had to edit the video so you didn’t get struck by the (unfair) copyright stuff, it was hilarious, had me laughing! Thank you for this gem of pink covered shit of a movie! Hopefully, you can cover some other movies or media in the future that being you more joy than pain. Cheers to you!
At the beginning of the movie I was really enjoying myself. I love pink, glitter and pop music. It was fun! But then with every scene I was becoming more and more bored and the closer to the end, the more often I was rolling my eyes.
I think it could have been a good film if it were aimed at kids. But no, it was for adults and as an adult feminist I felt like I was being treated as a child who needs everything explained and won't notice how many things don't make sense.
I don’t know what’s with movies and them taking a property aimed at kids and trying to make it all edgy and adult. Also yeah I agree I enjoyed the movie at the beginning too but a lot of the political stuff later on was really handled poorly and just came off as obnoxious but that’s just me
I'm just disappointed Barbie didn't win for production design. Other than that I thought the movie was fun, had a few good emotional beats, a little trite, and disorganized. I enjoyed Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling. 10/10 for design, 4/10 for plot, 8/10 casting.
Nutsa you absolute gem. It feels refreshing to hear your takes on popular media from a true feminist point of view. I've watched a LOT of your content already and I feel so glad you're bringing up all these issues via a critical and as-objective-as-possible point of view, not at the expense of men. You preaching women AND men alike should strive to be better and not putting any gender above the other is a strong message that needs to be heard everywhere because it feels like a lot of "feminist" rhetoric is about the rise of women at the expense of men. Keep up the good work.
I was bothered that the Barbie movie centered Ken's feelings much more than Barbie's. He is ignored by her, finds the patriarchy, becomes and incel, becomes a leader of a patriarchal movement, has a huge song and dance number (Barbie does not), is apologised to by Barbie, and becomes (I guess) nice again as she leaves Barbieland to go to the "real" world and he finds another Barbie -- maybe that one played by Kate McKinnon? -- or gets together with Alan, I don't know. I would like a little more Barbie in the Barbie movie. Not necessarily Stereotypical Barbie (why couldn't a Barbie of Color been the lead? Or even "Weird" Barbie?), but a Barbie.
1:44:58
Do I smell misogyny?
Sniff sniff sniff
Nah it’s just *bad writing* .
I did enjoy the Barbie movie enough, but I honestly would have preferred they remade one of the animated movies or just have a fantastical plotline throughout. I'm getting tired of every movie trying to be serious or comment on something.
The Barbie movie would’ve been much better if Mattel hired a female director who knew the source material
@@Femmeaesthetic I’m flabbergasted that they didn’t
Yeah, I just want pure silliness to come back in film like Rat Race and stuff. We don’t really get films like that anymore & even when we do they are always still gonna have something serious or try to comment on something like what you said
I still won't watch that movie, but I'll gladly Watch Nutsa's take on it, especially if it's a Long boi like that ! It's not MauLer long yet, but we're getting closer xD. Congratz, Long Good
what editing software are you using. its impressive man. god i love it when you get all fired up like that. your voice is amazing.
I think being fooled by marketing is only part of the issue. When movies tackle certain themes, you can be seen as a bigot for being against said movie, even if the themes aren't good or well implemented. I remember trying to warn my friends about barbie, saying something along the lines of "when big companies take an animated property that has good lessons and morals, and try to condense it into a live action film, they usually do a bad job." And i got accused of 'hating like a man' and 'not being a girls girl.'
So for me it was like this, I watched some of Gerwig's other stuff like 'Frances Ha' or 'Lady Bird' in order to get a picture of what I was getting myself into with this film.
And while I definitely did like those allot I didn't think they were like perfection or anything like that. But the bar was set high at that point so I thought this might be a pretty enjoyable ride. But the thing that confused me so much about Barbie after I was done seeing it was that, I didn't get at all who it was even made for.
Like you more or less said in the video, it felt less like an actual film and more like I was just getting a political message being shoved down my throat instead of actually caring about what this all meant to me on a emotional level. And I don't think it has anything to do with hyperfocusing on these political issues as a viewer since thats what the film is doing all by itself already. Overall it feels to me like the film doesn't know what it wants to be in the first place. If they really wanted to say something new or extraordinary then they should have went way further and more nuanced with some of the themes they were dealing with. But then ofc people will go "but kids wouldn't enjoy that type of stuff", I mean duhh. What kind of kid would watch this normal version in the first place? I can't picture any children enjoying a film this dense with scenes that are only working if you as a viewer know what types of ethics and cliches they are talking about.
Anyways great Video!
Really summed up allot of the feelings I had towards it.
tbh i love jo and Amy’s speeches in little woman, because they fit in their time and context. Amy was expected to quit art one she gets married because that was the most common thing for the status she was being “raised in” by her aunt/grandma I don’t remember what relative was, sorry. and jo’s was also really good, I mean how manny woman published mystery, horror books with a made up name in those years. but in Barbie, 2023 it just doesn’t make that much sense to me, imo women are the ones that push this stereotypes and beauty standards. because we looove to bring others down for “not fitting in”. we love to feel special and ideal. its a “we” problem most of the time. obviously there are A LOT of things males do that are freaking disgusting and problematic concerning woman spaces, ideas, etc etc but at least in the U.S. it’s the minimum. I would love to see Greta in Mexico or Latin America so she and all this American “feminists” can actually see what patriarchy and gender inequality is like.
i wanted to like barbie so much ....i have seen almost every animated barbie movie since childhood but this movie completely sidelines all and every plotline ,charachter etc to show some surface level ...undeveloped points on femiznism which arent presented by story but rather throgh roughly stitched goofy scenes and monologues
It's funny you should mention the potential story arc for Barbie. Since that's basically the story I'm writing. Except the main character is more like a Bratz doll than a Barbie and her story arc is basically the reverse of this. She starts off believing her base doll is more harmful than helpful and that she needs to over compensate for that to truly make a difference and empower her human companion and others. Over the course of the story she meets people who were inspired by her doll in one way or another and she realizes it's not so black and white. Resulting in her ending up a healthier well balanced individual by the end. She even befriends a Barbie-like doll. It's still very much a work in progress, but that's the general idea.
Sounds great!
I’d like to see it
I hope you publish that story some day it sounds lovely
I like how the video is almost as long as the movie itself
Better use of our time, lol. That, and rewatching the old CGI Barbie movies.
the thing is, i hear all the complaints from feminists, and all i get from it is your life is a lot easier than mine, but you seem to think my life is a lot easier than yours. the difference is i am not shoving my shitty life in your face for sympathy, but i would gladly trade places with you in a heart beat.
ladies, your struggles are real, so are men's struggles. everyone struggles, life sucks for 99% of us. maybe stop complaining at us for some hypothetical life you think we have, and actually pay attention and have some empathy for your fellow human being. its not a gender issue, its a "life sucks then you die" issue.
It’s not just feminist but now we have to say the same thing to red pillers
I'd go one step further and say it's a.. there is a 1%.. issue
This entire review has critical thinking & constructive criticisms while at the same time being frustrated about this movie. Your genius !