Barbie (2023)

[QDRPHNC]

Strange feeling watching a trailer that feels like absolutely nobody is having fun while it constantly goes FUN FUN FUN at you.

[phantom_power]

I can only imagine there is some sort of subversive reason Baumbach and Gerwig chose to write and direct this film. They must have had an idea about how to make a Barbie film interesting in some way which is hard to get across in the trailer. It sort of creeps through in places but not in a defined enough way to get a proper handle on yet

[QDRPHNC]

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[Rich Uncle Skeleton]

Feels like The Lego Movie crossed with The Seventh Seal.

[samadriel]

Feels like The Lego Movie crossed with Salo.

[dead-ced-dead]

Ryan Gosling excels in comedies so it's nice more filmmakers are utilising that.

[Avril Lavigne]

Feels like Life-Size crossed with Enchanted, literally though.

[dissolute ocelot]

So Barbie goes into 'real world'? Original idea there.

Well it worked for the Brady Bunch.

I'd much rather see a film where Jordan Peterson is transformed into Barbie World and forced to stick plastic horse accessories up his pee-hole for 2 hours.

[curiousoranges]

Looks like Toy Story meets Who Framed Roger Rabbit meets Maxie's World.

[PlanktonSideburns]

Feel like I'm either going to love this or it will be torture

[Replies From View]

I don't know what an uphill wank is.

'wank wank wank wank wank wank wank wank wank wank weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee wank wank wank wank wank wank....'

[idunnosomename]

Feel like I'm either going to love this or it will be torture

why not both

[Replies From View]

imagine trying to separate those two things with a straight face

[PlanktonSideburns]

Look, its one or the other, stop making a big deal of this

[Blue Jam]

Love the "If you love Barbie you'll love this/If you hate Barbie you'll love this" marketing tactic. Fallen for that already nrrrgghh.

I'm indifferent to Barbie but this looks fun, will probably check it out. The trailer also makes it look like Don't Worry Darling but a lot more interesting.

[Nowhere Man]

I feel like an alien surrounded by all the hype for this. To me, this movie looks like absolute wank, but everyone is loving it. Even writing this post I feel like [banned troll]. Hell maybe I'm just blinded by how atrocious the Fun, Fun, Fun remix was in the trailer.

I hope most of you also believe this looks like cack shite and not even good in an ironic way, because it's making me question my sanity!

[Nowhere Man]

I mean it might be alright idk

[PlanktonSideburns]

I feel like an alien surrounded by all the hype for this. To me, this movie looks like absolute wank, but everyone is loving it. Even writing this post I feel like [banned troll]. Hell maybe I'm just blinded by how atrocious the Fun, Fun, Fun remix was in the trailer.

I hope most of you also believe this looks like cack shite and not even good in an ironic way, because it's making me question my sanity!

The idea could be great in a mad camp way, but it is directed by someone who for me, has so far made quite boring films, more boring than they think they are also - its not just that they're being arch, they just seem a bit dry

If this was a camp as Christmas, b52s level daftness, but with good heart - great, but that totally desire drained dualipa disco funeral March tune makes me think this is going to be as blank and dull as goslings gormless twinkbot face

Would love to be wrong though. You are not alone nowhere man

[Icehaven]

Bet there's a Sindy film already in the pipeline, maybe directed by, I dunno, that one who did Fleabag.

[PlanktonSideburns]

Bet there's a Sindy film already in the pipeline, maybe directed by, I dunno, that one who did Fleabag.

See, she might make it quite fun

Who directed legally blonde? That's the vibe I want here - funny, camp but with heart

Who directed booksmart? That would work

[Thursday]

I feel like an alien surrounded by all the hype for this. To me, this movie looks like absolute wank, but everyone is loving it. Even writing this post I feel like [banned troll]. Hell maybe I'm just blinded by how atrocious the Fun, Fun, Fun remix was in the trailer.

I hope most of you also believe this looks like cack shite and not even good in an ironic way, because it's making me question my sanity!

It's odd, it feels like the marketing is trying to hint that it's doing something weird and subversive, but then it actually just ends up being a fairly standard fish out of water comedy.  Also just the thing of "Haha it's a Barbie movie, but it's not for kids!!!" People seem to have already decided they love it as well.

[phantom_power]

The early reviews of this say it is fun and camp but also a commentary on modern society, which is pretty much what I expected from the publicity

[dissolute ocelot]

See, she might make it quite fun

Who directed legally blonde? That's the vibe I want here - funny, camp but with heart

Who directed booksmart? That would work

The guy who directed Legally Blonde, Robert Luketic, went on to make The Ugly Truth, reckoned by some to be the worst rom-com ever, while Booksmart's director Olivia Wilde followed it up with the opinion-dividing Don't Worry Darling (which I've not seen).

Betty Thomas directed The Brady Bunch Movie and Alvin and the Chipmunks 2, and while I was sure she was dead, Wikipedia doesn't seem to think so, so give her the job! Even if she is dead! Or Penelope Spheeris, who is also allegedly still capable of converting food and oxygen into carbon dioxide and instructions to actors.

Have the Simpsons writers done a Malibu Stacy movie yet?

[13 schoolyards]

It's aimed at a market that isn't usually served directly by Hollywood blockbusters and they are going absolutely nuts for it. I'm in a job where I got an invite to the local premiere (can't go, gave the ticket back), and I've had four people ask me if I can get them in, which is four people more than have asked me about every other film I've been invited to in the last few years.

It's been interesting seeing a completely different demographic acting like Marvel fans when you suggest that an upcoming film just looks "all right"

[Claude the Racecar Driving Rockstar Super Sleuth]

Booksmart's director Olivia Wilde followed it up with the opinion-dividing Don't Worry Darling (which I've not seen).

The story is piffle, but I remember it being pretty well-directed.

[Sebastian Cobb]

Weirdly I'm quite intrigued to see this but I'm not sure why. There's lots of high profile shit and reboots that capture the zeitgeist that I'm happy to ignore.

Part of me hopes it'll be some weird studio mistake that ends up being a film for adults, like when they let Bobby Altman direct Popeye even though it won't be.

[C_Larence]

The only clip I've seen from the movie looked awful, like a car advert. The marketing campaign has been something else though. Pitting it against Oppenheimer was a genius move.

Apologies for the twitter link but I can't find the clip on youtube
https://twitter.com/discussingfilm/status/1676279394736676869?s=46

[Sebastian Cobb]

I unironically reckon I want to see it more than oppenheimer.

[PlanktonSideburns]

Romy and Michele's High School Reunion - that was fun, who made that

[beanheadmcginty]

From the trailer, this seems to be a rip-off of the old Sheila's Wheels advert. Would explain why it's called Barbie and stars an Australian actress.