Amagire

@amagire

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Genderdeer. The meat was paid for, but the bones were stolen.

Amagire @amagire7/1/2023, 1:57 PM

nicky flowers @nicky

nicky flowers @nicky7/1/2023, 1:52 PM

really annoyed about the Barbie movie. a ton of incredible work and genius filmmaking went into a big commercial. the set design alone is like, a fucking dream! but it's all in service of Mattel's true goal: selling more plastic crap

i tried tweeting about this months ago but i got inundated with "just let people enjoy things it's not that serious you're such a killjoy can't you have any fun how dare you be so cynical actually hating the barbie movie is misogynist"

no criticism! only consumerism! eat the slop and do not attempt to leave the trough!

#Barbie

Amagire @amagire7/1/2023, 1:57 PM

me, wishing I lived in a world where the beauty of what cutting-edge animation can do right now could be lavished on an equally beautiful story, or at least something more interesting than fucking shrek spinoff sequels and spiderman: "shit I better keep that thought to myself or these other hogs will eat me"

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A Jeb With No Name @namelessWrench7/1/2023, 2:01 PM

I think it's more than reasonable to both admire the visual efforts and also say fuck Mattel

Pendell @pendell7/1/2023, 2:04 PM

I mean I still think it'll be a fun movie. The creative efforts of the genuinely talented people involved aren't invalidated by the people funding the project imo

eebeesee @eebee-cannoli7/1/2023, 2:40 PM

Honestly, yeah, it's really upsetting. I'm sure there will be a lot to admire, but I miss when Hollywood was willing to fund more personal projects on a regular basis

April @eGlyde7/1/2023, 3:06 PM

its happening again in these comments, lol

fred @fred7/1/2023, 3:18 PM

You're right and you should say it (you did say it and I'm glad)

Noel B @NoelBWrites7/1/2023, 3:21 PM

Like it looks incredible and I probably will enjoy it, but yeah, it's an ad

And on some level I think they can't do a Warhol-style conversation with pop culture and consumerism without it simultaneously being a commercial, so the same kind of set and aesthetic design would not work without a brand as entrenched in our culture as Barbie

But then, the level of care and artistry could go to some other highly-stylized project

I don't know, it's annoying

Maybe it would be less annoying if every other movie coming out wasn't a commercial as well.

Morg @Gengar7/1/2023, 3:59 PM

I’m both really really feeling this and also going to probably see it at some point. I saw a tumblr post that made me really think about this lol https://www.tumblr.com/roymustbang/721534170440105984

nicky flowers @nicky7/1/2023, 5:45 PM

yea this was the post that broke my brain lol. seeing people say shit like "This is the marketing i truly missed!" makes me want to walk off the face of the planet

Misty @dog7/1/2023, 4:04 PM

Yeahhhh. You're 100% right

Awhile ago I remember reading an interview with the showrunner on the Babysitters Club reboot. She talked about how older "boys" children's media gets elevated to high culture so it can get repeatedly resold to them over the years, and I was nodding along, and then she says "why can't we do that with girls' media too", and ah. You lost me

@fish7/1/2023, 5:17 PM

the amount of marketing for this movie is driving me up the wall. feels like it's been "coming out soon" for forever

nicky flowers @nicky7/1/2023, 5:46 PM

the movie is the marketing is the movie... headspinning

@fish7/1/2023, 5:51 PM

the commercial for the commercial for the

jayde @jayde7/2/2023, 2:23 PM

i probably will enjoy it but yeah definitely sucks a whole fucking lot that a film with such clear talent behind it is only made to sell plastic dolls to kids

sam @positivestress7/2/2023, 3:55 PM

As a person who is generally pretty good at not seeing advertisements, it's always grating when people get tricked (I'll say it! Tricked!) into doing the advertising themselves. Before I stopped going on Reddit, there were a couple days where I'd log on and see multiple Barbie movie meme posts on the front page. And for what? They basically amounted to some fandom-specific version of "NAME. TRAIT. BARBIE MOVIE IN THEATERS WHENEVER, BARBIEMOVIE.COM" great stuff guys thanks for that

100% of my awareness of that movie has been word of mouth. I could have never known it existed FFS

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