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Post by kerouac2 on May 27, 2023 15:17:47 GMT
I know that this movie will not be for everyone, but I signed on long ago.
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Post by Kimby on Jul 23, 2023 14:07:08 GMT
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 23, 2023 15:36:12 GMT
You can find my opinion of the movie on the movie thread.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 24, 2023 19:51:04 GMT
I absolutely adore how dead serious this video is.
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Post by whatagain on Jul 24, 2023 21:15:41 GMT
The right doesn’t like Barbie. It seems it is woke, that there is a transgender in the movie etc. It is pro China (?). Somebody should tell them that it is about Klaus Barbie, they would love it. It made 150 mio dollars the first week. Double what Oppenheimer did. Culture always win.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 25, 2023 1:27:51 GMT
I absolutely adore how dead serious this video is. It was a creation of Architectural Digest, so in fact serious. It in fact serves a purpose. By coincidence, I watched a video earlier today which addressed how people don't choose or decorate their homes for themselves, but rather with resale value in mind, leading to a certain blandness & slavish devotion to home improvement shows, which leads to such aberrations as mish-mashes of styles. The Barbie house presentation leads viewers to an accurate consideration of styles and and eras, which is surely a good thing. It made 150 mio dollars the first week. Double what Oppenheimer did. Apparently, the two movies opening at the same time this past weekend in the US and Canada caused such a stampede that one theater ran out of ice. I believe you were being sarcastic about culture, but Barbie is culture. The continuing popularity & fascination with all things Barbie is a reflection of cultural norms, needs, attitudes, etc. I can tell you that no matter how we veterans of the original Barbie phenomenon eschew the dubious values of popular culture, we were still shaped by it and it will always be a part of us.
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Post by Kimby on Jul 25, 2023 13:26:10 GMT
Interesting TV interview last night about the Barbie Phenomenon, which began with her introduction in 1959 (I was given the original Barbie for my 6th birthday), as the first doll for little girls that wasn’t a baby doll.
Instead of training girls for eventual roles as mothers, Barbie (with breasts!) allowed them to envision themselves as adults. The interviewee (wish I’d caught her name) stated that Barbie was at the forefront of, then the whipping girl of, several waves of feminism in the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s.
Though Barbie’s profitability had been sagging in recent years, the new Barbie mania generated by the movie should jumpstart her popularity.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 25, 2023 15:00:19 GMT
I'm quite qure that we will soon get every new Barbie imaginable, including LGBTQIA+ Barbie, but will it be progress? Clearly gay Ken had to be discontinued when he became too popular. Earring Magic Ken <--click. He is definitely in the movie, but the cock ring was replaced with a Mattel logo.
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Post by Kimby on Jul 27, 2023 22:03:45 GMT
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Post by Kimby on Mar 10, 2024 14:52:42 GMT
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